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learn_russian2004-05-04 07:46 pm
arpad.livejournal.com) wrote in learn_russian2004-05-04 07:46 pm
Warning
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Never ever translate Power button as Кнопка силы.
Never ever translate Power button as Кнопка силы.
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Why not?
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Like the multiple meanings for "Turn on" in English. :)
What would be a good translation? Perhaps the equivalent of "On/Off".
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As for turning somebody on, you gotta get medical here because Russian has no idiomatic translation in this case ;) The language is flexible enough to let you make up your own slang if you know what you're doing!
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Verb "выключить" can't be used for "knock smbdy down", better use "вырубить" it's more rude (I mean better for boxing therm) and have another meaning "cut out" (like piece of wood with axe). Also it can be used for "blackout", "abnormal shutdown" and for "swoon".
"Выключить" can be used only for electric\mechanical devices.
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These words actually comes from Russian words for electrical circuit elements. :)
A "power switch" is "выключатель" since to turn something (electrical) off is "выключить".
A "Main power switch" is called "рубильник" (root "рубить" means to "to hack with an axe"), probably because of the great and indiscriminate power of the device -- it turns off everything without much discrimination.
The colloquial expressions for "render someone unconscious" come from the idea of a person being like an electrical device. "выключить" is a more "polite" (also still colloquial) usage. "вырубить" is a more rude usage (probably since it is associated with a less "sofisticated" and more "brute force" tool).
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It is "завести". Normally, "завести" is translated as "crank up" (as in "crank up the car"). But in the idiomatic usage "завести" is to "turn on someone (sexually)". (Note that "завести" is can also be translated as "aggravate" as in "aggravate someone to the point of a phsycotic/destructive actions".
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I do know that our teacher stressed that one of the verbs "to finish" (I think it was кончить) meant to orgasm?
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Hee hee, I found that out when one of my class mates told our teacher during speech practice:
Я кончила в школе и ... (I can't remember what the rest of the setence was).
Regardless, the male teacher running the show that day did a double take, and then politely explained that she should've used the reflexive form, and why *giggles*
Geezies, keep stuff like that coming! I love dredging up silly memories from class!
xox
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Mweh, I'm lazier than you and usually my Runglish is inflicted with translit vs. cyrillic :D
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"Electrical power" is usually translated as "электрическая энергия" (electrical energy) or "электрическое питание" (electrical supply). And, as it was mentioned, "to turn on (a device)" is "включить" in Russian, and "to turn off" is "выключить".
E.g.: "Включите/выключите, пожалуйста, свет" = "Turn on/off the lights, please".
"Вырубить" is a spoken and informal synonym for "выключить", which really has another meaning of "knocking smb out".
E.g.: "Выруби эту музыку, я ничего не слышу!" = "Turn off the music, I can't hear anything!"
Power button or switch is usually called "выключатель" (NB: there is no word "включатель" in Russian).
E.g.: "Он нажал выключатель, и загорелся свет" = "He pushed a switch and the lights came on".
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In the movie "Peacemakers"
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Are you talking about this film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119874/)?
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