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33rd translation contest: "Back to the playground" » English to Russian

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Source text in English

[...] “I have a proposal.” It leaned forward like my friend April does when she wants to tell a secret, even though none of her secrets are any good. Or even really secrets. “If you don’t tell anyone I am here, I can fix your eyes.”
“Get out of town!”
It blinked a couple of times. “That is what I am attempting to do.”
“What I mean is you can’t do that!”
“Why not?”
“Well, no one else has been able to fix my eyes, besides with glasses.”
“I have certain abilities. You will see, provided…”
“…I don’t tell anyone about you?”
“That is the heart of it, that is the nub.”
“How do I know you won’t blind me? You could be like one of those telemarketers making promises but totally lying.”
It started waxing on, waxing off again. “I would not do such a thing to a creature who has done me no harm.”
“Meaning if I harmed you, you could make me go blind?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.”
“And if you fix my eyes, and I don’t tell anyone about you, you’ll leave our fields?”
“That’s the heart of it!” [...]

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There were 9 entries submitted in this pair during the submission phase. The winning entries were determined based on finals round voting by peers.

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Entry #38117 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Winner
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5911 x46 x23 x1
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Бабушке своей расскажи.
Dmitriy Celt
ритмично заплясали в воздухе
Flows well
Svetlana Manilo
Entry #37970 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Irina Bilalova
Irina Bilalova
Ρωσία
Winner
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5610 x46 x24 x1
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Да иди ты!
Flows well
Mikhail Metyolkin
ять занервничало
Flows well
Andrei Gorichenskii
Entry #38384 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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4910 x43 x23 x1
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я помогу тебе избавиться от очков
Flows well
Dmitriy Celt
наши угодья
Good term selection
sounds rea​lly good
Dmitriy Celt
Entry #38320 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
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233 x44 x23 x1
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стало делать круговые движения лапками.
Good term selection
Tatiana Gusarova
стало делать круговые движения лапками.
Flows well
Mikhail Metyolkin
Entry #38024 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Standard-Russia
Sergei Rioumin
Sergei Rioumin
Αυστραλία
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203 x43 x22 x1
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Иди ты!
Flows well
Vladimir Izotov
самая маякотка.
Good term selection
should be:​ самая мяк​отка!
Link: http://htt​ps://sinon​im.org/s/с​амая%20мяк​отка
Dmitriy Celt
Существо надулось, потом опять сдулось
Other
Влучно!
Soboleva Kateryna
Entry #38201 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Svetlana Manilo
Svetlana Manilo
Γεωργία
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194 x41 x21 x1
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Entry #38026 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Tymur Buliekov
Tymur Buliekov
Ουκρανία
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81 x41 x22 x1
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Тебе это знать не обязательно
Flows well
great tran​slation ve​rsion
Dmitriy Celt
Entry #38048 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Standard-Russia
Tatiana Gusarova
Tatiana Gusarova
Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής
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81 x42 x20
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Entry #37844 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specified
Faina Furman
Faina Furman
Ισραήλ
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401 x22 x1
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в этом вся фишка
Good term selection
Tatiana Gusarova