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[kittydesade]

This would be so much easier if the damn gloss had all the words.

1. Заходите!
Лена: Здравствуй, Нелли! Гэри, привет!
Lena: Hello, Nelly! Gary, hi!

Гэри: С праздником!
Gary: Happy Holidays! [Singular in Russian, plural in English. Huh.]

Лена: И вас тоже! Что вы стоите? Заходите! Раздевайтесь, берите тапочки!
Lena: And to you as well. Why are you just standing there? [Lit. What you stand? I think...] Come in! Take off your coat, take/pick slippers.

Света: Садитесь! Стол готов.
Sveta: Have a seat! A/this? seat is ready. [Which is awkward in English, but there's no semantic equiv that I can think of.] The table is ready [Behemoth prefers 'served.']. [That's because it's TABLE, Jag, Table. We're going to write that on your hands till you remember.]

Нелли: Ой, всё выглядит так вкусно!
Nelly: Oy, everything looks so good delicious/tasty!

Света: Не стесняйтесь! Салат берите! Селёдочку! Икру!
Sveta: Don't be shy! Have [some] [or take, or help yourself to] salad, herring, [or] caviar. [Noting for future reference: While in English the exclamation point is more for emphasis, in Russian it is mandatory. Translation here changed for semantic correctness.]

Алёша: Ребята, я хочу предложить тост за наших американских гостей.
Alyosha: Guys, I would like to propose a toast to our American guests.

Лена: Да, давайте выпьем за наших ребят.
Lena: Yes, lets drink to our friends children [friends?].

Алёша: Я поднимаю бокал за наших друзей Гэри и Нелли. Пусть они приезжают к нам чаще.
Alyosha: I raise a glass to our friends Gary and Nelly. May they Let them come to us more often.

2. Если бы вы были дома...
Алёша: Ребята, вы бы так встречали Новый год, если бы вы были у себя дома?
Alyosha: Guys, would you see in the New Year thus [a little archaic but the semantic fits in the structure given?], if you were at home? celebrate the new year the same if you were at home? [Semantic translation given by Behemoth.]

Гэри: Ты знаешь, у нас Новый год не такой уж большой праздник.
Gary: You know, our New Year isn't such a big holiday.

Нелли: Да. Вот если бы я знала, что у вас Новый год -- такой большой праздник, я бы тоже приготовила что-нибудь.
Nelly: Yes. Here, if had known that your New Year was such a big holiday, I would have also prepared/cooked something.

Гэри: У нас самый большой праздник года -- Рождество.
Gary: For us/ Our biggest holiday of the year is Christmas.

Нелли: И Ханука для евреев.
Nelly: And Chanukkah for the Jews. [Nngh.]

Лена: Значит, большой вечер вы устраиваете на Рождество?
Lena: That means you arrange a big evening on/for Christmas?

Гэри: Ну, как тебе сказать? Стол действительно большой. Но Рождество обычно отмечают в семье.
Gary: Hm, how to tell you? A really big table [semantically, feast?] The table feast/dinner [more correct semantics] is actually big, [lit. table actually big] but Christmas is usually celebrated in the family.

Нелли: Да. Как раз 25-го я здесь очень скучала по своим. Ведь если бы я была дома, мы дарили бы друг подарки, мы с мамой готовили бы обед, пошли бы в церковь...
Nelly: Yes. Just Like this 25th here I missed everyone my family very much. If I were at home now we would give gifts [to our] friends, we would make dinner with Mama, we would go to church...

Лена: А у вас все ходят в церковь на Рождество?
Lena: [Not sure how to translate this... for you?] In your country/at your place [does] everyone go to church on Christmas?

Нелли: Верующие ходят.
Nelly: [People of faith] do/go.



OOF. OOF I SAY. So, note to self: never, ever do vaults in the loose sweatpants again. Not without tying them up around your waist. Because even though, yes, there wasn't really anyone out there to see, the one time you vault up and your pants don't go with you, someone will be there walking their dog to see your pretty black panties. Murphy knows it, and you know it.

On the other hand, I can almost vault over the fence! And I mean full on, hands on the rail to guide and legs tucked under and over I go! Smoothly! That was... far quicker than I expected. I'm not sure if it's because of all the running jumping up on benches getting me used to vertical motion simultaneous to horizontal motion or what. But speaking of benches, I hit the benches at a run today, ran over a bench, down the other side, jumped over a small wall, up the grass, down the grass, down over the small wall, up on a bench, down, up on a bench, down, skidded to a halt. Without barely breaking stride. It might be cheapass baby parkour, but it is fucking baby parkour. Oh yeah. Who's awesome? That would be me.

Hopefully today will be less eventful than yesterday with its weird blackouts and the boy falling asleep when he should have been leaving to pick me up. Oooh so infuriating. Still have projects to do, check in, etc etc etc. I got a decent night's sleep last night but, oi. I could have done without the bout of fat-and-ugly-itis.

Comments

[kittydesade]

To, for... In English, 'to' would indicate that the American friends are the object of the toast. 'For' implies several things, that the friends are not present or not able to toast... it implies that they are performing the action in lieu of the American guests. If that is the correct meaning in Russian?

Continuous tense, yes. Although in my book they call it perfective and imperfective. I much prefer continuous and simple, it makes it easier to remember!

That said, in English it is correct to say 'raise' even if the action is continuous, because it's a set phrase. Idiom! That's the word for it.

So noted. :)

[behe_moth]

No, here выпить за кого-л. does not means to drink in liew of smb.
Actually in Russia when you drink for someone who is present the hidden meaning is that you drink for his/her health, so 'for' should be keeped as I think. Ok, it's a small thing )

But I can see you translated ребят as children. It's a rather big mistake. 'Ребят' here means lads or guys but afaik both these words are not very distributed in modern English so I put 'friends' there. In modern Russian(especially the spoken part) you will say дети,not ребята when you mean children in 99% cases.

I'll continue later :-)