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Перевод: Cyclopean

[прилагательное]
циклопический; громадный; гигантский

Тезаурус:

1. It has left one of my downstairs windows stranded next door with a Cyclopean view of the neighbours, occasional week-enders, sun-bathing on their colourful suites of beach furniture.
2. In the initial notice of the site it is described as "a large platform of stones of four courses of quite Cyclopean character" and also mentioned are "traces of buildings at a distance of 200 yards higher up in the wood".
3. Lying amid waste land to one side of the village, there rose the jutting silhouette of a cyclopean wall.
4. A quick glance through the nearest showed it to be an empty chamber built of oddly fitted blocks of Cyclopean size.
5. Closer inspection revealed vertical walling of Cyclopean dimensions - walls built of stone blocks measuring 3ft x 2ft and weighing hundreds of pounds.
6. A particularly good example is the town gateway at Volterra, of the third century B.C., which has cyclopean blocks fitted to make vertical sides, and radiating voussoirs which are exceptionally well prepared.
7. FIG. 2 a , How the vertical size ratio (VSR) of a small element on a fronto-parallel surface (measured in angular units) varies with cyclopean eccentricity, e , and the normal distance to the surface, D .
8. Etruscan builders fully understood the art of building in stone and used huge (cyclopean) blocks, generally without cement.
9. Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc's ancestors: a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade, speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety, in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth; Cauchemar et Fils, Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed.
10. Its massive cyclopean ring of masonry still stands to a height of 3 metres.
11. The yellow lights on their anorexic columns look mad, like cyclopean triffids, very thin, very tall.
12. Morpurgo slammed the instrument down on the pathway and leaned against it, breathing heavily and fixing Harry with his cyclopean stare.