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Перевод: rapids

[существительное]
речной порог; быстрина [мор.] ; стремнина

Тезаурус:

1. Amelia may not have been in the same league as the great adventurers who scale mountain peaks, cross oceans and the icy wastes of the Antarctic and Arctic or shoot the white water rapids of unnavigable rivers, but she was a real traveller, ranked among those who actually get up and go, sacrificing security and facing the cold disdain of their bank managers.
2. We had misty rain as we started out but the sun came out just as we got to the rapids.
3. There she was, alone, canoeing through white water, shooting rapids.
4. Marge, the gal who capsized and bumped over the rocks at Chase Rapids, showed us her bottom bruises.
5. There are Wild Water Rapids: a long, winding channel of agreeably-warm water, down which one is swept by gravity and the force of the current, and in which one can pretend to be in the closing scene of The Towering Inferno .
6. Thursday 22nd, up at 5.30, we wanted to make it as early as possible to get to Churchill Dam where we would encounter our first rapids, Chase Rapids.
7. We were in the rapids of revolution.
8. It sailed on, strong in spite of its seeming inadequacy, through treacherous undertows, wild water, whirlpools, rapids, rocks and came through, battered but still intact on the other side.
9. She remembered a scene like this from a film, where some men had bee n shooting rapids on a river somewhere in America and their boat had capsized.
10. Our million dollar white knuckle rides such as the wet and wild Great Niagara Rapids, the awesome Missile and the hair-raising Runaway Train will have you screaming for more.
11. It was the Second World War that plucked "Joe" Burke from the tranquil backwaters of aesthetics to the whirlpools and rapids of government administration.
12. But she stored the "shooting rapids" image away, for possible future use.
13. A strong swimmer, she managed to reach a rock jutting above the water, and there she stuck; it would have been suicidal to attempt to swim through the rapids to either shore.