2008-10-04
We live as long as we fly
Включил один раз в одном месте русский перевод в серии доктора Хауса и подивился. Зачем они отсебятину несут, когда перевод элементарный? Веселее так, что ли?
Правда, когда я смотрю на английском, местами не успеваю одновременно следить за картинкой и осознавать смысл фраз. Я для этого на русский и переключил, чтобы понять – но мог бы с большим даже успехом повтор посмотреть, со второго раза понял бы. И уж точно не стал бы переводить “break ban on sugar” как “съедаешь сахарницу”, а “chow down a bucket of frozen youghurt” как “съедаешь все йогурты вместе с ложками”.
I think I'll continue on the topic of food. So, about the restaurant. I've already written about the opening hours, so I'll get straight to the food and all that. First of all, the system is like this: breakfast doesn't have all that much and tastes so-so, lunch is bigger and tastier, and dinner is just really good.
We were actually planning to rent a car and drive around the island, but since that hadn't happened yet, we had to rent a steam train. Did you notice, by the way, how smoothly I adopted the flashfuture technique from season 4 of the already tiresome TV series Lost? A flashfuture is like a flashback, only in reverse, into the future. Do you know, by the way, what setting your teeth on edge actually means? This concept definitely has a connection to the fact that I can't eat a lot of apples or berries. The acids in them make your teeth ache when you chew, and then for several hours you can't put anything in your mouth at all. Although good old Ushakov disagrees with me.
To set one's teeth on edge — to get an astringent sensation in the mouth after eating something sour or tart, or to tire one's mouth out by prolonged chewing of something.