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Хворости одолели

English translation: Ailments ravaged

20:24 Aug 6, 2016
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Russian term or phrase: Хворости одолели
Хворости одолели Рысбека-ата.
Силы таяли.
Однажды он доверительно сказал Шолпан:
– Хоть и рукой подать до моего семидесятилетия, а боюсь, не доживу.
Simon Hollingsworth
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:46
English translation:Ailments ravaged
Explanation:
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Ilan Rubin (X)
Russian Federation
Local time: 20:46
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2Ailments ravaged
Ilan Rubin (X)
3 +1Infirmities got the upper hand over
Rachel Douglas
3Maladies got the better of....
Tatiana Grehan


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Ailments ravaged


Explanation:
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Ilan Rubin (X)
Russian Federation
Local time: 20:46
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Douglas: I have another idea, too, but this is good.
19 mins
  -> Thank you Rachel
agree  The Misha: Ailments, that was my first thought too.
1 hr
  -> Thank you Misha
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Infirmities got the upper hand over


Explanation:
Or, "began to get". Or substitute Ilan's "ailments" for infirmities.

I thought that "Infirmities began to get the upper hand" sounded a tad old-fashioned, in case that's a note you want to strike. Found quite a number of 19th century book citations, in which various infirmities were getting the upper hand over people, or over their hearts, etc.

Rachel Douglas
United States
Local time: 13:46
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 384

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marcombes (X)
23 hrs
  -> Thanks, Marcombes.
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56 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Maladies got the better of....


Explanation:
Как вариант.


Tatiana Grehan
United States
Local time: 13:46
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 16
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