Упражнение 4. Перевод пассивных конструкций
I. Waterloo was lost by Napoleon, who was outwitted and outfought by Wellington and Blücher (the two generals who weren't afraid of his reputation); it was not a fault of Grouchy. (R. Aldington, Frauds)
2. If the recommendations of the Wolfenden Committee on Sports arc accepted and acted upon by the Government, they would mark a big step in the right direction. (Daily Worker)
3 Roosevelt's famous statement that one third of the nation was ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed should have read at least two-thirds, for no less than 80 per cent of our people are getting less than is called for in the widely endorsed budget of the Heller Committee for research in social economics. (W. Foster)
4. Workers of the colonial countries have been and are ruthlessly exploited and persecuted. In the Philippines all democratic trade unions have been banned (Report of World Affairs)
5 Farmers Drive with Death. A farmer in North Queensland, Australia, drove ten miles to an ambulance station to have a six-foot snake wrapped around his arm identified. It turned out to be a taipan. Australia's deadliest serpent. (Morning Star)
6 The progressive movement in Toronto was saddened to hear of the death last week of Stanley Thornley at the age of 82. for all his active life. since coming to Canada in 1910, "Pop" Thornley was loved and respected by his fellow-workers for his forthright socialist ideas. He is survived by his three sons and one daughter. (The Canadian Tribune)
Упражнение 5. Переведите предложения, стараясь подобрать наиболее точный эквивалент для выражения безличного или неопределенно-личного предложения в русском.
It will be seen that the distinction between different parts of speech always depends on formal criteria.
It was doubted that Shaw's plays would retain their interest when the problems treated in them — slums, women's rights, marriage customs had ceased to be of immediate concern.
Views as to 21 the actual date of the manuscript varied; the seventh century was the most usually favoured, but it was generally agreed that the illustrations belonged to an archetype perhaps as early as 22 the second century.
It will be readily understood that the difficulty of arriving at the 23 meaning of such compositions is very considerable.
In considering loan-words it has to be remembered that, when two languages are in contact, words which are themselves borrowed may pass from one to another.
It has been said that Latin is more concise than English. The reverse is the case.24 English is briefer than Latin.
It is to be remembered that it was advisable to issue the proclamation of Henry Ill's adherence to the Provisions 25 in English as well as in Latin.
Speaking of the influence exerted on the African peasants by workers who lose their jobs and return to their native villages, Woddis writes: «One is inevitably reminded here of Lenin's observations regarding the influence of the Russian workers on the peasant in the period leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1905».
The Eskimos of the North-west Coast, it will be remembered, use to this day harpoon-heads of this kind.
Let it be stressed, however, that an understanding of the build and form of the land, a knowledge of the routes of communication and an idea of the character of the natural resources — are all of them factors which should be considered at the outset 26 by every historian of art in the course of his examination of a particular area or a particular civilization.
It has been thought not superfluous, however, to add a few data of this kind, without a knowledge of which it is impossible to understand the course of the literary development.
«Better a live dog than a dead lion». The last example, it will be observed, contains transverse alliteration and assonance.
As is readily seen, the problems and questions in regard to 27 this subject are far more numerous than the solutions.
People living upon lakes plentifully stocked with fish, it can be imagined, availed themselves of all means in their power for capturing them.
It has been ascertained beyond doubt that two kinds of cattle were common during the stone age.