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Перевод: homely speek homely


[прилагательное]
простой; обыденный; непритязательный; скромный; безыскусственный; искусный; хороший; домашний; уютный; невзрачный; некрасивый


Тезаурус:

  1. The 1992 line-up sounds fresher in its contributions to the invigorating album by Beryl Marriott, who looks like a homely, old-fashioned music teacher but rises admirably to Fairport's description, the "Jerry Lee Lewis of folk".
  2. It is reasonable, to start ideas in train in children, to compare an electron with a ping-pong ball, or the whole atom with a tiny solar system; but the longer you stay with homely parallels, the harder it ultimately becomes for the child to move out of the imagery of pong-pong balls and into an appreciation that atoms aren't really like that at all.
  3. Leeds has a variety of accommodation, from the modern four-star Ladbroke Dragonara and Hilton Hotels, close to the station, to homely BB guesthouses in the Headingley area, two miles from the the city centre, and university and college residences during the vacations.
  4. Eventually we slowed down and stopped on Troutsdale Ward, a homely wing with about a dozen dear old ladies variously ambling around, or dozing in armchairs.
  5. George locked the baggage car door behind us and we stood again in the quiet horse car which looked homely and friendly with the horses' heads poking forward over the doors.
  6. Such knowledge as he was full of is fast decaying and it is interesting to come across this old exponent of time-honoured homely skill.
  7. God knows what Tavic would find to say to dear, homely Annie Templeman, or what his favourite ex-girl friend, Mina Beresford, had done to deserve the lugubrious Bill Templeman as a neighbour.
  8. When he got to Stuttgart, he was to make the bare tables and bleak walls of the theatre canteen seem homely.
  9. Victorian splendour with an atmosphere of homely friendliness.
  10. More commonly powerful Romans had themselves portrayed with their bodies idealised in the Greek manner and their heads idealised in the Roman tradition - indeed, even Pompey never quite lost his homely Roman countenance The result was an aesthetic catastrophe, but the harshly jarring styles accurately conveyed the confusion of cultures in the early first century BC, a time when many well-to-do Romans completed their education in Athens, but when the moral values expressed in traditional Roman portraits were still considered an essential element in the representation of individuals.
  11. In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold, and in 1988 homely spades, belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible, a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank.
  12. Most of them, according to contemporary accounts, were still using the same crude methods and homely remedies that were popular 100 years before.
  13. "Mrs Keane is a comfortable, homely person.

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