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Перевод: athwart

[наречие]
поперек; против; наискось; косо; перпендикулярно; наперекор;
[предлог]
поперек; через; вопреки; против

Тезаурус:

1. When a thinker unravels previously unnoticed implications of a familiar idea, one seems stupid to have missed them oneself; but anyone who discerns a similarity which runs athwart the current categories, a poet by metaphor or a scientist by a new model or paradigm, can strike us with astonishment and awe, as a genius whose spontaneous flash illuminates what no logical operation within the frame of accepted concepts could have disclosed.
2. Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
3. This massive upthrust stands athwart the main watershed of the Highlands, its waters draining west into Loch Duich and the Atlantic, and east into Glen Affric with an ultimate destination in the North Sea.
4. The storms seem to be formed in the strangely disturbed band of atmosphere that lies athwart the equator between the two trade wind regions, and is known as the intertropical convergence zone.
5. He became adept at launching himself over the canoe's side; first leaning back with legs outstretched athwart the cockpit, a quick flip of the body brought him face down towards the water before lowering himself onto it.
6. Modern Yugoslavia sat athwart fault lines of European history: the fourth-century division of the Roman empire, the 11th-century division of Christendom, the 17th-century border between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires.
7. The Carolingians' heartlands, that is, the area where most of their estates were clustered, and where Franks had been settled for centuries, spanned modern Belgium and the Netherlands, northern France, and western Germany, thus lying athwart the natural frontiers of the Ardennes forest, and the rivers Meuse and Rhine.
8. The hungover handjob athwart the unmade bed - you can't do it.
9. The two wings of the Dutch-Belgian brigade stretched a half-mile on either side of the highway while, athwart the road itself, was a battery of six Dutch nine-pounder cannons.
10. Alcester therefore resembles a minority of other small towns which lie beside rather than athwart main roads, such as Dorn (p. 253).
11. A classical palace was created lying athwart Park and Fourth Avenues, surrounded by a raised roadway offering access to the wheeled traffic which would soon pitch the railways into dramatic decline.
12. One old farmer in the Stowmarket area of Suffolk said that, ideally, for the barley (and the wheat) crop the land should be ploughed east to west and then drilled overwart (athwart) so that the ringes or rows of young corn would lie north-south and be warmed by the sun on both sides of the row.
13. The three arc-lamps had come to rest athwart the sunken bomber, sharply illuminating the fuselage and the two wings.