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Ant_222 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Could you help me to correct a sentence, please?

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00«The first of them (of the four statues) depicted supercilious and ruinous Unbelief, the other — dark and as well harmful Superstition, the third showed their father — hardened and stubborn Ignorance, the fourth — their loathsome child — fierce and insensitive Inhumanity.»02br
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00That's how I translated it from Russian. 0-
  

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0«The first of them (of the four statues) depicted supercilious and ruinous Unbelief01font00*02font00, the 01font00second [or next] 02font00— dark and 01del01font00as well02font02del00 harmful Superstition, the third showed their father — harde
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0 Thanks for help, Rose!02br
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00It's from Mikhail Popov's "Chronicle of Violent Miracles (literally, magicks)" written in 1760s... You see, I can't translate the title well...02br
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00The only question I have is about the "as well" phrase that you have stricken out. In the original, it meant that Superstition was as harmful as previously mentioned U
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0 Shame on me!02br
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00It should be Popov's "Ancient Rarities or the Wonderful Adventures of Slavic Princes Containing the Story of Brave Svetlosan, Velduz, the Prince of (no idea how to translate — Ant ); Beautiful Milislava, the Slavic Princess; Vidostan, the Indian Tsar; Ostan, the Prince of Drevlyane (an ancient slavic tribe — Ant); Lipoksai the Scythian; Ross, Boripol
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1font00How fantastic! I'm going to search for a translation, as the title has really grabbed me!02font02br
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01font00In terms of expressing the 'as well', I suppose you might use something like "similarly harmful" or "just as harmful" - but both of these are going to make your sentence a bit clunky, and the la
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0 «I'm going to search for a translation...»02br
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00I am afraid you won't find one. So, the only thing left for you is to die of envy (smile here).02br
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00«I suppose you might use something like "similarly harmful" or "just as harmful"»02br
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00What about "as harmful" and "equally harmful"? Won't make sense?02br
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0 «I'm going to search for a translation...» 02br
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00I am afraid you won't find one. So, the only thing left for you is to die of envy (smile here). 02br
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00«I suppose you might use something "just as harmful"» 02br
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00What about "as harmful" and "equally harmful"? Won't make sense? 02br
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00P.S.: Woul
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