Упражнения на закрепление материала

1. Переведите предложения, используя прием конкретизации.

1. At seven o'clock an excellent meal was served in the dining-room.

2. At the by-election victory went to the Labour candidate.

3. The rain came in torrents.

4. “So what?” I said.

5. Не told me to come right over, if I felt like it.

6. She is at school.

7. The concert was on Sunday.

8. Не is in the Army.

9. You could hear him putting away his toilet articles.

2. Переведите предложения, используя прием генерализации.

1. Jane used to drive to market with her mother in their La Sane convertible.

2. He showed us his old beat-up Navaho blanket.

3. The bird went up and circled again.

4. ...Не comes over and visits me practically every weekend.

5. ...Не showed us this old beat-up Navajo blanket that he bought off some Indian...

3. Переведите предложения, используя прием модуляции.

1. He saw that she was near tears.

2. Be liberal with your encouragement and your students will make better progress.

3. You must have some discipline over your emotions.

4. He'd never drive under the influence of alcohol.

5. She thinks it never hurts to have friends in high places.

6. This point of view clashes with historical facts.

7. Is the house stirring early on my account?

8. In the office he was one of the most consistent nine-to­ fivers.

9. They have argued that the South Vietnamese were ineffective fighters.

10. The gales which were the worst in living memory caused devastation in some coastal regions.

4.В данном упражнении антонимический перевод является предпочтительным или единственно возможным. Постарайтесь определить, в каких случаях у вас есть возможность выбора из двух или более вариантов, а в каких нормы русского языка диктуют единственный вариант перевода. Переведите предложения.

1. He keeps the fortune from falling into the hands of greedy relatives.

2. “Macon, are you awake?”

3. The ambulance was a long time coming.

4. He stayed out of the sun during the middle part of the day.

5. Alexander fought to hold a grin back.

6. “Any objection to roast chicken?” Jenny asked.

7. The elder boys were still up, sitting around the TV.

8. He followed her into a large department store, careful to remain out of sight.

9. She keeps this room locked. The maids have been ordered to keep out.

10. This was a mystery beyond the inspector's power to solve.

11. He entered the suite, trying to keep his knees from trembling. He almost blurted out, “Where's the emerald?”

12. (In the Zoo) “Don't the animals hate being locked up, Papa?” the boy asked.

13. Alice shrieked and clapped her hands to her ears to shut out the sound she had imagined.

14. He left the form on the counter and walked out very quickly keeping a hand in his pocket to silence his keys.

5. Переведите предложения с конструкцией not ... until/till, используя прием антонимического перевода.

1. Science fiction as a genre did not exist until 1926 when Hugo Gernback started Amazing Stories as a monthly magazine.

2. It was not: until she was out in the corridor that it occurred to Ellie that he was probably looking for the diary.

3. The teacher didn't know the boy was homeless until a reporter asked her for an interview.

4. It wasn't until he joined the Air Force in 1985, that his life began tо deteriorate.

5. As early as the fifth century, the great Christian theologian warned against taking the six days of Genesis literally. He argued that the days of creation were not successive, ordinary days - the sun, after all, according to Genesis, was not created until the fourth "day" — and had nothing to do with time.

6. I didn't think about what she'd said to me until years later, after I moved to New York.

7. It was not until 1930 that an American scientist won a Nobel Prize in medicine.

8. You've Got Mail was the first time IV4eg Ryan and Tom Hanks worked together. In Sleepless in Seattle their characters didn't meet until the last scene.

9. Electric washing machines didn't take off until the 1960s.

10. It wasn't until the early 1990s that phones with moving pictures became a practical reality, the key development being digital image processing.

11. It wasn't until he died and his son came on from New Jersey for the funeral

that I found out he had never been in the Far West in his life. He had been born in Brooklyn.

12. It is often not until conflicts have escalated enough to dominate the evening news that countries are seriously ready to provide funds, people, peacekeepers and humanitarian assistance.

13. I did not meet Matty until after lunch when I joined the infant class.