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Dictionary translations for "житие"

житие n noun Declension

pl. жития

life [laɪf]

Покажи дорогу в житие его.

Guide his feet into the way of life.

Contexts with "житие"

Покажи дорогу в житие его. Guide his feet into the way of life.

Один из немногих фильмов, где распятие преподносится без пригвождения, это «Житие Брайана по Монти Пайтону», где жертвы распятия, хотя среди них и нет Иисуса, привязаны к своим крестам веревками. One of the only films that does not assume that crucifixion involved nails is Monty Python’s Life of Brian, which shows multiple crucifixion victims, though not Jesus, tied to their crosses.

История - не идиллия, и биографии политиков не похожи на жития святых. History is not an idyll and politicians' biographies do not read like the lives of the saints.

«Чрез жития святых страстотерпцев [Бориса и Глеба], как чрез Евангелие, образ кроткого и страдающего Спасителя вошел в сердце русского народа — навеки, как самая заветная его святыня», — пишет Федотов в заключение. “Through the lives of the holy sufferers [Boris and Gleb] as through the Gospels,” he concluded, “the image of the meek and suffering Saviour entered the heart of the Russian nation as the most holy of its spiritual treasures.”

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