Oct 9, 2004 14:52
19 yrs ago
Russian term
United Kingdom
Dva kuba geroina dlia tebia, kogda ty poshla v 21 god? Tol'ko chto.
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use of illicit drugs
Interview with a drug user.
The drug user started injecting when she was 21. She has just told the interviewer that she injects 2 'cubes' of heroin a time.
The respondent is surprised:
Dva kuba geroina dlia tebia, kogda ty poshla v 21 god? Tol'ko chto.
What does 'poshla v 21 god' mean? When you started at 21?
And I don't know what "Tol'ko chto." means here.
The drug user started injecting when she was 21. She has just told the interviewer that she injects 2 'cubes' of heroin a time.
The respondent is surprised:
Dva kuba geroina dlia tebia, kogda ty poshla v 21 god? Tol'ko chto.
What does 'poshla v 21 god' mean? When you started at 21?
And I don't know what "Tol'ko chto." means here.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | see. below |
Dmytro Voskolovych
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| 4 | Two cubes of heroin (just) since you turned 21. Just recently? |
Dorene Cornwell
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Proposed translations
+3
12 mins
Dmytro Voskolovych
Native in Russian
I worship professionalism
Native in: Russian 
, Ukrainian
Works in: English to Russian, German to Russian, English to Ukrainian, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
11
Selected
see. below
yes by saying 'poshla v 21 god' he wants to say started injecting herself at 21. "Tol'ko chto." - it's a kind of surprise exclamation. It could be interpreted in this case as "recently" "not a long time ago".
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks to both. I think either is possible, and you both agree that 'tol'ko chto' refers to how recent it's been. I'm going with Dmytro's suggestion because I don't know that she started injecting when she TURNED 21, just that she WAS 21."
15 hrs
Dorene Cornwell
Native in English
Works in field
Thorough, sensitive, and idiomatic
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, Spanish to English, English, and 2 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
24
Two cubes of heroin (just) since you turned 21. Just recently?
Two cubes of heroin just since you turned 21. Just recently?
Sounds to me like he is surprised she is shooting that much if she just recently started shooting up, like she would not have built up a tolerance for that much that quickly unless she had already been doing heroin or something else for awhile.
Sounds to me like he is surprised she is shooting that much if she just recently started shooting up, like she would not have built up a tolerance for that much that quickly unless she had already been doing heroin or something else for awhile.
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