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Dmitryi Boyarinovспросил перевод 5 years ago
Как перевести? (ru-en)

если бы я не взял такси, я бы не приехал вовремя

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    I wouldn’t have gotten (t)here on time if I hadn’t taken a cab.

    Перевод добавил ⁌ ULY ⁍
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    had I not taken a taxi, I wouldn't have arrived on time

    Перевод добавил grumbler
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⁌ ULY ⁍добавил комментарий 5 years ago

Grumbler, COME is the whole trip. This is about the end of the trip. You wouldn’t have ARRIVED or GOTTEN HERE ON TIME.

grumblerдобавил комментарий 5 years ago

Can you elaborate on "whole trip"?
Also, my understanding is that "IN time" means not late, while "ON time" means rather "exactly". Am I wrong?

⁌ ULY ⁍добавил комментарий 5 years ago

IN TIME means that you arrive early enough so as to not miss something, and we usually use it with the complement FOR: “Despite the rain and traffic, I arrived (just) in time FOR my daughter’s piano recital.” (= I didn’t miss it). ON TIME means to arrive at an hour previously designated or scheduled and can be used with NO complement: “You’re scheduled to work at 8am tomorrow. You need to call in if it looks like you won’t be arriving on time because of traffic or inclement weather.”

⁌ ULY ⁍добавил комментарий 5 years ago

COME as a whole trip includes leaving one place, traveling along a trajectory and arriving at another place. In the context of this post, we’re referring to the final part of the trip - the arrival. In this context we would use “wouldn’t have ARRIVED -or- GOTTEN (T)HERE -or- MADE IT (T)HERE on time. Here’s an example of all these points in one snippet: “I’m so glad I CAME to your surprise birthday party yesterday. We were all supposed to be there by 7 and I had to take a cab, so I didn’t know if I’d be ON TIME. But I had a great driver, so I MADE IT there IN TIME FOR the actual ‘surprise!’ when you walked in.”

grumblerдобавил комментарий 5 years ago

OK, thank you

grumblerдобавил комментарий 5 years ago

Add other variants yourself if you wish

⁌ ULY ⁍добавил комментарий 5 years ago

One more little but important thing - you need a comma in your sentence 😉

grumblerдобавил комментарий 5 years ago

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