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

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Очевидно, ты ведёшь очень жалкую и трудную жизнь, и поэтому такая нервная. You've obviously led A very sad and difficult life to be so twisted.
К сожалению, африканские правительства потерпели жалкую неудачу в обучении фермеров усовершенствованным методам ведения хозяйств. Sadly, African governments have failed miserably in teaching farmers improved methods.
В июне идут дожди, так часто, что все мы забивались под эту жалкую крышу, ожидая, когда же дождь пройдет. So, June it rains, so many a times all of us would be huddled under the tin roof, waiting for the rain to stop.
В течение тысячелетий я мечтал вернуться на эту жалкую планету, где я был однажды предан, Праймом Я называл его братом. For millenia, I have dreamed of my return to that wretched planet, where I too was once betrayed, by the Primes I call my brothers.
На твоем месте, я начал бы писать их незамедлительно, потому что мы затравим тебя как жалкую шавку, которой ты и являешься! I'd start writing quickly, if I were you, because we will hunt you down like the scurvy dog you are!
Кто-то видит в процессе над Pussy Riot очередной пример кремлевской некомпетентности и идиотизма, жалкую попытку применить репрессии, которая вернется к нему бумерангом. One school of thought sees the Pussy Riot trial as yet another example of the Kremlin’s incompetence and idiocy, a sad-sack attempt at repression that will blow up in its face.
Но и в этом отношении Европа делает слишком мало, предлагая в этом году кредиты на жалкую сумму в 1,8 миллиарда евро (1,9 миллиарда долларов), в то время как более уместной была бы сумма в 10 миллиардов евро. But here, too, Europe is doing too little, offering paltry credits of €1.8 billion ($1.9 billion) this year, when €10 billion would be more appropriate.
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