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Предисловие 3

Часть I

§ 1. Инфинитив 6

I Инфинитив в различных функциях 6

II Инфинитивные конструкции 13

Субъектно-предикативный инфинитивный оборот 13

Объектно-предикативный инфинитивный оборот 16

  1.  Инфинитивный комплекс 17
  2.  Независимая номинативная конструкция 17

§ 2. Герундий 25

I Герундий в различных функциях 25

II. Герундиальный комплекс 35

§ 3. Причастие 39

I Причастие в различных функциях 39

II. Причастные конструкции 41

  1.  Объектный причастный оборот 41
  2.  Каузативный, или побудительный, оборот 41
  3.  Абсолютная причастная конструкция 46

  1.  Причастия в функции союзов и предлогов 51
  2.  Форма на-ing 54

§ 4. Страдательный залог 56

§ 5. Сослагательное наклонение 60

§ 6. Модальные и вспомогательные глаголы 65

I Should 65

II Can, may, must 70

  1.  To be 76
  2.  To have 79

V. To do 82

§ 7. Артикль 84

I. Определенный артикль 85

II Неопределенный артикль 85

§ 8. Четырехчленная каузативная конструкция 92

§ 9. Различные функции слов it, one, that 95

I It  95

II. One 98

III. That 100

§ 10. Многозначные и трудные для перевода слова 104

I. Существительные и прилагательные 104

П. Служебные слова 113

§ 11. Сложноподчиненные предложения 125

§ 12. Эллиптические конструкции 134

§ 13. Препозитивные атрибутивные словосочетания 137

I. Двучленные словосочетания 137

II. Многочленные словосочетания 138

§ 14. Неологизмы 145

§ 15. Интернациональная и псевдоинтернациональная лексика.

«Ложные друзья» переводчика 155

Часть II

Предложения для перевода на смешанные трудности 162

Часть III

I. Тексты для устного перевода 189

П. Тексты для письменного перевода 199

Ключи к установочным упражнениям Части I 219

 Предисловие

Настоящее пособие составлено в соответствии с программными требованиями по курсу перевода и предназначается для студентов институтов и факультетов иностранных языков, приступающих к работе над переводом с английского языка на русский неадаптированного общественно-политического текста. Пособие может быть также использовано на курсах и при самостоятельной работе над языком. Лица, занимающиеся самостоятельно и желающие приобрести навык чтения, понимания и перевода газетного общеполитического текста, должны иметь знания элементарной грамматики и запас лексики в объеме первого года обучения, а также уметь пользоваться словарем.

Авторы не ставят целью данного пособия изложение теории перевода, поскольку теоретические принципы перевода достаточно полно и всесторонне изложены в ряде учебных пособий по теории перевода*. Данная книга является практическим пособием, его цель — помочь студентам овладеть грамматическими и лексическими трудностями, с которыми приходится чаще всего сталкиваться при переводе английских общеполитических текстов, а также способами их преодоления. Не давая подробного изложения того или иного грамматического или лексического явления**, авторы рассматривают только ту сторону данного явления, которая представляет интерес и трудность в плане перевода, и путем тренировки на большом количестве предложений, включающих данное грамматическое или лексическое явление, стремятся выработать навык правильного понимания текста и нахождения эквивалента на родном языке.

Пособие состоит из трех частей. Первая часть содержит ряд разделов, каждый из которых охватывает какую-то грамматическую или лексическую трудность. В начале раздела дается характеристика

См. например' Комиссаров В. Н., Рецкер Я. И., Тархов В. И. Пособие по переводу с английского языка на русский. — М., I960. — Ч. I; М., 1965. — Ч. II.

Для этого рекомендуется пользоваться имеющимися у студентов грамматиками английского языка. Например, «Грамматикой английского языка» М А Беляевой. «Грамматикой английского языка для Средней школы» Э.П.Шубина и В.В.Сытеля и др.


явления, которое иллюстрируется примером и одним или двумя вариантами (способами) возможного перевода его на русский язык. Приводятся наиболее употребительные варианты перевода, которые, естественно, не исчерпывают всех возможностей в этом отношении. Далее следуют предложения для перевода на данную трудность. Эти разделы (как теоретическая их часть, так и количество предложений, предлагаемых для перевода) не одинаковы по объему, что зависит от сложности данного явления и от частотности его употребления в газетных и журнальных текстах. Предложения подобраны с учетом того, чтобы смысл был понятен в рамках данного предложения и их перевод не зависел от более широкого контекста. В сносках дается расшифровка встречающихся сокращений. Предложения выборочно снабжены ключами.

Во второй части для перевода даны предложения более сложные, содержащие две или более различных трудностей. Они разбиты по рубрикам, что облегчает в какой-то мере задачу, так как учащийся знает, к какой категории относятся эти примеры. Это уже второй этап в работе над переводом

В третьей части даны тексты для устного и письменного перевода.

Расположение материала в пособии не обязывает к определенной последовательности работы над ним. При подборе предложений и текстов авторы учитывали употребительность лексики с тем, чтобы студенты, наряду с приобретением переводческих навыков, усваивали лексику, наиболее часто встречающуюся в газетном и журнальном тексте. Материал подобран из английской и американской периодики последнего десятилетия.

Методически пособие построено на основе принципов программированного обучения.

Первая часть ставит своей целью сообщение знаний о трудностях перевода и способах их преодоления и вводит терминологию, которая упростит преподавателю работу со студентом при поэтапном обучающем контроле. В упражнениях первой части каждая трудность выделена курсивом, а способ перевода дается в ключах к упражнениям.

Вторая часть пособия ставит своей целью выработку умения выделить из текста предложения заданную трудность и использовать известные приемы перевода. Кроме того, на этом этапе активизируется пользование терминологией перевода. Упражнения этой части разделены на несколько рубрик, но сами трудности в предложениях не выделены и ключи к предложениям этой части не даются.

 

Третья часть пособия ставит своей целью развитие навыка перевода: умение выделить трудности перевода и, используя известные приемы, перевести текст. Эта часть разделена на две главы. Поскольку выбор лексики и стиля перевода зависят от широкого контекста всего текста, в первой главе вырабатывается умение работать с текстом до начала перевода как такового. Студент должен научиться анализировать текст, давать его краткую аннотацию и определять задачу автора. Тексты этой главы предназначены для перевода «с листа», но некоторые могут быть даны и на письменный перевод. Во вторую главу включены более сложные тексты для письменного перевода. На этом этапе студент должен уметь: анализировать текст, выделять в предложении переводческие трудности и, используя известные ему способы, давать точный (адекватный) перевод на русский язык в письменной форме, переводить текст

При самостоятельном обучении речь идет о самоконтроле, проверке своих навыков и знаний.

В третьем издании несколько изменена теоретическая трактовка некоторых грамматических явлений (сослагательного наклонения, конъюнктива), расширены главы «Неологизмы» и «Ложные друзья переводчика»; последняя теперь включает интернациональную и псевдоинтернациональную лексику; значительно обновлен текстовой материал примеров и полностью обновлены все тексты из III части пособия, при этом авторы ставили своей целью ввести наиболее часто употребляемую лексику по политическим, экономическим и социальным проблемам современного мира.

Авторы выражают благодарность рецензентам пособия — кафедре английского языка Гуманитарных факультетов МГУ и старшему преподавателю кафедры Э.Г.Зверевой и доценту кафедры английского языка № 1 МГИМО (У) МИД РФ Л.Г.Владыкиной за помощь и советы при работе над пособием.

Авторы заранее признательны за все критические замечания и предложения, которые могут быть сделаны по данному пособию.

Авторы посвящают это издание светлой памяти Зражевской Татьяны Алексеевны, автору оригинальной идеи этого пособия.

Авторы

Часть I

§ 1. Инфинитив I. Инфинитив в различных функциях

1. Инфинитив в функции определения переводится на русский язык, как правило, определительным придаточным предложением с модальным глагольным сказуемым, выражающим возможность или долженствование, или же глаголом-сказуемым в будущем времени.

This question will be discussed at the conference shortly to open in Moscow. Этот вопрос будет обсуждаться на конференции, которая должна вскоре открыться (вскоре открывается) в Москве.

1) После слова the last и порядковых числительных (если в дан
ном предложении они выполняют функцию предикативного члена)
инфинитив в функции определения переводится личной формой
глагола в том же времени, что и глагол-сказуемое главного предложения.

The Secretary general was the first to raise this question. Генеральный секретарь первым поставил этот вопрос (...был первым, кто поставил...).

Если же эти слова выполняют какую-либо другую синтаксическую функцию, то инфинитив может также переводиться и причастием.

Тhe first person to raise objections was the Minister himself. Первым, выступившим с возражениями, был сам министр.

2) Пассивная форма инфинитива в функции определения сохра
няет после себя предлог, с которым употребляется данный глагол, и


переводится обычно на русский язык неопределенно-личным предложением.

There was nothing to be astonished at Удивляться было нечему.

This was not a matter to be easily agreed upon He такой это был вопрос, чтобы по нему можно было легко договориться (по этому/такому вопросу договориться было нелегко).

3) В отдельных случаях инфинитив в функции определения может переводиться причастием, прилагательным или существительным с предлогом.

The shape of things to come is shown by the data obtained by the experts. О характере предстоящих событий можно судить по данным, полученным специалистами (экспертами).

4) В зависимости от сочетаемости слов в русском языке предложение с инфинитивом в функции определения может быть переведено простым предложением; модальность при переводе передается лексически.

Не had no objections to make У него не было возражений (Он не мог ничего возразить.)

The items to be discussed at the next session were already agreed upon. Вопросы, подлежащие обсуждению на следующей сессии, были уже согласованы.

5) Если определение указывает на назначение предмета, то оно
сближается по значению с обстоятельством цели и переводится со
ответственно либо определением, либо обстоятельством цели, что
зависит от контекста и от сочетаемости слов в русском языке.

Automation is one of the ways to increase production. Автоматизация — один из способов повысить производительность (повышения производительности).

2. Инфинитив в функции дополнения не вызывает затруднений при переводе на русский язык, он обычно переводится инфинитивом, иногда придаточным предложением.

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They want to submit a new proposal. Они хотят внести новое предложение.

They claim to be working for peace. Они заявляют (утверждают), что они (якобы) трудятся во имя мира (служат делу мира).

3. Инфинитив в функции  обстоятельства  результата  или
следствия и сопутствующего обстоятельства.

1) Инфинитив результата или следствия, которому предшествуют
слова such., (as), enough, so... , too... , only, часто имеет модальное
значение и переводится на русский язык или инфинитивом, или самостоятельным предложением, вводимым союзами и, но

This question is too difficult to be settled without further consultations. Этот вопрос слишком сложен, чтобы его можно было разрешить (чтобы его разрешить) без дальнейших консультаций.

Не managed to obtain this concession from the management only to find that no one really needed it. Он добился этой уступки от администрации, но обнаружил, что она никому не нужна.

2) Если в предложении с инфинитивом в функции обстоятельства
результата или следствия нет вышеупомянутых прилагательных и
наречий, то инфинитив переводится, в зависимости от сочетаемости
слов в русском языке, часто самостоятельным предложением, вводимым союзом и

Last year he resigned his post never to return to public life. В прошлом году он ушел в отставку и никогда уже не возвращался к общественной жизни (государственной деятельности).

Примечание. Инфинитив в этой функции представляет трудности при переводе главным образом потому, что он ошибочно может быть принят за обстоятельство цели Только смысл всего предложения, а иногда и более широкий контекст позволяет определить, является ли инфинитив обстоятельством цели или результата.

4. Инфинитив в функции подлежащего, предикативного члена, именной части составного сказуемого и обстоятельства цели

не представляет трудности при переводе на русский язык. В этих функциях он переводится инфинитивом (в функции подлежащего или обстоятельства цели) или существительным.

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To postpone an election due in a month's time is not technically easy; postponement would require complex legal maneuvers, which might take weeks. Отложить выборы, которые должны состояться через месяц, непросто с организационной точки зрения; отсрочка потребует сложных правовых маневров, на которые могут уйти недели.

Примечание. 1. В сочетании с глаголом to fail или существительным failure инфинитив передает неудавшуюся попытку совершить действие или просто отрицание и часто переводится на русский язык личной формой глагола в отрицательной форме.

The negotiators failed to come to agreement Участники переговоров не пришли к согласию (не смогли договориться)

2. Сочетание is (was) bound с инфинитивом переводится обязательно, неизбежно должно было

It was bound to happen. Это неизбежно должно было произойти (случиться).

5. Инфинитив может быть в предложении вводным элементом: to tell the truth... no правде говоря , to be frank, если говорить откровенно... , to put it mildly   мягко выражаясь

Примечание Инфинитив в начале предложения может выступать либо в функции подлежащего или обстоятельства цели, либо быть вводным элементом Синтаксический анализ предложения дает возможность совершенно точно определить его функцию

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Kurds are especially happy with a US pledge last September to
    protect     them against Baghdad.
  2.  India and Pakistan are racing to put warheads on fast-flying mis
    siles, set on a hair trigger,     to be launched at first warning or lost to an in
    coming strike.
  3.  Efforts to attract investment by selling Ireland abroad also have a
    long history.
  4.  British Airways said, it would install heart monitors and cardial de-
    fibrillators devices on all its aircraft within a year, becoming the first in
    ternational airline     to do so
  5.  Military rule and disdain for human rights have supposedly made
    Nigeria a country not     to be visited.

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  1.  


Even from the point of view of Britain's homegrown capitalists, the
current policies are failing. That is the only conclusion to be drawn from
the Bank of England's quarterly review and the report of the Commons
Treasury and Civil Service Committee.

Information comes in floods now, but we haven't installed a way to
use the brains with the capacity to filter and distill it.

The decision to ban export of beef and cattle from Portugal was
made after a sharp increase in the number of cases last year of «mad
cow» disease in cattle grown in Portugal.

The candidate said this morning that he was fully aware of the ob
stacles to be faced and the charges that would be made.

  1.  The Euro-American democracies have, in the new NATO, a cen
    tral organization     to co-ordinate the military actions of those NATO
    members which decide they need to act.
  2.  The US government controls exports of strong encryption prod
    ucts     to preserve its capability to decode messages from foreign govern
    ments and criminals.
  3.  There are lessons to be learnt from the cold war, but the inevita
    bility of a peaceful outcome is not one of them.
  4.  Most Japanese educators concede that a reliance on rote learning
    and cramming does great damage to creativity, and many universities are
    moving     to include interviews and essay writing in their entrance tests.
  5.  A personal campaign to acquaint the farmers with the facts about
    this year's agricultural price review will be launched by the Minister of
    Agriculture on Monday.
  6.  Peru plans to raise $1 billion through bond sales and loans to help
    the country's struggling companies restructure debt.
  7.  Britain had the most extensive network of double taxation agree
    ments in the world     to protect companies trading in Britain and other
    countries from paying tax twice over.
  8.  The said tax increases to reduce government borrowing would do
    little to help recession hit industry or reduce unemployment.
  9.  The United States used the UN inspection team to send a US spy
    into Baghdad     to install a highly sophisticated electronic eavesdropping
    system.
  10.  In his semiannual report to Congress, the US Federal Reserve
    chairman suggested that « storm clouds     massing over the western Pacific
    and headed our way» might dampen demand for US goods and services
    just     enough to relieve inflationary pressure — and render unnecessary a
    Fed hike in short-term rates.

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  1.  Having shed enough of its history to look outward and prosper in
    Europe, Ireland has retained     enough, up to now, to ameliorate the strains
    of rapid social change. This is a balance that will be     difficult to preserve
  2.  The general feeling in Egypt is that the government has won its
    war against the Islamist militants. What it is still not confident     enough to
    do     is to allow political Islam a public voice.
  3.  Japanese consumers have simply not been purchasing many of the
    high-ticket items—particularly automobiles and appliances —     in suffi
    cient     volume to keep Japan's economy moving at the higher rate business
    would like to achieve.
  4.  Although Mr.Kim [South Korea"] was the first of the three to em
    brace     the need for a rescue by the International Monetary Fund, he made
    worrying noises about wanting     to renegotiate the deal once he entered
    office.
  5.  Mr.Cook is not the first British foreign secretary to arrive in office
    determined to change things, nor will he be     the last to run up against the
    diplomats' natural scepticism about his ability to do.
  6.  The achievement [of Ireland] is certainly not to be dismissed, as
    some would have it, as a matter of statistical fudges, subsidies from
    Europe and tax dodges for multinationals. But lessons for would-be tigers
    are either     difficult to infer or of little use.
  7.  Scientology tries to turn its followers' minds and part them from
    their money; of course it will try     to change their lives forever. But so do
    lots of religions.
  8.  Any newly elected government can expect to be given the benefit
    of the doubt by the public.
  9.  The U.S. Federal law allows the satellite systems to provide net
    work programming only to a viewer who cannot receive the local affiliate
    of a network using a conventional TV antenna.
  10.  The United Nations said that a UN delegation would visit China
    next month     to look at what help the country needs to implement its com
    mitments on human rights.
  11.  This attack on Serbia may be the start of a new trend to restrain
    thugs and despots, though it does not look terribly likely.
  12.  They say ways and means must be found whereby developing
    countries can expand their exports and increase foreign exchange earn
    ings     to pay for such internal programmes as power projects, transport
    services, exploitation of natural resources and industrialization generally.
  13.  The US President calls on America to accept a global role.
  14.  To meet the need for increasingly precise forecasts, meteorologists
    hope     to extend their observational system until it covers every corner of
    the earth.

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  1.  The chancellor in fact, was quick to warn us against raising false
    hopes on the basis of the new international support given for the pound.
  2.  The Prime Minister had told the party meeting that as a tough
    Prime Minister, he refused     to be dictated to by any group.
  3.  [NATO] Already the Europeans cannot agree to finance the mod
    ernization programs that were considered essential even before enlarge
    ment came into the picture.
  4.  In London the British Government's special envoy said on return
    ing yesterday from a two-week Far East «factfinding mission», that he
    was disappointed     not to have been invited to take part in the talks on the
    region's problems.
  5.  Perhaps BNP [Banque Nationale de Paris] felt left out: it courted
    Societe General unsuccessfully for two years     only to see the bank fall into
    the arms of Paribas.
  6.  The retired director of the Brain Institute at the University of Cali
    fornia — Los Angeles, devoted his life to studying that complex organ,
    only to be crippled by a brain disease that leaves its victims unable to care
    for themselves.
  7.  Education standards are bound to be hit by the government's latest
    round of spending cuts, the Education Secretary admitted yesterday.

41. Japan's  economic  success  carries  inevitable  political  conse
quences, and they are bound to be recognized sooner or later.

  1.  The announcements of his latest trip is bound to intensify suspi
    cions about the objectives of the Government's manoeuvres.
  2.  «The US economy already looks fairly bubble-like. Such an econ
    omy     is bound to slow once stock prices fall, and so the base trend will be
    a stronger yen once Japan's economy strengthens,» said a top official in
    the Finance Ministry.
  3.  The Chancellor of Germany said he had serious concerns that fail
    ure to reach agreement     on the EU reforms could lead to complications
    concerning the European single currency, the euro.
  4.  Even a public apology from the prime minister for failing to ex
    plain     his policy failed to turn the tide of opinion in his favour.

  1.  European Union leaders last night failed to make any break
    throughs on the future financing of the community.
  2.  The two social workers stood bail of $500 each. When the youth
    failed to appear, they were summoned to court and ordered to forfeit
    $300 each...
  3.  Will Republicans squabble so acrimoniously to define the soul of
    their party that they condemn themselves to a protracted civil war that,

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two years from now, will lead not just to failure to recapture the White House but to failure to keep control of Congress?

  1.  The old controversy about whether government borrowing im
    poses a burden on the future has lately been given a new airing. Consider,
    to begin with, the recipe for making a « primary real burden» of the na
    tional debt as laid down by Professor Brown of the University of Vir
    ginia.
  2.  To begin with, the cumulative effect of so many cocktail and other
    parties amounts to a serious physical drain on the U.N. delegates; consid
    erable stamina is required to stand up to some seven hundred social func
    tions a year.
  3.  It was freely stated, to begin with, that she was little more than a
    figurehead, used by the politicians of her party to get back into power on
    a strong wave of emotion which only she could inspire.
  4.  To judge living standards, it is better to add to GDP the income
    earned by foreign assets, and     to deduct from it the income paid to foreign
    creditors.
  5.  The other leg of the Nissan plan is to raise operating margins from
    below zero up to 5% within two years.
  6.  The commercial broadcasting industry convinced Americans that
    it was « good citizenship     to consume news at regular intervals».
  7.  In many respects the father of both the supersonic Concorde and
    the wide-bodied Airbus airliners, Henri Ziegler     lived long enough to see
    the recent major restructuring of the French aircraft industry.
  8.  Behind the closed doors of homes ranging from modest apart
    ments to mansions in Virginia, many foreign servants live in silent de
    spair, toiling long hours for low wages but     too fearful, isolated or inse
    cure     about what will happen to them to complain or breakfree, human
    rights advocates and investigators say.
  9.  It is increasingly recognized that the current peacekeeping re
    sources and powers of the UN are     too limited to enable it to intervene ef
    fectively in many conflicts. One solution would be     to create peace en
    forcement units,     to be made available in clearly defined circumstances.

II. Инфинитивные конструкции

1. Субъектно-предикативный инфинитивный оборот (конструкция «именительный с инфинитивом»).

1) Предложение с этим оборотом,  как правило,  переводится сложноподчиненным предложением, главное предложение которого

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представляет собой неопределенно-личное предложение типа: говорят, сообщают, известно и т. д., придаточное дополнительное вводится союзами что и как

The delegation is reported to have left for London. Сообщают, что делегация выехала в Лондон.

2) Если эта конструкция употреблена в придаточном предложе
нии (обычно в определительном придаточном) или в причастном
обороте, то неопределенно-личное предложение в переводе обычно
выступает в роли вводного предложения.

A move which he is expected to make is an attempt to come to a mutually-beneficial agreement. Шаги, которые, как предполагают, он собирается предпринять, являются попыткой прийти к взаимовыгодному соглашению.

The Foreign Ministers of the European Union countries will take part in talks expected to take place early in April. Министры иностранных дел стран Европейского Союза примут участие в переговорах, которые, как ожидается, будут иметь место (состоятся) в начале апреля.

3) В отдельных случаях конструкция «именительный с инфини
тивом» может переводиться простым предложением.

Much greater economic tasks were seen to lie ahead. Предстояли значительно более важные экономические задачи.

4) Если в английском предложении сказуемое главного предло
жения стоит в отрицательной форме, то при переводе на русский
язык отрицание часто переносится в придаточное предложение.

The preliminary talks are not expected to last more than two weeks. Ожидается, что предварительные переговоры продлятся не больше двух недель.

Сказуемое может быть выражено сочетанием модального глагола с инфинитивом. При переводе оно передается неопределенно-личным предложением с модальным значением можно ожидать, следует считать и т. п.

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The settlement may be considered to be of primary importance to the industries concerned. Можно считать, что это решение (урегулирование) имеет решающее значение для тех отраслей промышленности, которых оно касается.

6) Обратите внимание на перевод следующих слов в конструкции « именительный с инфинитивом» :

(he) is reported to

is believed to is considered to... is thought to... is understood to...

is expected to... is alleged to... is heard to... is seen to... is felt to... seems to... appears to... is likely to...

is unlikely to... happens (happened) to... is sure (certain)

 передают/сообщают (сообщается),  что (он)...; утверждают, что (якобы) полагают/считают, что (он)... считают/считается, что... считают/думают, что...

по    имеющимся    сведениям    (он)...;    считают/считается, что...; по существующей договоренности/согласно договоренности... ожидается/предполагается, что (он)... говорят/считают, что (он) якобы... имеются сведения, что (он)... считается/рассматривается/рассматривают, что...' считают, что... кажется, что... по-видимому, (он)...

по-видимому/похоже на то, что...; по всей вероятности/вероятно.. .

маловероятно, чтобы...; едва ли/вряд ли... случайно (он)...; случилось так, что...

(он) обязательно/наверняка/определенно...

Примечание. 1. После слов likely (unlikely), sure, certain действие, выраженное инфинитивом, обычно относится к будущему времени.

The economic problems facing France are certain to have strong repercussions. Стоящие перед Францией экономические трудности наверняка будут иметь серьезные последствия.

2. Если после глаголов to seem и to appear глагол-связка to be перед существительным или прилагательным опускается, то глаголы to seem и to appear имеют значение выглядеть, производить впечатление

Не seems astonished. Он выглядит удивленным.

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 3. Глагол to suppose может также иметь значение полагаться Не is supposed to have it. Ему полагается иметь это.

2. Объектно-предикативный инфинитивный оборот (конструкция «винительный с инфинитивом»).

1) Предложение с этим оборотом переводится сложноподчиненным предложением с придаточным дополнительным предложением, вводимым союзами что, чтобы, как

If the Government expected the tenants to take the increase lying down, they were very much mistaken. Если правительство рассчитывало, что квартиросъемщики спокойно отнесутся к повышению квартирной платы, оно сильно ошибалось.

Примечание. 1. После глаголов to declare, to consider и to find глагол-связка to be в объектном инфинитивном обороте иногда опускается.

2 Глаголы to hear, to see в сочетании с этим оборотом выражают физи
ческое восприятие и имеют значения: слышать, как, видеть, как (а не пере
носное значение: слышать, что = узнавать, (у)видеть, что=понимать за
мечать)

They heard him deny it. Они слышали, как он отрицал это.

  1.  После глаголов, выражающих физическое восприятие: to watch, to
    notice, to see и т д., этот оборот обычно переводится придаточным предло
    жением, вводимым союзом     как, если это не противоречит нормам русского
    языка в отношении данных слов Так, глагол     заметить обычно требует по
    сле себя союза     что, а не как (Он заметил, что ..).
  2.  Глаголы, требующие после себя предложное дополнение to wait for,
    to rely on и др , сохраняют этот предлог перед объектным инфинитивным
    оборотом При переводе на русский язык придаточное предложение вводит
    ся словами     чтобы, то, что

The UN Security Council is waiting for that country to make a decision. Совет Безопасности ООН ждет, чтобы эта страна приняла решение (пока эта страна примет решение).

5 Глагол to get с объектным инфинитивным оборотом имеет значение
заставлять

This story was told to get him go to the police station. Эту историю рассказали, чтобы заставить его отправиться в полицейский участок.

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3. Инфинитивный комплекс (for + имя' + инфинитив) может
выполнять в предложении различные функции и переводится на
русский язык, как правило, придаточным предложением, вводимым
союзами что, чтобы

Present plans are for the Prime Minister to make a statement in the first part of next week. В настоящий момент планы состоят в том, чтобы премьер-министр выступил с заявлением до следующей среды (не позже чем в следующую среду).

The first thing for us to do... Первое, что мы должны сделать...

Иногда инфинитивный комплекс может переводиться инфинитивом или существительным в дательном падеже с инфинитивом.

This is no place for us to attempt to throw a strong light on the darkest page of British history. Неуместно пытаться здесь (на этих страницах) пролить яркий свет на одну из самых мрачных страниц истории Англии.

It is not for us to decide. He нам это решать.

4. Независимая номинативная конструкция (существительное +
инфинитив) стоит в конце предложения и отделяется запятой. Она
передает сопутствующее обстоятельство с модальным значением
долженствования. На русский язык переводится предложением, вво
димым союзом причем В газетном тексте встречается довольно редко.

The sellers offered the buyers 5,000 tons of oil, delivery to be made in October. Поставщики предложили покупателям 5.000 тонн нефти, причем поставка должна быть произведена в октябре (которые могут быть поставлены...).

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  The International Court of Justice is expected to play an increas
    ingly important role in facilitating the peaceful settlement of international
    legal disputes.
  2.  German nuclear plant operators will be expected to use the time to
    work out deals to cancel contracts worth millions with reprocessing cen
    ters in France and Britain.

« Имя» употреблено здесь в грамматическом значении, т.е  имя существительное, местоимение или субстантивированное прилагательное.


  1.  The discussion is expected to focus on four broad subjects: raw
    materials and world trade, food supplies and agriculture, prospection,
    production and consumption of energy, and international financial and
    monetary problems.
  2.  Apart from trade, the US President will focus on restructuring the
    US Social Security system. He     is likely to enunciate principle to guide re
    forms, but     not offer a specific plan. At the same time, he is expected to
    propose     using part of the budget surplus to start small, individually con
    trolled savings accounts to which both workers and government would
    make contributions.
  3.  The U.S.Federal Reserve Chairman noted that the pace of economic
    growth in the U.S.     is «widely expected to moderate» this year, which the
    Fed would welcome.
  4.  While offering no proposal of its own on how to salvage the current
    arms-inspection system carried by the UN Special Commission in Iraq,
    the American delegation     is expected to oppose monitoring methods that
    do not allow surprise inspections.
  5.  The Home Secretary is expected to make a statement next week on
    the validity of the practice of allowing outside observers, photographers,
    and television cameramen to be present at the counting of the votes at a
    parliamentary election.
  6.  Treasury sources yesterday confirmed that the next 10-year deal
    over the monarchy's government funding     was expected to be significantly
    lower than the current annual increase, agreed under the last Conservative
    government.
  7.  Domestically, the debt-ridden and poorly managed state-sector of
    China     is expected to continue to drag down the consumption.

  1.  «...no government has ever backed demands for greater efficiency
    with any sort of clear statement of what exactly the police service     is sup
    posed to achieve»,     a police official stated yesterday.
  2.  Roads have been built, and by next year every village in Egypt
    (though not every hamlet) is     supposed to have electricity laid on.
  3.  Foreign secretaries can be useful of course. They are supposed to
    manage     public opinion. They have to keep the House of Commons on
    side.
  4.  The US trade representative is said to have reported, in detail, on
    the latest developments to the EU trade commissioner who plans to visit
    Beijing for talks on its WTO application next month.
  5.  True, the euro-group is likely to grow relatively strongly next year.
    But European financial markets have already been badly buffeted.

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  1.  The US parliamentary revolt against the European Commission
    was unlikely to get the two-thirds vote needed to succeed.
  2.  The cutback in housing programmes has been so sharp that the
    national campaign for the homeless reports that in the next two years no
    families     are likely to be rehoused from the waiting list at all.
  3.  The Turkish economy, which had been growing at an average rate
    above 6 percent for the past four years, slowed and     is likely to expand by
    only 2 percent this year.
  4.  Combine ethnic tensions on the fringes of the Chinese empire with
    regional tensions along the coast and you have good reason to believe that
    China     is more likely to disintegrate than is commonly believed.
  5.  The report says that it appears that the building industry is unlikely
    to be reformed     from within and that some form of compulsion will be
    necessary if reasonable standards of construction and finish are to be se
    cured and jerry-building discouraged.
  6.  No one will refuse to pay less tax, but if they think that by this
    means they will bribe the electors to vote for them in large numbers, they
    are likely to be disappointed
  7.  The euro is likely to join the dollar as a reserve currency held by
    central banks around the world, perhaps leading some banks to sell dol
    lars and thereby reduce the value of the American currency.
  8.  The present fine spell is likely to be brief, predicted the meteoro
    logical office last night in its long-range weather forecast.
  9.  Decontrol alone does not constitute an adequate oil policy. It is not
    likely to protect     the economy against temporary shortages. Nor will it sig
    nificantly reduce dependence on foreign oil imports in the long term.
  10.  Petty nations and their petty national demands are thought to be
    pointless     at best; divisive and self-destructive at worst.
  11.  The epitome of Tory sleaze was Neil Hamilton, a backbench MP
    who     was alleged to have taken a few thousand pounds to ask some ques
    tions in parliament.
  12.  Another intricate problem likely to be reintroduced with the help
    of a subtle change of name is the problem of medium range ballistic mis
    siles.
  13.  The three parties likely to take part in a coalition are the Republi
    can People's Party, the Justice Party, and the New Turkey Party.
  14.  The Minister of Economic Affairs referred today to the statement
    reported to have been made by the Foreign Secretary on Friday.
  15.  About 60 people were yesterday reported to have been arrested on
    subversion charges.

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  1.  The remark, reported to have been made after the announcement
    of his appointment to London, was widely commented on in the press.
  2.  The strike, called by the region's main political parties and labor
    unions,     appeared to be one of the largest yet in the troubled provinces.
  3.  While party leaders still say they support the goals of the program,
    and promise that it will receive expeditious consideration on Capitol Hill,
    Democratic anger at many of the proposals     appears to be mounting daily.
  4.  Turnout at the nation's 50.000 polling stations appeared to be
    heavy
  5.  The Bank of England appeared to back off from threats of even
    more interest rate increases as the slowdown in the economy intensifies.
  6.  An official investigating the bribery allegations said payments
    made by local Olympic officials to members of the IOC     appeared to have
    come     from the privately funded budget.
  7.  Just a few years ago, Aum's organization appeared to be wiped
    out     After the cult masterminded a nerve gas attack that killed 12 people
    in Tokyo's subway, the Japanese authorities arrested 428 of its members.
  8.  Win or lose, the EU Commission appeared likely to emerge weak
    ened from its battle with the Parliament over charges of graft, cronyism
    and mismanagement of EU's 85 billion euro ($ 739 billion) budget.
  9.  Politics is a rough old trade, as Michael Howard, the former home
    secretary is finding out. A leading contender for the Tory leadership until
    this week, his campaign now     appears to have been fatally damaged by
    the claim of one of his junior ministers at the Home Office that he misled
    the Commons.
  10.  Hydrocarbons (oil) and political volatility seem to go together.
  11.  Disenchantment with the President appears to be growing The
    political scene has been transformed in the past two months to the point
    where people are openly talking of the possibility: (1) that the President
    will not seek re-election; and (2) that he might be beaten if he runs.
  12.  Europe seems to be slowing down faster than most people ex
    pected.
  13.  The most laudable aim of the Maastricht treaty was to knock the
    Union's machinery into shape to cope with the club's expected new
    members from Eastern Europe. Yet on most counts the treaty     seems likely
    to prove     disappointing.
  14.  A group of experts seemed to have solved a dispute about putting
    workers on boards that has for 25 years blocked a proposed European
    company statute.
  15.  Spanish authorities have confiscated copies of last month's edition
    of « Working Youth». No reason for the action was given, but it     was be-

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lieved to have resulted from an article discussing sackings in a Madrid motor factory.

  1.  France had what was believed to be its coldest Christmas for 83
    years, and in the Jura Mountains the temperature dropped to minus 28
    degrees Centigrade.
  2.  In Zurich there was a scramble to buy marks and the Federal Bank
    in Bonn     was believed to have bought up to 500 million dollars to prevent
    the mark going through its official « dollar ceiling».
  3.  The meeting, which lasted just over half an hour, is understood to
    have taken place     at the Prime Minister's request.
  4.  A Tory MP threatens to name a high-ranking diplomat mentioned
    as a « senior civil servant» in the trial which ended last week. He     is un
    derstood to have held top     posts in defence and at one time served in Berlin.
  5.  Japan's prime minister, is said to have taken bribes in return for
    favours to Nomura, Japan's biggest securities firm.
  6.  U.S. officials were said to consider that uncertainty was bound to
    continue unless some drastic measures were taken.
  7.  Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, may be said to have been the
    birthplace of the first properly organized attempt at a general system of
    academic instruction in Japan.
  8.  In matters of sleaze and waste, the EU parliament is commonly
    said to possess within its own ranks a concentration of practical expertise
    rivalling any on earth.
  9.  The Secretary of State was said to have demanded written ground
    rules laying out foreign policy authority in the administration.
  10.  The meeting which was said to have lasted several hours on
    Thursday night, was confirmed Saturday. However, little more than the
    fact that it had taken place was revealed in the apparently coordinated
    statements provided by foreign policy spokesmen in the three countries
    involved.
  11.  Turkey's rulers were said to fear that expulsion from the Council
    of Europe might make it more difficult to obtain necessary economic
    credits and aid.
  12.  The Titan 4A rocket was said to be carrying an eavesdropping
    satellite that would have listened in on military and government commu
    nications over the Middle East, India, Pakistan and China.
  13.  There are said to be indications that unless « new information» is
    obtained, the proof is     unlikely to uncover sufficient evidence for legal ac
    tion.
  14.  The police arrested a man who is stated to have been trying to sell
    the miniature and is     said to have confessed to having stolen it. He is

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stated to have kept it for more than two years in the hope that the theft would be forgotten.

  1.  His detention without trial is claimed to have been a violation of
    the European Convention of Human Rights.
  2.  The experts were felt to have little hope of reducing the differ
    ences even if an attempt were made to bring the two parties together.
  3.  Mexico's worst mine disaster, which is feared to have killed 177
    men, claimed another victim today when a distraught relative of a trapped
    miner ran into the gas-filled pit.
  4.  The warnings are now shown to have been fully justified thou
    sands of workers will get the sack.
  5.  When the Bill reaches Tory peers next week they will either reject
    it or amend it in a manner     certain to be unacceptable to the Government.
  6.  The German Chancellor is known to feel that Germany has main
    tained a high level of security spending while many smaller European
    governments are cutting back their security contributions.
  7.  The shadow cabinet, most of it strongly opposed to the Brighton
    decisions,     is certain to be granted full weight for its views, and back
    benchers will be invited to serve on the sub-committees of the inquiry
    dealing with the various fields it is investigating.
  8.  Previously, scholars had believed that the forbidding interior of
    Chukotka was uninhabited in those ancient times. Chukotka, the area di
    rectly across the Bering Strait from Alaska,     was found to have a number
    of sites in its interior which were excavated by the Russian archaeolo
    gists.

They found a wealth of different types of stone tools and weapons at the sites, including arrowheads, knives and scrapers.

  1.  It was unbearable to hear this man speak of friendship with Britain
    as if nothing of importance had happened.
  2.  About 1 million farmers flooded the capital to hear the prime
    minister caution     them against pressing for more government aid at the
    expense of the rest of the country.
  3.  Some Western officials expected the toughest negotiations on dis
    tribution of powers     to be left until the very end of the talks.
  4.  The Premier said he expected other delegations to support the
    draft resolution before it was debated and voted upon in the General As
    sembly.
  5.  The analysts expect the next government in Turkey to continue
    policy reforms and drive down real interest rates.
  6.  The rapidity with which people are arming themselves with tear
    gas worries a number of law enforcement officials. Some officials say

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thajt they expect the disabling spray to be used increasingly by criminals bent on robbery, rape or assault.

  1.  At the opening, OPEC's public information director told the jour
    nalists: «We don't want to manipulate you, but we need you, the media,
    to help us get our message across to the man in the street.»
  2.  A private fund-raising group headed by close friends of the new
    President may disband following a published report that it used « strong-
    arm tactics»     to get corporations to contribute $50,000 each for a televised
    gala featuring the President.
  3.  The crisis is hitting Western Europe several months later than the
    United States. This will react on the U.S. economy. It will tend     to cause
    the crisis and depression to go deeper and last     longer than most econo
    mists expect.
  4.  The United Nations General Assembly, defeating all Western op
    position,     declared the use of nuclear weapons to be a direct violation of
    the U.N. Charter.
  5.  The Spanish prime minister wants Spain to throw off the sense of
    inferiority caused by its past century's history, and not least by the Franco
    period.
  6.  The President now says he wants negotiations on trade to open
    markets     in once off-limits areas including services, manufacturing and
    farming.
  7.  The prime minister says that he wants Britain to emerge from the
    fringes and     play a leading role in the European Union.
  8.  It seems that the Right Wing in the Labour and trade union move
    ment is not prepared     to consider anyone who disagrees with them a hu
    man being
  9.  In a document released today a Harvard University Professor dis
    closes that studies he made in one medium-sized U.S. city     showed may
    ors, police chiefs and other officials to have been     on a gambling syndi
    cate's payroll for many years.
  10.  An association of lawyers says that many owners prefer their own
    property rather than nearby land to be swallowed     by a motorway.
  11.  Polls repeatedly show that many Britons believe the EU to be re
    mote     and democratically unaccountable.
  12.  Time and again the Prime Minister has assured them that the Gov
    ernment doesn't want to hinder the making of profits. He has done his
    damnedest     to get the trade unions to agree to wage restraint, which
    would put still more profits into the pockets of the employers.
  13.  The Prime Minister has decided to get the Cabinet to make an ear
    lier than expected decision on the budget.

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86. Public opinion compelled the Government to get the German
leaders to arrive at a settlement.

  1.  The issue is how to make the institutions of democracy work prop
    erly, not whether they should exist. Trade barriers are being pulled down,
    internal markets freed, state industries and services privatized.
  2.  The report calls for the monarchy in the UK to become profes
    sional and accountable.
  3.  Classification of political systems allows for qualitative judge
    ments to be made in     relation to political structures and governmental
    forms.
  4.  A National Security Council official said last week that «the
    NATO theologians are codifying fresh visions for their favorite organiza
    tion, and the spin doctors     see colossal opportunities for the president to
    bestride     TV screens».
  5.  «Whilst we read the report with interest, any issues of constitu
    tional reform     would be a matter for Parliament to decide»
  6.  The United States and Britain on Friday set a month-long deadline
    for Libya to surrender     two suspects wanted for the  1988 Lockerbie
    bombing.
  7.  For the reform forces to pull off a. majority on council, all their in
    cumbents will have to hang onto their seats.
  8.  Mr Tao says it would be «technically feasable» for the Hong
    Kong     government to declare overnight that all Hong Kong dollars held in
    banks and in circulation would be converted into US dollars.
  9.  To say that the wages fight is not the only issue, or that higher pay
    will not on its own solve the crisis, only emphasizes the need     for unions
    like the engineers' to get stuck     into the all-round fight for the alternative
    strategy now developed within the movement.
  10.  The President was closeted in the White House today preparing
    his so called «Economic Renewal» package, as pressure from unem
    ployed millions across the nation continues to build     for federal action to
    provide jobs
  11.  Chips are harder for hackers to modify than software.
  12.  Elitists highlight the tendency for political power to be concen
    trated     in the hands of a priviliged minority.
  13.  In Japan, the ultimate way for a student to repay his teacher is to
    beat him at his own game. And having learned so well from the West, it is
    flattering to the Japanese to be told that the West may now have some
    thing to learn from them.

100. For Europe to drive forward it needs leadership.

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  1.  For Egypt to get anywhere near its growth target, it will have to
    persuade Egyptians to save and foreigners to invest.
  2.  The rise of homeless emphasizes the desperate need for the Gov
    ernment to fulfil     its pledge to meet the problem with a lower rate of inter
    est for housing.
  3.  Although the Minister of Health yesterday did not accept the
    conditions described as typical, the revelations made it hard for     reassur
    ing phrases like «best in the world» and «tremendous step forward» to
    avoid     having a slightly hollow ring.

  1.  In these circumstances the party leaders had no plan for the
    Prime Minister to make     a unity appeal when he attends today's party
    meeting.
  2.  An Atomic Energy Authority spokesman said it was not unusual
    for one or two reactors to be shut down at weekends under normal condi
    tions. But in view of possible staff shortages it had been decided to close
    down three.
  3.  And having made this guess, he thought it completely in order for
    an MP to announce it, as if it were a hard fact provided by a government
    official.
  4.  There is too much slackness in many key industries. Too many
    employers complain of short order books and too many firms give notice
    of redundancy     for there to be any complacency among trade unionists.
  5.  A first group of more than 50 immigrants was freed from deten
    tion centres in Sicily yesterday,     hundreds more to follow in the next few days.

§ 2. ГЕРУНДИИ I. Герундий в различных функциях

1. Герундий в функции обстоятельства всегда употребляется в сочетании с предлогом. Он может выступать в функции следующих обстоятельств:

1) времени, после предлогов on (upon), after, before, in. После предлогов before и in герундий переводится обычно на русский язык придаточным предложением; после on (upon) и after — деепричастием прошедшего времени.

In trying to devise ways to improve the machinery of the United Nations the Foreign Secretary displayed real ingenuity. Когда министр  иностранных дел  пытался   придумать  новые  способы

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улучшения аппарата ООН, он проявил подлинную изобретательность. (Пытаясь придумать...)

After making this statement the minister said he was not going to reconsider his decision. Сделав это заявление, министр сказал, что он не собирается пересматривать свое решение.

Но могут быть и другие варианты перевода герундия в функции обстоятельства времени в зависимости от сочетаемости слов в русском языке, например сочетанием предлога с существительным: after (on) arriving по прибытии, after checking после проверки.

2) сопутствующего обстоятельства, после предлогов besides
кроме того что, instead of вместо того чтобы, apart from не гово
ря уже, кроме, without без, без того чтобы В зависимости от пред
лога герундий переводится обычно на русский язык инфинитивом
или придаточным предложением. С предлогом without герундий
переводится   отрицательной   формой   деепричастия,   сочетанием
предлога без с существительным или без того, чтобы с личной
формой глагола.

Besides being extremely unpopular this policy may lead to a complete failure of all their efforts. He говоря уже о том, что эта политика не пользуется популярностью, она может привести к тому, что все их усилия окажутся напрасными.

3) обстоятельства образа действия, с предлогами in, by, with
out. После предлогов in и by герундий переводится или дееприча
стием, или сочетанием предлогов путем, при помощи и т. п. с суще
ствительным,  или  самостоятельным  предложением;  с предлогом
without — отрицательной формой деепричастия или существитель
ным с предлогом без

It can be done by sending deputations to MPs. Это можно сделать, послав депутации к членам парламента.

Не admitted that he had made a mistake in not supporting this proposal earlier. Он признал, что допустил ошибку, не поддержав этого предложения раньше (тем, что не поддержал...).

4) обстоятельства условия, с составными предлогами in case of,
in the event of в случае если, subject to при условии, without. С пред
логом without герундий переводится отрицательной формой дее-

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причастия, сочетанием предлога без с существительным или словосочетанием без того чтобы и отрицательной формой инфинитива. В остальных случаях — обычно личной формой глагола или существительным.

They promised not to undertake any actions without consulting their partners Они обещали не предпринимать никаких действий, не проконсультировавшись (без консультации; без того чтобы не проконсультироваться) со своими партнерами

5) обстоятельства причины, с составными предлогами owing to из-за, вследствие, for fear of из опасения и др.; переводится личной формой глагола, существительным или деепричастием.

Не did not dare to make public announcements about this plan for fear of being criticized Он не осмелился открыто объявлять об этом плане из опасения, что его подвергнут критике (опасаясь, как бы его не подвергли...).

Примечание. В сочетании с предлогом without герундий может выступать в функции обстоятельства условия, образа действия и сопутствующего обстоятельства. Функция его определяется контекстом предложения.

Their policy is based upon the conviction that they cannot possibly win without smashing by military force the resistance.of the nationalistic movement Их политика основывается на твердом убеждении, что они не смогут победить, не сломив (если они не сломят) военной силой сопротивления националистического движения (обстоятельство условия)

They can organize their work without being interfered with and controlled by big business. Они могут организовать свою работу без вмешательства и контроля со стороны крупного бизнеса (без того, чтобы крупный бизнес вмешивался в нее и осуществлял над ней контроль) (обстоятельство образа действия)

On the opening day a new president was elected without anyone objecting В день открытия без каких-либо возражений (единогласно) был избран новый председатель (сопутствующее обстоятельство)

2. Герундий в функции определения обычно следует за предлогом of и переводится инфинитивом или существительным.

Since he became Britain's Foreign Secretary, he has been insisting on the importance of negotiating on limited practical questions. С тех пор как он стал министром иностранных дел Англии, он все время на-

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стаивает на необходимости ведения переговоров по ограниченному кругу практических вопросов.

Иногда герундий встречается в сочетании с предлогом for, часто с указанием на назначение предмета, что сближает его с обстоятельством цели.

At that time he intends to seek ways for improving cooperation with France. В это время он намеревается искать пути для улучшения (расширения, чтобы улучшить) сотрудничества с Францией.

3. В функции дополнения (предложного и беспредложного) к
существительному, прилагательному и глаголу. В функции пред
ложного дополнения герундий сочетается с очень большим количе
ством предлогов и, так же как и в функции беспредложного допол
нения, в зависимости от его лексического значения и от сочетаемо
сти слов в русском языке, переводится инфинитивом, существительным
или придаточным предложением, вводимым словами то, что...

They succeeded in removing all the obstacles. Им удалось устранить все препятствия.

This curious episode merits being inserted in a survey of the activities of the Security Council during that period. Этот любопытный эпизод заслуживает того, чтобы его включили в обзор деятельности Совета Безопасности за этот период.

4. В функции подлежащего, предикативного члена и части
составного сказуемого. В этих функциях герундий, как правило,
переводится существительным или инфинитивом.

Solving Britain's economic difficulties, said the Prime Minister, is a question not so much of political doctrine as of practical judgement. Разрешение экономических трудностей Англии, сказал премьер-министр, это вопрос не столько политической доктрины, сколько практической целесообразности.

If the Minister wants to avert a dock strike he had better stop attacking the dockers and start twisting the arms of the mean and stubborn employers. Если министр хочет избежать забастовки докеров, ему лучше прекратить нападки (наступление) на докеров и начать оказывать серьезный нажим на эгоистичных и упрямых предпринимателей.

Примечание. 1. Сочетание there is no с герундием в функции подлежащего переводится на русский язык неопределенно-личным предложением.

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There is no denying that danger may be averted by this move. Нельзя отрицать, что этим шагом можно избежать опасности.

2. После выражения far from герундий переводится следующим обра
зом: не только не... (+ личная форма глагола), но...; вместо того чтобы
(+ инфинитив)...; отнюдь не (+ деепричастие)...

Far from averting this threat, this surrender will only bring about still tougher action later. Отнюдь не устраняя самой угрозы, эта капитуляция приведет в будущем к еще более жестким мерам.

Far from being a triumph, it was the most ignominious surrender in modern diplomacy. Это не только не было триумфом, но было самой позорной капитуляцией за всю историю современной дипломатии.

3. Простые формы герундия в различных функциях могут пере
водиться на русский язык существительным с предлогом, инфини
тивом, деепричастием или придаточным предложением. Способ пе
ревода зависит не столько от той или иной функции  герундия,
сколько от его лексического значения и сочетаемости слов в рус
ском языке.

Пассивная и перфектная формы герундия переводятся почти всегда придаточным предложением.

They made their decision after being told of the terms contained in a joint union-management statement. Они приняли решение после того, как им сообщили об условиях, содержащихся в совместном заявлении, подписанном профсоюзом и администрацией.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Before embarking on projects like DMU (a defence and military
    union), the European Union's big job is to bring in new members from
    the East. That will mean, among other things, more majority voting in the
    council.
  2.  A spokesman for the British Foreign Office said the meeting
    «provided useful opportunity for consultations»      before departing for
    trips abroad.
  3.  The Belgian Prime Minister offered his resignation to the King in
    Brussels yesterday     after failing to reconcile a cabinet split over tough new
    economic measures.

The resignation followed a cabinet meeting at which the Premier again failed to gain agreement from his partners.

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4. After spending most of the post-war era close to the nest, European
women — and especially mothers — are taking jobs in record numbers.

5. On arriving at London Airport from the UN Security Council
meeting, the Foreign Secretary said that he thought a practical and effec
tive resolution would emerge as a result of his talks with African Com
monwealth delegates.

  1.  The national governments will have to stop behaving like pigs at a
    trough, not just     in haggling over cash but also informing and guiding the
    EU Commission itself.
  2.  The President's « kitchen cabinet» of wealthy advisers, which gave
    him his start in politics and has played a crucial role     in shaping his ad
    ministration, has disbanded after a controversy over fund raising.
  3.  In regulating family relations and sexual morality, political democ
    racies may adopt restrictive or permissive policies regarding divorce,
    abortion, and pornography.
  4.  He insisted that France was as interested as anyone in bringing the
    budget and agricultural spending in the EU under control.

  1.  Ms. Dunn, has long been seen as one of the Republicans' best
    hopes     for broadening their appeal to women, and that is one of the argu
    ments she makes     in campaigning to be the majority leader.
  2.  The US President is able to increase support for his policy by ex
    plaining it     energetically.
  3.  The constitution [of France] qualifies many of the president's
    powers     by stipulating that the government should «determine and con
    duct national policy» and     by making the prime minister «responsible for
    national defence».
  4.  By failing to agree upon any substantial reform of the Common
    agricultural policy (CAP), the heads of government have guaranteed that
    little progress will be made in any world trade talks. They have also made
    it unlikely that they will keep their own promise     of capping spending at
    the current level in real terms.
  5.  By putting off the party elections, the Prime Minister will effec
    tively prevent dissidents in the party     from mounting an internal challenge
    to him before general elections.
  6.  Only by bringing tough measures to control spending, including
    the runaway cost of farm subsidies, can the EU hope to create the condi
    tions to accept members from Eastern and Central Europe.
  7.  The IMF keeps itself in business by winkling money out of rich
    nations such as the US and     handling it out to poorer brethren, who usu
    ally are poor because of gross economic mismanagement.

