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Перевод: oblique

[прилагательное]
наклонный; косой; непрямой; окольный; косвенный [грам.];
[существительное]
непрямой угол;
[глагол]
продвигаться вкось

Тезаурус:

1. The submissive spouse or even the martyr may be giving rein in an oblique way to a desire for mental or physical pain.
2. The belief grew that the original patination had been black, possibly based on some rather oblique remarks in Pliny's Natural History on treating bronzes with bitumen.
3. Recording planned for the coming months include Mendelssohn's Elijah (with La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale and L'Orchestre des Champs-Elyses), anthems by Purcell (with Collegium Vocale), Mahler's Das Lied von de Erde (L'Ensemble Musique Oblique) and Lassus's Les Larmes de Saint Pierre (with Ensemble Vocal Europen de la Chapelle Royale).
4. Although they are naked in their latest pictures, the images are as oblique as ever, and George merely shrugs, "If everybody else has to be, why not us?", when it's suggested there might be some special significance involved.
5. Push the upright cuttings, oblique end downwards, into deep boxes of compost, cover their flat tops with a layer of compost and water.
6. Oblique aerial photographs are easier to take than vertical ones, but are difficult to use afterwards, as there is distortion of the image.
7. There are only oblique references to the fact that he refused to "get involved" (in what? the peace or civil rights movement?) in the States.
8. Apparently, in the movements before a 360 loop the board is headed into the wind so that it takes off from the wave at an oblique angle.
9. A direct question may not always be the ideal approach - a hint or oblique reference can sometimes be better - but a direct approach will gain response much more often than people think.
10. So with the legal dice against them, women are forced to adopt such oblique means of redress and appeal as possession "illnesses".
11. In a sense the children's librarian is freer, but also is forced to work in a more oblique and informal way; the teacher may work directly, can initiate activities and be more directive, for instance in requiring the child to respond with his own written or pictorial work or linking the reading to another activity in the classroom.
12. This argument seems, however, to have been soon dropped, and in the 1484 act survives only in the oblique remark that Richard, unlike his brothers, had been born in England.
13. The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being; she came across few direct ones, in that suburban and industrial spot, so she had to make do with the oblique.