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Перевод: bonfire
[существительное] костер
Тезаурус:
- Judy Rumbold, the fashion editor of The Guardian , couldn't have been more wrong when she wrote about trainers (August 21, 1989): "In Tom Wolfe's Bonfire Of The Vanities , sneakers are documented as an intrusive part of young American street style; not just symbols of black affiliation and for high performance on the dancefloor but as crucial elements in maintaining a lugubrious, rhythmic gait that Wolfe coined the Pimp Roll.
- Outside, in a field, a lively group of boys and girls were piling branches in a heap for their Halloween bonfire.
- In Lewes, as in many other Sussex towns, the patriotism of the Bonfire displays, heightened during the wars with France, could spill easily over into a week of repeated apprentice riots, with the participants throwing bricks through the windows of unpopular employers or threatening personal violence and arson.
- One day we were crouching by the gardener's bonfire (his pride was that the fire smouldered day and night and never went out).
- The latter was, with the feast of St Pancras, the great time for Lewes festivities, with some lively apprentice celebrations in November, the distant precursors of the bonfire societies.
- The Conservatives' bonfire of planning controls has led to ill-thought out development, often against the wishes of local people.
- If it did anything this mass burning ensured that Lewes remained a stronghold of Protestantism, and the people of Cliffe still celebrate Bonfire Night at the Martyr's Memorial with a sectarian fervour far exceeding the mild anti-Popery of other marchers.
- The Edwardian stairs were next to land on the bonfire.
- On the way to Barcelona, the Olympic torch pays a little detour to Benidorm where it can ignite a real roarer of a bonfire in which anybody in possession of a "Brits on the piss!"
- During the festivities a hastily built bonfire was set alight in the middle of the market place, and an equally hastily assembled replica of the Japanese Emperor was burnt to a cinder on top of it.
- "I'm taking the children to watch the bonfire just after six.
- The foal was called Bonfire and was splendidly nosy and confident and trod delicately all round him pretending that he was lying on the sweetest grass in the field.
- I put her on the floor with a book behind her head - Bonfire of the Vanities - and said, right up with your knees (to give her some simple breathing exercises).
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