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English to Slovak: Slovak to English- fiction-Jilemnicky Peter
Source text - English Dobre ešte, že Maťo ničoho nevedel o týchto hrôzach. Veci, ktoré poznáme iba z predstavy, nijako nám nevedia podlomiť sily.. Keby našiel sám v troskách dve zapáchajúce škvarky, príliš pripomínajúce spálené telá jeho otca a strýka, poznal by malichernosť ľudského pľachočenia a vzdal by sa na veky nesmyselného zápasu na tomto kameni. Keby bol malým Ondrom, sklonil by hlavu a nikdy by v ňom neskrsla myšlienka a túžba.
Tiahol by smolu života ani nohy z hnusného blata. A keby bol mamkou, boriacou sa z cudzích ťažkých perín k zradnému životu, vedel by sa iba modliť modlitbami, ktoré patria komusi neznámemu a žiadajú čosi nepovedomého a nejasného, čomu nikto nerozumie.
A keby bol býval Maťo doma, zažil by druhý pád, ktorý by ho dokonale dokrvavil a srazil.
Ale Maťo v tom čase, keď chalupa otcovská horela, sám ležal na rozhraní dvoch svetov. Jeho túžba po smrti bojovala s túžbou po živote, lebo tela samo tomu chcelo. A práve vtedy pochopil, že život je viac ako dýchanie jednoho človeka, pochopil, že nad jeho smrťou sa nikto nepozastaví a život pobeží ďalej, radujúc sa zo straty slabého bojovníka. K tomuto boju treba len silných rúk a tvrdých hláv, chamraď nech sa zatopí vlastnou krvou na ceste k víťazstvu.
Translation - Slovak Well enough that Maťo did not know anything about these terrible things. Things which we know only from the imagination cannot undermine our powers in any way. If he himself had find the two stinking frazzled corpses in the ruins, all reminiscent of the burnt bodies of his father and uncle, he would have realized the peltiness of human drudgery and given up the futile struggle on this rock for ever. If he were little Ondro, he would have bowed his head and thought and desire would never spark up in him. He would drag out the bad luck of life a footfrom disgusting mud. And if he were a mother, fighting her way out of strange, heavy blankets towards malendent life, he could only have to offer up prayers which are due to someone unknown and ask for something untold and uncertain, something that noone understands.
If Maťo had been at home, he would have experieced a second fall, which would have throughly blooded him down.
But at that time, when Maťo´s father´s house was on fire, he lay at the edge of two worlds alone. His longing for death fought with the desire for life, because body itself wanted it. And at that moment he realized taht life was more than the breathing of one man, he understood that no one would take any notice of his death and life would go on, vejacing at lost of a weak fighter. And all that was necessary for this fight was strong hands and hard heads, let the riff-raff rabble drown in its own blood on the path victory
English to Slovak: Czech to English- prose
Source text - English Inženýr Michovský ku podivu vše dosti jasně tušil, ale zdále se, jako by se bál otázky, která by mu na zdraví nepřidala. Počal totiž churavěti, stával se zapomětlivým a ještě víc pobožným. Na člověka zdravého pusobil dojmem, jaký máme, když mluvíme s lidmi, jichž myšlenkový řetěz má vadné, přetrhané články a jichž mozek jakoby koktal vinou nemocné míchy.
Místo, aby ženu hlídal, jako to činil dříve, stranil sej í nyní spíše, jako by ji nenáviděl a jakoby se jí bál. Činil tak zejména ode dne, kdy Hedvíka při jeho modlitbě pozamenala: „O co tě připravily holčičky, to již ani ten tam nahoře nemuže napravit.“
Paní Michovská byla nyní takřka volnou, ale volnosti již jí nebylo třeba. Vše naopak utvářelo sa tak, jakoby bylo výsměchem všem bývalým tužbám ubohé paní, která by nyní mohla být tak šťastnou, jak si kdysi přála. Vše přišlo cynicky pozdě. I smrt Michovského. Nezáleželo by konečne na tom, žil-li nyní muž Hedviky. Pro ni již nemohl být překážkou. Michovský měl dokonce osud šťaštnější své ovdovělé choti. Zemřel velmi podivným zpusobem, a to bylo konečně pro člověka, který počal trpěti paralysou, milosrdným osudem.
Translation - Slovak Mr. Michovský had a pretty clear idea of how things stood, but he seemed to be afraid of the question which would do nothing for his health. He was now a sick man, he was becoming forgetfull and even more religious. A healthy man would have the kind of impression that we get when talking to people the chain of whose thoughts has some defective, broken links and whose brain seems to stutter because of a bone-narrow infection.
Instead of keeping an eye on his wife, as he used to, now he was tended to avoid her asi f he hated and feared her. He had been doing so especially since Hedvika remarked while he was at prayer: „ What you have lost because of your womenising not even the good Lord above can put right.“
Mrs Michovská was almost free now, but she longer needed to be. On the contrary, everything was taking shape as if to be a mockery of all the poor lady´s previous longings, who could be as happy now as she had once wished. It had all arrived too late. Even Michovsky´s death. Ultimately it did not mater whether her husband was alive or not. He could not be an obstacle to her anymore. His fate was perhaps luckier than that of widow. He died in a very strange way and in the end, for a man who had begun to suffer with paralysis, it was a mercy.
