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Перевод:
volcano
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Тезаурус:
She sat in the opposite chair while Lucy put a record on; she flung one leg across the other knee, rolled a cigarette and contained the
volcano
surging from her clitoris to tight silent lips.
Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the
volcano
, in the area which is now Torre del Greco, but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the
volcano
.
On the morning of 24 August (the ninth day before the kalends of September) when the various Plinys were all in Misenum, a small town across the bay of Naples from Vesuvius, a curious large cloud was seen in the sky over the
volcano
.
An "active"
volcano
is usually regarded as one which has erupted at least once in historic times.
8 May was Ascension Day and many faithful Catholics had assembled in the Cathedral, to celebrate the day, and to pray for deliverance from the
volcano
.
Six kilometres north of the town rose the gentle slopes of Mt Pelee, not a particularly impressive
volcano
, only 2,250 metres high.
A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as " A frightful scene a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever and at night the whole region becomes like a
volcano
spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick ."
One of the most popular tourist attractions on the Strip is not a building but a giant
volcano
that every hour erupts in flames, spurting out great rivers of fake molten lava.
It was upwind of the
volcano
, so it escaped the worst of the thick ash-fall that Pompeii experienced, and almost all the population seem to have escaped unharmed - not more than thirty skeletons have been found.
A single eruption may not only last for months, but it may also consist of a series of separate, different phases, and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same
volcano
at the same time.
The climactic series of explosions of 27 August added volumes of fresh material to the already huge eruption column above the
volcano
, and some estimates suggest that it rose as much as eighty kilometres into the air.
Since Batavia was over 160 kilometres from Krakatoa, it escaped fairly lightly; in some places, nearer the
volcano
, total unrelieved darkness lasted nearly two days.
Inside the great dragon it was very hot and very uncomfortable; it was also very noisy, since the dragon's stomach rumbled like a
volcano
.
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