February 27, 2020 What a glaring understatement!

Ukrainian police said 24 protesters were detained. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who personally visited the site to try to calm the crowd, said he was shocked by the aggression.

“What we saw was shameful,” he said in televised remarks. “It was one of the biggest disappointments in my life.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy weighed in, saying the protests showed “not the best side of our character." He tried to reassure people that the quarantined evacuees wouldn't pose any danger to local residents.

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/02/20/world/asia/ap-china-outbreak-europe.html

February 23, 2020 Worst day ever by Chanie Gorkin

Today was the absolute worst day ever
And don't try to convince me that
There's something good in every day
Because, when you take a closer look,
This world is a pretty evil place.
Even if
Some goodness does shine through once in a while
Satisfaction and happiness don't last.
And it's not true that
It's all in the mind and heart
Because
True happiness can be attained
Only if one's surroundings are good.
It's not true that good exists
I'm sure you can agree that
The reality
Creates
My attitude
It's all beyond my control
And you'll never in a million years hear me say that
Today was a very good day.

Now read it from bottom to top, the other way,
And see what I really feel about my day.

https://vk.com/logos51?z=photo-10152964_457248472%2Fwall-10152964_10330

February 21. 2020 'Inner City' is a perfect example of the way public expressions of racism have evolved. You can't publicly say black people don't like to work, but you can say there's an inner-city culture in which generations of people don't value work.

 inner city район трущоб ("город в городе") Бедный район, обычно в центральной части крупного промышленного города.

February 17, 2020 “Nobody thinks Russia should be in the Ukraine and trying to take land from an independent and sovereign country,” Bloomberg said, meandering away from a question on the unique experience of being a mayor.

“But if you really think about it,” he continued, “what would America do if we had a contiguous country where a lot of people in that country wanted to be Americans. Do Texas and California ring a bell? We just went in and took it.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-bloomberg-in-2015-saw-russias-point-in-invading-ukraine

February 13, 2020 The English, notorious for their wide use of swear words are called "les fuckoffs" by the French (Hughe’s Encyclopaedia of Swearing). A real challenge for translation!

February 11, 2020. "Face" is one of the principal terms in the theory of politeness. One of the best near-equivalents in Russian is "публичный образ". A typical context: “Most kinds of speech pose at least some threat to the face of the hearer. The mere act of initiating a conversation imposes a demand on the hearer’s time and attention. And then there are criticisms, boasts, interruptions, outbursts, the telling of bad news, and the broaching of divisive topics, all of which can injure the hearer’s face directly. It’s no surprise that the first thing out of our mouths when we address a stranger is a request for forgiveness: Excuse me.”[Pinker, 2007: 381].

February 7, 2020 The history of the buzz term “plausible deniability” goes back to Harry Truman and the paper 10/2 of June 18, 1948, which defined "covert operations" as "...all activities (except as noted herein) which are conducted or sponsored by this Government against hostile foreign states or groups or in support of friendly foreign states or groups but which are so planned and executed that any US Government responsibility for them is not evident to unauthorized persons and that if uncovered the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them." Feb. 3, 2020 But it was in 1961 that he was introduced to Moïse Tshombe - a Congolese politician and businessman who would go on to become prime minister of the Congo three years later. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51352075 Sometimes even experienced translators get mixed up with the difference between ‘go on doing smth.’ and ‘go on to do smth.’ Use "go on to" when one a ction stops and a new one starts, ie - After I finish university, I'll go on to start med school. "Go on doing" would be used if the same action is to be continued, ie - Don't let me interrupt you, go on doing what you're doing. to do something else in the future переходить к чему-либо в дальнейшем He went on to win the final.

Feb. 3, 2020 But it was in 1961 that he was introduced to Moïse Tshombe - a Congolese politician and businessman who would go on to become prime minister of the Congo three years later.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51352075

Sometimes even experienced translators get mixed up with the difference between ‘go on doing smth.’ and ‘go on to do smth.’

 Use "go on to" when one a ction stops and a new one starts, ie - After I finish university, I'll go on to start med school. "Go on doing" would be used if the same action is to be continued, ie - Don't let me interrupt you, go on doing what you're doing.

to do something else in the future

переходить к чему-либо в дальнейшем

He went on to win the final.