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Перевод: tortoise
[существительное] черепаха
Тезаурус:
- The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise.
- Now, ten years later, the tortoise conservation project is self-funding, the toast of the local businessmen, embraced by the local people, forging ahead as one of the most influential conservation outfits in the area, exporting its expertise to other countries, and espoused by the local and national politicians.
- The vertebrates found from that period include mammoth and other extinct elephants, extinct rhino, hippopotamus, giant deer, lion, spotted hyaena, tortoise and macaque (from the "monkey gravel" of West Runton, Norfolk - where else?).
- When a woman lunches on a plate of raw spinach that wouldn't satisfy a tortoise, she simply won't have the energy to demand a seat on the board.
- The old tortoise addressed him: "Hey, there, I'll tell you a secret.
- The other reptile species which laid eggs was the spur-thighed tortoise; unfortunately, these eggs were infertile.
- These animals, introduced by pirates and whalers between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, denude the vegetation and compete with the giant tortoise ( Geochelone elephantopus ).
- Slug in ash (above) and tortoise in burr elm (right) Making no bones about methods or means, David is a proud user of mechanical aids, ranging from lathes to the Woodcarver, from drum sanders to a Black Decker Powerfile.
- The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes, pulled in his arms close to his body, put his head down so his chin rested against his chest, and rested for a while, until he knew what to do.
- "Your shell - your shell!" the tortoise shouted in his loud bellowing tones.
- In the courtyard between the Reptile House and the Aquarium, you will see groups of Mediterranean species of tortoise.
- YOU'LL recall that Tory MP Nicholas Soames was sighted in the Commons wearing an unlikely lapel badge: Tortoise Lovers Against Cruise.
- The story is resumed where Little Turtle returns to the tortoise, telling him that he still has some angry feelings, even though he has used the turtle response.
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