Sentence examples of "слоном" in Russian with translation "elephant"
Наездник считает, что он может командовать слоном, но в действительности у слона свои собственные соображения.
And the rider thinks that he can tell the elephant what to do, but the elephant really has his own ideas.
Бывший министр продовольствия К. В. Томас назвал ее «белым слоном», который должен быть переделан «сверху донизу».
Former Food Minister K. V. Thomas called it a “white elephant” that needs to be revamped “from top to bottom.”
Что нам делать с этим белым слоном, которого нам подарила твоя тетя? Он слишком страшный, чтобы вешать его на стену.
What should we do with this white elephant your aunt gave us? It's way too ugly to go on the wall.
Для американской экономики? и для многих других развитых экономик ? слоном в посудной лавке является сумма денег, выплаченная банкирам за последние пять лет.
For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over the last five years.
Через 9 месяцев после того дня на сопливом камне, у меня было единственное свидание вслепую за свою жизнь с двухметровым слоном по имени Канчи.
Nine months later, after that day on snot rock, I had the only blind date in my life with a seven and a half foot elephant called Kanchi.
Аббатство Вестминстер приобрело кости мертвого слона.
Westminster Abbey bought the bones of a dead elephant.
Нужно избегать искушения строить "белых слонов";
The temptation to build "white elephants" should be avoided;
Мы откапывали гигантских черепах и слонов.
And we dug up giant tortoises, and elephants and things like that.
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