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

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Глобализация - это палка о двух концах. Globalization is also a two-edged sword.

Это же палка в красную полоску. That is a straw with red stripes.

Не стреляй огненный палка в космический лодка! No shoot firestick in space canoe!

Даже эта ужасная, визжащая палка больше не раздражает меня. Even that horrible, screeching wand thingy doesn't even bother me.

Но коалиции создаются не навсегда, а санкции – это чаще всего палка о двух концах, так как затрагивают и покупателей, и продавцов. But coalitions do not hold together forever, and the pain of sanctions often cuts both ways, affecting buyers as well as sellers.

Однако интеграция — это палка о двух концах: она обеспечивает множество преимуществ, но при этом делает страну уязвимой для колебаний в настроениях инвесторов. But this is a two-way street: intergration presents a range of benefits but it also leaves a country much more exposed to the vagaries of investor sentiment.

Я живо видел, как меня снимают, наверное, с вертолета, и на заднем плане играет рок-музыка, и у меня в руке лыжная палка с американским флагом, I could see vividly, I suppose, being filmed out of the door of a helicopter, there was, kind of, rock music playing in the background, and I had a ski pole with a Union Jack, you know, flying in the wind.

Но это палка о двух концах: британские промышленники, вследствие роста цен импорта, сталкиваются также с быстрым ростом средних удельных затрат на единицу продукции начиная с 2011 года. But this is a double-edge sword: British manufacturers also face the fastest rise in average unit costs since 2011, owing to the rising prices of imports.

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