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Перевод: dummy

[прилагательное]
поддельный; ложный; подставной; фиктивный; временный; холостой; модельный; учебный;
[существительное]
кукла ; чучело; манекен ; модель ; макет ; соска ; дурачок ; подставное лицо; фиктивное лицо; марионетка ; орудие в чужих руках; болван ; финт ; обманное движение; заглушка

Тезаурус:

1. She's only got two suitcases, so she had to leave a lot of stuff behind - like her tailor's dummy and all the furniture.
2. Some states even go to the trouble of having two switches, one a "dummy", so that everyone can say, "it wasn't me who actually killed him".
3. Archie Andrews' real name was Cecil, but this good-natured footballer was inevitably nicknamed after the ventriloquist's famous dummy of the period.
4. The path through the exhibits led to World War I, a display featuring a talking dummy who reduced that gigantic disaster to an argument over submarines.
5. The private money and foreign contributions were handled by a network of cut-outs and dummy companies so complicated that even North had trouble keeping track of it.
6. This illusion was achieved by slightly blinding them with blue lamps facing them and lowering dummy bodies from the flies.
7. Robbe-Grillet's contemporaneous work exhibits similar characteristics: in La Maison de rendez-vous , for example, a "real" person turns out to be a dummy, or a narrative sequence is revealed as a theatrical representation or a description of a magazine cover.
8. Joseph, always referred to and called Jossey Dummy, was a tall, thin, round-shouldered youth.
9. At any rate, declarer went up with dummy's ace to drop the queen and land his slam.
10. He's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy, then he suddenly comes to life, grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs, tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself.
11. He established a dummy Swiss company, Lake Resources Inc, through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers, right-wing American bigots, and the enormous profits out of the arms' shipments to the Iranians, who had paid twice the going rate for what they bought.
12. To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis's novelistic method, "ventriloquism", has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice, the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate, a dummy.
13. His try was a beauty as, unusually for English outside-halves, he weaved a delicate and rapid path of dummy, swerve and shuffle through well-guarded spaces.