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Перевод: Herculean

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геркулесов; геркулесовский; исполинский; богатырский; очень трудный; очень опасный

Тезаурус:

1. In Pomerania the average holding was about 5 hectares (13-;14 acres) of very poor soil, and even with Herculean effort on the part of the farmer it was clear that the payment of one sixth of profits made purchase almost impossible.
2. He was just recuperating after a fall, was overwhelmed by other commitments, and knew that to pick up the threads of work he had done 15 years before and write it up in French in only two months was a Herculean task.
3. Driving the cattle that was to feed the troops through the Alps was a Herculean task and it would have been impossible without the dogs.
4. With a Herculean effort, Juron had stemmed the little avalanche of bodies.
5. Poor Spud spent hours rounding a length of wood, which despite his herculean efforts was never smooth enough to satisfy his tormentors.
6. A salad of chicory tossed in a roquefort sauce made herculean efforts to revive our jaded appetites and who could resist turbotine (baby turbot) grilled on the bone and served whole with pommes alumettes - chips to you mate!
7. Another record that would require a Herculean effort by any contender and a large amount of time and money to break is in the underestimated art of domino tumbling.
8. To attempt such a thing would be herculean and quixotic.
9. At the end of the war, because of the sustained activities of Jacques and his core of full-time tutors throughout the District, the herculean efforts of both university resident tutors in Essex and Norfolk and the five WEA organising tutors, the District had reached a position in which it occupied the pre-eminent place in the region as the major providing body for adult education provision.
10. What it needs is some Herculean stable-cleaning.
11. A cuckoo chick, less than one day old instinctively completes the Herculean feat of ejecting one of its host's eggs.
12. There are very few "angel" daughters or "monster" mothers around: just millions of women, both young and old, living and giving, to the best of their ability, under the same roof, sometimes beset by problems of herculean proportions which are none of their making.
13. The cessation of the steel plants sealed the fate of the line on which herculean battles took place daily in the haulage of loads of iron ore imported at Tyne Dock up the ferocious gradients to Consett.