в ночь со среды на четверг

English translation: Wednesday night

14:02 Jul 4, 2003
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary
Russian term or phrase: в ночь со среды на четверг
Вот такой простой вопрос...
Alexander Alexandrov
Russian Federation
Local time: 05:28
English translation:Wednesday night
Explanation:
That's the simplest.

There's a famous book from the 1960s called Saturday night and Sunday morning, so you could use that.

I'm not keen on these Wed/Thu night variants - they look clumsy and confusing.

If you really need to mention Thursday, you could say "Wednesday night and into Thursday morning", but in general parlance Wednesday night lasts until dawn on Thursday.
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David Knowles
Local time: 03:28
Grading comment
Convincing. Thank you!
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Summary of answers provided
5 +9(during / on / through) the night from Wednesday to Thursday
Elena Ivaniushina
4 +9Wednesday night
David Knowles
5 +2overnight from Wednesday to Thursday
Alexander Demyanov
3 +1Wednesday/Thirsday night
Kirill Semenov
4on the night from Wednesday to Thursday
Alexey Kochevsky


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Wednesday/Thirsday night


Explanation:
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Еще через тире или дефис нашел примеры.

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~ipswich/Observations/Leonids 1998/...

... Unfortunately, most of the people in Ipswich seem to have looked out only briefly on Monday/Tuesday night because they were expecting the peak on Tuesday ...

http://www.livejournal.com/users/amuzulo/15483.html

Time Change

Europe is always the last saturday/sunday-night in March and the US is always the first saturday/sunday-night in April.



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В принципе, примеров много, особенно если перебрать все пары соседних дней недели.

Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Local time: 05:28
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 3318

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elena Ivaniushina: в зависимости от контектста и целевой аудитории. Для сухого и краткого изложения подойдет этот вариант
13 mins
  -> да, вариантов много, наверное, но как один...
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
overnight from Wednesday to Thursday


Explanation:
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Alexander Demyanov
Local time: 22:28
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 1972

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elena Ivaniushina: опять же, в зависимости от контекста
8 mins

agree  Сергей Лузан: Very likely.
17 hrs
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
(during / on / through) the night from Wednesday to Thursday


Explanation:
Вот прямо так. Дефис-тире и slash в художественном тексте вряд ли пригодятся :))

Очень много ссылок на эту конструкцию, особенно для "в ночь с пятницы на субботу" (начало выходных все-таки...)



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Конкретный предлог, естественно, будет зависеть от контекста

Elena Ivaniushina
Russian Federation
Local time: 05:28
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in pair: 398

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alexey Kochevsky
6 mins
  -> спасибо

agree  Kirill Semenov
14 mins
  -> спасибо

agree  JoeYeckley (X): or conversationally "...from Wednesday into Thursday"
27 mins
  -> спасибо

agree  huntr
33 mins
  -> спасибо

agree  Oleg Pashuk (X)
1 hr
  -> спасибо

agree  Irene Chernenko: on the night of
6 hrs
  -> спасибо

agree  Mark Vaintroub
10 hrs

agree  nrabate
13 hrs

agree  Сергей Лузан: Конкретный предлог, естественно, будет зависеть от контекста ...
17 hrs
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
on the night from Wednesday to Thursday


Explanation:
Т.о., я думаю, "дословный" перевод здесь уместен.

Alexey Kochevsky
Ukraine
Local time: 05:28
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in pair: 27
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
Wednesday night


Explanation:
That's the simplest.

There's a famous book from the 1960s called Saturday night and Sunday morning, so you could use that.

I'm not keen on these Wed/Thu night variants - they look clumsy and confusing.

If you really need to mention Thursday, you could say "Wednesday night and into Thursday morning", but in general parlance Wednesday night lasts until dawn on Thursday.

David Knowles
Local time: 03:28
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 5172
Grading comment
Convincing. Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Elena Ivaniushina: difficult to argue with a native English speaker
12 mins

agree  huntr
23 mins

agree  Vladimir Lioukaikine (X): night n. 1 period of darkness between one day and the next; time from sunset to sunrise. (POD)
41 mins

agree  uFO
43 mins

agree  Jack Doughty
59 mins

agree  Oleg Pashuk (X)
1 hr

agree  Khulan S.
1 hr

agree  John Sowerby
4 hrs

neutral  Jack slep: Wednesday night doesn't necessarily imply overnight into Thursday. Dinner/supper Wed. night doesn't mean/imply Thurs. breakfast!
5 hrs

agree  temmy
8 hrs
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