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Перевод: astern
[наречие] на корме; за кормой; назад; позади
Тезаурус:
- About half an hour later, when the formation was patrolling over Luqa at 20,000 feet, they were suddenly attacked from above and astern by six Bf109Es.
- As had been realised already in the model experiments, a rotor ship would not make full use of a wind blowing directly from astern.
- This aircraft was firing at the Ju88s from astern.
- Sgt. Robertson, who was flying about fifth in the line of Hurricanes (in V7495), and who recorded that the success of the attack owed much to Lambert's leadership and positioning of the squadron, attacked another Stuka from astern, setting fire to the starboard wingroot.
- Selecting a Ju88 - an aircraft of 4/LG I (L1+CM) flown by Lt. Reinhold Krause - he attacked from astern with three burst, seeing the starboard wing and engine catch fire.
- He was serving on the battleship HMS Agincourt during the Battle of Jutland and related how they were in line astern to The Queen Mary and, when the latter was hit in the magazine and blew up, they sailed over the spot without feeling a thing.
- Lambert who was leading on this occasion, ordered the formation to go into line astern for the attack.
- I told her of the big green seas, all crinkled and slow, heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume.
- The Hurricanes dived on them, but at once the escorting fighters were on their tails; at least two "convoys" were noted of Ju87, Hurricane, Bf109E in line astern, all firing.
- The constraints of the past slip astern.
- Each gentle breath was exquisitely hushed in these still hours as the light began to glimmer over the arch of heaven, "mid the cloud-wreaths, over the mountains, and on the wide expanse of ocean - ahead, astern, and on either side of us, as we sped towards Lewis.
- They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern, while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute.
- A sperm whale, for example, cannot see directly fore and aft, a factor made use of by the mariners of old, who quietly crept up upon them from straight astern or dead ahead.
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