I am reading Гадкий Утёнок in Russian and trying to understand this sentence:
солнце озаряло поля и луга, но в чаще лопуха было глухо и дико, как в густом лесу.
The second half is confusing to me. The sun was shining on the field and meadows, but . . .
Is the sentence saying the grass is as thick as a dense forest? Help!
Вот так могут выглядеть заросли лопуха: https://yadi.sk/i/F4sh3DqfuC5hJ
Гадкий утенок в зарослях (в чаще лопуха): https://yadi.sk/i/KNQ4nnZluC5qp
Да, чаШа и чаЩа - разные слова: чаша = a bowl, чаща = a thicket or a dense forest.
| Upd. Это не мои фото, из гугла. This is not my photographs, it is from Google. | ||
Алексей, where the first photograph was taken? We don't have such large burdocks here in Moscow:/
It is in line with the story: "large dock-leaves so tall that small children could stand upright under the largest":)
Alexey, I'm afraid it is not the duckling is small, it is skræppeblade (I'm not sure if it is dock leaves or burdock leaves?) are so huge in Denmark))))
https://www.google.ru/search?q=skræppeblade&newwindow=1&tbm=isch
