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Перевод: upas

[существительное]
анчар ; пагубное влияние

Тезаурус:

1. The protein part of the diet is supplemented by hunting using bamboo blowpipes with the nerve poison strychnine, an alkaloid from species of Strychnos or from Antiaris toxicaria, the upas tree (Moraceae), or venom from toadskin or snakes.
2. Sometimes it is shown as having bat wings as well, and Indonesian records describe each quill in the beast's tail as being tipped in poisonous juices of the upas tree for added impetus.
3. The Archbishop of Canterbury's report on urban priority areas (UPAs) comes to much the same conclusion as the inner area studies and the Scarman Report: "We can put forward a confident and melancholy generalisation - that the UPAs are places of severe and increasing deprivation.
4. The natural history of the upas tree of housing as a social service, growing from the twin roots of rent restriction and indiscriminate subsidy, would be a fascinating subject for a long book.
5. If anyone thinks my language exaggerated or highly coloured - and such there might well be, considering that no one here under pensionable age can have any recollection of a world without rent restriction or subsidised rents - let him recall another upas tree which we only managed to cut down in the nick of time ten years ago.