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Перевод: declivity

[существительное]
склон ; покатость ; косогор ; спуск ; откос ; уклон

Тезаурус:

1. Here they found Sir Archibald Douglas awaiting them, his Galloway levies, to the number of almost two thousand, hidden in a great declivity of the hills to the north-east.
2. He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side.
3. This is the garden as theatre, where reclining tritons, Greek warriors and winged horses are transfixed in mid-whinny, where a tower (out of Thomas Gray by Caspar David Friedrich) rises inexplicably from a wooded declivity, where there is a sudden outbreak of brilliant Japanesery and an 18th-century grotto made from petrified sphagnum moss.
4. Nevertheless, his energy of observation remained constant and again inclined towards the economics of the area: he contemplated one piece of land, a "watery flat", that seemed to have natural drainage possibilities - "it had a visible declivity"; although he allowed that even if he felt it could be reclaimed without "difficulty or expense", these were relative terms.
5. It was a silent and melancholy spot because of the darkness of the evergreens and the steep sides of the declivity which together shut out the sky.
6. Over the crest at the High Cross, erupting suddenly out of the declivity beyond, and certainly from the Welsh gate, the hard drumming of hooves burst upon their ears, coming at a gallop.