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Перевод: quicksand speek quicksand


[существительное]
плывун ; зыбучий песок; песок сыпучий; рыхлая водоносная порода


Тезаурус:

  1. The lock had been built on quicksand, and gave continual trouble as the ground subsided and water seeped away.
  2. At least they did not encounter what the builders of the Moscow Underground came up against many years later, a quicksand in their path.
  3. He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened.
  4. Rivers bear birth on slows of quicksand
  5. ALARMING HOW careers can stick in the quicksand of dance fashions.
  6. Yanto had been in Severn quicksand many times before.
  7. It's a low-key opening - low-key in the sense that The Mekons, Bats, Dentists, Band Of Susans, Quicksand, Jawbox and Girls Against Boys are all playing that night.
  8. As a result, Lewis was able to announce triumphant plans to get rich by fighting fat old George Foreman, whom Maloney ridiculed as an opponent for Bowe, to push for the split of the titles and still claim the high moral ground, which in heavyweight boxing, is about as firm as quicksand.
  9. He and his friends would deliberately allow the quicksand to take them up to their knees before being extricated by the other members of the gang.
  10. There followed a loud squelching sound and his feet sunk as if in quicksand.
  11. It would be accepted in humiliation and would leave a bitter memory upon which the terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand.
  12. She held onto herself, trying to come to the surface of her cranial quicksand.
  13. It means following the ignis fatuus , the "will o" the wisp' that traditionally leads travellers into bog or quicksand; an analogue to the multiple wanderings of Book 111 is Frodo staring at the corpse-candles in chapter 2 of Book IV, to be warned by Gollum not to heed them, or the dead, rotten, phantasmal faces in the marshes below: "Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles.

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