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

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Если не своевременно дать пять, то получится пощечина. A badly-timed high five is a real slap in the face.
Это пощечина, оскорбление бывшей когда-то великой стране с имперскими ожиданиями и амбициями. That's a slap in the face for a once great nation with imperial aspirations, and successes.
Прорыв Жан-Мари Ле Пена на президентских выборах во Франции - это пощечина для ведущих французских партий, также как строгое предупреждение о недостатках конституции Пятой Французской Республики. Jean-Marie Le Pen's breakthrough in the French presidential elections is a slap in the face for mainstream French political parties, as well as a stark warning of the drawbacks of the constitution of the Fifth French Republic.
Если успех телевизионного ученого мужа с красным резиновым носом представляет собой упрек скучным и подхалимным ведущим, то политический успех за последние годы эстрадных артистов, демагогов и общественных деятелей, которые свою бестактность выставляют в виде добродетели - это пощечина профессиональному политическому классу, которому они открыто показывают свое презрение. If the success of a TV pundit with a red rubber nose is a rebuke to the dull and fawning anchormen, the political success in recent years of entertainers, demagogues, and public figures who make a virtue of their indiscretion is a slap in the face of the professional political class which they profess to despise.
Напротив, как утверждает колумнист Андрес Оппенгеймер, это серьёзная ошибка, поскольку она является фактической пощёчиной жертвам нарушений прав человека режимом Кастро. On the contrary, as the columnist Andrés Oppenheimer has argued, it is a serious mistake, as it amounts to a slap in the face for the victims of the Castro regime’s human-right abuses.
Но многие ученые, в том числе и я, чувствуют, что вселенная, возможно, вот-вот протянет руку и даст нам метафорическую пощечину. But many scientists, including me, have a sense that the universe might be about to reach in and give us a metaphorical slap in the face.
Он станет пощечиной всем тем смелым мужчинам и женщинам, которые каждый день по всему миру рискуют своей жизнью ради свободы и демократии. And it would be a slap in the face to all of the courageous men and women worldwide who risk their lives every day in the pursuit of freedom and democracy.
Но в 2011 году, спустя лишь два года после начала реализации проекта стоимостью $3,6 млрд, правительство Мьянмы внезапно остановило строительство плотины. Это была пощёчина Китаю. But in 2011, just two years after the $3.6 billion project got underway, Myanmar’s government suddenly suspended the dam’s construction – a slap in the face to China.
Европа не может открыто ответить отказом на просьбу Керри о помощи, потому что это была бы пощёчина самому про-европейски настроенному американскому президенту из всех, кто мог бы быть избран в ближайшее время. Europe cannot give an openly negative answer to Kerry's request for help, because that would be a slap in the face to the most pro-European American likely to be elected president anytime soon.
Чем сильнее пощечина, тем быстрее он назад приползет. The harder the slap, the faster they run back.
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