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Перевод: imponderable

[прилагательное]
невесомый; неощутимый; незначительный; очень легкий; неуловимый; не поддающийся учету;
[существительное]
нечто невесомое; что-либо неуловимое; что-либо, не имеющее реальных оснований

Тезаурус:

1. McFarlane, having spelled out with caution the Israeli arguments and the Iranian blandishments, admitted that "the concept raises a number of imponderable questions", including "where this might lead in terms of our being asked to up the ante on more and more arms and where that could conceivably lead
2. In other words, share prices may be driven by fads and other forms of market irrationality, and, particularly, by a concentration on tangible short-term earnings figures rather than on relatively imponderable longer-term prospects.
3. From the perspective of functionalism (and from the perspective of other materialist theories also), however, this is a question for science rather than an imponderable problem of metaphysics.
4. Many argue that the biological effects of lengthy space travel are the biggest imponderable.
5. For one thing, there would be problems in establishing causation: showing that steps that a more energetic management might have taken would have made a difference to the company's position would involve an assessment of complex and often imponderable factors.
6. Earlier in his decision, however, he had posed the question, "was the child's life going to be so demonstrably awful that it should be condemned to die; or was the kind of life so imponderable that it would be wrong to condemn her to die?"
7. William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that "a good photoplay, like a good book or a good piece of music, remains always something of a miracle" and that "beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing".
8. But then anxiety is an imponderable menace.
9. "That's an imponderable at the moment," he said.
10. To those at home in Jubilee week, fiddling exasperatedly with their television sets, the spectacle of their children mutilating themselves with safety-pins and chains, dressing in the black plastic sacks normally reserved for household refuse and generally conforming to all the stereotypes of what the popular press had identified as the "punk-rock" phenomenon, was a symptom of some imponderable national malaise, and the harbinger of an awful future.
11. Occasionally a series starts this way, then veers off on a tangent to do with steering wheel size or some other imponderable.
12. Then some countries, notably the UK, are in the midst of a recession - yet another imponderable.
13. In Britain, however, English has functioned to provide a substitute for any theory of the national life in the form of an imponderable base from which the quality of the national life can be assessed.