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Общая лексика: безобидная проделка -
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1. a безвредный, безопасный; безобидный2. a невинный, ни в чём не повинный3. a редк. невредимый, целый; неповреждённыйСинонимический ряд:safe (adj.) benign; impotent; innocent; innocuous; innoxious; inobnoxious; inoffensive; nontoxic; painless; pure; safe; sanitary; trustworthy; unoffending; unoffensiveАнтонимический ряд:damaging; detrimental; harmful; hurtful -
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1. n искусная проделка; махинация; уловка2. n хитрость, ловкостьthey used every artifice to get our help — они прибегали ко всяческим хитростям, чтобы добиться от нас помощи
3. n неискренностьСинонимический ряд:1. cunning (noun) art; cageyness; canniness; craft; cunning; foxiness; slyness; wiliness2. deceit (noun) artfulness; craftiness; deceit; deception; double-dealing; duplicity; guile; subterfuge3. ingenuity (noun) ability; facility; ingenuity; know how; shrewdness; skill; trickery4. trick (noun) chouse; device; expedient; feint; gambit; gimmick; intrigue; jig; machination; maneuver; manoeuvre; play; ploy; ruse; scheme; shenanigan; sleight; stratagem; tactic; trick; whizzer; wileАнтонимический ряд:frankness; honesty; ingenuousness; innocence; openness; sincerity -
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[ʹɑ:tıfıs] n1. искусная проделка; махинация; уловкаharmless [wicked] artifice - безобидная [злая] проделка
to employ /to practise/ numerous artifices - прибегать ко всяким уловкам
2. 1) хитрость, ловкостьto make smb. do smth. by artifice - хитростью заставить кого-л. сделать что-л.
her conduct is free from artifice - она ведёт себя совершенно бесхитростно
2) неискренность -
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ˈɑ:tɪfɪs сущ.
1) выдумка, изобретение, находка, решение Syn: invention
2) уловка, искусная проделка, хитрость, трюк Syn: trick
3) фальшивое поведение, неискренностьискусная проделка;
махинация;
уловка - harmless * безобидная проделка - * ingenious * искусная махинация - to employ numerous *s прибегать ко всяким уловкам хитрость, ловкость - to make smb. do smth. by * хитростью заставить кого-либо сделать что-либо - her conduct is free from * она ведет себя совершенно бесхитростно неискренность - social * светское притворствоartifice изобретение, выдумка ~ искусная проделка, хитростьБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > artifice
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