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Перевод: precipitous

[прилагательное]
обрывистый; крутой; отвесный

Тезаурус:

1. More grain than expected had to be exported due to the precipitous fall in the grain price in the middle of the winter of 1922-;3.
2. To those of us with vertigo, it fortunately reveals that the southern side of the ridge is not nearly as precipitous as the northern.
3. The election coincided with a precipitous slide in the popularity of a Conservative government struggling with a severe balance of payments deficit.
4. THE faint pall of dust hanging over Montepulciano's precipitous lanes presumably heralds the approaching festival of the arts, directed every July by the composer Hans Werner Henze.
5. A region of lush prairies, sheltered river valleys, towering highlands and precipitous canyons, it spanned the Clearwater Mountains in the north and Salmon River Mountains in the south.
6. Tokyo is threatening a meltdown, New York followed Tuesday's precipitous decline with another 50 points early yesterday, yet the FT-SE 100, despite an initial 30-point mark down, managed to close just 11 lower at 2393.2.
7. He had a vision of the people of the country, walking and walking in endless droves, like pilgrims, across a battlefield shaken by the explosions of guns; and as the smoke blew into their eyes, the people turned, desperate to see their homes again, but behind them a great dark channel had opened, with torn precipitous sides, and there was no way back
8. And as one walks down the precipitous towpath there on the right is the stepping spread of side ponds and beyond that the overgrown remains of "one of the many freaks that the mechanical age has produced", as Rolt describes rather ungraciously the inclined plane that has gained for Foxton an entry in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica".
9. The chair had spun out of the central track along the ridge and was now skewed at the precipitous edge of what would be a steep and stony career.
10. Her family had once eked a precipitous existence in similar circumstances, near Kiev in the Ukraine, and she used to say she saw her pre-nascent life in the film.
11. Battling up slippery trails and losing several pack-mules in precipitous canyons, Howard finally reached Craig's Ferry four days later.
12. "the smoke of the innumerable tall chimneys lies over all like a poultice houses and shops go on for ever, and at the back of them, blotting out all the rest of the world, rise great precipitous mills like frowning cliffs, at whose base are the small houses where the folks live like coneys at a mountain foot.
13. A precipitous road climbs from Batcombe to the crest of the downs; the spectacular view from the top makes it worth the effort.