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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 language.
8. Top British economists today fired a deadly broadside at government monetarist policies and called for a “ reflation” U-turn.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. However, the president's drive toward “ deregulation” goes in exactly the opposite direction, proposing to ease restrictions on coal dust and air pollution in general.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. The car workers' lobby last week was an important step in the right direction. The issue should be pressed throughout the trade union movement and taken up by the workers in all industries.
15. The movement “to kill the Bill” may snowball to irresistible proportions by the time when the Trades Union Congress recall conference on June 5.
16. The US administration has given Israel the go-ahead to sell certain US-supplied military equipment to third countries, according to Israeli television.
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17. 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.
18. With an officially estimated 50,000 jobs lost to plant closures and runaways between January and September, organized labor here (in California) has been pressing for protection.
19. 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.
20. The proposal is being backed by the motor industry, which fears that reuse and recycling targets may prove impossible unless vehicles are channeled into “ green” dismantling and scrap yards.
21. 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 policy 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 favors big business by faster depreciation writeoffs. This measure is particularly opposed by organized labor as a big business ripoff.
23. 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.
23. Honest Clintonites admit that the leak probably came from their own side.
24. Supply-side economic theory argues the economic growth is a result 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 productive enterprises and the economy will not grow, according to the supply siders
25. Editorial-page article, sings a supply-side true believer's praises of the sales tax relief granted by the internet Tax Freedom Act. Unfortunately, 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.
26. 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.
27. “Scandilux” is a newly coined phrase, current in Washington, to describe a trend in some smaller NATO countries toward becoming absorbed in domestic political questions and neglecting broader issues of Western security.
28. American think tanks offer prolific proposals for Transatlantic redesign.
29. 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.
30. Downing Street yesterday moved swiftly to deny support for proposals from the Government's favoured think-tank for root-and-branch reform of the monarchy.
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31. 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
32. The term “ brain-washing” was first used by an American journalist 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.
33. 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.
34. 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 demonstrators 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.”
36. The Minister of Economy need not conclude that the British worker is too cussed to fit into an economic plan, or that he will inevitably 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.
37. In July a team of U.N. communications specialists moved into the country almost at the very moment the first contingents of “blue helmets” were deplaning at the Leopoldville airport.
38. The biggest teach-in for London Telephone Region engineers is to be launched early next year.
39. 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.
40. He indicated in his statement that lowering the U.S. profile appears to be a reasonable approach to the problem.
41. He himself is doubtless aware the low-profile concept still leaves a number of questions unanswered. Some of the most pertinent.
42. 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...
43. 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 influence at minimum risk.
44. President of the Czech 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.
45. 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.
46. High-profile miscarriages of justice persuaded many judges, lawyers and politicians that courts, no matter how careful, could never avoid executing some innocent people.
47. The Russian National Orchestra has the highest profile, if only be cause its independence gives it freedom of maneuver.
48. The administration should put people to work by spending on livingry, not weaponry,
49. The picture of a European economy in perpetual decline is a caricature. For example, American punditry has ignored the one-time effect of German unification in slowing European growth.
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50. In the journalistic labeling game, any political scandal touching the presidency is now a Something-Gate
51. 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.
52. 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.
53. 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 companies. Whether it will come as a relief to the Conservative candidates in those seats, it will remain to the election day to find out.”
54. Another example of infortainment is docudrama, where real events are dramatised and reenacted by actors.
55. The authors of the housing association report stress that their guidelines are not about ghettoisation or segregation, but are intended to promote integration of minority cultures into mainstream Britain.
56. Mr.Bauer's think-tank was created by James Dobson, a plutocratic televangelist, not surprisingly he maintains that Republican policies should rest on religious conservatism.
57. 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.
58. The drift towards virtue, along with a new code of conduct for Eurocrats published this week, is welcome.
59. “Eurospeak is a separate in-house language, full of jargon, acronyms, 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.”
60. American Eurosceptics accuse the European allies of being free riders on American-provided security.
61. 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.
62. The President will do almost anything to get the press cameras lined up in the White House for pictures of him bringing two bitter adversaries 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”.
63. Photo-op diplomacy lacks an important ingredient – credibility.
64. 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, ultimately, 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 during the 1997 congressional inquiries into alleged campaign fund-raising abuses.
65. 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.
66. 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 official is accused of scandal,” Davis tells US News.
67. Sometimes the world of spin is more than an inside-the-beltway game.
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68. 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.
69. All the spin-doctoring in the world will not preserve the Government'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.
71. Some dismiss (the language of) political correctness (PC) as an irrelevance 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.
72. Few diseases have been as politicised as AIDS. And in few other cases is political correctness such a danger to the disease's victims.
73. Single-issue activists, incensed by human wrongs in Burma or religious persecution in Tibet, increasingly drive American foreign policy.
74. Both single-issue activism and the casual treatment of allies can hurt America. The single-issue crowd fails to consider the cost to America 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.
76. Cellular phones are perhaps one of the most user-friendly devices modern technology has devised. However, can you imagine the potential stored within?
77. In general, the regional parties [in India] are investor-friendly.
78. 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.
79. “Renault” and “Nissan” = Renissant? Pushing together “Renault” and “Nissan” does not quite spell renaissance. Yet, that is what both car firms now seek.
80. The new (mobile-phone) company, to be called Vodafone Air Touch PLC... aims to become the “ Coca-Cola” of global wireless communication — the main brand recognized by consumers world-wide.
81. 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.”
82. “Escapism” is a word that tends to pop up frequently in discussions with students and faculty members.
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, сочетаемо-стью 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:
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prospect перспектива (а не проспект)
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» переводчика представляют многозначные английские слова, одно из значений 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, неожиданный, впечатляющий, важный
realize выполнять, реализовать; представлять себе, осознавать
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.
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 множественном числе industries может означать отрасли промышленности или промышленность (ряда стран); policies политика, политический курс р яда 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
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