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Волшебник никогда не опаздывает, Фродо Бэггинс. Как и не приходит рано. Он приходит именно тогда, когда нужно.
"...когда сочтёт нужным" ≠ "...when he means to [arrive]"
"When he means to..." вообще звучит как-то не так.
"...когда сочтёт нужным" ≈ "...when he/she feels like it." (фиксированный оборот).
"When he means to..." вообще звучит как-то не так.
Это же цитата. Из Толкина: "A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."
Mea culpa, не распознал.
В любом случае, "when he means to" означает "когда (и) намеревался", а не "когда сочтёт нужным". Как мне кажется, "когда сочтёт нужным" имеет явный оттенок волюнтаризма ("когда взблагорассудится"), а не заранее разработанного плана. По-английски это именно "...when he/she feels like it" или, чуть более формально, "when he/she pleases".
"работа (чья?) команды", though I know where you got that from :) "good work russian team" → "молодцы, русская команда!" is a better way to say it. (the comma makes it an addressed phrase, while no comma makes it a willing disregard of word order to stress the "молодцы", so choose what you want it to be like)
Am I the only one who didn't get the LOTR reference at first and thought it was just a weird sentence?
I used the word "volshebnik" in the presence of a native Russian speaker and they were surprised I knew the word. But they seemed surprised in a happy way.
As soon as I saw this notification, I thought "I bet that's to say I should've used a мягкий знак!" LOL I was trying to decide last night and was just toooo tired to go look it up.
I am always baffled by when to use э vs а in transliterations... I'll attempt to remember this one in future 8-o ;)
You never know :D You can just pretend you've read a different translation of LoTR, there are tons already...
I disagree. "Never is" is a very awkward word order unless it is used at the beginning of a sentence: "Never is a wizard late!" That would hardly be a neutral word order, but still acceptable. Yours - not so much (IMHO).
P.S. If you need a "second opinion", do a search on "never" here
Specifically, in the middle of a sentence "never" should be placed
after BE verb
after auxiliary verbs
before other verbs
