Apr 23, 2009 05:49
15 yrs ago
Russian term
малоприспособленные для жизни места
Russian to English
Art/Literary
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting
Потом все, кто находился на оккупированной территории, оказались в советских концлагерях или, в лучшем случае, выселены в малоприспособленные для жизни места Сибири, Казахстана
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5 mins
Mark Berelekhis
United States
United States
Native in Russian
&
English
United States
Exemplary quality, truly bilingual
Native in: Russian 
, English
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian, English
Related KudoZ points
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87
Selected
inhospitable territories of Siberia and Kazakhstan
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
12 mins
stasbetman
Ukraine
Ukraine
Native in Russian
Ukraine
Native in: Russian 
, Ukrainian
Works in: English to Russian, German to Russian, Russian to English, and 11 more.
Related KudoZ points
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8
poorly suited for life territories of
/places/areas ... of
http://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&client=opera&rls=ru&q="po...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&client=opera&rls=ru&q="po...
Peer comment(s):
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Mark Berelekhis
: Of all 20 hits, most are about fauna, not land. Plus, why use 4 words when you can use 1?
3 mins
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Jim Tucker (X)
: impossible word order; would have to be "the territories of...,poorly suited for life.... - but then it gets wordy. Also as Mark implies, if it's human life, then probably "living"; otherwise life is understood more generally.
48 mins
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Alexandra Taggart
: "poorly suited" - bad for health.May be they are, but the word is about "hardship" of living there.
12 hrs
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2 hrs
Victor Zagria
Native in Russian
Native in: Ukrainian , Russian
Works in: English to Ukrainian, English to Russian, Russian to English, and 4 more.
in places hardly suited for DWELLING, like Siberia, ...
Not too wordy?
Peer comment(s):
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Jim Tucker (X)
: This verb is too specific - to dwell is to inhabit a house, cave, etc., except of course in the Bible, there it is more general. You could however say "places unsuited for habitation."
1 hr
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1 : to remain for a time and be a permanent resident -thats Merriam Webster on Line. But i think u convey meaning more concisely. U sound as natural as native speaker coz u are? :-)
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Alexandra Taggart
: I read it as "badly built houses"
10 hrs
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U know i'm quite fellow-minded with Jim in rgrds HABITATION vs dwelling.. u know people (enemies of state) had been ordered to build up retreats in totally uninhabited areas...No hint at any dwelling places in the original..
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7 hrs
"practically uninhabitable" or "....places that are all but uninhabitable"
"Uninhabitable" = "not fit to live in" or "not fit for life" ("all but" = "practically" and sounds better than "almost")
You might also consider the word "inhospitable" which, when speaking of a place, means "not offering shelter" or "barren".
You might also consider the word "inhospitable" which, when speaking of a place, means "not offering shelter" or "barren".
Peer comment(s):
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Alexandra Taggart
1 hr
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Thank you!
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Victor Zagria
: Metaphorically 'inhospitable' tends to be classified as expression of h u m a n modality not natural phenomena (geographical area). Anyway, errara humanum est...
19 hrs
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Thank you!
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1 day 11 hrs
Viacheslav Tibilashvili
Native in Russian
Works in field
Even If No Words Are Spoken...
Native in: Russian
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian
Related KudoZ points
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4
barely habitable regions/areas
Many of the camps were set up to exploit resources in barely habitable regions of Russia's far north, where inmates labored outdoors even at 30 or more ...
frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11282 - 93k
Among those changes: some temperate areas, such as the Mediterranean basin, will become drought-ridden, barely habitable regions in the summer. ...
www.rferl.org/content/Article/1074430.html
the barely habitable regions of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. Historical sources from Africa go back less far but even so, are sufficient to record 14 ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1046/j.1467-3010.2001.00100.x
frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11282 - 93k
Among those changes: some temperate areas, such as the Mediterranean basin, will become drought-ridden, barely habitable regions in the summer. ...
www.rferl.org/content/Article/1074430.html
the barely habitable regions of the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. Historical sources from Africa go back less far but even so, are sufficient to record 14 ...
doi.wiley.com/10.1046/j.1467-3010.2001.00100.x
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