Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
вычислить кого-то
English translation:
get busted
Russian term
вычислить кого-то
But eventually he got hit on, beaten up and he had to call the quits on that
Proposed translations
Italy
MS Geology
Native in: English 
, Russian
Works in: Russian to English, Italian to English, English
get busted
Interp, trans, proof, PR, research, writ
Native in: Russian , German
Works in: English to Russian, German to Russian, Russian to German, and 13 more.
Find someone
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russtran09 (X)
: перевод нейтрален и не передаёт всей семантики выражения "вычислить"
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Serbia
Making LEGAL sense...
Native in: English , Russian
Works in: Russian to English, Dutch to English, English to Russian, and 9 more.
to be found out
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Note added at 11 mins (2011-07-15 11:19:00 GMT)
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Esample sentence: In myth, Seth is the equal opposite of Osiris’s purity. He was noted for breaking all levels of sexual taboo. He would hunt sacred fish and animals, and destroy sacred trees and groves. He is known as being deceptive, a liar, a thief, even though "he was always found out and punished" by Anubis and Thoth.
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Note added at 25 mins (2011-07-15 11:33:26 GMT)
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NB: "вычисляли, избивали" is in the imperfective aspect, which indicates that the man was REPEATEDLY found out and beaten up, rather than just once...
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Native in: Russian , Ukrainian
Works in: English to Russian, Italian to Russian, Russian to English, and 1 more.
to spot someone
Late one night, a gang spotted him among the leaves. They pulled him down like a frightened monkey and beat him.
Russian Federation
Grasp the subject, the words will follow
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English
to get caught
Elena Davedianova
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English
to be caught
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Andrew Kozlovsky
: He would [nevertheless] be (get) caught, roughed up ....
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Ukraine
Linguist, journalist, copywriter
Native in: Ukrainian , Russian
Works in: English to Russian, English to Ukrainian, French to Russian, and 5 more.
hunt down
Ex.: They finally hunted down the killer in Mexico
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hunt down
to finger smb.
e.g. see
http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html
See also the examples below, taken from related contexts (check out the respective links below)
...at the heart of this scandal was Russ Hamilton... who has been fingered as one of the known cheaters
Only one account has been fingered in these cheating allegations, the account of NioNio, primarily a high stakes cash poker player
Canada
University Degree in Translation
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, English, and 1 more.
But eventually they figured him out
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rikka
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Thank you, rikka
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Andrew Stefanovsky
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Thank you, Andrew
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Oleksiy Markunin
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Discussion
- (informal) caught out doing something wrong and therefore in trouble
Collins English Dictionary (2003)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/busted
- (slang) caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/busted
seems to be close
However, the key words here, '[the act of] doing something wrong,' add a connotation that is absent in the Russian вычислять, which is just a colloquial synonym for 'identify' (in context)
Moreover, since 'busted' can be interpreted as 'placed under arrest,' the reader may simply misread the phrase