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работать впустую

English translation: work in vain

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Russian term or phrase:работать впустую
English translation:work in vain
Entered by: Varvara Ramodina

17:44 Jan 19, 2003
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Russian term or phrase: работать впустую
не хотите работать впустую - сохраняйте важную информацию.
Varvara Ramodina
Russian Federation
Local time: 10:27
to work in vain
Explanation:
Save important information if you don't want to work in vain.
Selected response from:

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:27
Grading comment
Thank you. A short phrase was the most helpful.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +5to work in vain
Jack Doughty
4 +1Save any important info if you dodn't want to work for nothing
Mark Vaintroub
4 +1If you do not want your time (your work time, your work, your efforts) wasted, save ...
protolmach
4 +1save important information if you don't want to lose your work
David Knowles
2 +3... if you don't want to do the same work twice
Konstantin Garnov
4to work for nothing/ to waste your time
Oleg Pashuk (X)


  

Answers


2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Save any important info if you dodn't want to work for nothing


Explanation:
IMHO

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Note added at 2003-01-19 17:47:30 (GMT)
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Sorr - DON\'T

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Note added at 2003-01-19 17:47:50 (GMT)
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Sorry - SORRY... :-)))

Mark Vaintroub
Canada
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 679

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Igor Kreknin
16 mins
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
to work in vain


Explanation:
Save important information if you don't want to work in vain.

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:27
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 14525
Grading comment
Thank you. A short phrase was the most helpful.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Igor Kreknin: 'to no purpose', etc., but IMHO 'for nothing' is the most popular one :(
5 mins
  -> "To work for no purpose" would be OK but no better. "To work for nothing" suggests to me the meaning "to work for no financial reward", which is not the meaning here.
agree  alszeg
18 mins
agree  Larissa Boutrimova: I like 'work in vain' better. IMO, 'work for nothing' means 'работать бесплатно, даром'
20 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Yuri Geifman
42 mins
agree  Vladimir Dubisskiy: here 'in vain'
55 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Mark Vaintroub
58 mins
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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
If you do not want your time (your work time, your work, your efforts) wasted, save ...


Explanation:
Еще один возможный вариант.
И.

protolmach
United States
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 59

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Larissa Boutrimova: Неплохой вариант
18 mins
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
save important information if you don't want to lose your work


Explanation:
..

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Note added at 2003-01-19 18:12:00 (GMT)
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maybe better the other way round: if you don\'t want to lose your work, save important information [regularly].

David Knowles
Local time: 08:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 5172

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Larissa Boutrimova: Also possible
12 mins
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +3
... if you don't want to do the same work twice


Explanation:
И еще один вариант

Konstantin Garnov
United States
Local time: 03:27
Native speaker of: Russian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Knowles: that has quite a good ring to it!
1 min
  -> thank you. We both tried to use the same approach...
agree  Yuri Geifman
31 mins
agree  Igor Kreknin: убедительно :) Работать впустую - ещё ладно, но вот делать ту же работу 2 раза, задумаешься... :)
31 mins
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39 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to work for nothing/ to waste your time


Explanation:
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Note added at 2003-01-19 18:26:57 (GMT)
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Back-up your important information, if you don\'t want to work for nothing/to waste your time.

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Note added at 2003-01-19 18:54:47 (GMT)
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Sorry Mark, somehow I overlooked your answer:(

Oleg Pashuk (X)
PRO pts in pair: 619
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