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Glossary entry

Russian term or phrase:

разгоняюсь загоняюсь как отпущенная птица

English translation:

I am flittering and fluttering about like a bird just set free.

Added to glossary by Dorene Cornwell
Feb 18, 2007 23:15
17 yrs ago
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Russian term

разгоняюсь загоняюсь как отпущенная птица

Russian to English Art/Literary Music lyrics
could somebody translate this sentence into english or swedish (if it's possible)?
Proposed translations (English)
3 +6 I am flittering and fluttering about like bird just let out of its cage.

Discussion

Froj (asker) Feb 19, 2007:
жаль но я никак не научусь остановиться разгоняюсь загоняюсь как отпущенная птица Maybe it gets easier if I add the preceding sentence (though I already now what it means)

Proposed translations

+6
26 mins
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I am flittering and fluttering about like bird just let out of its cage.

No Swedish available from this bird, but here's a stab in English

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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-19 01:39:30 GMT)
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or, with correction

I am flittering and fluttering about like A bird just set free

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Note added at 6 hrs (2007-02-19 05:18:33 GMT)
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Re Alexander's comment:

I think of a falcon that has just been released more as bobbing and weabing around. "Flittering and fluttering" was an alliterative attempt to do something kind of parallel to the Russian, but the two sets of movements are different: bobbing and weaving would be a little more directed...

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Note added at 16 hrs (2007-02-19 15:34:31 GMT)
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weaVing above.

In the context above, I would definitely use flittering and fluttering

I will never learn to stop flittering and fluttering....
Note from asker:
it's very hard for me to judge because i'm not good enough in russian nor in english. I'm not even sure what flittering and fluttering means exactly. And I have only one answer to choose. but... thank you
Peer comment(s):
agree Alessandro Zocchi
36 mins
Thank you.
agree Alexander Demyanov : 2 notes: 1. Shouldn't it be "like A bird"? 2. "Отпущенная" doesn't necessarily mean "out of its cage". One image coming to mind is that of a hunting falcon (let go off a hunter's hand.//Or "let go"
1 hr
Thanks. Alexander. 1. Yes. Urk! 2. after I posted the answer, I thought maybe better just to say ...like a bird just set free.
agree Jack Doughty
2 hrs
Thank you.
agree David Knowles
8 hrs
Thank you
agree Smantha
12 hrs
Thank you.
agree Olga Cartlidge : Then it should be bang on. I doubt if a closer hit would be possible. // "Flittering and fluttering" sounds very good with the alliteration thrown in.
22 hrs
Hi Olga. Thank you for the comment. I used the confidence level partly because of a little bit losoe translation, but in ENglish flutter can definitely have a connotation of breathlessness and energy expended to excess.
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