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Hi again,Below is an upmteenth sentence from my ever-lasting translation project:«The light wind brought (with it) the cries of the forest dwellers»Do you think I should keep the bracketed phrase or get rid of it? And maybe you can suggest a word more atmospheric than "brought"?Thanks...

Thank you for your welcome! Hope I will be able to improve my english a bit more here! :)My guess was "he threw it on the ground" as well. However, the sentence i qouted is from the english translation of kafka's short story "the top / der Kreisel". Anybody else who has an...

Hi guys, Can you please help me with how to use this idiom? I learned this phrase during the translation of one episode of Cold Case. It means feel slightly ill or slightly unhappy. But guys, if you look at these two definitions you should agree with me that they're absolutely different. To...

Hello Canada 1966, welcome to the forum.I've got a feeling that you ran your own language through one of the translation softwares such as Babelfish as this reads very much like the sort of thing they come up with - translating single words without really being able to consider the overall...

This is going to be a fabulous game tonight! I bet all Russia and Spain will watch it. Hope there will be no translation failures as yesterday (due to a thunderstorm all over Europe, as they said). By the way, congrats to the German team!

Thank you so much, MrPSo how would you translate "rêvent bruyemment d'accomplir de grandes choses..." is your initial proposition "have grandiose ideas about all the important things they're going to do" the only solution? It isn't easy to find, is it?Have a nice day

1. You needn't tell everybody what you feel like doing all the time. ] ok. 2. There's no need to tell everybody what you feel like doing all the time. ] ok. 3. Lots of people dream aloud / out loud (?) about ] neither really used! 4. accomplishing / achieving great things ] both...

Hi everybody!I’m currently working on a translation project. It is a Russian culinary web-site. I'm aware of a specific units of measurement used in American and British culinary practice. While it is clear to me how to convert fluids, I wonder how to deal with dry substances like sugar or...

More because of "since": it implies in your "It has been..." version that the phenomenon of "knowing one other" somehow ceased, after the point in time that "since" designates. Back for #3 later! MrP

Hello Hela, I would say that "finishes" presents "finishing" as if it were happening now, while "has finished" presents "finishing" as if it had just happened. (To put it more fancifully, "finishes" shows him writing the last word in his...