Usage examples of "жестянка" in Russian with translation to English

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По сравнению с этим тот факт, что некая двадцатилетняя жестянка некоторое время плавала около Кубы, несколько бледнеет, если не меркнет. Compared to this, the fact that a twenty year old tin can sailed near Cuba seems paltry and insignificant.
Это вы в "пни жестянку" играете? Are you part of the kick-the-can game?
Вы выглядите, как человек, знающий цену времени, кто не будет носить старую жестянку в кармане. You look like a man who knows the importance of time, who wouldn't have any old piece of tin in your pocket.
Будем играть в "пни жестянку", вот. Yeah, we're playing kick the can, so.
Находится в около трех милях от Найроби, длинной в милю и шириной в около одну-пятую мили, где более полмиллиона людей напичканны в маленькие лачуги из жестянки, которые арендуют поколением за поколением, часто восемь или 10 человек в одной комнатке. It's about three miles out of Nairobi, and it's a mile long and about two-tenths of a mile wide, where over half a million people live crammed in these little tin shacks, generation after generation, renting them, often eight or 10 people to a room.
И полный набор ножей, которые могут разрезать жестянки. And a whole set of knives that could cut through a can.
Слушай, а долго в эту дурацкую "пни жестянку" играют? Look, how long can this ridiculous game - of kick the can last, anyway?
Это из-за того, что было, когда мы играли в "пни жестянку"? Okay, is this because of what happened when we were playing kick the can?
Когда-то мы гоняли жестянку по двору и тусили, но потом она сняла брекеты. We used to play kick the can and hang out, but then she got her braces off.
К сожалению, они не просто "бросают жестянку вниз по дороге", но сталкивают снежный ком с горы. Unfortunately, they are not just "kicking the can down the road," but pushing a snowball down a mountain.
Он просто ещё одна жестянка, мальчики. He's just another tinny, boys.
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