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Перевод: vulnerable

[прилагательное]
уязвимый; ранимый

Тезаурус:

1. This species circles the porcupine like a mongoose dealing with a cobra, and confuses it enough to be able to strike at its only vulnerable zone - its head.
2. First, this phase - though valuable - is obviously highly vulnerable.
3. Vargas Llosa's The Time of the Hero , which is set in a Peruvian military academy where the cadets assume an ostentatious machismo as a survival strategy, oscillates between third-person narration and monologue (interior and spoken) to bring out the gulf between the boys' public personae and their sensitive and vulnerable inner self, and to highlight how social intercourse distorts their personality by conditioning them to suppress their softer feelings.
4. He shrank back fearfully as the horns scythed back and forth among the fragile trees, only a foot or so from his vulnerable body.
5. Normally noisy monkeys are unusually quiet during childbirth, perhaps because they are particularly vulnerable to predators when in labour.
6. This means that more people will be vulnerable to age discrimination if employers do not change their policies.
7. Finally, certain vulnerable groups were most affected by these changes, notably black families living in inner city deprived areas.
8. Why does a sloth leave the relatively safe canopy to defecate on the hostile forest floor where it is vulnerable to terrestrial carnivores?
9. But we do need to remember the great cost of exercising our right to have double standards and also to ask ourselves whether expenditure to make us extremely safe from one form of risk may not sometimes make us more vulnerable to others.
10. The first woman to become a world Grandmaster of bridge, she was bridge correspondent of The Guardian and author of a dozen books including her autobiography, A Vulnerable Game.
11. To begin with, the reality of Scotland's position in Europe meant that she was not vulnerable to attack from countries other than England.
12. One feels vulnerable in baring one's soul to another, so respect, compassion, and commitment, are essential.
13. "Vulnerable people should be aware that there are some laboratories and practitioners who rely on controversial and unproven procedures which are not considered by independent observers either to be reliable or to have a scientific basis."