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Перевод: sinkhole

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выгребная яма ; водосточный колодец ; карстовая воронка

Тезаурус:

1. We cut our way through these and, following our python-hunters, who now seemed considerably less enthusiastic about the venture than they had been when they first suggested it, we slid down coconut ropes to the sinkhole floor and to the forbidding cobwebbed entrances which extended from its walls.
2. But, on reaching it, it proved to be a good twenty feet taller than it appeared, for it grew from the floor of a protective circular sinkhole, perhaps forty yards across, and with vertical walls about twenty feet deep fringed by tangled thorny-vines and spider's webs.
3. Finally, erm various terms have been erm thrown around about new settlements being an engine of growth and a sinkhole for future growth, erm the only point I want to make there is that any future growth beyond the present structure plan period of two thousand and six would of course be subject to the planning system, there is no automatic erm growth erm of any new settlement that is proposed or may be proposed beyond two thousand and six, and Mr Davis has indicated that at that time a new study will be carried out on the relative merits of the alternative options that were seen at that time.
4. This is Quaking Pot, a sinkhole with a stream descending into the depths where passages extend southwards for a third of a mile to a depth measured as 467 feet.
5. The next Senate could be a sinkhole for the final two years of Clinton's term.
6. Auer was suspended in a hanging basket, his dead legs dangling beneath him, reaching out with a surreally long scoop to dredge the chips into a central sinkhole.