English to Slovak: English to Slovak-book review-The Telegraph
Source text - English The Devil´s doctor: Paracelsus and the world of renaissance magic and science
....His insistence on the importance of hand-dirtying experience was bound to cause eyebrowns to be raised in the disinfected halls of academia. Engulfed by monomanical systems of learning, his contradictions seem absolutely necessary: a pacifist drawn to war, who learned about surgical techniques in field hospitals / gruesomely, and very effectively, imagined herein /, an astrologer who believed that man´s destiny could only be found in the body´s fluids and meat. „ Let no man belong to another who can belong to himself“, he said, conjuring babies from a mixture of horeshit and sperm and thumbing his nose at the „piss-gazers“.
...Compelling and intriguing stuff. And there´s more: Paracelsus was a proselytizer for laudanum, which he kept in the pommel of the broadsword he was often depicted as brandishing / and which, mysteriously, vanished from among his relics /. But, Ball asks, what exactly was this „laudanum“? Not simply a tincture of opium in alcohol suspension, this particular substance was said to reanimate the dead, and Paracelsus himself never specifically referred to i tas having anything to do with poppies.
... Ball´s entrhusiasm can, at times, entice him into unconvincing arguments and a rhetorical tenuity: as when he asks „ isn´t there something Faustian about the entire enterprise of printing?“ to which the quick answer is „ well, erm, no“. But this is counterbalanced by the odd poetical flourish: theological thunderbolts coarsely wrought and thrown with venom, for example.
Translation - Slovak Diablov doktor: Paracelsus a svet renesančnej mágie a vedy
...Jeho naliehanie na dôležitosť skúsenosti, pri ktorej si človek aj ruky špiní nemohlo nevyvolať mieru pohoršenia v klinicky čistých sieňach akadémie. Zovretý v rozmerných vedeckých systémoch, zdá sa, že rozpory sú uňho absolútne nevyhnutné: pacifista vtlačený do vojny, kde sa zoznámil s chirurgickými technikami v poľných nemocniciach / v recenzovanej knihe sa to podáva bez obalu/, astrológ, ktorý veril, že osud sa dá zistiť iba z telesných štiav a mäsa „ nech nikam nepatrí žiadny človek, ktorý môže patriť sám sebe“, povedal, chtiac bábätká vykúzliť zo zmesi konského lajna a spermatu a pritom si robil žarty k tých, ktorí „zízali do moči“.
...Strhujúce a čítanie plné napätia. A je toho ešte viacej: Paracelsus propagoval laudam, ktorý mal vo vrecúšku meča, ktorým sa oháňa na väčšine vyobrazení a ktorý sa záhadne stratil spomedzi jeho pozostalosti. Ale, Ball sa táza, čo to vlastne bolo to „laudanum“? To nebola iba tinktúra z ópia rozpusteného v alkohole, povrávalo sa, že táto látka oživuje mŕtvych a sám Paracelsus nikdy nepovedal konkrétne, že by malo niečo spoločné s makom.
.... Z času na čas Ballovove nadšenie ho prizvádza do nedôveryhodnej argumentácie rétorickej plytkosti: ako keď sa spýtal „ nie je niečo Faustovské na celej tej veci kníhtlačiarenstva?, na čo môžeme hneď odpovedať : Azda žartujete!“ Ale toto je vyvážené občasnými poetickými výletmi ako napríklad: „teologické blesky nahrubo ukuté a hádzané s patričnou jedovatosťou.“
English to Slovak (University College London) Slovak to Czech (UCL-SSEES) Czech to Slovak (native in Czech and Slovak) Czech to Slovak (native in Czech and Slovak)
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• Interpreting various business meetings and presentations for the municipality of town Skalica
• Translation of leaflets, brochures, newspaper articles, web sites, internal documents and itineraries of historical monuments and other sighseeings of town Skalica
• Translation of project proposals to gain EU grants
• Interpreting International Minibikes competition
• Interpreting presentations and speeches at International meeting of Sokol /The Falcon/ Union
• Interpreting viticultural meetings, presentations and tours
• Interpreting business meetings for printing company
• Interpreting at tourism and traveling exhibitions
• Translation of car accessories manuals
• Translation of promotional materials and business correspondence for company trading with industrial textile bags
• Translation of promotional materials and business correspondence, machine and instruments manuals, interpreting at exhibitions for company trading with gold, silver, diamonds and precious stones.
• In-house translator for company producing industrial and logistics constructions, metallurgical materials and building. Translation of business corespondence, internal documents, manuals for production and welding machines, promotional materials, logistics and environmental reports. Also interpreting at various business meetings, company presentations and internal audits.
• Translation of english class-books
Keywords: translations of: mainly engineering, building/constructions/welding, gems, also general business, viticulture, social science, history and education
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