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

Translations:

Вот где была заложена взрывчатка; а курс доллара к йене оказался просто искрой, поджегшей фитиль. They are where the dynamite was placed; the dollar/yen rate was merely the spark that lit the fuse.

Мы знали, что фитиль был сухим, но мы не знали, как или когда он воспламенится. We knew that the tinder was dry, but we could never know how or when, exactly, it would combust.

В итоге я наблюдал, как Томми Бакс запихивал шашку динамита в рот этому бедняге, заклеивал скотчем чтобы тот не смог выплюнуть и поджёг фитиль. But I watched as Tommy Bucks stuck a stick of dynamite in that poor man's mouth, taped it so he couldn't spit it out, and lit the fuse.

Без дипломатии и готовности работать в направлении жизнеспособных взаимных договоренностей, как это недавно произошло с рамочным соглашением на переговорах с Ираном, новый Ближний Восток останется пороховой бочкой мировой политики – той, у которой фитиль уже подожжен. Without diplomacy and the willingness to work toward viable mutual understandings, as has just happened with the framework agreement negotiated with Iran, the new Middle East will remain the powder keg of world politics – one whose fuse has already been lit.

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