Всем привет. Обращаюсь в первую очередь к тем обитателям сайта, которые в достаточной мере знают английский язык, чтобы обнаружить в тексте ошибки. Сам текст в комментариях к посту. Всем заранее спасибо.
I'm smoking. Yes, it’s harmful. Yes, it’s silly. But it is none of your business. Oh, what? You feel bad, because I’m smoking? Excuse me, why? Passive smoking is harmful to your health? On the street of multi-million city, over which smog from the exhaust gases of cars going as early as eight o'clock in the morning, are you hurt by of someone else's cigarette? Are you? Then please forgive me. I'll extinguish my cigarette immediately, and together we will feel the smell ... uh, what smells like this city at all? But I will quit smoking. Someday. Probably. One question: all non-smokers have to molest to smokers? Yes? Then I can’t join at the non-smoking crowd. I don't want to be one of those who on the street molests to the man who specifically stepped aside to smoke. It’s not my style.
And I drink. Well, I mean, I drink alcohol. Harmful? Yes. Or no. I'm not sure. Oh, excessive alcohol destroy the liver? Well, the excessive use of aspirin for the benefit will not go too. Excessive, you know? And, in general, alcohol is beneficial sometimes. Yes, yes, just telling you. Some people need alcohol at all. And I 'm not talking about the drunkards, I’m talking about nudniks. Well, you know them, they are bad interlocutors. You look at one - gloomy and humorless forever, he doesn’t understand jokes, and complains complains complains complains. If you pour fifty grams of good brandy to one of them, he suddenly becomes more pleasant. He becomes kinder and more interesting. He starts to joke (of course, he knows only old, but still), he becomes funny. The main thing is the karaoke isn’t too close.
By the way, where laws restricting fans howl at karaoke? All the bad stuff are from karaoke. When someone in a drunken company wishes to "sing karaoke", you must stop him. Stop and be persistent, as if forbidding him to drive the car. Drunk with microphone ruined more lives than drunk with car.
I'm not saying that the karaoke is bad. The combination of bad singer and karaoke is bad. Just like smoking. It's not bad. But the asshole who smokes a cigarette at your face is bad. But he's asshole not because he smokes cigarettes. Asshole could not smoke at all, but still somehow be disturbing you - he could be shoved you in the shoulder on the street , for example. And asshole, being on the car, do not necessarily have to be drunk to knock someone. Sober asshole loves fast drive too. If man is asshole he does not even need a car to hurt someone. Asshole will find a way to hurt without car. Without alcohol , without cigarettes, without cars, without weapons - asshole doesn’t need arsenal to do hurt to someone. Asshole needs a chance. Asshole needs the opportunity. Asshole needs the rights. Then asshole will find a way.
And something else. Asshole is in the delusion that everybody want to offend him. Asshole thinks all people are assholes. And, if you think like this, I have bad news for you.
what smells like this city at all -> what this city smells like З.Ы. Это всё моё ИМХО, могут найтись люди более компетентные в английском, которые и меня поправят.
Drunk with microphone ruined more lives than drunk with car. Может ошибусь, но ни разу не видел употребления drunk в качестве существительного. Ну и артикли.
The combination of bad singer and karaoke is bad. Английский, конечно, гораздо менее чувствителен к тавтологии, чем русский. Но у bad есть куча хороших эмоциональных синонимов, зачем повторяться.
Ни для какой конкретно. Просто автор оригинала на русском языке я. Вот решил, подучиться английскому, да и совместить приятное с полезным. Может, потом заброшу этот текст в "те интернеты"))
Проверил себя. И правда, словари говорят, что opportunity может быть как countable так и uncountable. Но на практике я не встречал uncountable варианта, так что имхо лучше an opportunity.