Thread: Перевод предложений состоящих из одного слова

Originally Posted by calabi

Как правильно переводить на английский предложения состоящие из одного слова?
Например: "Вспотел? Вставай."
или "Попался. Зачем ты бабушке спать мешал?".

Можно ли перевести эти предложения как: "Sweated? Get up." "Сaught. Why did you disturb grandma's sleep?" Или это будет неправильно?

In this context, I would recommend translating "Попался" with "You're busted!" or simply "Busted!", although this is a bit slangy. Another example: "The cops busted a drug lab," meaning that the police raided a narcotics laboratory and arrested everybody. Another possibility is "Gotcha!" (a phonetic corruption of "I've got you!"), which is very colloquial doesn't sound as slangy as "Busted!"

I'm not sure about the best translation of "Вспотел?" -- could you explain the context? (Mainly, I want to know if it refers to "exercise sweat" or "nervous sweat".)

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

...I'm not sure about the best translation of "Вспотел?" -- could you explain the context? (Mainly, I want to know if it refers to "exercise sweat" or "nervous sweat".)

Broke up a sweat?

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

I'm not sure about the best translation of "Вспотел?" -- could you explain the context? (Mainly, I want to know if it refers to "exercise sweat" or "nervous sweat".)

Such single word sentence would be used in Russian in the meaning of 'Are you sweating?' irrespective of the sutuation (exercise, fear, etc.)