Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 4 years ago
No.
They stood amid lush gardens and were invisible like mushrooms.
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•-<(||=ULY=||)>- •asked for translation 4 years ago
How to translate? (ru-en)
Домики тогда строились одноэтажные. В густых садах они были как грибы — сразу-то и не разглядишь.
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I’m confused by the second sentence; is this a more stylistic way of saying “они были как грибы в густых садах...”?
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- 1.
At that time, the single-storey houses they built were scattered among the lush orchards. As such, you really had to look for them - like mushrooms in a thicket. (They didn’t jump out at you from the side of the road).
translation added by •-<(||=ULY=||)>- •Gold ru-en2 - 2.
Back then, the houses were all one-storey. Tucked away in the lush orchards, they were as hard to detect as mushrooms in a thicket.
translation added by •-<(||=ULY=||)>- •Gold ru-en2 - 3.
In those days, they built single-storey homes amid the lush orchards; you could miss them if you blinked - like mushrooms in a thicket.
translation added by •-<(||=ULY=||)>- •Gold ru-en2
Discussion (17)
•-<(||=ULY=||)>- •added a comment 4 years ago
This would make more sense to me if they were lush orchards. In English, houses dominate gardens. But a house could be built in a lush orchard. Is that a possibility?
Pavel Maksimovadded a comment 4 years ago
«В густых садах они были как грибы»
В этом случае домики в садах сравниваются с грибами. Просто с грибами. Без привязки к месту, в котором находятся грибы. И ясно, где находятся домики. В садах.
Однозначное выражение мысли
«Они были как грибы в густых садах»
Тут можно представить два варианта. Либо слово ГРИБЫ по смыслу связано с ОНИ (домики). Либо слово ГРИБЫ по смыслу связано с САДАМИ
1. Они были как грибы ... в густых садах
Домики в садах сравниваются с грибами
2. Они были ... как грибы в густых садах
Домики сравниваются с грибами в садах.
...
Я бы выбрал вариант «В густых садах они были как грибы»
Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 4 years ago
right, in orchards)
Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 4 years ago
the small houses were hidden in lush orchards like mushrooms in the grass
Alexander Аkimovadded a comment 4 years ago
The meaning is: the houses were hidden behind the trees of the orchards and hard to catch your eye just like mushrooms in the forest covered with the grass.
Alexander Аkimovadded a comment 4 years ago
Plus: in Russian «как грибы» usually associates with something in plenty.
Alexander Аkimovadded a comment 4 years ago
They were hard to discern like mushrooms in the forest.
•-<(||=ULY=||)>- •added a comment 4 years ago
Thank you, everyone, the possibility of ORCHARD actually makes it all make sense to me.
grumbleradded a comment 4 years ago
like mushrooms in the forest
like mushrooms in the grass/leaves - hard to spot
•-<(||=ULY=||)>- •added a comment 4 years ago
Thank you)) I chose thicket because mushrooms can be in a forest but out in the open, whereas in a thicket in a forest, they’re harder to spot.
Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 4 years ago
Mushrooms normally don't grow in a thicket, but in open space in the grass (на опушках, полянах), under trees or on stumps
They hide under leaves, that's why they aren't visible from the first glance
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Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 4 years ago
a thicket of grass/nettles isn't just a thicket (a dense group of bushes or trees), if I understand this correctly
•-<(||=ULY=||)>- •added a comment 4 years ago
A thicket is any place where anything is growing very close together OR overgrowing other smaller growths.
•-<(||=ULY=||)>- •added a comment 4 years ago
We have mushrooms in the states too and we look for them in thickets.
Elena Bogomolovaadded a comment 4 years ago
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