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1 ветрогон
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2 лицо, расчищающее путь для процессии
General subject: whifflerУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > лицо, расчищающее путь для процессии
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3 любитель похваляться
General subject: whifflerУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > любитель похваляться
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4 ненадёжный
1) General subject: casual, dickey (о торговом предприятии и т. п.), dicky, fair weather, faithless, faltering, faltering speech, fast and loose, fickle, fly by night, fly-by-night, frail, incalculable, insecure, moonish, precarious, questionable, shakey, shaky, shifty, slippery (о человеке), slippy, straw, tickle, touch-and-go, treacherous, tricksy, tricky, trustless, truthless (о человеке), uncertain, undependable, uneasy, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, wacky, whacky, whiffler, wonky (о вещи), flimsy (a flimsy reference point), iffy, dark-minded, error-prone2) Biology: fickle (напр. о культуре)4) Dialect: huffy5) Australian slang: suss6) Psychology: versatile7) Scottish language: uncanny8) Jargon: fluffy, hairy, loose as a goose, wonky, flaky (о человеке), loose9) Information technology: troublesome10) Oil: unserviceable11) Banking: junk (о ценных бумагах)12) Household appliances: accident-sensitive13) Automation: errorprone (напр. об элементе УЧПУ)14) Quality control: fallible15) Makarov: nondurable, pregnable, shady, unassured16) Phraseological unit: bad apple -
5 ненадёжный человек
1) General subject: a bad actor, a broken reed, a bruised reed, a man not to be trusted, a man of straw, an unreliable man, broken reed, flibbertigibbet, man of straw, poor risk, straw man, weak vessel, weathercock, will o' the wisp, will-o'-the-wisp, wisp, wrongo2) Colloquial: flake, sleaze-bag, sleazebag3) American: bad actor4) Bible: the weaker vessel5) Diplomatic term: wobbler6) Jargon: kittle-cattle, ring-tail, yaffer, weak sister, wrong numberУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > ненадёжный человек
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6 непоследовательный человек
1) General subject: blancher, inconsequential character2) Makarov: inconsequent character, whifflerУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > непоследовательный человек
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7 неустойчивый
1) General subject: astatic, brittle, capricious, catching (о погоде), chameleonic, chancy, changeable, changeful, dicky, drunk, easy (о рынке), erratically, fluctuant, fluctuating, frail, impermanent, inconsistent, inconstant, infirm, instable, liquid, non-resistant, quaky, reeling, rickety, rocky (о предмете), rootless, sandy, scrofulous (о моральном облике), slippery, soft, staggering, teetery, tickle, ticklish, tickly, top heavy, top-heavy, tottery, unbalanced (о психике), unballasted, unequable, unsettled, unstable, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, versatile, waggly, wambly, weakly (морально), weathercock, whiffler, wibbly wobbly, wibbly-wobbly, wiggle waggle, wiggle-waggle, yielding, yo-yo, variable, shoddy (as in "shoddy workmanship." Ex: "This carpenter does shoddy work."), flimsy (this means "weak," as in "a flimsy cardboard box" or a "flimsy excuse"), schizophrenic, precarious2) Computers: transient4) Biology: fickle (напр. о культуре)5) Aviation: intermittent6) Medicine: nonsustained7) Colloquial: chancey, dotty, groggy, tippy (о предмете)8) Obsolete: various9) Military: amoeba-type10) Engineering: apt to change, shaky11) Agriculture: erratic (о температуре)12) Rare: sliding13) Mathematics: erratic, labile, negligible, uncertain14) Economy: soft (о ценах и т.п.)15) Automobile industry: walt16) Architecture: unstable (о цвете или пигменте, изменяющимся под воздействием солнечных лучей)18) Diplomatic term: wobbler19) Metallurgy: metastable20) Politics: mugwump (о члене какой-л. организации)21) Scottish language: coggly23) Information technology: fluctuation24) Oil: non-persistent, non-steady, nonpersistent, uneven25) Special term: astable26) Simple: yoyo29) Ecology: non-sustainable30) Business: fluid, off balance, transitional31) Drilling: weak32) Automation: nonsteady33) Oceanography: erratical34) Aviation medicine: seesaw35) Makarov: broken (о погоде), crazy, crazy (о строениях, кораблях и т.п.), erratic (о взглядах и т.п.), erratic (о т-ре), feverish, intolerable, intolerant, nonresistant, rocking, shifty, wavy, wobbly36) Gold mining: vulnerable to disintegration -
8 неустойчивый человек
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > неустойчивый человек
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9 неустойчивый, непоследовательный человек
General subject: whifflerУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > неустойчивый, непоследовательный человек
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10 ничтожество
1) General subject: O, blighter, cipher, crum, crumb bum, drongo, duffer, gink, half pint, insignificant being, jack sprat, jack-straw, jack-straws, jackstraw, lay figure, lay-figure (о человеке), losel, naething, nebbish, negligible quantity, nobody, nonentity (о человеке), nothingness, nought (о человеке), nullity (о человеке), ought (о человеке), picayune, pigmy, pipsqueak, piss ant, poor stick, pygmy, rip, schlep, shrimp, snipe, vanity, whiffler, zero (о человеке), no-goodnik, naught, crum-bum, twerp, third-rater, loser3) Dialect: snipper-snapper4) American: cheap skate, jerk, schlepp, whiffet5) Literal: insect6) Rare: nihil7) Mathematics: cypher8) Australian slang: also-ran, bottle-oh's rouseabout, skunk9) Scornful: Lilliputian (о человеке), Tom Thumb, pismire, whippersnapper, whipster10) Jargon: dipshit, dot, half-pint, hoddy-doddy, nit, patsy, piss-ant, schloomp, schlump, squeegie, squegee, waste of life (e.g. Dude, do something and stop being a waste of life!), zerk, muff cabbage/ muff garbage (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Muff%20Cabbage&defid=5279477), Kilroy, pea soup, schlub11) Simple: small potatoes -
11 хвастун
1) General subject: Gascon, Rodomonte, Tartarin, bighead, blower, blusterer, boaster, bouncer, brag, braggadocio, braggart, bucko, buckstick, bully, ear banger, ear-banger, fanfaron, gabber, hector, hot-shot, humbug, showoff, swashbuckler, swasher, thraso, whiffler, namedropper, blow-hard2) Colloquial: blow-off, gasser, ruffler, bag of wind, bragger3) American: blowhard4) Ironical: hot shot, hot-shot Charlie, hotshot5) Obsolete: cracker6) Australian slang: skite7) Jargon: big mouth, show-off, tinhorn, wind-jammer, wind-sucker, loose cannon, ho dad, ho-dad, ho-daddy, hodad, key-swinger8) Makarov: a bag of wind9) Taboo: bullshit-artist, bullshitter, crap-shooter, crapper, piss-fire, shit on a stick
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