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Перевод: epitaph
[существительное] эпитафия ; надгробная надпись
Тезаурус:
- Napoleon claimed that Turenne had "grown bolder as he grew older"; not a bad epitaph.
- His epitaph is equally phlegmatic: "Death in the fast lane is a way of life for many rabbits."
- He wrote, too, his own epitaph: "Here, where he was baptised, lies the Florentine writer Roberto Ridolfi, born 12 September 1899 who died with as his only hope the Lord's mercy."
- When the history of our times comes to be written, They Organized Themselves to Death will be the only possible epitaph.
- In the world of education and in the year of the Woods Hole conference, Britain had to content itself with the Crowther Report, which, even at the time of its publication and even more plainly in retrospect, reads more like an epitaph than a prophecy.
- "His memory will live" the obituary concluded "and his influence will be continued, not by books written, nor by the booming paragraphs of journalists nor by flattering epitaph but in the honest lives and manly independence of those who gratefully remember how he moulded their characters".
- A sad little grave stood by the side of the church, with some lines by Yeats himself as an epitaph.
- There was no statue on it, just a stand with a plaque underneath that read "THE TRUEST LIKENESS OF THE FOUNDER OF EPITAPH SCHOOL.
- The epitaph on the tombstone of a man of seventy-four, buried at East Tytherley, cites Job: "Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season."
- Camp Marash, where perhaps 150,000 Armenians now live, spawned its own gunmen in the 1980s, the "Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia", whose assassination campaign against Turkish diplomats has provided a violent epitaph for the calcified remains in the Antelyas ossuary.
- Neither judgment is quite the epitaph it seems at first sight.
- The aspiration after this effect is very ancient, as we know from the Greek derivation common to both "epigram" and "epitaph".
- What an epitaph, I thought.
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