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Перевод: diplomat
[существительное] дипломат
Тезаурус:
- Diplomat: able to say no without saying no; not able to say yes until it's certain; very good at saying maybe and keeping the peace.
- His grand-father was a diplomat, briefly a cabinet minister and "a bit of a writer".
- Unlike Mr Major, Mr Hurd is an experienced former diplomat and a Foreign Office Minister of State who has sounded made-for-the-job since day one, which is why he would probably not have got it but for the Lawson affair.
- "By pure chance I had dinner that night with Sir Malcolm MacDonald, a very experienced diplomat and former High Commissioner of Kenya.
- A US diplomat followed until he too was intercepted and chased off.
- We taxied towards the buildings and a little party of figures came to meet us as if they were welcoming a foreign diplomat.
- The late sixteenth-century diplomat James Melville of Halhill wrote of the "Italian posset" given to the king; the leading churchman, and one of the main contenders for power, David cardinal Beaton, archbishop of St Andrews, was of course the major suspect.
- But it was not going to be easy; some few years after Malmesbury's comments another accredited diplomat noted propos of an evening at the Tuileries:
- John Eisenhammer recalls the story of the Swedish diplomat who vanished into Stalin's Russia almost 45 years ago
- Lord Tyrrell, the former diplomat, who became BBFC President in 1935, notoriously declared that "we may take pride in observing that there is not a single film showing in London today which deals with any of the burning questions of the day."
- The police, on realising that he was a diplomat, drew back.
- "The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them", wrote the Venetian diplomat Andrea Trevisano at the end of the fifteenth century; "they think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that he "looks like an Englishman'" and that "it is a great pity that he should not be an Englishman", words echoed exactly in 1521 by the Scottish scholar John Major; while the German knight Nicolas von Popplau, who visited England in 1484, found a people who regarded themselves as the wisest in the world.
- Czechoslovakia summoned a senior Romanian diplomat to receive a protest from the Foreign Ministry in Prague.
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