Упражнение 3.Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения

1. China yesterday attacked a US Senate resolution condemning Chinese human rights violations, adding to tensions between the two giants.

2. She is one of her party's most active and successful fund-raisers and has used her political action committee to funnel campaign contributions to other House Representatives.

3....the public-safety commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., was ready to use water canons and attack dogs on a group of civil rights demonstrators.

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

5. The Treasurer introduced a Bill to implement the Government's plan to give preferential taxation treatment to life insurance companies.

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. 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.

8. When mothers return to their jobs, reliable, affordable child care is provided by a vast network of government-backed neighborhood day- care centers.

9. John Kasich, the 46-year-old House budget chairman, is a populist fighting «corporate welfare» tax cuts for big business.

10. In the past few years coordination agencies have been created by the Government to include a Foreign Exchange Committee and an Internal Finance Committee; and the Central Bank and the Ministries of Finance, Commerce and State Enterprises exert some influence in this sphere.

11. A week of county council election opened in England and Wales yesterday when Monmouthshire and Norfolk went to the polls.

12. Public support for the railway strike decision is growing. This is shown in an opinion poll published in yesterday's Mail.

13. The protest is against National Coal Board redundancy notices to 140 miners, mainly young men of under 21, which take effect today.

14. 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.

15. The get-rich-quick mania also plays into people's natural competitiveness and, often, deep-seated feelings of inadequacy.

16. Only one-quarter of the world's synoptic surface weather observation posts are below the Equator.

17. The three month United Nations World Trade and Development Conference, which was attended by representatives of 122 Governments, was called the Little General Assembly.

18. 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.

19. 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».

20.Most of British men who came to adulthood in the first half of the century had stay-at-home wives and manual jobs.

21. The country has become an any thing-goes, chaotically libertarian society.

22. Far more questionable are the restrictions proposed for the state- financed unemployment benefit programs for the short-term unemployed.

1. The sources said the US President was reluctant to take part in a North-South summit meeting after a eight-nation economic summit meeting»

Упражнение 4. Ниже даны характерные для газет заголовки. Предло­жите наиболее подходящую лексическую единицу из ряда единиц, данных в скобках. Далее переведите за­головки на русский, ориентируясь на общий смысл, контекст и фоновую (общую) информацию о проис­ходящих событиях.

Например: ____ Dog Bites Three Children (Vicious,Harsh, Sacred)

Вставляем нужное слово и получаем следующий газетный заголовок:

Vicious Dog Bites Three Children

(Vicious потому, что в английском языке принято предупре­ждать о злых собаках следующим образом: Beware of Vicious Dog!)

Перевод можно предложить такой:

От злой собаки пострадали трое детей.

1. "Send Food To Relieve _____ In Africa" (Famine, Underdog, Reckless, Economical)

2. City Council In ______ Vote To Lower Taxes (Casual, Fortunate, Unanimous,Ingenious)

3.. Henry Ford Honored As ______In Auto Industry (Sacred, Pioneer, Rival, Brutal)

4. Millions ______To Warmth Of The Southwest (Appeal, Surpass, Expand, Migrate)

5. Producer To______Musical Comedy Hit Of The 1920s (Appeal, Commence,Revive, Pledge)

6. "Be ______Of Get-Rich-Quick Schemes," Warns Banker (Wiry, Reckless, Grateful, Confident)

7. Referees Fail To Control _____Hockey Game (Nimble, Duplicate, Unruly,Vast)

8. Dieter Praised For _____ Figure (Observant, Slender, Bewildered, Casual)

9. Training Film Shows How To Avoid Being ______Driver (Nimble, Weary, Reckless, Accurate)

10. Flood Water ______As Emergency Ends (Collapse, Subside, Quench, Respond)

11. 12-Year-Old Mugger Protected By ______ Law (Final, Rash, Juvenile, Fugitive)

12. Diplomat Sent To _____ Angry Canadians (Pacify, Prosecute, Betray, Disrupt)

13. Hundreds At Church ______For Accident Victims (Beckon, Mourn, Respond, Venture)

14. ______Fire Expected In Lebanese War (Cease, Squander, Compel, Commend)

15. Former ______ Does Not Miss Royal Luxury (Guide, Monarch, Architect, Censor)

16. Merger Effort Will ______The Two Companies (Daze, Betray, Depict, Unite)

17. Painter Aims To ______Life In Haiti (Outlaw, Depict, Exhaust, Utter)

18. Bank Rewards ______Depositors (Rash, Pauper, Excessive, Thrifty)

19. "Forgetful" Husband Accused Of ______ (Morality, Bigamy, Toil, Severity)