Пока мы корпим над английскими неправильными глаголами, артиклями и фразеологизмами, мы можем взглянуть на проблему с другой стороны – как англичане (американцы, австралийцы) изучают русский. Улыбнемся их трудностям, выучим некоторые идиомы, просто немножко передохнем. Жирным выделены русские идиомы и пословицы, постарайтесь найти их эквивалент в контексте.
Сегодня поговорим про выражения, связанные с волосами, прическами и... да, да, перхотью )
The Best Dandruff Cure. Part 1
If you want to know who will be Russia’s next president, just watch the hair. Or lack thereof.
Throughout the 20th century, Russian leaders with hair and without have alternated: Nicholas II had a good head of hair, Vladimir Lenin was bald; Josef Stalin had thick hair; Nikita Khrushchev was
лысый, как коленка (bald as a knee); Leonid Brezhnev had
густые волосы (thick hair); Yuri Andropov
лысел (was balding); Konstantin Chernenko had thick gray hair; Mikhail Gorbachev had a big
лысина (bald spot), and Yeltsin had a nice
седая шевелюра (gray chevelure); Putin is balding, and so the next Russian leader will have hair by definition. It’s all so simple, this kreminology...
Hair –
волосы – is becoming almost as important to Russians as it is to Americans. We worry about dandruff, though time was (in Stalin’s time) we fought dandruff as per the French proverb:
Лучшее средство от перхоти - гильотина (the guillotine is the best dandruff cure). Actually, there is a similarly dark Russian proverb:
Снявши голову, по волосам не плачут (when you’ve lost your head, it’s no sense worrying about your hair). It’s all about perspective.
(to be continued...)
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