Jul 17, 2012 09:07
12 yrs ago
Russian term

запоздалые утки ведут на юг поздние выводки

Russian to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
К этому времени большинство птиц уже улетели на зимовку в более теплые края. Только запоздалые утки ведут на юг поздние выводки, да гогочут высоко в небе стаи северных гусей – на юг, на юг!

Proposed translations

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dawdling ducks lead their late broods southwards

Something like this perhaps?
Peer comment(s):

agree Jack Doughty
37 mins
Thank you!
agree Susan Welsh : I love it! I can see the "dawdling ducks" as school children with their little backpacks, late for the school bus.
48 mins
:) Thank you!
agree rns
4 hrs
thanks
agree Inna Edsall
5 hrs
Thank you!
agree Michael Korovkin : woa! You are a poet, my friend!
7 hrs
why thank you!
agree RitaZ
1 day 8 hrs
thanks!
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