ruiner

La personne aimée n’a pas besoin de notre souffrance et ce n’est pas flatteur pour elle que nous ruinions nos vies.
Our loved ones have no need of our suffering, nor does it flatter them that we should ruin our lives.
Je m'adresse particulièrement aux membres de cette Assemblée et je demande aux personnes présentes de faire en sorte, au sein de chaque groupe, que nous ne ruinions pas notre réputation.
I say this particularly for our benefit, ladies and gentlemen, and would ask every one of us present here today to ensure in the groups that we do not ruin our reputation.
Ce serait un opportunisme impardonnable si, à la veille de cette intervention de l'Orient et au début de son réveil, nous ruinions à ses yeux notre autorité par la moindre brutalité ou injustice à l'égard de nos propres allogènes.
It would be unpardonable opportunism if, on the eve of debut of the East, just as it is awakening, we undermined our prestige with its peoples, even if only by the slightest crudity or injustice towards our own non-Russian nationalities.
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