Glossary entry

русский term or phrase:

громадье

английский translation:

vastness

Added to glossary by James McVay
Jun 17, 2015 20:13
8 yrs ago
русский term

громадье

русский => английский Искусство/Литература Литература и поэзия Lines from a Mayakovsky poem
…Я планов наших люблю громадье,
Размаха шаги саженьи… 

I'm at a loss here…
Proposed translations (английский)
4 vastness
4 +4 immensity
4 see

Proposed translations

21 мин
Selected

vastness

... of our plans :)

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Note added at 3 days1 hr (2015-06-20 21:13:24 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks... but why me? I'm in a puzzle...
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+4
10 мин

immensity

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Note added at 14 mins (2015-06-17 20:27:12 GMT)
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Or 'giganitsm', 'tremendousness' -- if you want the meaning.
I think that poem has been translated at least one.

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Note added at 14 mins (2015-06-17 20:27:27 GMT)
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*once
Peer comment(s):

agree Angela Greenfield
7 мин
Thanks.
agree Mark Berelekhis : immensity is good
25 мин
Thanks.
agree Zamira B.
8 час
agree Oleksiy Markunin
15 час
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2 дн 19 час

see

It's poetry: you don't have to stick "technically" close to text.
Re-phrase as something like

I love our projects' giant sweep
the giant stride(s) we've set to keep



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Note added at 3 days11 hrs (2015-06-21 07:15:21 GMT) Post-grading
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Duh it is, and even Yuck!
But if you think it's much better in Russian, well, may VM forgive me, t'ain't.
Gromad'e sounds rough, preposterous and mildly bad-taste/vulgar (like many M's neologisms). Sazhen'i – wrong stress, and also rough... I guess it works: pile rough upon rough upon rough, and people would say the guy've got balls. But, really, taste-wise, duh it is... T'ain't Mandelshtam for sure...
Note from asker:
Duh!
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