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

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Достигнув пенсионного возраста, я имею полное право считаться сварливым стариком. Having reached pensionable age, I qualify to be a grumpy old man.
ЛОНДОН - Достигнув пенсионного возраста, я имею полное право считаться сварливым стариком. LONDON - Having reached pensionable age, I qualify to be a grumpy old man.
Я слежу за подготовкой к декабрьскому саммиту в Копенгагене, в ходе которого мы попытаемся найти новое глобальное соглашение по борьбе с изменением климата, и это не делает меня сварливым. Looking at preparations for the Copenhagen summit in December, when we will try to broker a new global agreement to combat climate change, does not make me grumpy.
Сварливые, стонущие и несговорчивые люди во Франции много раз демонстрировали, что они могут "проснуться". The grumpy, moaning, and intractable people of France have demonstrated many times that they can wake up and meet the challenges of the day.
Элеанора прекрасна внешне, но характер ее сварлив и злопамятен. Eleanor has her looks, but also her character - shrewish and spiteful.
Это был местный бакалейщик - сварливый, старый мужчина, который не продавал алкоголь и не разговаривал с маргиналами. There was the local grocer there - a grumpy, old man who didn't sell alcohol and didn't speak to marginals.
У подножия каждого эскалатора в московском метро находится стеклянная кабина для слежения за эскалатором, где обычно сидит сварливо выглядящая женщина, единственная работа которой заключается в том, чтобы выключать эскалатор в случае критической ситуации. At the bottom of every escalator in the Moscow metro is a glass booth for the escalator monitor – usually a grumpy-looking woman whose sole job is to turn off the escalator in case of an emergency.
Но он оказался сварливым и неэффективным руководителем, и в 2010 году на выборах его победил человек, над которым он ранее одержал верх — Виктор Янукович. He proved to be querulous and ineffective and was trounced in the 2010 race by the man he had earlier defeated, Viktor Yanukovich.
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