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  1.  The opposition Labor Party accused the ruling Israeli government
    of abusing the state broadcasting authority by masking party propaganda
    on television as an emergency government announcement.
  2.  By not losing sight of the long-term objectives they made them
    selves masters and not servants or victims of economic forces operating
    in the world.
  3.  The first lesson, surely, is that the successive Governments added
    greatly to the public anxiety     by declining for so long to give reasonable
    information to Parliament and the people.
  4.  There is still time to let every new MP know what the British peo
    ple want. It can be done     by sending resolutions from trade unions and
    other organizations, and     by sending deputations to MPs.
  5.  They expect that the Prime Minister will try to suppress criticism
    by pleading that matters are at a delicate stage.
  6.  « Time» journalism began by being deeply interested in people, as
    individuals who were making history. We tried to make our readers see
    and hear and even smell these people     as part of a better understanding of
    their ideas — or lack of them.
  7.  By agreeing to an Italian proposal that this question be turned over
    to a committee of U.N. member states for study, the United States lured a
    number of wavering countries away from the Canadian position.
  8.  Meanwhile the people and their representatives did what they were
    told     without even the privilege of being informed of the decisions taken
    by their leaders.
  9.  European fund-management companies are obsessed with growing
    their asset bases by entering new markets or raising their profiles in ones
    where they already do business.
  10.  The Fed chairman's carefully worded comments about the stock
    market drew few questions from committee members. They were preoc
    cupied     with trying to get him to take sides in the looming battle between
    the President and Congressional Republicans over Social Security, the
    federal budget surplus and tax cuts.
  11.  Out west, where a motorist may travel 100 miles without seeing
    another car, nine states will immediately jump to at least 70 mph.
  12.  A new anti-monopoly law could bring more competition to a few
    industries. Similar efforts would help curb the conglomerates     without
    creating     new government-sponsored outfits to replace them.
  13.  The United States, seeking to ease the plight of the Cuban people
    without strengthening its government, will allow a greatly expanded flow
    of cash donations to Cuba, authorize food sales and permit easier travel to
    the Carribean island, the US President announced Tuesday.

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  1.  «The three-point program, instead of preventing decentralization
    of Canada,     instead of being a means of uniting the country was dividing it.»
  2.  Instead of being changed the traditional strategy was merely reas
    serted and put into operation at the end of the war under the famous and
    accurate phrase about« negotiation from strength».
  3.  The US special envoy was scheduled to complete his fourth at
    tempt     at mediating the eight-month border conflict between Eritrea and
    Ethiopia Monday and then return directly to the US.
  4.  The International Monetary Fund warned that improving econo
    mies might tempt Asian countries to put off reforms aimed     at strength
    ening     their banks and trimming corporate debt, leaving them open to
    more shocks.
  5.  Europe's spirit, Cardinal Martini fears, is in danger of being un
    dermined     by affluence and egoistical materialism.
  6.  There is no better time to perform the politically awkward feat of
    raising taxes     than when oil prices are low and the money can be quickly
    handed back in lower taxes elsewhere.
  7.  The European Commission's life was cut short by an investiga
    tor's report     accusing it of tolerating fraud, mismanagement or nepotism.
  8.  The report stopped short of identifying individuals responsible for
    various massacres.
  9.  The president (of the USA) called expanding the western alliance
    one way     of giving other nations «incentive to deepen their democracy».
  10.  Television, meanwhile, has become a major means of solidifying
    power and creating — or controlling — national unity in the country.
  11.  Greek and Turkish Cypriots appear fundamentally ambivalent
    about finding a formula for coexistence. They are accustomed to the ten
    sions and conveniences     of living apart
  12.  The conference was supposed to end its work next month, but the
    United States made that impossible. The U.S. administration insists     on
    reviewing     all the decisions taken so far.
  13.  A Senate labor subcommittee is discussing a measure to permit
    firms with U. S. contracts     to avoid paying overtime for 10-hour, four-day
    work weeks.
  14.  The American press did not cover «reports, speeches or resolu
    tions on UNESCO's basic activities» such as     fighting illiteracy, develop
    ing     alternate energy sources and sponsoring research in food production,
    the study said.
  15.  Fisheries ministers failed to meet a year-end deadline on formu
    lating     the policy after a Franco-British dispute erupted over France's de
    mands for access rights for its trawlers up to the British coast.

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  1.  The new leaders in Washington «appear to be bent not on rectify
    ing     but on multiplying the errors of the previous administration, facilitat
    ing not a lessening of international tension but its growth».
  2.  Even in specialized fields such as diplomacy and trade, Americans'
    ability to deal with foreigners in their own tongues lags enormously be
    hind the mushrooming growth of countries that are insisting     on communi
    cating     in their own language. The globe may be getting smaller in terms
    of the time it takes to get around it, but its babel keeps     expanding
  3.  In keeping with his anti-statist philosophy, Mr.Murdoch hands
    very little of his profits to governments.
  4.  The government finds it difficult to strike the right compromise.
    Old-style nationalists in parliament are vocal     in accusing it of selling the
    family silver cheap to greedy foreigners. But others charge it     with merely
    trying to make a quick buck from selling small chunks of its property,
    without any ideological commitment to privatisation as a good thing in
    itself. (Egypt)
  5.  Oil companies are barred by agreement with the government from
    making     any public statements of their revenues or the amount of oil they
    are exporting.
  6.  The Home Secretary threatened yesterday to cut the budgets of
    police forces that failed to meet his targets     for recruiting black and Asian
    officers.
  7.  The first prime minister of independent Zimbabwe received a
    rousing welcome from the UN General Assembly as he thanked the inter
    national body and the world     for assisting the Zimbabwean people in
    achieving     their political independence.
  8.  A National News Council study of U. S. newspaper coverage of a
    UNESCO conference in Belgrade criticized the press     for concentrating
    on controversial proposals dealing with the media and ignoring stories on
    the agency's deliberations on social and humanitarian issues.
  9.  European fund-management companies are obsessed with growing
    their asset bases by entering new markets.
  10.  Although no decision has been made, informed sources said that a
    number of senior administration officials, including some in the White
    House and Pentagon, are in favour     of selling the jets and that there is
    strong feeling among them that «it is important for the U.S. to maintain
    the friendship of Taiwan».
  11.  The Germans have grown sharply more critical of the EU and its
    inefficiency since they     started noticing that their $ 12 billion net contri
    bution to the budget was paying many of the bills.

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  1.  There are countries who would be ready to sign agreements with
    the developing nations     for training some of their people over the next
    five, ten years.
  2.  It is nonsense for its supporters to claim that the present policy is a
    success. It has succeeded     in increasing the number out of work, and in
    reducing     production.
  3.  The report also wants to stop newspapers and broadcast from pub
    lishing     a public opinion poll on the likely result of a parliamentary elec
    tion during the 72 hours before the poll closes.

59. Containment has been successful  so far in keeping Saddam
Hussein from posing a military threat to neighboring countries. But of
course the policy has been successful only to an uncertain degree in de
nying him the means to build weapons of mass destruction, and it has not
been successful at all in accomplishing the one policy goal that counts the
most: his departure from power and his replacement by a government that
owes its authority to the Iraqi people.

  1.  Welfare benefits are now several times higher in generous states,
    such as Vermont, than they are in places like Wisconsin. Wisconsinians
    take pride in     shortening their welfare rolls and seeing those who were
    previously dependent     doing a proper job.
  2.  Throwing a rope around Brazil's huge budget deficit — now
    thought to be approaching 9% of national output — is the key to     con
    taining     further currency erosion.
  3.  Avoiding a death sentence depends a lot on having a good lawyer.
  4.  The European Parliament is set to begin debating amendments to
    legislation that would impose a 20% withholding tax on income from
    savings and certain bonds.

  1.  Far from doing anything to reduce the number of jobless, the
    Government is planning to throw more out of work with its rail and pit
    closures.
  2.  Far from helping the low-paid the Prime Minister has hit them
    hardest of all.
  3.  By and large, Mr.Blair seems not merely to accept his economic
    inheritance, but to welcome it.     Indeed, far from wanting to turn back the
    clock, Mr.Blair says that he wants to speed it up. «Modernization» is his
    motto.
  4.  There are three main reasons why the markets are so bullish about
    state banks. First,     buying bank shares is the easiest way to profit from the
    overall expansion of India's economy.
  5.  Yet the way men define their role has remained remarkably con
    sistent. Surveys show that     being a good provider is at the top of the list.

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  1.  Talking is better than trading threats, something the two have done
    all too frequently in recent months.
  2.  How splendid if European commission appointments depended on
    merit and not on nationality. But     spoils-sharing is so far the iron law of
    international organisations.
  3.  Giving Taiwan's unofficial offices more access to officials, and
    perhaps     allowing Taiwanese visa-free travel to Asian countries, would be
    seen as friendly gestures.
  4.  In the large-scale political democracy of nation state, or city, citi
    zens participate in the political process in many ways other than through
    voting, but voting is the central act in influencing policy formation.
  5.  Concentrating resources in specialist hospitals is essential if health
    care is to be rationalised and savings made, according to the King's Fund,
    an independent research organization.
  6.  The TV viewers may not have votes in the Republican conference,
    but     looking good on television sends a post-election message to their col
    leagues that the time has come to pick leaders with a wider appeal to the
    public than Messrs Gingrich and Armey have ever had.
  7.  Government borrowing [in Ireland] was so badly out of control in
    the ten previous years that public debt soared from 65% of national in
    come to nearly 120% (exceeded in Europe only by Belgium). Today     bor
    rowing     has fallen to almost nothing.
  8.  Privatising social spending [in Texas] could enrich big business at
    the expense of widows and orphans. This argument would be more con
    vincing if public sector employees were really so high-minded, and did
    not often care more about     keeping their own jobs than helping the poor.

II. Герундиальный комплекс

Сочетание герундия с существительным в притяжательном или общем падеже, притяжательным местоимением, личным местоимением в косвенном падеже или группой слов, которые являются субъектом действия, выраженного герундием, составляет единое целое и может выступать в качестве члена предложения в тех же функциях, что и герундий. Герундиальный комплекс переводится на русский язык придаточным предложением, вводимым словами то, что.; тот факт, что. ; (с тем) чтобы...; после того как..., что... и др.

We look forward to much attention being given to this question. Мы рассчитываем на то, что этому вопросу будет уделено большое внимание.

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Трудность, связанная с переводом герундиального комплекса, заключается главным образом в том, что если его субъект выражен существительным, то его можно принять за сочетание существительного с причастием. Синтаксический анализ предложения, в частности определение функции формы на -ing, и контекст предложения позволяют точно установить, является ли данное слово герундием или причастием.

When the conference of Foreign Ministers' deputies was subsequently held, the new formula was used by the Americans to prevent an agreed agenda being drawn up. Когда впоследствии состоялась конференция заместителей министров иностранных дел, эта новая формула использовалась американцами, чтобы помешать выработке согласованной повестки дня

Если считать, что being drawn up является причастием в функции определения, то следовало бы перевести это следующим образом: «...использовалась американцами, чтобы помешать согласованной повестке, которая в тот момент вырабатывалась», что явно лишено смысла.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Despite much angry and sometimes ignorant talk, about Japanese
    burying their guilty secrets,     there is a great deal of Japanese literature that
    deals honestly with the war.
  2.  The scandal has resulted in the local station chief of America's CIA
    giving warning     that America might stop sharing intelligence with South
    Korea.
  3.  The U.S. State Department faulted the Muslim fundamentalist fac
    tion known as the Taleban for publicly     beating women for not being ac
    companied     by a close male relative.
  4.  Nominal sovereignty is no longer the valuable commodity it once
    was, and independence may actually lead     to people having less control
    over decisions that crucially affect them.
  5.  Foreign exchange analysts, despite all the fanfare and pep talk
    about the United States reasserting its leading role as a bastion of free
    enterprise, remain extremely skeptical that the dollar's strength can be
    sustained without the support of high interest rates.
  6.  With consumer prices in the euro area only 1% higher than they
    were a year ago, there is little risk     of currency depreciation causing a
    dangerous     surge in inflation.

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  1.  The next bad step will be to say that the WTO's* test is wrong: in
    stead of the importer having to prove     that a product is dangerous, let the
    exporter show that it is safe.
  2.  The continued success of voluntary mass vaccination depends on
    governments providing accurate information about the risks and benefits.
  3.  The Europeans suspect the Americans of cheating on the deal by
    funneling     indirect subsidies to Boeing, in contravention of the agreement
    to limit subsidies to 30% of a project's cost.

  1.  The supremacy of EU law over national law is also implicit in the
    treaties. Nor could the court's powers be repatriated by Britain or anyone
    else,     without a country leaving the Union altogether.
  2.  The unions sought discussions with the company on supervisory
    grade matters, about which no understanding agreement existed with the
    unions, and insisted on     shop-floor employees being present during these
    discussions.
  3.  Those trade unionists who believed the propaganda about the
    freeze benefiting the lower-paid workers     got a shock just before Christ
    mas, when agreements affecting farm workers and shop assistants were
    referred to the Prices and Incomes Board.
  4.  France is the largest contributor to the offensive after the US and
    is fully committed to success. Yet at the same time politicians on both the
    left and right are profoundly wary     of France being so closely involved in
    a military venture that is US dominated and orchestrated through NATO.
  5.  But if this experiment fails then it is obvious that, far from there
    being an improvement     in the standards of life of the British people, there
    will be a steady diminution.
  6.  Jobs and living standards depend on the industrial capacity of the
    nation being used to     the full.
  7.  The drift in the EU towards virtue should mean a better deal for
    taxpayers, and a more efficient commission, even if the spectacle of the
    European parliament seizing the high moral ground takes some getting
    used to
  8.  America is still a place where most people react to seeing a man in
    a Ferrari by redoubling their own efforts to be able to afford one, rather
    than     by trying to let down his tyres. Great wealth is generally seen as the
    by product     of cool ideas being put into practice
  9.  It is not the critics of the Minister of Economy who are cynical.
    That is a word which could be more accurately applied to a Minister who

WTO — Word Trade Organisation

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 says he is for prices being kept down, and then supports a Budget which puts them up.

  1.  It is the considered opinion of the Government and people of India
    that to disturb the status quo must lead to     the forces of disorder being
    unleashed     in the entire sub-continent.
  2.  The Prime Minister said there might not be any question of neona-
    zis or fascists getting     power in Britain, but they could not be under
    estimated. They should be attacked and isolated from the rest of the
    community.
  3.  It is tiresome for outsiders to keep being called upon to put a lid
    on Cyprus. In any event, Russia had no justification for what it did in in
    tervening for gratuitous, pseudo-historical nationalist purposes, in playing
    with fire.
  4.  They gathered to discuss the injustices of foreign trade as they af
    fect the chances of     the poor countries ever becoming less poor.
  5.  Another important American statement shows that the military
    chiefs object to any idea     of each country having its own independent forces
    and are opposed to the     idea being discussed at an international forum.
  6.  A shadow minister is to challenge the government over reports
    that prescription charges may be increased next April. An opposition
    front bench spokesman in health said: «It is evidence of     people being de
    nied     medicines on their doctors' advice by the price being charged, and is
    a     tragic breach of the idea of the National Health Service.»

' 25. Harm comes not from people taking measures to control their lives and destinies, but from government and corporate policies which threaten all forms of life, and mock our potential for human creativity and nonco-ercive problem-solving.

  1.  One hundred and thirty recruits have also joined the party since
    October     without any sort of recruiting campaign being needed.
  2.  What police described as «appalling» weather conditions pre
    vented     the two helicopters borrowed from the Army taking part in the
    search.
  3.  The whole system was nothing but an alarm system designed to go
    off in case     of raw materials being illegally removed or utilized.
  4.  One contributor to a debate on the Internet calls for Hong Kong to
    stop being treated as     «a diplomatic football or a fin-de-siecle floor-
    show» .

30. The latest snapshot has forecasters raising their next year's
growth estimates yet again and ordinary Americans pondering some of
the likely consequences of that strength such as higher interest rates and a
stronger dollar.

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§3. ПРИЧАСТИЕ I. Причастие в различных функциях

Английское причастие выступает в предложении как в функции определения (за исключением перфектных форм), так и в функции обстоятельства (времени, причины, образа действия и сопутствующего обстоятельства). Контекст предложения обычно позволяет установить характер обстоятельственных отношений.

1. 1) В функции определения причастие чаще всего переводится причастием настоящего или прошедшего времени или придаточным определительным предложением.

No one minimized the scale of the problems facing the EU, which is seeking to reform its budget. Никто не преуменьшал масштабы проблем, стоящих перед Европейским Союзом, который стремится реформировать свой бюджет.

The data obtained are being carefully analyzed and studied. Полученные данные тщательно анализируются и изучаются (подвергаются тщательному анализу и изучению).

It is necessary to review some of the arguments put forward by those opposing the idea of such talks. Необходимо рассмотреть некоторые доводы, выдвинутые теми, кто выступает против идеи ведения таких переговоров.

2) Причастие II (страдательного залога) не всегда можно перевести на русский язык страдательным причастием. Тогда оно переводится определительным придаточным предложением или передается лексически.

Tomorrow morning the 'Right to Life' campaign supported by nine religious organizations will hold a silent procession. Завтра утром кампания «Право на жизнь», которую поддерживают девять (при поддержке девяти) религиозных организаций, проведет молчаливую процессию.

Примечание. В английском языке сочетаемость существительных с причастием гораздо шире, чем в русском. Например, такие сочетания, как the letter (statement, resolution и т. п.) saying (urging и т. п.), на русский язык обычно переводятся: письмо (заявление, резолюция и т. п.), в котором говорится (требуется и т.п.). Вариант перевода Письмо, гласящее стилистически не всегда приемлем.

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2. 1) В функции обстоятельства причастие можно перевести
деепричастным   оборотом,    придаточным   или   самостоятельным
предложением (последнее, если причастие выступает в функции со
путствующего обстоятельства) или иным способом, в зависимости
от сочетаемости слов в русском языке.

Commenting last night on the plan he warned the Ministry of the critical situation which might develop. Комментируя вчера вечером этот план (выступая вчера вечером с комментариями), он предупредил министерство о том, что может создаться критическое положение.

Asked to comment on the U.N. resolution tabled by the Afro-Asian countries, the Prime Minister replied... Когда его попросили высказаться по поводу (На вопрос о том, каковы будут его комментарии по поводу.../На просьбу прокомментировать...) резолюции ООН, внесенной странами Азии и Африки, премьер-министр сказал...

2) Причастие II (иногда причастие I), в зависимости от союза, за которым оно следует, может передавать также и другие обстоятельственные значения. Так, например, в сочетании с союзом if или unless причастие передает значение обстоятельства условия; после союза though — значение обстоятельства уступки. Такие причастные обороты переводятся на русский язык придаточными предложениями.

If given the opportunity, this industry will rapidly develop. Если этой отрасли промышленности предоставить (будут предоставлены) благоприятные возможности, она будет быстро развиваться.

But the right-wing Labour leaders, though forced to give way on some questions, will stick to the policies which have brought about a falling standard of living for working people. Но, хотя лидерам правого крыла лейбористской партии и пришлось пойти на уступки по некоторым вопросам, они по-прежнему будут придерживаться той политики, которая привела к снижению жизненного уровня трудящихся.

3. Причастие может выступать также в качестве вводного члена
предложения; в этом случае на русский язык оно часто переводится
деепричастием или вводным предложением с союзом если

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Import from the U.S. declined about 14 per cent in value, as compared with the like period in the previous year. Considering the increase in import prices the volume decrease was considerably greater. Импорт из США уменьшился в денежном выражении примерно на 14% по сравнению с тем же периодом предыдущего года. Если учесть (учитывая) увеличение импортных цен, то можно сказать, что уменьшение его объема было значительно большим.

Примечание Следует помнить, что отдельные причастия могут выступать в грамматической функции союза или предлога, как например, assuming, concerning, provided, following и др. (См. раздел III).

No statement was issued at the weekend following a seven-hour meeting of Cabinet Ministers В конце недели, после семичасового совещания министров кабинета, не было опубликовано никакого заявления.

II. Причастные конструкции

1. Объектный причастный оборот, т. е. сочетание существи
тельного в общем падеже или местоимения в косвенном падеже с
причастием (имя + причастие), выступающее в функции сложного
дополнения, обычно  переводится  на русский язык придаточным
предложением, вводимым союзами как, что или чтобы

They spent last Friday listening to the Minister telling the trade union leaders that it is right for workers to hold back on wage claims. В прошлую пятницу они весь день слушали, как министр говорил профсоюзным лидерам, что рабочие сделают правильно, если воздержатся от требований о повышении заработной платы.

We hope to see this issue raised in all trades councils, in every union conference. Мы надеемся, что этот вопрос будет поднят во всех советах профсоюзов, на всех профсоюзных конференциях. (Сравните с объектным инфинитивным оборотом)

2. Каузативный, или побудительный, оборот. После глаголов
to have и to get объектный причастный оборот (have/ get + имя +

причастие) образует так называемую каузативную, или побудитель-

Субъектный причастный оборот аналогичен субъектному инфинитивному обороту и переводится так же (См раздел « Инфинитивные конструкции»)

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ную, конструкцию, которая означает, что действие совершается не лицом, обозначенным подлежащим предложения, а кем-то другим за или для него. В русском языке нет аналогичной конструкции или специальных средств для выражения каузативности, поэтому перевод ее представляет значительную трудность, тем более, что конкретное значение этой конструкции зависит от контекста и может быть весьма разнообразным.

We must treat this as a national emergency issue and must get this decision reversed Мы должны рассматривать это как вопрос чрезвычайного значения (важности) для страны и должны добиваться, чтобы это решение было (в корне) изменено.

Примечание. Следует помнить, что сочетание глагола to have с объектным причастным оборотом может и не иметь каузативного значения.

For the time being professional diplomats had their attention riveted on Washington. В тот момент внимание профессиональных дипломатов было приковано к Вашингтону.

(См. о глаголе to have)

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

' 1. Legislators in the Philippines voted not to review a law restoring capital punishment, dealing a serious blow to efforts to halt a planned execution that would be the country's first in 23 years.

  1.  A lawsuit charging Merrill Lynch & Co with job discrimination on
    the basis of sex will include 900 women plaintiffs.
  2.  In practice, NATO's changes this year seemed to point toward a
    post-Cold War configuration     enabling the alliance to cope with most
    foreseeable security contingencies, NATO officials said.
  3.  Not only will he introduce a new bottom rate of income tax of 10%
    this     April, fulfilling a promise made before the general elections; but next
    year he will cut the basic rate from 23% to 22%.
  4.  Commission staff, having finally recognised that labour laws tend
    to increase rather than reduce unemployment, stress how mild these
    measures are compared with those once envisaged.
  5.  The National Foreign Trade Council, representing 550 of the na
    tion's top multinational companies and banks, warned in a report yester
    day that international provisions in the US tax code were seriously « out
    of step» with those of other big industrial countries.

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7. Many immigrants give mafiosi running the refugee rackets their life
savings to reach « Europe», (and the influx has been swollen by refugees
from Kosovo).

  1.  Under the proposed tax, each of the European Union member
    countries would be required to impose a 20% withholding tax on all in
    terest payments     made to an individual who resides in another EU state...
  2.  Brazil's new central banker hired to do the dirty work, had ill—
    advisedly declared that the devaluation was consistent with the IMF deal
    last October.

  1.  The string of disasters midwifed by the global money managers is
    reflective not only of misjudgements but of a fatal flaw in the existing
    «architecture» of the IMF.
  2.  A false sense of security has been added to the dangers faced by
    Asia's new nuclear powers and their neighbours.
  3.  Appeals to reason fall on deaf ears, because thinking and reason
    tend to get in the way of those who have plans for the rest of us. Agenda
    politics works much better in an environment of belief     backed by emo
    tions.
  4.  Brazil finally gave in to the course followed by most of the world's
    major nations, allowing the currency it has long coddled to trade freely.
  5.  Roughly speaking, the Thacherites argued that the story of Britain
    since 1900 has been one of economic decline,     followed by imperial and
    international decline.
  6.  India's oceanic research vessel Gaveshani has discovered a huge
    carpet of manganese nodules on the sea-bed     located within India's eco
    nomic zone, the Press Trust of India said Wednesday.
  7.  Having refused to recognise the fact in time, Washington was
    forced to retreat, under the pressure of rather embarrassing circumstances,
    from the juridically sound but politically unrealistic position it had en
    joined on the United States delegation to the UN.
  8.  Barring further sharp increases in the price of crude oil — a de
    velopment which seems highly unlikely in the short run — there is room
    to believe that the Japanese economy will soon emerge from its current
    doldrums.
  9.  Having long considered a strong military unnecessary, Mexico
    suddenly decided to spend a portion of its oil earnings on armaments —
    and for the first time intended to buy supersonic jet fighters in the United
    States.
  10.  Coming on top of the splits within the Social Democratic Party,
    battles between the police and atomic energy protesters, and the worst

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monthly trade deficit in 31 years, the poll seemed to suggest that the momentum in German politics was moving with the opposition parties.

  1.  All three governments, pleading national budget austerity, have re
    fused to permit any rise in over-all EU spending above a controversial fi
    nancial ceiling.
  2.  Tackled over the government's promise to maintain and improve
    the quality of education the Education Secretary admitted the cuts would
    leave gaps in schools timetables but hoped schools would help each other.
  3.  Most Turkish-Cypriots, seeing their slice of the island become
    ever poorer in contrast to the Greek south, think that joining the EU could
    dramatically improve living standards.
  4.  He said that the strike movement may turn into a national strike
    bringing about the downfall of the dictatorship.
  5.  Unfortunately the point of view of this politician is becoming in
    creasingly widespread in the Western press. This is why it seems expedi
    ent to review some of the arguments     put forward by those opposing the
    idea of such talks.
  6.  Opening a new session of Parliament, he disclosed that the regime
    intends to introduce legislation     providing for preventive detention even
    when there is no official State of Emergency.
  7.  Assuming that the second chamber of Britain continues to be ex
    cluded from debating financial measures, should it have a special role in
    other areas, for instance, on constitutional Bills or on issues affecting the
    developed legislature?
  8.  Being monopoly dominated the most powerful of all industrial
    countries, the United States pushed inevitably ahead for world mastery
    with every available means at its command.

28. Considering the complexity of the problem, the decision was
reached at a rather early date.

  1.  Not satisfied with the plans for the creation of an independent anti-
    fraud office, which could take months or even years, the Chancellor of
    the Exchequer calls for the speedy appointment of an independent fraud-
    buster within the commission's existing antifraud squad.
  2.  The Belgrade Children's Hospital in South London now faces a
    threat to close all the beds,     meaning that the only children's operating
    theatre in the district will shut down despite recent modernisation.
  3.  Looked at in the medium term, it is hard not to be more pessimistic
    about Hong Kong's prospects.
  4.  After announcing the new plan yesterday, he admitted that it was
    «the worst economic settlement we've ever made». Then,     holding out the

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spectre of total job loss, the $622 million in concessions agreed to by the top UAW (United Auto Workers' Union) officials will translate into a virtual wage freeze for auto workers until September, when the current union contract expires.

  1.  Even counting Britain's North Sea oil bonanza total industrial pro
    duction dropped 9 per cent—    pulling the British economy back to levels
    of 1960s. Unemployment had burgeoned to 10 per cent of the British la
    bour force — another post-Depression record — and is rising rapidly.
  2.  The main reasons given were the large amount of work commis
    sioned     by the Government and the need to be satisfied that future changes
    in fees were consistent with P.I.B. (Prices and Incomes Board) policy.
  3.  The president of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce was
    speaking at the Chamber's annual general meeting after a luncheon     at
    tended by     the Russian Minister of Foreign Trade.
  4.  Taiwan's jobless rate fell to 2.97 per cent in January as economic
    growth remained strong enough to avoid the skyrocketing unemployment
    seen in most of Taiwan's neighbours.
  5.  This would also determine the agenda of the meeting referred to in
    a general way by him.
  6.  Taken in the early stages, these drugs prevent infirmity. Used sys
    tematically, they slowly but surely lead, to cure.
  7.  Iraqi armed forces, unprovoked according to an American report,
    engaged in a rare firing of surface-to-air missiles at American and British
    planes conducting a routine patrol on Monday to deny Iraqi planes use of
    airspace over large swaths of northern and southern Iraq.
  8.  Decisions have been taken at Brussels, which, if carried out,
    would lead straight to further controversies.
  9.  These criminal steps would be a menace to the British security,
    they would be preparation for aggression, which,     if not halted, could only
    bring disaster.
  10.  When caught, the liar and his apologists attack the one who ex
    posed the lie and excuse the fabrication as being «in the interest of a
    «Higher good.»
  11.  In this «International Year of the Handicapped» the Manhattan
    Program for the Severely Handicapped is already losing some of its
    funding;     if slashed by the threatened federal budget, especially by the
    block grants, the entire program could fold. Expansion has already been
    postponed.
  12.  President said in a message accompanying the document that it
    «will stop runaway inflation and revitalize the economy     if given a

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chance». He asked Congress to join him in a quest to «move America back toward economic sanity».

  1.  German federal structure devolved political power, to the relief of
    other Europeans, tapping a tradition long     preceding Hitler's Reich.
  2.  Though dragging their feet to the last, Britain and America could
    not avoid agreeing to setting up a control system, faced by Russia readi
    ness to accept reasonable proposals.
  3.  Companies have flowed money raised from stock sales into com
    puters and new technologies that have accelerated productivity — thus
    increasing corporate profitability while allowing companies to give real
    raises.
  4.  They wanted a Government freely chosen by the will of the peo-
    pie.
  5.  During the work-to-rule campaign many saw their efforts -wasted
    because some were induced to work extra hours.
  6.  The peoples of all countries are vitally interested in seeing further
    steps taken     at the Foreign Ministers' Conference in October.
  7.  All his criticisms were reserved for Labour backbenchers who
    want     the British Forces withdrawn from that country.
  8.  Those who opposed the «showdown» in the State Department —
    a small and not very influential group at the time — saw     their viewpoint
    being taken     increasingly into account by the White House.
  9.  Over the famous «non-dissemination» draft treaty, harmony is to
    be expected — and a powerful attempt     to get it signed by many nations.
  10.  The need for pressure from the Labour movement to get such de
    cisions taken     is urgent.
  11.  We will not seek to frustrate that consensus, since it is not in the
    world interest     to have the work of the General Assembly immobilized in
    those troubled days.
  12.  It is understood that the decision was taken against strongly ex
    pressed opposition to the T.U.C. plan, particularly in the light of the Gov
    ernment's intention     to have permanent legislation holding up pay in
    creases without retrospective payment.
  13.  Almost daily, The Washington Post and other newspapers have
    their advertising revenues increased     by full-page ads in which one corpo
    ration or another is telling Congress to quit dallying and pass the pro
    gram.

3. Абсолютная причастная конструкция (независимый причастный оборот) — сочетание причастия с существительным в об-

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щем падеже, которое, не будучи подлежащим главного предложения, является субъектом действия, выраженного причастием. Конструкция может выполнять в предложении функцию обстоятельства времени, причины, условия или сопутствующего обстоятельства.

1) Препозитивный независимый причастный оборот, т. е. прича
стный оборот, стоящий перед главным составом предложения, мо
жет иметь как временное, так и причинное значение. Какое из них
имеется в виду, определяется контекстом.

В функции обстоятельства условия этот оборот выступает обычно в тех случаях, когда предложение относится к будущему времени; на русский язык переводится соответствующим придаточным предложением.

Whole cities (being) razed to the ground during the war, the building of houses was priority number one. Так как во время войны целые города были стерты с лица земли (разрушены до основания), строительство домов стало первоочередной задачей.

2) Значение  сопутствующего обстоятельства эта конструкция
имеет в постпозиции, т. е. когда она стоит после главного состава
предложения, отделяется от главного предложения запятой и пере
водится на русский язык самостоятельным простым предложением
или простым предложением, входящим в состав сложносочиненного
предложения и вводимым союзами а, и или причем.

The cargo was badly damaged by the fire, the owners suffering great losses. Груз был сильно поврежден пожаром, и владельцы понесли большие потери.

Независимый причастный оборот часто вводится предлогом with, который на русский язык обычно не переводится.

With the prices going higher and higher and the wages frozen, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the British housewife to make both ends meet. Так как цены продолжают расти, а зарплата заморожена, английским хозяйкам становится все труднее сводить концы с концами.

Примечание. Причастие being, обычно в функции связки, может быть опущено. Такая «беспричастная» абсолютная конструкция также переводится на русский язык придаточным предложением.

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With unemployment now a crisis issue in many areas, the Labour movement is stepping up its 'right to work' campaign. Теперь, когда вопрос о безработице стоит очень остро во многих районах страны, рабочие активизируют кампанию за « право на работу».

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  With everyone asking « What sort of European Commission do we
    want?», it was hard not to ask simultaneously « What sort of Europe do
    we want?»
  2.  With his impeachment trial over, the US President has found him
    self more easily able to involve himself in foreign policy.
  3.  With the economy booming and incomes finally beginning to climb
    for those on the middle and lower rungs of the ladder, a « national culture
    of upscale spending» has emerged.

4. With state pension systems being stretched by the  ageing of
Europe's population and with returns on traditional savings instruments
shrinking, investors are turning increasingly to mutual funds.

  1.  In 1980s with their profits falling as viewers turned increasingly to
    the choice offered by cable TV and VCRs, the networks (ABC, CBS and
    NBC) were taken over by Wall street deal makers, who thought they
    couid be run more efficiently.
  2.  « With many bonds trading above par, any uncertainty about the
    implications of the European tax on sayings will have an impact on the
    trading of these securities,» said Managing director and Head of Euro
    pean debt capital markets.
  3.  With the Conservative Party as deeply divided as ever on Europe,
    its young leader can stamp his little foot as much as he likes and still not
    end the debate.
  4.  With the tricky enlargement negotiations ahead, the last thing the
    EU needs is a prolonged bout of budget bickering.
  5.  Its economy crumbling, America struggled to escape the global De
    pression and find its place in a violently changing world.

  1.  Their worst fears about the national election realized, leaders of
    the trade union movement now expect an assault against many of organ
    ized labor's most cherished programs and interests.
  2.  With sales of automobiles on the domestic market sagging, and
    many dealers in deficit, the pressure to export autos last year was acute.
  3.  With $40 billion of Brazilian dollar reserves having evaporated
    since Russia's debt default last summer, the move to a floating currency
    was increasingly favored by officials at the International Monetary Fund
    and the US Treasury.

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  1.  With 70 per cent of Japan's land area mountainous and a small
    percentage devoted     to farmland, two-thirds of Japan's urban population
    resides and works in less than 5 per cent of the total land area.
  2.  With their profits siphoned off by the central government bonds,
    some production units will undoubtedly have to curtail expansion plans,
    profit-sharing and other incentives to workers.
  3.  With German industry pressing for lower interest rates to stimulate
    investment, the Bundesbank's capacity to defend the mark by hiking rates
    is extremely limited.
  4.  With old-age pensions starting at 60 for both men and women,
    French workers already down tools several years before their counterparts
    in other rich countries.
  5.  With the Government doing its utmost to keep wages down, and
    with price increases due to the EU membership coming on top of price
    increases     arising from the Government policy, the standard of living in
    this country would be given an extremely serious setback.
  6.  The rebellion in Mexico is over four years old. Two years ago
    peace negotiators reached a series of agreements. But the deals broke
    down later that year,     with the rebels claiming that the government did not
    really mean to act upon them.
  7.  With an ever-widening band of economic and trade issues ap
    pearing in the spectrum of U N. activities,     Western meetings began to
    follow a pattern of economic rather than political alliances.
  8.  The European Parliament is coming under sharp criticism with al
    legations made     by members of inflated expenses — too much money
    spent on overseas trips, expensive quarters, and office cleaners.
  9.  Japanese diplomats said their government's approach is that the
    lead in opening up new markets should come from industry and com
    merce,     with banks following.
  10.  A second round of wage talks for insurance and metal workers
    broke off Wednesday,     with employers and unions still far apart on pay
    increases.
  11.  The US's leading maker of tires for trucks and buses, has em
    braced globalization,     with factories and dealers stretching from Brazil to
    Europe to Indonesia.
  12.  The Italian media have carried reports of tragedy as makeshift
    boats capsize,     with many would-be immigrants from North Africa, Asia
    and Albania     drowning before they can reach shore.
  13.  He is likely, though not yet certain, to continue as prime minister,
    with Finland continuing on its course of gradual liberalisation on the eco-

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nomic front and faster integration into the rest of Europe in foreign affairs.

  1.  The annual US report on human rights frequently provokes an an
    gry reaction from targeted countries. They accuse the sole superpower of
    lecturing the world to adopt its own standards and of hypocrisy,     with
    critics pointing to the     US use of death penalty and reports of police bru
    tality.
  2.  Poland's ruling coalition has run into trouble over health service
    reforms,     with parties both inside and outside the coalition calling for the
    health minister to resign.
  3.  Absorbed by Africa, tried by immigration, with the imperial feel
    ing ebbing,     India and Pakistan no longer hold the place in the British
    imagination that they once had.
  4.  The rapidly expanding Israeli arms industry now ranks seventh
    among the world's exporters of weapons and defense-related equipment,
    with sales for the year ending April 1 amounting to about $1.3 billion, a
    40 per cent increase over those of the previous year, according to a Brit
    ish military publication.
  5.  He declared that at the next sitting of the peace conference the
    proposal should be made to conclude peace, all theoretical questions
    being excluded.
  6.  The magnificence of Mughal India was built on conquest and
    plunder,     with between one-third and one-half of India's entire GNP
    finding     its way into the hands of 8,000 imperial officers.
  7.  England emerged from the war only a formal 'victor', its economy
    shaken and entering     a period of permanent stagnation and decline.
  8.  Rescue helicopters evacuated thousands of shocked tourists from
    an Austrian valley Friday as the death toll from a double avalanche rose
    to 37,     with only one victim still buried.
  9.  Almost all councils are putting up their rents, the reason being the
    heavy burden of interest for housing.
  10.  The previous president of the European commission to come from
    the Grand Duchy (Luxembourg), was widely judged as a flop,     with the
    commission run,     in practice, by Belgium's Viscount Etienne Davignon
    and Italy's Lorenzo Natati.
  11.  As there is a natural limit to the capacity of consumption of
    necessities of life (food,  etc.), particular attention must be paid to
    industrialization,     consumption prospects in this sphere being particularly
    unlimited for a long time to come.
  12.  Government can be understood to include any mechanism through

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which ordered rule is maintained, its central features being the ability to make collective decisions and the capacity to enforce them.

  1.  Stupendous storms of terrifying proportions can rage in these un-
    reported areas,     with no one knowing of them until the effects of the at
    mospheric disturbances they cause are felt in local weather days later.
  2.  Yet never were the problems confronting the country so acute,
    with the electorate in fact divided on policy issues to a greater degree
    than for years past.

III. Причастия в функции союзов и предлогов

1. Причастия в функции союзов вводят условные, причинно-
следственные и уступительные придаточные предложения. На рус
ский  язык  они  переводятся  следующим  образом:  provided/pro
viding, granted/granting при условии, принимая во внимание, sup
posing, assuming, если, допустим, предположим, что,  seeing по
скольку, принимая во внимание, учитывая, ввиду того что

A wider association of this kind would be feasible, provided that the methods adopted are in line with those proposed at the conference. Более широкая организация (ассоциация) такого рода была бы возможна, при условии, что применяемые методы будут соответствовать методам, предложенным на конференции.

2. Причастия в функции предлогов стоят перед существитель
ными и переводятся на русский язык следующим образом: given при
наличии, если учесть, failing при отсутствии, regarding, consider
ing, respecting относительно, pending до, в ожидании, following
вслед за, barring кроме, за исключением

Given, failing с относящимися к ним словами могут переводиться условным придаточным предложением, например: failing (given) good will... при отсутствии (наличии) доброй воли /если отсутствует (имеется) добрая воля...

Given good will on the part of other states, this proposal of Russia could be carried into effect without any further delay. При наличии доброй воли со стороны других государств это предложение России можно было бы осуществить без дальнейшего промедления

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Анализ предложения дает возможность точно установить, в какой функции выступает причастие.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  A Zimbabwean judge sentenced the former president to a year in
    prison,     provided he pay compensation and commit no more offences.
  2.  Foreign-owned companies that set up British subsidiaries to channel
    their profits pay no tax,     provided their management and control remain
    outside.
  3.  Today most people in rich societies assume that, provided they obey
    the law, they have a right to enjoy privacy whenever it suits them.
  4.  What gives voting its democratic character is that, provided that the
    election is competitive, it empowers the public to «kick the rascals out,»
    and it thus makes politicians publicly accountable.
  5.  Objections to this plan, supposing there are any, should be reported
    to the committee at once.
  6.  Granted that storm clouds were gathering over the economic affairs
    of the nation, we were given hopes of a fresh breeze from the Exchequer
    to blow them away.
  7.  It cannot be denied that, granting the difficulty of the undertaking,
    she has done her work with great skill.
  8.  Assuming the hearty cooperation of all the members, it is reasonable
    to expect that the celebration will be successful.

9. The French government is committed, assuming all the existing
« preconditions» are met, to suggest to the Assembly next Tuesday that it
should fix a date for the debate.

  1.  Prospects are bright for a big expansion of trade between these
    two countries,     following the signing of a new three-year trade agreement.
  2.  The Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to end the UN
    peacekeeping missions in Angola,     following the collapse of peace ac
    cords.
  3.  Brazil will allow the real (its currency) to trade freely, following
    last week's failed attempt at a limited devaluation. The currency has lost
    nearly a third of its value since that move.
  4.  Nevertheless, the leaders did decide what they describe as a strong
    message to agricultural ministers to get back to the negotiating table in
    Brussels next week,     following their failure to reach any agreement this
    week.
  5.  To-day's inflation report from the Bank of England shows that
    following the Government's tough action to get the economy back on
    track, growth is set to strengthen through next year with inflation falling
    to its 2.5 per cent target.

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  1.  In Bremen, following a demonstration against atomic energy, the
    police seized 24 youths and charged them with smashing show windows
    of banks, department stores and other businesses.
  2.  The idea of waging a nuclear war appears inconceivable, and win
    ning one, meaningless,     given the scale of destruction on all sides.
  3.  Analysts said the downward revision of the forecast for Hong
    Kong's economy came as no surprise     given the current economic climate.
  4.  Given the growing availability of pornographic material by mail
    order and through the Internet, it must be better to attempt to police this
    market in a more sophisticated way rather than taking refuge in old rules.
  5.  Is demand lagging too far behind supply just now? Does global
    monetary policy need to be eased? A strange question to ask in the United
    Stated,     given that its economy is currently stretched as tight as a drum.
  6.  Failing agreement by the United States to steps of this kind, seri
    ous consideration should be given to the possibilities and scope for con
    certed action by the industrialized countries of Western Europe to main
    tain high levels of output and trade in the international economy outside
    the United States.
  7.  The only certainty is that on this last lap of the race every effort
    will be made by the larger parties to win over liberal voters or,     failing
    that, to encourage by every means the liberal obstacle to their opponents'
    chances.
  8.  This was what the Tories want. They are against the Bill, but fail
    ing     its complete defeat they are aiming to get it amended into uselessness.
  9.  Pending the reopening of negotiations and fearing the abrogation
    of some privileges the State Council adopted certain measures.
  10.  Founder and guru of Aum CM. was thrown in jail pending the
    outcome of a trial that could drag on for years.
  11.  The one decisive thing which Mr Dobson has done is to freeze the
    closure of any more London hospitals     pending yet another wide-ranging
    review of the capital's health needs.
  12.  It is argued that the risk that Britain runs in exposing her hand,
    though not to be discounted, is well worth taking,     considering the impor
    tance to British industry of the negotiations as a whole.
  13.  The decision this month, according to the sources, was to postpone
    any such changes     pending a large policy review regarding relations with
    China and Taiwan.
  14.  The 31 were charged with criminal association and jailed pending
    interrogation.
  15.  At this point the lenders funds are in a non-interest bearing ac
    count, so time is of the essence     regarding the closing of the loan.

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IV. Форма на -ing

Форма, оканчивающаяся на -ing, может быть причастием, герундием, прилагательным или отглагольным существительным. И герундий, и причастие могут выступать в функции определения и обстоятельства, но причастие выполняет эти функции без предлога (оно может сочетаться только с союзами when и while), а герундий (или герундиальный комплекс) в этих функциях всегда следует за предлогом. Для герундия характерно также сочетание с существительным, местоимением, иногда с личным местоимением в притяжательном или косвенном падеже (герундиальный комплекс). Причастие сочетается с существительным в общем падеже и гораздо реже с местоимением в именительном падеже.

Прилагательное, как правило, стоит перед существительным, которое оно определяет (в отличие от причастия, которое постпозитивно по отношению к определяемому). Существительное, в отличие от герундия, может определяться артиклем и прилагательным, а также иметь форму множественного числа.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  « You have a steel industry hemorrhaging with the flooding of our
    markets with foreign dumped steel,     causing losses of thousands of jobs,
    and the administration is     applying a small band-aid to that massive hem
    orrhage,» said Senator A.Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania.
  2.  Among the radical measures are proposals to give the public the
    right of veto over a new King or Queen,     the scraping of the monarch's
    political powers and     the ending of the role of the Sovereign as Supreme
    Governor of the Church of England.
  3.  They passed a resolution calling for a world trade conference.
  4.  With fiscal policy stretched to its limits, Japan's central bank has
    moved to the centre of a heated debate over whether it should adopt     an
    easing     of credit.
  5.  By dropping its annual sponsorship of a resolution condemning
    China at the UN Human Rights Commission, now meeting in Geneva, the
    US administration acknowledges what has long been obvious.
  6.  Using sharper language than it has in recent years, this year survey
    of human rights around the world said Beijing had abruptly ended     a
    loosening     of curbs on freedom of expression and association.

1 Adding its voice to optimism about the global market for notebook computers this year, Acer Inc. said it expects to boost production of the machine 75% amid falling prices and rising global demand.

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  1.  Rather than come up with cash and watch expensive hardware de
    preciate, companies increasingly are     turning to leasing and outsourcing
    as alternatives to buying.
  2.  Crowds gathered at two US Churches where the civil-rights leader
    Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached,     marking the US holiday
    bearing his name.

  1.  The Angola government has insisted on the withdrawal of the lat
    est UN mission,     accusing the UN troops of failing to disarm the rebels.
  2.  For high-tech multinationals like H.P., financing has become an
    important way to keep Asian sales     kicking, as well as a lucrative business
    believed to total roughly     $20 billion a year. It is also becoming a new
    form of muscle in Asia's tougher market-place.
  3.  «Not that we in America do everything right or that we provide a
    precise model for     the working of a somewhat similar economy, but some
    long-standing American economic interactions do resemble those devel
    oping     on the old Continent,» said a US economics expert.
  4.  In the EU, a spirit of collective irresponsibility takes hold: rather
    than     reforming, or even seriously thinking about the underlying policies,
    each country simply seeks to get as much as it can from the trough.
  5.  Amendments by the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Com
    mittee to a draft copyright protection directive would bar all private
    copying and « make illegal such harmless practices as the home taping on
    video of free TV programmes for later     viewing..»
  6.  Building encryption directly into PC hardware raises different
    product possibilities and policy issues.
  7.  Competing car and truck makers will think twice before buying a
    company (Scania AB) in which rival « Volvo» holds such a large stake.
  8.  Hoping to discourage currency speculators, Brazil's central bank
    said that it will reserve the right to use hard-currency reserves to support
    the real « occasionally and in limited form, with the goal of containing
    brusque movements in exchange rates.»
  9.  In radical democracy, people are seen as having a basic right to
    participate in     the making of any decisions that affect their lives, with de
    mocracy simply     being the collective process through which this is done.
  10.  There is already an extraordinarily high level of international co
    operation in     reporting the basic meteorological data. By knowing as much
    as possible about what is     happening everywhere, weathermen are better
    able to forecast for local areas anywhere.
  11.  Three days after the embassy bombing, Clinton approved the ex
    port of satellite fuel and explosive bolts to China so it can launch Ameri
    can - made communications satellites.

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  1.  The democratising of China will be a slow business, and whoever
    is running Beijing should be able to keep a solid grip on foreign policy
    for some time yet.
  2.  The 21st century would inevitably be marked by declining stan
    dards of     living as human population exceeded the «carrying capacity» of
    the Earth,     leading to mass famine and energy shortages.

§ 4. СТРАДАТЕЛЬНЫЙ ЗАЛОГ

Предложения с глаголом-сказуемым в страдательном залоге (пассивной форме) представляют иногда по ряду причин значительные трудности при переводе на русский язык.

Во-первых, в английском языке форма страдательного залога образуется не только от переходных глаголов, но и от глаголов, требующих косвенного или предложного дополнения, например, от глаголов to arrive at приходить к, достигать (в переносном значении), to call upon призывать кого-л., to deal with иметь дело с, обращаться с, to enter into вступать (в соглашение и т. п.), to refer to ссылаться на, to report on сообщать о, доносить на, to dictate to диктовать, приказывать, to tell (smth.), to give (smth.) to и др.

Во-вторых, английскому переходному глаголу в русском языке может соответствовать непереходный глагол, требующий предложного или косвенного дополнения, например, to affect воздействовать на, to attend присутствовать на, to follow следовать за, to influence влиять на, to join присоединяться к, to need нуждаться в, to treat обращаться с, to refuse отказывать, отказываться от, to resist сопротивляться чему-л. и др.

В-третьих, в английском языке в страдательном залоге могут употребляться фразеологические сочетания, например, to make use of, to pay attention to, to take notice of и др. Эти сочетания невозможно перевести на русский язык соответствующими глаголами, не заменив страдательный залог действительным.

Очень часто при переводе на русский язык приходится вместо страдательного залога употреблять действительный; личные предложения переводить неопределенно-личными; заменять один глагол другим, а иногда вместо личной формы глагола употреблять в русском тексте форму неличную или вообще передавать эту пассивную форму лексически.

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freeze. Местные лондонские организации типографских рабочих призвали тысячи своих членов принять участие в назначенном на вторник походе к депутатам парламента (в парламент к депутатам) с протестом против замораживания заработной платы.

Если в английском предложении отсутствует субъект действия глагола (дополнение с предлогом by), оно обычно переводится на русский язык неопределенно-личным предложением.

Although subsidiarity is already part of European treaties, the concept is widely ignored. Хотя концепция субсидиарности уже заложена в европейские договоры, ее повсеместно игнорируют.

This statement, he said, should be looked at in the light of what was said at the previous meeting. Он сказал, что это заявление следует рассматривать в свете того, что было сказано (в свете сказанного) на предыдущем заседании.

В русском языке страдательный залог не так широко распространен, как в английском, и даже в тех случаях, когда английскому глаголу в страдательном залоге соответствует русский переходный глагол, страдательный залог часто заменяется действительным по стилистическим соображениям или для того, чтобы передать смысловое или логическое ударение английского предложения на русском языке.

These fears were reiterated by the representative of the Weavers' Association, who said the closure would cause much hardship. Эти же опасения высказал также и представитель Ассоциации ткачей, который сказал, что закрытие (фабрики) вызовет большие трудности.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Much of the European Commission's activity is carried out at a
    technical level in Committees, and the Commission     is with some justifi
    cation     accused of excessive secrecy.
  2.  The EU Commission, which is responsible for proposing and en
    forcing European legislation,     is disliked by many in Europe as a federal-
    izing agency and     is often misunderstood because of the complex and bu
    reaucratic nature of its work.
  3.  The trip to Brussels by the Norwegian Prime Minister and Finance

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Minister is largely for appearances sake, and is being made at the request of pro-European Union factions in Parliament.

  1.  The fact that China's crisis is derived from stalled reforms of state-
    owned industries and the financial sector     is well understood
  2.  The whole EU budget is being argued about  Both Britain and
    Germany want to cut farm spending, while France wants a big increase in
    prices for its farmers.
  3.  « The truth has been proven for many times that the human rights
    issue     will not be resolved through confrontation,»  —  China's foreign
    minister said in a statement.
  4.  Those killed at the weekend were trying to collect leaking fuel
    when they     were caught in the blast, apparently caused by a spark of a
    cigarette.
  5.  The changes were denounced by opposition politicians and labour
    leaders as likely to further deflate the already limp British economy and
    push unemployment even higher.
  6.  The development of markets to trade oil and oil futures means that
    price signals     are relayed faster and more efficiently.

10. Comments made by the U.S. ambassador about Mexican-Cuban rela
tions have been attacked as gross interference in the international affairs
of Mexico and a violation of the universally-accepted diplomatic norms.

In expressing discontent with Mexico's friendly relations with Cuba, the U.S. ambassador publicly stated that the U.S. could not understand the close friendship.

  1.  Only when agreement is reached on the role and powers of the
    second chamber does it make sense to consider its composition [Britain].
  2.  One day the world will learn of the intrigues and provocations that
    were resorted to     in pushing the country into this suicidal policy.
  3.  The new program has just been launched There has been an in
    crease in the number of minority applicants. But it is not enough. The
    program is also     required, under the terms of the grant, to provide the nec
    essary student support services for ethnic minority students and to expand
    and sharpen the current program's responsiveness to the special needs of
    client populations from ethnic minority groups.
  4.  The preeminence given to military industry and technology over
    the last three decades, has had a delayed but serious impact upon the ci
    vilian industrial economy. In stark contrast to the enormous sums allotted
    over the years to military technology, civilian technology     has been
    starved     for capital and thus for talent.
  5.  Investing in oil is done mainly through futures contracts. These in
    volve obligations to buy or sell a fixed amount of oil at a fixed date.

