Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
житель блокадного Ленинграда
English translation:
Resident of Leningrad during the Blockade
Added to glossary by
Olga D.
Jun 30, 2010 23:59
13 yrs ago
Russian term
житель блокадного Ленинграда
Russian to English
Social Sciences
History
Устоявшееся выражение, например, в словосочетинии
- почетный знак "Жителю блокадного Ленинграда"
У меня контекст следующий:
В рамках мероприятий город посетили жители блокадного Ленинграда
Мультитран дает Resident of Blockaded Leningrad, но это уверенности не вселяет...
Спасибо заранее!
- почетный знак "Жителю блокадного Ленинграда"
У меня контекст следующий:
В рамках мероприятий город посетили жители блокадного Ленинграда
Мультитран дает Resident of Blockaded Leningrad, но это уверенности не вселяет...
Спасибо заранее!
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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Rachel Douglas
United States
United States
Native in English
Works in field
United States
Excellent English from Russian originals
Native in: English (Variants: British, Australian, US)
Works in: Russian to English
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Resident of Leningrad during the Blockade
In a descriptive passage, I would write "survivor of the Leningrad blockade," but as a title the literal translation seems suitable. "Blockaded Leningrad" is shorter, but doesn't sound right.
Note from asker:
| Thank you again, Rachel! |
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Jack Doughty
: Yes, I understood that. I agree with you on both usages.
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Thanks, Jack. Just to be clear: I think "resident" is good for the name of the medal, but would use "survivor" (as I wrote) in plain text.
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engltrans
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Thank you.T
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Yuliya UA
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Thanks, Yuliya.
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Dylan Edwards
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Thanks, Dylan.
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Maria Fokin
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Thanks, Maria.
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survivor of the Leningrad blockade
I prefer "survivor" to "resident" because it's a more emotionally loaded and therefore descriptive word.
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Eric Candle
: resident
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Jack slep
: Did he/she survive or was merely there at the time of the blockade? I remember that time, and there weren't many survivors....
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Andrei Mazurin
: Leningrad siege survivor
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Viktor Yatsenko
: Everyone who was there survived horrible 900 days of the blockade.
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Alexandra Taggart
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blockadnik
with an explanation in the text or a footnote, e.g. he had been a ... during the 900-day siege of Leningrad by the Nazis during WWII and survived — http://therubicon.org/2006/08/greed/
http://goo.gl/25aQ
http://goo.gl/25aQ
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inhabitant of Leningrad under siege
just one more variant, more general
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Michael Kislov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Native in Russian
Russian Federation
Legal & Financial since 1999
Native in: Russian 
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian
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blockade Leningrad inhabitant (resident)
yahoo: "blockade Leningrad" - 11400 hits
As against "blockaded Leningrad", etc.
As against "blockaded Leningrad", etc.
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"survivor of the siege of Leningrad"
Это один из возможных вариантов.
Example sentence:
Simmons (Slavic studies, Boston Coll.) and Perlina, a survivor of the siege and now a professor of Slavic languages and literature, have collected memoirs and oral histories from women who lived through this ghastly drama
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