Usage examples of "washing away" in English with translation to Russian

Translations:

Is English a tsunami, washing away other languages? Английский - это цунами, сокрушающее прочие языки?

As I address the Assembly now, Zambia is experiencing unprecedented floods that are wreaking havoc, displacing people and washing away bridges, culverts and roads. Сейчас, когда я выступаю перед Ассамблеей, Замбия переживает беспрецедентные наводнения, сеющие хаос, вынуждающие людей мигрировать и разрушающие мосты, кульверты и дороги.

The tsunami created by the Sumatra earthquake that morning swept through the entire archipelago of the Maldives with awesome fury, taking lives, devastating infrastructure, crippling our economy and washing away decades of hard work and toil of our people. Волна цунами, образовавшаяся в результате землетрясения в районе Суматры, произошедшего этим утром, с устрашающей силой обрушилась на весь архипелаг Мальдивских островов, унеся жизни людей, разрушив инфраструктуру, подорвав экономику нашей страны и сведя на нет десятилетия напряженной работы и упорного труда нашего народа.

And what was so fun about it was this: the skull pieces got closer and closer to the roots of the tree, and fairly recently the tree had grown up, but it had found that the skull had captured nice water in the hillside, and so it had decided to grow its roots in and around this, holding it in place and preventing it from washing away down the slope. Интересная деталь: во время раскопок части черепа попадались всё ближе и ближе к корням дерева, которое выросло относительно недавно. Оказывается, в черепе содержалось много воды, так что корни дерева проросли вокруг него, таким образом удержав череп на склоне холма.

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