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Перевод: penguin
[существительное] пингвин
Тезаурус:
- The design has been created by Kenneth Carroll, who has had extensive experience in the worlds both of books and of newspapers - his clients have included Penguin (where he designed the King Penguin and reference lists), Collins/Fontana, Heinemann and Pan, and he was also responsible for the most recent redesign of the Observer in 1989 and, when a partner of Carroll, Dempsey Thirkell, co-designed the Independent .
- The gentoo is a large penguin, standing over sixty centimetres tall and is more like the king penguin in its habits, preferring to come ashore on sandy beaches and establish "rookeries" up on nearby hillsides.
- And foes like the Penguin and Joker will be seen as mere alcoholic hallucinations.
- NME 's SIMON WILLIAMS has sued the compilers of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF ROCK 'N' ROLL WRITING for "failing to include any of my work and thereby producing a totally unrepresentative collection".
- You can substitute any name you like in place of PENGUIN, as long as it has eight letters or less, but do choose something safe.
- Yet another species of penguin nests on Kidney Island, the Magellanic or "jackass" penguin.
- "Within the space of a few years THE PENGUIN GUIDE has become something of an institution, its status earned largely through a cheerful, informative "plain speaking" style, copious entries, and attractive reader-friendly presentation" - Classic CD
- The Argentine resupply and tourist ship Bahia Paraiso ran aground near major penguin rookeries in the Antarctic Peninsula, just offshore from the US research base of Palmer Station.
- The present text, his first novel, strikes me as amusing, irritating, and impressive in about equal degrees, and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching - it is subtitled A Novel of Changes, in case anyone should miss this - with frequent references to Marco Polo's own writings, in Ronald Latham's Penguin translation.
- In the Penguin edition J. C. Maxwell does not follow the capitalization conventions of the text printed here.
- Finally, there are various reference books you may wish to keep handy and dip into: Roget's Thesaurus , Brewer's Dictionary Phrase and Fable , The Oxford Book of English Usage , A Dictionary of Clichs , The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations , The Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang and of course a good dictionary which includes derivations and pronunciation of words.
- The white underside of a puffin or penguin swimming on the sea merges with the sky and makes it harder for fish to spot danger overhead.
- Of the four species of penguin kept at Belfast Zoo, the adult king towers above the rest at about a metre.
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