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Russian to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - International Org/Dev/Coop
Russian term or phrase:сложносоставной
Перевожу с русского на английский:
"...тем более сложная, что в течении значительной части времени социально-политические и экономические преобразования в разных частях огромной и сложносоставной страны шли по-своему."
Я понимаю смысл, но нигде не могу найти подходящий перевод слова "сложносоставной". Думал, "highly variegated" (но слишком касается растений), "heterogeneous" (недостаточно сильное, по моему, и я уже употребил в другом контексте)... Есть идеи?
Thanks! I think of the ones I've seen so far, 'multifacted' best covers the intended meaning while fitting withing the grammatical structure of the original sentence ("with a complex structure" is a good way to translate the word, but would be extremely 4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
Actually, in retrospect, I think heterogeneous might indeed be the best as well, despite the fact that I asked for something else (this was largely because the author of the text I'm translating also used "неоднородный" and similar terms in the preceding sentences, and there are only so many "heterogeneouses" that I can use in a row :-) The only other one that might work here is "multifaceted" since it is the closest term that maintains similar breadth of meaning/ambiguity (some of the others like "multiethnic" are definitely too narrow). But even so, calling a country "multifaceted" is also a bit of a mix of terms.
Anyhow, please go ahead and post it and vote on heterogeneous--I've kept the voting open, and I do think it works well. Apologies for keeping it out in the first place, and thanks for your suggestions!
Поддерживаю heterogeneous:
"a heterogeneous country is very diverse, not similar, like the population of the US. a homogeneous country is not diverse and their population have similar roots, language, etc, for example, Japan is the most homogeneous counties." (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_h...
Judith Hehir, запостите ответ, я тоже проголосую.
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