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

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Во главе их Том, следующим был Джо, и Хак в развевающихся лохмотьях, - робко крадясь позади. Tom in their lead, Joe next and Huck a ruin of drooping rags, sneaking sheepishly in the rear.
На второй год мы уже смеялись на стариком в лохмотьях, прикрывая рот ладошками. The second year, we laughed behind our hands at the odd man in his tatters.
Пожилые люди, не имевшие средств к существованию, погибали в лохмотьях на улице, в то время как семьи "низшего среднего класса" без страховки по безработице или пособий находились в постоянном страхе болезни или увольнения, что означало бы "крушение" и, вполне вероятно, необходимость жить на улице. Elderly people with no means of support died in rags in alleyways, while lower-middle-class families, with no unemployment insurance or welfare benefits, were perpetually in terror of illness or layoff, which would mean "ruin" and, possibly, being turned out into the street.
Лохмотья были развёрнуты, и под ними оказалась маленькая девочка, чьё тельце было сильно обожжено. The rags were unwrapped from a little girl whose body was massively burned.
Когда он вошёл, кто-то что-то ему сказал, и мы поняли, что он глухой. Мы заглянули в лохмотья, и оттуда на нас взглянула пара глаз. And he walked in, and somebody said something to him, we realized he was deaf, and we looked into the rags, and there was this pair of eyes.
И не смотри на меня так, будто вот-вот заплачешь, мужчина в лохмотьях. Don't give me those big wet eyes, raggedy man.
Человек в лохмотьях, я помню тебя, а ты опаздываешь ко мне на свадьбу! Raggedy man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!
Это не история о безымянных выживших в войне и о безымянных беженцах, однообразно изображаемых в газетах и на телевидении в лохмотьях, с грязными лицами и полными страха глазами. This is not a story of a nameless survivor of war, and nameless refugees, whose stereotypical images we see in our newspapers and our TV with tattered clothes, dirty face, scared eyes.
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