Anglais | Russe |
a grey wolf will come at night and will take of you a bite | придёт серенький волчок и укусит за бочок (Russian Lullaby) |
a legend states | легенда гласит (A legend states, "After man degenerated from his perfect state and became wicked, the Creator got angry and turned most people to stone. That was how all these tall stones appeared in our land." (a North American indigenous source) ART Vancouver) |
a legend states | как гласит легенда (A legend states, "After man degenerated from his perfect state and became wicked, the Creator got angry and turned most people to stone. That was how all these tall stones appeared in our land." (a North American indigenous source) ART Vancouver) |
an animal that lives in a burrow | норушка |
an animal that lives in a burrow | норушка |
be a little sad | припечалиться |
be a little sad | припечаливаться |
build a nest | совить гнездо |
build a nest | совивать гнездо |
do She-loves-me she-loves-me-not with a daisy | гадать на ромашке (‘Suppose, for instance, somebody had done me down in a business transaction, Porky would spring to the task of plucking him limb from limb like some innocent little child doing She-loves-me she-loves-me-not with a daisy.' (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |
has had a spell cast on | заколдованный (заколдовали/заколдован: Prince Ludwig has had a spell cast on him and been turned into a bear. – Принца заколдовали и превратили в медведя.
ART Vancouver) |
issue a call | прокликнуть |
issue a call | прокликать |
issue a call | прокликивать |
lay a curse | наложить проклятие (on someone – на кого-либо: The baby died at the age of 14 months in fulfillment, it is said, of a curse laid on him by a gipsy. • ... the imposing ruins of Cowdray House, built c.1530. The house was burnt down in 1793, and a week later its owner, Lord Montagu, was drowned in Germany—fulfilling, it is said, a curse laid on the family by a monk ejected from Battle Abbey by the first owner of Cowdray House after Henry VIII Dissolution of the Monasteries. (AA Illustrated Guide To Britain) ART Vancouver) |
Seventh son of a seventh son | седьмой сын седьмого сына (in some beliefs, the special powers are inborn simply by virtue of a birth order of such a son Ballistic) |