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Перевод: sinew

[существительное]
сухожилие; жила ; движущая сила; основа ; опора ;
[глагол]
усиливать; укреплять

Тезаурус:

1. In studies of small mammal decay, it has been found that in hot climates the soft parts decay and the carcase is reduced to bone and sinew within 6-;8 days (Korth, 1979).
2. The cold cost him an arm and a leg, badly amputated by Wrstchen, who had employed a rough-hewn rock to sever nerve, sinew and bone.
3. He got up, with the smooth, small dovetailing of joint and sinew and muscle that was the hallmark of well-realised design, and surveyed them all five, ending with the blue-jowled, pitted face of the priest.
4. Everyone can see that Mr Kinnock is running very hard to win, straining every sinew; but Mr Major, in comparison, does not appear to have that same, almost feral, competitive edge, that they want.
5. I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew, face and character - even if it happens to be, as on Tafahi island, a North German face and character - on to the dry, lifeless bones of economists' figures.
6. Or do you strain every sinew to go for that elusive target set on a small plateau?
7. It looked as if Changez had stuck his hand into a fire and had had flesh, bone and sinew melted together.
8. In Moore's work flintstones, ground and chipped by sun and sea, are married to bones that have strained to flesh, sinew and muscle, to breed positive forms.
9. Among the Nez Perce and Crow people, pieces of horn were glued together and bound with sinew to create a bow "stronger, tougher, more elastic, and more durable than a bow of any other materials".
10. The buffalo and elk hide are decorated with red cloth and beads, sewn with a sinew.
11. Small took out a knife and skinned the lambs: bone and sinew were mangled behind their necks, and there was much blood, showing that the lambs had been killed by foxes, rather than taken as carrion by crows.
12. The curled horn was boiled until pliable, stretched and straightened, then backed with deer sinew attached with a glue of salmon skin or sturgeon blood.
13. Under a warm sun, with a cloudless sky, and flanked by the orange and the myrtle, in some quiet city of the past, it might arrest and keep entranced the lazily artistic eye of the pleased traveller; but for northern London and its bustling public offices, this conception palpably lacks nerve and sinew.