Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
to go clear
Russian translation:
очиститься
- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2010-05-16 10:54:09 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
May 13, 2010 09:09
14 yrs ago
English term
Lifts & escalators specialist since 2007
Native in: Ukrainian 
Works in: English to Ukrainian, Russian to English, English to Russian
to go clear
English to Russian
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
slang
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Proposed translations
(Russian)
| 3 +2 | очиститься |
Sophia Shishatskaya
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| 3 | здесь: все забыть |
natalia gavrile
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| 3 | лечиться |
Thierry Bourguet
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| 2 | завязать (с наркотиками, скорее всего) |
Igor Antipin
|
Proposed translations
+2
15 mins
Sophia Shishatskaya
Armenia
Armenia
Native in Russian
Specializes in field
Armenia
Words do come easy
Native in: Russian (Variant: Standard-Russia) 
Works in: English to Russian, French to Russian
Related KudoZ points
:
4
Selected
очиститься
Я всегда думала, что это про наркотики, однако после просмотра нескольких форумов выясняется, что эта строчка имеет отношение к сайентологии, т.к. Леонард Коэн одно время ей увлекался и сам признал это в одном из интервью.
Вот что пишут про значение "clear" в этой религии: ""Clear: the name of a state achieved through auditing or an indiviual who has achieved this state. A Clear is a being who no longer has his own reactive mind. A Clear is an unaberrated person and is rational in that he forms the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and from his viewpoint. The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated to throw out the correctness of computation by entering hidden and false data."
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Из интервью Коэна:
Kurzweil
Some of the articles about you over the years have indicated that you've dabbled or more than dabbled in various kinds of spiritual paths. Is the line, "Did you ever go clear?" from Famous Blue Raincoat a Scientology reference?
Cohen
It was a Scientology reference. I looked into a lot of things. Scientology was one of them. It did not last very long.
Вот что пишут про значение "clear" в этой религии: ""Clear: the name of a state achieved through auditing or an indiviual who has achieved this state. A Clear is a being who no longer has his own reactive mind. A Clear is an unaberrated person and is rational in that he forms the best possible solutions he can on the data he has and from his viewpoint. The Clear has no engrams which can be restimulated to throw out the correctness of computation by entering hidden and false data."
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Из интервью Коэна:
Kurzweil
Some of the articles about you over the years have indicated that you've dabbled or more than dabbled in various kinds of spiritual paths. Is the line, "Did you ever go clear?" from Famous Blue Raincoat a Scientology reference?
Cohen
It was a Scientology reference. I looked into a lot of things. Scientology was one of them. It did not last very long.
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9 mins
Igor Antipin
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Native in Russian
Russian Federation
PhD. 10+ years in technical translation
Native in: Russian (Variant: Standard-Russia)
Works in: English to Russian
Related KudoZ points
:
88
завязать (с наркотиками, скорее всего)
диалог на форуме:
Alguien me podria aclarar en sentido de estas 2 frases:
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Es de la canción Famous Blue Raincoat de Leonard Cohen
Sometimes only the artist knows what he is referring to and that seems to be the case here. I would guess that maybe this person was on drugs or maybe drank a lot and the singer is asking him if he has stopped using drugs or alcohol. But that is just a guess.
For the rest of the song I guess that meaning about giving up drugs or similar would fit.
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=74980
Alguien me podria aclarar en sentido de estas 2 frases:
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
Es de la canción Famous Blue Raincoat de Leonard Cohen
Sometimes only the artist knows what he is referring to and that seems to be the case here. I would guess that maybe this person was on drugs or maybe drank a lot and the singer is asking him if he has stopped using drugs or alcohol. But that is just a guess.
For the rest of the song I guess that meaning about giving up drugs or similar would fit.
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http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=74980
2 hrs
здесь: все забыть
как вариант см. перевод М.Абрамова (по ссылке)
Reference:
3 hrs
Thierry Bourguet
France
France
Specializes in field
France
Дотошный, но не навязчивый
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, Russian to French
лечиться
My opinion is that L. Cohen was speaking about drug detox. The original worlds sounded like that :
Did you ever "stop using"... and he eventually changed them (visibly for the rhyme) into Did you ever "go clear".
Check the link.
Did you ever "stop using"... and he eventually changed them (visibly for the rhyme) into Did you ever "go clear".
Check the link.
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