Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

it has been a calamity exceeding heavy to be born

Serbian translation:

bješe to ljuta i nesnosna nevolja

Added to glossary by Elio Verbanac
Feb 17, 2017 17:30
7 yrs ago
English term

it has been a calamity exceeding heavy to be born

English to Serbian Social Sciences History history of the nineteenth century
Reč je o svetskoj privredi 1889. koju karakteriše nečuveno ometanje i depresija na polju trgovine.

Its most noteworthy peculiarity has been its universality; affecting nations that have been involved in war as well as those which have maintained peace; those which a have stable currency based on gold, and those which have an unstable currency ...; those which live under a system of free exchange of commodities and those whose exchanges are more or less restricted. It has been grievous in old communities like England and Germany, and equally so in Australia, South Africa and California, which represent the new; it has been a calamity exceeding heavy to be borne, alike by the inhabitants of sterile Newfoundland and Labrador, and of sunny, fruitful sugar-islands of the East and West Indies; and it has not enriched those at the centers of the world's exchange, whose gains are ordinarily greatest when business is most fluctuating and uncertain.
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Feb 21, 2017 14:21: Elio Verbanac Created KOG entry

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bješe to ljuta i nesnosna nevolja

Da, nije "born" nego "borne".

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Note added at 4 hrs (2017-02-17 21:44:20 GMT)
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Pardon, treba "beše" umjesto "bješe". Stil originala veoma je arhaičan pa je aorist ovdje vrlo prikladan, kao i pomalo kitnjast leksik.
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bila je to nevolja s kojom su se vrlo teško nosili

calamity - nevolja, nesreća, pošast
exceeding adv. - extremely
borne - particip od bear, podnositi, nositi

...bila je to nevolja s kojom su se vrlo teško nosili/borili, koju su teško podnosili...
reč po reč: bila je to nesreća izuzetno teška da se podnosi (u nastavku by - od strane)
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