Sentence examples of "моллюск" in Russian with translation "barnacle"
Слушайте, в доках есть кондитерский магазин, и кто-то должен получать деньги за его очистку от моллюсков.
Look, there's a saltwater taffy store on the dock, and somebody's gotta get paid to scrape the barnacles off of it.
Перефразируя комика Фреда Аллена, “На судах, они называют их моллюсками; во Всемирном Банке, они прилипают к столам и называются вице-президентами”.
To paraphrase the comedian Fred Allen, “On ships they call them barnacles; at the World Bank, they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.”
Всемирный банк, как старый корабль: за те семь десятилетий его работы, все виды моллюсков – налипающие бюджетные разрастания и транзакционные издержки – накопились на его корпусе, неуклонно препятствуя его скорости и эффективности.
The World Bank is like an old ship: in its seven decades, all kinds of barnacles – sticky budgetary accretions and transaction costs – have accumulated on its hull, steadily impeding its speed and performance.
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