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 Doiyulskaya

link 13.11.2011 13:53 
Subject: build along the lines gen.
Пожалуйста, помогите перевести. : )
Выражение встречается в следующем контексте: It was a beautiful boat, built along the low, rakish lines of the fast barges of the old Russian navy.
Заранее спасибо

 В. Бузаков

link 13.11.2011 14:41 
Also, on the lines of. Roughly similar or in keeping with. For example, We told the architect we want a design along the lines of his own house but smaller, or Jane asked the caterer for a menu on the lines of the Morgans' wedding reception. This idiom uses line in the sense of “a direction or procedure,” a usage dating from the early 1600s.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

 10-4

link 13.11.2011 14:46 
очертания которой повторяют

 Doiyulskaya

link 13.11.2011 15:13 
Thank you a lot : )

 Mike Ulixon

link 13.11.2011 19:02 
"...построенная по стремительным обводам быстроходных катеров..."
(и не вздумайте приплетать сюда "баржи" ;-))

 Doiyulskaya

link 13.11.2011 23:20 
речь идет о баркасе.
да, спасибо, уже сформулировала

 

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