Jan 13, 2020 14:37
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And it will be colder than it is now if I get left on venison after the first of
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Z góry przepraszam za to, że pytam o całe zdanie, ale ni w ząb go nie rozumiem. Tekst opowiada o rejsie kanadyjką po wodach gór Adirondack w XIX wieku. Oto cały akapit:
The second morning was clear (the previous day had been stormy) and I pulled out for the foot of Forked Lake, where I found Bill Cross, engaged as of old in hauling boats across the mile and a half carry. He took my knapsack over the carry out of good nature, and I paddled leisurely down the river, and down Long Lake to the newly-made Grove House, kept by Dave Helms. Dave is a well-known Long Lake guide, who, having got a little ahead, and well knowing the requirements of tourists and sportsmen, concluded to give up guiding and take the chances of keeping a woodland resort. And he does more than well. "And it will be colder than it is now if I get left on venison after the first of August," says Dave.
1 sierpnia rozpoczyna się sezon łowiecki na jelenia.
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The second morning was clear (the previous day had been stormy) and I pulled out for the foot of Forked Lake, where I found Bill Cross, engaged as of old in hauling boats across the mile and a half carry. He took my knapsack over the carry out of good nature, and I paddled leisurely down the river, and down Long Lake to the newly-made Grove House, kept by Dave Helms. Dave is a well-known Long Lake guide, who, having got a little ahead, and well knowing the requirements of tourists and sportsmen, concluded to give up guiding and take the chances of keeping a woodland resort. And he does more than well. "And it will be colder than it is now if I get left on venison after the first of August," says Dave.
1 sierpnia rozpoczyna się sezon łowiecki na jelenia.
Całość tekstu można znaleźć tu: http://robroy.dyndns.info/books/gws/N3C.HTM#top
Proposed translations
(Polish)
| 1 | zrobi się trudniej... |
Robert Foltyn
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| 3 | I zrobi się zimniej |
Jerzy Czaja-Szwajcer
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zrobi się trudniej...
Zrobi się trudniej, gdy po 1 sierpnia przyjdzie mi żywić się samym jeleniem.
Moja interpretacja:
it will be colder than it is now = the situation will become more difficult than it is now
Moja interpretacja:
it will be colder than it is now = the situation will become more difficult than it is now
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Jerzy Czaja-Szwajcer
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I zrobi się zimniej
Mam wrażenie, że tego nie trzeba zbyt komplikować. Po pierwszym sierpnia będzie po prostu chłodniej wg podmiotu czyli podczas okresu spożywania jeleniny po tym jak się zacznie sezon na jelenia.
I bedzie/zrobi się chłodniej niż jest teraz jeśli zostanę na jeleninę po pierwszym sierpnia.
I think we should not complicate the whole thing. Subject is just saying that it will be colder/it will get colder if he stays, eating vension after 1st of august.
I bedzie/zrobi się chłodniej niż jest teraz jeśli zostanę na jeleninę po pierwszym sierpnia.
I think we should not complicate the whole thing. Subject is just saying that it will be colder/it will get colder if he stays, eating vension after 1st of august.
Discussion
I stopped at Ed Bennett's Under the Hemlocks and then paddled slowly over to the Raquette House, kept by Ike Kenwell, and well kept, too. The selection of this hotel site was judicious. It stands--the hotel--on a dry breezy point of land jutting out into the lake, and it is always cool in the hottest weather. The house is well furnished, the table good, and the open bark camp with its fragrant bed of browse and rousing fire in front at night is a delightful woodland affair that should always be a part of the wilderness hotel. The best bass fishing on the lake is in easy reach of the landing.
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I find it difficult to make sense of the sentence. If GT is any indication, I think Robert Foltyn's interpretation may be accurate. I took "left on venison" as Robert did. That is, if no one is bringing any other foods to his place, or if no one is coming to stay at his place (giving him the money to buy other foods), he will be left to survive on the deer meat that he hunts himself.
I find it difficult to be sure about the sense of "and it will be colder than it is now". (Being summer, it would not be cold...?) But I tend to agree with Robert there, too. I imagine a scenario where the guest is complimenting Dave on how cool it is at his place. (People went to the Adirondacks in the summer to escape the heat of the city.) Dave replies, with some self-effacing humor, that if no one comes to his resort after August 1, when the hunting season is underway (and one would expect to have more guests?), it will be "colder still", meaning, if he has no guests later in the season things it will be lonely, or difficult, for him.
I would say that the line after -- "It is at these less pretentious houses where the landlords have mostly been guides that I find the best fare and most sport when I care to fish or hunt." is part of the context for this line. It signals that Dave is unpretentious, so it would support Robert's interpretation.
Still, there might be another, better explanation. My confidence, like Robert's, is not that high.