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| can't do something fast enough | не успевать (Baby boomers are retiring here too. They can't build fast enough. Each month 5000 people move into the GVRD. We need some 20 highrise condo towers completed each month to meet the demand. • The problem is rampant immigration. Maybe 20 years ago, the infrastructure could handle the increase. We can’t build housing fast enough and we should be spreading the housing into other areas. Vancouver proper is full. -- не успеваем строить жильё (vancouversun.com) ART Vancouver) |
| can't make it up | нарочно не придумаешь (Can't make it up. A cop pulled over a driver today on West Broadway at Cambie. This guy had an iPad and a cell phone attached with a piece of string to his steering wheel, he was wearing headphones and listening to music while driving his Lexus, the headphones were plugged into the phone, and he didn't even have his driver's licence! I think they should put him in jail. (Twitter) ART Vancouver) |
| can't make that up | нарочно не придумаешь (The millionaire claimed the bribes he had paid for his two sons' admission as donations to a charity helping low-income kids to pay for their higher education. Can't make that up! ART Vancouver) |
| can't resist | не могу удержаться (Sorry, can't resist...just so nice and unexpected...and I'm an Ontario kid...miss the snow at Christmas
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| can't / should not be underestimated | нельзя недооценивать (As much as "location, location, location" remains the number one mantra in the real-estate game, presentation can't be underestimated when it comes to holding a successful open house. ART Vancouver) |
| I can't make it out | я этого не понимаю |
| one can't help but to wonder | нельзя не задаться вопросом (At some point during this sighting, the couple — and other unnamed eyewitnesses — stated that the UFO emitted a series of “fireballs” as it made its way northward. While these witnesses described “fireballs,” one can’t help but to wonder if these fireballs might be a long distance interpretation of the strange Morse code-like series of illuminated dashes that Jim Drummond claimed to have seen through his telescope. ART Vancouver) |
| one can't help but wonder | невольно задумываешься (At some point during this sighting, the couple – and other unnamed eyewitnesses – stated that the UFO emitted a series of "fireballs" as it made its way northward. While these witnesses described "fireballs," one can't help but wonder if these fireballs might be a long distance interpretation of the strange Morse code-like series of illuminated dashes that Jim Drummond claimed to have seen through his telescope.  mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver) |
| one can't help but wonder | невольно задаёшься вопросом (At some point during this sighting, the couple – and other unnamed eyewitnesses – stated that the UFO emitted a series of "fireballs" as it made its way northward. While these witnesses described "fireballs," one can't help but wonder if these fireballs might be a long distance interpretation of the strange Morse code-like series of illuminated dashes that Jim Drummond claimed to have seen through his telescope. mysteriousuniverse.org ART Vancouver) |
| you can't get there from here | ничего не выйдет (Sorry, you can't get there from here. – Ничего у вас не выйдет. ART Vancouver) |
| you can't help but wonder | невольно задумываешься (Travel through Switzerland and you can't help but wonder whether the geranium is the country's national flower. (Kathryn Clayton) ART Vancouver) |
| you can't help but wonder | невольно задаёшься вопросом (Travel through Switzerland and you can't help but wonder whether the geranium is the country's national flower. (Kathryn Clayton) ART Vancouver) |
| you can't make some of this stuff up, can you? | нарочно не придумаешь (a listener's reaction ART Vancouver) |
| you just can't make this stuff up | нарочно не придумаешь (Civil servants using a government credit card to pay for their meals at Hooters? Wow! You just can't make this stuff up! ART Vancouver) |
