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Перевод: mound
[существительное] насыпь ; могильный холм; курган ; холм ; большое количество; держава ; [глагол] делать насыпь; насып`ать холм
Тезаурус:
- A lone grave, the resting-place of one who had died at sea, lay at a point of land under the shelter of a rugged knoll: the grassy mound was decked with a cross of white stones, and at either end an unhewn rock was placed to mark the spot as sacred; and on the taller stone was a square patch whereon the remains of an inscription that bore a roughly-drawn cross and an anchor, and the fact J. M "L. died at sea - all else defaced.
- The significance of this little mound will soon become apparent.
- It meant at least that someone had been in the burial mound, though not necessarily recently.
- It is groaningly cold, possibly as low as - -225C ( - -13F), although we cannot be sure as Tony's thermometer is buried under a mound of tackle.
- Thursday the Royal Burial Mound and the other burial places and the port and the primeval forest.
- It was a great mound of leaves and garden rubbish nearly as tall as we were - cabbage stalks, I can smell them now."
- Children may discover that the covering of sand in the tray can be pushed to one side into a mound, yet will still push back to cover the tray.
- In the bite-shaped hollow, a small mound of viscous lava was growing and continued to do so for a long time afterwards.
- He jumped piles of stones and rubbish in his way and almost tripped over a mound of rusty saucepans lying in the darkness.
- The Irish maol or maoile means, literally, "little mound"; the Welsh equivalent is moel, the English poll, and in the USA the Irish immigrants introduced the word muley.
- The score was 1-1 when Clark came to bat, the bases were loaded and Mitch Williams, the Cubs' best relief pitcher, was on the mound.
- She was lying on the carpet, the lips of her cunt, soft and blunt, pushing up through a mound of black curls.
- Even this amount of work will cost them 420 but, if nothing is done, chairman Peter Hobbs warned "The mound will become a bigger and bigger eyesore."
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