Thread: Geography: Terrain and River

Are these two Russian to English translations correct?

Местность была плоской, как далеко, как мог видеть глаз.

(The terrain was flat as far as the eye could see.)

Есть две основные дамбы вдоль русла реки.

(There are two major dams along the course of the river.)

Grammar always confuses me, but in particular "русла реки" seems like it might be redundant since русла means riverbed and река means river.

Originally Posted by bobert

Местность была плоской, как далеко, как мог видеть глаз.

(The terrain was flat as far as the eye could see.)

Correct.

Typo: "Местность была плоской, так далеко, как мог видеть глаз."

Originally Posted by bobert

Есть две основные дамбы вдоль русла реки.

(There are two major dams along the course of the river.)

Correct.

Originally Posted by bobert

Grammar always confuses me, but in particular "русла реки" seems like it might be redundant since русла means riverbed and река means river.

Русло is not just a riverbed, it has a broader meaning:
1) channel, course
2) (figurative) direction, way

So русло реки is а riverbed, actually.

https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%8...BD.D0.B8.D0.B5