Can anyone give me a hand with a xlation?

[Randolph J. Herber]

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|Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 06:04:17 +0000 (GMT)
|From: Georges Adassovsky <gadassov at optpf.rain.fr>
|Subject: Re: Can anyone give me a hand with a xlation?

|Answer to  Daniel Michael Hendrick:

|>I am currently translating a short story by Gazdanov written in the 20s.
        ...

|>1) Speaking of two artists, a character says that "by comparison with
|>Repin... he is just (brevno)."  A log just doesn't seem to fit here.

I suggest ``he is just a bump on a log'' as a close English idiom.

|Brevno, dubina...In French the same image of mass of wood is possible (une
|buche). I suppose in English "lump" may be convenient.By comparison with
|Repin, he's no more that a lump.

        ...

|Georges,
|Tahiti.

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