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  1.  He is survived by two sons.

«Nations against the State» is not a great book or even a very
good one. It is dully written, eccentrically organised, sloppily edited and
has apparently not been proofread at all, and the reader is irked by Mr.
Keating's continual refusal to answer the main questions.

«The report has nothing to do with the Goverment and doesn't re
flect its views. No one in the Goverment was involved in drawing it up.»

«Mama, cars don't behave They are behaved upon,» — the son
in «Driving Miss Daisy» tells his mother when she tries to blame her
Packard for an accident.

Most Americans do not need news but were made to think that
watching it on television is « a kind of social hygiene, like regular tooth-
brushing», says a journalist for the public broadcasting network.

In this age in which income transfers are deeply imbedded in poli
tics, the IMF doesn't lack clients.

Indonesia's riots have been linked to economic hardships, ethnic
and religious tensions and political turmoil.

Aid can keep bad governments in business; and promises to im
prove policy, made when the aid is first offered, are often forgotten once
it has been delivered

Police and soldiers have been ordered to shoot rioters and trou
blemakers on sight, and a rapid-response force is being raised to deal
with outbreaks of unrest.

If a second ballot is required, the low vote getter will be elimi
nated as the top two face off.

The company's tax returns and payments are reviewed on a regu
lar basis by relevant tax authorities.

27 Just how the body's natural defence mechanism against bacteria and viruses works is being more closely examined at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London.

  1.  Thousands of domestic servants are being brought into the United
    States from impoverished countries and then severely     exploited by foreign
    employers, many of whom work for embassies and international organi
    zations in the Washington area, according to human rights groups, immi
    gration attorneys and former domestics.
  2.  Yet failing banks can be dealt with  Asia's current difficulties
    have already been faced and mostly overcome in Latin America. And the
    pathology of bank-driven distress is familiar in many rich western coun
    tries too — not least in Britain. The lessons are there     to be learned
  3.  Indonesia has been racked by waves of unrest over the past year as

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ethnic, religious and social tensions boiled over, fueled by spiraling poverty amid the country's worst economic and political crisis in decades.

  1.  With the complicity of a sympathetic media, belief is presented as
    fact, and data     are simply made up.
  2.  Scrap car law may be recycled. Laws that will make it illegal to
    scrap a car in many ways except through recycling yards     are being con
    sidered by     the Government.
  3.  The Treasury Chief Secretary issued a warning that further action
    would have     to be taken to stop big pay rises in the private sector to meet
    inflation targets.
  4.  The Government must ensure that the unions were not called upon
    to accept impossible tasks and then be blamed because they failed.
  5.  Another speaker thought that some of the older mental hospitals
    can only be adequately dealt with by pulling them down and rebuilding
    them.
  6.  Relations between the Chinese and the Malays, who make up 15%
    of Singapore's population,     have sometimes been strained. Malay remains
    the national language, but it     is not spoken by most Chinese and is largely
    seen as a relic of Singapore's past union with Malaysia.
  7.  All that the schools can be asked to promise is that everyone will
    be educated to     the limit of his capacities.
  8.  China is far from being in recession, unlike many of its neighbors.
    Certainly, China's exports     will be badly hit this year, and previous high
    levels of foreign investments will fall. Yet, the export sector remains
    relatively small. It is China's domestic economy that counts, and this     is
    shielded     from external shocks by a largely non-convertible currency.
  9.  Unless another attempt is made at a serious reform of the CAP
    (common agricultural policy), the heads of government have made it un
    likely that any large Central European country     can be admitted to the
    Union at an acceptable cost.
  10.  People on the left have as often been disappointed by Labour gov
    ernments as those on the right     have been alarmed by them.

§ 5. СОСЛАГАТЕЛЬНОЕ НАКЛОНЕНИЕ

В ряде случаев перевод сослагательного наклонения на русский язык представляет известную трудность. А именно:

1. Форма would + инфинитив, если она употреблена в простом предложении с подразумевающимся условием, переводится на русский язык глаголом в сослагательном наклонении.

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Any interruption to oil supplies would be hugely damaging to the world economy. Любые перебои в поставках нефти нанесли бы огромный ущерб мировой экономике.

Однако, в тех случаях, когда описывается содержание какого-нибудь внесенного, но еще не принятого проекта, плана или предложения, в русском языке принято употребление будущего времени изъявительного наклонения.

It was recommended that a special report should be submitted. This report would give a detailed account of the activities of the committee and their views on the situation. Рекомендуется представить специальный доклад. В этом докладе будет сделан подробный отчет о деятельности этой комиссии и представлена ее точка зрения по данному вопросу.

2. Трудность при переводе представляет также бессоюзное под-чинение условных предложений с частичной или полной инверсией.

Had this policy been adopted, the subsequent history of the treaty might well have been quite different. Если бы такая политика была принята, последующая судьба этого договора вполне могла бы быть совершенно другой.

Примечание. 1. Часто не учитывается стилистическая окраска, литературный стиль инвертированного предложения, и предложение переводится также с бессоюзным подчинением, что в русском языке характерно как раз для разговорного стиля.

Had it been as easy as that, no special negotiations would have been necessary. Если бы это было так просто, не понадобилось бы никаких специальных переговоров (литературный стиль). (Будь это так просто... — разговорный стиль.)

2. Условие может быть выражено не только полным придаточным предложением, но и другими способами, например: if + причастие (см. «Причастие» , с. 40), или сочетание предлогов given, provided и др. с существительным (см. «Причастия в функции союзов и предлогов», с. 54), или составной предлог but for + существительное.

But for their willingness to assist, this decision would never have been arrived at. Если бы. не их желание помочь, это решение так и не было бы принято.

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3. Форма were + инфинитив употребляется в придаточных условия для обозначения маловероятного условия, относящегося к будущему времени (еще менее вероятного, чем форма, омонимичная Past Indefinite); переводится глаголом в сослагательном наклонении. В русском языке нет грамматических форм для передачи различных градаций маловероятности, и поэтому они передаются, где это нужно, лексически (словами если вдруг/почему-нибудь/паче чаяния, обстоятельственными сочетаниями с предлогом при и др.).

Such a system is bound to be unpopular among most Europeans, and if the Federal party were to support it, they would undoubtedly weaken their chances in the forthcoming federal elections. Такая система наверняка не будет пользоваться популярностью среди большинства европейцев, и если Федеральная партия вдруг (почему-либо) стала бы ее поддерживать, она, несомненно, уменьшила бы свои шансы на победу на предстоящих выборах.

4. Придаточные предложения условия с формой should (для всех лиц) + инфинитив при переводе на русский язык обычно начинаются словами в случае если бы В английском языке такие предложения часто бывают инвертированными, с опущенным союзом.

The resolution, passed unanimously by the Council members on March 2nd, promises the « severest consequences» should Iraq again hinder the UN's arm inspectors (= if Iraq should hinder). Резолюция, единогласно принятая всеми членами Совета безопасности ООН, предупреждает о « самых серьезных последствиях» в случае, если Ирак вновь стал бы чинить препятствия работе инспекторов ООН по разоружению

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  The Saudis are well aware that their oil revenues would increase if
    they boosted production, because any fall in price would be more than
    offset by an increase in volume.
  2.  It would be dangerous folly to write off as insignificant the revival
    of nazi-type extremism in Europe.
  3.  In preparation for their meeting tomorrow it would be a very good
    idea if Trades Union Congress leaders     would make a point of meeting the
    rank-and-file workers who are lobbying Parliament today.

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  1.  If the Saudi royal family, in particular, were overthrown, it would
    send     oil markets into turmoil.
  2.  This veto provision reflects the conviction of those who drafted the
    Charter that the United Nations     would be unable to take an important ini
    tiative for the maintenance of peace and security unless there was una
    nimity among the big powers, and that to attempt so     would be a futile
    gesture endangering the organization.
  3.  The blacks believe that if white children had been involved in the
    tragedy it     would have received huge public and press attention.
  4.  Iraq wants a date for sanctions to end. They could have ended long
    since if Iraq     had not been trying to rearm and Unscom (UNSCOM —
    United Nations Security Council observers mission) had therefore been
    ready to declare the country free of forbidden weapons.
  5.  Had there been no international safety net supplied by an act of the
    U.S. Congress, the Brazilian President     might have seen fit to work harder.
  6.  The former Yugoslavia's people have lived together for centuries
    with greater and lesser degrees of conflict but not constant «cleansing»
    of peoples from their land.     Had they experienced nothing but that, their
    nations     would be homogeneous today, not endlessly diverse.

  1.  David Hare's play «Plenty» opened to poor notices and would
    have lasted a fortnight had he not been in a position     to «nurse»  it.
    Eventually it reached Broadway and became a film.
  2.  Turkey's prime minister, who has been a hawk on foreign policy
    issues, argued that     were it not for external inteference, Turkey's so-called
    Kurdish problem     could «easily» be solved by planned economic and
    educational improvements.
  3.  After tending to flower arrangements and throwing lavish parties,
    she takes up the task of hard-bitten negotiator — one who barks at top
    executives     as if they were naughty children.
  4.  Accounting for about 40 per cent of OPEC production, Saudi
    Arabia currently enjoys enormous leverage over the market and its oil-
    producing colleagues.     If it were to cut back sharply, however, sagging oil
    prices     would almost certainly jump up once again.
  5.  The major U.S. auto companies lost an astonishing $4.2 billion
    last year. Of the three, only General Motors is likely to show a profit this
    year.     If the two weaker companies were to collapse, hundreds of thou
    sands of jobs     would be lost in the auto industry alone, and perhaps a mil
    lion jobs, taking into account the industries that produce materials for cars
    such as steel and glass.
  6.  One of their fears is that the auto industry, if given relief, would

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increase prices rather than production. Another argument that they have used is that even if production were to increase, General Motors would pick up roughly 60 per cent of the lost Japanese sales and that would not provide enough help for Chrysler and Ford.

  1.  Such extraordinary growth of the political correctness industry
    would quickly slacken //the driving force behind it — the language of
    political correctness —     were to go out of fashion.
  2.  Any proposal to go ahead with this disgusting weapon should be
    vigorously combatted. It may be immensely profitable to the chemical in
    dustry, but if ever it     were used, it would bring an agonising death to thou
    sands.
  3.  How would the West respond if one day China, say, were to carry
    out air strikes against an Indian government fighting to prevent its Mus
    lim-majority province of Jammu & Kashmir from seceding?
  4.  The Iraqis see themselves trapped. But the Security Council is no
    less trapped:     were it to bend in the face of Iraqi belligerence, it would de
    stroy     its remaining credibility.
  5.  To permit the programs of the new administration to be imposed
    upon the people is to embolden the ultra-right.     Should this program be
    carried out,     we shall then face a serious change in the situation that could
    open the road to a fascist America.
  6.  If Bonn should decide to buy less gas, it would certainly soften
    U.S. opposition. But if the Germans conclude they need all the gas they
    are slated to get, there could be trouble.
  7.  Should the Tories succeed in finding another candidate, we may
    yet see the spectacle of the three brands of Tories fighting each other for
    the votes.
  8.  Today's talks will certainly lay down guide-lines for a Tory Mani
    festo     should an early election materialize
  9.  Should any appeal be needed, the Prime Minister will have op
    portunities for personal chats with backsliders at a party for MPs of pre
    vious Parliaments which he will give at 10 Downing Street tonight.
  10.  Economies depend less on oil than they did. The development of
    markets to trade oil and oil futures means that price signals are relayed
    faster and more efficiently. Oil-producing capacity outside OPEC could
    be brought back on stream     should oil prices ever flip up again.
  11.  They had a special reason for preferring short-time — the low
    normal wastage at its works — but, again, fear of a strike     if redundancies
    were declared     also influenced the company.
  12.  Euro-MPs have been emboldened to go after the Commission

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members as they would never have dared to do in the days of Jacques Delors.

  1.  If the agreement in Berlin last week was a «success», then the
    world could be forgiven for wondering quite what a failure     would have
    looked like
  2.  U.S. Embassy sources stressed that the visas would never have
    been issued     to the five officers, who were presented as diplomats going
    for routine consultations with their own embassy,     if their military function
    had been known
  3.  There would not have been a review if the estimate's conclusions
    had     totally supported the administration's charges.
  4.  Had the election campaign been still in progress,  the wage
    squeeze     might have become an issue.
  5.  But for import restrictions, quotas and American-imposed embar
    goes, Anglo-Russian trade     would be larger than it is today.
  6.  But Solana's charm — the perpetual smile on his bearded, be
    spectacled face, and his tactile Mediterranean manners —     wouldn 't work
    if it was     entirely insincere.
  7.  If the IMF were not refinanced, it could not bail out Brazil and
    Brazil     would go the way of the Asian tigers, with serious repercussions
    for the US and world economy.
  8.  It is not possible to devise experiments to test whether, say, US
    government       would  be   less   susceptible   to   institutional   government
    gridlock     if it abandoned the separation of powers, or whether communism
    could have survived in  the  USSR had reforms  been  instigated a
    generation earlier.
  9.  Were it not for circular highway that defines the limits of the
    capital,     it would be impossible to know where Paris ends and Boulogne-
    Billancourt begins.

§ 6. МОДАЛЬНЫЕ И ВСПОМОГАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ГЛАГОЛЫ

I. Should

При переводе предложений с глаголом should трудность возникает из-за многообразия его значений в различных функциях.

1. В функции вспомогательного глагола should употребляется для образования будущего времени в прошедшем (обычно в придаточных предложениях с 1-м лицом) и для образования форм

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сослагательного наклонения (should в сослагательном наклонении (см. §5)).

2. В функции модального глагола should выражает долженство
вание в плане совета или пожелания и обычно переводится: следу
ет, следовало бы, нужно, не мешало бы , должен (бы) и т п

For the time being, until a greater European consciousness takes root, the preponderance of power in the EU should remain with the Council of Ministers. В течение какого-то времени, пока не укрепится общеевропейское самосознание, основные властные полномочия в ЕС должны оставаться у Совета министров.

3. В функции конъюнктива should + инфинитив употребляется:

1) для выражения оценки или эмоций (удивление, сожаление, подозрение, неодобрение). Употребляется в придаточных предложениях в функции подлежащего после сочетаний типа: It is strange that...; it is natural that...; it is vital that...; it is essential that...; it is important that...; it is surprising that...; it is advisable that..., it is high time that... и др.

Употребляется также в вопросительных предложениях с why, how и др

В этом случае на русский язык сочетание should с последующим инфинитивом переводится личной формой глагола в изъявительном наклонении настоящего или прошедшего времени (прошедшего в том случае, если за should следует перфектная форма инфинитива).

Так как в русском языке нет соответствующих грамматических форм, эта функция передается, где это вообще возможно, лексически.

It is a bit odd that the holder of NATO's top civilian post should have spent much of his early life as a semiclandestine socialist, campaigning to shut American military bases in his homeland and stop it joining NATO. Несколько странно, что высший гражданский руководитель НАТО большую часть своей молодости был социалистом, находившимся на полулегальном положении, и участвовал в кампаниях за закрытие американских военных баз в своей стране и против ее вступления в НАТО.

Примечание Should может также выражать предположение В этом случае переводится на русский язык словами должно быть, вероятно В газетном тексте в этом значении встречается довольно редко

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There should have been plenty of evidence around that a monetary policy alone cannot compensate for government indiscipline Должно быть (вероятно), есть масса свидетельств тому, что монетарная политика сама по себе не может компенсировать отсутствие дисциплины в системе управления

  1.  в придаточном подлежащем с глаголом-сказуемым типа: (it) is
    recommended (suggested, proposed, demanded, requested, determined,
    arranged, advised, etc) that
  2.  в придаточном дополнительном после глаголов recommend,
    suggest, demand и т.п.
  3.  в придаточном предикативном, если подлежащим главного
    предложения является существительное того же корня (т.е.     recom
    mendation, suggestion, demand и т.п.)

В случаях 2, 3, 4, предложения с should переводятся на русский язык сослагательным наклонением (частица бы + глагол в прошедшем времени).

The report also suggests that Brussels should adopt more general European standards of practice in housing architecture rather than impose strict directives. В докладе также содержится предложение, чтобы Брюссель не навязывал строгие директивы, а принял бы более общие европейские стандарты в практике жилищного строительства.

Примечание. Как стилистический или американский вариант формы should + инфинитив употребляется форма, омонимичная инфинитиву без частицы to.

The UN Secretary General recommended that UN military observers leave Angola, saying the resumption of civil war made their presence useless Генеральный секретарь ООН рекомендовал, чтобы военные наблюдатели ООН покинули Анголу, отметив, что возобновление гражданской войны делает их присутствие бессмысленным

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Private providers of social services should be on formal contracts
    with the government, and accountable to it.
  2.  To outsiders of all stripes, it has long been evident that Cypriots
    should put aside their feud and create a federation that would amount to
    double self-rule and single formal sovereignty.
  3.  But at least both sets of Cypriots, if they are not going to work seri-

3*

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ously to resolve differences, should keep them below the threshold of disturbance to others.

  1.  The main parties accept that the Commons should continue to be
    the superior House, but how far     should the second Chamber be formally
    recognized as a check and balance?
  2.  The poll found 60 per cent of people thought the monarchy should
    be modernised, while 49 per cent believed the Queen should relinquish
    her political role, including the right to dissolve parliament
  3.  The Act of Supremacy of 1559, which makes the monarch the head
    of the Church of England,     should be repealed, the report suggests. A ref
    erendum     should decide whether or not the heir should succeed to the
    throne.
  4.  The other problem is constitutional. Should minority nations be
    content with some special status within the host country, or     should they
    seek separation?
  5.  «We in America need to think harder about the urgencies and pit
    falls of intervening in a civil war over the government's protests and on
    the rebels' side. If it sets a precedent, it     should not set a rule,» — a US
    official said.
  6.  As for the European parliament, its role as scrutineer and bringer to
    book     should grow.

10. Trade unionists should not be taken in by the blood-curdling
shrieks from the boardrooms.

  1.  The deal, once ratified by both sides, should take effect at the end
    of the year.
  2.  The Council president added that the call should be backed by the
    official bodies of the labour and trade union movement supported by
    broad democratic and community organizations.

  1.  He said that this was not a temporary problem. Lasting arrange
    ments     should be made.
  2.  It is important that the real situation should be examined because
    anything which promotes irrational differences between earnings in an
    industry is bound to cause trouble.
  3.  This news sums up the impact of inflation and economic crisis,
    aggravated by policies pursued by successive governments, particularly
    the present one.

It is odd, therefore, that the Chancellor should have chosen yesterday to tell an audience of French government business figures that Britain was «always a politically stable country.»

16. It was not without significance, he said, that people who were

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connected at that level with the situation should be expressing grave disquiet.

  1.  The Premier admitted yesterday that it was natural that people
    should be disturbed at food being thrown away when millions of people
    were undernourished.
  2.  It can hardly be fortuitous that the Minister should have taken the
    opportunity     of the last meeting in Delhi to publicly summarize his plans
    for the future of the three fighting services.
  3.  The voters are beginning, at last, to wonder whether it is right that
    farming should absorb     almost half the EU's budget.
  4.  They insisted that the exact demands should be outlined so that the
    European Union could be in no doubt about them.
  5.  It appears doubtful whether the formula will meet the Govern
    ment's     insistence that the UN sanctions should not lead to economic con
    frontation with that country.

22 Three days later the Administration had served formal notice that it would insist that the General Assembly, on its opening day November 10, squarely face the decision of whether or not to invoke Article 19.

23. William Hague insisted that Tory peers reject the closed-list
provisions of the European elections Bill.

  1.  The paper also recommended that the eligibility age for retirement
    benefits be raised gradually from 65 to 68 by the year 2012.
  2.  There should be considerable support for the demand that the
    Minister of Justice     act to invalidate the outrageous court decision
    ordering two  dedicated  social  workers to forfeit 300  bail  sureties
    following the failure of a youth to appear in court on charge.
  3.  The report suggests that the monarch's role [in Britain] should be
    that     of head of state, but with « minimal connection with the executive,
    the legislature or the judiciary.»
  4.  A report published by one of the largest housing associations
    suggests that architects and planners should cater more considerately for
    the ethnic tenants who rent roughly 14 per cent of their homes.
  5.  Models of democracy that have been consructed on the basis of
    liberal individualism have usually     proposed that democracy be restricted
    to political life, with politics being narrowly defined

29. Because of Russian and French opposition, the UN Security
Council could not agree to a proposal from America and Britain that Iraq
be warned of « serious consequences» should it persist in thumbing its
nose.

30. «The moment requires that we be aware of our responsibility and

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be austere in balancing our accounts,» President of Brazil said during inauguration of a Volkswagen AG plant in southern Brazil.

  1.  The majority of people, be they politicians, trade unionists or em
    ployers, are now all in favour of East-West trade. The problem today is
    how to break down the remaining barriers.
  2.  Mr. Gingrich, nobly taking responsibility for the Republicans'
    election disappointment, has resigned as speaker of the House of Repre
    sentatives     lest his presence be « an excuse for divisiveness and factional
    ism.»

II. Can, may, must

1. Глагол CAN. Кроме своего основного значения, передающего
умение, способность или объективную возможность совершить дей
ствие, глагол саn (в утвердительной форме) выражает предположе
ние и переводится словами может быть, возможно, мог и т. п. или
сомнение (в вопросительной и отрицательной форме) и переводится
словами неужели, не может быть, чтобы и т. п. Форма could пере
дает меньшую уверенность предположения или сомнения. Перфект
ная форма инфинитива после саn и could относит действие к про
шедшему времени или она означает, что действие могло состояться,
но не состоялось.

It could be true but it is advisable to find out first what has really happened there. Может быть, это и правда (что сомнительно), но лучше сначала выяснить, что же в действительности там произошло.

2. Глагол MAY. В языке газетных статей глагол may чаще всего
выступает в значении предположения и переводится словами мо
жет быть, возможно Форма might указывает на меньшую уверен
ность предположения, на сомнение. Перфектная форма инфинитива
после may относит действие к прошедшему времени.

The Chancellor's measures might help towards an agreement on an incomes policy. But this still has to be proved. Мероприятия, предложенные министром финансов, может быть, и помогут достичь соглашения по политике доходов. Но это еще нужно доказать.

Two factors may temporarily have increased their caution. Возможно, два фактора временно усилили их осторожность.

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Примечание. 1. Глагол may может выступать также в качестве вспомогательного глагола, образуя форму сослагательного наклонения, главным образом в придаточных предложениях цели после that, so that, lest и в придаточных уступительных после whatever, however и т. п В таких случаях may не переводится

They are determined to achieve this aim, however difficult it may seem Они полны решимости добиться этой цели, какой бы трудной она ни казалась

2 После глаголов саn и may слово well означает вполне, с успехом

The EU Commission's fate could well be decided by the tenor of the committee's report Вполне возможно, что судьба Комиссии Европейского Союза будет определена тональностью ее доклада

3. Глагол MUST. Основное значение глагола must — долженствование. Кроме того, глагол must (в утвердительной форме) часто употребляется в значении предположения со значительной долей уверенности и переводится словами должно быть, вероятно, по всей вероятности и т. п. Перфектная форма инфинитива после must означает, что предположение относится к прошедшему времени.

They must have known about it for a certain time. Они, должно быть, уже в течение некоторого времени знали об этом.

Примечание Предположение со значительной долей уверенности, относящееся к прошлому, может также передаваться глаголом will с перфектным инфинитивом

Some kind of decision will have been taken by now. К настоящему времени какое-то решение уже по всей вероятности принято, (...вероятно, они уже приняли какое-то решение.)

They will have finished that discussion by now. К этому моменту (сейчас) они, наверняка, закончили это обсуждение.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  « Sooner or later the country [China] will have to come to under
    stand that society and the world we are living in simply     cannot purchase
    stability at the expense of freedom.»
  2.  By spurring inflation, some economists say, consumers and compa
    nies     could be persuaded to spend more now.

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  1.  To the U.S. nearly $100 million in equipment offered by Congress
    to Iraqi opposition groups     may seem like a gift horse for the Iraqi Kurds.
    But the Iraqi Kurds themselves fear it     may in fact be a Trojan horse that
    could bring them fresh disasters.
  2.  To cope with regulations of different governments, Intel is consid
    ering building chips that     can be electronically reprogrammed with differ
    ent encryption strengths after they are built.
  3.  A reformed second chamber could have powers to block constitu
    tional changes until after further general elections or a referendum. Such
    a chamber     might perform the «checking» role that the judges might oth
    erwise assume [Britain].
  4.  Even in a panic-market, someone must buy the «damped» shares,
    but stocks were dropping from 2 to 10 points... before a buyer     could be
    found     for them. Sound stocks at shrunk prices — and nobody to buy
    them. It looked as if US Industries' little partners     were in a fair way to
    bankrupt the firm.
  5.  A single nuclear bomb exploding in the atmosphere over the United
    States     could lead to a nationwide power blackout because U.S. power
    stations are too vulnerable, according to an official study.
  6.  Months of wrangling over fishing rights have led to tension be
    tween EU governments, and there are fears that this     could spill over to
    embitter discussion of a series of other problems at the two-day meeting
    starting on Monday.
  7.  The foreign banks are launching a counterattack into markets for
    domestic loans and services that until now have been dominated by the
    Japanese banks They are also exploring some new fields that the Japa
    nese banks     could not, or would not touch

  1.  The report noted that companies could claim back the entire cost
    of investments in plant and machinery in tax relief— one of the most fa
    vorable tax benefits of any industrialized nation.
  2.  Berlin left open the possibility that its assistance program could be
    paid for     through outright grants and that government-to-government lar
    gess might be arranged for other development projects.
  3.  Britain both could have and should have stayed out of the Second
    World War, leaving Russia to crush Hitter's Germany.
  4.  People in Russia say that the former president could have been a
    better president if he had been able to be elevated one degree above the
    political combat he faced.
  5.  Now OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) will
    begin to force employers to give workers their medical records and also

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the records of air pollution inspections conducted by the company which could have caused poor health to the worker, declared the head of the OSHA Administration.

  1.  If Japan's population had been half its present level, or—more rea
    sonably — one-third, the country     could have enjoyed a relatively high
    level of industrialization while continuing to produce enough foodstuffs
    to prevent disaster in the event of cutoffs in international trade.
  2.  Secret «briefings» were used to discredit the probe which is trying
    to root out corruption in the London police. Ex-chief constable of Dorset
    was bitterly assailed by Metropolitan Police Commissioner and City of
    London police chief. Secret briefings followed yesterday in a shameless
    attempt to discredit him. His view is that as many as 25 police officers
    could be brought to trial.
  3.  Outlining circumstances in which Washington might use nuclear
    weapons     may seem a surreal exercise.
  4.  Situations in which America may have to choose between rival
    policies advocated by her European partners are bound to arise.
  5.  Such is the speed of history today that, when this is published, so
    many new and perhaps more shocking developments     may have taken
    place     that the events herein detailed may seem even more remote.
  6.  In reality the Pope may not have been anxious to see his sugges
    tion, advanced from the marble rostrum of the General Assembly on Oc
    tober 4, enacted a bare six weeks later.
  7.  EU sources said France will favor protectionist measures in critical
    sectors, but because of German resistance this     may not be agreed to at the
    EU level.

  1.  Some economic analysts predict that the tax-cutting and the
    splurge in consumerism     may backfire on the Likud [one of the Israeli
    parties].
  2.  The relationship between Japan and the United States has been
    evolving rapidly since Pear! Harbor. First, the two countries were bitter
    enemies, then occupier and occupied, then big brother and eager emulator
    and now it     may have reached the, point of role reversal.
  3.  In the big cities, the contest may have generated too much enthu
    siasm, creating a fog of names, that voters     may find hard to penetrate.
  4.  Cheap oil might merely aggravate the twin evils of corruption and
    bad management in oil-producing countries.
  5.  Some excuse for the behaviour of Tory chieftains might be pro
    vided if it could be shown     that the leadership battle revolved round central
    issues of public importance. But throughout, the dispute has been con
    cerned with personalities and patronage — gang warfare in all its sterility.

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  1.  When the delegates are taken to see the outstanding work of the
    Road Research Laboratory, and the examples of brilliant design and con
    struction of British technicians and workers, they will be able to compare
    in their minds' eye what     might be, with what is.
  2.  Finally, a new political balance in Europe, based on effective
    unity,     might turn out to be the precondition of disengagement.
  3.  The Prime Minister mentioned that a more radical stand on some
    issues     might have enabled the party to have avoided defeat.

30. There were signs that this tour might have marked a turning point.
.31. Discussions could explore the economic problems that might fol
low disarmament and the question of security.

  1.  Such problems, as a rule, may begin well before the trial and con
    tinue after the appeal.
  2.  Thus the Government appears to be sending conflicting signals to
    the United States at a time when government officials and industrialists in
    this country are expressing deep concern over the policies the American
    administration     might take both in the south Asia region and with regard to
    aid to developing Third World nations.
  3.  A senior research scientist said their requests for information were
    met by delays of years and they had received no classified information
    since November.

They state « one might as well ask whether the present Administration is as honest as the previous one.»

  1.  As a result, the government might try to close the gap by increas
    ing taxes. But in its turn that would also cut purchasing power.
  2.  The sinking of the Nissho Maru will be recorded as an accident
    that     might have been avoided
  3.  If cash-strapped producers cut expenditure faster than consumers
    spend their windfall, the effect of lower oil prices     might even be to slow
    world economic growth.
  4.  He might have fallen into the trap but he understood the danger in
    time.
  5.  The victory of the Liberal Party with an overall majority over the
    Progressive Conservatives and the New Democratic Party reduces the
    bargaining position of the New Democratic Party. NDP, with growing
    trade union support,     might have been expected to do better.
  6.  Just as oil's scarcity seemed a fact of life in the 1970s, its abun
    dant flow     might be too easily taken for granted to-day.
  7.  In a covering letter, the majority leader of Congress suggested that
    members     might use his analysis in preparing public comments about the
    administration package.
  8.  

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  1.  Piracy in the harbor here, for years a petty annoyance, has reached
    such an outrageous level that shipping agents representing lines from the
    United States, Europe and the Far East are concerned that their maritime
    unions     might boycott the port.
  2.  He said he expected that a committee concerned with energy is
    sues would be set up. Although this Committee would not be empowered
    to discuss the question of oil prices, which remains the prerogative of
    OPEC, it seems that security of supplies, as well as energy sharing, and
    the search for alternative energy sources,     might be valid subjects for dis
    cussion.
  3.  The prospect that exports might be boosted means that the meas
    ures announced Friday will be scrutinized closely in Europe and the
    United States.
  4.  At the Mexico meeting, optimists at the Vienna talks declared it
    might be possible to lay foundations for a deal about global energy sup
    plies. If the energy outlook     can be stabilized it might be possible to strike
    a new deal about aid that would open both OPEC and Western purses and
    markets.
  5.  The impression that the Government and the G.P.O. [General Post
    Office] are prepared to turn a blind eye on the operations of the radio pi
    rate stations has been encouraged by the delay in introducing legislation
    to outlaw them. The legislation is more complex than     might have been
    imagined     The penalty clauses may well require requisition of the com
    pany's assets on land as well as the stations.
  6.  It was the sort of message for which the smaller members of the
    alliance     may well have been waiting.
  7.  In the opinion of some political connoisseurs, that measure may
    well improve     the prospects of the Conservative party with the nation as a
    whole.
  8.  The British Premier and the French President might well talk also
    about the Middle East —a region which least of all has claims to being
    called static.
  9.  The Norwegian Foreign Minister has said that the Security Coun
    cil     might well be given greater powers over the financing of peacekeep
    ing.
  10.  What can the West do to increase the chances of success, however
    defined? For a start, it     can and should do its utmost to tell the Serb people
    at large that the outside world bears no animus against them.
  11.  The Home Secretary told chief constables that they must recruit
    thousands more officers from ethnic communities and should aim to make
    their manpower mirror the communities they cover.

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  1.  The U.S. government spends millions every year policing the
    economy against agreements among competitors to restrict supply and
    thereby raise prices. Such conspirators ordinarily     must meet in darkest se
    crecy, and     can go to jail if they get caught. Yet here is the administration
    pressuring Japanese automakers to do precisely what it ordinarily forbids.
  2.  We must not assume that the free play of public opinion must reg
    ister     itself in parliamentary forms.
  3.  The US President outlined a foreign policy of active involvement
    overseas,  saying Americans      «must embrace the  inexorable  logic of
    globalization».
  4.  In the long run, if Brazil is to avoid foreign-exchange problems
    and boost its growth rate, it     must do more than just tinker with the current
    policy mix.
  5.  In massive demonstrations in colleges all over the country yester
    day, students showed exactly what they thought of the Government's plan
    to treble the fees of overseas students. If the Education Minister didn't get
    the message three weeks ago, when more than 4,000 students lobbied
    their MPs, then it surely     must have been rammed home on him yesterday.
  6.  It must have been hard for them to agree to this resolution, but at
    that time there was no alternative course open to them.
  7.  Meanwhile it will not have escaped notice that some members (of
    EU) seem to be contemplating just that sort of un-European behaviour.
  8.  The visit will have been a pleasant and useful excursion for the
    State Secretary.

III. To be

Глагол to be в сочетании с инфинитивом имеет модальное значение и может выражать:

1. долженствование, обусловленное договоренностью или пла
ном; переводится обычно при помощи должен или глаголом в бу
дущем времени.

The Prime Minister is to go to Paris next week. На следующей неделе премьер-министр должен поехать (поедет) в Париж.

Примечание   Сочетание формы was/were с перфектной формой инфинитива означает, что действие не было совершено.

2. возможность (в этом случае за глаголом to be обычно следует
пассивная форма инфинитива).

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Responsibilities and obligations possessed by the Russian trade unions are to be envied Можно позавидовать той ответственности и тем обязанностям, которые имеют профсоюзы в России.

3. намерение, цель, желание — в придаточных предложениях, вводимых союзом if переводится инфинитивом с союзом чтобы (для того, чтобы), реже — если мы хотим, чтобы.

If the United Nations is to deal adequately with the new situation, it itself will first require reform. Чтобы ООН адекватно реагировала на новую ситуацию (если мы хотим, чтобы ООН...), ей самой, прежде всего, необходимо реформирование.

Примечание Следует помнить, однако, что сочетание to be с инфинитивом может представлять собой составное сказуемое, где to be выступает в качестве глагола-связки, а инфинитив — в качестве предикатива.

The task of the committee is to find ways for a workable agreement. Задачей этой комиссии является изыскать (изыскание) пути для практически приемлемого соглашения.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Voting, which began at 8 a.m. and was to last eight hours, was ex
    tended by one or two hours in a number of cities, including Tehran.
  2.  A «federation fund» of A$l billion is to be spent on projects of
    «national significance» leading up to the centenary of Australia's federa
    tion.
  3.  The talks aimed at ending the civil war in Colombia are to establish
    an agenda and location for full-scale negotiations later this year.
  4.  Labour is to move quickly to introduce legislation to ban advertise
    ments for cigarette smoking, the Commons heard yesterday.
  5.  The External Affairs Minister who was to have addressed the Gen
    eral Assembly on the Canadian position yesterday, suddenly postponed
    his statement.
  6.  Another topic was the importance of fully integrating nations such
    as Russia and China into the world economic scheme if the United States
    and Europe     are to have stable relations with them.
  7.  The report from the left-leaning think-tank Demos stops short of
    recommending abolition of the monarchy, but argues «democratic» re
    form is needed     if the institution is to match public expectation.
  8.  If either or anything is to survive, they must find a way to create an
    indissoluble partnership.

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9. Any EU nation needs to have an inner self-confidence if it is to step
out of what is otherwise an EU consensus position on foreign and defence
policy.

  1.  Italy needs to get a firmer hold on this corner of the market if its
    dominance of the fashion industry is not to be threatened
  2.  Mr Largent believes that the Republicans' mistake at the recent
    election     was to forget their message.
  3.  He realised early that France had to collaborate with other Euro
    pean countries     if it was to compete with the American aviation giants.
  4.  Yet strong African leadership is essential if the punative African
    peacekeeping force     is not to look like an extension of American or Euro
    pean power in Africa.
  5.  If capitalism with Chinese characteristics is not to become as dirty
    a phrase in China as crony capitalism has in Russia, Eastern Europe and
    parts of East Asia, checks are urgently needed to stop local bosses en
    riching themselves at others' expense.
  6.  Their hesitations have already encouraged Serbia's president in his
    refusal to make concessions at the negotiating table; they could yet curtail
    a military campaign that should go on for weeks     if it is to have any
    chance of achieving its aims.
  7.  If one administration after another proved unable to deal with its
    own household finances, its incessantly proclaimed top priority,     was its
    competence     to be trusted in the less visible and comprehensible matters
    of defence, strategic arms, diplomacy or finance?
  8.  If the mistakes of the neighbours are to be avoided, people need to
    be free to debate government policy and to hold accountable those who
    do wrong.
  9.  But this success must be made the starting point of a new effort if
    the impetus is     to be maintained and still bigger successes won
  10.  Changes seem inevitable, but no one can say what. But changes
    there must be if confidence in the board is     to be restored and it is to func
    tion     properly.
  11.  These are only a few of the questions which arise out of the vast
    subject « Planning and Economic Growth». A choice must be made, in
    view of the breadth and diversity of these questions,     if certain aspects of
    the problem     are to be examined at all deeply within the limits of this brief
    article.
  12.  But it is savings and investment, as well as goods and chattels, that
    Egypt needs if     it is to reach the magic growth figure.
  13.  Osama al-Baz, a wise Egyptian who advises the president, says:

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«We will not allow moneyed people to dominate the government. They can have loud voices on economic reform but... it is still a question of social justice.» And so, if this economic revolution is to succeed, it should be.

  1.  Now, after three months of closer scrutiny, at the point at which
    the bills     were to have been presented to Parliament, they have suddenly
    been withdrawn for redrafting.
  2.  It was to have been the biggest merger in corporate history, creat
    ing a colossus with a market capitalization of $ 205 billion, second only
    to that of General Electric.
  3.  But the official went on to emphasize that the new administration's
    aim     is to reduce and manage disagreements through the consultation
    process that has now begun.
  4.  Their initial goal is to end three years of budget deficits and
    inflation by the end of this year.

IV. To have

1. Глагол to have с последующим инфинитивом означает должен
ствование, вызванное силой обстоятельств, необходимостью. На
русский язык, как правило, переводится: пришлось, придется, при
ходится, предстоит

The negotiations might fail. In that event the Government would have to decide what to do. Переговоры могут окончиться и неудачей. В таком случае правительству пришлось бы решать, что делать (предпринять).

The Government has promised to abolish the death penalty, although it has yet to win ratification of this pledge from the Parliament. Правительство обещало отменить смертную казнь, хотя ему еще предстоит добиться ратификации этого обещания в Парламенте.

2. Глагол to have с последующим сложным дополнением (имя
сущ/местоим. + неличная форма глагола или наречие) передает:

1) каузативность (побуждение или содействие осуществлению действия). На русский язык передается при помощи таких слов, как заставить, устроить, сделать так, чтобы, добиться того, чтобы, и другими лексическими средствами.

We had them beaten this time. На этот раз мы их одолели

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 (содействовали их поражению /устроили так, чтобы они проиграли и т. п.). (В зависимости от контекста)

I would have you to know. Я хотел бы поставить вас в известность..

They will have him back. Они заставят его вернуться

2) действие, совершенное по инициативе, побуждению лица, вы
раженного подлежащим.

The town council has had three houses built. Городской муниципалитет построил три дома.

3) действие, совершенное помимо (независимо от) воли или же
лания лица, выраженного подлежащим, и направленное на него.

We had a note handed to us. Нам вручили записку.

Перевод глагола to have представляет значительную трудность, так как в русском языке нет аналогичных грамматических средств для передачи этих значений. Кроме того, точное значение вытекает иногда из более широкого контекста. При переводе приходится пользоваться различными лексическими средствами, которые наиболее точно передают значение английского предложения.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  If budgetary reforms are ever to be achieved, the EU leaders will
    have to bind themselves to use qualified majority voting, not consensus,
    for such matters.
  2.  In the year ahead the Danish premier will have to tread a careful
    line, both in terms of domestic policy and in airing the campaign to join
    the euro.
  3.  The probability that many more innocent people would also be exe
    cuted would     have to be weighed against the benefits of deterrence.
  4.  Among his many roles, the Spanish politician has to play the
    American to Europeans, and the European to Americans.
  5.  The free trade purists contend that various industries have to sink or
    swim on their own and that providing relief through Japanese export re
    straints would provide an umbrella for higher American automobile
    prices, which would hurt consumers and harm the battle against inflation.

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  1.  Motorists will have to prove they have scrapped their car in an envi
    ronmentally friendly way to get an authorised Certificate of Destruction.
  2.  Most EU countries have yet to pass the domestic laws needed to
    implement the directive, so it is difficult to say how it will work in practice.
  3.  « We see NATO as a bicycle that has to keep moving or else the
    rider falls off, so there's a feeling that we need to be very forward-
    leaning,» an American official said.
  4.  Schooling (in Egypt) was never entirely free at the best of times: a
    parent     had to pay a tiny entry fee, buy a school uniform, provide a bite of
    food. What is disastrous now is the need for private tutoring.

  1.  Unless the Bill passes through all its stages in the Commons and
    the Lords before the session ends it     will have to be started all over again
    in the new session in November.
  2.  The Chancellor of the Exchequer told Labour MPs on Tuesday
    night that public spending     will have to be cut to avoid a «tough Budget»
    next year.
  3.  Most of the imported mobile phone sets operate on a wave-band
    used by a number of authorized radio services in Britain and can cause
    serious interference. When they cause interference they     have to be traced
    and their owners are prosecuted.
  4.  United Nations economists warn that something drastic has to be
    done,     or developing countries will be forced to reduce their rate of social
    and economic expansion.
  5.  In larger communities — nations, states, provinces and cities —
    there     has to be a division of labour. Some persons have to make the im
    portant political decisions for the whole society, and specially trained
    administrators and civil servants     have to perform the tasks of manage
    ment and administration for society as a whole.
  6.  Diplomats said Canada and other nations eager to have the dead
    lock broken     had been outmanoeuvred by the United States.
  7.  The big problem is the difference between the fastest and slowest
    vehicles on a stretch of highway. The safest thing safety researchers sug
    gest, is to     have everyone driving at roughly the same speed.
  8.  The committee gave overwhelming approval to a separate resolu
    tion that     would have the Assembly urge all states to take such separate
    and collective action as is open to them in conformity with the Charter.
  9.  Any other activities of the world organization will be financed by
    the whole membership only by their unanimous and active support. And
    even in those rare cases it will be by     having the Secretary-General solicit
    voluntary contributions.

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  1.  Using language heard frequently in the past from Iraq and Russia,
    the French proposal said that this commission would     have «its independ
    ence ensured     and its professionalism strengthened.»
  2.  If the speculative excesses of the last few years are finally wrung
    out of the market — and they always are, sooner or later — it will take
    time for investors to regain the kind of confidence that     has everyone
    dreaming     of instant riches.
  3.  Few things are likelier to give free trade a bad name than to have it
    associated     with the foisting on consumers of potentially unsafe food.
  4.  In Piedmont, the regional government has been fighting an unsuc
    cessful battle against the central government in Rome in an attempt to
    have the Piedmonese dialect taught in schools.
  5.  A university student who wrote his graduation paper in Sardinian
    had it turned down.

V. To do

Глагол to do представляет некоторую трудность при переводе, когда он выполняет следующие грамматические функции:

1. функцию эмоционально-усилительную: 1) глагол to do под
черкивает факт совершения действия или усиливает значение дейст
вия, выраженного глаголом-сказуемым в утвердительной форме Past
или Present Indefinite. На русский язык передается словами дейст
вительно, все-таки, же, ведь и т. п.; 2) подчеркивает побуждение к
действию или просьбу (в повелительном наклонении).

In fact his words did show that he was reluctant to get involved. Ha самом же деле его слова действительно показали, что он не хочет участвовать в этом (иметь с этим дело).

Примечание. В инвертированных предложениях (обычно после отрицательных наречий и союзов nowhere, not, no sooner, nor, not only ... but и др.) глагол to do не переводится. Эмфаза инвертированного предложения на русском языке передается лексическим способом.

2. функцию слова-заместителя, во избежание повторения ранее
упомянутого глагола или целого предложения. В зависимости от со
четаемости слов в русском языке переводится соответствующим
глаголом, предложением или не переводится вообще. В сочетании
со словом so чаще всего переводится сделать это (так).

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Did the Foreign Secretary know that such an arrangement existed? His replies in Parliament yesterday clearly implied that he did. Знал ли министр иностранных дел, что существует такая договоренность? Из его ответов в парламенте вчера можно было ясно понять, что он знач.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  President Roosevelt might not have done all the things he promised
    to do and all the things he did do might not be for the country's good in
    the long run — but what he     did do seemed so much better than the deeds
    of any other single citizen in the land...
  2.  Those immigrants who do arrive are kept in detention centres,
    called «welcome centres» in official jargon.
  3.  The Turkish Constitution, written seven decades ago by the founder
    of the modern nation, Kemal Ataturk,     does indeed decree that the country
    must be governed along strictly secular lines.
  4.  In the past Arkansas did endure a reputation for being backward,
    and its residents were the butt of jokes portraying them as dim-witted
    hillbillies.
  5.  The trip did demonstrate that the secretary of state, whatever his
    political standing in Washington, seems to be highly respected by foreign
    leaders.

6. These developments (parliamentary elections  in  Scotland and
Wales) do not signal the rebirth of Scotland and Wales as independent
countries. But they do signal a historic — and welcome — shift in the
way Britain is governed.

  1.  What the report prepared by a body of the most conservative char
    acter     does show is that newspaper economics, and particularly the enor
    mous and growing reliance on advertising revenue, puts the whole indus
    try into crisis.
  2.  The defenders of the present United Nations system point out that
    the agencies     do in fact work together successfully on a number of proj
    ects.
  3.  What does represent a growing danger for the effectiveness of this
    organization is the reluctance of some of its members to render assistance
    in case of financial difficulties.

  1.  The Foreign Secretary did not show any willingness to discuss this
    question, but he     did refer to the responsibility of both governments as co-
    chairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference.
  2.  What our politicians do not talk about — the abuses of the Federal
    Reserve Board, the practices of the lobbyists, the strange actions of many

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in the Executive Branch — frequently can be more significant to knowing persons than things the Representatives do say

  1.  Yet for large and small nations their record in the General Assem
    bly     does provide a yardstick with which to measure the application of
    their publicly announced foreign policy principles.
  2.  All the same the state of the economy and the general trend of na
    tional politics     do have some influence on the voters.
  3.  Nowhere in America or Europe not even among the great liberated
    thinkers of the Enlightment     did democratic ideas appear respectable to
    the cultivated classes.
  4.  Both sides are already moving back toward common ground. Not
    only did     Beijing finally shut down the anti-American protests, but the
    Chinese President after an initial snub, finally talked by phone with the
    US President and discussed ways to rebuild their relationship.
  5.  Not only does shipping bring the Greek economy more than $1.5
    billion in receipts each year     but its growth over the last 15 years (with the
    fleet almost tripling in size) has been almost unparalleled.
  6.  The supply of fund managers keeps growing, but so does demand
    from investors.

Economies to-day depend less on oil than they did.

In real terms, oil now costs roughly what it did before 1973.

  1.  Non-Asian minorities tend to score lower on standardized tests
    used for college admissions than     do Asian-Americans and whites.
  2.  Next year will be another depressing year on the farm. The federal
    government will try to help out with emergency aid and by opening trade
    barriers, as it     did recently with a new export agreement with China.
  3.  Not until the 19th century did democratic government make its
    way in any considerable part of the world — in the great states of conti
    nental Europe, in South America, in Canada and Australia, in South Af
    rica and Japan.

§ 7. АРТИКЛЬ

Поскольку в русском языке нет грамматической категории артикля, переводчику приходится передавать различные функции артиклей лексическими или синтаксическими средствами русского языка.

В тех случаях, когда артикли кроме своей грамматической функции (маркера существительного) несут и смысловую нагрузку, выступая в качестве определения, они переводятся обычно при-

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лагательными, относительными местоимениями и другими частями речи.

I. Определенный артикль

1. Определенный    артикль     переводится     прилагательными
(выступает в функции определения): текущий, нынешний, настоя
щий, (ныне) существующий, действующий и т. п., а также относи
тельными местоимениями: тот, тот самый, этот, все, все и дру
гими словами в зависимости от контекста.

The allies took big political risks at home by agreeing to base the new missiles in their countries, and some critics at the time had suggested they should be based at sea. Согласившись на размещение этих новых ракет на территории своих стран, европейские союзники пошли на серьезный политический риск. В свое время некоторые критики проекта предлагали базировать ракеты на море.

2. Часто определенный артикль приходится передавать лексиче
ской разверткой (т. е. дополнительными и (или) уточняющими зна
чение словами). Так, например, существительное war с определен
ным артиклем в зависимости от контекста может означать и вторая
мировая война, и война во Вьетнаме и др.; the Depression Великий
кризис 30-х годов  Контекст предложения, абзаца или всего текста
подсказывает правильный перевод.

Despite the performance and growing opposition within the Conservative party, the Prime Minister shows every sign of staying on course. Несмотря на неутешительные результаты и растущую оппозицию внутри консервативной партии, премьер-министр полон решимости продолжать свою политику.

П. Неопределенный артикль

1. Часто переводится такими словами, как: один из, один, некий, какой-либо, новый, такой, известный, определенный, любой и др.

Too often the stories about amazing Russian weapons come from people in reporters' services or defense contractors with an interest in

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exaggeration. Очень часто источником россказней о необыкновенном российском оружии оказываются (либо) репортеры (либо) или агенты по военным заказам, которые имеют определенный интерес (определенно заинтересованы) в преувеличении.

2. Необходимость соблюдения при переводе норм сочетаемости
слов в русском языке требует лексической развертки в тех случаях,
когда существительному с неопределенным артиклем предшествуют
такие глаголы, как to call for, to announce, to seek, to favour, to
propose, to drive, to plan, to wage и т. п., или существительные с тем
же значением: proposal, appeal и т. п.

The US President plans to call for a new round of global trade negotiations. Президент Соединенных Штатов намеревается призвать к проведению нового раунда переговоров по мировой торговле. '

Примечание. В тех случаях, когда неопределенный артикль употребляется для обобщения (с классифицирующим значением), определяемое существительное часто переводится существительным во множественном числе

In a foreign policy address, the choice of theme is in itself a policy decision, the choice of topics sets priorities; the choice of words is studied closely in foreign capitals. В посланиях по внешней политике выбор (главной) темы — является своего рода политическим решением; выбор (включенных) проблем выстраивает приоритеты; выбор формулировок тщательно изучается в столицах других государств.

3. Когда неопределенный артикль выполняет функцию маркера
центра высказывания (информации), в русском языке это значение
часто приходится передавать синтаксическим способом, т. е. изме
нением порядка слов, так как в русской письменной речи центр вы
сказывания обычно находится в конце предложения. Сравните:

The plan of action was worked out thoroughly and in great detail. План действий был разработан тщательно и во всех деталях (подчеркивается, как был разработан план).

A plan of action was worked out, thoroughly and in great detail. Весьма тщательно и подробно был разработан план действий (подчеркивается, что было разработано).

In view of many Latin American officials an effort to impose a

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tighter ideological alliance with Washington would be strongly resisted by the regional leading powers. Многие политические деятели Латинской Америки считают, что ведущие государства этого региона решительно выступят против (любой) попытки навязать более тесный идеологический союз с Вашингтоном

Примечание. В некоторых случаях употребление или отсутствие неопределенного артикля изменяет значение слова, так например, a power держава, power власть, могущество, электроэнергия, a government правительство, government управление, a few, a little некоторое количество (положительное значение); few, little мало (иногда просто отрицание).

Не has a few objections, but they are unimportant. У него есть несколько возражений, но они несущественны.

Не has few ideas on that matter. По этому поводу идей у него мало (нет).

They said they have little faith in the premier's promises. Они сказали, что мало верят обещаниям премьера.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  The report does not include a section on rights observance in the
    United States itself.
  2.  The issues confronting Europe go to the heart of its great construc
    tion.
  3.  It would be progress to get away with the notion that oil is scarce — an
    assumption that led to two decades of energy policy mistakes, such as
    subsidising coal and nuclear power.
  4.  Even as prices fall, governments of oil consuming countries should
    be guarded against     the dangers of oil dependence.
  5.  Unless Europe and Asia are able to keep the US committed to open
    multilateralism,     the Asian crisis may yet produce nasty results.
  6.  The debate over the House of Lords reform has so far missed the
    main point. [Britain]
  7.  The decision set off a furor in the publishing industry on both sides
    of the Atlantic.
  8.  «Nestle» confirmed its earlier warnings that the coming year sales-
    volume growth fell below the company's 4% growth target. The Swiss
    company blamed     the results on economic turmoil in emerging markets.
  9.  The poll echoes a warning from the Trade and Industry Secretary,
    that Britain may be vulnerable to charges by fellow EU countries that it is
    turning its back on Monetary Union and therefore Europe.

