Слово "surface". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

They were running over the surface of a world frozen and dead.

The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall.

You could go from it to the main terrace in front, or you could go down a winding path and come out in a lane that eventually rejoined the cliff road. Its surface being bad, it was seldom used.

On the surface, it sounds boring,

There was no doubt about it, I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water.

I was suicidal, and if you were to look at my life on the surface,

And all the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein's specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army--row after row of solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar.

The roof of the license-plate factory needs resurfacing.

Also, don't think Mike realized that, after diving in hard, we would then surface and splash hard again before we damped down into floating.

The sheet of paper portraying the depths of the sea presented a shiny surface under the light of a bull’s-eye lamp lashed to a stanchion, a surface as level and smooth as the glimmering surface of the waters.

* * * Tolland surfaced, exhaling in relief to see Rachel moving inside the sub.

there were familiar stories that kept resurfacing

Its air is much more attenuated than ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and periodically inundate its temperate zones.