Sentence examples of "lapping" in English
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The water is already lapping round the PM's ankles, Marcus.
Маркус, вода уже покрыла лодыжки премьер-министра.
As the population ages and shrinks, more people will retire and start selling those government bonds that they are now lapping up.
По мере старения населения и уменьшения его численности всё больше людей станут уходить на пенсию и продавать те государственные облигации, которые сейчас они усердно скупают.
Noting that the drilling expedition worked through “freezing temperatures, huge ocean swells, calving glaciers, snow-covered mountains and icebergs,” Bendle said, “It’s amazing to imagine a time-traveler, arriving at the same coastline in the early Eocene, could paddle in pleasantly warm waters lapping at a lush forest.”
Рассказывая о том, что буровая экспедиция работала в условиях «минусовых температур, при сильном шторме, в окружении откалывающихся айсбергов, заснеженных гор и ледяных глыб», Бендл заметил: «Интересно было бы представить себе путешественника во времени, который оказался бы на этом же берегу в период раннего эоцена – он смог бы поплескаться в теплой воде в окружении пышной растительности свежего влажного леса».
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