Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
desiatki
English translation:
tens/dozens (of kilometers)
Added to glossary by
Alexandra Tussing
Aug 23, 2001 19:06
23 yrs ago
Russian term
desiatki
Non-PRO
Russian to English
Art/Literary
desiatki kilometrov
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tens/dozens of kilometers
tens of kilometers - if you are measuring some reasonably specific distance;
dozens of miles - culturally equivalent expression for the US as everything there is measured in dozens and miles;
miles and miles - conveys the idea of great distances (like miles and miles of steppes, for example)
dozens of miles - culturally equivalent expression for the US as everything there is measured in dozens and miles;
miles and miles - conveys the idea of great distances (like miles and miles of steppes, for example)
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tens
Tens kilometers
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Oleg Rudavin
: You sure 'tens kilometers' is OK?
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Pardon, tens of kilometer, of course
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Oleg Pashuk (X)
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1 hr
tens of kilometers
This means many 10s of kilometers.
Good luck.
Good luck.
3 hrs
tens of kilometres
1. десяток
муж.
1) ten
2) decade, ten years (чьей-л. жизни)
ему идет шестой десяток — he is in his sixties
шестой десяток — (возраст между 50 и 59 годами) fifties
четвертый десяток — (возраст между 30 и 39 годами) thirties
3) мн. (множество)
dozens, tens, scores
десятки тысяч рублей — tens of thousands of rubles
десятки раз — dozens of times
несколько десятков — several tens (of)
десятки рабочих — scores of workers
RE: LingvoUniversal-R
2. ...Tens of square kilometres in this area suffered radioactive depositions with the surface activity about 1 Ci per square kilometre. ...
Their length can reach tens of kilometres.
муж.
1) ten
2) decade, ten years (чьей-л. жизни)
ему идет шестой десяток — he is in his sixties
шестой десяток — (возраст между 50 и 59 годами) fifties
четвертый десяток — (возраст между 30 и 39 годами) thirties
3) мн. (множество)
dozens, tens, scores
десятки тысяч рублей — tens of thousands of rubles
десятки раз — dozens of times
несколько десятков — several tens (of)
десятки рабочих — scores of workers
RE: LingvoUniversal-R
2. ...Tens of square kilometres in this area suffered radioactive depositions with the surface activity about 1 Ci per square kilometre. ...
Their length can reach tens of kilometres.
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9 hrs
tenths and tenths of kms
Here, in Her Majesty's Kingdom, I have heard people talking about "tenths" and "tenths", meaning we count by tens and not by units.
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5 days
Several kilometres
in english they say tens and thousands of miles!
the place was tens & thousands of miles away
the place was tens & thousands of miles away
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