Day 97: Geologists' Day Reunion
On Geologists' Day in Irkutsk, three retired geologists meet, as they have for forty years, to raise a glass and remember their expeditions.
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Dialogue
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A
Ну, мужики, первый тост, как всегда: за тех, кто в поле!
Well, lads, the first toast, as always: to those out in the field!
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B
За тех, кто в поле! А помнишь, Толя, семьдесят девятый под Бодайбо, как я ту жилу нашёл?
To those out in the field! And do you remember, Tolya, '79 near Bodaibo, when I found that vein?
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C
Ты нашёл? Гена, ты тогда с горем пополам до лагеря доковылял, ноги в кровь стёр.
You found it? Gena, back then you barely hobbled back to camp, your feet rubbed raw.
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B
Ноги ногами, а пробы кто тащил? Тридцать килограммов на своём горбу, между прочим.
Never mind my feet, who hauled the samples? Thirty kilos on my own back, I'll have you know.
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A
Тащил ты, спорить не буду. Только нашёл-то её я, а Миша в тот день в лагере кашу варил.
You hauled them, I won't argue. But I'm the one who found it, and Misha was cooking porridge in camp that day.
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C
Склероз у вас, ребята, коллективный. Жилу я нашёл, когда вас обоих из тайги выводил.
You two have collective amnesia, lads. I found the vein when I was leading you both out of the taiga.
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B
Толя, ты же тогда дневник вёл, как примерный студент. Неужели сохранил?
Tolya, you kept a diary back then, like a model student. Don't tell me you still have it?
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A
Специально принёс, для истории. Слушайте: «Четырнадцатое июля, жила обнаружена поваром Семёнычем, пока геологи спорили, где копать».
I brought it specially, for the record. Listen: 'July the fourteenth, vein discovered by the cook, Semyonych, while the geologists were arguing about where to dig.'
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C
Семёныч, значит... Вот он, настоящий самородок. Ну, мужики, наливайте: за Семёныча, царство ему небесное, и за тех, кто в поле!
Semyonych, eh... Now there's a real nugget of a man. Well, lads, pour it out: to Semyonych, God rest his soul, and to those out in the field!
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