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Романс Рощина

Почему ж ты мне не встретилась,
Юная, нежная,
В те года мои далёкие,
В те года вешние?
Голова стала белою,
Что с ней я поделаю?
Почему же ты мне встретилась
Лишь сейчас?
 
Я забыл в кругу ровесников,
Сколько лет пройдено.
Ты об этом мне напомнила,
Юная, стройная.
Об одном только думаю,-
Мне жаль ту весну мою,
Что прошла, неповторимая, без тебя.
 
Как боится седина моя
Твоего локона,
Ты ещё моложе кажешься,
Если я около.
Видно, нам встреч не праздновать,
У нас судьбы разные.
Ты любовь моя последняя.
Боль моя.
 
Μετάφραση

Roshchin's Romance

Why did you and I not meet somehow,
Sweet and young, gentle one,
In those years of mine so long ago
In the spring of my years
Now my head has turned all to grey
What more is there left to say?
Why then have we only met somehow
Only now?
 
I forgot among my older friends
How the years passed away
You reminded me of what had gone
Sweet and young, ardent one
I can think only of one thing
And sad that my only spring
Passed away, and unrepeatably, without you.
 
How my white hairs are afraid before

Beautiful locks of yours
,
You seem younger to me all the more

Just as I am nearby
.
No, for us there's no rendezvous
.
We have two divided fates.

You my final love must still remain.

And my pain.
 
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BlackSea4everBlackSea4ever    Δευ, 17/05/2021 - 20:22

I think it’s hardly my place to give you advice, so please just think it suggestions:
Why did you and I not meet somehow, — why haven’t you and I met before now
Fresh and young, tender one, — [sounds like a chicken dish. Sorry. Truly.] You, young and tender one
Passed by unrepeatably without you. — passed without you, not to return
Why then have we met somehow Only now? — Why then have we met only Just now?

You know, [@layman] may be the best to help out as meter and rhyme elude me
Or [@brat] if he catches the call...

shinedshined
   Δευ, 17/05/2021 - 22:04

Yes, I grant the interpretation is a little loose. But for an over-the-top romantic song like this you need the meter and you need the rhymes. You need to be able to sing it to the tune. So something has to give. "Why haven't you and I met before now" (and its refrain at the end) is /uu /uu /u u/ (two dactyls, a troche and an iamb). But "Почему ж ты мне не встретилась" is /u /u /u /uu (three troches and a dactyl). I think you are right about the chicken. Need a two-syllable word for "tender" and I can probably get away with "Fresh and young." I thought "unrepeatably" was pretty good: it occurs at the same place in the line as неповторимая, scans identically, and means the same thing. The length of неповторимая makes it (and unrepeatedly) the longest word in the song by far, and it has a yearning quality.

BratBrat    Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 04:19
BlackSea4ever wrote:

Fresh and young, tender one, — [sounds like a chicken dish. Sorry. Truly.]

Почему ж ты мне не встретилась,
Юная, нежная? -
Коммунизм был без макдональдсов
В тот застой Брежнева:
Были все куры синие, -
Теперь кудри в инее,
И уж зубы не столь острые
У меня....

:D

Btw, Dan, you have a couple of hardly singable lines:
1. In the springtime of my years - 1 extra syllable
2. What is there left to say? - 1 lacking one, though there's no problem stretching 'there' over 2 notes.
3. Passed by unrepeatably without you. - 2 syllables lacking
4. Whenever I am nearby - 1 extra one, this line is the toughest one...

shinedshined
   Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 14:31

Я был в «Ленинграде», когда Брежнев был президентом. Никаких макдональдсов, а большая ложка икры на хлебе с тележки за копейки. И морозеное было чудесным!

You are spot on about the syllables. How about:
1. In the spring of my years.
2. What more is there left to say
3. Passed away, and unrepeatedly, without you
4. Just as I am nearby

BratBrat    Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 15:24
shined wrote:

Я был в «Ленинграде», когда Брежнев был президентом. Никаких макдональдсов, а большая ложка икры на хлебе с тележки за копейки. И морозеное было чудесным!

You are spot on about the syllables. How about:
1. In the spring of my years.
2. What more is there left to say
3. Passed away, and unrepeatedly, without you
4. Just as I am nearby

Pretty good save that Brezhnev wasn't a president, however...
And I wonder where that caviar is now... Maybe Yeltsin ate it all up to the last grain...

IremiaIremia
   Δευ, 17/05/2021 - 21:49

Welcome back, Dan!

IremiaIremia
   Δευ, 17/05/2021 - 21:51

Sweet and young, gentle one.

shinedshined
   Δευ, 17/05/2021 - 22:44

Can you help with последняя? The line should say "you are my last love" and it should say ONLY that. This "still remain" is terrible. But there is no four-syllable English word for "last."

IremiaIremia
   Δευ, 17/05/2021 - 23:05

You’re my last love, and it will remain
So will my pain.

shinedshined
   Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 00:38

Nice idea but still stuck with the remain/pain. D

Dr_IgorDr_Igor    Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 00:57

And you are this hurt, this love of mine
The last one.

shinedshined
   Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 14:38

Has the flavor but it is too far from the original. The боль not the последняя is the tag line.

Dr_IgorDr_Igor    Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 14:52

The original is just an excuse. You want something that would stand on its own. Otherwise, what's the point ...

IremiaIremia
   Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 01:22

You’re the last love that I’ll ever find.
Anguish mine

shinedshined
   Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 14:40

Now that is a fine idea. Scans perfectly. But "Anguish mine" is not quite English.

IremiaIremia
   Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 15:20

😉 Could be “pain of mine”

LaymanLayman    Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 06:06

You're my last beloved, my only love,
Pain of mine.

BratBrat    Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 09:36

You're my love that's proven terminal,
You're my sore...

:D

Давайте ещё варианты накидывайте.
Подсказка: две последние строки не обязательно должны рифмоваться.
Т-щ Лейман это, похоже, просёк...

Treugol'nyTreugol'ny    Τρί, 18/05/2021 - 23:11

We will not celebrate our dates,
And ours, so different fates