Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

It was combating evil that bought us into evil.

Slovak translation:

bol to boj proti čertovi, ktorý nas vtiahol do zla

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Mar 4, 2003 13:14
21 yrs ago
English term

It was combating evil that bought us into evil.

Non-PRO English to Slovak Art/Literary
All through the 20th Century and even through the late 19th century, there was an eroding of war making in its limitations and spilling over into the destruction of civilians to a greater and greater extent, culminating in the bombings of German cities by the British and the Americans. The American bombings of Japanese cities, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
It was combating evil that bought us into evil.

Proposed translations

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bol to boj proti čertovi, ktorý nas vtiahol do zla

Ako skoro native speaker (zijuci v USA 25 rokov) tento idiom poznam.
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Bolo to zlo boja, ktoré nás vtiahlo do zla.

Môže to by odvodené aj od známej frázy: "zlo plodí zlo"
Ešte je tam jedna možnos:
"evil" môže niekedy znamena aj slovo "diabol".
Takže je tam možný aj podobný výklad.
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To boj so zlom nás primäl k hriechu.

Pravdepodobne je v texte preklep. "To buy into" nedáva význam, naproti tomu "to bring into" áno.

Evil má veža významov:
hnusný, hriech, nešastie, niečo zlého,
odporný, zle, zlo, zlovestný

V danom kontexte by som volila vyššie uvedený preklad, aj keď sa ponúkajú aj iné možnosti, napr.:
To boj so zlom nás prieviedol do nešastia.

bring into = vnies, vovies, primä
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