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10. Initially I thought she was copying pictures out of books. Then the
penny dropped: it was not a copy, but the original.

11. Official figures showed yesterday that the economy, despite
slowing under the weight of higher rates, the strong pound and the eco
nomic crisis in Asia, is still creating jobs.

  1.  As the country's deepest postwar recession continues, with indus
    trial production plummeting and unemployment soaring at rates last seen
    during     the Depression, fears are growing that Prime Minister's medicine
    may be permanently disabling rather than curing.
  2.  Doomsayers predict a decade of lost growth in East Asia, like the
    one     that Latin America went through after its debt crisis in the early
    1980s
  3.  «Which candidate are you against?» ... «All the candidates have
    given me     a reason to vote against them.»
  4.  Democratic economists believe that at a time when business is op
    erating with considerable slack,     the nation could stand even larger deficits
    without much risk of accelerating inflation.
  5.  After a treaty intended to establish a permanent International!
    Criminal Court was negotiated in 1998 in Rome, the British Foreign Of-i
    fice said     «the institution would help to tackle the grotesque paradox
    whereby     the killer of one person is more likely to be brought to justice
    than     the killer of thousands.»
  6.  His aides made clear that the ideas, disclosed in an interview, were
    not fixed in stone and were simply the start of a « free-thinking» exercise
    on possible EU reforms.
  7.  Legal advice will be available from booths in Community centres,
    doctors' surgeries and public libraries under plans outlined by the Lord
    Chancellor yesterday.

19 Diplomats fear an influx into Western Europe this summer of illegal immigrants being released from Italian detention centres under loopholes in new immigration laws.

  1.  The Government, besieged by criticism of its handling of the
    economy, yesterday gratefully pounced on news of a     fall in unemploy
    ment to its lowest level for 18 years, combined with an easing in wage
    pressure which had been responsible for interest rate rises.
  2.  The new doctrine, approved by President Clinton last month,
    marks an important step forward a world in which the United States relies
    on fewer nuclear weapons for its defense.
  3.  A president who spends most of his working hours figuring out
    how to buy votes with public money is not likely to be very critical of a
    multilateral agency (the IMF) that does pretty much the same thing.
  4.  


23 The new administration has decided to propose a relaxation of air pollution regulations to make it easier for oil refiners, steel producers and other basic industries to expand and modernize their plants, Vice President announced.

  1.  UN officials report that seven Arab oil-producing countries in the
    Gulf are about to announce a $250-million annual fund for UN aid agen
    cies.
  2.  The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions plans a national rally
    on May 1st, a traditional day for workers ' agitation.
  3.  The European Union's industry ministers Friday called for a link
    between all state subsidies to the steel industry and cuts in capacity. But
    they were unable to agree on a deadline for phasing out subsidies.
  4.  The Labour Party leader called the figures «tragic and terrible»
    and     called for a debate in Parliament.
  5.  EU finance ministers agreed Monday to seek a common policy on
    the stabilizing of interest rates before the economic summit conference
    scheduled for July in Ottawa.
  6.  Some Planning Ministry official favor an income tax not because
    the government needs     the money, but because they believe Kuwaitis
    should understand the relationship between effort and reward.
  7.  Under mounting political pressure to do something to stimulate
    Germany's economy, the Berlin government Wednesday     announced a se
    ries of incentives to boost business investment, particularly in energy and
    new technology fields.

31 The Federal government can borrow from the Federal Reserve to finance immense deficits, has done so, and surely will again when economic downturn calls for fiscal stimulus.

32. Government cutbacks in state spending have badly hit local
authorities, and most have started _ big cutbacks, including layoffs that
have worsened unemployment, currently at 2.06 million, or 8.5 per cent
of the work force.

  1.  The Bundesbank said Thursday that it does not see any room for a
    retreat from its tight credits policies despite an economic downturn,
    which has spurred repeated     calls for_lower interest rates to stimulate the
    economy and fight unemployment.
  2.  There are legitimate questions about the stability of Monetary
    Union and the     drive for a federal Europe that will not be resolved by the
    instinct to embrace     the « modern» option.
  3.  A research officer at the department of economics at Birkbeek
    College, looked forward to forging links with groups in Eastern Europe in

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preparation for a European convention to be held possibly a year from now.

  1.  The ambitious plan of the Bolivian government calls not only for
    an     end to new planting of coca plants, but for unprecedented eradication
    of existing crops. Compensation to individual farmers who voluntarily
    eradicate their plants is to stop by the end of this year. An alternative
    « community» scheme will be phased out by 2011.
  2.  All this boiled down to a demand, not yet explicitly stated, for a
    program of aid and reconstruction on the scale being planned for Europe
    at that time by the incipient Organization for European Economic Coop
    eration (OEEC).
  3.  The coalition began campaigning for a tax to get at excessive oil
    profits early last fall.
  4.  It is time for a decision: without it, in the end, there will be no
    possible solution.
  5.  Twenty-four American political figures, most of them of Irish an
    cestry, Tuesday     urged an end to «the fear and the terrorism and the big
    otry» in Northern Ireland and proposed that the administration find a way
    to promote a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
  6.  The conference produced what's been described as the most prob
    ing discussions on plant closings that have yet been conducted in the
    USA. There was 100% support for a new federal agency to handle the
    shutdowns epidemic, and the conference adopted a plan outlining the
    need for a new Job Preservation Act in Congress to set up such an
    agency.
  7.  This is indeed a new world. But not one that needs a new Colum
    bus to claim it or reshape it.
  8.  The disclosure that a Pulitzer Prize-winning account had been fab
    ricated has focused attention on the steps     a newspaper or a broadcast sta
    tion takes to verify     a story when a reporter says the main participants
    cannot be identified.
  9.  Justice Department officials are developing a package of legisla
    tive proposals to increase the federal government's ability to fight violent
    crime.

  1.  A German Jewish leader stepped into the nationality dispute,
    warning in an interview Friday that it had given a dangerous boost to far-
    right groups, Agency France-Press reported from Bonn.
  2.  A bacterial outbreak linked to a Michigan meat processing plant
    has claimed eight lives, federal officials reported.
  3.  Taiwan's central bank has been considering lending to the central

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banks of Indonesia and Thailand. A negotiating team from Indonesia is expected in Taipei soon.

  1.  While the break-up of old fixed-wire monopolies preoccupied
    most consumers and investors, a quiet revolution was happening in wire
    less service.
  2.  The immediate cause [of the violent riots in Harare] was a steep
    rise in the price of Zimbabwe's staple food, maize meal. A committee has
    now been appointed to review all recent price rises.
  3.  An array of cheap government loans and services was made avail
    able to encourage investment in industry.
  4.  An IMF team will visit Brazil «promptly» to set new economic
    targets in light of the new currency regime and will soon open a perma
    nent office in Brazilia.
  5.  Although few expect a quick upturn for the Chinese economy, the
    long-term optimists about China continue to rely on rosy economic fore
    casts.
  6.  The merger trend is roaring full steam ahead in the world auto in
    dustry, on a scale not seen since the 1920s. Back in 1921, there were 88
    auto manufacturers in the U.S. By 1928, only 32 remained. Today there
    are only 25 auto manufacturers in the world! And by all indications, only
    a few of these will survive the next few years.
  7.  Few diseases have been as politicised as AIDS. And in few other
    cases is political correctness such a danger to the disease's victims.
  8.  To the average housewife, who can see for herself that the prices
    in the supermarket are edging up, the Labor Department's bulletin last
    week was hardly a surprise.

But few housewives or their husbands either, were aware of another, «invisible» form of inflation — namely, reductions in the size of packages that are not accompanied by reduction in price.

  1.  Few industries can boast such rapid growth as this one.
  2.  Few other international problems have such a complex structure or
    such wide repercussions.
  3.  That in turn has left him with little immediate choice but to be
    come more repressive still: to re-establish his authority by force of loyal
    soldiery.

  1.  The Labour leaders never faced up to what was involved in
    breaking the grip of the giant monopolies on the British economy. They
    showed     little understanding of the nature of the state, or of the kind of
    battle needed to transform it.
  2.  Yesterday's proceedings were an antiquated farce, enjoyed by no

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one, and serving little purpose. The sensible way to wrap up a parliamentary session would surely be to vote a closure on the last day of the summer term.

  1.  Certainly there was little evidence that he would be able to shift
    the State Secretary from his fundamental lack of enthusiasm for the proj
    ect.
  2.  In his address on the House floor Mr. Levigston said Thursday:
    «To my friends on the left:     ...Government left unwatched can lead to in
    justice. To my friends on the right:     ...Government is not inherently evil».
  3.  After the sense of drift during John Major's years in power, it is a
    refreshing change for Britain to have a government which inspires wide
    spread public confidence.
  4.  The government has begun a program in which people aged 18 to
    24 who have been unemployed for at least six months face losing their
    dole money unless they get a job or enter a training program, although the
    jobless rate among the group is 13.5 percent.
  5.  The rise of East Asia in the late twentieth century may ultimately
    prove to be a more important world-historical event than     the collapse of
    communism.

§ 8. ЧЕТЫРЕХЧЛЕННАЯ КАУЗАТИВНАЯ КОНСТРУКЦИЯ

Перевод конструкции глагол (герундий) + имя + into (out of) + герундий! существительное приобретает каузативное, побудительное значение и представляет известную трудность, так как в русском языке нет грамматических средств для передачи каузативности. В этой конструкции первый член, выраженный глаголом (например: force, frighten, pressure, coerce, bully, talk, draw), передает действие, при помощи которого удается добиться цели; цель передается четвертым чченом конструкции, который выражается герундием или существительным. Второй член конструкции — имя (существительное/местоимение или субстантивированное прилагательное) показывает объект, на который направлено действие; третий член — предлог показывает направление действия.

Каузативность при переводе на русский язык в каждом отдельном случае передается лексическими средствами.

The President is almost certainly going to talk Congress into giving him the trade-negotiating authority. Президент почти навер-

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няка будет уговаривать Конгресс предоставить ему полномочия для ведения торговых переговоров.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Не retracted the allegations, saying police had forced him into
    making false declarations     through the use of threats and physical abuse.
  2.  The hope is that local barons will no longer be able to bully local
    central-bank officials     into providing ill-judged credits.
  3.  The best early step for the new president [of Cyprus] would be to
    postpone these missiles indefinitely. Another would be     to cajole Turkish
    Cypriots into working     within the island's Greek-led team seeking EU en
    try, without granting the Turkish-Cypriot leader his wish that his bit of
    the island be acknowledged as sovereign.
  4.  Over a score of federal institutions, including the Cartel Office
    (Berlin) and the Auditing Court (Frankfurt), have been     prodded into
    abandoning their current     homes for the Rhine. (i.e.Bonn).
  5.  The result of soaring imports and flagging exports has been to push
    the balance of payments into large deficits, straining the foreign reserves,
    pushing up interest rates and     forcing the government into restrictive fiscal
    and monetary policies
  6.  Their trade-union bosses, with their policy of compromise lulled the
    workers into inactivity.
  7.  The intent [of the US Department of Education's Office of Civil
    Rights] seems to be to     bully schools into dropping tests or at least de-
    emphasizing them.
  8.  The US President had to forgo whatever else he does besides rais
    ing funds to spend long hours at trying     to cajole Israel and PLO into
    coming up with an agreement.
  9.  The sudden need to find a replacement for the outgoing president of
    the Commission     provoked the EU's national leaders into almost unbe
    lievably swift and unanimous     action.

  1.  It is a lot easier to talk one man into giving a thousand dollars
    than it is to talk a thousand men into giving one dollar.     As a result, the
    legislator takes the line of least resistance.
  2.  The average Congressman sees only a relatively few of the bills,
    so do not let him     fool you into thinking that he considers them all, as
    some imply in order to make you think they are overworked.
  3.  The elections have generated enormous excitement in Iran, entic
    ing thousands of candidates into the ring     and raising hopes of a more
    open and pluralistic society.

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  1.  The British Government has conditioned the public into believing
    that it has changed its collective mind.
  2.  They are aiming to get the Bill amended into uselessness.
  3.  This puts the other members in a stronger position: they cannot be
    bluffed and bullied into making     serious concessions.
  4.  «Turkey has reached a turning point,» said the President of Tur
    key to reporters. « We must bring our children down from the mountains,
    because they are our children,     misled into terrorism and committing mur
    ders. »
  5.  The Prime Minister refused to be drawn yesterday into saying
    what he would do if his attempt to renegotiate this agreement were to fail.
  6.  The candidate has been forced to engage in state primary fights to
    garner delegations and he     may be pressured into taking clear positions on
    civil rights and labour laws.
  7.  Outnumbered, outfoxed and outraged, Senate Democrats were
    manoeuvred into accepting     a $200-million cut in foreign aid.
  8.  The report could add to resentment among some within or close to
    the palace, who believe that the New Labour establishment is trying     to
    bounce the royal family into hasty reform.
  9.  He accused the Christian Democrats of joining in a campaign by
    employers     to frighten people into voting conservative by warning them
    that a Social Democratic victory would lead to cancelled orders and a loss
    ofjobs.
  10.  U.S. companies are trapped by their own drive for quick and
    highly publicized profits,     forcing them into a bonus system that has made
    management itself too expensive.
  11.  Europe seemed to demonstrate a new readiness to use force and
    pull down barriers to     consolidating its national defence companies into
    Europe-wide industries.
  12.  Representatives of the Iraqi Kurds say they want no part in pro
    voking the Iraqi President     into another assault on their mountain home
    land, which, under the protection of the Western no-fly zone, is only now
    putting itself back together from decades in which the Iraqi leader razed
    more than 4,000 of the villages and killed more than 180,000 of their
    people.
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§ 9. РАЗЛИЧНЫЕ ФУНКЦИИ СЛОВ IT, ONE, THAT

I.It

1. В качестве самостоятельного члена предложения it выступает:

  1.  в функции формального подлежащего безличного предложе
    ния типа     it is winter, it rains, it is cold. Употребление безличных
    предложений такого типа ограничено, они относятся только к обо
    значению явлений природы, времени и расстояния. В этих случаях     it
    на русский язык не переводится.
  2.  в функции знаменательного подлежащего: как личное место
    имение со значением     он, она, оно и как указательное местоимение
    со значением     это.

2. В качестве вводного или предваряющего слова (anticipatory
it) it выступает:

1) в функции формального подлежащего в предложениях с логи
ческим подлежащим, выраженным инфинитивом, герундием, инфи
нитивным или герундиальным комплексом и придаточным предло
жением со сказуемым типа it is necessary/possible/wrong и т. п.; it is
supposed/believed/expected и т. п.; it is likely, it seems. В этих случа
ях it на русский язык не переводится.

Не said it was possible for an agreement to be reached. Он сказал, что достичь соглашения возможно.

2) в функции формального дополнения в тех случаях, когда за
глаголом типа to make, to think, to consider, to find, to feel считать,
to believe полагать и т. п. стоит сложное дополнение, состоящее из
имени и инфинитива (инфинитивного комплекса или придаточного
предложения). Слово it следует непосредственно за глаголом. На
русский язык не переводится.

Не felt it his duty to help the Government. Он считал своей обязанностью помочь правительству.

Britain finds it difficult to make European commitments in an election year. Англия считает трудным брать на себя новые обязательства по Европейскому Союзу в год выборов.

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3) в обороте it is (was)... who (that, when и т. п.), выполняющем эмоционально-усилительную функцию и употребляющемся для выделения любого члена предложения (кроме сказуемого). Член предложения, который необходимо выделить, ставят после it is (was). После него идет соответствующее относительное местоимение (who, whom, whose, that и т. п.) или союз (when, where). При помощи оборота it is (was)... who (that... и т. п.) может быть выделено и целое придаточное предложение.

При переводе на русский язык для выделения соответствующего члена предложения следует использовать те средства русского языка, которые наилучшим образом передадут эту эмфазу. Она может быть передана лексически (словами именно, это или другими словами) или путем вынесения выделяемых слов в начало или в конец предложения. It is (was) и относительное местоимение или союз не переводятся на русский язык.

It is for that reason that the present book is both timely and appropriate. Именно по этой причине данная книга является актуальной и своевременной (выделено обстоятельство).

For it is Britain's role in the European Union which is at the heart of the discussion. Ибо главным моментом обсуждения как раз и является роль Англии в Европейском Союзе (выделено подлежащее).

Примечание. Not till (until) перед выделяемым обстоятельством на русский язык переводится обычно: только после, только когда

It is not until November that the pensioners will receive the increase provided for in the Budget. Прибавку к пенсии, предусмотренную в бюджете, пенсионеры получат только в ноябре.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  When the Fed. (Federal Reserve) began its round of interest-rate
    cuts in the autumn, the market had slumped.     It made it much more likely
    that the long-predicted slow-down in economic growth would actually
    occur.
  2.  One of the most dangerous products of unjust wars is intolerance,
    violence and repression in the country waging the war.     It suits reaction to
    stir up hysteria and, in the name of «patriotism», set the jingo riff-raff
    against those who are campaigning for peace.
  3.  Although it is far ahead of many Middle Eastern countries in terms

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of political pluralism, Iran is still some distance from democracy as practiced in the West.

  1.  Courts find it almost impossible to pin down a precise enough legal
    definition of privacy.
  2.  He is ready to support a measure of political unity in the EU but
    made it as clear as ever that such a union will be firmly grounded in na
    tional direction.
  3.  The plus side for poor Bolivians is that every large town has a well-
    established black market. Contraband     makes it possible for many workers
    to buy electronic and other consumer goods that would otherwise be out
    of reach.
  4.  The Labour MP made it clear that he believed that a peaceful set
    tlement in Europe could never be achieved without Russia.
  5.  Under Hong Kong's currency system when speculators attack the
    Hong Kong dollar, that automatically pushes up local interest rates. Those
    higher rates     make it more attractive for investors to hold Hong Kong dollar.
  6.  There is little evidence that mergers are making it easier to gouge

consumers; on the contrary, the ability to shop electronically, by telephone or on the Internet leaves customers with more choices than ever before.

10. It is the role of galvaniser and mentor to nervous new democracies
that suits the secretary-general of NATO now.

\\. It was in an attempt to alter the ratio Between the increase of rice-eaters and of rice that the International Rice Research Institute was conceived in 1959, and started operations at Los Banos in the Philippines in 1962.

  1.  It was at this time, that major money center banks from New York
    to Hong Kong accepted, perhaps unwittingly, the responsibility of recy
    cling the world's excess liquidity.
  2.  Although it was Germany which had led a financial rescue opera
    tion earlier in the year,     it was, ironically, the relationship with Germany
    which had probably done more to undermine Turkey's economic stability
    than any other single factor.
  3.  But because of government controls on the domestic price, it is in
    the export field     that the coal divisions of the leading mining houses har
    vest the profits that have made them star performers in recent years.
  4.  As foreign minister of Spain, his sweetest moment was convening,
    in 1995, the only conference ever attended by the European Union, Israel
  5.  

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and most of its Arab adversaries. It is the sort of circle-squaring that he thrives on.

  1.  It is the strength of the peoples that can ensure a world without
    war, without arms, a world of our dreams.
  2.  Like many older people around the world, Singapores feel the
    young     have had it easy, and take their present good fortune for granted.
  3.  What's it like being rich, unemployed and hungry for a new job?
  4.  Their mission was to help researchers answer one of life's most
    vexing questions: why     is it that some people can eat as much as they want
    and stay thin, while others get fatter with every cookie they swallow?
  5.  If it's a success, it will never be forgotten If it's a failure, we'll
    never be forgiven.
  6.  It was the failure either to coordinate these Ministries successfully,
    or to present an intelligent picture of their activities to the electorate,
    which was the chief weakness of the previous Cabinet.
  7.  The share of imports in Britain's consumption of manufactured
    and semi-manufactured goods increased greatly over the past ten years.     It
    was     this growth which alarmed the Government and business last year
    when the expansion of imports had a severe effect on the balance of pay
    ments.
  8.  It was not until the emergence of the women's suffrage movement
    in the 1840s-50s     that feminist ideas reached a wider audience, in the form
    of so-called «first-wave feminism.»
  9.  It won't be until the end of the congressional session, 10 months
    from now,     that the United States will know what actually can be cut from
    the budget — and at whose expense. But then it will be up to the presi
    dent and Congress to set taxes to meet public responsibilities, and not the
    other way around.
  10.  The corporation has said earlier that it will not negotiate until
    normal working is resumed.
  11.  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants India to deploy nuclear
    weapons.     It hopes that, as long as it does not conduct a fresh nuclear test,
    it will not be subject to international sanctions.

II. One

Слово one выступает в качестве числительного и в качестве местоимения.

В качестве местоимения оно может выполнять функцию подлежащего неопределенно-личного предложения.


One can easily understand peoples' aspirations for world peace. Легко понять стремление народов к миру во всем мире.

Слово one выступает также в качестве слова-заместителя, которое употребляется вместо существительного, упомянутого ранее (one для единственного числа и ones для множественного числа). На русский язык one переводится тем существительным, которое оно заменяет, либо совсем не переводится, если смысл предложения ясен и без него.

The economic crisis is now being compounded by a political one. Сейчас экономический кризис осложняется и политическим (кризисом).

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  But if one has any sense of U.S. history, one has to believe that both
    the corporations and the president whose program they are so enthusiasti
    cally promoting are on somewhat shaky ground.
  2.  President of the Association of American Colleges said: «We might
    begin to define the educated person as     one who can overcome the defi
    ciencies in our educational system».
  3.  The winner will be the one whom the voters don't want less than
    they don't want his opponent.
  4.  In old age there is a deep and different sense about human beings
    and situations,     one that just isn't possible when one is younger.

5. Dealers in coca or cocaine have their own reasons for palm-
greasing, and also finance cross-border trade in other goods as one way of
laundering their profits.

  1.  When one hears such thoughtless declarations, one must realize that
    one has to face here a fundamental misconception.
  2.  Discretion is another necessary quality one finds highly developed
    in interpreters. They often participate in the most confidential and far-
    reaching discussions, and delegates must feel that they can speak freely.
  3.  Economic dependence upon a foreign country is also a major obsta
    cle to growth although     one that is not always obvious and easily defin
    able.
  4.  Ministers and Tory Spokesmen have been vague, either referring to
    maintaining existing powers or ensuring that any replacement House is at
    least     as independent as the existing one

10. Brazilians see their land, usually rightly, as a gentle one, untrou
bled by war or ethnic strife.

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  1.  Although Europe produces more films than America, Europeans
    want to watch American     ones
  2.  Democratic Presidents are as reluctant as Republican ones to for
    malize a consultative process on Capitol Hill that the White House might
    not be able to control.
  3.  Of all candidates, the one who comes most closely to the people's
    interests is the     one with the least apparent chance of winning the nomina
    tion.
  4.  For those who see East Asia's crisis primarily as one of panic,
    these market-reinforcing reforms mostly miss the point. Far more urgent
    is the need to control the capital flows themselves.
  5.  The notion that there is a distinctively East Asian political form is
    a less familiar     one
  6.  None of the new men in Brazil's cabinet in fact looks any worse
    than the     one he has replaced. The new industry minister is as protectionist
    as his predecessor but far more polished.
  7.  As the Cuban missile crisis tapes from the Kennedy White House
    show, presidents have understood that the use of nuclear weapons must
    be the option of the last resort, and even then,     one that is all but unthink
    able.
  8.  His name has been mentioned as a possible future president of the
    European Commission. This would be welcomed by America, which
    spent the cold war keeping a watchful eye on Europe's socialists and
    knows which     ones it likes.
  9.  The agency has required companies that want to build a major new
    installation or modify an existing     one to install the best available pollu
    tion control devices.
  10.  If the endless devolution of power has a drawback, it is one of ac
    countability.

III. That

Слово that может выступать в качестве:

1. указательного местоимения. В этом случае оно всегда стоит перед существительным и на русский язык переводится соответствующими указательными местоимениями: тот, та, этот и т. д.

A joint fiscal decision-making mechanism for the EU will not be called a confederation but it will be a major step in that direction. Общий механизм принятия решений в области налогообложения

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для Европейского Союза не будет называться конфедерацией, но он будет серьезным шагом в этом направлении.

2. союза, вводящего придаточные предложения, дополнительные
и предикативные. На русский язык переводится соответствующими
союзами: что, чтобы,

Voters in the EU are starting to notice that their national governments have less and less to do. Избиратели в ЕС начинают замечать, что у их национальных правительств остается все меньше и меньше функций.

3. союзного  слова,  вводящего  придаточное  определительное
предложение. На русский язык переводится соответствующими со
юзными словами: который, которая и т. д.

Some voters, notably in Germany, are growing unhappy with a EU's budget that leaves them paying in much more than they get out. Некоторые избиратели, особенно в Германии, все больше и больше недовольны бюджетом ЕС, в который они должны отдавать больше, чем получать (из него).

4. слова-заместителя, которое употребляется вместо существи
тельного или группы слов, упомянутых раньше (that для единствен
ного числа, those для множественного числа). На русский язык пе
реводится   заменяемым   существительным   или   соответствующим
личным или относительным местоимением.

Increasingly, New York's style of policing is being contrasted unfavourably with that of other cities, particularly Boston. Стиль работы полиции в Нью-Йорке все больше сравнивается, и не в пользу Нью-Йорка, со стилем работы полиции в других городах, в частности в Бостоне.

Примечание. Сочетание с наречием now that означает теперь, когда сочетание not that переводится не то, чтобы

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  It is clear that continental voters are no longer content to be run by
    those who tolerate fraud, incompetence and nepotism.
  2.  There is now a recognition [in Singapore] that history is best not

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paved over: that it is part of a sense of patriotism and national identity — qualities the government certainly does want to inculcate.

  1.  Reforms are hard to do at national level, but one virtue of the euro
    is     that it imposes obligations at a European level which countries can use
    as a pressure to force domestic changes.
  2.  The unprecedented destructive power of modern means of warfare
    demands     that the main actions should be directed towards preventing war.
  3.  One trouble with EU as a whole is that what served a club of six or
    nine well enough no longer looks adequate for a club of 15. Let alone one
    of 20 or 25, especially one with so many responsibilities.
  4.  Tuition fees were introduced by the Blair government. The argu
    ment is     that money is needed to finance the expansion of the higher edu
    cation system and     that students should contribute to the cost of an educa
    tion     that will benefit them financially in later life.
  5.  Industry executives said an «Intel» endorsement could have a big
    impact on a market     that has taken off slowly, because the company helps
    define PC specifications and sells about 85 million chips a year.
  6.  The American Medical Association's decision to fire the editor of
    its leading scientific journal exploded into a collision between medicine
    and US politics     that reflects the 152-year-old organization's struggle to
    find its role in the rapidly changing health-care system.
  7.  The big surprise isn't that the companies (in China) are doing badly
    but     that they are admitting it.

  1.  The European Commission has asked Japan to relax some restric
    tions on banking activities     that it feels are hindering the growth of foreign
    banks' business in Japan, Commission sources said Monday.
  2.  The report estimated that there were more than 4,000 foreign
    companies, which do not trade in Britain,     that enjoy virtual taxfree status.
  3.  As Prof. T. sees it, there are two related problems that the interna
    tional financial community must soon address.
  4.  Last week, the Greek government announced a series of air traffic
    control measures     that are expected to facilitate Turkish flights over the
    Aegean.
  5.  The proposed amendment is a fake. When the political will exists
    to balance the budget, it will be balanced. When     that will does not exist,
    there are innumerable ways to make an unbalanced budget appear bal
    anced.
  6.  Childhood is the only time and place that grows larger as it is left
    behind.
  7.  East Asia's current woes are in large part the price of its previous
    success — and     that success itself has been much misunderstood. This

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survey will debunk many old myths about it, including the belief that all these economies are highly flexible and well-governed, and that high investment is always a sign of strength. But the biggest myth of all is that of a single Asian economic model.

  1.  The saddest thing about the budget fudge is that it brought to an
    end a fortnight in which Europe suddenly seemed to be making progress,
    ridding itself of a tired commission and agreeing smartly on a heavy
    weight reformer, Italy's ex-premier to run the new one.
  2.  « The weakness of the European [film] industry was that it was
    based on a core fantasy, which is     that there was a group of artists that
    could put together a rather expensive product and hope that somewhere
    out there it might find an audience.» (David Puttnam).
  3.  These political shenanigans have postponed for another few weeks
    voting on a crucial one of those reforms:     that of pensions.
  4.  Stressing that the salaries were not as high as those paid «in cer
    tain sections of industry», Deputy Leader of the House said     that the
    Power Minister had referred to the possibility of a review of salaries in
    other nationalized industries.
  5.  For the few that have ruled modern Japan the political struggle
    that really counted was that carried on among themselves for wealth and
    power.
  6.  The depressing economic news out of China has been building for
    months, so     that when China recently announced a 7.8 per cent annual
    GDP growth rate, even its Prime Minister admitted     that the figure lacked
    credibility because of bogus reporting at the local level.
  7.  Britain has been enviably stable. But that is because it has been
    governed pragmatically, by politicians prepared to adapt the system in re
    sponse to popular pressure — for example in the series of reform acts,
    which widened the franchise and ushered in mass democracy.
  8.  Japan's central bank has the power to buy up the country's entire
    national debt, if necessary, and pay for it with new currency and bank re
    serves.     That would be wildly inflationary of course. But it makes the
    point     that low interest rates do not make a central bank helpless.
  9.  That devolution will allow different political cultures to flourish
    was evident even at the formal oath-taking by members of the Scottish
    Parliament.
  10.  Iran offered itself as a «safe bridge» between the Caspian and the
    Gulf, but oil companies rejected     that, preferring to create routes through
    Russia and Georgia to the Black Sea.
  11.  Though he gets more credit for radical reform than he deserves,

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that is very much the sort of work that governments want to have done now at the European Commission.

  1.  The complaint that the French judiciary is under the thumb of
    whatever government may be in power is scarcely new. According to le
    gal historians, it is a complaint that goes back for centuries — at least to
    the time of Louis XIV, whose ministers centralized the legal system, sub
    ordinating local and church law to     that emanating from the royal court.
  2.  The European Union, now that it has launched its common cur
    rency, is due next to forge a common foreign and security policy.
  3.  Now that Mr Gingrich has announced that he will leave the speak-
    ership and Congress, Ms Dunn has decided to gamble her own leadership
    post.
  4.  He resigned as Secretary of State last May. It was not that he disa
    greed with the President, although     that might have been enough. It was
    that his judgement on a critical policy matter was rejected.

§ 10. МНОГОЗНАЧНЫЕ И ТРУДНЫЕ ДЛЯ ПЕРЕВОДА СЛОВА

1. Существительные и прилагательные

Известную трудность при переводе представляют многозначные слова. Полисемантизм вообще характерен для английского языка, и нужно все время иметь в виду, что любое казалось бы хорошо знакомое слово в зависимости от контекста может иметь совсем иное значение. Так например:

1. power имеет следующие значения: 1) держава, государство; 2) сила, мощь; 3) власть, могущество; 4) (мн. ч.) полномочия; 5) энергия. В сочетании с предлогом in приобретает адвербиальное значение: 1) у власти; 2) в состоянии

According to the UN Charter the important task of maintaining peace lies mainly with the great powers. В соответствии с Уставом ООН важная задача поддержания мира лежит на великих державах.

They have mastered sufficient sea, air and land power to win back that territory. Они собрали достаточные морские, воздушные и сухопутные силы, чтобы отвоевать эту территорию.

Who sits in a second chamber is secondary to its functions and powers. Вопрос о том, кто входит во вторую палату [Британского

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парламента] вторичен по отношению к ее функциям и полномочиям.

2. case имеет следующие значения: 1) случай, обстоятельство,
положение, дело; 2) факты, доказательства, доводы (в пользу ко
го-л. или чего-л.); 3) судебное дело; 4) (мед.) случай, пациент, ране
ный и ряд других значений. В зависимости от контекста слово case
может переводиться также следующими словами: вопрос, момент,
прецедент и др. (in case в случае; it is not the case это не так; as
was the case как это было).

The executive of the National Union of Steel Metal Workers has passed the case back to the local officials to resolve. Исполком национального союза металлургов вернул дело (вопрос) на рассмотрение местной администрации.

The case will be tried in the law court next week. Дело будет рассматриваться в суде на следующей неделе.

An epidemic of the grippe broke out in England. The first cases were immediately sent to hospital. В Англии вспыхнула эпидемия гриппа. Первых заболевших сразу же отправили в больницу.

3. record имеет следующие значения: 1) запись, летопись, исто
рия; 2) протокол (заседания), официальный документ, запись, от
чет; 3) характеристика, репутация; послужной список; 4) факты,
данные, достижения; 5) рекорд, рекордный уровень; 6) грампла
стинка; 7) позиция.

The General Assembly should transmit to the States concerned the record of the discussion of the item at that session. Генеральной Ассамблее следует передать заинтересованным государствам протокол обсуждения этого пункта на той сессии.

The delegation wished to go on record that they viewed with great concern this act of overt aggression. Делегация высказала пожелание официально зафиксировать свою позицию о том, что она с глубокой озабоченностью рассматривает этот акт открытой агрессии.

According to New Orleans police records, they were detained at the request of the FBI Согласно данным (материалам, досье) полиции Нового Орлеана, они были задержаны по требованию ФБР.

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4. pattern может переводиться на русский язык следующими
словами: 1) образец, пример; 2) система; 3) путь; 4) характерное
явление, характер; 5) форма, схема, шаблон, модель; 6) формула.

Antitrust experts say that the government is trying to show a pattern of illegal behavior by Microsoft over years. Эксперты по антимонопольной политике говорят, что правительство пытается на примере « Микрософта» показать схему незаконной деятельности компании на протяжении ряда лет.

Turkey's pattern of development since 1948 cannot be explained only as a drive for self-sufficiency. Путь (характер) развития Турции с 1948 года нельзя объяснить одним лишь стремлением к экономической самостоятельности.

5. office может переводиться на русский язык следующими сло
вами:   1)  служба,   должность;   2)  обязанность,   долг,   функция;
3) власть;  4)  аппарат,   контора;  5)  ведомство,  министерство;
6) пост; 7) in office у власти и др.

It is true that much of the political debate in Parliament is a sham fight. It is also true that the real distinction of point of view often seems to be between those in office and those out of office. Действительно, большая часть политических дебатов в Парламенте представляет собой показную борьбу. Но правда и то, что реальный раздел точек зрения, кажется, проходит между теми, кто у власти, и теми, кто вне ее.

Since he moved to the White House, the President's Office has been radically reorganized. С тех пор как он вступил на пост президента, вся система аппарата Белого дома была коренным образом реорганизована.

The leader of the victorious party is offered the office of Prime Minister. Главе победившей партии предлагают (занять) пост премьер-министра.

6. facilities. Есть целый ряд английских слов, которые не имеют
эквивалента в русском языке и поэтому иногда их приходится пере
водить по-разному, в зависимости от контекста, иногда описатель
ным путем. Одним из таких слов является слово facilities, которое
обозначает предмет или обстоятельство, совокупность предметов
или обстоятельств, помогающих совершить действие. Так например:

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facilities for transport средства передвижения; facilities for studies

необходимые помещения, и оборудование, и даже наличие соответствующего времени, необходимого для занятий. Словарь дает следующие значения: 1) благоприятные условия, льготы; 2) оборудование, приспособление, аппаратура; 3) средства обслуживания, удобства. В зависимости от контекста может переводиться и другими словами: возможность, помещение и т. д.

MPs already complain of lack of facilities to do their work while Press and other staff also find they work in overcrowded and unsuitable conditions. Члены парламента уже жалуются на отсутствие благоприятных условий для (выполнения) работы; работники печати и другие служащие считают, что они также работают в переполненных помещениях и в плохих условиях.

A more recent project has been the modernization of port facilities and the improvement of natural ports. Более поздний проект предусматривает модернизацию оборудования (служб) порта и улучшение естественных портов.

  1.  community имеет следующие значения: 1) община; 2) общест
    во;     3) население, группа населения; 4) круги; 5) сообщество, объеди
    нение;     6) сотрудничество; 7) общность. Перевод слова зависит от
    того,  в  каком  словосочетании  оно  встречается.   Например:      the
    interests  of the  community  интересы  общества.   Black (white)
    community   чернокожее   (белое)   население,   financial   (business)
    community финансовые (деловые) круги, community of goods общ
    ность владения имуществом,     community of interests общность ин
    тересов.
  2.  public n. 1) народ; 2) публика; З) общественность; adj. 1) об
    щественный; 2) общенародный;     3) публичный, общедоступный; 4)
    открытый, гласный; 5) государственный, официальный и др. public
    figure общественный/государственный деятель; public image ре
    путация, мнение общественности     (о каком-л. деятеле); public li
    brary   публичная   (общедоступная)   библиотека;   public   facilities
    службы общественного пользования; public officer государствен
    ный служащий, чиновник, должностное лицо;     public servant долж
    ностное лицо;  лицо,   находящееся  на государственной  службе;
    public career политическая карьера; public relations 1) связь (лица,
    организации) с общественностью, прессой; 2) служба/отдел ин
    формации; отдел связи с печатью, пресс-бюро;     public servicies со
    циальные службы (здравоохранение, образование)     и т. д.

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 Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  As American presidents have understood since Harry Truman de
    clined to use nuclear bombs in Korea, legitimising the use of these weap
    ons in battle would weaken the taboo that restrains other nuclear     powers
    from using theirs, doing far more to imperil America's global security
    than to advance it.
  2.  At present, the Lords has extensive powers which go much further
    than its self-proclaimed role as a revising chamber.
  3.  The main reasons for the uncertainty are clear enough. The separa
    tion of     powers means that President and Congress are elected separately.
    The federal structure of the huge country means that between presidential
    elections the local party organizations more or less go their own way.
  4.  Only when agreement is reached on the role and powers of the
    second chamber does it make sense to consider its composition.
  5.  Apart from power in Parliament the other great source of power
    over people is from those who control the largescale combines and the
    national Press.
  6.  With a spirited competition among liberals and conservatives, re
    formers and traditionalists the elections in Iran are important because part
    of the power of the government is going to transfer to the people.
  7.  China's repeated failure to sustain economic reform and its persis
    tent unwillingness to become     a status quo power accepting the constraints
    of interdependence are all failures sustained by a mistaken belief in the
    correctness of the 1949 revolution (Gerald Segal).
  8.  He is having to exercise his persuasive powers fully, to prevent the
    negotiations from falling too far behind the time-table.
  9.  The balance of power in Europe, maintained for many years, had
    been shattered in six weeks.

  1.  The power to gather and disseminate data electronically is grow
    ing so fast that it raises an even more unsettling question: in 20 years'
    time, will there be any privacy left to protect?
  2.  Last week, friendly talks between the two companies broke off,
    reportedly over an inability to agree on     a power-sharing arrangements
    between the chief executives.
  3.  As the last government witness nears the end of his testimony, it is
    increasingly clear that the government's antitrust case against Microsoft
    Corporation is an indictment not only of the business practices of the
    world's dominent software maker but also of its corporate character.
  4.  The urgency with which the Americans are pressing the case for
    seaborne deterrent is explicable in terms of the coming Presidential elec
    tion campaign.

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  1.  The minister doubtless has in mind demands from the employers
    that, in the     case of wages, strong action should be taken if the board de
    nounces any particular claim.
  2.  Brazil had been a test case for a new global «financial architec
    ture» that the US President proclaimed to the world last fall.
  3.  In any case, what the interpreter is after is the reasoning, the se
    quence of arguments, starting with the premises and leading up to the
    conclusions.
  4.  The Foreign Secretary and the Government will, as was the case
    with the previous Government, stir up a hornet's nest if they attempt to
    interfere with these cost-of-living agreements.
  5.  The British Government declares that it is going to resist the im
    plementation of these plans. However,     this is not the case. The deeds of
    Britain's ruling circles     in any case up to the latest time attest to the con
    trary.
  6.  Once again logic must defer, in this case, to the vanity and power-
    hunger of national politicians.
  7.  But in concentrating their efforts on the most egregious cases in
    volving the suspected illegal confinement of servants, federal agencies
    have skipped over others that fall short of that standard, even when they
    include apparent violations of federal labor, immigration and tax laws.
  8.  The Labour government was accused of publishing the names of
    informants who tipped off British police about those responsible for a
    racist murder.

The case has caused a massive round of national soul-searching over the treatment of minorities.

  1.  The government's case seems persuasive. Yet as the trial has
    plodded since October through cross examinations of witnesses, with
    both sides presenting mountains of documents, there is certainly room for
    doubt.
  2.  On March 19th Mr Clinton invited a few key senators over to the
    White House to press his     case for intervention [in Yugoslavia].
  3.  Far from getting rid of a headache by giving the Scots a parlia
    ment, Labour ministers in London have found that the first stages of
    devolution have given them a kingsize migraine. The row over tuition
    fees for university students is a perfect     case in point
  4.  Private debt, for both house holds and corporations, has been
    growing at an impressively rapid rate, and while the trade deficit shrank
    at the end of last year, it nonetheless     set a record for the year as a whole.
  5.  Sheffield has a proud record of progressive politics. There is no
    doubt that this is the reason behind the progressive rehousing ideas.

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  1.  The Labour Party is on record as saying that if any industry is
    failing the nation or its workers, then the Labour Government will take
    steps to bring it under public control.
  2.  Ms Dunn has a solidly conservative voting record. But while she
    is a fiscal conservative, her mixed voting     record on abortion has angered
    some conservatives.
  3.  Many senators were already on the record opposing intervention,
    on the ground that America should on principle avoid getting embroiled
    in civil wars, or that the president has exceeded his prerogative by plan
    ning for war without consulting Congress first.
  4.  That candidate's record shows what can be expected from him: a
    redbaiter, character assassin and a labour-hater.
  5.  Many member states are now on record as favouring this ap
    proach, which was first formally presented at the general debate of the
    19th session of the General Assembly.
  6.  The US President spoke as the State Department released in
    Washington its annual human right report to Congress. The timing put
    him in the awkward position of defending China — and his policy of en
    gagement with the communist giant — at the same time that his Admini
    stration reported a sharp deterioration in that country's human rights     rec
    ord.
  7.  Trade, Taiwan and security have all caused protests between the
    two countries and the US Secretary of State faces an even tougher task
    after the US Senate resolution, which urged that the UN condemn
    China's rights     record.
  8.  When I got to Detroit and tried to board the Traverse City flight,
    the gate agent told me my «ticket» was not a ticket. She then looked in
    her computer and told me, quote: «Well, there's no     record that you are
    here.» « But I am here,» I pointed out.
  9.  Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest tire-maker by reve
    nue, said yesterday its net profit last year tripled to     a record on strong
    demand in the United States and Europe, lower prices for raw materials
    and a weaker yen.
  10.  Important official records in the UN are issued in the five official
    languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
  11.  The Minister played his well-worn record about it being impossi
    ble to plan the economy and not plan wages.
  12.  The pattern has been that African territories have been compelled
    by colonial rule and by their economic power to serve as raw materials
    appendages for western industry and western food consumption.

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  1.  New patterns of economic development have brought material af-
    fluance to, notably, the oil-rich states of the Middle East and the newly
    industrialised states of East Asia, South East Asia, and, to some extent,
    Latin America.
  2.  Like a kaleidoscope, the patterns of world affairs shift with each
    spin of the globe.
  3.  «What we in America regard as most important is that Japan pur
    sues policies that will deliver strong domestic demand-led growth and
    contribute to a more balanced     pattern of growth in the world economy,»
    said an expert in economy.
  4.  Political fact Number One to most candidates is that it takes
    money to run for     office — great gobs of it. To get this money, the legis
    lator must go to people who have some extra cash.
  5.  The Tory leaders have evidently forgotten that their chief duty lies
    not towards their party or their personal ambitions, but to the     offices they
    hold and the public they claim to serve.
  6.  Like armies that quit power in Chile, Pakistan, Argentina and
    elsewhere, Nigeria's military is seeking protection against retribution for
    its acts     in office or a loss in status.
  7.  The EU's new Nordic members are far less inclined than the
    Mediterraneans are — or were — to see high political     office as a chance
    to dole out the patronage and delegate the detailed stuff.
  8.  The major reason why the people of Africa have taken over the
    running of their countries is the ambition to lift their homeland out of the
    category of « economically underdeveloped» regions, to raise their mate
    rial standards of living and provide adequate social and cultural     facilities.
  9.  Education is seen by the council as having a key role to play in in
    creasing the economic effectiveness of the West Midlands and it urges
    the fullest use of the region's     facilities
  10.  In the field of industry special emphasis has been placed on the
    heavy industries, such as coal, steel and cement, but consumer goods     fa
    cilities     such as sugar refineries and textile plants have also received at
    tention.
  11.  « Facilities for retraining need to be developed to enable regional
    industry and the people employed in industry to cope with the technologi
    cal and economic changes that are certain to be encountered,» the report
    says.
  12.  The Swiss business community is sophisticated and highly experi
    enced in international trade.
  13.  The first reaction from the financial community abroad to the
    measures taken by the British Government was cautiously favourable.

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  1.  The National Security Agency officials were worried, said one
    source monitoring the     intelligence community, «that people would take
    toys (Furbies) home and they'd start talking classified.»
  2.  The double boom of the explosion could be heard for miles,
    setting off car and burglar alarms and rattling windows throughout the
    nearby     community.
  3.  He knows how to handle real power. Most germane of all, he did
    an impressive job of knocking Italy's indisciplined     public finances into
    more rigorous shape.
  4.  Capitol Hill is the place people think they know more about than
    any other place on earth, because everything on Capitol Hill seems to be
    public Everyone refers to it as a public place, and it is true that, at times,
    you can see all     the public men whose salaries are paid by the public
  5.  Direct democracy enables the public to express their own views
    and interests without having to rely on self-serving politicians.

57. The majority of the American people must buy power from privately owned utilities and they pay rates two, three, four or more times higher than those paid to a publicly-owned utility.

Publicly-owned power systems aren't perfect in the United States. But there is no question that they are better than privately owned systems. They are run by local, state or federal government, special regional governing bodies, or as cooperatives.

58. The   Scottish   Films   Television   Archive  has  been  awarded
£377.000 towards cataloguing and restoring thousands of films that have
been stored in its Glasgow premises since it began an appeal in 1976 for
the public to donate material lying in attics and basements.

  1.  The Party leader played down reports that the opposition was split
    over plans to orgarnize a     public petition against the proposal to give
    citizenship to millions of foreigners in Germany.
  2.  With no satisfactory agreement even close on the budget, perhaps
    the European Union could ill afford a     public falling out among its
    members.
  3.  The EU's greatest achievements have been through laws and
    treaties and eliminating trade barriers; none has arisen through     public
    spending at the supranational level.
  4.  Although civil society can be distinguished from the state, it
    nevertheless contains a range of institutions that are thought of as
    «public» in the wider sense that they are open institutions, operating in
    public, to which the public has access.
  5.  Bringing jobs to communities rather than compelling workers to
    tear up their roots and move hundreds of miles maintains social cohesion.

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  1.  The United States has already destroyed one facility in Sudan in its
    attempt to target chemical weapons.
  2.  Washington has imagined no serious challenge to American power
    until the distant future.

II. Служебные слова

1. Since — грамматический омоним. Выступая в предложении в
качестве союза, since переводится на русский язык: 1) поскольку,
так как, 2) с тех пор как, после этого (того) Выступая в качестве
предлога, since переводится с, со времени и т. д.:

Up to the present, international agreements on the prices of certain major products have scarcely modified the situation since prices are always dictated by the big industrial powers. Вплоть до настоящего времени международные соглашения о ценах на некоторые основные продукты вряд ли изменили положение дел, поскольку цены всегда определяются (диктуются) крупными промышленными державами.

The arrival of a common European currency is the most important event for European integration since the Treaties of Rome in 1957. Введение единой европейской валюты — самое важное событие в европейской интеграции со времени подписания Римских договоров в 1957 году.

Примечание: Словосочетание since then переводится: с тех пор, с того времени, после этого; ever since 1) с тех (самих) пор (как); 2) со времени; long since давно уже.

2. While — многозначный союз. Переводится на русский язык:
\) в то время как, пока; 2) хотя, тогда как, несмотря на то, что;

3) и, а, но

The EU economies enjoy a trade surplus, while the United States has a $200 billion annual trade deficit. Экономика Европейского Союза имеет положительное сальдо торгового баланса, а (в то время, как) США имеют дефицит торгового баланса в размере 200 млрд. долларов ежегодно.

While the scope of the bloodshed had been generally known, the report is the first to lay out the extent of the violence and pin it on the government. Хотя масштабы кровопролития были в общих чертах

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известны и раньше, в этом докладе впервые приводятся данные о насилии и возлагается вина за это на правительство.

Примечание. While в сочетании с причастием обычно не переводится.

The Iraqi Kurds, while not wanting to give offence to the US and happy about any offers of weaponry, are determined to avoid significant action against their President. Иракские курды, не желая обижать США и приветствуя любые предложения о поставках оружия, стремятся избегать серьезных акций против своего президента.

3. For — грамматический омоним. Выступая в предложении в
качестве союза, for переводится на русский язык: ибо, так как, по
тому что

Television is the prime culprit/or it has become the model for everything in our society. Телевидение — главный виновник, т.к. оно стало моделью всего в нашем обществе.

Выступая в качестве предлога, for переводится: 1) за, ради; 2) за, по; 3) для; 4) в течение, на какой-либо срок; 5) из-за, по причине, вследствие; 6) на, к; 7) от, против (болезни); 8) за, вместо; 9) for all... несмотря на, при (всем)... вопреки, чтобы... не...; ...for one со своей стороны; for one thing во-первых, прежде всего; for that matter несмотря на всё; и всё же; в сущности, фактически; собственно/по правде говоря; если на то пошло; что касается этого, в этом отношении; but for если бы не.

For many Americans, capital punishment seems more a symbol of society's indignation at the evil in its midst than a fair or useful weapon against crime. Для многих американцев смертная казнь представляется скоре символом возмущения общества злом в его среде, нежели справедливым или полезным средством борьбы с преступностью.

4. As — грамматический омоним. Выступая в предложении в ка
честве союза, переводится: 1) когда, в то время как, по мере того
как; 2) так как; 3) как. После прилагательного (в функции предика
тивного члена) в инвертированном предложении имеет уступитель
ное значение и переводится: хотя, как ни.

The gloom in East Asia is likely to deepen in the months ahead as

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more firms and banks go bust and unemployment and inflation rise. В Восточной Азии в предстоящие месяцы наблюдаемые ныне настроения подавленности, вероятно, будут нарастать по мере того, как все больше фирм и банков (будут) разорятся, а безработица и инфляция будут расти.

Difficult as the task was, they set a time-limit for its fulfilment. Как ни трудна была задача (хотя эта задача была очень трудной), они установили срок для ее выполнения.

Выступая в качестве наречия, as переводится: как, как например. В сочетании с прилагательным и наречием — так же ... как, такой же ... как. Другие сочетания: as to (for) что касается; as if как если бы, как будто; so as (с тем) чтобы; так (настолько) чтобы; as it is (в начале предложения) как бы то ни было, в действительности, можно сказать; (в конце предложения) уже и так, без того; as it were как бы то ни было; as it happens между прочим, оказывается; as a matter of fact фактически, в действительности; as a whole в целом.

Roughly 3 1/2 m people live in today's Ireland, making it about as big, in terms of man-power, as many a good-sized American city — Boston, say. В сегодняшней Ирландии живет приблизительно 3,5 млн. человек, делая ее по численности населения такой же, как любой крупный американский город, например, Бостон.

5. But — грамматический омоним. В качестве предлога but переводится на русский язык: кроме, за исключением; anything but далеко не, все что угодно, только не. В качестве союза переводится: 1) но, а, однако, тем не менее; 2) если не, как не, чтобы не; but for если бы не. В качестве наречия переводится: только, лишь.

The Bank of England issued orders to banks to limit advances to all but exporters. Банк Англии разослал указания банкам ограничить выдачу ссуд всем, кроме экспортеров.

Примечание. But после cannot означает двойное отрицание; переводится не может не...

The single currency cannot but pose a financial and economic challenge to Washington. Единая валюта (в Европе) не может не представлять серьезной финансовой и экономической проблемы для Вашингтона.

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6. Once — грамматический омоним. Выступая в предложении в
качестве наречия, переводится: один раз, однажды, когда-то, неко
гда, выступая в качестве союза, переводится: как только, коль скоро

Referendums, once a rarity, have now become a regular feature of our constitutional practice. Референдумы, когда-то бывшие редким явлением, сейчас стали привычной чертой нашей конституционной практики.

The rules that Europe has adopted say that no country can withdraw from the Union once it enters. Правила, принятые Европейским Союзом, гласят, что ни одна страна не может выйти из Союза, коль скоро она в него вступит (вступила).

