grated

11:57 Mar 20, 2016
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English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / Road construction
English term or phrase: grated
Road construction is used a s a metaphor in the following sentence from a novel:

"Unpredictable occurrences shift events in inappropriate ways – inappropriate, because they force us to step off the road that has been charted, even grated and graveled, and set us upon a course with no clear destination."
Alexander Alexandrov
Russian Federation
Local time: 15:34


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4 -1grated and graveled: mit Rissen und Schotter überzogen
Andreas Müller


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grated and graveled: mit Rissen und Schotter überzogen


Explanation:
Die beiden Adjektive muss man zusammen sehen

Andreas Müller
Germany
Local time: 13:34
Works in field
Native speaker of: German

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