>>>As to испорченная пластинка - it's easy - mark it, rightclick - translate with bing
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>>Are you using IE or FF? It offers me "Translate with Live Search" and then "Unable to show content"... :(
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>>Anyway, what did you get as translation?
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>(1) IE 8
>(2) Bad disc

I setup them and got 'bad disk' too - not sure it's the best translation, but Ok - also may be there is no such idiom in English as in Russian.