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

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Juncker, like May, should recall King Canute. Юнкеру, как и Мэй, следует вспомнить короля Кнуда.

I see I'm beaten but, oh, how I sympathise with King Canute. Вижу тут я проиграла, как же я понимаю короля Кнуда.

Canute set his throne by the sea and commanded the rising tide to turn back. Кнуд установил свой трон в море и приказал нарастающей волне повернуть вспять.

The legend of King Canute describes how an early Anglo-Saxon King showed his subjects the limits of royal power. Легенда о Короле Кнуде описывает, как ранний Англосаксонский Король показал своим подданным пределы королевской власти.

When the sea rose as usual and soaked Canute, he told his courtiers: “Now let all men know how empty is the power of kings.” Когда море поднялось, как обычно и намочило Кнуда, он сказал своим придворным: “Пусть теперь все люди знают, насколько пуста сила королей”.

I will not, like King Canute of England, pretend that I can control the tide of world opinion on issues of fundamental concern to all. Я не буду, как английский король Кнуд, претендовать, что могу контролировать ход мировой мысли по вопросам, имеющим важнейшее значение для всех.

Democracy would not have prevented the ocean tides, driven by gravity, from drowning Canute if he had stayed on his throne, and a referendum will not turn back the economic tides driven by globalization. Демократия не помешала бы океанским приливам и отливам, движимым действием силы тяжести, утопить Кнуда, если бы он остался на своем троне, так и референдум не повернет вспять экономические приливы и отливы, движимые глобализацией.

And when the moment of reckoning came this summer, China’s leaders spent $200 billion of hard-earned foreign reserves to play King Canute trying to hold back the tide of a stock-market rout. И когда этим летом наступил момент расплаты, китайские лидеры потратили $200 млрд с трудом заработанных валютных резервов, чтобы сыграть короля Кнуда, пытаясь сдержать волну падения фондового рынка.

Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men. Легенда гласит, что король Канут однажды привёл своих верноподданных льстецов на берег моря, чтобы показать им – даже король не в силах повелевать океанскими волнами, а законы природы сильней людских указов.

Like the eleventh-century Danish King Canute, who commanded the waves not to strike his throne, and then, setting his throne on the beach, demonstrated the fragility of his empire to the flatterers and dreamers who imagined him to be master of the universe, Macron will have to behave modestly. В XI веке датский король Канут приказал морским волнам не касается своего трона, а затем поставил его на пляже, продемонстрировав хрупкость своей империи всем льстецам и мечтателям, которые представляли его господином вселенной. И Макрону надо будет вести себя скромно.

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