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 whereEva

link 7.08.2016 7:27 
Subject: death before submission
death before submission - "умри, но не сдавайся"?

 CopperKettle

link 7.08.2016 7:51 
Да, или "смерть наступила до подачи заявки".
Контекст..

 whereEva

link 7.08.2016 8:33 
контекст:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d538a45a-4871-11e2-a1c0-00144feab49a.html#axzz2Z2Yg5a6H
– If you had a coat of arms, what would be on it?
– A lion as a model of death before submission.

 CopperKettle

link 7.08.2016 8:39 
Да, "лучше смерть, чем подчинение", "умри, но не сдавайся".

If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Claude McKay

 johnstephenson

link 7.08.2016 10:28 
Shakespeare xxx oops, sorry -- CopperKettle +1

Death is preferable to submission/surrendering (to other people).

 tumanov

link 7.08.2016 13:51 
А как же народная мудрость про "рабом дома, но никогда царем на чужбине"?

 Erdferkel

link 7.08.2016 14:50 
Ева - не Ксюша :-)

 whereEva

link 9.08.2016 6:38 
спасибо!

 

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