7. Слово well в сочетании с различными частями речи, сохраняя в
основном свое значение, переводится по-разному:

1. well + глагол (well стоит после глагола) и well + причастие II
(well стоит перед причастием): хорошо, вполне

The plan, if well designed, will make it possible to save our resources. План, если он хорошо составлен, даст возможность сохранить наши ресурсы.

2. well + модальный глагол (well стоит между модальным и ос
новным глаголом): вполне, с успехом.

This question may well be discussed at the next sitting. Этот вопрос с успехом может быть обсужден на следующем заседании.

3. well + наречие (союз) значительно, очень, довольно; well after
значительно позже; well before задолго до; as well также; as well
as так же как, как... , так и . , кроме того, не только, но

Private consumption was well down in the first part of the year. Потребление в частном секторе было очень низким в первой половине года.

Cheap oil could cause instability as well as poverty. Дешевая нефть может вызвать не только бедность, но и нестабильность. (Дешевая нефть, помимо бедности, может также вызвать нестабильность).

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Обратите внимание на инверсионный порядок слов в переводе. Если сочетание с as well as выделено запятыми, то в переводе это будет выражено в прямом порядке слов.

Today nearly all Western democracies, as well as dozens of other countries, have abandoned capital punishment. Сейчас почти все западные демократические государства, а также десятки других стран, отказались от смертной казни.

Примечание. Наречия very очень и then тогда в функции прилагательного приобретают другое значение: very (тот) сам, сама, самый, then тогдашний

Some dismiss political correctness (PC) as a danger to the very fabric of American life. Некоторые не принимают «политическую корректность», усматривая в ней угрозу самой основе американского образа жизни.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  The government has put the court in an awkward position, since
    judges almost never clarify rulings unless it is in the context of a subse
    quent case.
  2.  Since Leftwing MPs (Members of Parliament) have thus far failed
    to agree to the law imposing fines and imprisonment on trade unionists
    who continue to defend and improve their working conditions, a party
    meeting is being held on Wednesday.
  3.  Since then Poland's political make-up has changed fundamentally.
  4.  Since 1989 the United States has been, in economic and military
    terms, the most powerful state in the world.
  5.  The popularity of the German coalition government has dropped
    sharply     since its victory in last October's general elections, an opinion
    poll indicated Sunday.
  6.  Since his own landslide victory, Mr. Khatami has struggled against
    conservative rivals who have jailed his political allies.
  7.  Since drug legalization — which might work, and which this paper
    has supported — is unacceptable to either side, the two countries [the
    USA and Mexico] will need to lower their defences in a different way: by
    being honest with each other.
  8.  The State Department told Congress on Friday that China went into
    reverse on human rights last autumn, backtracking on political reform
    while continuing «to commit widespread and well-documented human
    rights abuses» that defied international norms.

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9. The report fueled talk that US interest rates may be raised this year
while expectations are for lower rates in Europe.

  1.  In the Protestant Netherlands, bourgeois buyers became important
    patrons of art, and genre paintings found a solid market,     while in Catholic
    Italy, where church and aristocratic patrons called the tune, attitudes were
    ambivalent toward pictures outside the mainstream of religious and his
    tory painting.
  2.  Sources in the Administration while saying that no decisions have
    been made, suggest that the current consensus of senior advisers favor a
    lower-temperature policy designed to improve the bargaining position of
    the United States.
  3.  A high-ranking Transport Ministry official recently stated that
    while Japan is sympathetic to the plight of European shipbuilders, it is
    unlikely that the Japanese shipbuilding industry will be able to make fur
    ther concessions on the matter.
  4.  Some Americans fear an arms race in space, while others see the
    military use of the shuttle as a natural consequence of the superiority of
    U.S. space technology although such superiority may prove temporary.

14. While discussion of a possible link between the krone and
Europe's new single currency is at the top of the agenda, analysts expect
little more than vaguely worded communiques pledging cooperation be
tween Norway and the EU.

  1.  But the figures also illustrated that while the company's order
    backlog remains healthy, fewer customers are purchasing its (Boeing's)
    most expensive and profitable airplanes.
  2.  He is reported to have emphasized to the Cabinet that Canada was
    concerned at the possibility of military action,     while Asian members of
    the Commonwealth were all opposed to the use of force.

  1.  While pressing for every kind of financial help to the local
    authorities, it is evident that only nationalization of all urban land is an
    essential need.
  2.  The Foreign Secretary will propose a package of measures de
    signed to increase the democratic legitimacy of the European Union     while
    curbing the powers of the European Commission.
  3.  While the US unemployment rate fell back to a 28-year low of 4.3
    per cent, the German jobless rate jumped to 10.9 per cent from 10.2 per
    cent.
  4.  «...do not allow France alone to be represented by two «heads of
    government,» President and his prime minister at the EU summits,     for
    they simply compete to be seen back home as the fanner's best friends,»
    said a EU official.

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  1.  ...the riot surpassed those that had preceded it. For here was the
    most sensational expression of an ugly mood of nihilism and anarchy that
    has ever gripped a small but significant segment of America's Black mi
    nority.
  2.  As nuclear stations are expensive to build but cheaper to fuel and
    therefore more suitable     for base-load supply, the public utilities associa
    tion proposes, on grounds of cost if     for no other reason, to meet about 70
    per cent of the additional capacity requirement (22,000 megawatts) by
    commissioning 20 new nuclear power stations over the next 10 years.
  3.  When is an economic slump not a slump? The answer: When the
    economy in question is Japan's.     For what Japanese economic and busi
    ness leaders are all too ready to define as a «slump» or «slowdown»
    would be considered a rosy picture in virtually any other industrial coun
    try of the West.
  4.  The Battle of the Budget will be fought on two levels: in the Con
    gress and between private organizations in the nation that support or op
    pose President's economic program.

The second level is particularly interesting, for its object is to influence public opinion, and whoever wins this campaign could be decisive in the final votes on Capitol Hill.

25. We no longer prefer to confront reality directly, for long ago we
learned and accepted the fact that reality has for all practical purposes be
come unmanageable. Instead we have turned our energies to the prolif
eration and production of endless amounts of unreality to soothe our tired
and fractured egos.

26. Former Attorney General R.C. and U.S. representative G.G.
opened a conference on Cuba here last weekend with strong demands for
an end to the U. S. economic and political blockade of that island nation .

« We call for an end to the economic blockade of Cuba not only because we believe it is just, not only because we believe it is humane, but also because it is strategically, economically and politically in the interests of the United States.»

  1.  For most of American history, relations with Europe have been
    cool.
  2.  All this proves that all this talk about the so-called greater democ
    racy of secret ballot is so much eye-wash. It is open to abuse and is no
    substitute     for our trade union procedure of full discussion at a meeting
    and a show of hands, said Mr. M.
  3.  After lengthy negotiations they substituted a treaty for an unoffi
    cial agreement.

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  1.  The mill workers in Scotsville had been out for a year and a half
    already and they were becoming desperate     for food and clothing.
  2.  For these reasons the dreams of a solution along these lines are
    empty castles in the clouds.
  3.  The right of the states to decide voting qualifications is preserved,
    so long as it is not used     for systematic discrimination.
  4.  As always, growth is bound to be uneven. Mexico is being kept
    aloft by the strong US economy. South Korea is growing again, Japan is
    showing some signs of life, but Asia is apt to remain shaky     for a while to
    come.
  5.  For the first time in their history teachers are threatening a real
    showdown on their objection to the supervision of school meals, the daily
    duty that means many of them have to work during their lunch hour.
  6.  It is considered that Atlantic relations for all their seeming nor
    malcy face a profound crisis.
  7.  Already, Israeli officials in Europe, in background meetings with
    correspondents, have bitterly criticized the plan     as an attempt to impose
    conditions on Israel and     as European appeasement of Arab oil states.
  8.  At the same time, the reported compromise reaffirms the desire of
    leading administration policy-makers to re-direct foreign aid along more
    conservative lines that would give bilateral aid priority over multilateral
    aid     as a political tool to reward friends of the U.S. wherever possible.
  9.  «China is bracing for a slower economic growth rate as troubles at
    home and abroad take their toll on gross domestic product,» officials said
    yesterday.
  10.  As other western democracies have condemned and abandoned the
    death penalty, America has defended it with increasing vigour.
  11.  It was a grueling process of editorial refinement that either im
    proved and sharpened the story at each successive stage, or distorted it     as
    it passed from hand to hand and mind to mind.
  12.  Trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange was suspended for a
    second Monday     as brokers and administrators waited for clarifications
    from the finance ministry of controversial new tax laws.
  13.  Religious groups in China, including Protestants and Catholics,
    again experienced interference and repression     even as the number of ad
    herents in many churches continued to grow at a rapid pace.
  14.  As recently as early March of this year, the Prime Minister re
    buffed one of his top subordinates who strongly urged him to point out to
    American officials that a lot of their balance-of-payment troubles were of
    their own making.

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  1.  The incident occurred as MPs were voting in a second round con
    fidence vote for the formation of a new centrist government.
  2.  «But as media conglomerates evolve into media monoliths, con
    flict of interest can only become more frequent.»
  3.  Crude [oil] is gushing from the ground at the rate of 66 m. barrels
    a day, half as copiously again     as in OPEC's prime.
  4.  There is a flip side to Elizabeth Dole's big-heartedness. Her steely
    temper and icy glares are almost     as legendary in Washington as her acts
    of charity.
  5.  Coming as they do in the wake of the fascist outrages at Bologna
    station and the Paris synagogue, the disclosures are bound to raise the
    question of how much longer the authorities will turn a blind eye to these
    open preparations for fascist terrorism in Britain.
  6.  The Commerce Department is mulling sanctions on offending for
    eigners, and the vice-president wants to sound concerned.     Much as he
    wishes to be the apostle of orthodox economics and free trade, he cannot
    afford to seem insensitive to the losers in this system.
  7.  The latest operation is not quite like those others. First, it is
    NATO's first unambiguous attack on a sovereignstate that stands accused
    of being vile not to its neighbours but only to its own people. Such be
    haviour, offensive     as it is, has long been considered the prerogative of
    properly constituted governments.
  8.  As far as Presidential elections are concerned, they are not very
    democratic. It's really a monopoly of the two parties, and each year it has
    been getting more difficult for Independents to get on the ballot in many
    states.
  9.  As far as the mind is concerned racism cannot be done away with
    by legislation. But acts of racism can. That's where we can pinpoint the
    question. When racist acts become illegal, that becomes a much firmer
    basis to remove racism from the minds of people. That's an educational
    process but we can lay the legal basis for it.
  10.  Ms. Daly, while widely respected for her scholarship, is consid
    ered a perpetual thorn in the side of the college administration,     as much
    for her feminist theories as for her views on Catholicism.
  11.  In 1973, when most people feared that nothing could stop greedy
    OPEC members from raising oil prices     as much as they chose, the
    producers affected to accept western cash for their black bullion out
    of charity.
  12.  In unexpectedly strong language, the report describes the Guate
    malan policy at the height of the war     as a policy of genocide.

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  1.  Sociologists are fond of characterising Italy as a place, strong on
    families but feeble on «civic society».
  2.  The full effect on trade of rising costs caused by high wage settle
    ments and a rising exchange rate has yet to be felt in Britain, the bank
    said. Company profitability in the first six months was the worst recorded
    and real unemployment is growing twice     as fast as official jobless statis
    tics show.
  3.  Several distinguished economists testifying on Capitol Hill have
    cast doubts on the administration's predictions. L.K., the Nobel Prize
    winner, says, « The outlook is not     as rosy as far as growth is concerned,
    as far as inflation is concerned and as far as the balanced budget is con
    cerned.»
  4.  However, any concession as valuable as this was to the British
    could not be allowed to evaporate.
  5.  Both astronauts emphasized that they did not expect any major
    problems during the maiden flight.     As for the technical problems that had
    delayed the shuttle's launch by almost three years, they remarked that
    «engineering problems are the name of the game.»
  6.  In East Asian countries death penalty is applied to drug smugglers
    and rapists     as well as to murderers.
  7.  The deregulation of the 1990s has created competition between the
    states in attracting investment from within India     as well as from foreign
    investment.
  8.  The idea of «the man of feeling» describes America's perception
    of its role in today's world     as well as in the world of 1776.
  9.  Space station « Freedom», as it was then called, was to be com
    pleted at a cost of $8 bln.     As well as asserting America's might as a
    space-faring superpower, it let researchers monitor the effects of very
    long-term weightlessness on astronauts.
  10.  The World Bank has prepared a draft set of «principles of good
    practice social policy,» which draws on its own experience of social de
    velopment     as well as action plans and declarations drawn up by other
    bodies.
  11.  Though George Gallup is most famous as a political pollster, he
    built a fortune telling manufacturers and film makers,     as well as politi
    cians, what people thought.
  12.  If Cardinal Martini did become pope, he might shake things up
    quite a bit. For sure, no one else in the Catholic hierarchy has the same
    grasp of issues, worldly     as well as spiritual. He knows the ins and outs of
    global immigration. He is a diplomat who has deftly handled such tortu-

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ous matters as relations between Christians and Jews. He is well-travelled and sophisticated, as popular in the Anglo-Saxon world as in Southern Europe.

  1.  But if the blunt instrument of bombing succeeds in this, it will owe
    as much to luck as to precision.
  2.  On the constitution, the Blair government can justly claim to be
    radical. Decentralisation of government was overdue. Just as important
    will be the fulfilment of promises for a Freedom of Information Act, and
    for greater protection of human rights. But the impetus for reform came
    as much from political expediency, in particular a desire to fend off Scot
    tish nationalism,     as from a coherent vision of a modern constitution.
  3.  The gut anti-Americanism of the European left, often as much
    cultural as ideological,     was diluted in Mr Solana's case by his time spent
    in the USA     as a Fulbright scholar in the 1960s.
  4.  In recent weeks, several heads of government have begun to muse,
    after the years of belt-tightening needed to qualify for euro, about reduc
    ing their high unemployment by increased public spending. Yet, though it
    would be     as wrong to pursue too restrictive a fiscal policy as too tight a
    monetary policy, should economies slow sharply, more public spending is
    the last thing Europe needs.
  5.  Perhaps the European Commission should resign more often. Its
    decision to do so last week has so far been     nothing but a tonic.
  6.  While Elizabeth Dole was considered warm and friendly by the
    rank and file at the Labor Department, those who worked more closely
    with her in the executive suite often saw a woman who could be cool and
    inaccessible to     all but a few trusted aides.
  7.  For a generation, Italy — to its credit — has educated women on a
    par with men, forever broadening their horizons beyond the kitchen and
    crib...     But the government has all but ignored the flip side of sending
    women off to work: the children and household responsibilities they leave
    behind.
  8.  The Government has declared war on the unions. They have no
    alternative     but to fight back with every weapon at their disposal.
  9.  We cannot but recall in this connection the statement made by Mr.
    Eden in the League of Nations Assembly in 1936.
  10.  «Everything from the strength of our economy, to the safety of our
    cities, to the health of our people depends on events     not only within our
    border     but half a world away,» the President said.
  11.  What response the Japanese people will make to that defeat can
    now be     but dimly foreseen.

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  1.  Despite a «difficult year» last year, the bank increased its net
    profits by 24 per cent and shareholders would have been given a bigger
    increase than that recently announced     but for the Government's restraint
    rules.
  2.  In our epoch the peoples and states have but one choice: peaceful
    coexistence or nuclear war of extermination.
  3.  In view of profound political upheavals of the late twentieth cen
    tury, it could be foolish to suggest that any system of classification of po
    litical regimes can be     anything but provisional.
  4.  She casts herself as a representative of traditional Christian family
    values, yet her personal history has been     anything but traditional.
  5.  Once it could be presumed that all American consumers wanted
    basically the same thing, American producers suddenly had a large stake
    in knowing what that was.
  6.  He once had a dozen chiefs and vice presidents reporting directly
    to him and oversaw a 500-person company. Now his only employee is a
    personal assistant who left the company with him.
  7.  Once the negotiators initial* the package in Geneva, the partici
    pating governments will go over the fine print** to iron out possible minor
    differences, then sign a revised «final act.»
  8.  Once thinking and reason have been expunged, it's merely a mat
    ter of which belief system one prefers and how that belief system defines
    the «Higher good.»
  9.  If the Saudi royal family, in particular, were overthrown, it would
    send oil markets into turmoil.     Once low prices move more production
    back to the Middle East, even a toppled emirate or two might be enough
    to cause disarray.

88 For once, « Britain, France and other European governments feel that they are moving seriously on defence, so they want Washington to let the alliance stand on its laurels and not roil allied relations,» a pro-American ambassador at NATO headquarters said.

  1.  Informal discussions have begun on a third treaty that could bring
    both sides down to 2.000 warheads or lower.     Once the United States and
    Russia reach that level, arms reduction talks will have to include the other
    nuclear powers as well.
  2.  The morning's debate had produced more passion than reason,
    more noise than skill. The Secretary of State moved the successful motion
    on defence costs with a speech     well below his best form.

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  1.  In the federal elections they will probably not do quite so well, but
    nevertheless they are likely to gain seats.
  2.  For the French, the biggest beneficiaries of agricultural subsidies,
    the question concerns not only money but     the very character of the EU.

93 This was the very week in which big business started to fire its pro-Euro artillery, with the official launch of the «Britain in Europe» campaign headed by the Chairman of British Airways.

§ 11. СЛОЖНОПОДЧИНЕННЫЕ ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ

Некоторые сложноподчиненные предложения представляют значительную трудность при переводе. Для того, чтобы правильно перевести такое предложение, надо уметь правильно его анализировать. Синтаксический анализ сложноподчиненного предложения рекомендуется проводить в следующем порядке:

  1.  При разборе предложения прежде всего надо найти главные
    члены предложения: сказуемое и подлежащее. Сказуемое определя
    ется по наличию глагола (смыслового или глагола-связки) в личной
    форме. Подлежащее находится слева от него. Анализ сложноподчи
    ненного предложения надо начинать с конца предложения. Количе
    ство грамматических подлежащих и согласованных с ними сказуе
    мых помогает установить количество предложений.
  2.  Надо найти подчинительные союзы и союзные слова, так как
    они помогут выделить придаточные предложения и установить ха
    рактер подчинительной связи предложения (придаточное определи
    тельное, дополнительное, условное, временное и т.д.). Следует пом
    нить, что в английском языке предложения могут присоединяться
    бессоюзно*.
  3.  Далее надо выяснить, какие второстепенные члены имеются в
    главном и придаточном предложениях. После этого можно перехо
    дить к переводу сложноподчиненного предложения.

Примерный анализ сложноподчиненного предложения

In order to get around the problem that the United Nations already had of getting its members to pay their subscriptions, on which its

Перед придаточными дополнительными и классифицирующими определительными, так же как и перед придаточными при бессоюзном присоединении, запятая не ставится

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peace-keeping efforts depend, it has been proposed that there should be a new tax on arms sales, which would help to pay for current and future UN activities.

Начинаем анализ с конца предложения:

  1.  находим первое сказуемое — would help и стоящее слева от
    него   союзное   слово       which,   выполняющее   роль   подлежащего.
    Следовательно, это придаточное определительное неклассифици-
    рующее (о последнем, в частности, свидетельствует запятая перед
    which);
  2.  находим второе сказуемое — should be и его грамматическое
    подлежащее     there. Это предложение вводится союзом that, который
    может вводить и придаточное дополнительное, и придаточное опре
    делительное. Так как перед этим предложением стоит глагол —     has
    been proposed, то, следовательно, это дополнительное придаточное;
  3.  находим третье сказуемое — has been proposed, к нему отно
    сится подлежащее     it;
  4.  находим четвертое сказуемое — depend и подлежащее — its
    peace-keeping  efforts;  это  предложение  тоже  вводится  союзом
    which с предлогом on, перед которым стоит запятая; следовательно,
    это придаточное определительное неклассифицирующее;
  5.  находим пятое сказуемое — has, за которым следует предлог
    of и герундий getting, вводящий каузативный оборот — get its mem
    bers to pay... и подлежащее — the United Nations; перед данным
    предложением стоит союз     that; существительное (problem), стоящее
    перед предложением, говорит о том, что в данном случае     that вво
    дит придаточное определительное классифицирующе (перед ним
    нет запятой);
  6.  в начале предложения находим инфинитивный оборот — in
    order to get around the problem в функции обстоятельства цели.

Итак, мы имеем одно главное предложение и четыре придаточных. Проанализировав грамматическую структуру предложения, а также лексику, приступаем к переводу:

Для того, чтобы разрешить проблему, которая уже стоит перед ООН — заставить членов организации платить взносы, от которых зависят ее усилия по поддержанию мира,— было внесено предложение, чтобы на продажу вооружений был введен новый налог (или: ввести новый налог...), что помогло бы (который помог бы) оплачивать текущие и будущие операции ООН.

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Наиболее трудными для анализа являются предложения, в которых:

1. Подлежащее   выражено    придаточным    предложением
(придаточное подлежащее). Придаточное подлежащее выполняет
функцию подлежащего к сказуемому предложения и вводится сою
зами that, if, whether, союзными словами who, what, which, how,
where, when, why.

Whether the tax increase is the right solution is something some observers have recently begun to doubt. Некоторые обозреватели в последнее время начали сомневаться, является ли увеличение налогов правильным решением вопроса

Если союзное слово what в придаточном предложении выполняет функцию подлежащего или дополнения, то при переводе таких сложноподчиненных предложений требуется перестройка всего предложения. Эмфаза, создаваемая в английских предложениях их построением, передается в русском языке синтаксическим или лексическим путем.

What has changed unexpectedly since last fall is not the US trade deficit, but the willingness of foreign investors and central banks to finance it. С осени прошлого года неожиданно изменился не сам дефицит торгового баланса США, а изменилась готовность иностранных инвесторов и центральных банков его финансировать.

Примечание. Если в придаточном подлежащем what выступает в качестве подлежащего, то предложение на русский язык, как правило, переводится неопределенно-личным предложением, начинающимся со слов нужно, необходимо, требуется и т. п.

What is required is an end to double standards in human rights policy. Необходимо положить конец (отказаться от) двойным стандартам в политике прав человека.

2. Предикативный член выражен придаточным предложени
ем  (придаточное предикативное).  Придаточное  предикативное
стоит после глагола-связки (чаще всего после связочных глаголов to
be, to seem, to appear) и вводится союзами that, whether, as if,
because или союзными словами what, which, where, who, why,
when, how. На русский язык такие предложения переводятся прида
точными предложениями с соответствующими союзами и союзны-

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ми словами. При переводе часто используется коррелятивная частица то в соответствующем падеже, которая ставится перед союзом.

The only basis on which the deal could be described as a success is if the true objective was simply the avoidance of a fight between the EU members Единственным объяснением, на основании которого достигнутое соглашение можно было бы охарактеризовать как успех, является то, что подлинной задачей, по-видимому, было не допустить столкновений между членами ЕС

Если придаточное предикативное предложение вводится союзом whether, то на русский язык такое придаточное предложение передается бессоюзным придаточным предложением, начинающимся с глагола с частицей ли.

The question is whether the NATO members, especially America, are prepared to accept such state of affairs. Вопрос заключается в том, готовы ли члены НАТО, и в особенности Америка, согласиться с таким (с существующим) положением дел.

3. Бессоюзное присоединение придаточного предложения. В

английском языке бессоюзное соединение придаточных предложений наблюдается в дополнительных, определительных и, реже, условных предложениях.

При бессоюзном соединении подлежащее придаточного дополнительного предложения стоит непосредственно после сказуемого главного предложения. На русский язык такие предложения переводятся придаточными дополнительными предложениями, вводимыми союзом что, а придаточные определительные — союзными местоимениями который, которая

Critics say that sending troops to a zone of conflict (such as Somalia) can mean the real difficulties of a country are neglected. Критики заявляют, что отправка войск в любую зону конфликта, (как, например, в Сомали), может означать, что подлинные трудности страны не принимаются во внимание (игнорируются).

The report the workers' delegation made on returning home was listened to with great interest by members of our trade union. Члены нашего профсоюза с большим интересом слушали доклад, который был сделан делегацией рабочих по возвращении на родину.

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Бессоюзные условные придаточные предложения встречаются в предложениях с глаголами в сослагательном наклонении. (См. «Сослагательное наклонение», § 5.)

4. Главное предложение в сложноподчиненном предложении
разделено придаточным. При правильном анализе предложения
перевод его на русский язык не представляет трудности.

The Administration, which has been on its best behaviour throughout the summer in not pressing Britain to reach an early decision, is now making it plain that it would welcome an immediate answer. Правительство (США), которое проявляло поразительную выдержку в течение лета и не оказывало давления на Англию в отношении немедленного принятия решения, теперь дает понять, что оно желало бы получить немедленный ответ.

5. Последовательное подчинение. В этом случае какой-либо
член придаточного предложения определяется другим придаточным
предложением (вторая, третья и т. д. степень подчинения).

The question for the other members of NATO now is (1) whether they are prepared to accept (2) that France can share in the benefits of membership (3) while it is refusing the commitments and opposing part of the aims.

Придаточное предикативное — whether they are prepared to accept (1-я степень подчинения); придаточное дополнительное — that France can share in the benefits of membership (2-я степень подчинения); придаточное времени (уступки) входит в состав придаточного дополнительного — while it is refusing the commitments and opposing part of the aims (3-я степень подчинения).

Придаточное 2-й степени подчинения может стоять сразу же после союза, вводящего придаточное 1-й степени подчинения. В таком случае два союза будут идти подряд.

Everything shows (1) that (2) what the country needs is a budget (3) which drastically cuts military spending and export of capital.

В данном сложноподчиненном предложении главное предложение — everything shows, придаточное предложение начинается с союза that, за которым следует союзное слово what, вводящее придаточное подлежащее — what the country needs, которое входит в дополнительное придаточное предложение — what the country needs is a budget, к предикативному члену которого (budget) относится

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придаточное определительное, вводимое союзным словом which — which drastically cuts military spending and export of capital.

Перевод на русский язык предложений с последовательным подчинением не представляет особой трудности, если придерживаться основных правил анализа, изложенных в начале главы.

Примечание. В некоторых случаях не только сложноподчиненные, но и сложносочиненные и простые распространенные предложения могут представлять известную трудность при переводе. В этих случаях тоже необходимо проанализировать предложение, выделить его главный состав и определить остальные члены предложения.

Проанализируйте н переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  What is thought of as tax policy in the United States cannot exist in
    the European Union because the EU levies no taxes of its own.
  2.  However ingeniously information-processing technology is used,
    what seems certain is that threats to traditional notions of privacy will
    proliferate.
  3.  What is more striking about Ireland's new economy is how tightly it
    is linked to Europe and the world.
  4.  Exercising control over who knows what about you has also come
    to be seen as an essential feature of a civilised society.
  5.  What began some years ago as a band of fledgling mobile-phone
    companies     has today become a powerful force that is reshaping Europe's
    industrial landscape and, in many cases, overshadowing telephone titans
    that had enjoyed a solid monopoly for more than a century.
  6.  What does motivate Scottish nationalism, and has also been the
    driving force behind demands for devolution of power from London over
    the past century,     is the strong Scottish attachment to the country's civic
    institutions.
  7.  The decision of Turkey's constitutional court, on the urging of
    meddlesome generals, to ban the party which won the most recent gen
    eral election and which, until last summer, led a government coalition     is
    foolish. It will do nothing to give stability to a politically unstable coun
    try.
  8.  In what may be the crowning irony of scandal-steeped culture in
    the nation's capital, Kenneth Starr, the grand inquisitor so vilified by
    President Clinton and his allies,     may now become the quarry of an out
    side prosecutor himself.
  9.  The Conservative constitutional affairs spokesman claimed details
    of plans (by Labour) to cut back the royal family's annual funding

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increase by two thirds to a figure in line with the Government's inflation target was further evidence of Labour support for the «back door Republicanism which Demos organization presents.

  1.  What India says gets listened to respectfully in that triangle south
    of the Himalayas; farther afield, its voice fades.
  2.  The Federal Reserve's ability to maintain its integrity while pay
    ing due deference to the democratically elected authorities with which it
    works     provides a model more appropriate to a complex economy of the
    EU than does the haughty independence of Bundesbank..

12. The very criterion that limits political democracy most seriously — the fact that it is a set of methods and procedures governing how policies are to be arrived at rather than what policies are to be effected — is also the source of its greatest strength.

  1.  Whether the Prime Minister will be successful in his plea for an
    early improvement in world payment arrangements     is rather doubtful.
  2.  Whether Japan is a party to this collision is not evident.
  3.  It means that Britain is going to have a further period of balance of
    payments deficit, lasting for quite some time to get through.     Whether
    Britain can do it without renewed pressure on the pound     is the problem
    which faces the Government.
  4.  While few would argue with the notion of engagement with China,
    what is most depressing is how the optimists continue to see the virtues of
    treating Beijing with kid gloves.
  5.  The effort to encourage policy reform — if that is what today's
    pattern of aid describes     — had been made at an enormous cost in terms
    of unrelieved poverty.
  6.  What is important is whether a country's resources are fully and
    effectively utilized and developed by and for its people.
  7.  But this does not mean Britain is overpopulated. What it means is
    that there is something basically wrong with the system.
  8.  The overseas trade position has therefore remained much better
    than last year. What is not certain is     whether the improvement is con
    tinuing sufficiently fast.
  9.  The most startling thing about the rapid rise of Vodafone, perhaps,
    is that it wasn 't the only mobile-phone upstart on the march.
  10.  When you have only two candidates running and one of them will
    be elected, the electorate has     what we could call a choice of two national
    disasters.
  11.  What is most depressing is that some American China watchers
    conclude     that we need to be nicer to China, not tougher — apparently for
    fear that Beijing will get even nastier with the West.

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  1.  The idea the party wants to convey is that the dogmatism was just
    a phase the Tory once went through.
  2.  Colombian officials said they were disappointed that the head

of the largest rebel group in the country had not attended peace talks aimed at ending a 34-year-old civil war, but they signaled that the negotiations would continue.

26. The computer maker estimates its profit fell almost a third last

year.

27. Kuwait, which has most reason to support the use of force against

Iraq (but has in fact been a bit equivocal), is one of the few to say it

will attend the conference - but showed its feeling by saying it would

send only an under-secretary from the finance ministry.

  1.  The financing deal, which is unusually large for a computer com
    pany,     highlights how economic crisis has altered the way Asian compa
    nies approach high-tech investments and how that, in turn, is demanding
    sophisticated and riskier solutions from US exporters.
  2.  Renault SA, which is seen as overly reliant on the European mar
    ket and historically slow to expand overseas,     is in the midst of the take
    over that could render it more attractive to potential marriage partners,
    industry analysts believe.
  3.  The minority three-party coalition government, which controls
    25% of the seats in the country's legislature, the Storting     (Norway), lacks
    the political muscle to withstand pressure from the opposition.
  4.  The paper, on which that calculation is based shows that if the
    present aid budget were switched entirely to an efficient poverty-reducing
    allocation, 80 m people a year would be lifted out of poverty at a cost of
    $450 per person, compared with the present 30 m a year at a cost of
    $1,200 per person.
  5.  Encryption, which scrambles data for protection from eavesdrop
    pers,     is becoming key to electronic communications and commerce.
  6.  Traditionalists who see a Scottish parliament as a dangerous
    change to a system which has delivered Britain centuries of peace and
    stability     are missing the point.
  7.  The riots in Karawang, 60 kilometers east of Jakarta, broke out
    Friday after rumors spread     that the police had mistreated motorcycle driv
    ers     who ferry passengers for a living.
  8.  The original university which emerged in Italy and France in the
    12    th and  13th centuries, was what we would now call a professional
    school, designed to train theologians, doctors, lawyers, and philosophers
    who were usually teachers.

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  1.  The latest turn in the Starr inquiry is bound to be part of the debate
    that begins in earnest this week over whether Congress should renew the
    federal law     that creates independent counsels.
  2.  The New York Times, correctly, objected: «The notion that nu
    clear war can be kept limited and, in some sense, 'won' is not only dubi
    ous; to adopt it may actually increase the risk of nuclear suicide.»
  3.  Meanwhile, a quarrel over whether the European Parliament has
    the right to push through extra budget spending after the budget ministers
    failed to agree on its proposals, could end up in court if France refuses to
    pay the extra funds.
  4.  The lawsuit alleges that the airline failed to rescue the trapped
    passengers or allow them to leave the aircraft after several hours     of what
    they said amounted to forced detention.
  5.  Nineteen companies involved in everything from property devel
    opment to bicycle manufacturing announced     that they would post losses
    in their earnings reports for last year,     which are due by the end of April.
  6.  The European Commission has made a convenient target for the
    Parliament,     which is flexing its muscles in advance of elections in June
    and fighting off the popular perception     that it is a gravy train in which
    many of its members habitually fiddle their expenses.
  7.  Having a single standard was a boon to manufacturers, which
    could produce equipment for a single European wireless market, and for
    operators,     which could form so-called roaming agreements that let cus
    tomers from one country cross borders and use networks in another.
  8.  As the European Union threw its cell-phone market open to com
    petition, other unknown operators began making deep inroads into     what
    quickly became the fastest-growing segment of the EU $171.8 billion
    telecom market.
  9.  The IMF subsidizes two very influential constituencies, interna
    tional bankers and the profligate politicians     who preside over such places
    as Russia, Indonesia and Brazil.
  10.  Justice according to the whims of the nearest mob is not justice at
    all, but arbitrariness. And that is not     good for what little legitimacy inter
    national law has.
  11.  The fear of ethnic tension between the majority Chinese popula
    tion and the Malay, Indian and other minorities [in Singapore] has led to
    an emphasis     on what the races have in common rather than what makes
    them distinct.
  12.  Singaporeans are used to their government taking a paternal inter
    est     in what they do and think, and to its perennial campaigns telling them
    how to behave.
  13.  

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  1.  America can now lay claim to what conservative critic D.Frum has
    aptly called «history's first mass upper class.»
  2.  The UN Security Council stands firm on the principle that it itself
    must determine     whom it sends to decide whether Iraq has dismantled its
    weapons of mass destruction.
  3.  In what may be a model for future operations, France has taken its
    soldiers out of the Central African Republic, replacing them with an 800-
    strong African force from six African countries.

51. When Hong Kong's carefully picked «provisional»  legislature
was sworn in last July, replacing the elected one that China deemed un
acceptable, the easy prediction was that it would be the poodle of the new
chief executive and even of Beijing.

§ 12. ЭЛЛИПТИЧЕСКИЕ КОНСТРУКЦИИ

1. Эллиптические конструкции типа if any, if anything имеют
экспрессивно-усилительное значение и передаются на русский язык
придаточными условными предложениями, а также словами почти,
пожалуй, вовсе, вообще и др.

Objections to this plan, if any, should be reported to the committee at once. Если и имеются возражения против этого плана, то они должны быть немедленно представлены комитету. (Возражения, если они имеются...)

Very little, if anything, could be advanced in the defence of his policy. Почти ничего нельзя было сказать в поддержку его политики.

Примечание. If anything может переводиться также словосочетанием во всяком случае, не что иное как

If anything, it will be in their interests to follow this course. Во всяком случае, в их интересах следовать этому курсу.

2. К эллиптическим конструкциям относятся также уступитель
ные   придаточные   предложения,   вводимые   союзами   whatever,
however, в которых отсутствует сказуемое (иногда подлежащее). На
русский язык такие уступительные придаточные предложения пере
водятся полными уступительными придаточными предложениями с
союзами какой бы ни, каким бы ни (восстанавливается сказуемое и
подлежащее полного предложения).

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The British people have to submit to new taxation, however high Английскому народу приходится примириться с новыми налогами, какими бы высокими они ни были.

3. К эллиптическим конструкциям относится и сочетание if + причастие II (или прилагательное) На русский язык это сочетание переводится придаточным уступительным предложением.

If considered from this point of view, the problem takes on a new aspect. Если рассматривать проблему с этой точки зрения, то она приобретает (принимает) другой характер.

But the decision, if logical, requires a measure of courage. Но это решение, хотя оно и логично, требует известного мужества.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  Investors go back to looking at domestic conditions. And what they
    find in the United States is an economy that shows few     if any signs of the
    slowing growth that the Fed. (Federal Reserve) Chairman predicts is on
    the way.
  2.  You would have thought that, after the economy crashed in August,
    the arts in Russia would have grounded to a half.     If anything, the opposite
    is the case.
  3.  What, if anything did the President bring back from Beijing? Above
    all, the event itself, the fact that it took place.
  4.  National governments like the European Commission weak, and
    even the voters do not want hyperactivity in Brussels. Nor should they:     if
    anything,     it should have less money to spend in future, not more.
  5.  Scott Reed, who ran the 1996 campaign for Bob Dole is quoted to
    say on the buildup by Governor George Bush of Texas toward an an
    nouncement on his plans for a presidential campaign:     «If anything, the
    Bush team has learned that you need to put the filler out there or the void
    will be filled by somebody else.»
  6.  New patterns of economic development have brought material af
    fluence to the oil-rich countries of the Middle East. In contrast, poverty
    has,     if anything, become more deeply entrenched in parts of sub-Saharan
    Africa.
  7.  Such policies contributed to the crisis, and if left in place would
    harm long-term growth.
  8.  It may be long time, if ever, before South Korea is strong enough to
    face unification unaided.

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9. However venal politicians may be, there is a general, if grudging,
acceptance that they are always with us.

  1.  In Hungary, Poland and Russia communist parties, now embracing
    if with differing degrees of conviction, the principles of social democracy,
    have made an electoral comeback.
  2.  His greatest skill lies in enticing and reassuring those who are not
    enemies and who might,     if handled correctly, become friends.
  3.  In the United States, critics have seized on a series of damaging
    espionage cases and China's apparent attempts to influence U.S. elections
    as proof of a continuing     if amorphous, threat from the world's most
    populous nation.
  4.  Whatever the tigers' shortcomings, however, the markets almost
    certainly overreacted.    
  5.  Whatever the outcome of the leadership contests on November 18
    (the Republican Conference is due to elect a new Speaker), the wounds
    may be deep and hard to heal.
  6.  Perhaps the party's wobbles are, indeed, exaggerated: after all, the
    Republicans still control both House and Senate, and     whatever the
    party's setbacks     in close contests, the country as a whole voted for the
    status quo (of 401 House members seeking re-election, 395 won).
  7.  Under him, and with a strong political will to show Europe as
    united     whatever the cost, Airbus Industry operated in a unique manner,
    with parts being flown in from Britain, Germany and Spain to be assem
    bled in Toulouse.
  8.  Whatever his reasons he has now brought the other members of
    NATO face to face with some very big and difficult questions about the
    military and political structure of Europe and its relations with the United
    States.
  9.  But whatever his long term aims, the President's immediate inten
    tions and motives were made relentlessly clear at his last Press conference
    less than three weeks ago.
  10.  Though this thesis sounds admirably democratic in principle, most
    people believe that it would make it extremely difficult,     if not impossible,
    for them to attain unity and real democracy.
  11.  Of course, interpreting, if more spectacular, is not the only aspect
    of linguistic activity in the international sphere.     Whatever the length of
    the discourse,     a good interpreter never asks the orator to stop in order to
    enable him to render it bit by bit. Some orators have been known to speak
    for over an hour non-stop. Interpretations, of course, are usually some
    what shorter than original speeches, but even then, this represents tre
    mendous effort.

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21. By virtue of longevity, if nothing else, Egypt has seen more
changes than most.

  1.  If anything, Ireland has become less fiscally attractive to foreigners
    over the past few years: many of the grant and tax dodges once used to
    seduce them have gone.
  2.  Latin America, like Canada, will long remain dependent on the
    United States for export markets. Its migrants will still go north, legally or
    not. So will its drugs. Willy - nilly, it will still have to recognise the pri
    macy     of its giant neighbour. But, however imperfectly, and however un
    evenly     — it is far from homogeneous — Latin America is today part of
    the same free-market, democratic society.

§ 13. ПРЕПОЗИТИВНЫЕ АТРИБУТИВНЫЕ СЛОВОСОЧЕТАНИЯ

Препозитивные атрибутивные словосочетания, образованные при помощи соположения ряда существительных, очень распространены в английском языке. Они представляют трудность для перевода из-за многообразия семантических связей между членами словосочетания, а в ряде случаев из-за многозначности словосочетания, а также из-за различия структур английского и русского языков.

Для правильного перевода словосочетания необходимо проанализировать внутренние смысловые связи между его членами.

I. Двучленные словосочетания

Первый член двучленного атрибутивного словосочетания может переводиться на русский язык:

  1.  прилагательным: emergency meeting внеочередное/экстрен
    ное заседание,     power station электрическая станция, factory com
    mittees фабричные комитеты
  2.  существительным в родительном падеже: incomes policy по
    литика доходов,     wage rise повышение зарплаты, budget increase уве
    личение бюджета
  3.  существительным с предлогом: strike warning предупрежде
    ние о забастовке,     disarmament conference конференция по разору
    жению     (предложное дополнение); Coalbrook disaster несчастный
    случай в Колбруке     (обстоятельство места).

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Примечание. 1. В отдельных случаях первый член атрибутивного словосочетания может переводиться придаточным предложением или причастным оборотом: wage deadlock тупик, в который зашли, переговоры о повышении заработной платы (в вопросе о заработной плате).

2. В ряде случаев двучленные словосочетания могут быть многозначными. Например: university books университетские книги; книги об университете

Для правильного перевода необходим либо широкий контекст, либо осведомленность о данной ситуации.

II. Многочленные словосочетания

1. При переводе многочленных словосочетаний надо придержи
ваться следующего правила:

1) перевести определяемое существительное (последнее слово словосочетания); 2) проанализировать смысловые связи между членами словосочетания и разбить их на смысловые группы (анализ проводится слева направо); 3) перевести словосочетание, начиная с определяемого слова, и затем переводить каждую смысловую группу справа налево.

В зависимости от смысловых связей многочленные словосочетания могут переводиться по принципу двучленных словосочетаний. Например, надо перевести словосочетание Bank Credit Regulation Committee. Переводим последнее слово словосочетания: комитет. Далее разбиваем все словосочетание на смысловые группы: 1. Bank Credit, 2. Regulation Committee. Переводим все словосочетание: Комитет по регулированию банковских кредитов.

  1.  В некоторых словосочетаниях одно из существительных, вы
    ступающих в функции определения, может переводиться на русский
    язык причастием:     raw material production countries страны, произво
    дящие сырье.
  2.  Атрибутивные словосочетания могут начинаться прилагатель
    ным или причастием. В этом случае надо выяснить, к какому слову
    относится первый член словосочетания. Например:     sudden policy
    change    внезапное    изменение    политики;     combined    operation
    headquarters штаб совместных действий; National Liberation Front
    successes успехи Национально-освободительного фронта.
  3.  В том случае, когда в начале атрибутивного словосочетания
    стоит имя собственное, обозначающее географическое название, оно
    переводится на русский язык прилагательным, существительным в
    родительном падеже или существительным с предлогом (обстоя-

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тельство места) : London district committee районный комитет Лондона; Paris peace talks мирные переговоры в Париже (происходящие в Париже).

  1.  В том случае, когда в середине атрибутивного словосочетания
    стоит прилагательное, оно переводится на русский язык прилага
    тельным (определением к тому слову, перед которым оно стоит):
    NATO pact military chiefs военные начальники пакта НАТО.
  2.  Атрибутивная группа может состоять не только из существи
    тельных, в ее состав могут входить и другие части речи: числитель
    ные, причастия, глаголы и т. д. Некоторые элементы этих словосо
    четаний соединяются между собой дефисом или заключаются в ка
    вычки. Такие атрибутивные группы обычно переводятся причаст
    ными оборотами или придаточными предложениями:     the Labour-
    controlled city council городской совет, в котором большинство при
    надлежит лейбористам;     a six-point control plan контрольный план,
    состоящий     (который состоит) из 6 пунктов; take-it-or-leave-it draft
    resolution проект резолюции, носящий (который носит) ультима
    тивный характер;     «Back to work before talks begin» declaration тре
    бование, чтобы рабочие вернулись к работе до того, как начнутся
    переговоры.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  China yesterday attacked a US Senate resolution condemning Chi
    nese human rights violations,     adding to tensions between the two giants.
  2.  The US President is scheduled to make a four-day, four-nation
    swing     through Central America.
  3.  The conservative parties' petition against the plan (to give citizen
    ship to millions of foreigners in Germany) was counterproductive, he
    said, and would encourage xenophobia and bolster extreme-right groups.
  4.  Order books and industrial confidence have weakened significantly
    since last spring, while     industrial-production growth also has slowed
    during the past year.
  5.  She is one of her party's most active and successful fund-raisers
    and has used her political action committee to funnel campaign contribu
    tions     to other House Representatives.
  6.  ...the public-safety commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., was ready
    to use     water canons and attack dogs on a group of civil rights demon
    strators.
  7.  However, domestic-based American export industry will lose the
    dominant-currency advantage     it has enjoyed for 50 years.

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 8. Among the other provisions of the administration's new crime
 package are background checks for buyers at gun shows, a lifetime ban
on gun  possession by juveniles convicted of certain violent crimes, and
child safety locks on all guns.

9. Major donor nations promised Cambodia $470 million in aid, but
they linked it to implementation of political and social reforms in the pov-
erty stricken nation.

  1.  The prewar corporate world was more loosely structured, allow
    ing smart, ambitious women to break out of the secretarial ranks.
  2.  The Santo Clara company, the world's biggest chipmaker, was
     expected to discuss encryption and other information-security issues at an
     industry conference that began Monday in San Jose, California.

 12. The euro zone is facing a short-lived growth slump because of
 problems in Brazil and other regions across the globe, the president of the
European Central Bank said.

 13. Apart from pay and pension fund cuts, the earlier cost-cutting
 moves included lower utility, transport and rental costs.

 14. Home Office spokesman said yesterday that their policy was not to
disclose any information about a taxpayer or his affairs without his prior
consent.

  1.  The announcement of assistance to Cambodia by 17 donor coun
    tries     and six international finance organizations was made at the close of
    the     two-day Consultative Group Meeting for Cambodia.
  2.  The Treasurer introduced a Bill to implement the Government's
    plan to give     preferential taxation treatment to life insurance companies.
  3.  Bangladeshis went to work and schools Friday, to recoup losses
    suffered from a     three-day anti-government strike that paralyzed the
    country's main cities and claimed seven lives.
  4.  In Suburbia live one-third of the nation, who represent every patch
    of     democracy's hand-stitched quilt, every economic layer, every laboring
    and professional pursuit in the country.
  5.  Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking
    out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a     trial-and-error bal
    ance     for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it pro
    duces with such rapidity.
  6.  The United Nations' Drugs Control Programme (UNDCP) could
    become the centerpiece of a special session of the UN General Assembly
    in June, leading to a new global     drug-control convention to replace the
    cat's-cradle of existing accords.
  7.  This [the elections to the new Scottish parliament] has been per-

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haps the first revolution (how else do you describe the re-establishment of a nation's government?) that has been conducted by pen-pushing committees of lawyers, clergymen and accountants rather than cells of bearded radicals.

  1.  Unfortunately, his choices on Europe are likely to be more com
    plicated than a clash between     a forward-looking embrace of Europe, and
    a backward-looking scepticism
  2.  If Mr. Blair is not careful enough [with the modernisation of the
    welfare state] he could end up with a mess, like Mr.     Clinton's ill-fated
    health-care reforms.
  3.  Britain's classrooms face collapse. This stark warning comes from
    the government's own official schools inspectors who issued their latest
    annual report yesterday.

And their devastating indictment of the impact of the cuts wrung the admission from Education Secretary that every third school did not have enough books and every fifth school did not have enough teachers.

  1.  Canada's defence industry is up in arms over changes to US export
    control regulations     that have eliminated Canada's long-standing exemp
    tion     from certain US export licensing requirements.
  2.  Backing Thursday's mass lobby was the first decision taken by
    delegates from 30 union organisations called together by     steel workers
    action groups     at the weekend to set up a grass-roots Fight Back for jobs
    movement.
  3.  The Japanese government, and some economists elsewhere, have
    proposed that Europe, the United States and Japan set     exchange rate
    «target zones»     so as to re-establish the stable international currency re
    lationships     that existed under the Bretton Woods system and ended when
    the United States «floated» the dollar in 1971.
  4.  The war in Guatemala, which began in 1960, pitted a rightist
    military-controlled government     against a classic Latin American leftist
    insurgency.
  5.  Credit Lyonnais 's privatisation arrangements will be published
    after discussions with the European Commission, officials at the French
    Finance Ministry said.
  6.  The broad network of community, trade union, professional, sen
    ior citizen,     and public interest groups that organized the state's Citizen
    Labor Energy Coalition     is the decisive force in the current struggle.
  7.  The economic assistance package was discussed briefly during a
    private briefing of     the Senate Appropriations Committee by senior offi
    cials from the Departments of State and Defence, and the CIA.

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  1.  Coupled with the spending and tax proposals were changes in the
    federal regulatory process and monetary policy.
  2.  When recession suggests a continentwide need for stimulus, the
    pressure will be on the member states (of the EU) to create some sort of
    joint fiscal decision-making mechanism
  3.  When mothers return to their jobs, reliable, affordable child care
    is provided by a vast network of government-backed neighborhood day-
    care centers
  4.  John Kasich, the 46-year-old House budget chairman, is a popu
    list fighting     «corporate welfare» tax cuts for big business. And he's a
    maverick who helped Democrats try to kill spending for the B-2 bomber
    and pass a ban on assault weapons.
  5.  In the past few years coordination agencies have been created by
    the Government to include     a Foreign Exchange Committee and an Inter
    nal Finance Committee,     and the Central Bank and the Ministries of Fi
    nance, Commerce and     State Enterprises exert some influence in this
    sphere.
  6.  A week of county council election opened in England and Wales
    yesterday when Monmouthshire and Norfolk went to the polls.
  7.  Public support for the railway strike decision is growing. This is
    shown in     an opinion poll published in yesterday's Mail.

  1.  The protest is against National Coal Board redundancy notices to
    140 miners, mainly young men of under 21, which take effect today.
  2.  An official from Taiwan's China Development Corporation, the
    island's biggest     investment group, has described the current condition as
    a     « once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.»
  3.  Reflecting on last week's disastrous local election results most
    Labour MPs have at last realized that their     Prime Minister's home and
    foreign policies     are vote-losers
  4.  The get-rich-quick mania also plays into people's natural com
    petitiveness and, often,     deep-seated feelings of inadequacy.
  5.  Only one-quarter of the world's synoptic surface weather obser
    vation posts     are below the Equator.
  6.  The three month United Nations World Trade and Development
    Conference,     which was attended by representatives of 122 Governments,
    was called the Little General Assembly.
  7.  Now the Civil Rights Commission, in two days of open hearings,
    has turned the spotlight on     the near-ghetto conditions in which Blacks
    live in the only major city in the country where they are in a majority.

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  1.  The three-man UN mission leaves London today after four days of
    talks with the British Government. The mission yesterday described the
    London talks as « useful».
  2.  The president has ordered up a war. A humanitarian crisis has
    erupted. And the Republicans? Save for the predictable isolationism of
    Pat Buchanan and the direct     we 're-in-it-let 's-win-it response of John
    McCain, they're flummoxed — and it's gone from bad to worse.
  3.  Several magistrates are staying away from the civic luncheon be
    ing given by     the Labour-controlled city magistrates
  4.  Paradoxically, the poll returns mean that he will be able to go
    ahead with his plan to introduce     a pay-as-you-earn income tax scheme,
    which had been the main issue of the elections.
  5.  The contest, also held on May 6th but on traditional first-past-the-
    post rules,     produced some grossly skewed results.
  6.  Most of British men who came to adulthood in the first half of the
    century had     stay-at-home wives and manual jobs.
  7.  The country has become an anything-goes, chaotically libertarian
    society
  8.  Members of Parliament of all shades last night in the Commons
    fought     a genuine, no-holds-barred scrap over the fate of Britain's unem
    ployment.

54. The  Prime  Minister  back-to-hearth-and-kitchen  reproach  to
women — many of whom will themselves feel very angry at her attempt
to make them feel guilty for going out to work — comes at the end of a
year of attacks on provision for children.

