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crowning glory

  1. главное украшение; предмет особой гордости и славы

  2. шутл. волосы

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They drove them into Urshot, where there was a Rural Fete, and Urshot took them as the crowning glory of a happy day.
Их загнали в Аршот, где как раз было в разгаре гулянье, и жители Аршота встретили их как достойное завершение праздника.
Wells, Herbert George / The Food of the GodsУэллс, Герберт / Пища богов
Пища богов
Уэллс, Герберт
© Издательство "Правда", 1964
The Food of the Gods
Wells, Herbert George
© BiblioBazaar, LLC
The crowning glory of the mechanic-intellectual's academic activity was the epic of the gates of building no. 5, next door.
Венцом академической деятельности слесаря-интеллигента была эпопея с воротами соседнего дома № 5.
Ilf, Ilya,Petrov, Eugene / The Twelve ChairsИльф, Илья,Петров, Евгений / Двенадцать Стульев
Двенадцать Стульев
Ильф, Илья,Петров, Евгений
© Издательство "Правда", 1987
The Twelve Chairs
Ilf, Ilya,Petrov, Eugene
© 1961 by Random House, Inc.
And yet I won't look at it as you do. If I had succeeded I should have been crowned with glory, but now I'm trapped.
И все-таки вашим взглядом не стану смотреть: если бы мне удалось, то меня бы увенчали, а теперь в капкан!
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / Crime and PunishmentДостоевский, Фёдор / Преступление и наказание
Преступление и наказание
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1970
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
© 2009 Rhodes Media

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главное украшение; предмет особой гордости и славыExamples

The ballroom is the crowning glory of the palace. — Главное украшение этого дворца - бальный зал.

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