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Перевод: midget

[прилагательное]
миниатюрный;
[существительное]
карлик ; лилипут ; очень маленькое существо; фитюлька ; миниатюра ; очень маленькая вещь

Тезаурус:

1. We can read into Las Meninas such a view of the Habsburgs (Fig. 8): Philip IV and Mariana are merely reflections, living in a world of grotesquerie and make-believe; a tiny princess dressed as an adult with a skirt so stiff it makes her look as if she is on wheels, surrounded by curtseying maids, a dwarf, a midget, a huge dog with the ability to sleep through anything, and a great artist, aloof and all-powerful.
2. This is how Jonathan Coe's new novel The Dwarves of Death (Fourth Estate, 12.95) got its name: "The title came from a headline in the News of The World , a story about midget matadors in Spain.
3. I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay, cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which, when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her, put the ship out of action for six months.
4. He avoided the child-labour inspectors by clamping a cigar between his teeth and pretending he was a forty-five-year-old midget.
5. Knighton defied him by signing "Midget" Moffat from Workington.
6. If I had found the cramped interior of the U-boat at Kiel oppressive, it was nothing to the claustrophobia I felt inside the midget submarine, and I marvelled again at the courage and calm that had enabled Place and his crew to live a daily life in such surroundings, far less undertake and brilliantly accomplish their mission.
7. Later, MI6 arranged that a wartime midget submarine, known as an X-Craft, would attempt to penetrate the Russian naval base at Leningrad.
8. The training would also become increasingly complex, with landings from midget submarines late in 1943 and early in 1944, but in October 1942 the best that could be produced were canoes to get the swimmer inshore and a cumbersome rubberised canvas suit of the type used by charioteers riding human torpedoes .
9. From time to time fringe elements in MI6 dream up hare-brained schemes like the plot to assassinate President Nasser of Egypt, or sending midget submarines into the Russian naval base at Leningrad.
10. Exeunt: Sir John Falstaff, the Caricaturist, a Midget - pursued by a Dog.
11. The R931's most serious rival will be the Suzuki Cappuccino, a 657cc modern version of the Midget which goes on sale next year.
12. She was tiny, midget almost, with a bird-like look.
13. The giant was suffering from hormonal imbalance and the midget was a case of genetic dwarfism.