⁌ ULY ⁍adicionou o comentário 7 years ago
Valery, that’s not idiomatic.
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Michael Petrovsolicitou a tradução 7 years ago
Como traduzir? (ru-en)
Не будете ли вы так любезны?
Traduções dos usuários (4)
- 1.
I wonder if you wouldn’t mind (-ing)?
Tradução adicionada por ⁌ ULY ⁍Ouro ru-en4 - 2.
Would you be so kind as to (...)?
Tradução adicionada por ⁌ ULY ⁍Ouro ru-en3 - 3.
Would you be kind enough (to...)?
Tradução adicionada por ⁌ ULY ⁍Ouro ru-en3 - 4.
couldn't you be so kind?
Tradução adicionada por Валерий КоротоношкоOuro ru-en0
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Валерий Коротоношкоadicionou o comentário 7 years ago
So what's wrong with avoiding idioms? The original sounds mandane
⁌ ULY ⁍adicionou o comentário 7 years ago
It’s not about avoiding idioms, it’s about using CORRECT idioms. IDIOMATIC means using language that a native would use. For example, COULDN’T YOU BE SO KIND is grammatically correct, but a native would never ask this with COULDN’T, but rather with WOULD - then it would both grammatical and idiomatic. 😉
⁌ ULY ⁍adicionou o comentário 7 years ago
COULDN’T YOU... is idiomatic in Russian, where it is idiomatic to ask a question in the negative in this context.
⁌ ULY ⁍adicionou o comentário 7 years ago
COULDN’T YOU BE... звучит как упрек: Что же мешает тебе быть...?!