Name: Deserts
Released: 2017-03-10
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, David Attenborough

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Nouns

1) guanaco ( гуанако )

The guanaco make the most of the dew
2) dromedary ( дромадер )

Dromedaries, single-humped camels, take these storms in their stride.
3) waterhole ( водопоя )

a camel at a waterhole can drink as much as 200 liters during a single visit.
4) rainstorm ( ливневый дождь )

After a rainstorm the saguaro's long shallow root system sucks up the water
5) crevice ( расщелина )

These crevice in South Africa contain the highest density of lizards in the world.
6) saguaro ( цереуса )

the giant saguaro, one of the biggest of all cacti,
7) outcrop ( обнажение )

These outcrop are standing in Egypt's White Desert.
8) pleat ( складка )

and the pleat on its trunk enable it to expand rapidly.
9) oryx ( сернобык )

and the oryx know it.
10) riverbed ( русло реки )

The sandy riverbed acts like a giant strip of blotting paper
11) sandstorm ( песчаная буря )

Sandstorms like these appear without warning
12) ibex ( козерог )

These are Nubian ibex
13) midwinter ( середина зимы )

the temperature in midwinter can drop to minus 40,
14) dweller ( обитатель )

A sudden flush of vegetation is what every desert dweller waits for,
15) topsoil ( пахотный слой почвы )

so the kangaroos dig away the warmed topsoil
16) mouthful ( полный рот )

But now, with mouthful of snow lying everywhere
17) harem ( гарем )

His rank earns him the loyalty of a harem of females
18) lichen ( союз )

that moisture loving lichen are able to grow on the cacti

Verbs

1) moisten ( увлажнить )

But every square meter of soil moisten by this river
2) flaunt ( выставлять напоказ )

and they flaunt their multi-colored bellies in territorial disputes.
3) evaporate ( испаряться )

and, as the saliva evaporate, their blood is cooled.
4) disperse ( рассеивать )

What little food exists is so disperse
5) erode ( разъедать )

Now lumps of heavily erode rocks have been marooned in a sea of sand.
6) hump ( горб )

Dromedaries, single-hump camels, take these storms in their stride.
7) soar ( витать )

In the full sun the temperature on the ground soar to 70 degrees.
8) drip ( капельный )

Before long the cacti are drip with dew.
9) absorb ( абсорбировать )

and they absorb liquid like a sponge.
10) maroon ( темно-бордовый )

Now lumps of heavily eroded rocks have been maroon in a sea of sand.
11) dominate ( доминировать )

and that problem dominate the lives of all desert dwellers.
12) lick ( облизывание )

So they lick saliva on to their forearms
13) expose ( разоблачать )

strange formations are expose in the naked rock.
14) sweep ( подметать )

Grains, swept up the flanks, are blown off the crests of the ridges
15) pile ( свая )

so they pile the sand into dunes.
16) bloom ( цветение )

the saguaros bloom at night to attract visitors.
17) concentrate ( концентрат )

but this herd concentrate on digging up the roots,
18) merge ( идти )

And when groups merge,

Adverbs

1) inexorably ( неумолимо )

They're being inexorably chiseled away
2) upwards ( вверх )

As they're forced upwards
3) amazingly ( удивительно )

Amazingly, lions live here, too.
4) evenly ( равномерно )

When competitors are evenly matched as they are here,
5) steadily ( постоянно )

ancient rivers flowing across sandstone country steadily widen their canyons
6) nonetheless ( тем не менее )

but they nonetheless need a regular supply of water.
7) altogether ( в целом )

The blasting sand will eventually eliminate them altogether.
8) surprisingly ( как ни странно )

but surprisingly none are.
9) sometime ( когда-то )

But moisture, lost even at night, has to be replaced sometime somehow
10) inland ( внутренний )

Further inland the air remains so warm that its moisture does not condense
11) continually ( беспрестанно )

The relentless power of the wind ensures that the face of a desert is continually changing.
12) temporarily ( временно )

Waterholes are filled temporarily.
13) dramatically ( драматично )

that responds as quickly and as dramatically to the good times as the desert locust.
14) literally ( буквально )

and a whole swarm can consume literally hundreds of tons of vegetation.
15) beneath ( под )

to get at the cooler ground beneath.
16) heavily ( сильно )

Now lumps of heavily eroded rocks have been marooned in a sea of sand.
17) rarely ( редко )

It's rarely seen on this scale
18) somehow ( как-то )

In all of them life manages somehow

Adjectives

1) bactrian ( бактриан )

so Bactrian camels eat it.
2) fennec ( fennec )

The extraordinary ears of the fennec foxes of Africa radiate heat
3) centigrade ( стоградусный )

From a summer high of 50 degrees centigrade
4) acrobatic ( акробатический )

In one day each of these acrobatic little lizards may catch 50 flies.
5) scaly ( чешуйчатый )

Reptiles have armored scaly skins that protect them from the stinging grains.
6) tongued ( сладкоречивый )

attract long-nosed and long-tongued bats.
7) radiate ( излучать )

The extraordinary ears of the fennec foxes of Africa radiate heat
8) nubian ( нубийский )

These are Nubian ibex
9) lifeless ( безжизненный )

appear to be lifeless,
10) blistering ( образование пузырей )

Australia is the world's most arid continent with blistering daytime temperatures.
11) stinging ( жгучий )

Reptiles have armored scaly skins that protect them from the stinging grains.
12) ferocious ( свирепый )

The ferocious wind, armed with grains of sand,
13) permeable ( проницаемый )

Toads have permeable skins
14) exhausting ( изнурительный )

In this heat the effort is truly exhausting.
15) precarious ( ненадежный )

to keep a precarious hold.
16) nosed ( носатый )

attract long-nosed and long-tongued bats.
17) infrequent ( нечастый )

But it is infrequent
18) jagged ( зазубренный )

These jagged pyramids a hundred meters tall

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