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Перевод: equator

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Тезаурус:

1. The climate around the equator is both hot and wet.
2. Within the next year, a new more powerful launcher may take up a craft that will hover 36000 km above the Equator.
3. It would be less at the equator (perhaps half a degree) and more at the poles perhaps six degrees; certainly enough to melt a great deal of polar ice.
4. It is a view increasingly shared by players on this side of the Equator.
5. Several men, navy with gold braid in evidence, turned towards him as Delaney walked over, eyes automatically glancing at the geography and configurations on the plastic: Atlantic, beyond the equator.
6. Alan Lawson is joining Saatchi Saatchi's through-the-line agency Equator as chief executive.
7. The water itself shifts, and thus carries vast masses of heat with it; the land also heats the air, and is often at a different temperature from the water; the heating is greater at the equator than the poles, and greater at night than by day; the air is diverted by mountains, and funnelled through passes; and the air itself is heated by the Sun.
8. Also, of course, the climate becomes steadily cooler from the equator to the poles.
9. Roughly midway between the equator and the poles, and in the middle of continents, the summers may be too dry for trees to grow, and the winters too cold.
10. By contrast, on the other side of the equator, there are societies, such as some of the traditional pre-colonial Southern African states which though they have pastoralism and agriculture, do not seem to have had slavery.
11. Where Mr Winchester's cross-Pacific connections become less sure is when they become tangible and man-made: the optical-fibre telephone cable that snakes beneath the Pacific from California to Hawaii and then branches out to Japan and Guam; the AsiaSat satellite and its fellow "birds", sitting on the equator to bounce across Asia the telephone calls of businessmen and the television dramas of Hollywood; the new Boeing 747-;400, able to fly non-stop from Sydney to Los Angeles; and, odd as it seems, the Macintosh computer.
12. In short, distance from the equator, winds, lay-out and height of continents, soil chemistry, past history, animals, plants, human history, and time and chance combine and interact to produce the particular set of conditions in any one place.
13. If the group's total annual output in biscuits were laid edge to edge, they would stretch twice to the moon and back, or forty-eight times around the equator.