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Перевод: folly

[существительное]
глупость ; безрассудство; безумие; безумство; дурь ; дурость ; недомыслие; глупый поступок; безрассудное поведение; дорогостоящий каприз; ревю с участием полуобнаженных очаровательных актрис

Тезаурус:

1. Where a temple, folly or grotto has been long abandoned and the roof has collapsed, bringing down the ceiling with it, a careful archaeological sift must be made through the debris.
2. But for non-intentional but dangerous acts, refs are reluctant to punish a whole team for one man's folly.
3. To have added excommunication to his other problems would have been folly, and his reaction showed that, when speed was needed, he could act quickly.
4. "I need all the help and support that I can get in this latest folly.
5. Wilkinson illustrates his conclusion by suggesting that a comparison of the optical company and the plating company displays the folly of the notion that de-skilling and increased management control over production processes necessarily leads to increases in efficiency.
6. But pop sets itself against nature and abandons wisdom for folly, moments of dissipation.
7. By this time Clever Folly had shaken off all opposition and proceeded to break the course record by 4.7 seconds in spite of 4lb overweight.
8. These males stick to their old habits, arriving at Folly Bridge at about 8 am and sleeping for one or two hours.
9. Back at Folly Bridge the males are left in large all-male flocks.
10. The soldiers who ran Greece until 1974 were similarly discredited, because one result of their folly was the occupation by Turkey of northern Cyprus.
11. It would be folly to oppose the exploration of this weapon.
12. Inheriting the earth, or what's left of it by the time the non-meek have realized the folly of their ways, is a process which takes much fortitude and patience.
13. Tom Williams, Labour Member for the constituency in which the colliery was situated, announced that it would be folly to continue the debate, and the dispute, perhaps not a very difficult one in any event, got itself settled.