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CABLE’S LENGTH
Traducere în limba română
cable’s length substantiv, vezi cable (I, 3).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Two of them came on board in less than half an hour, by whom we were guided between certain shoals and rocks, which are very dangerous in the passage, to a large basin, where a fleet may ride in safety within a cable’s length of the town-wall.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
On the 5th of November, which was the beginning of summer in those parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half a cable’s length of the ship; but the wind was so strong, that we were driven directly upon it, and immediately split.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)