verbal shelling

Russian translation: словесная перебранка

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English term or phrase:verbal shelling
Russian translation:словесная перебранка

14:48 Aug 13, 2004
English to Russian translations [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: verbal shelling
Both sides will make sure America’s culture wars continue

The culture wars that so enlivened the 1980s and 1990s in America are said to be over. The savage fights that raged full-scale as recently as two years ago over gay rights, gun control, environmental protection and general permissiveness, and that culminated in the Antietam of culture battles, Bill Clinton’s impeachment and trial, seem to have just petered out.
Pundits say the combatants, exhausted from all the verbal shelling, have accepted compromise rather than press on for total victory, and this has led to a new spirit of accommodation. One observer writes that the “crackle of cultural gunfire is now increasingly distant.”
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словесная перебранка
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Словесная перебранка судебного пристава и журналистки переросла в ссору.
www.adilsoz.kz/monitoring/2004/05may/to breach violate/12pa...
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Andrey Belousov (X)
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4 +2словесная перебранка
Andrey Belousov (X)
4 +1словесная перепалка, словесные нападки
Vladimir Pochinov
4словесная перестрелка
Mikhail Kropotov


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
словесная перепалка, словесные нападки


Explanation:
IMHO

Vladimir Pochinov
Russian Federation
Local time: 09:06
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 119

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agree  Sergey Strakhov
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
словесная перебранка


Explanation:
"

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Note added at 1 hr 28 mins (2004-08-13 16:16:45 GMT)
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Словесная перебранка судебного пристава и журналистки переросла в ссору.
www.adilsoz.kz/monitoring/2004/05may/to breach violate/12pa...

Andrey Belousov (X)
United States
Local time: 03:06
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 106

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agree  ilbe
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agree  Margarita
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1 day 19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
словесная перестрелка


Explanation:
Я бы сохранил стиль: shelling - перестрелка.

Впрочем, это обычная словесная перестрелка - неизменный атрибут боев высокого уровня.
www.mk.ru/numbers/831/article23563.htm

Гладилин Анатолий / Тень всадника
Они что-то заказали в уютном кафе у причала яхт, и Дженни приготовилась к обычной иронической словесной перестрелке.
Karnejc.viv.ru/cont/gladilin/8.html

По всему было видно, что их словесная перестрелка продолжалась, даже ничуть не продвигаясь к завершенью.
subscribe.ru/archive/lit.kids.malenkiigenii/200010/02010641.html

- Еще как надо! - тут Лаяндри не выдержал и присоединился к словесной перестрелке.
www.zk.ru/goodcompany/Content/Story/Part-7/Text.html

Фраза эта встречается несколько реже, чем "перепалка" и "перебранка", но более точно передает тон (как всегда IMHO).

Mikhail Kropotov
Germany
Local time: 09:06
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PRO pts in category: 142
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