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око за око

an eye for an eye

Око за око, зуб за зуб.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Collocations with "око за око" (1)

око за око , зуб за зуб

Exemples with "око за око"

Око за око, зуб за зуб. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Многие из нас могут находить привлекательным принцип Ветхого завета "око за око, зуб за зуб". Many of us can see the appeal of the Old Testament principle of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

Махатма Ганди когда-то выразил несогласие с библейским выражением "око за око, зуб за зуб". Mahatma Gandhi criticized the biblical justification of retribution, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

Военная эскалация – не просто око за око, а примерно десять жизней палестинцев за одну жизнь израильтянина – достигла предела. Military escalation – not just an eye for an eye but roughly ten Palestinian lives for every Israeli one – has reached its limit.

Действительно, в некоторых древних книгах говорится о ценности принципа «око за око, зуб за зуб», и так мы иногда характеризуем поведение детей. It's true that certain ancient books talk of the value of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and yet we also apply "tit for tat" to such actions, the name we also give to the behaviours of children.

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