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[ob-ivan.livejournal.com]

Минута молчания.

A moment of silence.

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[mesbilletsdoux.livejournal.com]

could someone please translate this for me:
Вот, встретил у себя в комментах lostinelpaso  и задумался: хули я языки не учу? Ведь у меня есть все возможности... только желание и нужно. А то прям стыдно, блин... на инглише тока и могу разродиться чем-то навроде "ай*м шел келбек ю ин тэн минтс..." На дойче еще хуже...

Баклана я кусок. Если отец узнает, он ведь... разочаруется во мне очень. Бездельник я. Надо браться за голову..

thank you

Translation issues of doom.

[quem98.livejournal.com]

I am preparing for a translation exam that is coming up this wednesday, and in order to prepare I am taking old versions of the exam. The only problem is that there is no one to correct my mistakes, so for all I know, I'm making the same mistakes over and over again. And I just translated a chunk of text that gave me a lot of trouble, and was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to correct my translation. I would be eternally grateful. I beg you, be brutal.

The test is three hours with a dictionary, and consists of 4 excerpts; Usually from a political science journal, an economic journal, a piece on Russian history, and an excerpt of 19th century historiography.

This is a piece of the text on Russian History.

Be nitpicky especially if I mistranslate a grammatical construction. Lord knows the graders will be. The english is supposed to be understandable but not pretty. The test is timed, so I don't have time to bother with style. THe bits in the square brackets are the parts that particularly threw me.

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