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Перевод: scree

[существительное]
щебень ; каменистая осыпь

Тезаурус:

1. Then, just as I'd half a mind to twiddle with the radio in case Marlene Dietrich was still on, there would be another lurch of the Tardis-like mood and I'd come upon a garishly-lit motel, freshly shipped across from the West, or else be smartly overtaken by a monstrous new Mercedes doing 200 kph or more with effortless abandon, at least until the next plunge into potholes and waterlogged scree.
2. To the north and east, banks of scree rose sheerly to the rocky crags and pinnacles surrounding the permanently snow-capped mountain peak, that in other seasons loomed like a sentinel above the village.
3. There, down a mile of scree, were thousands of palm trees, and, I thought, a village.
4. Remember these routes are all on limestone, which rarely gives good routes at less than VS, but a line of bolts, ending at a firmly anchored chain, up dry and solid rock, means that a much bolder approach can be adopted than on the polished, easier routes of Stoney or the vertical scree of Swanage.
5. Think about it as you uncoil your ropes on the little apron of slab below Eagle's Nest Direct , the polished holds stained running-track crimson from the countless pairs of boots that have deposited reddish mud from Great Hell Gate Scree and Needle Gully onto the rock.
6. On high ground, where there is a mixture of, say, granite and scree through years of erosion by wind, water and frost, dislodged boulders combine with the scree to accumulate a vast area of displaced rubble.
7. Later we all climb to the top of the cliffs behind the bay, an arduous scramble up step, stream-washed scree.
8. I am stopped by an unstable-looking scree slope.
9. But as they headed triumphantly home, a scree slid under the hooves of Muriella's garron, which fell.
10. Sometimes a single boulder bounds and clatters down the scree pile, echoing loudly, sometimes a larger mass breaks away, sometimes the scree itself shifts and readjusts itself in a prolonged rattling clatter - a noise rather like the sea swashing back over pebbles.
11. Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom.
12. Time's footfall can be so stealthy, even in front of one's nose: a tree, already sprawled at an angle on the cliff face, dropping a couple of feet; a tail of scree starting higher on the hill.
13. Although capped by gritstone and having a fringe of cliffs that have been largely shattered into wastes of boulders and scree, there is an extensive intrusion of limestone at mid-height on both flanks.