Apr 22, 2019 01:14
5 yrs ago
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русский term
лучше с умным потерять чем с дураком найти
русский => английский
Искусство/Литература
Идиомы / Изречения / Поговорки
Experience
>the meaning can only be fully understood trough direct experience
> I am looking for something like:
it's better to lose it with a wise (man) than find/get it with a fool
in meaning but I want it to sound better
> I am not looking for the close authentic British/American sayings
unless they match the meaning exactly
> I am looking for something like:
it's better to lose it with a wise (man) than find/get it with a fool
in meaning but I want it to sound better
> I am not looking for the close authentic British/American sayings
unless they match the meaning exactly
Proposed translations
(английский)
| 4 | 'Tis better to lose with a wise man than to win with a fool. |
DTSM
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| 3 | “A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.” |
IrinaN
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Proposed translations
11 час
“A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.”
Declined
― Thomas Fuller
Но контекстик бы не помешал.
11 час
'Tis better to lose with a wise man than to win with a fool.
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https://books.google.by/books?id=AbJ1tVGmiTgC&pg=PA353&lpg=P...
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Note added at 11 час (2019-04-22 12:37:35 GMT)
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https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGRV_enBY751BY752&ei=8b...
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Note added at 11 час (2019-04-22 12:37:35 GMT)
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https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGRV_enBY751BY752&ei=8b...
Reference comments
3 час
Turdimurod Rakhmanov
Кыргызстан
Кыргызстан
Кыргызстан
Education, Legal, Technical & Medical
Native in: узбекский (Variants: Tashkent, Ferghana valley, Samarkand-Bukhara, Khorezm) 
, киргизский
Works in: английский => узбекский, английский => киргизский, английский => казахский, and 26 more.
Related KudoZ points
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Reference:
A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
I think it is close to this saying:
A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Although the one who is wise is your enemy, they are useful,
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends
https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/a-wise-enemy-is-better-than...
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Note added at 3 hrs (2019-04-22 05:11:24 GMT)
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Здесь дословно не нужно перевести,
In the target English translation the Russian word "потерять" should be replaced by "enemy". But the meaning is the same.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2019-04-22 05:15:47 GMT)
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And the Russian verb "найти" should be replaced by the English noun "friend"
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Note added at 13 hrs (2019-04-22 14:31:06 GMT)
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Yes, it it is a different unrelated category,
another version:
It's foolish to deal with a fool
A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Although the one who is wise is your enemy, they are useful,
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends
https://www.speakingtree.in/blog/a-wise-enemy-is-better-than...
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Note added at 3 hrs (2019-04-22 05:11:24 GMT)
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Здесь дословно не нужно перевести,
In the target English translation the Russian word "потерять" should be replaced by "enemy". But the meaning is the same.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2019-04-22 05:15:47 GMT)
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And the Russian verb "найти" should be replaced by the English noun "friend"
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Note added at 13 hrs (2019-04-22 14:31:06 GMT)
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Yes, it it is a different unrelated category,
another version:
It's foolish to deal with a fool
Note from asker:
| "лучше с умным потерять чем с дураком найти" talks about the wise vs the idiot in finding/loosing. "A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend" is about enemies and friends which are a different UNRELATED category. I asked this question not because it is easy, but because it is really difficult to convey meaning from one cultural background Slavic(rus/uks/pol/...) to another Anglo-Saxons(us/uk/ca/au). In the Slavic culture the idiot is not an obviously an enemy or a friend he/she is a different unrelated general category. I hope this helps. |
Discussion
talks about the wise vs the idiot in finding/loosing.
"A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend"
is about enemies and friends which are a different
unrelated category.