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Tatiana Gerasimenkosolicitou a tradução a month ago
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Они делают вид, что платят; мы делаем вид, что работаем.

Comentário do autor

I’m particularly interested whether “to go through the motions” could be used in both parts or not.

Traduções dos usuários (2)

  1. 1.

    They pretend to pay, and we pretend to work.

    Tradução adicionada por ⁌ ULY ⁍
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  2. 2.

    They go through the motions of paying and we go through the motions of working.

    Tradução adicionada por ⁌ ULY ⁍
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Leon Leonadicionou o comentário a month ago

They fake paying, we fake working.

Leon Leonadicionou o comentário a month ago

They pretend to pay us; we go through the motions.

Валерий ㅤadicionou o comentário a month ago

Но они платят не для галочки же

Валерий ㅤadicionou o comentário a month ago

Они НЕ делают вид, что платят, а ПЛАТЯТ на самом деле

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadicionou o comentário a month ago

Leon, спасибо за переводы🙏

⁌ ULY ⁍adicionou o comentário a month ago

Igor, FAKE is too contrived here. And the second example is unbalanced it sounds like they actually pay, whereas you simply go through the motions OF PAYING.

Валерий ㅤadicionou o comentário a month ago
They pretend to pay, and we pretend to work.

У меня такой же был вариант)

Валерий ㅤadicionou o comentário a month ago
They ACTUALLY pay, it's litotes

Or meiosis

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadicionou o comentário a month ago

Валерий, отдельное спасибо за лингвистическую терминологию!

Валерий ㅤadicionou o comentário a month ago

Но Ули, по-моему, не совсем понял

Валерий ㅤadicionou o comentário a month ago

делают вид, что платят = платят мало

⁌ ULY ⁍adicionou o comentário a month ago

It has the same potential nuance in English

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