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Перевод: frail

[прилагательное]
хрупкий; непрочный; утлый; слабый; болезненный; хилый; бренный; нравственно неустойчивый;
[существительное]
корзина из тростника; тростник ; женщина

Тезаурус:

1. For example, among those carers living with a dementia sufferer, there were some who gave little care because the sufferer did not need much, because they went out to work, or because they themselves were frail; and at the other extreme were people who "did everything" for a sufferer, and rarely left the house without him or her.
2. And all these pleasures, these frail joys that her most stringent discipline over the last couple of night-time hours had summoned up for her memory, they were simply not enough.
3. Because many old people are poor, or mentally or physically frail, it is assumed that they are also rigid, unable to learn, unable to make new relationships, and so on.
4. Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby, went on to smoke, drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity, but lived to a great age, whereas Nathan Pritikin, inventor of the Pritikin diet, died a premature death despite being obsessed with health.
5. Both development officers had considerable experience not only of the elderly mentally frail, but also of implementing new initiatives in care, and of negotiating with other service-providers.
6. There may be all kinds of professional practices which frail and inarticulate older people hate, but which, without support, they would be unable to articulate.
7. He describes his other grandmother as "a wee frail woman" in a mob cap, smoking a long clay pipe and "stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap", while her railwayman husband also "had a great liking for me, and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for "whiteheaded Benny", he did it, Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard", a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school, "swanking" with it hung across my chest."
8. Because of the scale of increase in the older population, however, it is the very old and frail who are seen to represent the greatest challenge to the health and community care services.
9. She was frail, and needed a lot of input from family, neighbours and community services.
10. In order to bring about a deterioration in the patient's condition with low potency remedies one would have to keep on repeating the wrong remedy many times and even then it is unlikely that much would happen unless the patient were particularly frail and weak, in which case they should be having constitutional treatment to boost their overall state and not "first aid" treatment for the little bits that go wrong.
11. The gallery is frail now and there has been some reconstruction, which is continuing with the whole of the property.
12. The bubble, that frail bubble which had seemed to float above us, invisible symbol of the understanding and trust which was to have helped us to live together, shuddered and sank; then bravely rose again into the air, though not now quite as high as before.
13. In other words, the overall management of an organisation that is in many ways similar to a small hotel or guest house, where most of the guests are extremely frail elderly people.