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Лиана Ахмероваasked for translation 6 years ago
How to translate? (ru-en)

стало душно и точно из топленной печки несло на нас горячим воздухом с пустыни Сахары не получается на англ перевести, может кто сможет??

User translations (3)

  1. 1.

    It became stifling; a hot Saharan wind descended on us as if from an oven.

    Translator's comment

    I believe we call a hot wind from the Sahara Desert a “sirocco”

    translation added by 🇺🇸 Uly 🐝
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  2. 2.

    стало душно и, точно из топленной печки, несло на нас горячим воздухом с пустыни Сахары

    Edited

    It got stifling and the hot air blew round us from the Sahara desert as if from an oven.

    translation added by Elena Bogomolova
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  3. 3.

    ... it became very close. Hot air from the Sakhara was rushing towards us as from a hot oven.

    Translator's comment

    - в переводе Fainna Glagoleva

    https://archive.org/stream/lev_tolstoy_stories_for_children/lev_tolstoy_stories_for_children_djvu.txt

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gW5hDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=lev+tolstoy+shark&source=bl&ots=vvLgCTVWaw&sig=uaQfPeGJ58heaW2IJFYjIx9-GE0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbr72B84XeAhWkKsAKHZa3CSEQ6AEwH3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=lev%20tolstoy%20shark&f=false

    translation added by grumbler
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Discussion (11)

grumbleradded a comment 6 years ago

Никогда бы не подумал, что печь может быть топленой.
Но с Львом Толстым не поспоришь...

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 6 years ago

ТОпленой, а не топлёной печь может быть.

grumbleradded a comment 6 years ago

ТОплеННой - да, конечно же...

🇺🇸 Uly 🐝added a comment 6 years ago

Elena, from an oven (HEATED in English is superfluous if you’re talking about an oven)

🇺🇸 Uly 🐝added a comment 6 years ago

STUFFY refers to a room that gets hot from the windows being closed. It’s better to say STIFLING in reference to a desert.

🇺🇸 Uly 🐝added a comment 6 years ago

I’m not too impressed with Fainna’s translation. In the literary style, you don’t use the progressive past, but rather the simple past, if the situation described is clearly progressive in nature. “A hysterical woman wailed in the neighboring room.“ “The villagers threw stones at the prisoners as they were led down the street.“

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