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

Translations:

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Лаки Страйк может "потушить нам свет". Lucky strike can shut off our lights.

Ну, долго не удавалось потушить огонь. Well, took forever to put the fire out.

Всё, что угодно, чтобы потушить твой пожар, мужик. Whatever lights your fire, man.

У нас тут аптечка для горючего, так что придется потушить. We got a fuel leak, trying to put your cleat in.

Она только подольет масла в огонь, который союзники не смогут потушить. It is only likely to fuel a fire which the allies cannot quench.

"Волна" также открывает - возможно, впервые - серьезную возможность потушить мятежный пыл в провинции Анбар, центре бунта суннитов. The "surge" also opens, perhaps for the first time, a serious possibility of pouring water on the insurgent fires in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency.

Могут ли ярко разукрашенные люминесцентными красками меховые игрушки преподать урок, который нам необходим, чтобы потушить огонь палестино-израильского конфликта? Can furry puppets in Day-Glo colors provide the lessons we need to calm the fires of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

И в глубине души, если бы мы были действительно согласны с тем, что африканцы и мы - равны, мы бы все гораздо активнее старались потушить этот огонь. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out.

Более того, его заявление о том, что сам ввод сирийских сил в Ливан был оправдан тем, что они позволили «сохранить единство ливанской территории и потушить пожар гражданской войны», представляет собой явный предлог. Moreover, his justification for why Syrian forces had entered Lebanon in the first place — the fact that they “preserved the unity of Lebanon's territory and quenched the fires of the civil war” — is an obvious pretence.

Я верю, что Обама знает, что Хиллари понимает, что конфликты возникают вследствие этих проблем и что использование военной силы без решения этих проблем можно сравнить с попыткой потушить вулкан, накинув на него одеяло. I believe that Obama knows that Hillary realizes that conflict emerges from these problems, and that using military intervention without addressing them is merely the equivalent of throwing a blanket into a volcano.

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