  1.  There was never a promise to aid an uprising lest it result in the
    fragmenting of the Iraqi state with     who-knows-what consequences for the
    region's balance of power.
  2.  Far more questionable are the restrictions proposed for the state-
    financed unemployment benefit programs     for the short-term unemployed
  3.  Civil Service unions, who staged a one-day nationwide protest
    walkout     Monday against government pay curbs, threatened widespread
    chaos at airports at midnight Thursday, aimed at U.S. airliners.
  4.  The report listed a whole range of tax-deductible items available to
    companies, including     company houses, yachts for entertaining overseas
    clients     and even company racehorses.
  5.  The author criticized the American reporters for relying too much
    on interviews and too little on documented evidence, for chasing too
    many     spot stories and spending too little time examining long-term
    trends

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  1.  It was disquieting to learn the other day that a CIA-led task force
    has proposed removing many current restraints on collecting information
    on Americans — on Americans, moreover, neither accused nor suspected
    of committing any crime.
  2.  Gun control has been a hotly debated national issue for the last
    two decades. But with every assassination and attempted assassination,
    public outcries for effective national controls have been followed either
    by congressional inaction or passage of such weak legislation that     gun-
    control proponents     have branded it of little use.
  3.  The sources said the US President was reluctant to take part in a
    North-South summit meeting     after a eight-nation economic summit meet
    ing.
  4.  « These supply-oriented policies are directed at the medium-term,»
    the panel said. «If they are successful, it will raise the international com
    petitiveness of German products.»
  5.  Militant regional leaders of Britain's miners defied a return-to-
    work order     from their national union Thursday, declaring mistrust of the
    Conservative government despite its abrupt turnaround over threatened
    pit closures.
  6.  The cool, pragmatic premier lately had come under a barrage of
    criticism from the right-wing and others in     his faction-ridden Union of
    the Democratic Center, which was supposed to have begun its second
    congress Thursday on the island of Majorca.
  7.  The left, they [centre-right politicians] concede has done better at
    presenting itself as a source of reassurance, a comforting pair of hands to
    protect ordinary people against the wicked forces of unfettered market
    economics.  The New Left stands  for a     kind of anti-post-cold-was-
    capitalist triumphalism,     which plays mercilessly on the caricature of an
    unfeeling Right.
  8.  Sanyo Electric expects to show record profit and sales figures for
    the year ending next Nov. 30, company president said Tuesday. He said
    after-tax profit for the period will rise.
  9.  The tricky job of unemployment-benefit policy-makers is thus to
    provide adequate compensation to allow     worker adjustment to necessary
    economic change without, at the same time, interfering with     labor mar
    kets     by promoting worker turnover, increasing payroll costs and pro
    longing unemployment.
  10.  Mere mention of the Senate Democrats these days calls to mind a
    row of     chin-on-fist Rodin figures, all of course called The Rethinkers. But
    we suspect those ostensibly «rethinking» Democrats we have been hear-

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ing so much about are going to have to give some early and careful thought to their opposition role. It is one with which they are unfamiliar and, some would say, for which they are temperamentally breathtakingly unsuited. The tension on their side of the aisle (and, in a way, within the Democratic majority in the House as well) is likely to» be between the hothead, fight-everything, obstruct-wherever-you-can folks and those (soon to be called «sell-outs») who will be arguing the old line about restraint and being seen to be helping the administration govern.

  1.  «However, the of-necessity somewhat hypocritical nature of a
    number of our findings and their dependence on certain political, biologi
    cal and technical assumptions is a feature they share with many contem
    porary planning schemes,» he said.
  2.  Such divisions [in the president's party] exist on trade, for exam
    ple. Mr. Clinton's economic team, is by and large supportive of trade lib
    eralisation, whereas the labour-union base of the Democratic Party is
    hostile. This explains why Mr. Clinton never made a convincing case for
    fast-track trade-negotiating authority,   which  Congress  consequently
    blocked.
  3.  In one breath senior Republicans are calling for a national dia
    logue on tax reform to simplify the country's distorted tax code. In an
    other, they are clamouring for an end to the     « marriage tax penalty» —
    the fact that many couples pay more taxes if they marry than if they re
    main single.  Ending this «penalty»   implies an     expensive,  loophole-
    creating tax cut     within the existing system.

§ 14. НЕОЛОГИЗМЫ

I. Неологизмы — это новые слова, еще не зарегистрированные в
англо-русских словарях, или не зафиксированные словарями новые
значения слов, уже существующих в языке.

Для уяснения значения неологизма рекомендуется: 1) выяснить значение слова из контекста, 2) обратиться к последнему изданию одного из англо-русских или англо-английских словарей и попытаться отыскать данное слово в разделе «Новые слова» , 3) постараться выяснить значение нового слова, исходя из его структуры.

II. При переводе неологизмов используются следующие пере
водческие приемы: 1) транскрипция, 2) транслитерация, 3) кальки
рование, 4) описательный перевод.

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  1.  Примеры транскрибирования неологизмов: beatniks битники,
    beatles битлзы, briefing брифинг, p.r.(public relations) — пиар
  2.  Транслитерация в настоящее время практически не употребля
    ется:     inauguration инаугурация, Benelux Бенелюкс
  3.  Примеры калькирования неологизмов (т. е. воспроизведения
    средствами русского языка значения и морфологической структуры
    нового английского слова или словосочетания):     air bridge воздушный
    мост,     shadow cabinet теневой кабинет, nuclear umbrella ядерный
    зонтик,     brain trust мозговой трест
  4.  Примеры описательного перевода: to lobby посылать делега
    тов для оказания давления на членов парламента     — депутатов их
    округа,     deterrent средство устрашения, сдерживающее средство,
    оружие,     redundancy увольнение по сокращению штатов, landslide
    полная (блестящая) победа на выборах,  gimmick трюк, штучка,
    хитроумное приспособление, какое-либо новшество, направленное
    на то, чтобы привлечь всеобщее внимание,     brain drain эмиграция
    квалифицированных кадров («утечка умов»),     brain washing идеоло
    гическая обработка («промывание мозгов»),     hawks and doves сто
    ронники расширения войны и сторонники мира («ястребы и голу
    би»),      brain power квалифицированные кадры,  brain tank мозговой
    трест,    brain bank банк информации, think tank исследовательская
    группа, мозговой трест, резервуар научных кадров, научный центр,
    fact sheet перечень (документ о   ) фактических данных, skinheaded
    бритоголовые   (часто   о   фашиствующей   молодежи);   low  profile
    скромный, малозаметный, high profile яркий, очень заметный, вы
    дающийся,     runaways предприятия, переведенные на другую терри
    торию или за границу

III. Образование неологизмов.

1) Расширение значения. Слово, употребленное в различных контекстах, приобретает новые оттенки значения, а в ряде случаев и новые значения Так, слово confrontation -первоначально означало очная ставка, сличение, сопоставление С течением времени это слово стало употребляться в словосочетании confrontation of armed forces и приобрело значение соприкосновение вооруженных сил В настоящее время слово confrontation приобрело значение (открытое) столкновение, противостояние, противоборство Такие слова, как deterrent, redundancy, landslide и другие, также изменяли свое значение в связи с возникновением новой ситуации, возникшей потребности.

Так, например, прилагательное «green» расширило свое первоначальное значение и в различных сочетаних в разное время означа-

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ло: a green revolution — «зеленая» революция (революция в сельском хозяйстве ряда развивающихся стран, связанная с введением продуктов, полученных с использованием генной инженерии); the « greens» — доллары; green power — власть денег; the Green Party — партия «зеленых» (например, в Германии), выступающая в защиту окружающей среды; to do smth. in a « green» way — делать что-либо экологически чистым путем.

2) Префиксальное и суффиксальное образование новых слов.
Префикс re- означает повторность действия: rethinking переосмыс
ление, renazification ренацификация, retraining переподготовка, пере
квалификация, reimposition введение чего-л снова

Префикс de- придает значение обратного действия demilitarize демилитаризовать, denazify денацифицировать, denazification денацификация, denuclearise лишать ядерного оружия, deescalation деэскалация, inflation инфляция, reflation рефляция, deflation дефляция

Суффикс -ее образует существительные, которые очень часто передают значение объекта действия: detainee задержанный (арестованный), parolee взятый на поруки, retiree ушедший на пенсию

  1.  Образование неологизмов путем конверсии: the needy нуж
    дающиеся,     to front-page помещать на первой странице, to snowball
    быстро распространяться, увеличиваться (расти,  как снежный
    ком),     the go-ahead предоставление «зеленой улицы»
  2.  Появилось много слов типа teach-in. Эти слова употребляются
    для обозначения различных форм протеста или разъяснительной
    кампании. Глагольный корень указывает на место или форму про
    теста или кампании:     teach-in диспут протеста (протест в форме
    проведения диспута);     pray-in протест в церкви, sit-in демонстрация
    сидящих в знак протеста людей;     sitters-in участники сидячей демон
    страции

Иногда такие слова указывают, на что направлено требование протестующих: buy-in требование равных возможностей при покупке (дома), apply-in требование равных возможностей при найме на работу

5) Образование неологизмов путем объединения двух слов:
information + entertainment = infortainment; documentary + drama =
docudrama; election + engineering = electioneering.

При переводе восстанавливаются полные значения обоих слов (например, информационно-развлекательный)

В результате нашумевшего во время президентства Р. Никсона политического скандала — использование в ходе его предвыборной

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кампании шпионажа для получения информации о планах соперничающей Демократической партии, национальный комитет которой находился в отеле Watergate,— слово gate в сочетании с именами собственными, иногда нарицательными, приобрело значение грубого политического скандала и привело к образованию ряда новых слов: Watergate Уотергейт; Lockheed-gate Локхидгейт — скандал, связанный с дачей компанией «Локхид» взяток японскому правительству для получения выгодных заказов; Reagangate, debategate, briefinggate брифингейт—скандал, связанный с кражей людьми Рейгана во время президентских выборов конфиденциальных документов Дж. Картера.

В последнее время в образовании неологизмов стали участвовать имена известных компаний Кока-Колы, Макдональдс и др. Так, to become the « Coca-Cola» of global wireless communication — стать всемирно известной (как Кока-Копа) компанией сотовой связи.

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  The major deterrent is in a man's mind. The major deterrent in
    the future is going to be not only what we have, but what we do, what we
    are willing to do, what they think we will do. Stamina, guts, standing up
    for the things that we say — those are     deterrents, — wrote Admiral
    A.Burke in 1960.
  2.  Local officials who obstruct or refuse voters registration can also be
    severely punished (though jury trials are a somewhat flimsy     deterrent in
    the south of the U.S.A.).
  3.  There was a dramatic confrontation between one of the dismissed
    lecturers and the Director.
  4.  The Advisory Committee on Juvenile Delinquency— set up by the
    former Home Secretary and widely regarded as a     gimmick — has been
    disbanded, the Commons was told yesterday. Its work will be taken over
    by specialist bodies.
  5.  Stamp trading—the latest «something for nothing» gimmick aimed
    at shoppers — is coming under heavy fire this weekend from cooperative
    and retail trade chiefs.
  6.  The Cambodien authorities have supplied the returnees with food,
    clothing and other essentials.
  7.  When House and Senate conferees meet to reconcile conflicting
    versions of a bill, staff assistants get into the act. They formulate possible
    compromises and translate the agreements reached into legislative lan
    guage.

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  1.  Top British economists today fired a deadly broadside at govern
    ment monetarist policies and called for a     « reflation» U-turn.
  2.  Pressure is certainly building up before next month's budget for the
    trimming of the government's sails and a modest dose     of reflation to soak
    up some of the unemployed.

However, there is no indication that the Premier is seriously listening to these appeals, nor that the Cabinet «wets» are yet strong enough to force him to change course.

  1.  America's smaller governments are flexing their muscles; and
    devolution, which used to mean the shifting of power to the states, now
    increasingly means the shifting of power to cities and townships too.
  2.  However, the president's drive toward « deregulation» goes in ex
    actly the opposite direction, proposing to ease restrictions on coal dust
    and air pollution in general.
  3.  Natural gas decontrol will have an explosive effect on inflation,
    while, at the same time, it will rob the economy of billions of dollars of
    productive capital needed to create jobs.
  4.  He also repeated Britain's desire to see this question settled by the
    General Assembly as soon as possible, but there is still no indication
    whether Britain is actively     lobbying for this behind the scenes.
  5.  The car workers' lobby last week was an important step in the right
    direction. The issue should be pressed throughout the trade union move
    ment and taken up by the workers in all industries.
  6.  The movement «to kill the Bill» may snowball to irresistible pro
    portions by the time when the Trades Union Congress recall conference
    on June 5.
  7.  The US administration has given Israel the go-ahead to sell certain
    US-supplied military equipment to third countries, according to Israeli
    television.
  8.  Bank workers' leaders yesterday gave the go-ahead for a series of
    selective one-day strikes at Barclays and Lloyds computer centres starting
    next week.
  9.  With an officially estimated 50,000 jobs lost to plant closures and
    runaways between January and September, organized labor here (in Cali
    fornia) has been pressing for protection.
  10.  When the EU Parliament refused last month to approve the budget
    because of graft and mismanagement charges, the Socialists introduced a
    censure vote as a substitute for a confidence motion. But in doing this,
    they touched off an unprecedented movement of revolt among deputies
    ranging from     Greens to the far right.

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  1.  The proposal is being backed by the moto industry, which fears
    that     reuse and recycling targets may prove impossible unless vehicles are
    channeled into     « green» dismantling and scrap yards.
  2.  The editorial of the New York Times proceeds on the assumption
    that the main problem confronting the United States is «the debilitated
    state of American industry and the need for changes in Government pol
    icy to revive it».

This is, in essence, the repeatedly tried and bankrupt «trickle down» policy. The corporate establishment seated in Washington decrees measures to «save» maximum profit appropriation, with the possibility that something will trickle down to the mass of people.

22. Reaganites have their pet project — a formula which strongly fa
vors big business by faster depreciation writeoffs. This measure is par
ticularly opposed by organized labor as a big business ripoff

Next week the candidate will announce a supposedly «new» economic policy, which will also include big tax cuts for big business, on the «trickle down» theory. That theory argues that big business should get a lot so a little can trickle down to the people.

  1.  Honest Clintonites admit that the leak probably came from their
    own side.
  2.  Supply-side economic theory argues the economic growth is a re
    sult of promoting production rather than increasing consumption. If the
    rewards of production are stifled through high taxes and burdensome
    government requirements, potential producers will not engage in produc
    tive enterprises and the economy will not grow, according to the     supply
    siders
  3.  Editorial-page article, sings a supply-side true believer's praises of
    the sales tax relief granted by the internet Tax Freedom Act. Unfortu
    nately, it only provided tax relief from sales tax on Internet access charges —
    such as the $ 21.95 or so that users pay for monthly access.
  4.  Thanks mainly to their workaholic new chairman, Germany's
    Christian Democrats have bounced back surprisingly well from their
    thumping defeat in the general election seven months ago.
  5.  « Scandilux» is a newly coined phrase, current in Washington, to
    describe a trend in some smaller NATO countries toward becoming ab
    sorbed in domestic political questions and neglecting broader issues of
    Western security.
  6.  American think tanks offer prolific proposals for Transatlantic re
    design.

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  1.  Graham Leicester, director of the Scottish Council Foundation, a
    think-tank,     says that Scotland has one of the highest rates of child poverty
    in Europe.
  2.  Downing Street yesterday moved swiftly to deny support for pro
    posals from the Government's favoured     think-tank for root-and-branch
    reform of the monarchy.
  3.  According to a recent study of the brain-drain problem, the out
    flow of highly trained personnel from many developing countries to a few
    major developed countries is increasing at a rapid rate. The study reveals
    that the United States and Canada are the main beneficiaries of the     brain
    drain
  4.  The term «brain-washing» was first used by an American jour
    nalist and originally the word used to describe indoctrination techniques.
    But it has since spread to refer to any form of influence that one disagrees
    with. At first conjured up as some «mysterious oriental device», it is now
    understood as an organized form of influencing individuals, groups or
    masses.
  5.  Skinhead groups (of Central Europe) are well run. They distribute
    propaganda printed by American neo-Nazis in various languages and
    send out     «skinzines» illegally through the post.
  6.  Armed skinheads, chanting «Sieg Heil», mounted «a revenge
    raid» on black people in a London suburb, an Old Bailey jury was told
    yesterday.

Between 30 and 100 white youths, some with their heads shorn almost bald attacked about 100 to 150 black people in cinema queue in Woolwich.

35. Not content with slogans inciting to violence, some of the demon
strators acted in the tradition of the American lynchers. Spotting a long
haired youth, they jumped off their lorry shouting: «Get him, kill him, he
is a beatnik, he burnt our flag.»

  1.  The Minister of Economy need not conclude that the British
    worker is too cussed to fit into an economic plan, or that he will inevita
    bly frustrate labour mobility. But grandiose general statement in White
    hall about « shaking out labour» and     redeployment are only convincing if
    they are accompanied by practical measures to make the intention a reality.
  2.  In July a team of U.N. communications specialists moved into the
    country almost at the very moment the first contingents of «blue hel
    mets» were     deplaning at the Leopoldville airport.
  3.  The biggest teach-in for London Telephone Region engineers is to
    be launched early next year.

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  1.  Workers on strike in several enterprises have occupied their plants
    and are staying day and night. The first to start the     sit-in and sleep-in
    strike were the workers of the nationally owned Sud-Aviation plant at
    Nantes.
  2.  He indicated in his statement that lowering the U.S. profile ap
    pears to be a reasonable approach to the problem.
  3.  He himself is doubtless aware the low-profile concept still leaves a
    number of questions unanswered. Some of the most pertinent.
  4.  The President indicated in his statement that lowering the U.S.
    profile     appears to involve a process of drawing up a list spelling out when
    the United States will—and when it will not interfere in Asia ...
  5.  All of this adds up to what in diplomatic jargon has come to be
    known as the Administration's     «low-profile» Asian policy. Boiled down
    to its essentials,     low profile means that the U.S. will seek maximum influ
    ence at minimum risk.
  6.  President of the Czeck Republic yesterday had dinner with the
    Queen at the start of a     high-profile trip intended to honour his role in
    leading his country to democracy.
  7.  Buy Malaysia! Well, that is what some high-profile brokerages are
    suddenly telling clients. An expected easing of the capital controls is the
    chief reason behind the change of heart.
  8.  High-profile miscarriages of justice persuaded many judges, law
    yers and politicians that courts, no matter how careful, could never avoid
    executing some innocent people.
  9.  The Russian National Orchestra has the highest profile, if only be
    cause its independence gives it freedom of maneuver.
  10.  The administration should put people to work by spending on liv-
    ingry,     not weaponry,
  11.  The picture of a European economy in perpetual decline is a cari
    cature. For example, American     punditry has ignored the one-time effect
    of German unification in slowing European growth.
  12.  In the journalistic labeling game, any political scandal touching
    the presidency is now a     Something-Gate
  13.  Israel's rancorous election campaign was rocked Wednesday by a
    break-in at the Washington offices of a US political pollster advising
    Ehud Barak. The incident, which the Israeli media likened to     Watergate,
    threatened to overshadow the opening of a Labor Party convention.
  14.  The top spot on Mr. Blackwell's list of the worst-dressed women
    has gone to Linda Tripp. She has a look that makes her the « Starr» of her
    very own     «Stylegate,» the former fashion director said.

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  1.  Labour accused Mr. King of blatant electioneering as he placed
    the crucial order for short range air-to-air missiles.  Labour defence
    spokesman said: «It will come as a relief to the work force of those com
    panies. Whether it will come as a relief to the Conservative candidates in
    those seats, it will remain to the election day to find out.»
  2.  Another example of infortainment is docudrama, where real
    events are dramatised and reenacted by actors.
  3.  The authors of the housing association report stress that their
    guidelines are not about     ghettoisation or segregation, but are intended to
    promote intergration of minority cultures into mainstream Britain.
  4.  Mr.Bauer's think-tank was created by James Dobson, a pluto
    cratic     televangelist, not surprisingly he maintains that Republican policies
    should rest on religious conservatism.
  5.  Mr.Gate's presence threw Hong Kong into a technotizzy as the
    government announced a lot of Singapore rivalling projects, from a $1.6
    billion «cyberport»  to efforts to make Hong Kong the region's e-
    commerce hub.
  6.  The drift towards virtue, along with a new code of conduct for
    Eurocrats published this week, is welcome.
  7.  «Eurospeak is a separate in-house language, full of jargon, acro
    nyms, abstractions — and a lot of it is gobbledygook», — said a British
    translator. He and others have begun a drive called «Fight the Fog» to
    prod officials into producing clear sentences.»
  8.  American Eurosceptics accuse the European allies of being free
    riders on American-provided security.
  9.  Just as European anti-Americanism damaged Western solidarity
    during the Cold War, so American     Eurobashing threatens to unravel
    Transatlantic cooperation in the post-Cold War era.
  10.  The President will do almost anything to get the press cameras
    lined up in the White House for pictures of him bringing two bitter adver
    saries together [Israel and PLO]. He needs a foreign policy success or,
    more to the point, something that looks like a success. We have come to
    call this     «photo-op diplomacy »
  11.  Photo-op diplomacy lacks an important ingredient — credibility.
  12.  Clinton's defenders have transformed the Washington version of
    truth — telling into a subtle new form and demonstrated, for any who
    might have forgotten, how easy it is to manipulate the press — and, ulti
    mately, the public.

The latest peek at the tricks of the trade comes from Lanny Davis, a former White House lawyer and one of Clinton's chief spin doctors dur-

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ing the 1997 congressional inquiries into alleged campaign fund-raising abuses.

  1.  Another device for ensuring that bad news got a good spin was
    what Davis calls « deep-background private placement»: telling tales to a
    hand-picked reporter or news organization.
  2.  Davis admits that all the spin had limited effect. «There is no way
    to spin the public away from the presumption of guilt when a public offi
    cial is accused of scandal,» Davis tells US News.
  3.  Sometimes the world of spin is more than an inside-the-beltway
    game.
  4.  Through his refusal to follow the diktats of the spin-doctors and
    public relations consultants who dominate White Hall and Westminster
    when Parliament is in session, the Deputy Prime Minister has transformed
    his own image for the better.
  5.  All the spin-doctoring in the world will not preserve the Govern
    ment's present popularity.

70. Something odd is happening to political correctness (speech
code). On the one hand it is thriving. On the other hand its opponents are
thriving too.

  1.  Some dismiss (the language of) political correctness (PC) as an ir
    relevance hyped up by the right; others see it as a leftist danger to the very
    fabric of American life; still others argue that it is plain passe. Is America
    in the throes of new-PC, anti-PC or post PC? It is hard to tell.
  2.  Few diseases have been as politicised as AIDS. And in few other
    cases is     political correctness such a danger to the disease's victims.
  3.  Single-issue activists, incensed by human wrongs in Burma or re
    ligious persecution in Tibet, increasingly drive American foreign policy.
  4.  Both single-issue activism and the casual treatment of allies can
    hurt America. The     single-issue crowd fails to consider the cost to Amer
    ica of taking sanctions against each injustice that it cares about.

75 Less welcome is the harsh political fact that pragmatists have trouble building constituencies, especially in this era of single-issue politics.

  1.  Cellular phones are perhaps one of the most user-friendly devices
    modern technology has devised. However, can you imagine the potential
    stored within?
  2.  In general, the regional parties [in India] are investor-friendly.
  3.  While it is only realistic to acknowledge that devolution could «go
    wrong,» the reality is that the new parliaments in Scotland and Wales are
    more likely to invigorate Britain than enfeeble it. In different ways, the
    English, the Scots, the Welsh and the British as a whole stand to benefit
    from     devolution.

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  1.  «Renault» and «Nissan» = Renissant? Pushing together «Re
    nault» and «Nissan» does not quite spell renaissance. Yet, that is what
    both car firms now seek.
  2.  The new (mobile-phone) company, to be called Vodafone Air
    Touch PLC... aims to become the     «Coca-Cola» of global wireless com
    munication     — the main brand recognized by consumers world-wide.
  3.  One of Britain's leading directors yesterday expressed despair at
    being told unofficially by the Art Council that «there is sufficient serious
    theatre in London. He said that the council's attitude was symptomatic of
    the   Government's    populist   and    narrow-minded    approach   —       a
    « McDonald's culture.»
  4.  «Escapism» is a word that tends to pop up frequently in discus
    sions with students and faculty members.

§ 15. ИНТЕРНАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ

И ПСЕВДОИНТЕРНАЦИОНАЛЬНАЯ

ЛЕКСИКА. «ЛОЖНЫЕ ДРУЗЬЯ

ПЕРЕВОДЧИКА»

В современных словарях английского и русского языков есть чрезвычайно большое число сходных по форме и звучанию слов, а в последние десятилетия объем такой лексики увеличился. Можно назвать десятки английских слов, вошедших в русский язык: atlas, football, progress leader, diplomacy process, tendency и т.д. Однако даже среди безусловно интернациональных слов можно отметить разницу в их употреблении в английском и русском языках (что не относится к терминам). Так, progress — не только прогресс, но и успехи, достижения, развитие; leader — не только лидер, но и руководитель, глава (делегации) и т.п. При переводе выбор нужного эквивалента определяется жанром переводимого текста, сочетаемостью слов в русском языке и другими факторами.

Для переводчиков хорошо известна «легкость» перевода интернациональной лексики.

1. Прежде всего, это так называемые «ложные друзья» переводчика, т.е. слова, схожие с русскими словами по фонетической или/и графической форме, но имеющие совершенно иное значение. Например:

prospect перспектива (а не проспект)

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magazine журнал (а не магазин)

actual действительный (а не актуальный)

decade десятилетие (а не декада)

momentous важный (а не моментальный)

accurate точный (а не аккуратный)

technique способ, метод (а не техника)

advocate сторонник (а не адвокат)

aspirant претендент, кандидат (а не аспирант)

complexion цвет лица (а не комплекция)

Список «ложных друзей» приводится в учебниках по переводу, а также в некоторых словарях, например: Cambridge International Dictionary of English.

2. Большую трудность чем собственно «ложные друзья» перево
дчика представляют многозначные английские слова, одно из зна
чений которых вошло в русский язык, причем, нередко не самое
частотное (см. § 10 Многозначные слова). Например:

nation нация, народ, государство

partisan сторонник,    приверженец,    фанатик,    партизан

(редк.); партийный, необъективный, предвзятый

control v. руководить,  управлять,  распоряжаться,  владеть,

контролировать, иметь большинство (в палате парламента)

meeting собрание, заседание, митинг; встреча; дуэль

dramatic драматичный; драматический; яркий, неожидан-

ный, впечатляющий, важный

realize выполнять, реализовать; представлять себе, осо-

знавать

record запись,   летопись;   учет,   регистрация,   данные,

характеристика, протокол, рекорд, позиция

argument довод, аргумент; спор.

Примечание. Эти слова могут иметь и другие оттенки значения и в зависимости от контекста переводиться иначе.

3. Причиной ошибок при переводе может быть грамматическое
несовпадение   схожих   английских   и   русских   слов.   Так,   ряд
существительных      в     английском     языке     употребляется      в
единственном и множественном числе, а в русском —  только в
единственном. (Например, economy, policy, industry). Во множест-

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венном числе industries может означать отрасли промышленности или промышленность (ряда стран); policies политика, политический курс ряда стран или в разных областях), например: foreign and domestic policies of the new government — внешняя и внутренняя политика нового правительства.

nuclear weapons ядерное оружие

democracies демократические государства

Некоторые существительные в английском языке во множественном числе приобретают новые значения. Например:

difference разница, различие

differences 1) различия, 2) разногласия

development 1)   развитие,    2)   участок,   подлежащий

освоению; 3) микрорайон; 4) тенденция.
developments события

Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

  1.  The heaviest blow that the atom bomb fanatics got, however, came
    with the     dramatic announcement that the Russians also have got the
    bomb.
  2.  As they participate in the fight for dramatic reforms large sections
    of the population come to realize the necessity of unity of action and to
    become more active, politically.
  3.  The Administration, of course, is loath to contemplate such a fun
    damental change in its foreign policy. The stakes are too high and Ameri
    can bonds with Europe too numerous to permit such a     dramatic situation.
  4.  The Prime Minister's dramatic European move was timed to divert
    public attention from the more dismal news of the freeze.
  5.  There is & popular tendency, among most newsmen and radio and
    TV commentators, to portray Congressmen as men who are working
    themselves to death, sweating and suffering heart attacks to serve the
    people.
  6.  He seems to have excluded himself from the vice-presidential can
    didacy at a time when the public Opinion polls report that he is more
    popular than both the President and the Vice-president.
  7.  The victory of the popular revolution in Cuba has become a splen
    did example for the peoples of Latin America.
  8.  The President of Brazil made himself very popular when he killed

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hyperinflation and gave his country a solid currency. But he didn't follow through by reforming government itself.

9. This year the election falls on November 3. The outcome is gener
ally known the next morning, though formally the balloting takes place in
the Electoral College in early December.

  1.  The Prime Minister will reply to the speeches on Monday, after
    informal talks last night, this evening and tomorrow with the Common
    wealth Prime Ministers, who have been invited in three groups.
  2.  Some right of privacy, however qualified, has been a major differ
    ence     between democracies and dictatorships
  3.  We must fortify the international system by helping transitional or
    otherwise troubled states become full participants. This is essential to
    maintain the     momentum of democracy's recent advances.
  4.  In foreign policy political democracies may be isolationist, inter
    nationalist, or imperialist
  5.  A country whose people are willing to march out into the world,
    and if necessary to die there, is a likelier candidate for great-power rank
    than one whose people do not feel that way; and the     difference matters
    even more between two     democracies than it does between two dictator
    ships,     because in a democracy people's wishes count for more.
  6.  This policy will ensure that successive currency crises do not af
    fect the level of economic activity and overall welfare of the     nation
  7.  The meeting expressed the hope that the remaining points of dif
    ferences     would be settled when the conference is resumed in Geneva.
  8.  The main item on the agenda, and one over which most differences
    exist, was the proposed agreement.
  9.  A conspiracy is being brewed in Wall Street and Washington to
    deny the people any choice in the Presidential elections. The tactic is to
    suppress the issues and blur any     differences between the Republican and
    Democratic candidates.
  10.  A general strike is one which affects an entire industry, an entire
    locality or a whole country.

20. Disarmament will release for civilian employment millions of
people now serving in the armed forces and war industries.

  1.  This fact is recognition of the weight and power of public opinion,
    of its growing influence on international     developments
  2.  The State Secretary was reported to be dispirited by the outcome
    of the day's     developments and waiting to see what would be done to
    shore up his authority.
  3.  Such development would emphasize the region's economic im
    portance and growth potential which would be reflected in its population
    growth, housing and overspill problems.

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  1.  The Prime Minister said that the Government was prepared to set
    up publicly owned enterprises in the     development areas.
  2.  In a strategic sense, the Norwegian approach if pressed further,
    appears to be     a development that could lead toward dividing Europe from
    the United States.
  3.  Already very many sections of the Labour, trade union and coop
    erative movements support     policies on these lines. Their members num
    ber millions.
  4.  To get the kind of Budget the country needs means a fight for a
    different     policy within the Labour movement.
  5.  American politics is passing through a highly unusual phase. In a
    country where local issues usually dominate voting patterns, foreign     pol
    icy     has surprisingly emerged as the defining issue of the current political
    debate.
  6.  Mrs. Robinson admits she is not a natural politician in the Irish
    sense: she lacks the glad-handing skills so valued in the small world of
    Irish     politics.
  7.  Aides billed the president's speech to California business and
    policy leaders as a major address laying out his goals for the remainder of
    his term.
  8.  In the fluid world of Middle Eastern politics, the Iraqi Kurds, de
    spite massacres and betrayals, still maintain lines of communication with
    the President.
  9.  But even if conservatives triumph, those involved in the contest
    say the energy of street-level     politics, and the sense among Iranians that
    the election is providing them with a genuine voice in local     government,
    can only speed the process of liberalization.
  10.  Nothing would do more to protect American security in the dec
    ades     ahead than ensuring that Russia's immense stockpile of nuclear
    weapons and materials is diminished and adequately controlled.
  11.  The next decade or two may bring specific threats from specific
    Muslim countries, such as a nuclear-armed Iran or Algeria; but there is no
    sign yet of a shoulder-to-shoulder Islam.
  12.  It can certainly be said that lax management, waste and worse
    have been part and parcel of Brussels programmes for     decades.
  13.  No particular fan of an American model, Mr. Pfister describes the
    investigation of the US President by an independent counsel as     partisan,
    inspired by the right wing of the Republican Party, and using inquisition —
    like methods.
  14.  It is surely chauvinistic to identify the West with America and

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Britain alone, and partisan to attribute its slow triumph to one favoured thread of an ever complicated politics

  1.  No mean partisan Representative, Tom Campell, Republican of
    California, has joined with Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of
    Massachusetts, to gather some 40 congressmen to demand on constitu
    tional grounds that the president obtain authority from Congress before
    taking military action against a country [Yugoslavia].
  2.  A full warning [of nuclear blackmail] came from the report of the
    commission on missile threats. This was a     bipartisan commission, with
    members who have often disagreed on weapons issues.
  3.  Under a compromise already reached by the Environment Minis
    ter,     a Greens lawmaker, and the Economics Minister, a non-partisan en
    ergy expert, the ban (of sending spent fuel out of Germany for reprocess
    ing) will not take effect until a year after passage.
  4.  Years of partisan wrangling over the US deficit, taxation, foreign
    aid and contributions to international organizations have created a con
    sensus that Americans cannot pay more and resentment that the European
    allies appear to be paying less.
  5.  The Iraqi Kurds may be running their affairs autonomously for
    now, but all know how devastating the disciplined Iraqi armored units can
    be against their lightly armed     guerrillas.
  6.  The report said the Mayan population in Guatemala paid the high
    est price, when the military identified them as natural allies of the     guer
    rillas.

  1.  Whether a second chamber should be elected or nominated, with
    regions     or special interests represented, is getting decision the wrong way
    round.
  2.  The death of about 500 people in an explosion in South-Eastern
    Nigeria is being blamed on     the sabotage of a fuel pipeline: saboteurs
    breached it last week.
  3.  Tired of corruption and crime in the state (Maharashtra, India),
    voters, with some help from a few honest     bureaucrats, are starting to dis
    own bad government.
  4.  Few among her admirers would call her a natural bureaucrat, or a
    natural diplomat, or a good «details» person — all of which a European
    commissioner needs to be.
  5.  In recent years in particular, an emboldened class of investigating
    magistrates has made unprecedented     progress in investigating public offi
    cials     suspected of abusing their position.
  6.  In the Balkans and elsewhere, we are supporting the advocates of
    moderation and tolerance against the ruthless exploiters of ethnic hatred.

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  1.  Americans must exert themselves not only to listen more carefully
    to European concerns but also to convey them     accurately to political
    opinion makers in the USA.
  2.  Domestic law enforcement has many techniques for gathering
    data, including lawful wiretaps and grand jury investigations.
  3.  Many of the most internationalist of administration officials feed
    rather than combat congressional resentment [over the European allies].
  4.  The war in Kosovo is a reminder of the split between interven
    tionists,     such as Mr. McCain, and isolationists, such as Pat Buchanan, a
    fire-breathing presidential     aspirant who says that the United States should
    never have got involved in the Balkans in the first place.
  5.  The offenders were told, that the Police Department would use all
    its     legal powers against them unless the killings stopped.
  6.  The new model was brought to Barclay, which is a public school.
    It means lots of homework, a gruelling workload of spelling tests, rigor
    ous     instruction in math and science, and steady infusion of world history,
    literature and art to ensure that the children become     «culturally literate.»
  7.  Calvert is an exclusive private school in Baltimore, with an over
    whelmingly white, middle-class student body and an outstanding     aca
    demic     reputation.
  8.  The traditional curriculum, such as it was, virtually disintegrated
    during the campus upheavals of the 1960s, when millions of students de
    manded and won the right to get     academic credit for studying whatever
    they pleased.
  9.  Direct democracy obliterates the distinction between government
    and the governed, it is a system     of popular self-government.
  10.  With American unemployment at record post-war low and the
    economy steaming ahead,     industries such as steel and memory chips have
    resorted to anti-dumping suits to protect themselves against imports.
  11.  Mr. Howard is relying on the minutes of a meeting held on January
    10    th at the Home office to support his claim that he did not mislead MPs.
  12.  If the Prime minister is to win the referendum he plans to call soon
    after the next election, he needs the European project to continue to con
    vey an impression of remorseless forward     momentum... What, though, if
    the     momentum stalls, or seems to?
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Часть II

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 ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ ДЛЯ ПЕРЕВОДА НА СМЕШАННЫЕ ТРУДНОСТИ

1. Сделайте синтаксический и грамматический анализ следующих предложений и переведите их, обращая внимание на перевод различных функций инфинитива, герундия и причастия.

  1.  But just when they need time to work through their promising
    changes and help from the United States in completing them the Euro
    pean allies risk running into political static in Washington because of U.S.
    wishes to recast NATO in a role approximating a global policeman — a fu
    turistic vision of the alliance that European policymakers see as prema
    ture now, and perhaps forever.
  2.  The European Commission argues that «unfair tax competition»
    among EU countries distorts the single market — by allowing low-tax
    countries, or heavens, to attract capital from high-tax jurisdictions —
    and indirectly contributes to Europe's high unemployment rates by shift
    ing taxation from capital to labour.
  3.  Europe seemed to find its footing in NATO's post Cold-war pos
    ture, finally making a promising start on European military cooperation
    demonstrating a new readiness to use force and pulling down barriers to con
    solidating its national defence companies into Europe - wide industries.
  4.  «Truths!» Charles de Gaulle is supposed to have shouted. «Did
    you think I could have created a [Free French] government against the
    English and the Americans with truths? You make History with ambition,
    not with truths».
  5.  Taken with the smooth closure this year of alliance enlargement to
    include new members from Central Europe, there seems to be much to
    celebrate next year when Washington hosts ceremonies marking the anni
    versary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  6.  If the Parliament insists on pushing through a policy forged in the
    heat of an election campaign rather than out of the calm consideration and
    consultation that the Parliament's committee structure is supposed to en
    courage, ministers in London will have to accept the anomaly or follow suit.

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7. Attempts to strengthen common foreign and security policy, the EU's
«second pillar», by importing majority voting or incorporating the Western
European Union, Europe's defence club, into the EU, look like failing.

The biggest changes are likely to come in the «third pillar»: justice and home affairs.

  1.  Considered on the fringes of legality because of its liberal views,
    the Freedom Movement (of Iran) has been allowed to field four candi
    dates for the 15 municipal council seats in Tehran.
  2.  Built-in encryption also could make it easier to add access controls
    to PC's and routinely scramble all stored data, making it harder to steal
    computer resources or files.

  1.  The deal struck by European Union governments at their Berlin
    summit leaves both their budget and their enlargement plans in a worse
    state than before.
  2.  « The Brazilian government move highlights the difficulty of im
    plementing a deep belt-tightening in a country in which more than 40 percent
    of the population live in poverty», — said an analyst in New York.
  3.  In remarks focusing heavily on his so-called new Labour govern
    ment policy — which seeks to marry social justice and workers' rights
    with a pro-business market-oriented economic policy  —   Mr.  Blair
    heaped praise on South Africa.
  4.  Thousands of people rampaged Friday through the town, hurling
    stones at police stations and looting shops. Police fired plastic bullets at
    the mobs, killing at least one person and wounding nine.
  5.  «Boston college has wronged me and my students by caving into
    right-wing pressure and depriving me of my right to teach freely and de
    priving them of the opportunity to study with me,» said Mary Daly, 70,
    an associate professor of the college in a telephone interview.
  6.  No sooner had the European Commission resigned than the Prime
    Minister popped up in the House of Commons to tell MPs that this was
    no setback but a golden opportunity to push through « root and branch»
    reform of a Commission whose failings had been tolerated for far too
    long. Stretching a point, he boasted that it was his lot that had brought the
    Commission down.
  7.  The vice-president began by allaying fears that he would burden
    business with a green and heavy hand: government has its place as long
    as government knows its place, he said, adding that slump in the devel
    oping world makes growth a top priority for governments.
  8.  Until then [1918] the infant Labour party had been the junior of
    the Liberals, helping them to win their landslide victory of 1906 and to
    enact a sweeping programme of social, and constitutional reform in great
    part inspired and led by Lloyd George.

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  1.  These universities (Oxford and Cambridge) were rural rather than
    urban, and therefore residential, they took a collegiate form. Their func
    tion was not only to train the young for the professions, but to preserve
    the heritage of the past and transmit it to succeeding generations and to
    prepare them morally as well as intellectually for the larger duties of gov
    ernment and society.
  2.  Boeing executives suspect commission officials of passing on in
    side information about airline contracts to airbus officials in Toulouse.
    For that reason the Seattle company has been rather vague in some of its
    answers to the commission's requests for information, while formally co
    operating with its inquiry.

The commission is making a habit of interfering with firms from outside the EU when it thinks that competition is likely to be lessened.

  1.  Germany has complained strongly to Washington about restric
    tions facing foreign companies seeking to enter the US telecommunica
    tions market. Germany's finance minister expressed concern at the dis
    cretionary powers of the Federal Communications Commission to restrict
    access which, he said, could result in foreign companies being denied access
    to the US market «for general foreign policy or trade policy reasons.»
  2.  A college education is often a collection of courses without any
    connecting fiber. Yet decision-making is a function of being able to inte
    grate what seems like unrelated variables, and understanding the balance
    between analytical and intuitive skills. Without knowing these variables,
    it is impossible to determine what information is needed, know how and
    where to get the information and select the information that is pertinent.
  3.  In facing up to the dangers, and living up to the importance of his
    task, President Kim [of South Korea] has made a good start. But to un
    derstand that start, and to get the measure of what is required of him in
    future, it is vital to ditch the idea that he is a «left-winger» who is be
    coming, or has to become, a convert to free-market ideas once anathema
    to him. That is so partly because such labels are everywhere much less
    helpful than they were, but partly, also because in South Korea's circum
    stances (and Mr. Kim's) they are especially misleading.

2. Сделайте синтаксический и грамматический анализ следующих предложений и переведите их, обращая внимание на страдательный залог, сослагательное наклонение и модальные глаголы.

1. The place that scores highest in the coming superpower test is, beyond much doubt, China. China's economy may not keep up its dizzy growth of the past 15 years, but even something more modest — an en-

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tirely possible 5-6% a year, say — would be enough to create a serious amount of power-projection over the next quarter of a century. That means a Chinese navy which can reach out into the Pacific; an army and air force capable of quickly putting an expeditionary force on to a foreign battlefield; and an expansion of China's existing long-range nuclear armoury. China may or may not be able within this period to match the electronics of America's military command-and-control system but, even without that it will be a formidable power.

  1.  Most cases that come to the European Court of Justice are about en
    forcing single-market rules. A famous example was the 1979 ruling
    which said that a product approved for sale in one country must be ac
    cepted by others. This paved the way for mutual recognition of standards
    to become a cornerstone of the single market.
  2.  The future of EMU* is shrouded in political uncertainty. The right
    kind of EMU would leave governments maximum sway in other aspects
    of policy. There is no reason in logic why a single currency should oblige
    governments to «harmonise» their tax or labour-market policies, for in
    stance, and one good reason of political economy why any such thing
    should be opposed — namely, that harmonization enlarges the power of
    the state at the expense of individual freedom, whereas competition
    among governments (the alternative to harmonization) does the opposite.
    Yet many of Europe's politicians seek harmonization as an end in itself,
    others would accept more of it as the price for more effective action to
    reduce unemployment, promote competitiveness or what you have.
  3.  Reviewing earlier research and drawing on new work for this book,
    Messrs Dollar and Pritchett establish, first, that the raw correlation be
    tween aid and growth is near zero: more aid does not mean more growth.
    Perhaps other factors mask an underlying link, they concede; perhaps aid is
    deliberately given to countries growing very slowly (creating a misleading
    negative correlation between aid and growth, and biasing the numbers).
  4.  More of the new rich may discover philanthropy and good manners,
    just as the Astors did before them. But there is one difference. Much of
    the new pain, like much of the new wealth, is being created not by the
    rich but by globalisation. Already several politicians seem to be taking
    aim at the « winner-takes-all society». It is not hard to imagine talk of
    supertaxes or higher trade barriers to stop the injustice. But that might
    turn out to be like trying to ram an iceberg.
  5.  The back-to basics advocates will be surprised to learn that Japa
    nese teachers are nothing like as authoritarian as they have assumed, and

EMU — European Monetary Union

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there is more learning-by-experiment and less by rote than is often claimed.

7. Sweden, even this Mecca of equality can't reconcile the female di
lemma of balancing family and career.

A whole new employment crisis could be closing in on the European Union. The population is shrinking, in some countries drastically, and that means fewer taxpayers to keep the social safety net hanging together.

  1.  The Americans are irritated by what they consider to be tax havens,
    some just off their coast (the Caribbean territories), perfectly placed to
    launder the earning of Latin American drug barons. (Drugs are thought to
    be the primary source of dirty money).
  2.  The British, and other big countries trying to crack down on money
    laundering, fear that it may prove impossible. After all, as the report
    noted last month, no sooner has one loophole been closed than another
    opens. Illicit cash can be laundered through a whole variety of frauds us
    ing property, construction, insurance, stockbroking, foreign exchange,
    gold or jewellery.

  1.  Mr. McCarthy, the Cayman's finance secretary, recently accused
    G7 countries of «trying to impose their political will on the less strong».
    Such noble concerns for human rights and for the weak might resonate
    more widely were it not that some offshore centres still enforce repressive
    social legislation, while thriving, in part, on the proceeds of crime.
  2.  The banks cannot blame all their woes on outside events. There
    are 25 new commercial banks that eagerly sought licences when the rules
    were liberalised. Many lent inadvisedly, often to their business affiliates.
    Much of the money went into property. Other loans went straight into the
    stockmarket. As it slumped so more loans went into default.
  3.  Spare a thought for Indonesia's bank doctors. Most of their pa
    tients became fatally ill last year, but in the interest of dignity they have to
    announce the deaths in instalments.

The announcement was greeted warmly by the World Bank and the IMF, which had scolded the government for delaying it.

  1.  Joseph Warren was a hero of the magnitude of Washington, Jef
    ferson, or Lincoln. A medical doctor, he was a leader of the Sons of Lib
    erty, a friend of Sam and John Adams, and he organized against tyranny
    and oppression. He conjured a sense of what a virtuous American people
    could do to rescue humanity from degradation at the hands of brutes and
    bullies.
  2.  China's improved infrastructure, increased know-how and better
    direct trade connections to the world mean that Hong Kong's ability to
    command the situation has been diminished,

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  1.  Mr. Blair needs no reminding that the throw-the-rascals-out mood
    that gave the government its landslide had much to do with Mr. Major's
    broken promises of lower taxes. If Mr. Blair breaks his, he cannot expect
    to be forgiven.
  2.  More and more Swedish women work part-time and the majority
    are clustered in the public sector, in lower-paying occupations like
    teaching and nursing.
  3.  Just as the Scots throughout the 1980s lamented being governed
    by English politicians they had not elected, so the English — in time —
    may resent the Scottish say over their affairs.
  4.  The US President plans to call for a new round of global trade ne
    gotiations during his State of the Union address today. The talks would
    target industrial tariffs, agriculture, services, intellectual property, labour
    rights and environmental protection.
  5.  The president was to be wined, dined and entertained, but he was
    also expected to be confronted with demonstrations and protests. A dem
    onstration was planned by environmental groups to protest the alleged re
    neging by the United States on promises to limit fallout of acid rain on
    Canada.
  6.  The House of Representatives will begin deliberations Tuesday on
    a bill to increase transportation aid to cities.

The nation's handicapped are demanding the bill include regulations requiring cities with mass transit systems to improve facilities for handicapped and disabled people.

A bill on mass transit passed the Senate in June, and supporters are pushing for passage in the lame duck House session. They anticipate a tougher battle should the bill have to face next year's more conservative Congress.

  1.  What the Prime Minister has to do is to convince a basically con
    servative government and business establishment at home that changes
    must be made for Japan to continue as either an economic or political
    power. At the same time he must move away from the old, tired promises
    of his predecessors and convince the international community that his na
    tion has at last recognized the need and has the will to take a more
    meaningful role in the international arena (with all that it implies). Given
    the pressure both at home and abroad the going is bound to be rough but
    present premier just could be the one to pull it off. His seemingly passive
    form of government may well in the end be recognized as the most active
    of the postwar era.
  2.  For the teachers the inspectors have only praise. Their attitude «is
    of professional commitment and resourcefulness».

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But, the report adds: «There is evidence that teachers' morale has been adversely affected in many schools.

«Its weakening, if it became widespread, would pose a major problem in the effort to maintain present standards, let alone improve them.»

The National Union of Teachers backed up this judgment, the report showed that those who had accused the NUT of alarmism were wrong, the union said.

  1.  Behind this action lies an admission of, and a determination to
    solve, the real problem of every weatherman — that meteorologists actu
    ally know frighteningly little about the weather. «If a scientist in any
    other field made predictions based on so little basic information,» the
    head of the United States Weather Bureau's international unit remarked
    recently, « he'd be flatly out of his mind.» And if chemistry were now at
    the same stage as meteorology, a colleague added, the world would just be
    beginning to worry about the horrifying effect of gunpowder in warfare.
  2.  Both countries have an interest in avoiding such an extention of
    the area of conflict because of the threatening consequences, were the lo
    calization to fail.
  3.  A heavy expenditure on atomic development for peaceful pur
    poses, if controlled by the people, would ultimately pay handsome dividends.
  4.  The chairman of a firm of timber importers, gently chided his fel
    low-industrialists. He reminded them that some of the presidents of the
    larger Russian trade corporations had told him that orders which might
    have been placed in Britain had not been because whether British export
    ers were unable to quote or were uncompetitive.
  5.  The Prime Minister's famous victory last week against the rebels
    within his own party was surely cheaply won. His own performance may
    have been — indeed, must have been — more effective to listen to than to
    read later, for despite the fact that it was a speech for all seasons, it left
    unanswered or inadequately answered, so many questions about Britain's
    future role in the world and how it is to be fulfilled, that the great debate
    is very far from conclusion. For all his political skill, the Prime Minister
    has only written another chapter, he has not closed the book.
  6.  Some excuse for the behaviour of Tory chieftains might be pro
    vided if it could be shown that the leadership battle revolved round cen
    tral issues of public importance. But throughout the dispute it has been
    concerned with personalities and patronage-gang warfare in all its sterility.
  7.  Many past air crashes, as subsequent investigation has shown,
    could have been avoided. There are many points which need an answer.
    Perhaps the answers to these questions will be satisfactory. In this case
    every possible step may have been taken that could have been taken, and

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it may be shown that only a human error that could not have been foreseen caused the crash.

30. The  Administration,  which  has  been  on  its  best behaviour
throughout the summer in not pressing Britain to reach an early decision,
is now making it plain that it would welcome an immediate answer. Seri
ous discussions are to begin next month with Germany, Italy and others,
and if Britain is not to miss the boat she must be ready to take part.

  1.  A threat to developing countries that they must pursue policies
    pleasing to the U.S. if they want financial aid was made in Washington
    yesterday by the U.S. Undersecretary of State. «If a country is to be able
    to achieve self-sustaining growth within a reasonable future,» he told the
    annual meeting of the World Bank, «it will have to pursue realistic poli
    cies to acquire the capital it needs.»
  2.  An urgent public inquiry is now needed into the whole running of
    the Metropolitan police.

Last night's World in Action exposed what has long been suspected and hinted at; the Countryman inquiry into corruption at Scotland Yard was frustrated by the very people under question — senior police officers at the Yard.

Yet again we have a stark example of the police adamantly refusing to accept that the public have a right to question the activities of the men and women who are employed to police Britain.

One reason the police put forward is that such inquiries damage public confidence in the police. But on the contrary, the exact opposite is true.

3. Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод атрибутивных словосочетаний и других лексических трудностей.

  1.  In November 1955, at the Messina conference that laid the founda
    tion for today's European Union, Britain's representative, a pipe-smoking
    Oxford-don turned-civil-servant called Russel Bremerton, made a brief
    comment: « The future treaty which you are discussing has no chance of
    being agreed; if it was agreed, it would have no chance of being applied.
    And if it was applied, it would be totally unacceptable to Britain.
  2.  As a look at European households by the Family Policy Studies
    centre found, «the pace of change can only be described as leisurely».
    Similar research from America produces the identical conclusion. Even in
    Sweden, where it has been national policy for decades to make both the
    public and private spheres strictly gender neutral, the reality is that this is
    far from the case. Very few men take paternity leave and the jobs women
    go to are overwhelmingly « female» ones like day-care and nursing.

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3. In Mr.Aznar's book the socialists who ruled post Franco Spain for
13 years, over-reacted by idolising all things foreign and despising the
home-grown. That, says Mr. Aznar, meant being too obsequious to —
among others — the European Union.

But it is proving hard to legislate Spaniards into being prouder of their history.

  1.  Tired of corruption and crime in the state [Maharashtra, India], vot
    ers, with some help from a few honest bureaucrats, are starting to disown
    bad government. Some citizens are challenging the abrupt transfer of their
    municipal commissioner, who had upset the rich and influential by or
    dering the demolition of some of their illegal buildings.
  2.  Elaborate international networks have developed among organized
    criminals, drug traffickers, arms dealers, and money launderers, creating
    an infrastructure for catastrophic terrorism around the world.
  3.  Aspects of the welfare reform program have infuriated legislators
    on Labour's left wing and interest groups representing the sick and dis
    abled, who say that the proposed cuts will take benefits away from some
    of the neediest people.
  4.  During the Thatcher years, when whole industries collapsed, many
    people who lost their jobs found that their doctors were willing to declare
    them incapable of working. This enabled them to sign up for incapacity
    benefits, which pay more than unemployment benefits, and allowed the
    government to claim that fewer people were actually unemployed.
  5.  What to make of her [Albright's] humiliation? Some say it shows
    that charm and sound-bites are no substitute for geopolitical grasp or for
    attention to detail.
  6.  A law of 20th century communication has become evident: The
    length of a sound bite is inversely proportional to the complexity of the
    world and the overload of information to which we are exposed. Colum
    nist G.W. summarized it best when he noted that if Lincoln were alive to
    day « he would be forced to say, « Read my lips: No more slavery!»

