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Dictionary translations for "посыпать голову пепел"

посыпать голову пепел verb Conjugation

sprinkle the ashes on the head

Contexts with "посыпать голову пепел"

Он положил голову на подушку. He laid his head on the pillow.

В 1989 году Китай отряхнул с себя пепел массового убийства на площади Тяньаньмэнь. In 1989, China rose from the ashes of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Они как будто наполнены кондитерским кремом, и если их посыпать сахарной пудрой, то их запросто можно подавать вместо десерта. They look like they're filled with custard, or you could dust them with powdered sugar and they could pass for some sort of dessert.

Если вы видите человека, приближающегося к вам с явно добрыми намерениями, удирайте сломя голову. If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Учреждения, которые казались такими мощными, как Гибралтарские скалы, оказались дымящими вулканами с постоянным риском распада на лаву и пепел. Institutions that had been seen as Rocks of Gibraltar were revealed to be smoking volcanoes, at risk of imminent dissolution into lava and ash.

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