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[nominals.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm stuck on a few lines from a translation that I have to do. Can someone help me?

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Понедельник начался с дождя.
Monday began with rain.

-- Ну не везет, -- уныло (sorrowfully) говорила Таня, когда собиралсать в школу. –
'Well we're out of luck', said Tanya sorrowfully when she was about to go to school.

Просто несчастье какое-то.
It's simply bad luck.
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-- У нас каждый день немецкий. Специальная же школа!
We have German every day. It's a specialty school, afte rall!
-- Отлично. Значит начинается неделя встреч со знаменитым человеком Николь Штеффен, Штутгарт, Германия.
Wonderful! It The week starts with --------

После уроков Таня подошла к Сергею.
After the lessons, Tanya went to Sergei's place.

-- Слушай, ты мог бы погулять сегодня с Николь?
'Listen, could you take a walk with Nicole tomorrow?'

-- А вы куда же, Татьяна Владимировна? – иронически спросил Сергей. – Уж не лекцию ли? Where are you coming from, Tatyana Vladimirovna, asked Sergei sarcastically. At the lecture?

-- Сережа, это тебе все равно, поступишь ты или нет, а мне не все равно.
'Sergei, is everything OK? You act as if it's not and it seems to me that everything is not alright.

-- Вы же с Мариной ходите. Попроси ее записть лекцию.
------- Ask her to take the lecture notes.

-- Она не идет сегодня, занята.
'She didn't go today. She was busy.

--Только ты никогда не занята, Татьяна.
'But you're never busy, Tatyana.

Ладно, я-то с удовольствием с Николь погуляю. Она девочна веселая и в музыке разбирается. 'Fine, я-то I'll glady talk a walk with Nicole. She's a cheerful girl who understand music.


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Наварху было ветрено и золодно, город лежал перед ними как в большой плоской тарелке с молоком, краев тарелки не быоло видно в турмане.
It was cold and windy above themю The city laid in front of them like a big, flat plate of milk, but edge plate not was visible in the fog.

-- Красивый город!
--Красивый! Но сколько стоила эта

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[oryx_and_crake]

специальная школа - a school with advanced level of (normally it was a foreign language, as, in this case, German; these schools had 4 or 5 hours of lanbguage a week, as opposed to an ordinary school where you were looking at two hours a week)

-- Отлично. Значит начинается неделя встреч со знаменитым человеком Николь Штеффен, Штутгарт, Германия.
- Wonderful. So, this week we will be meeting a famous person Nicole... etc.


После уроков Таня подошла к Сергею.
After the lessons, Tanya approached Sergei.


-- А вы куда же, Татьяна Владимировна? – иронически спросил Сергей. – Уж не лекцию ли? Where are you coming to, Tatyana Vladimirovna, asked Sergei sarcastically. To the lecture?

-- Сережа, это тебе все равно, поступишь ты или нет, а мне не все равно.
-Serezha, maybe to you it does not matter whether you are admitted [into the university], but it does matter to me.


-- Она не идет сегодня, занята.
'She will not go today. She is busy.


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Наварху было ветрено и золодно, город лежал перед ними как в большой плоской тарелке с молоком, краев тарелки не быоло видно в турмане.
It was cold and windy on top (of what? are they climbing a mountain?) The city was lying in front of them as if big, flat plate of milk (the fog looks like the milk and the valley or whatever the city is in, is the plate) but the edges of the plate were invisible in the fog.

[oryx_and_crake]

(the rest is more or less correct)

[oryx_and_crake]

as if IN big, flat plate of milk
sorry

[nominals.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all of your help! I've found another tough sentence that I can only work into an awkward translation. Can you (or any others) help. It says: За красивыми фасадами домов невозможно было предполодить челый ряд соединенных можду собой дворов, грязныя и узных. I only partially understand. So far I have. From the beautiful house facades, it was difficult to imaging the entire range of connection between your yard, the dirty, and the ... ???

[oryx_and_crake]

It was difficult to imagine that behind the beautiful facades there is a row of adjoining/connected [back]yards, dirty and narrow.

[oryx_and_crake]

Yes - even maybe something like "Are you going to a lecture by any chance?"

[nominals.livejournal.com]

Спасибо большое! ))

[oryx_and_crake]

(that's assuming that "грязныя и узных" is actually "грязных и узких". I would really appreciate if you type closely to the original text so people don't have to solve a puzzle befoe they get to answer the actual question)

As above and some minor stuff

[piglet-the-4th.livejournal.com]

Fine, I'd gladly take a walk with Nicole. She's a cheerful girl who understands music.

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[oryx_and_crake]

I believe it is not "I'd take", it's "I'll take" - not a subjunctive mood, just plain future tense.

