Jun 3, 2009 19:54
15 yrs ago
Russian term
сократился в разы
Russian to English
Marketing
Business/Commerce (general)
ввод нового жилья сократился сегодня в разы
reduced several times as of today?
reduced several times as of today?
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3 hrs
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is a fraction of what it used to be
With all due respect, this has GOT to be reworded!
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Note added at 16 hrs (2009-06-04 12:04:12 GMT)
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Elina, a word of caution. "Commissioning of the new housing" is not an amount or number, so technically it cannot decline. You should reword the sentence to make sure the subject is something quantifiable.
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Note added at 16 hrs (2009-06-04 12:04:12 GMT)
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Elina, a word of caution. "Commissioning of the new housing" is not an amount or number, so technically it cannot decline. You should reword the sentence to make sure the subject is something quantifiable.
Note from asker:
Мне нравится Ваш вариант и вариант Александра Кондорского, раздумываю теперь, "commissioning of the new housing is a fraction of what it used to be" или оно же "suffered a dramatic decline")) |
Peer comment(s):
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Rachel Douglas
: Yes, PLEASE! Not times, not fold, not quanta, not orders of magnitude. Since the source text doesn't care about saying how much, "a fraction" or "a small fraction" should be just fine. / Sorry, Mikhail. For the record, "manifold" also sucks.
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Thank you, Rachel! And you forgot 'manifold' :)
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Dorene Cornwell
: Thanks Rachel! As for the subject of the sentence, something like "the number of new homes entering the market (per month / year / whatever) is a fraction of what it used to be. Or just "housing completion is a fraction of what it was"
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Спасибо большое, Михаил!"
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30 mins
decreased several-fold
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Peer comment(s):
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crainny
: I like manyfold, but agree with your choice completely. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manyfold
20 hrs
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Thanks. Many-fold is "во много раз", "многократно", "several-fold" is more vague (we don't know the actual volume of the decrease)
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25 mins
reduced by tens of percent
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Note added at 51 mins (2009-06-03 20:46:02 GMT)
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http://www.proz.com/kudoz/English/science_general/1627758-de...
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Note added at 51 mins (2009-06-03 20:46:02 GMT)
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http://www.proz.com/kudoz/English/science_general/1627758-de...
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declined by an order of magnitude
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1 hr
decreased by several times
сократился в разы=сократился в несколько раз
the number of the ethnic Russians in Tajikistan has decreased by ten times over the last fifteen years: from 500,000 people in 1989 to 50,000 in 2005.
http://eng.expert.ru/printissues/countries/2006/09/russkiy_y...
Even since last 15-20 days the speed has decreased by several times. As other people are saying it's actually 2Mbps but i am getting just 190Kbps
www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/12870/page/2
Assuming a great nonuniformity in the distribution of this hot plasma, its mass can be decreased by several times, but it nevertheless remains large.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1967SvA....11...45S
Although the use of fertilisers has decreased by several times compared to the 1980s and 1990s (for example, 3–5 times less nitrogen is applied with mineral ...
www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/estonia/agriculture... ruraldevelopment.pdf
the number of the ethnic Russians in Tajikistan has decreased by ten times over the last fifteen years: from 500,000 people in 1989 to 50,000 in 2005.
http://eng.expert.ru/printissues/countries/2006/09/russkiy_y...
Even since last 15-20 days the speed has decreased by several times. As other people are saying it's actually 2Mbps but i am getting just 190Kbps
www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/12870/page/2
Assuming a great nonuniformity in the distribution of this hot plasma, its mass can be decreased by several times, but it nevertheless remains large.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1967SvA....11...45S
Although the use of fertilisers has decreased by several times compared to the 1980s and 1990s (for example, 3–5 times less nitrogen is applied with mineral ...
www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/estonia/agriculture... ruraldevelopment.pdf
Peer comment(s):
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Alexandra Taggart
: Your diligence provides correct answers! If I were you I wouldn't bother to supply so much of ref here.Those which are capable of - they will appreciate.
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Спасибо!
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decreased by quantums
... sapienti sat...
Peer comment(s):
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Dorene Cornwell
: Imaginative interesting usage that calls to mind all sorts of physics and metaphysics, but I think the answer here is more mundane.
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It's not at all imaginative – just reasonably cultured English language. "Quantify"=count, that's all. "Quantum"=quantity or, more literally (in Latin) разовость/количество(тот же корень,между прочим).You can use it counting either electrons or saussages.
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9 hrs
suffered a dramatic decline
As I see it, here it is most important to express the large scale of decline. В разы literally means "by several times" but when we say "в разы" what we actually mean is a really dramatic change.
Peer comment(s):
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Dorene Cornwell
: so something like "housing completion has declined dramatically" would be compact and not force someone to add a bunch of stuff not in the original
9 hrs
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Thank you, Dorene!
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Angela Greenfield
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Thanks a lot and cheers, Angela. I really appreciate!
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27 mins
decreased several times
That's how I would put it.
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Note added at 20 hrs (2009-06-04 16:50:37 GMT)
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To Alexander Kondorsky: I think what appalls Americans is the expression "BY several times" not "several times".
But both ARE widely used anyway.
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Note added at 20 hrs (2009-06-04 16:54:04 GMT)
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The number of parts in an automobile was reduced by several times. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zb2L9awkAsAC&pg=PA146&lpg=P...
The proportion of peroxidase taken up by the liver, however, decreased several times when the dose was increased. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=21... (заметьте - государственный сайт)
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Note added at 20 hrs (2009-06-04 16:50:37 GMT)
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To Alexander Kondorsky: I think what appalls Americans is the expression "BY several times" not "several times".
But both ARE widely used anyway.
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Note added at 20 hrs (2009-06-04 16:54:04 GMT)
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The number of parts in an automobile was reduced by several times. http://books.google.com/books?id=Zb2L9awkAsAC&pg=PA146&lpg=P...
The proportion of peroxidase taken up by the liver, however, decreased several times when the dose was increased. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=21... (заметьте - государственный сайт)
Peer comment(s):
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The Misha
: I'd say declined manifold, but this works too, I guess.
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Миша, вы гений. Пишите свой ответ. Он гораздо (ГОРАЗДО!) лучше моего.
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Alexander Kondorsky
: Angela, remember we discussed the issue? But I keep on hearing from my American colleagues that "times" is absoultely unacceptable in English :-))
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Whatever they say... It IS widely used though. Patents, physics, statistics. Can't help it. Sorry.// see note in my answer above
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