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Мария Галушкинаasked for translation hace 7 años

How to translate? (ru-en)

на правду не обижаются

User translations (1)

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You shouldn't be offended by the truth
translation added by Elena Bogomolova
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⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment hace 7 años

+Elena: definitely "offended BY" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=get+offended+by%2Care+offended+at%2Care+offended+by&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cget%20offended%20by%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Care%20offended%20at%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Care%20offended%20by%3B%2Cc0

Holy Molyadded a comment hace 7 años

Pavel, in modern English one can only be/get offended BY someone/something. "Offended at" is quite obsolete.

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