Практические задания

ЗАДАНИЕ 1. Определите способ перевода фразеологических единиц:

Оригинал	Перевод
To read between lines	читать между строк
To cut off with a shilling	лишить наследства
Queen Ann is dead!	открыл Америку!
To cry on smb’s shoulder	плакаться кому-либо в жилетку
To move Heaven and Earth to get smth	свернуть горы на пути к чему-либо
Can the leopard change his spots	горбатого могила исправит
To be from Missouri	быть скептиком
Put the cart before the horse	поставить телегу впереди лошади
Peeping Tom	человек с нездоровым интересом
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones	люди, живущие в стеклянных домах не должны бросаться камнями
Dine with Duke Humphrey	остаться без обеда
To be afraid of one’s own shadow	бояться собственной тени
To add fuel to fire	подбавить масла в огонь
To dance to somebody’s pipe	Танцевать под чью-либо дудку

ЗАДАНИЕ 2. Переведите следующие образные выражения. Определите способы их перевода.

Cat Got Your Tongue Shoot Off one’s Mouth

(Can’t talk?) (express one’s opinion loudly)

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ЗАДАНИЕ 3. Проверьте себя: насколько легко вы можете перевести без подготовки следующие фразеологические единицы:

1. That guy, Fred, is a real banana.

2. The guy is out to lunch.

3. His ideas are OK on the surface but when you start to look at them you realize that they are really Swiss cheese.

4. He is in a real stew.

5. Many happy returns of the day!

ЗАДАНИЕ 4. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на фразеологические единицы и их определения:

1. The proposal went over big with big business (to go over big – to succeed; big business – the world of large, powerful business organizations).

2. Let’s deal him in and give him a piece of cake (to deal smb in – to include somebody in an activity; to give smb a piece of cake – to share or divide profits with another person).

3. The manager has put our project into a cold storage, so it is still up in the air (to put into a cold storage – to put off for a later date; up in the air - unsettled).

4. All we understood from his double-dutch was that it was supposed to be a Dutch party (double-dutch – speech that sounds meaningless and cannot be understood; a Dutch party – a meal when everybody pays for himself).

5. The company has gone on the hook recently (to go on the hook – to start having debt).

6. If you think he is a soft touch, you have another guess coming; he is something of a shylock (a soft touch – a person who freely lends money; to have another guess coming – to be mistaken; shylock – a greedy person).

ЗАДАНИЕ 6. Подберите соответствия для следующих пословиц.

1. Among friends all thing are common.

2. The best is often the enemy of the good.

3. Don’t carry coals to Newcastle.

4. Every cloud has a silver lining.

5. Every dog has his day.

6. Four eyes see more than two.

7. Honey catches more flies than vinegar.

8. It never but it pours.

9. Truth will out.