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Перевод: hippopotamus
[существительное] бегемот ; гиппопотам
Тезаурус:
- Armed with light Indian swords and shields of hippopotamus hide, they fought their way through to the King, forcing him to withdraw, wounded in the thigh.
- On the other hand interglacial periods were very much warmer than conditions in temperate latitudes today, and these climatic fluctuations resulted in periods when hippopotamus and tropical rhinoceros thrived in the areas occupied by Europe's capital cities today.
- Just how strongly Eliot was spurred on to emphasize the connections between sex and religion at this time is seen in "The Hippopotamus" (1917) which contains one of his most shocking jokes:
- A van stood by to take the bottles up to the municipal bottle bank, another for the cans and a red plastic hippopotamus with its mouth wide open waited to receive the litter.
- Rather more realistically, perhaps, the behemoth has been latterly identified as either the hippopotamus or rhinoceros.
- The vertebrates found from that period include mammoth and other extinct elephants, extinct rhino, hippopotamus, giant deer, lion, spotted hyaena, tortoise and macaque (from the "monkey gravel" of West Runton, Norfolk - where else?).
- The door had opened, and a huge hippopotamus of a woman was filling the doorway.
- She sometimes appeared on earth as a hippopotamus, too, and her epithet was The Golden.
- Otley asked as I ran to the hippopotamus clutching an armful of debris.
- An awesome beast who figured in Egyptian legend, the Devourer sported the mane of a lion, the body of a hippopotamus and the jaws of a golden crocodile.
- "The Hollow Men", not "The Hippopotamus", is Eliot's most blasphemous poem.
- You will notice that some creatures have names that are difficult to distinguish from one another (not all are as pleasantly obvious as "hippopotamus"), which is why it is important for you to read the list first and for the PP to say them in the same order to start with.
- Answers Lion, tiger, elephant, monkey, snake, zebra, camel, giraffe, alligator, hippopotamus.
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