Перевод слова

Перевод: mainland

[прилагательное]
континентальный;
[существительное]
материк ; большой остров

Тезаурус:

1. An English-speaking population half the size of Cuba's is scattered over 2,000 miles, from the Bahamas in the Atlantic to Guyana on the American mainland - more still, if you go by way of Belize - complete with more than a dozen governors-general, parliaments, prime ministers, judiciaries and bureaucracies.
2. Set amongst trees and gardens, these very attractive studios and apartments are opposite the beach and have fantastic views across to mainland Greece and Albania.
3. Badgers are widespread throughout mainland Britain though they are less common in upland areas, East Anglia and parts of northern England.
4. Most, but not all, of the islanders retreated to the mainland, returning five months later to discover that their island had grown by over a square mile and that nearly half the town had been destroyed.
5. Today all the bananas exported go to mainland Portugal.
6. Any exports to the mainland have to bear high transport costs.
7. If the explosive used was Semtex it would almost certainly be the biggest IRA bomb ever planted on the British mainland.
8. Some suggest a tropical origin for the breed, probably Indian; some talk about a yellow Caspian type drifting through the Balkans and into Spain, and thence into France and the Channel Islands - bearing in mind that Jersey was directly linked with mainland France by a landbridge or causeway until the year 709.
9. As already noted, tourism in the Western Isles is hampered by the high cost of transport from the mainland.
10. One of the first jobs Mr Kenneth Clarke, the new Home Secretary, is to decide on whether the task of gathering intelligence on Irish terrorism on the mainland should be given to MI5 rather than the Special Branch.
11. He got the students to leave the Memorial Hall by promising a "National Affairs Conference" to reach a "consensus on issues such as constitutional reform and mainland China policy".
12. Most raw materials for industry and almost all the fuel have come from the mainland.
13. Political culture in mainland European countries is often marked by sheer apathy and disinterest, and plans for European union exploit this.