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

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Как однажды писал Томас Манн: As Thomas Mann once wrote:
Соседи его терпеть не могли, потому что он писал на их половик. The neighbors couldn't care because he always peed on our doormat.
Пол Грегори из «Форбс» писал в декабре 2014 года, что путинская армия троллей публикует в Интернете каждый день по 100 тысяч заметок и твитов. Paul Gregory of Forbes reported in December 2014 that Putin’s army of trolls were instructed to post 100,000 news articles and tweets every day.
Я звонил и писал тебе миллион раз. I texted and called you a number of times.
Фридрих Лист, отец немецкой экономики, в 1841 году писал, что «потенциал созидания богатства является бесконечно более важным, чем само по себе богатство». Верная этим заветам, Германия сохраняет свой промышленный потенциал, неустанно занимаясь инновациями с помощью сети исследовательских институтов. True to the legacy of Friedrich List, the father of German economics, who wrote in 1841, “the power of producing wealth is therefore infinitely more important than wealth itself,” Germany has retained its manufacturing edge through a relentless commitment to process innovation, backed by a network of research institutes.
Он писал о Черных песках. He was writing a story about Black Sands.
Он ушел от мамы и папы, постоянно писал мне в туфли, балдел на моей одежде, такие дела. He left his mother and father's side, promptly peed on my shoes, pooped on my clothes, that was it.
Я уже писал об этой стратегии два месяца назад в своем посте «Война, которую мы не признаем, - это война, которую мы проигрываем» («The War That We Don’t Recognize Is The War We Lose»). I wrote about this strategy exactly two months ago in my post "The War That We Don't Recognize Is The War We Lose".
Он писал мне, что не хочет, чтобы его поколение было виновно в удушении Греции, я отказываюсь быть частью того поколения левых сил, которое готово позволить фашисту и расисту победить на президентских выборах во Франции. Just as he texted me that he did not want his generation to be responsible for strangling Greece, I, too, refuse to be part of a generation of leftists responsible for allowing a fascist and racist to win the French presidency.
Фабр писал книги о насекомых. Faber wrote books about insects.
Она думала, что я в саду, но я был в туалете и писал очень тихо, целясь в край унитаза, а не в воду. She thought I was in the garden but I was in the toilet peeing very quietly by aiming for the side of the toilet but not the water.
как только ей стало известно об аресте своего сына 15 января 2001 года, она сразу же направилась в отделение милиции, где он содержался, и увидела его в одном из кабинетов, когда он писал текст под диктовку следователя. Once she became aware of her son's arrest- on 15 January 2001- she immediately went to the police station where he was kept, and saw him in an office, writing down a text being dictated by an investigator.
Плиний писал в первом веке: As Pliny wrote in the first century:
В прошлом году я писал: As I wrote last year:
Я писал письма всё утро. I had been writing letters all that morning.
Он писал письмо, слушая музыку. He wrote a letter, listening to music.
Я не писал той статьи. I didn't write that article.
Я писал письмо когда он вошёл. I was writing a letter when he came.
Я также писал об аномалиях глобализации: I have also written about globalization's anomalies:
В подобных помещениях писал музыку Моцарт. This is the kind of rooms that Mozart wrote in.
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