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

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Я родился более чем два века назад, и моя жена - узница в каком-то потустороннем мире. I was born more than two centuries ago, and my wife is prisoner in some otherworldly realm.

Она чувствовала себя узницей запечатлённых в своей памяти образов. She felt like a prisoner of her memory's fixed images.

Если бы кто-нибудь освободил узницу из камеры и увез со станции, я подумал бы, что это вы. If anyone could break a prisoner out of a holding cell and get them off the station, I'd have thought it would be you.

Или возьмём ситуацию в Бирме и монахов, которые вели блоги про страну, о происходящем в которой никто ничего не знал, пока эти блоги не поведали всему миру о репрессиях, которые влекли за собой утраченные жизни и преследования людей; и Аун Сан Су Чжи, одна из величайших узниц совести в мире, не могла оставаться не услышанной. Or take Burma and the monks that were blogging out, a country that nobody knew anything about that was happening, until these blogs told the world that there was a repression, meaning that lives were being lost and people were being persecuted and Aung San Suu Kyi, who is one of the great prisoners of conscience of the world, had to be listened to.

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