Pride and Prejudice opening sentence in Russian

[David Powelstock]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Terry Moran <t.moran at new.oxon.org> wrote:

> ​​
> обязательно


​I agree that ​an expression using
​
обязательно will better capture the sense of the original. But to my
ear, нуждаeтся в жене signals the irony more effectively than нужна жена.

Cheers,
David P.


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David Powelstock
Assoc. Prof. of Russian and Comparative Literature
Director, Master of Arts in Comparative Humanities
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA 02453

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