  1.  The Liberal Party has pushed for a reinterpretation of Japan's
    pacifist constitution to allow greater freedom for the military overseas,
    but the Liberal Democrats opposed that. The two sides finally agreed to
    allow Japan's Self-Defense Forces to «actively participate and co-operate
    in UN peacekeeping missions if asked to do so by the organization.»
  2.  So, it's back to the drawing board for the U.S. Treasury and the
    IMF. Will they really come up with some new «architecture» this time,
    something like going out of the global management business? Don't
    count on it.
  3.  Assuming that Vodafone completes its takeover of Air Touch, the

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resulting mobile-phone behemoth will become the world's largest cellular group.

  1.  A fashion designer sued the government of Kuala Lumpur for as
    sault and battery Friday, saying he had been coerced into making a false
    confession. He and two others confessed but then retracted the allega
    tions, saying police had forced them into making false declarations
    through the use of threats and physical abuse in order to build a case
    against the ex-finance minister.
  2.  «Regional Independent» offer (for takeover of Mirro Group PLC)
    is subject to financing, which some observers said could be tricky given
    the company's already leveraged condition.
  3.  Both Chancellor of Germany and President of France played down
    reports of a monumental row between their countries over how to bring
    the EU budget and agricultural programs under control.
  4.  Elections for the European Parliament are due in June, and almost
    all publicity is good publicity, from the parliament's viewpoint.
  5.  In determining the choice of candidates, was it a case of the more
    tele'genic they were, the more chance they had of success?
  6.  The show [exhibition on Arab Spain in Grenada] was an eloquent
    statement about the need for an introverted country [Spain] to acknowl
    edge its Moorish past and build bridges — to Maghreb as well as the
    New World and Europe.
  7.  Instead of tackling the problems of racism, jobs, inflation, social
    services and the like, which would make life more fruitful for the masses
    of people, the «revitalization» plan is organized to fill the formula de
    manded by big business.

In brief, «revitalization» is a raid on the Treasury for the benefit of big business. But it is also more; it includes the factor of an increase in monopolization of the economy, as The New York Times' editorial indicated.

More, it tightens the grip of monopoly on government; it is a step in the direction of something like a « corporate state». It means less popular influence on government. It will only increase the problems and troubles confronting the people.

20. The transport union executive yesterday announced a stepping up
of the campaign to defend fair fares — after London Transport confirmed
redundancy proposals and the Transport Minister held out no hope for
their cause.

The union decided to allocate £10,000 for a campaign to defend subsidised transport in London and places such as South Yorkshire.

It also announced that its members would not obstruct members of the public who refused to pay the increased fares, due in two weeks' time.

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  1.  While a few MPs are believed to favour this revolutionary pro
    posal certain party leaders and older MPs are opposed to it.
  2.  Another early confrontation could occur in Nottinghamshire over
    the proposed closure of New Hucknall colliery near Mansfield.

The Board announced yesterday that « redundancies are inevitable» in Kent, as it plans to shut Snowdown Pit within three months, putting 960 jobs in jeopardy.

23. Senior staff at Granada TV's London offices staged a one-day
strike yesterday in protest at the company withdrawing creche facilities
for staff children.

All 50 members of the TV technicians' union, at Granada's Soho offices stopped work for the day, both men and women. Most of them were producers, directors and researchers.

The strike was called because of the company's decision to end the creche facility for staff children at a local nursery centre.

24. Leaders of the Federation of Labour met representation of the
Government and employers on Nov. 17 to discuss how to further imple
ment the suggestions regarding a longer term wages policy which had al
ready been discussed.

The major element in the discussion was the implementation of a Court ruling to hear the case for wages rates «catching up» in relation to past inflation.

  1.  At present, even the existence of the office is officially classified.
    In the intelligence community, it is known as a «black»   operation,
    meaning that nothing about its work or the identity of its officials is sub
    ject to public scrutiny.
  2.  The vision one gets of a so-called constitutional reform is one of
    cheap nagging and bargaining, all at the expense of the Canadian people,
    who have been completely excluded from the debate.

As for the New Democratic Party, « Rather than coming forward with a truly democratic alternative to the constitutional crisis, the NDP too has become part of this 'wheeling and dealing' at the expense of the national rights of the French Canadian people, the rights of the native peoples, the economic and social rights of the Canadian people,» the statement charges. From being among the advocates of Canadianization of resources, the NDP has now become the champion of provincial ownership of resources, even though these resources are in fact in the hands of the multinational corporations.

27. In the case of the Union of Post Office workers a member could be
excluded from membership for up to twelve months since there was no
provision for any stay pending appeal to annual conference.

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  1.  The company is reluctant to consider the workers' demand for
    wage increase. What seems to be the case is that it wants to prevent any
    drastic steps being taken to interfere with their profit making activity.
  2.  The fact is that local industrialists were invited to become mem
    bers of the board when it was set up, and it must have been obvious that
    they would not only be concerned with local development, but in some
    cases be personally involved.
  3.  Complicated legal issues which have arisen are being studied by
    the Attorney General's department which believes there is a case for dam
    ages against the tanker's owners.
  4.  Yet for large and small nations, their record in the General As
    sembly does provide a yardstick with which to measure the application of
    their publicly announced foreign policy.
  5.  Mr H. is the only serious rival at present, and if politics was a sci
    ence, he would be a formidable rival. He has a splendid record as a re
    form mayor and a courageous Senator.
  6.  Mr N. had been under fire from many sections of the student
    community for allegedly being out of touch with the problems of ordinary
    students, and his speech tonight was being regarded as a make-or-break
    bid to win back popular support for executive policy.
  7.  The biggest problem, however, is likely to be on the wage front.
    How cooperative will the unions be this summer as their demands culmi
    nate? A strong point is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer can now
    have as fullscale and thorough a Budget as he thinks necessary.
  8.  The tourist potential is as yet largely untapped. But every effort is
    being made to develop the industry into a major foreign exchange earner.
    Apart from the existing facilities, the National Development Corporation
    is embarking upon a major programme for tourist accommodation facilities.
  9.  There has been a vast deterioration of public facilities throughout
    the nation over recent decades, according to the study just made public by
    the Council of State Planning Agencies.

The council's 97-page study declares that the nation's streets, roads, including the Interstate Highway System, publicly operated solid waste and toxic waste sites, treatment plants, port facilities and dams have been permitted to deteriorate drastically. Hundreds of billions of dollars are necessary to halt the ongoing deterioration and to restore the facilities to their former level, let alone expand them to fill growing needs.

The most important factors in the deterioration are not included in the study: the diversion of hundreds of billions of dollars from maintenance of the nation's public works into the pockets of the rich, through tax giveaways and the huge war budget. The cancer is bipartisan.

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  1.  Americans are accustomed to a confrontational, adversarial rela
    tionship between the government and business. Japan's regulatory style is
    based on intensive dialogue and extensive interaction that leads to com
    promise.
  2.  Americans may have been disturbed by Lockheed's conduct but
    few of them had any sense of wounded national pride or much concern
    over loss of face in the international community.
  3.  The problem now is how to de-escalate this international crisis.
  4.  America should weigh the president's program on its merits and
    ignore the pretence that all the changes he has proposed are either neces
    sary or sufficient to conquer stagflation.
  5.  Coming mainly from academia and think tanks, where they had
    been on the outside for years, they (Russian emigrants) found that being
    on the inside was both exhilarating and excruciating.
  6.  Big business relies on its massive public relations rumor mill to
    twist truth into lies. There is no question that this campaign has been a
    success.

4. Сделайте синтаксический и грамматический анализ предложений и переведите их, обращая внимание на передачу значений артикля.

1. The role of the Japanese military is a touchy subject, one that rattles
China and other neighbors as well as Japanese citizens, all parties that
still have bitter feelings about Japan's role in World War II.

2. With economic confidence across Europe already fragile and
economists cutting back growth forecasts, rising jobless totals in Europe's
biggest economy threaten to further sour the mood, economists said.

  1.  «It is not an easy problem. But if we don't stop the conflict now, it
    clearly will spread. And then, we will not be able to stop it except at far
    greater cost and risk».
  2.  The wealth of Britain's architectural heritage rests upon strata of
    changing taste.
  3.  There were no reports of violence during the protest. But scattered
    Christian-Muslim skirmishes on the island injured a handful of people
    Friday, witnesses said.

6. Many economists are predicting the labor market will weaken
somewhat this year, although it will remain healthy by historical stan
dards.

7. The state's troubles sent the Brazilian stock market plummeting as
investors speculated the political battle over the debt would weaken the

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central government resolve to slash a budget deficit and ease interest rates.

  1.  The claim that congressional approval strengthens a president's
    policy is not one that presidents leap to test.
  2.  Whereas everybody wants a new president of the European Com
    mission in place as soon as possible, Parliament —  always keen on
    adding to its power — wants the procedure to go ahead under the new
    Amsterdam terms.

  1.  Iran and the Soviet Union once had the Caspian Sea to themselves,
    amicably dividing its precious caviar. The two knew the sea contained
    mineral wealth but neither did much about it.
  2.  « The larger a company gets, the more difficult it can be for the left
    hand to know what the right is doing».
  3.  Hurt by the economic slump in Asia and a litany of production and
    delivery problems, Boeing sought to put the best face on its annual pro
    duction and delivery data.
  4.  Reflecting Japan's spectacular economic growth, Tokyo's rapid
    development and, above all, Maki's [architect] evolving architectural
    philosophy, the changes helped create a dynamic complex that today an
    chors one of Tokyo's most popular neighborhoods.
  5.  Many critics of the government's program argue that it reflects
    what they say is Mr Blair's Achilles' heel: the desire to be all things to all
    people, to appeal to the conservative-leaning middle class that helped
    propel him into office in 1997 while not abandoning the poor and work
    ing classes, labour's traditional base. The tough talk, they say, is one
    thing; the reality may fall short of the promise.
  6.  Human rights are a basic American interest, and the administration
    should not flinch from promoting them.
  7.  The civil service is a black abyss of underpaid, underemployed,
    unsackable people. There are calls for cutting the numbers radically, but
    if you do, you end up with an indigent army of unemployable people.
  8.  The once empty, and beautiful, Mediterranean shoreline has be
    come a solid block of wall-to-wall holiday homes with their private
    beaches and marinas for middle-class Egyptians.
  9.  Genre painting existed in the ancient world but was generally
    deemed an inferior pursuit suitable for less talented artists, an assumption
    that was inherited by the Renaissance establishment.
  10.  The native Melanesian Ambonese are mainly Christians but many
    Asian Muslims from elsewhere in the vast Indonesian archipelago have
    come to the island for business and as civil servants.

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  1.  The democratic peoples [of NATO members] admittedly do not
    relish sending their soldiers into foreign fields, but the evidence of the
    20th century — two world wars, the cold war and, in the 1990s, the Gulf
    and Bosnia — suggests that they will generally act when they conclude
    that a principle or a major interest is under attack.
  2.  The public outrage gave Beijing «a chance to redirect some of the
    political energy in a population that might otherwise be antigovernment,»
    says a China scholar of Wellesley College.
  3.  French, long dominant at the commission of EU, has been rapidly
    losing ground to English, which, the French note acidly, is not even a
    language of continental Europe.
  4.  Some economists warn that a further slowdown in Europe's econ
    omy could encourage opponents of the common currency, the euro, to
    blame Monetary Union for the hard times.
  5.  ...the description of a solution to a problem as a «political» solu
    tion implies peaceful debate and arbitration as opposed to what is often
    called a « military» solution.
  6.  The record number of mergers of large companies into even larger
    ones last year has raised fears at many arts organizations and other non
    profit groups that a decline in corporate donations may be an unfortunate
    byproduct.

5. Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения.

1. The euro is expected to accelerate European crossborder deals. By
creating the foundations of pan-European market for capital, it exposes
markets to stiffer competition.

So it seems few taboos are left in Europe's once sleepy banking business: banks are merging with each other, with insurers, fund managers and others as never before.

But are Europe's banks really set for a merger wave to rival that seen in America? In theory, Europe already has a single banking system. The reality is rather different. For some years to come, further consolidation will be stymied by resistance from politicians, workers and even bank bosses and by the way that banking system has been structured.

2. EU presidency is enough to test any country's skills to the limit. It
means arranging dozens of ministerial meetings and managing the paper
work for hundreds of specialist committees. Rare is the government that
does not come to the end of its six months both relieved and exhausted.

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almost uncanny mastery of its workings. Many point to them as the very model how a «small country should operate within the EU's institutions: merely modest and purposeful matching a sense of principle with a sense of proportion.

  1.  Once the state has rooted out absolute poverty, how much wealth, if
    any, should it confiscate to reduce inequality for its own sake? How much
    should it curtail individual freedoms — to purchase extra education, to
    pass on an inheritance — so that people have an equal chance in life? Is
    there some level beyond which inequality cannot be stretched without
    snapping the bonds that hold people together? Whatever the answer,
    these are questions a government should frame clearly, not bury in the ob-
    fuscation of « fairness». Still less should a budget be so subtle that no
    body can divine, whether, why or how much a government believes in re
    distribution.
  2.  Devolution is a healthy and abiding tendency. To de-emphasize the
    federal government is to resurrect one of the original principles of Ameri
    can politics. The nation was conceived as a union of 13 pre-existing
    states. The concept of national citizenship, as distinct from state citizen
    ship, did not even exist until 1787, 11 years after independence. In the
    early days, the states showed their distinctive personalities by what they
    did about slavery or the enfranchisement of non-citizens, rather than wel
    fare policy or the length of prison terms. But whatever the issues the taste
    for autonomy has endured and now seems, once again, to be growing.
  3.  So long as the democracies remember what experience has taught
    them, they are probably unbeatable. Take Europe and America apart, and
    that comforting prospect vanishes. The Americans by themselves will still
    have the means to act, as well as their keener sense of ideological com
    mitment; but they will have fewer material interests in the outside world
    to feel concerned about, and the shock of the break with Europe could
    push them back to their old dream of hemispheric self-sufficiency.
  4.  The goal of the EU constitutional conference will be to streamline
    the European Commission and to fine-tune the voting powers of national
    governments in the Council of Ministers, so that both institutions can ac
    commodate an influx of new members, mainly from Central and Eastern
    Europe, in the decade ahead.
  5.  In contrast to Plato's claim for the social value of education, a quite
    different idea of intellectual purposes was propounded by the Renais
    sance humanists.  Intoxicated with their rediscovery of the classical
    learning that was thought to have disappeared during the Dark Ages, they
    argued that the imparting of knowledge needs no justification — relig-

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 ious, social, economic or political. Its purpose, to the extent that it has one, is to pass on from generation to generation the corpus of knowledge that constitutes civilization.

  1.  The study [of two University of Chicago researchers] is not good
    news for minorities. First, Latinos are significantly more likely to live
    near a hazardous-waste site than blacks or whites with comparable in
    comes. Second, the authors suggest that blacks are less likely than whites
    to live near Chicago waste sites in part because they have been excluded
    from areas near high-paying industrial jobs by decades of residential seg
    regation. The Chicago study will stimulate the debate. Some earlier stud
    ies in other cities have found a significant correlation between race and
    hazardous waste; others have no. But even in cases where hazardous-
    waste sites appear to be disproportionately located in minority neighbor
    hoods, they may not have been put there deliberately.
  2.  It is currently fashionable to argue that nobody can hope to foresee
    what is going to happen to big-power politics in the next 30 or 40 years.
    Some of those who say this then add, contradicting themselves, that there
    is unlikely to be any great challenge to the security of Europe and Amer
    ica in the next generation or so: the world is for the time being, safe for
    democracy. Neither of these things is necessarily true. It is possible to
    make a reasonable guess at how power will redistribute itself round the
    world in the opening decades of the new century and how this redistribu
    tion of power will show itself in what counties do to each other. This rea
    sonable guess holds little comfort for the democracies of the West.

10. Though they seldom admit it, many Hungarians continue to har
bour prejudice against gypsies, which is one reason that campaigners pre
fer to use the term « Roma», arguing that from the lips of most Hungari
ans, «cigany» is itself derogatory and that the word's most usual (and
value-free) English variant, gypsy, should also therefore be dropped.

What is less arguable is that it has been almost taboo, in Hungarian politics, to acknowledge that gypsies do have a real grievance. So for the foreign minister even to be discussing the subject is progress of a sort.

11. An inexperienced crew is working late shift, packing apples at the
Northwestern fruit produce plant here. The new hires barely keep pace
with roaring conveyor belts. But things are hard here. Last month, half the
packing plant's 180 employees were laid off. In what turned out to be one
of the biggest employment sweeps ever by the Immigration and Naturali
zation Service, agents sifted through the records of 5,000 workers in 13
local packing plants here — and forced the companies to sack 562 de
termined to be illegal immigrants.

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  1.  In a move that clears the way for a wave of high-tech interactive
    gadgets in cars and trucks, five of the world's biggest auto makers said
    they are pursuing a common wiring standard for new vehicles. The stan
    dard should enable automotive suppliers to design their products to plug
    into millions of cars and trucks, regardless of the vehicles' maker. It could
    reduce the cost of such devices by allowing suppliers to standardize
    manufacturing processes.
  2.  Germany wants a European Employment Pact to be adopted at a
    June summit of EU leaders in Cologne, Germany but some EU diplomats
    question whether this will be possible. At a meeting Monday, France and
    Italy meet opposition with their call for specific growth targets. Mean
    while, proposals by Spain and Britain for a more decentralized approach
    also find little favor.
  3.  The Scottish National Party (SNP), which had campaigned quite
    ineffectively since it was founded in 1928, became a significant political
    force when it latched on to the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1960s to
    argue that an independent Scotland could escape from the economic de
    cline caused by the collapse of traditional heavy industry.
  4.  Given the contempt with which I hold television, why would I
    want to appear on it to promote a new book that deals with its perverse
    effects? I have no easy answer. I struggle daily to find one. The best that I
    have been able to come up with is that I believe strongly that there is a
    deep, unsatisfied hunger on the part of the American people for some
    thing better, for something that speaks directly to our constant search for
    meaning on the basic issues of life itself.
  5.  Egypt was committed, under its agreements with the IMF, to de
    nationalise one of the four state banks that together control 60% of retail
    banking. When the agreements expired, with no bank privatised yet, the
    IMF decided to give the government more time. Although Egypt's banks
    have a sounder reputation than some in the region, their closets still rattle
    with the skeletons of dodgy loans, handed out to inefficient state enter
    prises on government instructions.
  6.  One reason why foreign investors still tend to hold back is that
    they are seldom invited to buy a controlling share of a company. The law
    has been changed so that there are no longer restrictions about the spe
    cific level of foreign shareholding; moreover, the new laws on repatriat
    ing capital and profits are very liberal. But multinationals tend still to
    think that the government's policy is not quite convincing: the legal
    groundwork for offering them a controlling share is there but it doesn't
    often happen in practice. Bad public relations, say Egyptians, plus preju
    diced foreigners.

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  1.  Mr. Clinton's domestic critics are dismayed. They understand his
    words are another sort of code: permission for the appeasement-minded
    on the Security Council —  including Russia, China and France among
    the five permanent members — to plead mitigation for Iraq and so make
    a military response from the 35,000 American servicemen currently mas
    tered in the Gulf anything but automatic.
  2.  Hungarians like to think that ethnic hatred is something that takes
    place only in the Balkan badlands to the south. The government also re
    alises that it needs to be seen to be doing something — not least if its
    own lecturing of its neighbours on the fights of ethnic Hungarian minori
    ties is not to sound hollow. But what? — The government acknowledges
    that the country's current policy is inadequate, that all is not well with its
    showpiece policy, a system of ethnic self-government. These autono
    mous, democratically elected bodies are quite good at doing such things
    as organising dance troupes for ethnic Germans, but are ill-equipped to
    deal with the many problems facing gypsies.
  3.  Donors can still help by spreading knowledge of a technological
    or institutional sort. This is     one rationale for (small-scale) project aid. But
    what donors should not be spreading in these cases are large quantities of
    cash. That policy not only wastes money; it also undermines political
    support for every kind of aid, including those that work. While it remains
    true — as this study makes crystal-clear — that the key to development
    is good economic policy, and that this is something, which only the gov
    ernments concerned can put into effect, aid can play a useful role. It is up
    to donor governments to see that it does.
  4.  From the recruiting sergeants who haunt the high schools and
    malls and M    с Donald's across America to the generals who count bunk
    and beans, there is a growing concern that generational and demographic
    changes have overtaken the ideals of military service.
  5.  Sweden, of all places, has one of the most segregated work forces
    in the West. And while it didn't much matter economically when Sweden
    was a prosperous, welfare state, the country faces increasing pressure to
    tighten its belt. Sweden can no longer afford the disparity, needing
    women to contribute their full share into government tax coffers and pen
    sion funds. In fact, economists and policy makers warn that this is a
    challenge that much of Europe will face.
  6.  Economic and social transformations of the past 20 years of re
    forms are likely to have been less destabilising than if modernisation had
    not taken place.

This does not mean that social instability poses no risk at all. A serious economic downturn would make it harder for the government to buy off the disaffected.

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What of the party? Here lies the problem. For, much as China's economy and society have been transformed, its political structure has not. Its political institutions were designed to change society, but are now incapable to adapt to it.

  1.  The high divorce rate and liberated lifestyles of the boomer gen
    eration may now be producing more cautious, conservative attitudes
    among the young. « Generation X-ers basically believe the baby boomers
    went too far with their lifestyle, taking it to the brink», says Ann Clurman
    of Jankelovich Partners. «Children of divorce are 50 per cent of gen X-
    ers. They think they are victims of divorce and want to pull back from the
    precipice. Down the road we will definitely see less divorce».
  2.  Like the Council of Ministers, the EU Parliament has been accru
    ing power at the Commission's expense. Yet, it too suffers from weak
    leadership. It needs to attend to its own faults if it is to exercise better
    control over the executive, bringing to an end, in particular, its expensive
    dual life in Brussels and Strasbourg. Best stick to Brussels, even though
    this would require a treaty change.
  3.  Germany's chancellor faces two general difficulties and one par
    ticular one. First, he has to show that he really has some sense of what he
    wants to achieve: he has, in other words, to dismiss the impression that he
    has no central values and no clear idea of how Germany, or indeed
    Europe, should be run. Second, he has still to reform his party, which has
    been subjected to none of the colonic irrigation of that other new Middler,
    the British Labour Party. And then, unrelated to these general concerns,
    and perhaps even harder to achieve, he has to cajole the other members of
    the EU into accepting a budgetary arrangement that makes it possible for
    newcomers to join.
  4.  America has the best technology, so it is inevitably the best, and
    right target for espionage, by China and a host of others. Given that China
    does indeed have spies, and that it is an actual rival and potential threat,
    America should be spying on China in return. Have no fear: it is.

China rightly senses that trade can be used as a lever to soften, or blur, foreign policy issues. American businesses lobby for a softer line and for rule-changes at home to allow them to sell more in China, particularly for high-tech goods previously controlled on security grounds. They reinforce that pressure with political donations.

28. The challenges of running a country may also stimulate Scottish
intellectual life. Many Scots fondly dream of a new « Scottish Enlighten
ment», like the one the country enjoyed in the 18th century when Scottish
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philosophical revolution which swept through Europe. The French philosopher Voltaire remarked, only slightly sarcastically, that if one wanted to learn anything from gardening to philosophy, one had to go to Edinburgh.

The Enlightenment was partly stimulated, some think, because political union with England ended the Scottish preoccupation with battling against its more powerful southern neighbour and opened northern eyes and minds to the possibilities, both intellectual and commercial, arising in a fast-changing world in which Britain was then playing a decisive imperial role.

29. Between principle and practice, of course, can lie an ocean of dif
ference, and seas of ink have indeed been drained in arguing about the
consequences of accepting that gender as social. If it is, mustn't society
be overturned to better women's lot? Is it inequality with men or male
stereotyping that women suffer from? Isn't talk of suffering itself a new
form of victimhood?

Naomi Wolf, in her book «Fire with Fire» (1993) blamed older feminists for exaggerating women's powerlessness and for the supposed excesses of political correctness.

30. Mr. Menem's [of Argentina] past services are undeniable. Elected
in 1989, he inherited hyperinflation. That alone might have led back to
strongman rale. Instead, his government by creating a currency board, has
killed inflation stone-dead.

He has brought to heel the armed forces, still snarling when first he came to office. Today, these once masters of the land serve its elected government.

Abroad, Mr. Menem has mended fences with the United States, taken Argentina into the Mercosur trade group, and solved its border disputes with Chile.

This is a solid record.

  1.  There are clear arguments to be made in favour of equality (relief
    of poverty, the encouragement of social cohesion); but there are also clear
    arguments to be made against imposing it (this is unnatural, unattainable,
    suppresses initiative, attempts self-defeatingly to create a sense of broth
    erhood by coercion). « Fairness», by contrast, is a label a government can
    slap on pretty much any policy it chooses. Equality is measurable, fair
    ness — in the eye of the beholder. The left thought equality was fair; the
    right thought inequality was fair.
  2.  When overseas aid was under Foreign Office control, it was
    clearly a tool of foreign policy as well as a way of helping poor countries.

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And it sometimes subsidised British business by being tied to British goods and services. But that approach clearly had drawbacks. Aid priorities were distorted by the pursuit of commercial advantage. Britain, for example, was discovered to be funding a dubious dam project in Malaysia in the hope of winning arms sales. When New Labour came into office, it announced that aid should be purely for helping the poor.

  1.  Modern youth becomes the dreaded avenging angel of his parents,
    since he holds the power to prove his parents'success or failure as parents
    and this counts so much more now, since his parents' economic success is
    no longer so important in a society of abundance. Youth itself, feeling in
    secure because of its marginal position in a society that no longer depends
    on it for economic security, is tempted to use the one power this reversal
    between the generations has conferred on it: to be accuser, and judge of
    the parents' success or failure as parents.
  2.  With monetary policy in the hands of the European Central Bank,
    fiscal policy — budget deficits and surpluses a la Keynes — is the re
    maining tool with which the member states of European Economic and
    Monetary Union, or EMU, can affect their own growth and employment.
  3.  The sense of energy and optimism generated by Mr. Blair's at
    tempt to create a brave new Britain could easily give way to disillusion
    ment — as it did in the 1970s — if his government cannot turn visionary
    rhetoric into something rather more substantial.
  4.  It is less than a month since the prime minister decided to break
    cover, stand up in the House of Commons, launch his «national changeo
    ver plan», and make it plain to anyone who had ever doubted it that he
    really did intend to lead Britain into the promised land of the euro.

This was the very week in which big business started to fire its pro-euro artillery, with the official launch of the «Britain in Europe» campaign headed by chairman of British Airways.

37. The US elections have often been compared to a circus. It is a
shame that the comparison has some truth in it. It is a time when a clear
and precise estimate of the national situation should be made, a balance
drawn and a course agreed on for the next period, but it is actually a time
when the leading political contestants exert themselves most to deceive
the public, falsify the record and lie about the future.

It is national aberration-time when politicians roam the land, trying to put matters more out of focus than usual. It is the time of statistics-twisting, juggling with facts, gymnastics in the position-taking, and hocus-pocus.

Such a situation is contrary to the interests of the people and to the national interest. More and more voters are disgusted with it. It is, there-

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fore, more urgent than ever not only to bring the real issues to the fore and to mobilize the broadest possible coalition around «people before profits» solutions, but also to take steps to restore — or to impart — to elections their real function, to correct what is wrong and to steer a better course for the future.

38. There are powerful big business lobbies in the capital, and an ele
ment in the Democratic Party here favors pampering multinational corpo
rations.

This group insists that any legislation favorable to working people in the state must also include financial incentives to big business.

Labor observers here see a similarity between recent contract negotiations and the approach of big business to legislation. «Make it worth our while,» they say, «or we'll pack up and leave.»

Corporations shut plants and move operations in order to maximize profits.

Some move to get out from union contracts. Some move to states offering financial incentives. Some move to the South where wages are low. Some move totally out of the US.

The legislative proposals, which are not yet fully formulated, lean heavily in the direction of the corporations. They offer increased incentives to keep corporations from moving out of the state — more profit — and place the burden of picking up the pieces after a plant has moved on the shoulders of the tax payers of the state.

39. Officialdom in Huyton, Liverpool, does not know the meaning of
democracy, which we are supposed to have in Britain.

They charge what rent and rates they like and think they are doing us a favour if they do any maintenance or repairs to the council housing, which they assume they own, as apparently the councillors do not regard themselves as the elected representatives of the people.

40. The Prime Minister has come down heavily in favour of waiting
for a consensus to build, based on the belief that « a strong leader is not
needed for the Japanese people because they themselves are full of vital
ity» . But his self-cast role as orchestra conductor to the numerous minis
tries and agencies in Tokyo while the body politic calls the tune is said by.
many to neglect the fact that participatory democracy is still only surface
deep in Japan. Also, that role is directly at odds with the high-profile, ас-
tive stances taken by former premiers.

Contrary to popular belief, the Prime Minister has not totally forsaken day-to-day political matters. He is well aware of the pressing problems: the Foreign Minister is being given a somewhat larger role to play in

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policy planning and is to lend a hand in calming the still rough Japan-US economic waters.

41. The Prime Minister's insistence on the « politics of waiting» and
his homespun advice to proceed « slow and steady» have opened the door
to critics of his approach to the running of the government and matters of
state — but perhaps they have moved the discussion into an area that fits
well within the premier's game plan.

There is little argument from any camp that the new government is facing problems — for instance, slow economic growth at home, the continuing problems between Tokyo and .the United States, the difficulties involved in the emergence of a new political role for Japan and the on-again, off-again courtship of ASEAN. How quickly and in what manner these are approached does lead to disagreement.

42. Children demonstrating outside the Belgrave Children's Hospital
in South London at the weekend marched to Downing Street to hand in a
petition as part of a widely supported campaign which was launched in
South London to keep the children's hospital open and persuade the local
area health authority to improve facilities there.

The hospital's once thriving out-patients department is already being reduced, and staffing problems are getting worse. At weekends, one student is often left in charge of a ward.

But the hospital now faces a threat to close all the beds meaning that the only children's operating theatre in the district will shut down despite recent modernisation.

  1.  The worsening economic problems of the country derive ulti
    mately from causes which no party or government can readily cure, even
    if it knew what to do. A century and more of industrial underinvestment,
    export of capital, low growth, failure to exploit innovation richly but
    vainly provided by British science (U.S. industry has done well out of
    British inventions neglected at home), — these are at the root of Britain's
    contemporary troubles. Labor did not cure them, but neither have the Tories.
  2.  His distinctly high-profile leadership conflicted with the ideas of
    other chiefs as to how an operation of this kind should be carried out.
  3.  The Chancellor of the Exchequer impressed on the House that all
    that was needed was that everyone should behave sensibly and realize
    that if the country threw away this opportunity it might be long before it
    got another anything like so favourable. Stable prices could be assured
    only by price reductions in the field where progress was fastest and if the
    benefits of progress for which the whole community was responsible
    were shared by the whole community.

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  1.  That view will gain ground because a new shock awaits the Par
    liamentary Labour Party and the Labour movement. The Prime Minister
    appears to have won the case, and carefully calculated leaks are coming
    from Cabinet Ministers to prepare us all for yet one more reversal of policy.
  2.  It is not the critics of the Minister of Economy who are cynical.
    That is a word which could be more accurately applied to a Minister who
    says he is for prices being kept down, and then supports a Budget which
    puts them up.
  3.  If the staff at Labour Party headquarters get the 12 1/2 per cent pay
    rise which it is reported they are to be offered, or the bigger increase they
    may ask for, they will no doubt congratulate themselves not only on their
    own efforts, but on having employers prepared to stand up to the Gov
    ernment and defy the pay freeze.
  4.  The argument about whether the motor companies should release
    workers to the rest of the labour market rather than put them on short time
    reveals once again the great divide between economic ideas in the ab
    stract and the way the British economy works at present.
  5.  The big question in industry today is security of employment. As
    redundancy and short-time working spread throughout the car industry
    and the many industries wholly or largely dependent upon it, as the same
    process operates in the other sections producing consumer durable goods
    of all kinds, like furniture and refrigerators, and as the programme of pit
    closures gets under way, workers everywhere must be worried about their
    own jobs even if they are not in one of the immediately hard-hit industries.
  6.  It is a thorough disgrace that a Labour council should be acting in
    this way. A Labour council should set an example as a model landlord,
    not as peacemaker for the avaricious, grasping private landlords. The rea
    son for the increase in rents is the usual one — the council is in the red on
    its housing account. But that is not the fault of the tenants. It is the fault
    of the Government, which has failed to keep its election manifesto prom
    ise to «introduce a policy of lower interest rates for housing». It is also
    the fault of the council for not insisting that the Government honour its
    pledge. Instead of an increase in rents, the council should insist that inter
    est on housing loans should be cut. This is something the Government
    could do.
  7.  It was he who with the Prime Minister turned the scales against
    having a snap election in November without making even the pretence of
    coping with the dollar crisis. It was he who threw his weight in favour of
    February as the best moment to send the Labour machine into action; and
    it is he who will profit most among the party's leaders if Labour wins.

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  1.  In his speech to newspaper editors yesterday the Paymaster Gen
    eral named monopoly and big commercial advertisers as a threat to Press
    freedom and democracy. But having revealed many of the things that
    were wrong, unfortunately he did not assist us by making proposals
    which would help to put things right. The Government itself has helped
    the «process of concentration and monopoly»  which, the Paymaster
    General said yesterday, he regarded as a danger not only to Press free
    dom, but to democracy itself. By giving the Press tycoons all this adver
    tising, and depriving the independent press of a fair share, the Govern
    ment is helping to increase the danger to democracy.
  2.  It is time it was understood that history does not develop according
    to the formulae of those who would like to conserve it, those who would
    like to arrest the movement of the people along the road of progress.
  3.  The Prime Minister has done the right thing in ending speculation
    about a summer election. He had pretty well forced an announcement on
    himself. Irritating the Labour party with his cat-and-mouse tactics did not
    matter; the fact that he was teasing the public as well did. The announce
    ment is also timed. To have made it earlier might have taken any zest
    there was out of the local government elections; to have made it later
    would have invited the charge that the Prime Minister had been influ
    enced by their results. The new Cabinet shows significant changes, both
    personal and constructional, from the old one. Naturally it will be looked
    at most searchingly in the Ministries which touch the home front, and
    particularly its economics. It was the failure either to coordinate these
    Ministries successfully or to present an intelligible picture of their activi
    ties to the electorate, which was the chief weakness of the previous Cabi
    net. The Prime Minister's own record is here at its most untried. He will
    have to show that his capacity for government is not overestimated to
    make him as successful on the home front as he has been on the overseas.
  4.  The real need is for the Western powers not only to maintain their
    basic objectives, but to be more supple in applying them in the search for
    unity, and the beginning should be in a recognition that unity is more
    likely to come in a relaxation of general European tension. Complete ri
    gidity is in danger of defeating the ends it has in view.
  5.  The Black revolt has many causes, but its basic power is that of
    the force of economic wretchedness. It is this wretchedness that techno
    logical change is threatening to exacerbate beyond endurance by auto
    mating out of existence many of the unskilled and skilled jobs Blacks
    hold. That the Black community is in the throes of profound economic
    crisis is evident from the unemployment figures.

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  1.  Although military aviation can be said to have started in 1870
    when balloons were used during the siege of Paris, it was not until the
    First World War that it became of substantial importance.
  2.  It may be unprecedented, but it is not illogical for the Chancellor
    of the Exchequer to have used his Budget speech for announcing the
    Government's intention of hustling through Parliament an Act designed to
    shackle the trades unions. The Budget, like the preceding ones of this
    Government, has as its main objective to devalue our wage packets. The
    decision to rush through the anti-TU legislation is aimed at disarming the
    working people, and hampering them in their struggle to retain the real
    value of their hard-earned wage packets. It is a policy aimed at ensuring
    that any increase in either productivity or output should lead not to more
    wages, but to more profit... There can be no other explanation for the
    Chancellor's moan that increased production and productivity rose only
    four times as much as wages.
  3.  The Congressman was deprived of his seat last month by vote of
    the  House  pending investigations  by the special  committee  on  the
    grounds that he had put taxpayers' money to his own use, flouted the law
    by refusing to pay libel damages, and evaded jail sentences imposed for
    contempt of court

61 One cannot expect to see as yet, any decisive change in the pattern of the economy in these countries. The change from developing country to a developed one is a huge task.

62. If the capital needs of developing countries are particularly heavy, one must recognize that their absorptive capacity, on the other hand, remains more limited than was the case of Europe in the nineteenth century.


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1. Hong Kong Won't Dollarize As Way to End Speculation

Hong Kong — National pride appears to be preventing authorities here from using what may be their most potent weapon against speculators attacking the Hong Kong dollar.

That weapon is the threat to replace Hong Kong's currency with the US dollar, thereby removing any target for speculators to aim at. Already, Argentina has raised the possibility of dropping its own currency in favor of the dollar. The suggestion, put forward recently be Argentine President, came in the wake of rising concerns that Brazil's decision to abandon support of the real would lead to other currency collapses in Latin America.

In theory, Hong Kong — which has a US dollar-linked currency system almost identical to Argentina's — could make the same switch. And some currency watchers believe no move would be more effective at ending the speculative pressure against the Hong Kong dollar than taking steps to «dollarize» the economy.

Yet Hong Kong's government has instead declared publicly that it doesn't believe dollarization is a viable option. The reason, some analysts say, is chiefly political: Hong Kong is Chinese territory, and China wouldn't want to relinquish sovereignty over any aspect of Hong Kong's governance, including its currency.

Yeung Wai Hong, publisher of Hong Kong's most widely read weekly magazine, calls it «nationalistic pride.» A frequent commentator on monetary issues, Mr. Yeung says dollarization would be « a perfect solution» to Hong Kong's recurring run-ins with speculators.

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«From a tactical point of view, dollarization makes sense,» adds Dong Tao, senior economist at Credit Suisse First Boston (Hong Kong) Ltd., who has prepared a detailed report on the issue.

Not that Hong Kong hasn't looked at the issue. In April last year a government report examined the possibility of Hong Kong dollarizing, but concluded that it would be «draconian» and «may contravene» the Basic Law, the Hong Kong mini-constitution that governs its relationship with Beijing. The Basic Law says that «the Hong Kong dollar, as the legal tender (in Hong Kong), shall continue to circulate.» The report also highlighted that «huge legal problems» could arise as some contracts signed in Hong Kong would automatically become invalid. Mr. Tao and other analysts say that and other technical problems could be circumvented by a gradual phasing out of the Hong Kong dollar, giving time for laws and contracts to be rewritten.

A government spokeswoman on financial issues states: «We have examined the issue (of dollarization) and we find that it is not to be pursued in Hong Kong.»

2. The Olympic Sham

Is it cynical of me to ask if anyone was surprised at the scandal regarding the state of Utah bribing Olympic officials in order to win the venue of the 2002 Winter Games?

The Olympic Games have become a sham. They are not only professional now but also no longer independent of politics or chicanery or graft. Television income has ruled almost every aspect of the event, both Winter and Summer games.

«I do not believe in professional Olympics,» Lord Killanin pronounced when he took over in 1972. Yet under his aegis a set of new rules were passed for all athletes, allowing them money for food and lodging, for transport and all sorts of equipment and clothing, for physical therapy and coaches and insurance, and even pocket money. No limit is placed anymore on the length of time that any of that money may be spent in training. The attempt to mix amateurism and economics, which are surely incompatible, has now turned the Games from a noble experiment in global unity to a battle-ground of crass nationalism and shameless graft.

The eligibility code of the Olympic Games Charter, which was created by the Congress of Paris in 1894, expressly stated: «A competitor must not have received any financial rewards or material benefits in connection with his or her sports participation.» It went on to declare that « competitors who have been registered as professional athletes or professional coaches in any sport; signed a contract as a professional athlete;

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carried advertisement material on their person or clothing» may not participate in the Olympics.

None of that applies anymore. The Dream Team, a group of the greatest basketball players in the world, the cream of the National Basketball Association, each giant player a multimillionaire, was drafted to play in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Games in order that the US, drubbing such weighty teams as Albania and Peru, could win the gold medal.

Tennis players, skiers, track-and-field runners? They are all professionals. Paid professionals. Paid and smug professionals. Just like the officials of the IOC International Sports Federation. Everyone has been greased.

But it doesn't matter anymore. The ceremony of innocence is drowned. The spirit is gone, as well.

« Swifter, higher, stronger,» long the noble and altruistic slogan of the Olympic Games, should be changed to «Richer, fatter, happier.» The pursuit of excellence? Not anymore.

3. The Problem of Generations

Most serious writers on the problem of youth have recognized that youth's present difficulties in Western society are closely related to changed social and economic conditions and to the ensuing difficulty for youth in finding self-realization in work. As Goodman observes: «It's hard to grow up when there isn't enough man's work,» and he continues, «To produce necessary food and shelter is man's work. During most of economic history most men have done this drudging work, secure that it was justified and worthy of a man to do it, though often feeling that the social conditions under which they did it were not worthy of a man, thinking, «It's better to die than to live so hard» — but they worked on... Security is always first; but in normal conditions, a large part of security comes from knowing your contribution is useful, and the rest from knowing it's uniquely yours: they need you.»

Just as in this country an earlier generation needed youth because the economic security of the family depended on its contribution, so in Russia today youth is needed because only it can carry on the task of creating the new and better society; and in Africa because only it can move society from tribal confusion toward modern democracy. If the generations thus need each other, they can live together successfully, and the problem of their succession, though not negligible, can be mastered successfully. Under such conditions youth and age need each other not only for their economic but even more for their moral survival. This makes youth secure — if not in its position, at least in its self-respect. But how does the

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parent in modern society need the next generation? Certainly not for economic reasons any more, and what little expectation a parent may have had that his children would support him in old age becomes superfluous with greater social security. More crucially, the status-quo mood of the older generation suggests no need for youth to create a much different or radically better world.

In many respects youth has suddenly turned from being the older generation's greatest economic asset into its greatest economic liability. Witness the expense of rearing and educating youth for some twenty or more years, with no economic return to be expected. Youth still poses emotional problems. To the preceding generation, as of old. But in past generations these emotional problems were, so to speak, incidental or subservient to economic necessity. What at best was once the frosting on the cake must now serve as both solid food and trimmings — and this will never work.

Thus the economic roles, obligations, and rewards are no longer clearly defined between the generations, if not turned upside down. Therefore, another aspect of the relation between the generations looms even larger; in a balance sheet of interaction that is no longer economic but largely emotional. Modern man, insecure because he no longer feels needed for his work contribution or for self-preservation (the automatic machines do things so much better and faster), is also insecure as a parent. He wonders how well he has discharged that other great function of man, the continuation of the species.

At this point modern youth becomes the dreaded avenging angel of his parents, since he holds the power to prove his parents' success or failure as success is no longer so important in society of abundance. Youth itself, feeling insecure because of its marginal position in a society that no longer depends on it for economic security, is tempted to use the one power this reversal between the generations has conferred on it: to be accuser and judge of the parents' success or failure as parents.

4. The Second Stage

The first stage of the women's movement, says Friedan, was fought against the « old structure of the unequal polarized male and female sex roles » In their struggle for equality, however, some militant feminists went too far and also rejected the family itself. In the second stage, Frei-dan believes that women should fight for a restructuring of our institutions so those women can be truly free to choose their roles — including the important choice of having children.

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tion of the family. Churchmen and sociologists proclaim that the American family, as it has always been defined, is becoming and «endangered species,» with the rising divorce rate and the enormous increase in single-parent families and people — especially women — living alone. Women's abdication of their age-old responsibility for the family is also being blamed for the apathy and moral delinquency of the «me generation.»

Can we keep on shrugging all this off as enemy propaganda — «their problem, not ours?» I think we must at least admit and begin openly to discuss feminist denial of the importance of family, of women's own needs to give and get love and nurture, tender loving care.

What worries me today are the agonizing conflicts young and not-so-young women are facing — or denying — as they come up against the biological clock, at thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-nine, forty, and cannot «choose» to have a child. I fought for the right to choose, and will continue to defend that right, against reactionary forces who have already taken it away for poor women now denied Medicaid for abortion, and would take it away for all women with a constitutional amendment. But I think we must begin to discuss, in new terms, the choice to have children.

What worries me today is «choices» women have supposedly won, which are not real. How can a woman freely «choose» to have a child when her paycheck is needed for the rent or mortgage, when her job isn't geared to taking care of a child, when there is no national policy for parental leave, and no assurance that her job will be waiting for her if she takes off to have a child?

What worries me today is that despite the fact that more than 45 per cent of the mothers of children under six are now working because of economic necessity due to inflation, compared with only 10 per cent in 1960; no major national effort is being made for child-care services by government, business, labor, Democratic or Republican parties — or by the women's movement itself.

5. Fight to Veto 'Dirty Dozen' Pesticides

An international campaign has been launched yesterday to ban the use and sale of the «dirty dozen», a list of pesticide chemicals that have been linked with cancer, birth defects and poisonings.

Friends of the Earth have joined forces with other environmental groups in Britain and abroad to have the 12 pesticide active ingredients banned worldwide.

« Many of the chemicals are already banned in several countries but the British government continues to give official clearance to them for use in agriculture, the home and garden,» a spokesman said.

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The campaign is being supported by groups in 25 countries taking simultaneous action.

«Manufacture, import and export trade is allowed in all 12 of the 'dirty dozen' pesticides, even though there is worldwide evidence of their bad effects.

« Some of the chemicals have been linked with cancer and birth defects, while Parathion is a nerve-poison pesticide so acutely toxic that a teaspoonful splashed on the skin is fatal.

« Paraquat is also so poisonous that it has been responsible for many deaths in both humans and animals.

«These pesticides should be immediately suspended by the British government, pending a full and public review procedure, in which the evidence against them can be heard,' said FE pesticides campaigner. « They must be assumed guilty until proven innocent. Thousands of people have suffered and environments have been ruined. The case against the 'dirty dozen' is overwhelming, and the government must explain why it insists on letting this irresponsible trade go on.»

6. Jobless Youth

Liverpool — Until several years ago, the West European labor movement, as well as governments and business communities, did not even recognize youth unemployment as a major problem, or one that should be dealt with separately from adult joblessness.

But there are now over 10 million residents of the European Union without jobs, and people under 25, most of them with little or no employment experience, account for more than 40 per cent of their ranks.

In France, Britain, and the Netherlands, youths are three times as likely to be without jobs as adults are. In Italy, youth unemployment rates are a startling seven times those for adults. Among the EU countries only Germany, perhaps because of a combination of strong apprenticeship programs and low wages for teen-agers, has brought youth unemployment down to adult levels of joblessness.

As the problem of jobless youth has moved to center stage—through international conferences, demonstrations, or riots like those that recently exploded in Liverpool and other British cities — the trade union movement has been under almost as much scrutiny and criticism as government officials and employers.

Labor leaders have been forced to concede that the economic crisis is often pitting the interests of older workers, struggling to hold on to their jobs, against those of younger people seeking employment for the first time. Businessmen and government officials, who once whispered their

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reservations, are now loudly proclaiming that past trade union successes in raising wage levels, social benefits and job security have priced young people out of the labor market.

Only belatedly have labor leaders recognized that their impressively organized unions are not particularly endowed to help people leaving school and applying for their first jobs.

A sign of growing labor concern in Britain, where youth unemployment is among the worst in Europe, was the decision of the Trades Union Congress to launch a campaign with the country's main youth organizations to mobilize public concern over the young jobless.

Labeling youth unemployment «the most serious crisis since World War II», the TUC general secretary warned that more violence would erupt in British cities unless action is taken on jobs.

In Liverpool, whose total unemployment rate is at twice the national level and has reached 40 per cent among young people, trade unions have only recently considered establishing centers to advise school leavers where to seek job training and how to claim unemployment benefits.

«It doesn't sound like much, and we're not at all certain we can take on such costs,» a division officer for the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, said a few weeks before the upheavals in Liverpool. «A lot of us still feel we are talking about something that should be government's job. But the situation is appalling. Just a few days ago, there were 69 applicants for one secretary job in these offices — all of them 18- to 20-year-olds who never worked in their lives.» That ratio is not much worse than elsewhere in the city:

The Liverpool Employment Offices recently listed 51,000 job seekers for 1,000 vacancies.

In a now-famous speech, the Prime Minister suggested some time ago that people should be prepared to move away from their communities in search of jobs.

But with few jobs available anywhere in the country, moving offers no solution to Liverpool's unemployed youth.

7. «The Right Product at Right Time»

1 Tokyo — Less than a generation ago, the Japanese automobile was little known, and less respected, around the world. Even Japanese consumers were convinced that, could they afford it, the longer, plusher, gas-guzzling models of the United States, or the more bizairely sporty autos of Europe, were preferable to their own modest products.

But times  have  changed.  Last year,  Japanese  industry  exported 5,966,961 vehicles (including trucks), or fully 54 per cent of its entire

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production. Most of those were directed to markets in the United States and Europe where, for a variety of reasons, Japanese cars have become the rage.

Japanese manufacturers claim they were as surprised as anyone by the surging demand for their product. « We just happened to have the right product at the right time,» says one automobile executive.

As they tell it, the rising popularity of Japanese automobiles in the American market was due much more to the sudden increase in the price of oil than to any «blitz» or economic offensive on their part. When prices at the local pump doubled in less than a year, and American auto manufacturers were unable to supply a sufficient number of fuel-efficient cars, Japanese auto dealers moved in to fill the gap. In Detroit it is widely presumed that the ills of the American auto industry are largely caused by the Japanese « assault». Had the Japanese restrained themselves, and not taken advantage of the situation, the 30 per cent unemployment figure for U.S. auto workers would not have arisen, claim the U.S. auto makers.

The Japanese are convinced that their success in the United States is not the primary factor behind the financial and marketing failure of the U.S. companies. They argue that it was American auto mismanagement rather than Japanese « offensives» that resulted in the deficits.

But fuel efficiency must be only part of the problem, especially if the success of Japanese makers in the European countries is considered. There, the high quality of Japanese goods, their comparatively low price, and the excellent after-sales network are sales points, as in Europe the Japanese are competing against local producers well-stocked in fuel-efficient cars.

Despite their success, Japanese auto makers and observers of the auto scene are increasingly uneasy about the future. On the one hand, they face the prospect of a tide of protection in the United States as well as in Europe.

On the other hand, the Japanese auto makers are caught on the horns of a domestic dilemma. With the Japanese auto market also stagnating — sales and registration at home are slack, and many dealerships are in deficit— they are under increasing pressure to export.

One highly touted, long-range solution to Japan's embarrassment of auto riches is the internationalization of Japan's auto industry. Already, there are clear signs that Japanese auto makers are moving to produce a large number of their vehicles overseas, no matter what the consequences for Japanese employment.

Given the fate of other auto makers, the Japanese should consider themselves quite fortunate. With most of the world's big car producers in deficit, the worst the big Japanese makers have to report is a slight decline in profits.

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8. Nasty, ubiquitous and unloved

Skinheads have been frightening a lot of people in post-communists Central Europe, but several governments are trying to control them

Among the countless plaques and memorials in the ancient bit of Hungary's capital overlooking the Danube is one that mourns German and Hungarian soldiers who died trying to break out of Buda Castle at the end of the second world war. This was where, on February 13th, 500-odd neo-Nazi skinheads from around Europe gathered to lament the passing on the « SS heroes», after which they headed off to a nightclub called the Viking. When police appeared at the club and started asking for passports, the skinheads rioted. Several policemen ended up in hospital, 30 foreign skinheads were arrested, six of whom were quickly tried and found guilty of assault. So it goes for skinheads: thuggery at home pilgrimages to Nazi memorials and scrapes with the law abroad.

Do not expect an eloquent exchange of opinions with Central Europe's shaven heads. When interviewed, they say little, standing arms crossed, fists clenched, eyes burning. Nor are their dogs, often pit bulls with sharpened incisors, much more friendly. The skinheads' preferred method of communication is a boot swiftly and repeatedly administered in the face of a prone victim, though in one recent attack Slovak skinheads did use baseball bats to beat a gypsy boy almost to death. Their favourite targets are indeed gypsies, followed by African students, sundry other ethnic minorities, drug addicts and the homeless.

There are differences between an average West European skinhead and his counterpart farther east. Not all western ones are neo-Nazis; not all are violent; some even call themselves «anti-racists», and enjoy Jamaican reggae music. There are anarchist skinheads in the West, even glad-to-be-gay skinheads. But in Central Europe to be a skinhead is, on the whole, to be violent. Post-communist skinheads tend to swallow a mix of white supremacy, neo-Nazi dogma, and nationalism tailored to the country in question.

