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Igor
Can somebody help me with this?
Although the discribed image is quite visible, I cannot get my head around the structure of the sentence which I put here in brackets. It seems to me unfinished.
Unfortunately, I do not have the original text and could rely only on audio: https://voca.ro/1jYF9XNStdVJ
And one more point about the verb "to crinkle". Can "white walls CRINLE a hilltop" or should be there another verb?
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"With the ships looking like toys I take position well to the left of the CO, while the other three Spitfires which I have to lead clamber into formation behind me...
...A disturbance of colour on the horizon is growing steadily nearer. From navigational logic it's just where I expected it to be. We are changing formation. Each section of four aircraft has now become a tightly packed arrowhead. (As the apex of the left hand arrow might outstretch elliptical wings, that overlapped by other wings, for three profile Spitfires are sliding downwards beside me.) Two islands like two autumn leaves floating on the water grow larger and larger. The steep cliffs of the smaller and nearer which must be go over a Malta line, beyond it, rush towards us. White walls crinkle a hilltop."
2021년 9월 17일 오후 2:15
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The recording clearly says "crinkle."
This might be a regional or archaic use of crinkle to indicate an uneven appearance.
2021년 9월 17일
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As a native speaker, this is a challenge to imagine.
He is describing the way a formation of fighter planes shift and move into various shapes.
(I am guessing World War 2?)
And "Crinkle" is the wrong verb. What are you trying to express? Perhaps I can give you a different verb.
2021년 9월 17일
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커뮤니티 가이드라인을 위반한 콘텐츠입니다.
2021년 9월 17일
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커뮤니티 가이드라인을 위반한 콘텐츠입니다.
2021년 9월 17일
I would say it was poetic usage.
The white walls look similar to crinkled paper against the hills i.e. not in straight lines.
2021년 9월 17일
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