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[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

Can someone please tell me what connotation usually goes with заведи? My translator says it means "bring", but how is it usually used in a normal setting, or if shouted out all by itself. (I am listening to a song where they keep shouting заведи! заведи! but I'm wondering if it has a different meaning or if it usually refers to something that people want to bring.) Thank you!

Comments

wrong quotaion...

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Есть многое на свете, друг Горацио,
что неподвластно электрификации.

Re: wrong quotaion...

[ex-evengar540.livejournal.com]

There are many things in the world, Horatio,
that aren't subject to electrification!

Seriously, does anyone like Shakespeare here? I personally don't, that's why I'm asking :)

Re: wrong quotaion...

[zloizloi.livejournal.com]

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

--From Hamlet (I, v, 166-167)

Thx

[ex-evengar540.livejournal.com]

Thank you! In Russian translation it sounds much better, though incorrect. More and more I see that translation distorts the original text a lot.

Re: Thx

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

He-he, the translation you've mentioned was some kind of a translator's freewheelin' fantasy around original Shakespeare's tragedy. In Boris Pasternak's translation, for instance, those two lines were rendered much better --

Гораций, много в мире есть того,
Что вашей философии не снилось.