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

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Большинство древних письменностей использовали принцип ребуса, т.е. изображения были использованы в роли слов. Most ancient scripts use the rebus principle, which is, using pictures to represent words.
Джон Ребус, детектив-инспектор, Лит, Шотландия. Ah, John Rebus, Detective Inspector, Leith, Scotland.
Дональд составлял дрянные ребусы, которые вы найдете на любой мойке машин. Donald writes those cheesy puzzles you find at the car wash.
Это будет захватывающий ребус, для следующей половины века, когда, я надеюсь, мы будем посылать всё больше и больше миссий на Марс для ответа на этот вопрос. This will be a fascinating puzzle as we go into the next half-century, and where I expect that we will have more and more Mars missions to answer these questions.
Господа, я ценю что вы так стараетесь меня успокоить, но мне кажется, что пришло время оставить разрешение этого смертельного ребуса тем, кто лучше подготовлен, нежели я. Gentlemen, I appreciate you both working overtime to put me at ease, but I think maybe it's time I leave the residue of this deadly cryptogram to those far more equipped to decode it than I.
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