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Перевод: halting

[прилагательное]
спотыкающийся; хромающий; хромой; запинающийся;
[существительное]
остановка ; перебой ; сбой

Тезаурус:

1. It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school, having learned French for seven years, and having even passed at grade A at A level, may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences, and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker.
2. The progress of sport as a "commodity" either to be sold to the media in its own right or to be used in order to sell other products was slower and more halting than might be imagined.
3. We each make our own Inca trails, whether it be the walking route of that name which brings you to Machu Picchu spectacularly through the Gates of the Sun; the halting journey I made by bus, colectivo and train; or the tourists' ninety dollar day trip on a special train.
4. Britain and France will almost certainly find unanimous support from other Common Market countries for the UN measures, which include halting flights to and from Libya, a ban on weapons sales and reductions in Libyan diplomatic personnel.
5. When they got there, Maria was sitting on the piano stool in the parlour, picking out a song on the keys and trying to sing along with her halting one finger accompaniment, "Jol-ly Go-od Luck to the Gi-rl Who Lo-ves a Sol-dier".
6. Although BSC says it is halting production for three weeks because of a sharp drop in demand, unions and all Scottish parties fear the unprecedented break could be a prelude to something much worse.
7. Across the street, beyond a wide stretch of frost-laced gravel, there was a huge triumphal arch on which were four horses driven by a goddess of peace, over whom, in turn, hung two flags, both enormous as if vying with each other and both striped red, orange and black, the far one with those stripes alone, but the near one bearing the wreath, hammer and dividers of the German Democratic Republic, and under it all, cutting the avenue in half, halting it with the abruptness of Finis at the end of a book, and behind a fragile metal fence, snow on its top giving it an odd, festive look, there was a drab grey wall made of concrete blocks.
8. Gallagher walked after him, halting only to hit, weaving and ducking the wild swings of the powerful fist.
9. The most wildly eccentric offering of the evening was Nocturne, a solo choreographed by Martha Clarke, in which Carol Parker depicted a disabled sylphide whose pathetically spasmodic and halting movements were incongruously linked to one of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words.
10. Halting that activity was the objective of the exercise, not the capture of an enormous haul of drugs.
11. The consensus is that stabilizing the climate (i.e. halting the warming) will require a 50 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions.
12. I felt our situation had been reversed: now I was the halting beginner, he was the fluent expert.
13. Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words, however few and halting, has a bewitching effect upon everything in London, animate and inanimate alike.