Sentence examples of "derisive" in English
The People's Republic of China will not be threatened by derisive and unsubstantiated claims.
Китайская народная республика не будет угрожать насмешливыми и необоснованными претензиями.
Napoleon – who started off as a would-be historian and only took to being emperor on account of getting derisive comments from an examiner on one of his essays (“a most pronounced dream”) – compared himself to, among others, Jesus, Muhammad, Alexander the Great, and Plato.
Наполеон, который начинал как потенциальный историк, а императором решил стать лишь из-за того, что выслушал насмешливые высказывания от экзаменатора по поводу одного из своих сочинений («какие яркие мечтания!»), сравнивал себя, среди прочих, с Иисусом, с пророком Мухаммедом, с Александром Македонским и с Платоном.
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