Their numbers vary from country to country, but have been going up. Government and police tend to deflate figures; human-rights groups and the skinheads themselves usually bump them up. One serious study, by the Anti-Defamation League in New York, reckons that, of some 70,000 hardcore neo-Nazi skinheads worldwide, Central Europe now accounts for a good quarter.

Last month, working together with the Czech secret service, police arrested 12 leading skinheads said to belong to the Czech chapter of a British-based «Blood and Honour» gang. They also confiscated neo-Nazi propaganda due to be sold at a skinhead concert, and declared that neo-Nazis across the country had suffered a crippling blow.

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Human-rights watchers are less sure. Skinhead groups are well run. They distribute propaganda printed by American neo-Nazis in various languages and send out «skinzines» illegally through the post. The Czechs alone have 15 of them. They are nasty, but it may be hard to pin charges of inciting hatred on the arrested skinheads.

Still, many Central Europeans are trying to stem the skinhead tide. A few days after the riot in the Viking club, several thousand Hungarians gathered to protest against racism. Judges are being sent on courses to make them more aware of racially motivated crimes. The police are hiring gypsy advisers. It is only a start. But the alarm bells have rung: more and more decent Central Europeans reckon that something must be done.

9. Living without it

At the University of Texas Law School, the halls are whiter than they once were. Three years after a federal court ruled in Hopwood v Texas that public universities in the state could no longer use race as a factor when considering applicants, there are a mere eight black students in a first-year class of 455 at the law school, a smaller percentage than in 1950.

Although Texas is ground zero in the fight over racial preferences in American universities, it is far from the only battlefield. Last November, voters in Washington state passed a referendum similar to California's Proposition 209, banning racial preferences in college admissions. In both Washington and Michigan, lawsuits similar to the Texas case have been filed against the public universities.

For 30 years, American universities sought to increase racial diversity by recruiting and admitting minority candidates, sometimes at the expense of white candidates with better qualifications. This practice went unchallenged until 1978, when the Supreme Court ruled that, although rigid racial quotas were unconstitutional, universities could take race into account since there was a «compelling interest» in promoting diversity in America's colleges.

Proponents of affirmative action, including most university administrators, feel they need only point to the decline of minority enrolment in the best public universities in California and Texas in the two years since the ban on racial preferences went into effect.

Conservative opponents of preferences admit that minority numbers have decreased at the most selective public universities in Texas and California. Yet they point to the fact that enrolment of blacks and Latinos throughout the state system has remained stable since 1996. The way to guarantee more minority students at the top universities in the future, conservatives argue, is to address the twin pillars of social disintegration: broken schools and broken families.

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Opponents of racial preferences also accuse the other side of double standards: on the one hand lamenting the decline of black and Latino enrolment since 1996, yet at the same time ignoring the dramatic increase in the number of Asians admitted during that period. Long boasting the highest scores on standardised tests among minority groups, Asians have never needed preferential treatment from universities, and are now benefiting from the new system.

Both sides arm themselves with government studies and self-serving statistics; yet most people concede that very little can be done at the political level. The future of racial preferences rests with the courts. What the legal system cannot do, however, is address the root of the problem: the fact that black and Latino students still lag woefully behind their white counterparts. So long as this grim reality persists, the system will remain broken, and no amount of judicial tinkering will fix it.

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1. What the EU Needs Is a Copy of «The Federalist» Papers

Los Angeles — It may be indelicate for an American to point out, but now that the start-up of Economic and Monetary Union has accelerated the European Union's pace toward full economic integration, the US experience may provide some useful lessons. Not that we do everything right or that we provide a precise model for the working of a somewhat similar economy, but some long-standing American economic interactions do resemble those developing on the old Continent.

In at least three areas of economics — monetary policy, taxes, and fiscal policy — we've been there, done that. Together, the three may also provide some hints about political confederation.

• In the realm of monetary policy the European Central Bank can learn from the Federal Reserve, if it is willing to. The Fed's ability to maintain its integrity while paying due deference to the democratically elected authorities with which it works provides a model more appropriate to a complex economy than does the haughty independence of the

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 Bundesbank. The single-minded Bundesbank ideology — price stability-uber-alles — cannot work in a Europe where recession threatens to increase already high unemployment; the Fed's pragmatic willingness to bring growth and employment into the balance can.

• The lessons for tax policy are less direct. What is thought of, as tax policy in the United States cannot exist in the European Union because the EU levies no taxes of its own? It is financed by contributions from the member states, which use their tax revenues to support the EU budget as well as their much larger national needs. Although political infighting over relative contributions is inevitable, EU members have also been squabbling over « harmonization» of national taxes — setting EU-wide rules for rates and regulations.

The American experience suggests that this is quite unnecessary. The US Constitution provides few constraints on the ways in which the states may raise revenues: they can legally levy income taxes, corporate taxes, sales taxes and property taxes on their individual and corporate residents at any rates they want, and they do. State taxes vary, but the variations stay within limits because the citizens and the companies in the states compete with one another.

The limits are imposed by economics, not legislation; they work and cause few quarrels. Similar natural limits are in fact becoming visible in Europe; the squabbles are unnecessary.

   With monetary policy in the hands of the European Central Bank, fiscal policy — budget deficits and surpluses a la Keynes — is the remaining tool with which the member states of European Economic and Monetary Union, or EMU, can affect their own growth and employment. But such national autonomy is illusory however; the rules of monetary union limit deficits, and economic reality reinforces the rules. Before EMU a state could finance a deficit by borrowing from its own central bank. No longer.

The US model is again illuminating. The American states cannot run persistent deficits because they cannot borrow to finance those deficits, except at prohibitive interest rates. The federal government, however, can borrow from the Federal Reserve to finance immense deficits, has done so, and surely will again when economic downturn calls for fiscal stimulus. Except for one crucial difference, the government of EMU could similarly borrow from the central bank when dictated by Europe's needs — the difference, of course, being that there is no government of EMU.

This leads to the possible lesson for political confederation. When recession suggests a continentwide need for stimulus, the pressure will be on the member states to create some sort of joint fiscal decision-making mechanism. Such a mechanism will not be called a confederation but it

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will be a major step in that direction. It will raise the question of whether the mechanism should be used for making other joint decisions. That in turn should reraise the question of the «democratic deficit»; in particular, should the one body elected by European individuals, the Parliament, be given more power over such decisions?

The move will be on. At that point, an American might even have the temerity to suggest that Europeans read «The Federalist» papers.

2. What Happened to That «Global Architecture?

When Brazil had devalued the real, the folks in Washington who claim responsibility for global monetary order were uncustomarily silent. One is tempted to say there was stunned silence, but that would imply that Brazil's move came as a surprise to the Treasury and the International Monetary Fund.

Surely it didn't, but there was another very good reason to keep quiet. Brazil had been a test case for that new global « financial architecture» that President Bill Clinton proclaimed to the world last fall. The real's collapse made abundantly clear what some of us had assumed: The promise of a «new architecture» was just more Bill Clinton hot air.

Of course, the hot air had a purpose, as do all of Mr. Clinton's skillfully crafted orations. He wasn't striving for «new architecture» as he claimed, but rather trying to save the old architecture, which was in danger of collapse. Specifically, he was trying to persuade the US Congress to cough up more money for the tottering IMF. The Brazil gambit was one of the arguments employed. If the IMF were not refinanced, it could not bail out Brazil and Brazil would go the way of the Asian tigers, with serious repercussions for the US and world economy.

The string of disasters midwifed by the global money managers is reflective not only of misjudgments but of a fatal flaw in the existing «architecture.» Mr. Clinton had the words right in September, he just didn't know the score. Either new architecture or no architecture at all is needed. But a president who spends most of his working hours figuring out how to buy votes with public money is not likely to be very critical of a multilateral agency that does pretty much the same thing. It subsidizes two very influential constituencies, international bankers and the profligate politicians who preside over such places as Russia, Indonesia and Brazil.

These bankers and politicians got the IMF's number a long time ago. They knew that institutions, like natural organisms, fight for self-preservation. The IMF keeps itself in business by winkling money out of

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rich nations such as the US and handing it out to the poorer brethren, who usually are poor because of gross economic mismanagement. In this age in which income transfers are deeply imbedded in politics, the IMF doesn't lack for clients.

What is absent is any convincing evidence that this has made the world a better place. Africa appears to be regressing, despite the billions poured into it by the IMF, US aid agencies and the World Bank. Asia, acting partly on IMF and US Treasury advice, took a big step backward, in terms of living standards, with the 1997 devaluations, as did Mexico in 1994. The Brazilian and Russian governments, living well beyond their means, were shielded from reality for far too long. The people in such places now must pay a price and their politicians will blame everyone but themselves, including Bill Clinton and Michel Camdessus.

The IMF has proved that it is impossible to get good conduct from politicians by subsidizing their bad conduct. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil) made himself very popular when he killed hyperinflation and gave his country a solid currency with the Real Plan. But he didn't follow through by reforming government itself. Had there been no international safety net supplied by an act of the US Congress, he might have seen fit to work harder. There should have been plenty of evidence around that monetary policy alone cannot compensate for governmental indiscipline.

So it's back to the drawing board for the US Treasury and the IMF — will they really come up with some new « architecture» this time, something like going out of the global management business? Don't count on it.

3. A Dangerous Gun Show

As we listen to the post-Littleton debate on gun control, it's impossible not to notice the enormous gap between the problem gun-control advocates describe and what their proposals can be expected to deliver. Childproof gun locks, requiring instant checks of buyers from licensed dealers at gun shows, holding adults liable for letting children get guns — none of these would have stopped the Littleton murderers, who planned their crime and assembled their arsenal for a year and violated several existing laws in the process. These proposed new laws would make only a marginal difference. The gun controllers' rhetoric, decrying the large number of guns in the United States and pointing out that gun deaths are much lower in countries that ban guns, makes much more sense as an argument for eliminating gun ownership altogether — which many gun controllers would like to do.

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mostly liberal but some conservative. Gun-control advocates are not the only reformers whose solutions are tiny next to the problem they address and who ignore the practical difficulties of their unspoken agendas — while remaining uncurious about possible unanticipated consequences.

Consider advocates of the latest campaign finance bill, who decry the importance of money in politics and then propose new laws that will surely be evaded as previous laws have been. The problem is basic: In a big-government democracy, people will want to influence elections, out of idealism as well as self-interest, and they will spend money to do so. And they will be acting on a claim of right: the First Amendment. To which some campaign finance reformers respond: Get rid of the First Amendment. In March 1997, 38 senators voted to amend the First Amendment to allow campaign spending limits. Or as House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt put it: « What we have here is two important values in direct conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.» The Framers disagreed.

There is little evidence that gun-control advocates have given much thought to the practical difficulties of a serious gun ban. For the fact is that while the media lavish attention on marginal changes in federal gun-control laws, the great source of successful reforms in the 1990s is the states, which have been passing laws allowing law-abiding citizens, after a background check, to carry concealed weapons. Today 31 states, with 50 per cent of the nation's population, have such laws. None of the negative consequences predicted by gun controllers has come to pass. Instead, according to the most complete statistical study by University of Chicago economist John Lott, concealed-weapons laws have reduced crime. Citizens stop crimes 2 million times a year by brandishing guns, Lott writes, and criminals are deterred from attacking everybody because they know that a small number of intended victims will be armed. Lott's book, More Guns, Less Crime, presents a strong argument that more gun control would produce more crime.

Even if sweeping gun control did not have that unintended consequence, it would be fiendishly difficult to enforce. There are some 240 million guns in America, most of them owned by people with a claim of right. And not a frivolous claim. The intellectually serious debate is over how far the Second Amendment right extends: Congress can surely ban the possession of nuclear weapons and surely cannot ban all handguns and rifles; the Second Amendment blocks the road somewhere in between. Earlier this month, former members of Congress Abner Mikva and Mickey Edwards, heads of a bipartisan committee, urged caution in proposing constitutional amendments, and they are surely right in urging avoidance of triviality. What do they have to say to the reformers who would repeal the heart of the First Amendment and ignore the Second?

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4. Down with the Death Penalty

The warrior and the executioner do similar jobs. Both kill the enemies of the state. But there the similarity ends. From time immemorial the warrior has been feted and honoured. The public executioner, by contrast, has always had to lurk in the shadows, working anonymously or for a pittance. There is no glory in what he does.

That sense of discomfort and shame is why a growing number of countries have washed their hands off judicial execution. Today nearly all western democracies, as well as dozens of other countries, have abandoned capital punishment. Most of the countries, which still use it with much frequency, such as China or Iran, are authoritarian states without independent legal systems.

The single most defiant — and most notable — exception to this trend is the United States. To the irritation of many of its allies, the American government regularly defends the death penalty in international forums, reflecting widespread support for capital punishment at home. Too often, death-penalty opponents have reacted to America's stubborn exception-alism on this issue with knee-jerk condemnation, or despair. Instead they should relish the chance to convert the world's most vigorous democracy to a saner policy. For they have a better case.

Three basic arguments are made for the death penalty: that it deters others, saves innocent lives by ensuring that murderers can never kill again, and inflicts on them the punishment they deserve. The first two, utilitarian arguments, do not stand up to scrutiny, while the moral claim for retribution, although naturally more difficult to refute, can be answered.

Despite voluminous academic studies of American executions and crime rates, there is no solid evidence that the death penalty is any more effective at deterring murder than long terms of imprisonment. This seems counter-intuitive. Surely death must deter someone. But the kinds of people who kill are rarely equipped, or in a proper emotional state, to make fine calculations about the consequences. Moreover, even for those who are, decades of imprisonment may be as great a deterrent as the remote prospect of execution. Although European countries have abolished the death penalty, their rates of violent crime have risen more slowly than crime overall. Indeed, their murder rates remain far below America's.

It is indisputable that executing a murderer guarantees that he cannot kill again, and this argument once carried considerable weight in societies that could not afford to imprison offenders for long periods. But today most countries, and especially America, can afford this. Opinion polls

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show that support for the death penalty among Americans drops sharply when life imprisonment without parole is the alternative. Executions are not needed to protect the public.

Against the dubious benefits of capital punishment must be weighed its undoubted drawbacks. It is a dangerous power to give any government, and has been grossly abused by many to kill political opponents and other inconvenient people under the colour of law. Even America, with all its legal guarantees and complex system of appeals, has not been able to apply it fairly or consistently. Worst of all, it is irrevocable. Mistakes can never be rectified. America, like all countries, which use the death penalty, has executed innocents. This is too high a price to pay for an unnecessary punishment.

Where does this leave retribution? Some crimes are so heinous that a societal cost-benefit analysis hardly appears relevant. Death alone seems sufficient. And yet, as many relatives of murder victims have discovered, real retribution can never be achieved. For example, the only way to repay fully those who have committed multiple murder, or killed in a ghastly way, would be to torture them physically in turn, or to strive to make them endure repeatedly the torments of death. Modern societies have rightly turned away from such practices as barbaric, tempering their demands for retribution in recognition that tit-for-tat vengeance is beyond the reach of human justice. That is where the death penalty, too, belongs.

In 1976, after short lull, the court allowed executions to proceed again under redrafted state statutes. Since then it has frequently changed the rules, most recently restricting appeal avenues so as to shorten the time between conviction and execution, now averaging almost ten years. Even so, researchers still find inequities in how the death penalty is applied. Avoiding a death sentence depends a lot on having a good lawyer. Not surprisingly, rich, well-educated murderers rarely get a capital sentence. And the risk of executing the innocent remains very real. Since 1973, 78 people have been released from death row after evidence of their innocence emerged.

The attempt to apply the death penalty fairly has exhausted even some of its staunchest supporters on the bench. After retiring from the Supreme Court, Lewis Powell, the author of a landmark 1987 decision upholding Georgia's death penalty even in the face of an undisputed statistical study showing racial bias in its application, said that he regretted the decision and backed abolition.

America's stubborn retention of the death penalty is usually seen as the abolitionist movement's greatest defeat. And yet in the long term it may prove to be one of its greatest assets. If even America, with its com-

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plex legal guarantees and elaborate court system, cannot apply the death penalty fairly or avoid condemning the innocent, then do executions have a place in any society which values justice?

5. The end of privacy The Surveillance Society

« The right to be left alone.» For many this phrase, made famous by Louis Brandeis, an American Supreme Court justice, captures the essence of a notoriously slippery, but crucial concept. Drawing the boundaries of privacy has always been tricky. Most people have long accepted the need to provide some information about themselves in order to vote, work, shop, pursue a business, socialise or even borrow a library book. But exercising control over who knows what about you has also come to be seen as an essential feature of a civilised society.

Totalitarian excesses have made «Big Brother» one of the 20th century's most frightening bogeymen. Some right of privacy, however qualified, has been a major difference between democracies and dictatorships. An explicit right to privacy is now enshrined in scores of national Constitutions as well as in international human-rights treaties. Without the «right to be left alone,» to shut out on occasion the prying eyes and importunities of both government and society, other political and civil liberties seem fragile. Today most people in rich societies assume that, provided they obey the law, they have a right to enjoy privacy whenever it suits them.

They are wrong. Despite a raft of laws, treaties and constitutional provisions, privacy has been eroded for decades. This trend is now likely to accelerate sharply. The cause is the same as that which alarmed Brandeis when he first popularised his phrase in an article in 1890: Technological change, in his day it was the spread of photography and cheap printing that posed the most immediate threat to privacy. In our day it is the computer. The quantity of information that is now available to governments and companies about individuals would have horrified Brandeis. But the power to gather and disseminate data electronically is growing so fast that it raises an even more unsettling question: in 20 years' time, will there be any privacy left to protect?

Most privacy debates concern media intrusion, which is also what bothered Brandeis. And yet the greatest threat to privacy today comes not from the media, whose antics affect few people, but from the mundane business of recording and collecting an ever-expanding number of every-

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day transactions. Most people know that information is collected about them, but are not certain how much. Many are puzzled or annoyed by unsolicited junk mail coming through their letter boxes. And yet junk mail is just the visible tip of an information iceberg. The volume of personal data in both commercial and government databases has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years along with advances in computer technology. The United States, perhaps the most computerised society in the world, is leading the way, but other countries are not far behind.

Advances in computing are having a twin effect. They are not only making it possible to collect information that once went largely unrecorded, but are also making it relatively easy to store, analyse and retrieve this information in ways which, until quite recently, were impossible.

Just consider the amount of information already being collected as a matter of routine — any spending that involves a credit or bank debit card, most financial transactions, telephone calls, all dealings with national or local government. Supermarkets record every item being bought by customers who use discount cards. Mobile-phone companies are busy installing equipment that allows them to track the location of anyone who has a phone switched on. Electronic toll-booths and traffic-monitoring systems can record the movement of individual vehicles. Pioneered in Britain, closed-circuit TV cameras now scan increasingly large swathes of urban landscapes in other countries too. The trade in consumer information has hugely expanded in the past ten years. One single company, Acxiom Corporation in Conway, Arkansas, has a database combining public and consumer information that covers 95% of American households. Is there anyone left on the planet who does not know that their use of the Internet is being recorded by somebody, somewhere?

Firms are as interested in their employees as in their customers. A 1997 survey by the American Management Association of 900 large companies found that nearly two-thirds admitted to some form of electronic surveillance of their own workers. Powerful new software makes it easy for bosses to monitor and record not only all telephone conversations, but every keystroke and e-mail message as well.

Information is power, so it is hardly surprising that governments are as keen as companies to use data-processing technology. They do this for many entirely legitimate reasons — tracking benefit claimants, delivering better health care, fighting crime, pursuing terrorists. But it inevitably means more government surveillance.

A controversial law passed in 1994 to aid law enforcement requires telecoms firms operating in America to install equipment that allows the government to intercept and monitor all telephone and data communica-

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tions, although disputes between the firms and the FBI have delayed its implementation. Intelligence agencies from America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand jointly monitor all international satellite-telecommunications traffic via a system called « Echelon» that can pick specific words or phrases from hundreds of thousands of messages.

6. «Call to Arms»

New York — Two cheers for the Chief Justice who told the American Bar Association the other day that defense against crime was as vital to national security as «the budget of the Pentagon». In fact, it's probably of more immediate concern to most Americans.

With no empty blasts about «getting tough», he said many other things that needed to be said — for example, that the great cost of lowering crime rates would be less «than the billions in dollars and thousands of blighted lives now hostage to crime». Nor is this an elitist view, since crime afflicts «the poor and minorities even more than the affluent».

We need the undoubted deterrence of « swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty, and — at some point — finality of Judgment». And to mount a real attack on crime will demand «more money than we have ever before devoted to law enforcement», as well as much rethinking of what law enforcement should be.

Still, on such a complex and emotional subject, the chief justice inevitably raised more questions than he provided answers. It's true that crime will not disappear «if we but abolish poverty». But it's more important that poverty and inequity and lack of economic opportunity breed crime, particularly when exacerbated by racial animosities, as in the United States. And where so much poverty exists in such proximity to so much affluence, the crime-breeding effect is likely to be greater.

The chief justice's specific proposals, moreover, will not be easy to effect, even when their validity is accepted. Trial «within weeks of arrest» is highly desirable, but where are hard-pressed cities like Cleveland and New York to find the money for the needed judges, prosecutors, police officers? And in most such cities, by far the most cases are now disposed of by plea bargaining rather than by trial.

He also proposed empowering judges to hold arrested persons without bail when «a combination of the particular crime and past record» makes it likely that the defendant will commit another crime while awaiting trial.

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for error» also rests on judges' questionable ability to tell one from the other.

Unlike many reformers, the speaker knows that his proposals, if carried out, would send many more people to prison. He also understands that to send them to the overcrowded, underfunded, inadequately staffed and policed prisons of the United States would negate his purpose; because more, and more frightening, criminals come out of these schools of crime and violence than go into them.

That is why he proposes prison reforms. He wants prisons to provide mandatory educational and vocational programs designed to «cure» inmates who would be released with at least a basic education.

And what good are the basic skills the Chief Justice wants to give inmates when they return to a society largely unwilling to hire them — particularly blacks or Hispanic people with a record of violence — and an economy with a declining need for low-skill labor?

Deterrence of crime — particularly speedy trial and certain punishment — is vitally needed. How best to achieve it is a subject on which thoughtful and honorable persons disagree — and on which has usefully dramatized, not settled the debate.

7. Democracy is on the March

If there has been a single, recurring theme in western foreign policy-speak since the cold war, it has been the promotion of liberal democracy — not just multy-party politics, but all the things that underpin it, such as the rule of the law, respect for property rights and the absence of police repression. Movement in this direction was assumed not just to be desirable but inevitable; the main challenge for policy makers was to hurry it along.

People may concede that Francis Fukuyama, America's guru of geopolitical optimism, was going a bit too far when — after the collapse of undemocratic regimes in the Soviet Union and South Africa — he proclaimed the end of history. But a milder version of his thesis has passed into conventional wisdom. Wherever brutish regimes persist in torturing, expropriating or otherwise silencing their enemies, the West grits its teeth and says that « progress» towards the Promised Land of liberal democracy has been surprisingly slow.

But what if no such «progress» can be assumed at all? Although the number of governments formally committed to democracy may be increasing, Freedom House, an American think-tank that measures political liberty by a sophisticated range of indicators, reckons that only 39% of the world's population now enjoys real political freedom — hardly a

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massive leap forward from the 36% enjoying it in 1983. And even that slow rate of increase cannot necessarily be relied on. The think-tank notes «growing evidence that the wave of democratisation that began in the 1970s may have crested and... be receding.»

Looking round the world, democracy seems well enough entrenched in Latin America, even if some of its concomitants, such as clean gover-ment and due process, are not. In Asia, it is too soon to tell whether the economic crisis will embolden or weaken those who argue that « Asian values» are an excuse for authoritarianism. But elsewhere there are good reasons to fear that western political values will retreat in the near term.

Democratic institutions are hard to build, and easy to topple when not yet completed. Take the Middle East, where liberal democracy has never been in fashion. As they struggle to cope with demographic explosions and various forms of revolutionary dissent, many regimes will have to choose between being «liberal» — in other words, being secular and modernist about things like education and gender — and being democratic. The latter would entail yielding power to radicals or fundamentalists; they may, in turn give some or all of it back to the people, but it is hardly a sure thing in the short run.

Algeria is only the most extreme example of a country where unbridled democracy would assuredly bring fundamentalists to power and is therefore regarded, both by its own government and many western ones, as a dispensable luxury. To stay in office, other «moderate» Arab governments — from North Africa to the West Bank will resort to increasingly ruthless methods: using secret services to infiltrate, divide and crush opposition movements that might otherwise be unstoppable.

What about the former Soviet Union, where some of the most euphoric pro-democracy rhetoric was once heard? In the southern republics, rulers who held senior positions under communism have used the flimsiest sort of democratic window-dressing to ensure that they remain in office indefinitely. In Russia, the outward forms of multi-party politics and constitutional procedure have proved more robust; but the culture of democracy runs shallow.

And what about Africa, where a spectacular revival of multi-party democracy seemed to reach its peak around 1994? Across a wide swathe of the continent, from Angola to Eritrea, issues of political procedure are overwhelmed by war.

There are still two huge countries — Nigeria and Indonesia — where the near-term trend is towards more political freedom. But both countries face a profound challenge: is it possible for states with vast, diverse populations and acute economic difficulties to go on existing at all, let

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alone existing democratically? To have a democratic future — which means learning to disagree amicably about particular issues — people in these countries need to develop a much stronger consensus about fundamental issues: state borders, the constitution, property rights and intangibles like national identity. And in Lagos and Jakarta, as well as Moscow and New Delhi, the rules and would-rules are faced with a fraying of consensus, not a consolidation.

8. When the snarling's over

The post-cold-war solitary American superpower, say many Europeans, has to be held in check, lest it create an unacceptably Americanised world. The mighty dollar needs to be balanced by the gallant young euro. The spread of American popular culture must be slowed, even if it is popular outside America too.

What many of these Europeans do not realise is that their grumblings are drowned by the growlings of frustrated Americans.

The arthritic economy of continental Europe, say angry Americans, leaves it to them to bear most of the burden of helping recession-hit Asia and Latin America, by buying more imports from these regions and thereby making their own trade deficit even worse. The European Union, though richer than the United States, provides a tiny and diminishing proportion of the high-tech military equipment that NATO depends on if it is to be able to fight wars without an intolerable number of casualties. Now that Europe no longer has to worry about Hitler's Germany or a communist Russia, conclude these exasperated Americans, Europe can be left to its own devices. « Deep structural forces», says Stephen Walt in the current issue of the National Interest, are «beginning to pull Europe and America apart.»

In fact, the sky is not quite that black. The expansion of NATO goes ahead.

Nevertheless, the gloomsters could yet prove right. The Atlantic alliance may indeed collapse, unless both Europeans and Americans look forward rather than backward: unless they base their plans not on memories of the past 50 years but on a reasonable calculation of what the next 50 years will bring.

If the United States were indeed going to remain the world's only great power as far ahead as the eye can see, people believe in the danger of monopoly and the need for competition would draw the necessary conclusion: Europe should provide a counterbalance to this overwhelming American power. But that is not in fact what the future really holds. If the

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European part of NATO raises its eyes beyond its own borders, and sees what will probably happen out there in the next generation or so, it will understand why it still needs America and — even more important — why America increasingly needs Europe.

The one-superpower world will not last. Within the next couple of decades a China with up to 1 14 billion people, a strongly growing economy and probably a still authoritarian government will almost certainly be trying to push its interests eastward into the Pacific and westward into Central Asia, whose oil and gas this energy-poor China will badly need. Sooner or later some strong and honest man will pull post-Yeltsin Russia together, and another contender for global influence will have reappeared on the scene (unless fear of China sends a horrified Russia running into NATO's arms). The Islamist superpower that nervous people predicted a few years ago will probably never come into being, but the Muslim world will certainly continue to produce localised explosions of ideological wrath and geopolitical envy.

This is why the alliance of the democracies needs not only new members but also a new purpose. The alliance can no longer be just a protective American arm around Europe's shoulder; it also has to be a way for Europe and America to work together in other parts of the world. And those who hope to construct a politically united Europe should recognise that this must be done — if it can be done at all — in partnership with America, not to separate Europe from America.

9. They have seen the future, and they aren't very interested

Lucky Hong Kong. Its citizens have access to the Internet «in a more powerful form than 99% of users in the world», marvels Microsoft's Bill Gates. Last year Hong-Kong Telecom launched the first commercial interactive television (ITV) service in the world, offering video and music on demand, along with high-speed Internet access, to 70% of the city's homes. Mr Gates was impressed enough to fly in and announce that this network would become the chief testbed of Microsoft's efforts to merge the television and the PC, allowing users to gain access to broadcast-quality movies, PC games and pay-per-use software from the network nearly as quickly as from their own hard drives.

Mr Gate's presence threw Hong Kong into a technotizzy as the government announced a lot of Singapore-rivalling projects, from a $1.6 billion «cyberport» to efforts to make Hong Kong the region's e-commerce

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hub. But the city's planners do not seem to have noticed that the Microsoft deal is better evidence of the service's problems than of its potential.

Ever since ITV was first put together in the early 1990s, virtually every trial has shown that viewers are not keen enough on video-on-demand to pay the cost of receiving it. Hong Kong reckoned it was different: its 6m relatively affluent and gadget-mad people are packed tightly into easy-to-wire apartment buildings, most within a few miles of Hong Kong Telecom's video servers. When the company launched the service last March, it predicted that it would have 250,000 subscribers by the end of March this year, paying an average of around $50 a month. Instead, it has only 80.000 subscribers, paying an average of $35 each, less than half of what it costs to provide the service.

It seems that although Hong Kong may be a uniquely cheap place to roll out a commercial broadband network to the home, its people are all too typical of guinea pigs everywhere: unimpressed.

Like others who have dipped their toes in the ITV waters only to have them bitten off, the firm now acknowledges that movies, music, even interactive karaoke and horse racing are not enough: it still needs the elusive « killer application». This is where Microsoft comes in.

Today, Hongkong Teleco's broad-band service offers two options, each inadequate in its own way. The service on television does not offer e-mail or PC-quality games, while the high-speed Internet service provided to PCs does not offer movies. Microsoft hopes to solve the problem by fixing the limitation in the PC service.

This would be more exciting were it not for an uncomfortable parallel in Singapore, Hong Kong's smaller wired-island rival. Around the same time Hong Kong telecoms was launching its television-based service, Singapore was rolling out its own broadband network, called Singapore ONE, based on PCs. It has been even less successful, with just 14.000 subscribers, and its video-on-demand part, Magix, has struggled. «Most people just don't want to watch movies on their PC,» explains a spokesman. So Singapore Telecom is now thinking about taking the service over to television, just as Hongkong Telecom appears to be moving in the opposite direction.

Hongkong Telecom has compounded its problems with a big strategic mistake. It chose to make the service available to lower-income apartment complexes first, because they are more tightly packed and thus cheaper to reach, and because lower social classes tend to watch more television. Since those households were also targeted by the city's cable-TV provider, they already have as much television as they want. Worse, many

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higher-income consumers, who tend to be more spread out, cannot get the service yet.

Of course, any new technology takes time to establish itself, and telephone companies are not the obvious choice to package and market entertainment and information. But Asians are normally enthusiastic early-adopters of the latest gizmo. Western executives thrilled by the vision of an interactive future should note the apathy in Hong Kong, and beware.

10. Backwards and forwards in China

Much of the outside world believes China's reform programme has been slammed into reverse by the East-Asian financial crises. But in some respects it has sped things up. The direct economic costs of the region's problems are not the issue. Despite doubts about the accuracy of last year's GDP growth of 7.8%, China is far from being in recession, unlike many of its neighbours. Certainly, China's exports will be badly hit this year, and previous high levels of foreign investment will fall. Yet the export sector remains relatively small. It is China's domestic economy that counts, and this is shielded from external shocks by a largely non-convertible currency.

The impact of the regional crisis has more to do with expectations. A belated recognition by China's leaders that the corporate models of Japan and (particularly) South Korea are now bankrupt marks a profound change. China, most of its rulers now admit, can no longer simply count on state-guided growth to get out of trouble. Even though few, if any, yet believe in outright privatisation the consensus at the top is that much more reform is needed.

Hence the urgency of recent policies that aim to get the state out of business. Some of the most powerful bureaucracies, such as the Ministry of Information Industry and the Ministry of Communications, have had their business wings clipped. Indeed, the total number of ministries has been shrunk by a quarter. The armed forces, deeply involved in business, were given until the end of last year to quit commerce.

China's legions of small and medium-sized state enterprises have been told to fend for themselves. Many of them have stopped receiving state funds. Many have been merged or «privatised» in all but name. Almost all of them have been sacking workers, or sending them home on unpaid leave. Remaining workers have been put on notice that they will have to pay higher rents or buy their homes. Medical costs will rise.

Policymakers also admit to the dangers in the financial system. The People's Bank of China has been restructured along regional lines. The

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hope is that local barons will no longer be able to bully local central-bank officials into providing ill-judged credit. Finally, state banks have been « ordered» to lend according to strictly commercial criteria and to private companies.

The goverment says it wants to spur the development of consumer credit, for which there will be a great appetite. And it is determined to crack down on the welter of arbitrary fees and taxes imposed by local party bosses on farmers and on people living in small towns. This is probably the chief source of sporadic unrest in the provinces.

The trouble is, once the stimulus money is spent, there will be a further pile of shoddy infrastructure projects, redundant factories and unrecoverable loans to show for it. And all the while, the government's bill — for the banks' bad debts, for social-welfare costs and for the stimulus package — will continue to mount as China takes two steps forward and one back.

11. Talking peace, preparing for war

Time supposedly waits for no man, not even an American politician. So in an ideal world the House and Senate would present an agreed proposal for next year's budget by the statutory deadline of April 15th. There would then be good-humoured, well-intentioned debate with the administration and, just in time for the fiscal year, beginning this October 1st , the country would know exactly how much its federal government was going to spend, and how it was going to raise the money.

So much for the ideal. The reality is that the election cycle is inexorably turning and catching President proposed $1.8 trillion budget in its spokes. In other words, for all the promises of bipartisanship, for all the determination of the speaker of the House (where all spending bills originate) to make the trains run on time, Republicans and Democrats are still at odds.

Moreover, both parties have their squabbling factions, and everybody knows that legislative deadlines can come and go without everyone necessarily dying. The April deadline, for example, has been met only three times since 1975; and last year, thanks to the electorally mistaken obduracy of the tax-cutting zealots among the House Republicans, Congress failed for the first time in 24 years to pass a budget resolution even after the deadline.

Political deadlines are another matter. In just under a year from now the primary season — for a new president and a new Congress — will

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come into bloom. To be ready for that season, all candidates need to start raising money now. That in turn means they must be careful in what they do and say in this political cycle.

The worst problems are for the Republicans. With a budget surplus now expected by the Congressional Budget Office to be around $133 billion, the party's instinct is to return the excess to «hard-working Americans» in the form of a tax cut. But tax is low on most people's list of concerns (even though the right-wing Heritage Foundation points out that this year's federal tax take, 20.5% of economic output, is the highest peacetime level ever), whereas saving Social Security is close to the top. So House and Senate Republicans agreed last week to a plan from the Senate Budget Committee: taxes would be cut by up to $900 billion over the next decade, but the cuts would not be taken from the surpluses in the Social Security trust fund.

The plan neatly blunts the Democrats' charge that Republican tax cuts would be at the expense of Social Security. But since next year's overall surplus is expected to be mostly, if not entirely, accounted for by the Social Security surplus, it also means tax cuts later rather than sooner — which is not what the Republican faithful really want.

Meanwhile, the party risks looking mean to the electorate in its professed determination to keep the budget within the spending caps agreed in the balanced budget legislation.

Last year Congress approved an omnibus spending bill that broke through the caps to the tune of $21 billion — which was conveniently deemed «emergency» spending outside the law's scope. Doubtless the same will happen this year (the President's budget proposals, even with the most favourable arithmetic, will break the caps by at least $18 billion) unless the ceiling is raised. Given bipartisan enthusiasm for more spending on education and the armed forces, that would seem a plausible solution, but one that will annoy Republican conservatives, involve haggling over other spending programmes, and strain the unity of the Republicans' six-seat majority in the House.

All this highlights the perennial Republican rift between ideologues and pragmatists, and leaves the Democrats chortling at the prospect of regaining the House and even the Senate. But not all Democrats are encouraged. The triumph of the current presidency was the triumph of the «New Democrats», adopting Republican notions of fiscal responsibility. Yet the administration's travails over illicit campaign finances have made it more dependent on «old Democrats», notably organised labour and minorities.

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And in the meantime? With the Republicans trying hard to avoid the label of another « do-nothing Congress», optimists have trailed the notion of bipartisan cooperation on Social Security, education, defence and health-care. Some hope. This week a supposedly bipartisan position on federal aid to the states for education fractured into partisan wrangling, and there will be more of the same. After all, because gridlock in Congress hurts the Republicans, it helps the Democrats.

But that is a zero-sum game for now, not the future. One well-known Democratic strategist, speaking sensibly off the record sees only a Pyrrhic victory ahead: a protectionist-inclined Democratic Party with outdated regulatory instincts that will trap minorities in poverty.

12. Schooling and the New Illiteracy

Recent developments in higher education have progressively diluted its content and reproduced, at a higher level, the conditions that prevail in the public schools. The collapse of general education; the abolition of any serious effort to instruct students in foreign languages; the introduction of many programs in black studies, women's studies, and other forms of consciousness raising for no other purpose than to head off political discontent; the ubiquitous inflation of grades — all have lowered the value of a university education at the same time that rising tuitions place it beyond reach of all but the affluent...

What precipitated the crisis of the sixties was not simply the pressure of unprecedented numbers of students (many of whom would gladly have spent their youth elsewhere) but a fatal conjuncture of historical changes: the emergence of a new social conscience among students activated by the moral rhetoric of the New Frontier and by the civil rights movement, and the simultaneous collapse of the university's claims to moral and intellectual legitimacy. Instead of offering a rounded program of humane learning, the university now frankly served as a cafeteria from which students had to select so many « credits». Instead of diffusing peace and enlightenment, it allied itself with the war machine. Eventually, even its claim to provide better jobs became suspect...

At the same time, the student movement embodied a militant anti-intellectualism of its own, which corrupted and eventually absorbed it. Demand for the abolition of grades, although defended on grounds of high pedagogical principle, turned out in practice — as revealed by experiments with ungraded courses and pass-fail options — to reflect a desire for less work and a wish to avoid judgment on its quality. The de-

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mand for more «relevant» courses often boiled down to a desire for an intellectually undemanding curriculum, in which students could win academic credits for political activism, self-expression, transcendental meditation, encounter therapy, and the study and practice of witchcraft. Even when seriously advanced in opposition to sterile academic pedantry, the slogan of relevance embodied an underlying antagonism to education itself— an inability to take an interest in anything beyond immediate experience...

In the seventies, the most common criticism of higher education revolves around the charge of cultural elitism... Two contributors to a Carnegie Commission report on education condemn the idea that «there are certain works that should be familiar to all educated men» as inherently an «elitist notion.» ... The Carnegie Commission contributors argue that since the United States is a pluralist society, «adherence exclusively to the doctrines of any one school... would cause higher education to be in great dissonance with society.»

Given the prevalence of these attitudes among teachers and educators, it is not surprising that students at all levels of the educational system have so little knowledge of the classics of world literature ...

Those who teach college today see at first hand the effect of these practices, not merely in the students' reduced ability to read and write but in the diminished store of their knowledge about the cultural traditions they are supposed to inherit. With the collapse of religion, biblical references, which formerly penetrated deep into everyday awareness, have become incomprehensible, and the same thing is now happening to the literature and mythology of antiquity — indeed, to the entire literary tradition of the West, which has always drawn so heavily on biblical and classical sources. In the space of two or three generations, enormous stretches of the « Judeo-Christian tradition,» so often invoked by educators but so seldom taught in any form, have passed into oblivion. The effective loss of cultural traditions on such a scale makes talk of a new Dark Age far from frivolous. Yet this loss coincides with an information glut, with the recovery of the past by specialists, and with an unprecedented explosion of knowledge — none of which, however, impinges on everyday experience or shapes popular culture.

The resulting split between general knowledge and the specialized knowledge of the experts, embedded in obscure journals and written in language or mathematical symbols unintelligible to the layman, has given rise to a growing body of criticism and exhortation. The ideal of general education in the university, however, has suffered the same fate as basic

education in the lower schools. Even those college teachers who praise general education in theory find that its practice drains energy from their specialized research and thus interferes with academic advancement. Administrators have little use for general education, since it does not attract foundation grants and large-scale government support. Students object to the reintroduction of requirements in general education because the work demands too much of them and seldom leads to lucrative employment.

Under these conditions, the university remains a diffuse, shapeless, and permissive institution that has absorbed the major currents of cultural modernism and reduced them to a watery blend, a mind-emptying ideology of cultural revolution, personal fulfillment, and creative alienation.

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1. ... , восстанавливающий...; 5. ...наконец, признав, что...; 8. ...предложенного налогообложения...; 9. ...взятый на работу (приглашенный)...; 10. ... , проводимому ...; 18. Давно считая...; 25. Открывая...; 33. Даже принимая во внимание (учитывая)...

Причастные конструкции

48. Им нужно было правительство, выбранное...; 49. ...увидели, что их усилия были напрасны...; 51. ...хотели, чтобы... были выведены...; 57. ...увеличивают свой... доход... за счет...

Абсолютная причастная конструкция

1.Когда...; 2. Так как...; 4. ... поскольку; 18. ..., при этом...; 20. ..., причем...; 34. ..., что объясняется...; 39. ..., в обстановке, когда... .

Причастия в функции союзов и предлогов

1. ...при условии...; 6. Если принять во внимание (учитывая)...;

8. при наличии (если предположить наличие)...; 10. ...после...; 16. ...учитывая (в свете)...; 20. Из-за отсутствия...; 22. ... , но не гарантируя...; 23. До (в ожидании)...; 29. ... , что касается (относительно, в отношении)...

§ 4. Страдательный залог

1. ...осуществляется...; 2. ...многие в Европе не любят...; 5. Споры идут о...; 8. Политическая оппозиция и... отвергли...; 10. ...подверглись критике (стали предметом критики)...; 12. ... , к которым прибегали, чтобы...; 16. После него остались два сына. 19. ...ими управляют...; 31. ...сейчас рассматриваются...; 36. ...большинство китайцев на нем не говорят...

§ 5. Сослагательное наклонение

1. ...возросли бы, если бы они увеличили..., было бы перекрыто...; 2. Было бы...; 8. если бы не было..., счел бы необходимым...; 10. ...не продержалась бы..., если бы... не было возможности...; 11. ... , если бы не... могла бы быть...; 21. Если (вдруг, почему-либо), то... конечно смягчило бы...; 27. ...никогда бы не решились (не посмели)...; 31.... , если бы и сейчас продолжалась, то... мог бы быть...; 36. Если бы не..., было бы невозможно...

§ 6. Модальные и вспомогательные глаголы

Should

1. ...должны...; 2. ...следует (должны); 14. Важно рассмотреть...; 15. Странно, что... выбрал...; 16. Не случайно, что... выражают...; 18. правильно ли, что фермерство берет на себя...; 20. Они настаивают на изложении...; 23. ...настоял на том, чтобы Тори отказались...; 24. ...рекомендовал поднять...; 28. ...предлагают ограничить...; 29. ...предложение предупредить... ; 30. ...требует... осознать...; 32. ...чтобы... не было оправданием...

Can, May, Might; Must

1. ...не может...; 3. ...может... может...; 5. ...может быть и может...; 6. ...должен...; 12. ...могла бы и должна была...; 13. ...мог бы быть...; 17.   ...возможно   (может   быть)...;   18.   ...возможно,   придется...;

19. ...возможно, уже произойдут...; 23. ...возможно, уже достигла...; 38. Возможно, он понял...; 48. ...вполне может...; 60. ...наверняка (по всей вероятности) был...

То Be

1. должно было (планировалось)...; 5. ...должен был...; 6. ... , чтобы имели...; 7. ... , если мы хотим, чтобы...; 8. ... , чтобы кто-нибудь или что-нибудь выжило (осталось на плаву)...; 9. ..., если оно (государство) хочет...; 26. их первоочередная задача — покончить с...

То Have

1. ...придется...; 4. ...вынужден...; 11. ...неизбежно будут...; 15. ...хотят, чтобы был найден выход из тупика...; 16. ...обеспечить, чтобы все ехали...; 17. ... , на основе которой Ассамблея обратится к...; 19. ...эта Комиссия получит гарантии своей независимости и повышения профессионализма. 23. ...вернули (не приняли)...

То Do

1. ...сделал..., сделать..., все-таки сделал..., таки сделал...; 2. ...все-таки...; 3. ...действительно... ; 9. ...все-таки...; 15. ...не только не...; 17. ...также растет и...; 18.... зависели (раньше); 19. ...стоила...

§ 7. Артикль

1. этот (представленный)...; 3. ...существующим (широко распространенным)...; 6. ...нынешние... ; 12. ...Депрессии 30-х гг. ...; 17. ...своего рода...; 20. ...некоторого...; 21. ...такому миру, в котором...; 23. ...предложило ввести...; 24. ...в Персидском заливе... объявили о создании...; 25. ...планируют провести...; 45. В спор по вопросу национальностей вступил лидер немецких евреев, который...; 47. В Тайпее в ближайшее время ожидается прибытие... делегации (группы) для переговоров; 51. Вскоре Бразилию посетит группа (экспертов) МВФ для...; 54. Мало какие болезни...; 60. ...не достигло каких-либо целей...; 62. ...система (аппарат) управления (страной)...; 63.... такое правительство, которое...

§ 8. Четырехчленная каузативная конструкция

1. ...силой заставило его сделать...; 2. ...принуждать... предоставлять...; 6. ...уговорили... отказаться от активных действий...; 9. ...подтолкнули... к действиям...; 11. ...обмануть... и поверить...; 21. ...запугать... и заставить проголосовать...; 23. ...объединить... в...; 24. ...в провоцировании... на...

§ 9. Различные функции слов It, One, That It

1.  Это сделало  более  вероятным...;  2.  ...  ,  что  компания...;

4. ...Иран..., страна...; 5. Суд считает практически невозможным...;
8.... дали понять...; 11. Именно роль...; 13. Как раз (именно) тогда...;
17. Только...; 19. Каково...; 21. Если будет успех — его никогда не
забудут; если неудача — нам никогда не простят...; 24. Только по
сле...

One

1. Если есть чувство (понимание)..., то нужно признать, что...; 2. ...того, кто...; 3. ...именно тот, кто...; 9. ...существующий...

That

1. ... , что... те, кто...; 4. ... , чтобы...; 6. ... , что... и что... , которое...; 7. ... , который...; 21. Для тех немногих, которые... , которая... та, которая...; 22. ...с тем, чтобы...; 23. Но это...; 25. То, что...; 29. ...теперь, когда...; 31. И дело не в том, что... . А в том, что...

§ 10. Многозначные и трудные для перевода слова

Существительные и прилагательные

1. ... державы...; 2. ...полномочия...; 3. ...разграничение властей...;

5. ...власти...; 6. ...держава статус кво...\ 12. ...судебный иск (де
ло)...; 13. ...вопрос...; 14. ...в случае с... 15. ...испытательный полигон
(проверочная модель)...; 16. В любом случае...; 17. ...как было (дело)
и с...; 18. ... , но это не так...; 25. ...поставить рекорд...; 26. ...послуж
ной список...; 27. ...известно, что (имеет репутацию)...; 32. ...положе
ние дел (факты) с...; 34. ...данных, что...; 36. ...отчеты...; 38. ...схе
ма...; 39. ...пути...; 41. ...модели...; 42. ...баллотироваться на долж
ность...; 43. ...обязанности, которые на них возложены...; 44. ...у вла-

сти...; 46. ...условия...; 48. ...предприятия... ; 51. ...финансовые круги...; 53. ...населенного пункта...; 54. ...государственные финансы...; 55. ...открытым, публичный, государственные, общество (народ); 59. ...петицию общественности...; 62. ...общедоступны..., открыто, общество (население, граждане)... .

Служебные слова

1. ...так как...; 3. ...с тех пор...; 9. ...хотя...; 10. ...в то время как...; 13. ...а...; 17. Оказывая давление для получения...; 20. ..., так как...; 22. ...для...; 26. ...положить конец...; 27. Для...; 33. ...в течение какого-то времени...; 35. ...несмотря на...; 36. ...как..., как...; 37. ...в качестве...; 38. ...так как...; 39. В то время как...; 40. ...по мере того, как...; 42. ...хотя (несмотря на то, что)...; 43. Еще в...; 44. ...когда...; 47. ...так же..., как и...; 49. Как бы он ни хотел...; 50. хотя и...; 51. Что касается...; 60. ...Что касается...; 61. ...не только к убийцам, но и к поставщикам наркотиков и насильникам. 70. ...в такой же степени, как...; 72. ...ничем иным, как...; 73. ...лишь для небольшого числа...; 74. ...Но... лишь...; 75. ...как...; 76. ...не можем не вспомнить...; 82. ...чем угодно, только не...; 83. Как только...; 84. Когда-то...; 88. Наконец-то...; 90. ...значительно ниже...; 91. ...настолько же хорошо...; 92. ..., но сам характер (деятельности) ЕС.

§ 12. Эллиптические конструкции

1. ...практически нет (очень мало) признаков...; 2. ...как ни странно...; 3. ... , что вообще (привез или нет)...; 4. ...прежде всего (во-первых)...; 5. ..., если и извлекли урок, то он заключается в том, что...; 7. ... , если оставить без изменений (без внимания)...; 8. ... , если вообще когда-нибудь...; 13. ... , каковыми бы ни были...; 20. ...будучи (хотя и более) эффектным...; 21. ...хотя бы в силу (по причине)...

§ 13. Препозитивные атрибутивные словосочетания

1. ...резолюцию Сената США, ...нарушения прав человека в Китае, ...; 2. ...четырехдневный тур по четырем странам...; 4. ...портфели заказов и атмосфера уверенности в промышленности...; 13. ...сокращения заработной платы и средств пенсионных фондов, ...ранее    осуществленные    меры    по    сокращению    расходов...;

19. ...растущий молодой средний класс страны..., баланс проб и ошибок...; 20. Программа ООН по контролю за наркотиками...; 31. ...пакет мер по оказанию экономической помощи...; 34. ...надежный, доступный уход (присмотр) за детьми..., поддерживаемые правительством районные центры по дневному уходу (присмотру) за детьми; 48. ...городскими магистратами, в которых большинство членов-предствителей Лейбористской партии. 52. ...общество вседозволенности, хаоса и распущенности (нравов).; 56. ...финансируемых государством программ по предоставлению пособий безработным для безработных, не занятых в течение короткого периода времени...; 67. ...рекордный доход и данные по продажам... , доход после вычета налогов...; 69. ...фигур Роденовских мыслителей..., горячими головами, борцами со всем и вся, выступающими против всего, что предлагается и...

§ 14. Неологизмы

1. ...сдерживающим фактором (центром), сдерживающим инструментом (средством)...; 5. ...трюк...; 6. ...вернувшимся людям...; П....отмены регулирования (контроля)...; 15. ...разрастись...; 17. ...дать «добро» на...; 18. ...перевод предприятий в другие районы...; 19. ...сторонников партии «зеленых»...; 20. ...экологически чистые...; 21. ...политика «переподания крох» (с барского стола)...; 24. ...теория экономического развития, ориентированного на «предложение»...; 33. ...группы «бритоголовых»... , журналы «бритоголовых»; 55. ...создание гетто...; 59. Язык, используемый в ЕС...; 62. ...фото-дипломатия...; 64. манипуляторы общественным мнением...; 71. ...язык политической корректности...; 73. ...активисты, выступающие за решение одной конкретной проблемы...; 76. ...удобные для (удовлетворяющие интересы) пользователя...; 78. ...передача (делегирование) власти сверху вниз (на места)...; 82. ...уход от реального мира.

§ 15. Интернациональная

и псевдоинтернациональная лексика.

«Ложные друзья переводчика».

1. ...важное...; 3. ...драматичную...; 5. ...широко распространенная...; 7. ...народной...; 9. ...официально...; 11. ...различие между демократическими  государствами  и диктатурами (государствами с

диктаторскими режимами)...; 18. ...разногласия...; 20. ...военные отрасли промышленности...; 22. ...событиями...; 23. ...развитие...; 34. ...десятилетие ...конкретные...; 35. ...необъективный (предвзятый)...; 38. ...межпартийная ...; 39. ...сторонник партии «зеленых» и... , не принадлежащий ни к какой партии...; 41. ...партизаны...; 43. ...заинтересованные круги...; 46. чиновники...; 49. ...сторонники...; 54. ...законные...; 55. ...обучение... , грамотными...; 56. ...учебного...; 57. ...(учебный) зачет...; 60. ...стенографический отчет заседания...; 61. ...движущая сила.




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