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Перевод: betoken
[глагол] означать; предвещать
Тезаурус:
- "Cold-blooded words don't necessarily betoken a callous nature, as you should be well aware by this stage in your training.
- Many of their contemporaries, however, thought so much noise must betoken some serious intent; later, others dismissed the noise as meaningless, and looked for different motives.
- Calculating the draws on the coupon, the odds on a dog, the speed of a bird might draw upon reserves of numeracy and judgement, but this did not betoken the triumph of a "scientific world-view".
- In retrospect this seems to betoken an odd sense of priorities.
- They do not in themselves betoken infection, although they can be taken as indirect evidence of infection in many cases.
- Whatever else it may betoken, it is clear for the time being that Mr Laws will not be asked to put on his war-paint and go a-hunting for scalps.
- It could be insincere, and betoken an attempt to flatter and manipulate the "stupid" Esau.
- An increase in seventy may betoken - even, more arguably, may occasion - a salutary change in the climate of opinion.
- So is the fact that both outward direct investment (which averaged 2.8% of GDP in the 1980s) and inward direct investment (1.7%) are exceptionally high; both betoken internationalisation.
- It put my mind at rest on one point often in the last weeks we had seemed more like friends than incipient lovers; the silences now seemed to betoken a quiet awareness of the new status that would soon envelop us.
- The insignificant proportion of men in the 3 - 9 range would appear on the face of things to betoken no handicraft beyond what would suffice to satisfy demand in a small hundred, while the many nils, amounting to very nearly one-third of the total, strongly suggests that many of the inhabitants of Walsingham were mendicants subsisting on the alms of the faithful.
- Against this pessimistic background, the Care in the Community optimism about the possibilities for long-stay patients to live more independently seemed to betoken a change of central thinking.
- In February 1987 it secured only 6.4% - less than the 11.8% won by the Progressive Democrats, a new party whose emergence seemed at that time to betoken the awakening of a new and more specifically political consciousness among Irish voters.
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