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Перевод: mediterranean

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внутренний; удаленный от берегов моря

Тезаурус:

1. BEIRUT - Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday, Reuter reports.
2. Roman generals who campaigned in the Greek-speaking eastern Mediterranean during the second and first centuries BC were regarded by the Greeks as successors to the Macedonian kings, who were in their turn successors to Alexander the Great (d.323 BC).
3. Victoria's open face, freckled from a few weeks in the Mediterranean sun, was clouded with bewilderment.
4. Blithely ignoring the rocking of the little steamer in the lurching Mediterranean swell, the girl with the sun-catching cap of peroxided hair sitting hatless on the wooden bench right in the vessel's prow lifted her voice in sudden bubbling song.
5. Maiolica made in Renaissance Italy was also tin-glazed and painted with such vibrant colours that the ceramics seem to glow with a Mediterranean light.
6. As time went on, the threat of ferocious barbarians seemed to become more and more intense: the Vikings, the Muslims in the Mediterranean, the Hungarians, not to speak of the internal disorders arising from the division of Charlemagne's empire.
7. Britain had sunk vast capital sums into the military installations set up in the Suez Canal Zone and at Alexandria to serve the British campaigns in the Mediterranean during the Second World War.
8. Once pressed, the hogsheads, each weighing four and a quarter hundred-weight, would be sold to the fish merchants for export, mainly to Italy and other Mediterranean countries.
9. Although it reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s, cruising had begun in about 1844 when P O's cruise through the Mediterranean was described by the writer William Makepeace Thackeray, and Mark Twain wrote about a cruise of 1868 from New York to the Mediterranean in his book Innocents Abroad.
10. In some ways, there is much more of a Mediterranean feel about this end of the lake than the everyday Lakes and Mountains resort.
11. Britain became obsessed with the conviction that its very existence as a great power hinged upon the possession of India, to the extent that all major policies - Britain's activities in Africa, for example, or in the Mediterranean, and even its alignments in Europe - were deduced from the supposed requirements of the Indian Empire and the Route to India.
12. But the shapers of the Old and New Testaments only had the Mediterranean as their model of what the ocean could do.
13. Climate and national character apart - and Mediterranean joie de vivre is not a quality found in the typical Briton, except when he is drunk - it would take a revolution to make Britain's cities as enjoyable as those of our European neighbours.