| Russian | English |
| а вам какая разница? | what do you care? ("Too many people who don’t belong here, foreign born.... Hong Kong, India, China, Iran, Taiwan, Korea, Africa..... and they keep coming. We were never asked." "What do you care where somebody is born?" ART Vancouver) |
| а вам-то что за дело? | what do you care? ("Too many people who don’t belong here, foreign born.... Hong Kong, India, China, Iran, Taiwan, Korea, Africa..... and they keep coming. We were never asked." "What do you care where somebody is born?"
ART Vancouver) |
| а как же ... ? | what about ...? (What about our plans for the weekend? – А как же наши планы на выходные? • What about me? – А как же я? ART Vancouver) |
| а также | for that matter (Данное выражение следует понимать и переводить, основываясь по меньшей мере на
следующих двух толкованиях: 1) Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus: used to show that a statement is true in another situation: "Ming's never been to Spain, or to any European country for that matter." – "не бывал в Испании, а также ни в одной другой европейской стране"; 2) Collins English Dictionary: You can use for that matter to emphasize that the remark you are making is true in the same way as your previous, similar remark. "The irony was that Shawn had not seen her. Nor for that matter had anyone else." – "не видел её, а также кого-либо другого". Очевидно, что весь смысл в равноценности/равнозначности. Мой пример, подтверждающий мою точку зрения: "Coming from Toronto we were mystified why pedestrians did not raise their arms at crosswalks in Victoria, or for that matter, the whole of B.C." (The Province)
ART Vancouver) |
| а что, если ...? | how about ...? (+ subject + verb [making a suggestion]: City of Vancouver has no shortage of methods to take your hard earned money. Proposing mandatory parking permits, tolls into downtown and now this garbage. How about we take the necessary funding out of their salaries? (Twitter) ART Vancouver) |
| а что толку? | what's the good of that? (ART Vancouver) |
| а я здесь при чём? | what's it got to do with me? (ART Vancouver) |
| выбирать между А и Б | make a choice between A and B (He's got to make a choice between alcohol and his family. ART Vancouver) |
| не просто..., а | not merely ... but (Don McMillan, president of the Urban Development Institute Pacific Region, which represents virtually all the major residential, commercial and industrial developers in B.C., says that municipalities should adopt community plans designating clearly the land uses and densities for each area. He says these plans should not be merely guidelines but formal documents and that all land within the community should be officially zoned in accordance with the plan. (BC Business Week) ART Vancouver) |
| нынче здесь, а завтра – там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| нынче здесь, а завтра там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| нынче тут, а завтра – там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| нынче тут, а завтра там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| ремонт не кончается, а прекращается | remodeling doesn't get finished, it just gets stopped (per Michele A. Berdy Leonid Dzhepko) |
| сегодня здесь, а завтра – там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| сегодня здесь, а завтра там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| сегодня тут, а завтра – там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| сегодня тут, а завтра там | here today and gone tomorrow (igisheva) |
| теперь я понял-а | it makes sense (timescolonist.com ART Vancouver) |
