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Margot Benettasked for translation 7 years ago
How to translate? (ru-en)

Мечтать не вредно. Вредно ничего не делать.

User translations (2)

  1. 1.

    There's no harm in dreaming - the harm is in not doing anything.

    translation added by ⁌ ULY ⁍
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  2. 2.

    Dreaming isn't harmful, it's idleness that's harmful

    translation added by Elena Bogomolova
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    3

Discussion (6)

Роман Филипповadded a comment 7 years ago

А что если перестроить сохранения повтора для?
In dreaming there's no harm - the harm is in doing nothing.

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

Elena, you're two sentences are both correct, but they don't express the contrast inherent in this statement. If you worded it as one sentence and stressed one situation over the other, it would be more idiomatic: "Dreaming isn't harmful, it's idleness that's harmful."

⁌ ULY ⁍added a comment 7 years ago

Roman, the problem with your suggestion is that we don't say "In dreaming there's no harm" in this context. It's a strange syntax.

Роман Филипповadded a comment 7 years ago

Thanks, Uly) There is an emphasis on "вредно" in the original, that's why I tried inversion

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