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Перевод: slender

[прилагательное]
тонкий; стройный; грациозный; скудный; незначительный; слабый; небольшой; субтильный; худенький

Тезаурус:

1. The strong and slender hips,
2. Every new Northern Ireland Secretary takes office bearing the slender hopes of the British people that he will at last prove the man who can draw forth the sword from the stone, and translate into reality the ritual expressions of faith about restoring peace to the province.
3. The popular Water-clovers (Marsilea) produce long runners which in turn grow tall, slender stems which float leaves on the water surface.
4. Many such heavy timber beams supporting joists of the first floor were inserted into existing buildings in such a way that their ends may have had an inadequate bearing on to slender timber "storey posts" installed adjacent to the party walls.
5. Most fungi grow as long thin threads called hyphae - they are so slender that they can only be seen under a microscope, but a mass of intertwined hyphae is visible: this is what makes up toadstools and mushrooms.
6. Elcho told the House about Palmerston's reaction to the delegation and, pointing to the Government's slender majority, asked them to ensure that the subject would not become a "see-saw".
7. In his discussion of the decay of English myth, he holds out only the slender hope of the music hall and laments that in general modern dramatists and probably modern audiences are "terrified of the myth".
8. Felt Lucy's slender arms round her shoulders.
9. An advantage of this slender branch byway, which runs at a higher level than the main road, is the splendid panorama it affords of the encircling hills: across the valley the distant double-topped Frostrow merges in the long whaleback skyline of Rise Hill; at the head is Great Knoutberry Hill carrying the railway; rising to the left are the lower slopes of Whernside, succeeded by Great Coum beyond the gap of Deepdale, and finally Middleton Fell closes the horizon.
10. The moon was a slender crescent, and a few tattered clouds shuffled across the perfect dome of blue-black sky.
11. At the other end of the scale are crowfoots of fast waters, whose only leaves are bunches of slender threads which run with the current - the "crow's feet".
12. She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule, with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant.
13. One in particular, which eventually makes a fairly slender tree about 30 (10m) high, has almost spineless leaves.