The Door into Summer
- 1. A reference to Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita". Idiomatic meaning is "I was engaged in my own affairs"
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1. | The Master and Margarita |
1. | Фантом (Phantom) |
2. | Песня о любви (Pesnya o lyubvi) |
3. | Вот пуля просвистела (Vot pulya prosvistela) |
Thanks a lot. I didn't know that phrase, so I used something, that is close to that... ^)
Now I found it in the dictionary
https://argo.academic.ru/1748/%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%BA...
Quote:1. Очень неприятная нудная мелочь, сильно портящая всё или отравляющая жизнь, очень надоедающая и плохо поддающаяся исправлению.
2. Долгая постоянная тренировка или обучение чему-то путём многократного повторения одного или нескольких действий и доведение навыка до автоматизма. Или постоянное выполнение аналогичных действий. Заучивание. «Задрачивание». Действие, которым всю жизнь занимаются задроты.1. Вот из-за этой задрочки у меня машина ни х#$ не заводится!
2. Я уже третий месяц ассемблер задрачиваю. Молодежный сленг
I understand this (according to my experience of using russian slang) as "trying to make someone annoyed" or something like that. So the "trolling" seems like fits here well (IMHO) So, that is really "a joke", but a very unpleasant joke to its object :)
Yes, I would either say "and now they're biting my heels" as you suggest. Or just say "...and bit my heels" keeping it in the past.
similarly:
I've got tired to count/ How many days the chase lasts = > I grew tired of counting / How many days the chase lasted
But they were finding me even there => But they found me even there
I agree with the other suggestions too :)
Yes you are right, and btw, I read that wonderful novel, for I am a fan of sci-fi :)
Ah thanks both - I read a lot of Heinlein as a kid but I missed this one. I guess some judicious googling would have found that out but for some reason I thought I was probably barking up the wrong tree! :)
Agreed, when I first read it it seemed like wholesome "boys' own adventure" type stuff but some of it is borderline fascist on re-reading. As brilliantly sent up in Paul Verhoeven's movie of Starship Troopers. And then some of it is weirdly trippy fantasy stuff (I remember Glory Road as particularly mental)!
Thank you all for your help. Quite often my English translations have lack of attention of natives, so I always glad to read your suggestions. :)
Out of interest did any of you ever read the Dragonfall 5 series of books? I loved these as a child. :)
Yeah, I was raised on Asimov and Clarke, and discovered a rich vein of Heinlein in the school library. Also read a lot of random sci-fi from my parents' shelves but don't think I ever read Poul Anderson although I've certainly heard the name. Sounds like the sort of thing I would enjoy. Cordwainer Smith had also slipped under my radar but sounds compelling.
I've read some Bradbury and it's very variable - some of it goes into quite odd fantasy realms again. And I mainly know Theodore Sturgeon as the inspiration for Kurt Vonnegut's 'Kilgore Trout' character...
Who in turn published "Venus on the half shell" despite not actually existing (was actually written by Philip José Farmer)
I've surely read some Theodore Sturgeon in the numerous short story compilations I devoured but not any novels. Someone else to add to the list. :)
Yep similar, with Iain M Banks being the only more recent one. I loved those books though, even if I do know what you mean about the occasional violence. Not because it's graphic so much as occasionally deeply unsettling. Use of Weapons did particularly disturb me too at the time!
I am looking forward to rereading them all, now that there won't be any new ones. :(
Talking of French authors, apparently I can claim this chap as a distant relative 1. Ever read any?
- 1. Great great great great great grandfather
Yes apparently so - I really should track down the book! :)
Yeah, Banks had a nasty imagination at times. Sounds like you were traumatised by exactly the same bit as me... There are a few deeply unsettling moments in his non-sci-fi (or maybe just 'fi') work too. But wonderful imaginative writing. The shell world of 'Matter' was rather brilliant!
Well, nothing left to add... except that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton :)
I found that incredibly variable - excellent one week and then completely 'meh' another. Not a patch on Black Mirror, despite its excellent credentials. :)
I enjoyed reading the serialized "Stainless Steel Rat" in the old 2000ad comics!
/edit - wait, that was Harry Harrison wasn't it...
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