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Marry Popinsasked for translation 7 years ago

How to translate? (ru-en)

В принципе мужик бесится в двух случаях: когда с ним - не та... и когда та - не с ним...

User translations (3)

1.
There are actually two things that make a guy go mad about: when there's a wrong girl on his arm... and when the right one is on someone else's (arm).
translation added by Holy Moly
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2.
There are basically two things that drive a guy nuts - when he's with the wrong girl... and when the right girl is with someone else.
translation added by ⁌ ULY ⁍
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3.
Basically a man goes mad cause of two reasons: when he's got a wrong woman... And when the right one is not with him.
translation added by Jane Lesh
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Discussion (13)

Lo Laadded a comment 7 years ago

Я просто мимо проходила...

Lo Laadded a comment 7 years ago

Татьяна, вот не надо строить из себя жертву.
Вы первая всегда напрашиваетесь на факи.ОК?

Marry Popinsadded a comment 7 years ago

Спасибо всем!

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 7 years ago

Пожалуйста!

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

Olga: There are a couple of problems with your translation: (1) The word "about" is out of place in the first line: ...make a guy go mad. (2) "there's a wrong" is unidiomatic. RIGHT and WRONG are polar and exclusive extremes, so they take the definite article. Instead of "there's," it should be "he has THE wrong girl..."

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

Tatiana: does this verb mean to make angry or to drive crazy? Also, your translation is completely unidiomatic with "not his one" and "his one." If I didn't read the Russian version, I would have no idea what you meant.

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

Jane: The shortening of BECAUSE to CAUSE is colloquial, and not casually used as in your example. It just looks like bad English. If anything, it's used in quotes to show what someone actually said, and more properly with an apostrophe to indicate the elided BE-. As with Olga's translation, A WRONG is conceptually and idiomatically nonsensical in English. It should always be THE WRONG/RIGHT.

Holy Molyadded a comment 7 years ago

Of course, Uly! Thank you so much! 😘

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

Anytime, doll.

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 7 years ago

Thank you very much, Uly! It's good you took a look at this sentence. I already lost all the hope to know what it should be in English.)

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

You’re welcome, Tati. “...lost all hope OF KNOWING“

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 7 years ago

Thanks again! ))

Lo 💕added a comment 7 years ago

‘A wrong girl’ -‘the wrong one’
Ну полный отстой,
Отстой на 5 баллов!!!

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