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Перевод: recumbent

[прилагательное]
лежащий; лежачий; откинувшийся

Тезаурус:

1. She attacks, but never lets herself be drawn too far away from the recumbent, moaning body of her mistress.
2. She perched in the drawing-room beside the recumbent saint.
3. To his horror, he discerned a recumbent shape at the side of the line.
4. When he found the door, he pulled off his dressing-gown and pyjamas, turned the handle, slipped inside and dived rapturously for the recumbent figure beneath the bedclothes.
5. In 1835, for example, just five years after Roberts had sketched the recumbent city of Jerusalem, we find the French writer Alphonse de Lamartine returning from a visit there to recommend to his readers in Voyage to the Orient that since Palestine did not really constitute a country, it presented remarkable opportunities for imperial or colonial projects.
6. On one occasion I lay down for a rest, dozed off for 15 minutes, and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form.
7. Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals, and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages.
8. The result is a genuine triumph, thanks to a troupe of singers, the same cast as at York, willing to give their best in attitudes ranging from completely recumbent to perilous perching on ladder or chaise-longue; dragging themselves around on all fours and wrapping themselves in curtains; and generally behaving as though the entire cast (not just the noble lovers, as in the script) is ripe for the psychiatrist's couch.
9. Between 1859 and 1863 Sir George Gilbert Scott restored the chapel for its new owners, William and John Dent, at which time Scott designed a canopied tomb for Katherine Parr with a recumbent white marble effigy by John Birnie Philip; Nash would have been pleased.
10. He half turned and put his arm round her recumbent form.
11. When the bas-relief on a newly-opened post office was reviewed by The Times , the newspaper's art correspondent commented with some inspiration, "The design consists of a male and female nude, recumbent, but with a suggestion that they are floating in water.
12. Jordanova suggests that the search to define femininity by recourse to anatomy was a search for aesthetic and moral ideals at the same time; she says of these models, "The figures of recumbent women seem to convey for the first time the sexual potential of medical anatomy."
13. Suppressing a smile, his wife stepped over the now recumbent form of the knitted dog and went into the kitchen to open a can.