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Перевод: abruptly

[наречие]
внезапно; резко; отрывисто; круто

Тезаурус:

1. "Do all your members know each other?" he asked abruptly.
2. It stopped abruptly at the edge of the roof, straining to balance its top-heavy body on slender back legs and egg-cup hooves.
3. The eruption which probably had the most far reaching effect on civilization was that of Santorin (Thera) in the Aegean, in about 1470 B.C. This abruptly extinguished the highly-developed Minoan culture centred on Crete, and, because the eruption caused the submergence beneath the sea of a large part of the island of Santorin, it may have given rise to the age-old legends of Atlantis, the "lost" or "drowned" continent.
4. But the company's rotation policy dictated that he should be moved "rather abruptly" into the wages department, where he played a role in setting and negotiating piece rates.
5. We have parents who seem to have lurched abruptly into grandparenthood, or who are nagging us to make them grandparents.
6. From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route, at times coming obliquely towards the Friar, and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him: thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland, so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover, so perfectly did he merge with the duns, browns, russets, and half-greens of the wood.
7. "I could be dead before tomorrow," Uncle Walter answered abruptly, taking his hand away from his eyes.
8. James Menzies woke abruptly.
9. A few miles further on we turned abruptly off the highway and the Range Rover sped into the desert leaving landmarks behind.
10. But the feeble efforts by the Yugoslav army to shake off mounting charges that it is backing Serbian militias in the conflict in Bosnia ended abruptly with the sharp crackle of Serbian sniper fire which sent the entire delegation diving for cover.
11. The electoral process stopped abruptly with the death of the man most likely to be prime minister.
12. Francis Morgan subsided abruptly on one of the uncomfortable chesterfields in the sunny, cramped, living-room and Detective Inspector Teversham shifted uncomfortably, wishing the phone call would come.
13. What are the names of your children?"), or night comes so abruptly it is as though someone has pulled down a blind.