Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
живет, мол, не так
English translation:
(they) don't live right (aren't living right or “aren’t living their lives right”)
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живет, мол, не так
Context:
"Старушка вдруг вспомнила историю про одного солдата, который во время ночного дежурства слышал женский плач и поверил, что встретил образ Божьей матери - она сокрушалась о молодом поколении. ***Живет, мол, не так***"
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Mar 5, 2011 07:14: Yuri Larin Created KOG entry
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Ukraine
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(they) don't live right (aren't living right or “aren’t living their lives right”)
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Barry Appleby
: Yes, good idiomatic English
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Thank you, Barry!
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Rachel Douglas
: With the simplest version: "They don't live right," or "They don't live right, he says" (for "мол"). Or, "she says," rather.
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Thank you, Rachel!
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Ukraine
Never give up!
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Like: they live in a wrong way
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have a wrong way to live
So may be:
he must have had a wrong way to live
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-02-26 07:33:28 GMT)
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and as a result he sees the Mother of God as a sign to improve and start living better.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2011-02-26 10:26:28 GMT)
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Yes, I must agree with you.
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cyhul
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Barry Appleby
: wrong way of living or way of life. a wrong ay to live is not idiomatic English
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it's a colloquial language and your idiom erases its kick totally
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LanaUK
: It's the wrong way to live //http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=82303828396&topic=1032...
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Rachel Douglas
: "To have a wrong way to live" wdn't be said even colloquially. "Drinking all day long is a wrong way to live" (though more likely "the"), but not w "to have." / Sorry, disagree that it's "absolutely necessary" to write something absolutely not English.
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It's absolutely necessary in this construction: he must have had a wrong way to live
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Discussion
allegedly; according to smb's words он, мол, этого не знал — he says he didn't know it