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Перевод: dexterous

[прилагательное]
ловкий; проворный; способный; проявляющий хорошие способности

Тезаурус:

1. Such differences were thought of as "natural" or "given", as were certain psychological traits, for example women were thought of as physically more dexterous and emotionally more volatile.
2. Venality was rife; the precedent of even groups as illustrious as the Beatles and the Stones signing to contracts which gave them only a penny a record had become legendary: at the end of the Sixties, Allen Klein had achieved notoriety for his dexterous accounting abilities, working for both groups in the role of both "finder" extracting hidden royalties from the record company for the group - and "taker" - extracting them from the group for himself.
3. As Noel Annan wrote in his life of Leslie Stephen: "The ingenuity in argument, the subtlety in drawing distinctions, the dexterous prevarications, the imperative reasons for procrastination, perpetually bewilder and confound the novice in university administration."
4. Most women had been brought up to do sewing and dressmaking: it was no accident, nor was it a question of natural aptitude that a teenage girl entering the composing-room was likely to be more dexterous at first than a boy, and to apply both the physical and mental habits acquired in sewing to the job in hand.
5. Similarly, sea lions being naturally and instinctively dexterous may be taught to balance balls on their noses, respond to particular noises made by the audience or their trainer and even clap their flippers, but to them this is only a means of receiving food, affection, social contact and so on - all these being motives, goals and feelings they experience in the wild.
6. This is almost obligatory, because it takes a bit of practise before you become dexterous enough to become adept with the net and experienced enough to discover the hiding places of the various fish and other interesting creatures.
7. He would be a good physical specimen, a gymnast, dexterous with his hands and patient enough to deal with the Doctor in his irascible moods.
8. He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs.
9. It could well be said that once the "feel" of control is acquired then all you need is practice, and just like riding the bicycle, all the arm movements become a spontaneous impulse.But life isn't that easy, and in our experience, the "prangs" have to be suffered before the "knack" of dexterous control is accomplished.
10. Human beings are needed for those tasks for a variety of reasons from their highly dexterous manipulative potential through to their ability to accept informal instructions.
11. Lions may learn to jump through hoops or sea lions to clap their flippers while balancing a ball on their noses, but lions jump over obstacles in their home territory or laze around under a favourite tree, while sea lions are naturally dexterous, chasing fish with great skill.
12. As time passed, however, an excess of gambling, drinking and womanising got the brothers into more debt than George's dexterous manipulations could possibly conceal.
13. How many flies in the past, long since disintegrated and forgotten, have met their untimely end at a dexterous flick of my wrist?