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Перевод: swarm
[существительное] рой ; туча ; стая ; толпа ; куча ; пчелиный рой; масса ; [глагол] толпиться; кишеть; копошиться; лезть; карабкаться; роиться
Тезаурус:
- An average-sized locust swarm devours in the region of 20,000 tons of vegetation every day.
- But they swarm at the windows in such numbers they black out the light and the air.
- A particularly tight swarm hummed around Mme Andre Malraux, widow of France's first Minister of Culture, admiring a group of what could politely be called doodles by her late husband at prices between 100 and 800.
- He is surrounded by police, reporters and photographers who move with him like bees in a swarm.
- They can spot conditions where the desert locusts are likely to breed rapidly and move into crop-growing areas, where a single swarm can consume 80 000 tonnes of corn a day - enough to feed 400000 people for a whole year.
- The future of the genes in the swarm is, at least to a large extent, lodged in the ovaries of one queen.
- Instantly, the Kharkov base had become a hive of frenetic activity, preparing to swarm.
- A typical locust swarm can easily contain 40 thousand million individuals and the record swarm - one that was said to stretch for 2,000 miles - was estimated at about 250 thousand million insects.
- Every family with a young man knows they may lose him to the war, and they are as furious about it as a swarm of bees.
- Soon there was nothing except the laboured surging of the engine and his head jolting on his spindly neck and a swarm of red dust in the rear window.
- "Driving through a locust swarm is a revolting experience" he wrote.
- Frogs love it, and in springtime birds swarm all over it, making off with beaksful of what must be nature's most luxurious nest lining material!
- It took courage to do this as I was fearful the ants might swarm over the spade and run all the way up the handle to my hands.
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