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Перевод: manhole
[существительное] люк ; лаз ; смотровое отверстие; горловина
Тезаурус:
- It is well worth while to lift the manhole covers, then wash the brickwork and the benching" with warm water, and point any defective brickwork or joints; replace the covers after smearing the rims with a little grease to prevent them sticking.
- She remained in role at the manhole, available as an ear to their reporting-back if they needed it.
- I recently watched Dorothy Heathcote, halfway through a lesson on preparing for robbing a bank, release some junior school pupils into a free-play experience where they were to go down a manhole and then search the sewers under the bank.
- Looking over the wall corner, the crater of Cow Pot is revealed and should be left severely alone; instead, turn south to a cluster of boulders around an iron manhole cover set in the ground.
- I am reminded that with the literal manhole - the actual thing in the street - we can indeed walk all over it.
- The manhole lid conceals a vertical shaft 110 feet deep.
- Then place a piece of paper in the nearest WC - flush it, and move quickly to the nearest manhole and watch the paper flow through.
- But isn't this "manhole" also a condensed image which, like the letter generally, fearfully anticipates engulfment in the return of those actual others ("outside evils") whose subordination, persecution, or exclusion has hitherto seemed to guarantee a sexual, racial, and national purity - women, homosexuals, foreigners?
- Open up the drain manhole covers with your spade and long screwdrivers.
- We climbed onto it, put our arms into the shaft of sunlight, grasped the upper edges of the hole and, one by one, hauled ourselves up through a manhole into another street.
- Below this new slab it was practical to install a sewage collection chamber of 1,818 litres (400 gal) capacity, associated with a macerator and pump, allowing waste to be reduced and then pumped through a small-diameter pipe to a private sewer manhole 150m (492ft) away.
- Waves burst over the cockpit into the saloon only to pour out through the manhole each time the bridge-deck broke free for a moment.
- The continual slamming of the seas under the bridge-deck beat at them, fountaining up through the manhole Trent had unscrewed in the saloon deck.
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