Hello, everyone. My friend and me are trying to translate the text from Urkainian to English. We've got a lot of troubles with it, dictionaries don't help much really
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1. A state of nature before a thunderstorm when the air is thick and humid etc. Is there one word to describe it?
“It’s very muggy.” Or “It [the air] is very close.”
For me, “muggy” does NOT mean “It feels like it’s about to rain.” It means it’s rather warm and humid and uncomfortable, possibly with high pressure. At this stage we hope for a thunderstorm “to clear the air”. N.B. I should explain that thunderstorms are quite rare here; any given place will usually have less than five per year. *guessing wildly*
2. Expression to descibe the movement of placing weapon on your sholder holding the belt of it. Don't know how to describe it with words.
“He shouldered his weapon”. “He walked with his rifle slung over his shoulder”.
You might use “fling” for a scarf, or your hair, but never a weapon.
3. Is it alright to say "the death is (up)on my consience"?
“The death is on [NOT upon] my conscience “ is fine. If you were accusing someone else, you might say “His blood is on your hands”, but you wouldn’t say that about yourself imo.
"His blood is on my hands" sounds fine to me, although a bit melodramatic.
OP, you would probably not say "the death" if you're talking about a particular person's death. You'd say "HIS death is on my conscience" or "HIS blood is on my hands."
people have pretty much covered point 2 & 3 as i would but...
1) i (brit eng) describe that pre-thunder weather as "heavy" though i would know what people were thinking of if they used "muggy" - in my part of the world muggy (warm but not hot, high humidity & usually overcast) weather *can* be ended by a storm but it's not usual.
1. A state of nature before a thunderstorm when the air is thick and humid etc. Is there one word to describe it?
“It’s very muggy.” Or “It [the air] is very close.”
For me, “muggy” does NOT mean “It feels like it’s about to rain.” It means it’s rather warm and humid and uncomfortable, possibly with high pressure. At this stage we hope for a thunderstorm “to clear the air”. N.B. I should explain that thunderstorms are quite rare here; any given place will usually have less than five per year. *guessing wildly*
2. Expression to descibe the movement of placing weapon on your sholder holding the belt of it. Don't know how to describe it with words.
“He shouldered his weapon”. “He walked with his rifle slung over his shoulder”.
You might use “fling” for a scarf, or your hair, but never a weapon.
3. Is it alright to say "the death is (up)on my consience"?
“The death is on [NOT upon] my conscience “ is fine. If you were accusing someone else, you might say “His blood is on your hands”, but you wouldn’t say that about yourself imo.
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OP, you would probably not say "the death" if you're talking about a particular person's death. You'd say "HIS death is on my conscience" or "HIS blood is on my hands."
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1) i (brit eng) describe that pre-thunder weather as "heavy" though i would know what people were thinking of if they used "muggy" - in my part of the world muggy (warm but not hot, high humidity & usually overcast) weather *can* be ended by a storm but it's not usual.
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