| English | Russian |
| he is in his study, hammering away at a pile of work which he has to finish before morning | он у себя в кабинете, у него куча работы, которую ему надо сделать к утру |
| in a pile | навалом (Anglophile) |
| in a pile | вместе (Alex Lilo) |
| in a pile | в кучу (Alex Lilo) |
| pile it all in a heap | свалить все в кучу |
| pile the blankets in a corner | сваливать одеяло в угол (the dirty plates in a sink, the books on the table, etc., и т.д.) |
| pile up in a heap | свалить в кучу (e.g. The books are piled up in a heap in a corner of the room. Soulbringer) |
| put sth. in a neat pile | аккуратно складывать в стопку (Famed composer Andrew Lloyd Webber recently recalled an eerie experience wherein he was forced to enlist a priest to banish a poltergeist that was causing commotion in his home. "I did have a house in Eaton Square which had a poltergeist," he surprisingly revealed. According to Webber, the ghost was particularly mischievous as "it would do things like take theater scripts and put them in a neat pile in some obscure room."  coasttocoastam.com ART Vancouver) |
| there was a pile of gifts all done up in shiny paper | там была куча подарков, завёрнутых в блестящую бумагу |
| vampire dissolves in a sunbeam and a pile of dust only remains | Вампир исчезает под солнечными лучами, и только горстка пыли остаётся от него (sixthson) |
