from TEffi's story "I vremeni ne stalo": "=D0=9E=2C_=D0=B4=D0=B0._=D0=A1=D0=BD=D1=8B_=E2=80=94_=D1=8D=D1=82=D0=BE_=D1=82=D0=B0_=D0=B6=D0=B5_=D0=B6=D0=B8=D0=B7=D0=BD ь."

[Lina Bernstein]

Hello,

This part in your translation—"yet I don’t remember it" —is not quite what the Russian says— "не все же удержала в памяти." The narrator's memory could not retain some experiences; she did not forget all; just did not remember some of it. ("it" is problematic too, of course.)

LB


On Jul 6, 2013, at 8:01 AM, Robert Chandler wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> The less letters there are in a word, the more unsure of myself I often feel.
> 
>     — Вы большое значение придавали снам, — сказал охотник. 
>      — О, да. Сны — это та же жизнь. Вот я видела и пережила много красивого, чудесного, замечательного и не все же удержала в памяти, и не все вошло необходимым слагаемым в душу, как два-три сна, без которых я была бы не та.
> 
> What does this та же mean?  The context seems to imply smething like "our true life"
> 
> Dreams are our true life.  I’ve seen and experienced much that is beautiful, wonderful and remarkable - and yet I don’t remember it and it hasn't become an essential part of my soul the way two or three dreams have – without those dreams I wouldn’t be the person I am.
> 
> Or is it more like "Dreams, too, are our life"?
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Robert
> 
> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
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