Как перевести
Я позвоню ни тебе, ни ему
Comentário do autor
I will call neither you nor him
Будет означать
Я не позвоню ни тебе, ни ему
То есть неизвестно, буду ли я вообще звонить кому-нибудь, ясно, что ни тебе ни ему - не буду. В моём же примере смысл в том, что звонить то буду, но ни тебе, ни ему.
Can I say:
I understand your wish to tell her that you wouldn't?
Comentário do autor
The context is like there are two guys talking with each other. They remember their sister's arrival and the meal she had cooked. It was disgusting and one of them said "I won't it it anymore!". The second guy remembers the taste, too and says that, yeah, it was so much awful that he understands his brother's wish to say to her that he wouldn't eat anything she would cook anymore. Like, mentioning Future in the Past in a sentence where there's no Past actions but they are meant.
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Tradução adicionada por ⁌ ULY ⁍Ouro en-ru
If we have 2 actions we use Past Simple for the newer and Past Perfect for the older:
She said they had seen me
But what if we have 3 actions? There's no Past Past Perfect
She said they had found out he...(see me before).
It will also be Past Perfect?
She said they had found he had seen me
Comentário do autor
The problem is in this case it may be understood the way the action "see" happened simultaneously with "found out" but it was before. If we had Past Past Perfect, it would be easier:
She said they had found out he had had seen me
How can I use "neither ... nor" when I have more than 2 objects?
He knows neither me nor you nor her nor them
He knows neither me nor you, neither her nor them
He knows neither me, you, her, nor them
The same thing for "Either ... or". All texbooks tell only about 2 things, not more...:(
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Tradução adicionada por ⁌ ULY ⁍Ouro en-ru
Раскладывается ли
She can't have done
на
It can't be real that she has done/did
It can't be possible that she has done/did
There can't be a possibility that she has done/did
I can't believe that she has done/did
Как
He pretended to have lost = He pretended that he had lost
Piano
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Tradução adicionada por Максим Фалько