> [SEELANGS] Russian expression

[Robert Chandler]

It's highly unlikely that hungry soldiers would have refused food simply
because it was poor quality.  Really we need a lot more context to make
sense of this.

R.




> My guess is there could be two explanations: either the quality of the meals
> was bad -- cold, vapid, hard, etc., or the soldiers were so tired after a
> battle, march, etc., that they were unable to wake up and eat anything.
>  
> I would translate this sentence so:
> 
> "Since sll this [the food] was delivered in the night / at night, the soldiers
> couldn't eat the porridge if they tried."
> 
> Ashot Vardanyan,
> University of Iowa
>  
> 03/15 23:45 Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at ALASKA.NET> wrote:
>> Can anyone assist me with translating the following phrase, which describes
>> conditions at the front during WWII:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> ‰œ”‘¡◊×Å ‹‘œ ◊”£ Œœfiÿ¿, ‘¡À fi‘œ À¡€¡ … ◊ “œ‘ Œ≈ Ã≈⁄á.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> He's saying the food was delivered at night, so did the kasha not
>> even make
>> it into the soldiers' mouths, and if not, what is he implying,
>> perhaps it
>> was bad by the time they woke up, or does he mean they gulped the
>> kasha down
>> quickly, or something else?
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Sarah Hurst
>> 
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