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LAND-LOCKED

Traducere în limba română

land-locked adjectiv

(despre un golf) înconjurat (aproape din toate părţile) de uscat, închis, ferit de vânturi.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The beaches of the outer cove were thundering with the surf, and even in our land-locked inner cove a respectable sea was breaking.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The valley ran from the horseshoe, land-locked bay to the tops of the dizzy, cloud-capped peaks and contained perhaps ten thousand acres.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The place was entirely land-locked, buried in woods, the trees coming right down to high-water mark, the shores mostly flat, and the hilltops standing round at a distance in a sort of amphitheatre, one here, one there.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It was about nine miles long and five across, shaped, you might say, like a fat dragon standing up, and had two fine land-locked harbours, and a hill in the centre part marked “The Spy-glass.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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