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 tahirovna

link 12.04.2010 10:02 
Subject: или/или
Как мало он жил. Но каким великим легендарным событием стала его короткая жизнь.

мой вариант: How little did he live. But what a great legendary event did his short life become.

что-то как-то, по-моему, не так...

 PERPETRATOR™

link 12.04.2010 10:15 
Мне кажется, так:
How little he lived! Yet what a great legendary event his short life was!

 tumanov

link 12.04.2010 10:20 
3 period between birth and death
• ADJ. long, short I entire, whole Iearly I adult I later
In later life he took up writing. I past, previous He never
discussed the unhappinesses of his past life. 0I think I may
have been an animal in a previous life. I future, next I
working He was a miner all his working life.
• VERB + LIFE go through, live, spend She went
through life always wanting what she couldn't get. 0 He
spent his whole life in Cornwall. I end He ended his life a
happy man. I shorten I prolong I dedicate, devote He
devoted his life to the education of deaf children.

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 tahirovna

link 12.04.2010 10:24 
tumanov, what do you mean?

 Karabas

link 12.04.2010 10:25 
So short a span lived through! Yet what a great legendary event his short life has become!
Глагол did здесь совсем не нужен. Вы же утверждаете, а не спрашиваете.

 tumanov

link 12.04.2010 10:27 
imho
His life was short.
He didn't live long.

 tumanov

link 12.04.2010 10:29 
Я просто из словаря collocations вытащил статью, как мне кажется, подтверждающую что life не может быть little.

Ну, если говорить, по-английски, конечно.

 tahirovna

link 12.04.2010 10:31 
тогда я думаю: How short was his life!

 Тимурыч

link 12.04.2010 10:31 
How short his life was though so bright and fabled!

 tahirovna

link 12.04.2010 10:32 
или How short his life was!
или How short he lived!

 PERPETRATOR™

link 12.04.2010 10:34 
Можно так:

He lived so little! Yet what a...

 tahirovna

link 12.04.2010 10:37 
и еще..как вы думаете, жизненный университет или университет жизни = Life University?

 Тимурыч

link 12.04.2010 10:47 
School of life.

Context is strongly required - maybe it will be better to say "learn smth. through one's own experience, hardships of life"?

 Supa Traslata

link 12.04.2010 10:57 
"There's no recess in the school of life."

 tahirovna

link 12.04.2010 10:58 
собирая все духовные богатства в себе, он за очень короткий срок проходит жизненный университет

 Тимурыч

link 12.04.2010 11:11 
Можно так: he learns everything there is to be learned about how to live in this world

 tahirovna

link 12.04.2010 11:16 
ооо...how complicated)

 

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