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Перевод: avalanche
[существительное] лавина ; обвал ; снежный обвал; завал ; масса ; поток ; решительная победа на выборах
Тезаурус:
- Mr Bob Balchin, chairman of the Grant-Maintained Schools Foundation, said yesterday that he was expecting an avalanche of parental ballots after the Easter holidays.
- Indeed their centralising hand is increasingly obvious as more and more of the state machinery appears to public view through what one senior member of the DES himself described as a "snowstorm of circulars and an avalanche of administrative memoranda".
- But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material, spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis, and led to the first attempts at gene therapy.
- Postcards of Ace and the Wave, showing him flying down an infinite green wall closely pursued by an avalanche, were still available in North Shore shops.
- But as they continue to build up and up, with spines getting higher and higher, the time comes when large portions of the mass become mechanically unstable, and break away, collapsing in a clattering, roaring avalanche.
- Talk of the theatre was normally avoided in front of Bo-Bo because no one liked to suffer the avalanche of tears that flowed when memories of her prematurely terminated career overwhelmed the onetime actress.
- It's a gigantic, near-illegible swirl-surge, a horizontal, disciplined avalanche.
- The wave had had its ropes cut and was erupting in an avalanche of fury that would bury everything in its path.
- In addition it offers the latest avalanche conditions in Scotland as supplied by the Scottish Mountain Safety Group, and winter climbing conditions in the major Scottish centres.
- Discretion would appear to be "the better part"; about fifty to sixty metres down from me on the right are some very steep - probably vertical - cliffs falling the last thirteen to seventeen metres into the sea and I have no desire to ride an avalanche down.
- Then would come a torrent of pet names, an avalanche of patronage:
- Little wonder that he sometimes gave the impression of inattentiveness in class; he was inebriated in a world of letters, engulfed by an avalanche of ideas and images, forms and metres, essays and critiques: a fast-changing, provocative kaleidoscope which took his already well-stocked and fertile mind to fresh heights.
- on the far bank Cameron had outstripped them, his army moving steadily down the strath, winning signatures at the house of Cluny, at Clochfoldich and Pitnacree, by the solid slow avalanche of their numbers, massing quietly round each house, hammering three times on each door.
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