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в гору

English translation: up the hill

22:14 Dec 26, 2013
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Russian term or phrase: в гору
Up the hill or into the hills?

Теперь сухой ветер бьет в лицо, и кажется, что дубы, затянутые дымкой, дрожат. В последний раз я их увидела, когда машина с ревом ползла в гору.
Deborah Hoffman
Local time: 12:27
English translation:up the hill
Explanation:
Yep
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Mikhail Kropotov
Germany
Local time: 18:27
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Summary of answers provided
5 +8up the hill
Mikhail Kropotov
4 +4uphill
Alexander Kayumov


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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
up the hill


Explanation:
Yep

Mikhail Kropotov
Germany
Local time: 18:27
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Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 488
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Evgenia Windstein: or uphill
5 mins
agree  Tatiana Lammers
15 mins
agree  Vadim Khazin
1 hr
agree  cyhul
4 hrs
agree  Alexandra Schneeuhr
10 hrs
agree  Sarah McDowell
10 hrs
agree  interprivate
10 hrs
agree  Michael Korovkin: сревом ползла up their .... :)
16 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
uphill


Explanation:
It's not a specific hill, so neither "up the hill" nor "up the hills", - rather, it's an adverbial expression that simply means "uphill".

I last saw them when the car was crawling uphill with a terrible roar. - something like that.

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Note added at 6 hrs (2013-12-27 04:50:56 GMT)
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And, actually, one does not need a hill to go uphill. :) There could be a ridge, a sinusoidal / wave-like landscape (where one goes up, then down, then up, then down, etc.), or one could be climbing out of some sort of ravine or gully (one would be going uphill, but there would be no elevation of any sort in the landscape, just a depression).

Also - though not in this case - the expression can and often is used figuratively: "Его карьера пошла в гору." - "His career is going uphill / is on a rise."

Alexander Kayumov
Russian Federation
Local time: 21:27
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.: I also think this is a direction, although one needs a hill or even a mountain to go uphill.
35 mins
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agree  Alexandra Schneeuhr
7 hrs
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agree  Sarah McDowell
7 hrs
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agree  Natalia Volkova
12 days
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