[miram.livejournal.com]

Ладно, я-то с удовольствием с Николь погуляю. Она девочна веселая и в музыке разбирается. 'Fine, я-то I'll glady talk a walk with Nicole. She's a cheerful girl who understand music.

"-то" is emphatic: "as for me, I'll gladly..." (as contrasted with someone else who won't).

[ex-blueskyfr438.livejournal.com]

Вы же с Мариной ходите. Попроси ее записать лекцию.
You're friends with Marina. Ask her to take lecture notes.

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[piglet-the-4th.livejournal.com]

OK. I just wanted to highlight "я-то" somehow.

[http://users.livejournal.com/celsium_/]

+1

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

Сережа, это тебе все равно, поступишь ты или нет, а мне не все равно.
Sergei, you don't care whether you will pass the entrance exam or not, but I do care.

Только ты никогда не занята, Татьяна.
I'm not very good at English, and I can translate from English to Russian better than from Russian to English, but I suppose that this phrase would be closer to the origin in such form:
It's only you who is never busy, Tatiana.

[ex-blueskyfr438.livejournal.com]

How about “You alone never have anything to do, Tatiana.”?
Don't like the word “busy” in this context :)

[towarysc.livejournal.com]

maybe. I even don't know whether my variant is grammatically correct.

[oryx_and_crake]

Mind the context (which we don't know in full, by the way): this sentence is connected with the previous ones.

- Ask Marina to take the lecture notes.
- She's not coming, she's busy today.
- You are the one who's never busy, Tatiana... (sarcasm: he means that she's never "too busy to attend a lecture", i.e. is studying too diligently). So I believe the word "busy" should be here.

[upthera44.livejournal.com]

Слушай, ты мог бы погулять сегодня с Николь?
'Listen, could you take a walk with Nicole TODAY?'

сегодня = today

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

It's hard to tell without more context, but I think "ходите" here is short for "ходите не лекции", attending lectures. If that's correct, then the overall mood is an emphatic reminder: "But Marina attends these lectures with you, too. Ask her to take notes."

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

Oops, make that "ходите НА лекции".

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[nominals.livejournal.com]

What exactly does я-то means?

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[nominals.livejournal.com]

Hm. Sorry. I replied to this before I read any further... It seems it's for emphasis. Is the addition of -то something like же?

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[piglet-the-4th.livejournal.com]

Yes. That was the best translation.

[ex-blueskyfr438.livejournal.com]

It could be “She's not coming, she's got things to do. — You alone never have anything to do, Tatiana.”

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[lia910.livejournal.com]

-- Ну не везет, -- уныло говорила Таня, когда собиралаcь в школу. –
'What bad luck', said Tanya sadly when she was getting ready for school.

Просто несчастье какое-то.
It's simply a disaster.

-- У нас каждый день немецкий. Специальная же школа!
We have German classes every day. It's a special school (school of advanced study), after all!
-- Отлично. Значит начинается неделя встреч со знаменитым человеком Николь Штеффен, Штутгарт, Германия.
Great! So this week we'll be meeting the famous Nicole Steffen from Stuttgart, Germany.

После уроков Таня подошла к Сергею.
After the lessons, Tanya came up to Sergey.

-- Слушай, ты мог бы погулять сегодня с Николь?
'Look, could you take Nicole for a walk today?'

-- А вы куда же, Татьяна Владимировна? – иронически спросил Сергей. – Уж не лекцию ли?
And where are you going to, Tatyana Vladimirovna? - asked Sergei sarcastically / ironically
+1 by any chance. Or if it was really said sarcatically, not ironically, one could use a tag question, i.e. Not to a lecture, are you?

-- Сережа, это тебе все равно, поступишь ты или нет, а мне не все равно.
'Sergei, is everything OK? You act as if it's not and it seems to me that everything is not alright.

-- Вы же с Мариной ходите. Попроси ее записть лекцию.
- You and Marina are classmates. Ask her to take the lecture notes.

-- Она не идет сегодня, занята.
'She's not going today. She's busy.

--Только ты никогда не занята, Татьяна.
'You alone are never busy, Tatyana. (I agree with Oryx and Crake that it's better to repeat 'busy' here)

Ладно, я-то с удовольствием с Николь погуляю. Она девочна веселая и в музыке разбирается.
'Fine / OK, I'll glady take Nicole for a walk. She's a jolly girl and knows much about music.

Наверху - upstairs (if they are on the roof of a building) or as Oryx and Crake suggested - on top of sth.

[oryx_and_crake]

Maybe, but I don't see any harm in the word "busy" either.

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[genuine-al-cash.livejournal.com]

It is a hint. There are hidden conditions or circumstances.