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Перевод: quack

[прилагательное]
шарлатанский;
[существительное]
кряканье; кряква [зоол.] ; утка ; медик ; знахарь ; шарлатан ;
[глагол]
крякать; болтать; трещать; лечить снадобьями; шарлатанить; мошенничать

Тезаурус:

1. "And a quack, quack there."
2. Here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack
3. But nowhere is there a gene, or group of genes, which makes it quack.
4. "Quack, quack here," she says.
5. With a quack quack here and a quack quack there
6. This is partially true, but the motivations for saying "quack", the kind of quack a duck makes, the social message that is being conveyed - fear, alarm, pain, surprise, contentment, "Come here", "Go away", "Look what I've found" - this all requires a mind behind the larynx to make it express or utter the intent and feeling within the duck's mind, to give the quack the correct inflection and intonation.
7. There is always some magic remedy that will cure it, or some whizz-kid quack with a patent method.
8. Election Comment: Decisive win over the quack troops
9. Lord Donaldson, Master of the Rolls, said he had some sympathy for Dr Richard Colman and there was no suggestion that he was a "quack".
10. Mr Ridley said that manufacturing output was now at a record level - 12 per cent higher than in 1979, and 6 per cent higher than the previous all-time peak in 1974, and accused Labour politicians of being like "quack doctors" - claiming the country was ill and prescribing a cure that in reality would only make the country worse off.
11. Though he kept a folder packed with suggestions for new volumes, he was keen to emphasise their serious didactic nature: "We don't go in for quick quack books."
12. The Useless Quack joined the Navy and grew a gingery beard, which enabled Lewis (always anxious to invent fresh sobriquets for his friends) to label him the Red Admiral.