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Перевод: slime
[существительное] ил ; липкий ил; муть ; тина ; слизь ; шлам ; [глагол] покрывать слизью; покрываться слизью; удалять слизь
Тезаурус:
- When in 1859 Charles Darwin published The Origins of Species , he had no intention of implying that random mutation of genes and natural selection could account for the emergence of life on earth; but it was inevitable that some of his followers would try to project his hypothesis backwards, and speculate that life might somehow have been generated spontaneously in gaseous, primeval slime.
- He tried to wipe the wetness from his mouth using the back of his hand, only to find his face smeared afresh with a foamy slime.
- Nothing is impossible in a world which, science tells us, began from the primaeval slime and, taking its time, produced both Shakespeare and Hitler.
- He gives examples of oral books, but misses Norman Lindsay's The magic pudding , and anal books (all those miser stories, and comic obsession with slime and mud), characterizing Through the looking glass as a phallic fantasy, and so on.
- Some of them were obviously rousing, with children dressed up as tadpoles and frogs in a production called Slime for example.
- There he works on the Slime Line, which is basically rather like the Northern Line, but slightly more regular.
- But although the hunt for a substitute will go on, it looks increasingly likely that judicial pressure will make Walpole swallow the slime and Mr Weld his promise.
- He was dragged out into the light, the creature's awful, Silk-resembled face, alive with the movement of the surface slime that quickened with expectation.
- Friedrich Engels singled out the river Aire in Leeds and the Irk in Manchester for special mention: "In dry weather, a long string of the most disgusting, blackish-green slime pools are left standing on this bank, from the depth of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable."
- In the West Country you are drawn into its natural beauty by the progress of the seasons and the constant contact with the sea.Whether it be dolphin counting from a yacht or standing in esturial slime to catch a flatfish, the coast is a pleasure ground that rarely disappoints.
- After a few months cooling towers are covered in a slime which makes them less efficient.
- Slime and sludge covered the floors, everywhere wallpaper hung in tatters, while in places ceilings had come down.
- A black living slime seemed to be filling its interior, flowing out like a sticky stream on to Piphros - over the great head, into the mouth, gill slits, and the surgically-made holes of the ears.
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