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Перевод: spook

[существительное]
привидение; призрак ; шпион ;
[глагол]
являться (о призраке); пугать; нервировать; пугаться

Тезаурус:

1. An extreme example of hit-or-miss judgment on performance occurred in Payne v Spook Erection Ltd (1984) where a company established a weekly "merit table" in which workers were assessed largely by guesswork.
2. But while psychic Philip Steff has offered to help, a record company spokesman said: "Annie is a strong lady and she's not about to let a spook ruin her summer break."
3. These fish often feed within 20 yards of the beach and the slightest light reflection will spook them.
4. Let's nuke the spook."
5. Nil spook.
6. Then, when the horse is brought out of the stable, instead of just walking quietly along (which it would if it had just come in from the paddock), it is jumping out of its skin, ready to spook and shy at anything, nostrils dilated, eyes bulging, and tail hoisted high.
7. " He'll spook at anything ," says his rider John Whitaker, " and the trouble is he doesn't just look at the thing, he'll jump six feet in the air and then do the splits when he comes down again.
8. That was on the 1991 "Don't Spook The Horse" tour recorded for posterity on the "Weld" live double album, casting Young as a man driven to the limit, charging and stomping his ground, ready to explode.
9. The classic case in this area, Payne v Spook Erection Ltd (1984), involved a foreman who was "fully justified in law" in declining to implement a bizarre and patently unfair scheme for monitoring his subordinates.
10. He is likely to knock you off your feet just being led across the yard if he can find anything to spook at, and when it comes to removing rugs he is something of a Houdini.
11. Of these I might mention the powerful Spook (HVS) and one of the best VS expeditions we had ever experienced - Quality Street above Cormorant Ledge.
12. Pravda, the leading anti-Yeltsin newspaper in Moscow, has printed excerpts of what it claims is a memo from Mr Primakov, dated March 21st 1992, in which the spook outlined the properties of red mercury, or mercuric salt of antimonous acid as it is also known, in detail.
13. This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months, the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver, Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy.