Translation

[dezelina.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone,

This will be my last question for a while, but I am having a hard time translating this:

"Ярко сверкающая медная и оловянная посуда, бывшая неизбежным украшением тогдашней кухни , теперь встречается сравнительно редко, зато в современной кухни все боле и боле попадаются разнообразнейшие орудия и машины, которые в то время была совершено неизвестны"

So far I have:

Brightly sparkling copper and tin utensils which were inevitable ornaments of the kitchen of those days, we now meet rather seldom; but, now in the modern kitchen, more and more, are caught up with the diverse instruments and machines which at that time were unknown. 

I doubt that is the best translation of the original.  Any suggestions for improvements...especially in the punctuation..??

Comments

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

It is not the soft sign with a cross on it, it's yat -- the remnant of the times when there was two different sounds in ancient Russian where now there's one (symbolized by Е letter.) Basically, if you're reading any text published between 1500s and 1918, ѣ and Е mean the same sounds; the use of ѣ was governed by a set of very elaborate rules. The use was discontinued after the 1918 orthography reform (except in a few emigree publications where it survived up to 1940s.) To type it in Livejournal, use HTML tag (exclude blank spaces) & # 1123 ;