Jul 3, 2004 13:12
19 yrs ago
Russian term

Dvoikh, kazhis', prishil...

Non-PRO Russian to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
novel circa 1900

A drunk man who has just been in a fight:

"A ya, guliaiu...I budu guliat! Tol'ko ya po-umnomu. Dvoikh, kazhis', prishil...Nu i menia vlepili. Edva tek..."

Proposed translations

+2
3 mins
Selected

I think I've killed two guys...

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Note added at 3 mins (2004-07-03 13:16:39 GMT)
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Looks like I\'ve killed two guys.
Peer comment(s):

agree Yuri Smirnov
0 min
agree Alexandra Tussing
9 hrs
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+1
9 mins

It seems to me that I put across two of them...

I dropped most likely two of them (at once)...

:O
Peer comment(s):

agree Aleksandr Okunev (X)
58 mins
Thanks, Aleksandr.
neutral danya : adv) to communicate in a comprehensible way: he couldn't put things across very wellput one across. Informal. to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc., by deception: they put one across their teacher FROM COLLINS DICTIONARY
1 hr
Thanks, danya.
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3 hrs

I made two of them

meaning killed
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15 hrs

....i got two of them...

..."I think I beat the crap out of two of them!"...
..."I beat the hell out of those two guys!"

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Note added at 15 hrs 20 mins (2004-07-04 04:32:56 GMT)
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...\"I messed two of them up\"...

\"I beat the f@#% out of them\"
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