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

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Данное веяние подростковой бездумности и безответственности является частью того, что делает присутствие типичного американского мужчины столь тревожным, когда он вооружён "дубиной" мирового масштаба. That whiff of careening, heedless adolescent fecklessness is part of what makes the archetypal American male presence alarming when he is equipped with a global cudgel.
Еще в 1998 году известный интеллектуал Мартин Вальзер публично раскритиковал укорененность рассуждений об Освенциме в немецкой культуре, заявив, что Холокост стал «моральной дубиной», с помощью которой устрашают всех немцев, заставляя их постоянно испытывать чувство вины. Back in 1998, the renowned intellectual Martin Walser publicly attacked the pervasiveness of Auschwitz in Germany’s remembrance culture, declaring that the Holocaust had become a “moral cudgel” with which to intimidate all Germans and keep them “in a perpetual state of guilt.”
И этот мальчик, который не делал домашку, вырос и стал большой дубиной. And that boy who didn't do his homework, grew up to be a giant dummy.
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