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

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Not by the edge, you dunce. Не по краю, остолоп.
He was just too dunce to know it yet. Он был также остолопом, чтобы знать это.
Even a financial dunce like myself knows you got to diversify, right? Даже такой недотёпа в финансах как я, понимает, что вы должны диверсифицировать, так?
Hey, you better study good or the Skipper'll put you in a corner with a dunce cap. Эй, ты лучше учи уроки или шкипер поставит тебя в угол и наградит дурацким колпаком.
Many proponents of semiconductor chips also presumed that what you worked at determined whether, in your outlook, you would be a dunce (producing potato chips) or a "with-it" modernist (producing semiconductor chips). Многие сторонники полупроводниковых чипов предположили, что то, над чем вы работаете, определяет, в перспективе, окажитесь вы болваном (производя картофельные чипсы) или самым модным модернистом (производя полупроводниковые чипы).
Deng, who had been forced to wear a dunce cap and denounce himself during the insanity of the Cultural Revolution, had achieved the greatest comeback imaginable, and in the fall of 1978, he finally got enough power to cut a deal with the US: Дэн, которому пришлось носить дурацкий колпак и осуждать себя во время безумия культурной революции, достиг самого блестящего возвращения, которое можно было только представить, а осенью 1978 года он, наконец, получил достаточно полномочий для заключения сделки с США:
Deng, who had been forced to wear a dunce cap and denounce himself during the insanity of the Cultural Revolution, had achieved the greatest comeback imaginable, and in the fall of 1978, he finally got enough power to cut a deal with the US: China would not “agree” to American arms sales or other activities with Taiwan, but they would proceed with normalization anyway. Дэн, которому пришлось носить дурацкий колпак и осуждать себя во время безумия культурной революции, достиг самого блестящего возвращения, которое можно было только представить, а осенью 1978 года он, наконец, получил достаточно полномочий для заключения сделки с США: Китай «не согласился» на то, чтобы Америка продавала оружие или имела какие-либо другие отношения с Тайванем, но, как бы то ни было, выступил за продолжение нормализации.
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