Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
забирать на себя болезни
English translation:
(help to) withdraw illness
Added to glossary by
2rush
Jun 6, 2005 08:49
19 yrs ago
Russian term
DELVING into DETAIL
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian, Russian to English, and 2 more.
забирать на себя болезни
Russian to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
children's literature
Эти странные существа умели многое. Если они любили своего хозяина, то забирали на себя его болезни и хранили его дом от злых чар.
take all his diseases upon themselves?
take all his diseases upon themselves?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 2 | (help to) withdraw illness |
2rush
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| 3 +1 | absorb |
_TILLI
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| 3 +1 | take on their ailments |
sergey (X)
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| 3 | pick out (over) ...by switching on themseves |
Simon Gregory
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| 2 | draw in |
tanyazst
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Proposed translations
1 hr
Russian term (edited):
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(help to) withdraw illness
"Various kinds of clay are used by the Navaho ceremonially and otherwise....Other ritual procedures may follow, such as the pressing of the wide boards (four paddle-shaped objects about ten inches long and about two and a half inches wide) to the patient's body. Used in conjunction with special songs, the wide boards further identify the patient with the supernaturals and ***help to withdraw illness*** and/or restore health. The patient then leaves the hogan to breathe in the sun four times. With these deep breaths, the spirit of the sun is invoked and its beneficent influence is taken into the patient's body..."
http://www.twinrocks.com/legends/legends/ritual.html
http://www.twinrocks.com/legends/legends/ritual.html
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10 mins
Russian term (edited):
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draw in
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1 hr
Russian term (edited):
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absorb
a healing animal has a power to absorb and take away pain from a human
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2 hrs
Russian term (edited):
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take on their ailments
empathy for his patients that he would take on their ailments during the. process of healing, particularly if the problem was very difficult to solve. ...
assets.cambridge.org/052164/ 2361/sample/0521642361wsc00.pdf
... into hospital people tend to sap my energy and I sleep from the moment I get in there till the moment I leave, but I don't take on their ailments (thank heavens ...
www.healthypages.net/forum/fb.asp?m=1348&go=last
assets.cambridge.org/052164/ 2361/sample/0521642361wsc00.pdf
... into hospital people tend to sap my energy and I sleep from the moment I get in there till the moment I leave, but I don't take on their ailments (thank heavens ...
www.healthypages.net/forum/fb.asp?m=1348&go=last
3 hrs
Russian term (edited):
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pick out (over) ...by switching on themseves
...pick out (or over) beloved master's diseases by switching on themselves...
Target audience here is CHILDREN, not scientists. Contemporary children, spoiled by TV and computer gaims... only vivid images can compete.
First choice is good, but general
Target audience here is CHILDREN, not scientists. Contemporary children, spoiled by TV and computer gaims... only vivid images can compete.
First choice is good, but general
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