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Russian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings | |||||||
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no reason to live Explanation: Одна из версий. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/476.html |
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life was not dear Explanation: That night my life was not dear to me.... RPO -- John Greenleaf Whittier : Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl I can truly say, on that occasion, at that time, my life was not dear to me, and that I was serious and ingenuous in my proposition: and as I was leaning ... https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/.../poem2302.ht... - Cached - Similar |
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sick of life Explanation: . |
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... life was not pleasant... Explanation: . |
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I was extremely vexed Explanation: To tell you the truth, I found this translation for another old Russian saying, 'жизни не рад' (it is vey close in meaning, isn't it?) in Complete Russian-English Dictionary by A. Alexandrov (1904). Reference: http://www.archive.org/details/completeenglishr00alekuoft |
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It was so heavy on my heart... Explanation: similar |
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life feels/I feel really gloomy Explanation: Мне в этот вечер жизнь была не мила — that night I felt really gloomy -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2010-12-08 13:07:27 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Also "doom and gloom", "gloom and doom" — http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/doom-and-gloom.html |
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That was a very hard night for me Explanation: meaning - an emotionally difficult period |
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life was misery (see below) Explanation: The complete sentence: "That evening my life was misery ... I was sitting stone dead, with no tears, feeling just hopeless." misery = intense unhappiness, discomfort, or suffering (various dictionaries) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 час (2010-12-08 14:45:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Idioms with "stone": The widespread idiom "stone dead" (literally = unquestionably dead) is also used figuratively to describe a state of being absolutely motionless Example: They soon discover their pal Ned, sitting stone-dead from shock, holding the winning ticket see http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/01-99/01-09-99/b05a... Variant: "stone cold" instead of "stone dead" Examples: 1. "The lasting image of school board members sitting stone cold silent in front of hundreds of parents..." see http://peicanada.com/second_opinion_paul_macneill_publisher/... 2. "After about an hour of sitting stone cold in my chair, I swear I heard her voice" see http://www.psychic-experiences.com/real-psychic-story.php?st... |
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Life was unkind (to me that night) Explanation: http://www.google.com/search?q=Life unkind&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8... |
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life was miserable ... Explanation: "That evening my life was miserable ... I was sitting like a rock, without tears, without any hope." |
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Life was no bowl of cherries for me that evening... Explanation: This is a departure from the simplicity of the original, but it might work, depending on the rest of the context. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2010-12-09 17:17:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- For Lana (continued): If you do a search in Google Books for "Life is not a bowl of cherries," there are hundreds of examples of this usage. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q="life is not a bowl of cherri... One of the more somber ones goes like this: "For Sarah, the word sacrifice holds dark and unhappy meanings. It reminds her of the unhappy experiences of her childhood. Life is 'not a bowl of cherries,' her parents told her as they constantly spoke about how immigration, hard times, and the Holocaust had affected their family and friends." |
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