Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
цепко держать в памяти
English translation:
keep smth fast in one's memory
Added to glossary by
Andrew Vdovin
Jan 9, 2006 14:23
18 yrs ago
Russian term
DELVING into DETAIL
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian, Russian to English, and 2 more.
цепко держал в памяти
Russian to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Он собирал всяческие секреты и цепко держал в памяти все те сведения, которые позже можно было выгодно продать.
Dear colleagues!
Помогите, please, с этим "цепко". Важно передать семантику "цепкости", "хваткости" (насколько возможно, конечно).
Dear colleagues!
Помогите, please, с этим "цепко". Важно передать семантику "цепкости", "хваткости" (насколько возможно, конечно).
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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21 mins
David Knowles
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Specialist in Civil Law & Contracts
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Works in: Russian to English, English, Ukrainian to English
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206
Russian term (edited):
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and kept them fast in his memory
don't think tenacious quite works here.
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Note added at 24 mins (2006-01-09 14:47:16 GMT)
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and kept fast in his memory all the information he could profitably sell
and kept all the information he could profitably sell fast in his memory
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Note added at 24 mins (2006-01-09 14:47:16 GMT)
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and kept fast in his memory all the information he could profitably sell
and kept all the information he could profitably sell fast in his memory
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Truth to say, 'fast' is not really what I expected, but since 'tenacious' looks like it sucks, I think I prefer your version after all, David. Thank you! Thanks everybody!!!"
6 mins
Russian term (edited):
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.... and retained in his tenacious memory...
чуть перевернул
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Alexander Demyanov
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Software Engineering background
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Russian term (edited):
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tenaciously remembered
http://m-w.com/dictionary/tenacious
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Behavior
How tenaciously we remember them! Here is a lesson which I brought along with me
in boyhood from the Latin School, and which ranks with the best of Roman ...
www.emersoncentral.com/behavior.htm - 53k - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 7 mins (2006-01-09 14:31:02 GMT)
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Behavior
How tenaciously we remember them! Here is a lesson which I brought along with me
in boyhood from the Latin School, and which ranks with the best of Roman ...
www.emersoncentral.com/behavior.htm - 53k - Cached - Similar pages
8 mins
Russian term (edited):
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tenacious memory
his tenacious memory snatched at every piece of information, bla-bla...
+1
7 mins
Сергей Лузан
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Always welcome! :)
Native in: Russian
Works in: German to Russian, English to Russian, Spanish to Russian, and 7 more.
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37
Russian term (edited):
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kept/ saved/ stored in his memory tenaciously
цепкая память | g-sort
общ. tenacious memory
http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?HL=2&L1=1&L2=2&EXT=0&s=������ ����...
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or "retentively"
retentive memory (Словарь общей лексики)
хорошая, цепкая память
http://lingvo.yandex.ru/en?text=цепкая память&st_translate=1...
1 hr
Russian term (edited):
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kept by his tenecious memory
Acc. to Merriam dictionary
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Note added at 1 hr 9 mins (2006-01-09 15:32:13 GMT)
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Sorry, tenAcious! Ochepiatalas
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Note added at 1 hr 9 mins (2006-01-09 15:32:13 GMT)
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Sorry, tenAcious! Ochepiatalas
9 hrs
Alexander Alexandrov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
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12
Russian term (edited):
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clung to his memory
[the data] clung to his memory
Battuta's Trip Conclusion
... Battuta was commanded to "dictate an account of the cities which he had seen
in his travel, and of the interesting events which had clung to his memory, ...
www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/ Ibn_Battuta/Battuta's_Trip_Conclusion.html
Read the first chapter of the novel by Louis L'Amour
Why had that one story clung to his memory? Was it the old man himself? He drove
slowly, watching for the turnoff he had been warned would be hard to find. ...
www.louislamour.com/firstchapt/hauntedmesa1st.htm
Battuta's Trip Conclusion
... Battuta was commanded to "dictate an account of the cities which he had seen
in his travel, and of the interesting events which had clung to his memory, ...
www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/ Ibn_Battuta/Battuta's_Trip_Conclusion.html
Read the first chapter of the novel by Louis L'Amour
Why had that one story clung to his memory? Was it the old man himself? He drove
slowly, watching for the turnoff he had been warned would be hard to find. ...
www.louislamour.com/firstchapt/hauntedmesa1st.htm
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