startling departure to them—not a feature of nature

Russian translation: видились им неким диковинным отклонением, а не естественным ходом/порядком вещей (+)

07:33 Mar 31, 2019

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English term or phrase: startling departure to them—not a feature of nature

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I am keenly aware that my generation was a transition generation between the era of my parents—who always felt that life was a suitcase with a false bottom, so you should never get too comfortable—and my daughters’ generation, for whom anti-Semitism is something they largely learned about through history books. Most of our grandparents were im-migrants from various European pogroms, and our parents were born into the Depression and then World War II. So even though we had found our own little goldene medina in St. Louis Park, they were always wary. Our parents and grandparents were a generation of Jews who were at home in America and Minnesota—but tensely at home. They were al-ways concerned that things were too good to be true. They had seen the Holocaust; they had touched the bottom of the Depression. They knew demons always lurked below. The acceptance of Jews and the existence of Israel seemed a ***startling departure to them—not a feature of nature***.

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Russian translation:видились им неким диковинным отклонением, а не естественным ходом/порядком вещей (+)

Explanation:

или они воспринимали как некое диковинное отклонение, а не естественный ход/порядок вещей

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Note added at 28 mins (2019-03-31 08:01:59 GMT)
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или они воспринимали не как норму, а как диковинное отклонение от неё

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lxunder
Ukraine

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Большое спасибо всем.
Спасибо, lxunder.
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видились им неким диковинным отклонением, а не естественным ходом/порядком вещей (+)

lxunder

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Elena Doroshenko

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Explanation:
departure = deviation в этом контексте, поэтому startling, скорее всего, имеет значение не "невероятный/поразительный/ошеломляющий" (как сильно удивляющий, что имеет хоть какое-то положительное значение), а, наверное, "пугающий"

Принятие евреев и существование Израиля казались им пугающим отклонением [от нормы] — чем-то, чего не существует в природе/противоестественным.

Elena Doroshenko
Russian Federation
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Native speaker of: Russian

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видились им неким диковинным отклонением, а не естественным ходом/порядком вещей (+)

lxunder
Ukraine
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Russian
PRO pts in category: 4

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Большое спасибо всем.
Спасибо, lxunder.

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startling departure to them—not a feature of nature

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