> [SEELANGS] Russian expression

[Edyta Mazur]

And maybe it was so dark that thay couldnt even put any food to their mouth

2008/3/16, Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>:
>
> 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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