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где ещё не потрудились лесорубы

English translation: where the loggers haven't set foot yet

03:27 Jul 17, 2012
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Russian term or phrase: где ещё не потрудились лесорубы
Конечно, можно найти ещё достаточно девственные уголки, где нет накатанных дорог, где ещё не потрудились лесорубы и где даже самым тихим утром вы не услышите звуков надвигающейся цивилизации.

(Речь идет о Сибири.)
Andrew Vdovin
Local time: 15:30
English translation:where the loggers haven't set foot yet
Explanation:
Вариант.
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Anastassia Tapsieva
United States
Local time: 03:30
Grading comment
Thanks everybody!!!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3where the loggers haven't set foot yet
Anastassia Tapsieva
3 +1where woodcutters have not yet trod
Sam Pinson
4[areas] that haven't been worked over by loggers yet
AxmxZ
3Woulda pristine forest/a forest untouched by the hand of man
Evgenia Windstein
3where a logger hasn't set his foot
Vaddy Peters


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
where woodcutters have not yet trod


Explanation:
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Sam Pinson
United States
Local time: 02:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Leonid K.U.
3 hrs
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
where the loggers haven't set foot yet


Explanation:
Вариант.

Anastassia Tapsieva
United States
Local time: 03:30
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks everybody!!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AndreyMelbourne: только без the
33 mins
  -> point taken :)
agree  Ian Mansbridge: although I would phrase it 'where loggers have yet to set foot'
3 hrs
agree  Michael Korovkin: lumberjacks (an' dadd's rheet: widdoud "de" :))))
3 hrs
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
[areas] that haven't been worked over by loggers yet


Explanation:
"[The bayou's southern third], too, got worked over by loggers and oil miners, and for years developers looked for ways to drain the region."

http://books.google.com/books?id=SaqcYVc7XQoC&pg=PA125&lpg=P...

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AxmxZ
Local time: 04:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Woulda pristine forest/a forest untouched by the hand of man


Explanation:
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Note added at 10 mins (2012-07-17 03:38:38 GMT)
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I mean "a pristine forest"

Evgenia Windstein
Russian Federation
Local time: 11:30
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 8
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
where a logger hasn't set his foot


Explanation:
.

Vaddy Peters
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Susan Welsh: No "his." "Set foot" is an idiom. You could say "where no lo logger has set foot."
3 hrs
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