Практические задания
ЗАДАНИЕ 1. Определите, какие лексические единицы являются псевдоинтернациональными.
Material, accurate, detector, structure, artist, cartoon, reactor, radio-set, period, moment, replica, scandal, professor, partisan, television, production, satin, computer, contrast, honorary, congress, genial, magazine, interval, distance, record, climate, original, radio.
ЗАДАНИЕ 2. Определите значения следующих слов. Выполните перевод предложений:
extravagant - 1. spending much more than necessary; 2. wasteful; 3. very high (of prices).
We mustn’t buy roses – it is too extravagant in winter.
catholic – general, wide-spread; broad-minded.
Mr. Prower was a politician with catholic tastes and interests.
dramatic - 1. sudden or excited; 2. holding the imagination by unusual appearance of effects.
How would you account for such dramatic changes in the situation?
routine – the regular, fixed, ordinary way of working or doing things.
Frequent inspections were a matter of routine in the office.
pilot – 1. a person qualified to steer ships through certain difficult waters 2. a guide or a leader.
Before entering on his literary career Mark Twain was employed as pilot on vessel going up and down the Mississippi river.
student – a person with a stated interest; anyone who is devoted to knowledge.
The recently published work of the world-known ornithologist will be interesting to any student of bird-life.
ЗАДАНИЕ 3. Переведите следующие словосочетания, в которых используются «ложные друзья переводчика»:
Banking officers; public debt; interest rate; personnel department; champion of peace; legal documents; accurate data; human values.
ЗАДАНИЕ 4. Переведите следующие слова, близкие по звучанию, но имеющие разные значения:
Accept, except; addition, edition; affect, effect; complement, compliment; data, date; economic, economical; latter, letter; policy, politics; raise, rise; dawn, down; human, humane; allusion, illusion.
ЗАДАНИЕ 5. Проанализируйте ошибки, допущенные переводчиками в следующих предложениях. Сделайте правильный перевод:
She was left alone – Она была левой вдоль.
Click here and find more information – Щелкните здесь и получите море информации.
We are the champions – Мы – шампиньоны.
To be or not to be – Пчеле или не пчеле?
Just in case – Только в портфеле.
Oh, dear – Ах, олень.
Manicure – Деньги лечат.
I’m going to make you mine - Я иду копать тебе шахту.
Iron Man – Человек-утюг.
Finnish people – Конченные люди.
Bye bye baby, baby good bye – Купи, купи ребенка, ребенок хорошая покупка.
Let’s have a party – Давай организуем партию.
Press escape – Побег прессы.
Be careful, it’s a con – Будь осторожен, это конь.
(по материалам сайта www.lifejournal.com)
ЗАДАНИЕ 6. Ознакомьтесь с текстом. Найдите интернациональные и псевдоинтернациональные слова.
Terrorism
T
he
word «terrorism» is controversial. Definitions of «terrorism»
generally
involve some or all of the following: 1) a terrorist act is generally
unlawful; 2) it is violent and may be life threatening; 3) the
violence is politically motivated; 4) the direct targets are
civilians; 5) the direct targets may not be the main targets; 6) the
main targets may be one or more nation-states, governments, or
societies; or a political, ethnic, or religious group, or an industry
or commercial operation, within those societies; 7) the objective is
usually to frighten the main targets; 8) there may or may not be a
claim of responsibility.
Terrorism expert A. P. Schmid of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention has proposed a short legal definition for use by the UN, namely that an act of terrorism is «the peacetime equivalent of a war crime». The words «terrorism» and «terror» originally referred to methods employed by regimes to control their own populations through fear, a tactic seen in totalitarian regimes such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. The current use of the term relies more on the example of the 19th-century revolutionaries who used the technique of assassination, particularly the anarchists and Narodniks (populists) in Tsarist Russia, whose most notable action was the assassination of Alexander II.
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