commercial

Russian translation: западный мир был слишком корыстным (собственническим)

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English term or phrase:	commercial
Russian translation:	западный мир был слишком корыстным (собственническим)

23:43 Jun 29, 2004

English to Russian translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / contextual adjective

English term or phrase: commercial

Dostoevsky was a deeply religious man and politically a strong conservative Slavophile. For a short time, he became editor of the archconservative magazine The Citizen and later a regular contributor. He waged war against the liberals and the revolutionaries, who repaid him by calling his work “corruption” and “lunacy”. For Dostoevsky, Western society was too materialistic and commercial; instead he felt the values of the simple Russian people – meekness, compassion and acceptance of the will of God – were that society should emulate.
During their parallel careers, as Tolstoy was writing about the world of the country gentry (is it “мелкопоместное дворянство”?; it is just my tentative translation), a class and a way of life which were gradually disappearing, Dostoevsky was creating the anti-heroes who haunted the dark streets of misty St. Petersburg. Yet, although they were very different – Tolstoy the champion of nature and man, the brilliant recorder of reality in its most precise detail, and Dostoevsky the relentless explorer of men’s souls – they were joined in their belief that in the Russian people lay the virtues that could illuminate the world.

Roman

западный мир был слишком корыстным (собственническим)

Explanation:
миром чистогана

Достоевский глубоко ненавидел буржуазный, ___собственнический мир, мир "мещанина во фраке", мир посредственности, корысти и чистогана.____ И он страстно искал для России и человечества возможности развития по иному, небуржуазному пути. Достоевский был уверен, как и его современник А.И. Герцен, что Россия не примет буржуазный порядок как порядок высший и окончательный, что она сможет указать человечеству путь, ведущий к более чистому, справедливому и высокому общественному строю, чем буржуазный строй, утвердившийся на Западе после Великой французской революции ХУ111 века
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martsina
Israel
Local time: 22:04

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западный мир был слишком корыстным (собственническим)

martsina

...слишком меркантильным

ilbe

имеющий целью извлечение прибыли

Maya Gorgoshidze

Answers

12 hrs confidence:

имеющий целью извлечение прибыли

Explanation:
commercial - торговый, коммерческий; имеющий целью извлечение прибыли

Maya Gorgoshidze
Georgia
Local time: 23:04
Native speaker of:

Georgian

12 hrs confidence:

западный мир был слишком корыстным (собственническим)

martsina
Israel
Local time: 22:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Russian

17 hrs confidence:

...слишком меркантильным

Explanation:
я бы так перевела оба слова

ilbe
Local time: 22:04
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Latvian
PRO pts in category: 6

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