Домашнее задание к уроку 2

1. Изучите переводческие комментарии к уроку 2.

2. Выполните упражнения I, П, IV, V, VII.

Урок 2

Словарь

Ministry of Foreign Affairs The US State Department The British Foreign Office high-ranking officials head of state prime minister = premier, PM vice premier deputy premier current premier ex-premier = former premier the then premier the late premier chancellor president foreign minister foreign secretary (Gr.Br) secretary of State (USA) defence minister interior minister finance minister health minister minister of social services (security) Ministry of social security (Gr.Br) housing minister labour minister education minister minister of sport minister for environment minister of commerce Ministry of pensions and national insurance (Gr. Br)

Министерство иностранных дел, МИД Госдепартамент США Министерство иностранных дел Великобритании высокопоставленные лица глава государства премьер-министр вице-премьер заместитель премьера нынешний премьер-министр бывший премьер-министр бывший в то время премьер-министр (покойный) премьер-министр канцлер президент министр иностранных дел министр иностранных дел госсекретарь США министр обороны министр внутренних дел министр финансов министр здравоохранения министр социального обеспечения Министерство социального обеспечения министр жилищного строительства министр труда министр образования министр по вопросам спорта министр по вопросам окружающей среды министр торговли Министерство по делам пенсий и государственного страхования

Упражнение I. Сопоставьте способы обозначения должностных лиц на английском языке и на русском:

− France's president, Jacques Chirac;

− Тony Blair, Britain's prime minister;

−America's secretary of state;

− Germany' s chancellor;

− the Czech Republic's housing minister.

ПЕРЕВОДЧЕСКИЙ КОММЕНТАРИЙ

Способы обозначения должностных лиц

1. В английском языке порядок слов при обозначении должностных лиц следующий:

название страны + должность

India's prime minister.

В русском языке:

должность + название страны

премьер-министр Индии.

И в русском, и в английском языке имя собственное может стоять и перед, и после обозначения должности.

2. Возможен и другой вариант обозначения должностных лиц: the British
minister и the prime minister of Britain.

3. Названия аналогичных должностных лиц могут передаваться
существительным counterpart. Например:

America's secretary of state is meeting his Italy's counterpart in Washington today.

Сегодня госсекретарь США встречает в Вашингтоне министра иностранных дел Италии.

Упражнение II. Переведите устно со зрительной опорой краткие информационные сообщения. Определите контекстуальное значение незнакомых вам слов и проверьте себя по словарю (см. переводческий комментарий "Работа '86Словарем. Контекстуальное значение слов", данный в конце урока):

1. India's prime minister formed his new government keeping senior cabinet members in their posts.

2. Iran's interior minister has been charged by court with insulting Islamic leaders and
publishing anti-islamic material in his newspaper Khordad.

3. The Czech Republic's prime minister got an EU (European Union) rebuke for
h likening Josser Arafat to Hitler. He denied he had.

4. BEDING - China on Monday named a top-level foreign trade official to be its
first-ever minister of commerce, handing him responsibility to oversee the country's
emerging capitalist-style trade operation and its obligations to the World Trade
Organization.

5. Health officials are going to check all flights arriving from Southeast Asia to
make sure passengers do not show symptoms of a new mystery pneumonia that has
killed at least nine people in China and infected hundreds world-wide, Russia's
deputy health minister was quoted by Interfax as saying.

6. The College of Medicine of South Africa added its voice to many others
criticizing South Africa's ex-president, Nelson Mandela for delays in providing Anti-
Aids drugs to pregnant women.

7. Brazil's president sacked his minister for social services who had been critical
of the government's tight fiscal and monetary policies.

8. America's former housing secretary, escaped a jail sentence by pleading guilty
of lying to the FBI.

9. Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's former prime minister, jailed after a military coup in
1999, was freed and went into exile in Saudi Arabia.

10. The World Social Forum held a lively and disorganised meeting in Porto
Alegre, Brazil Some 51,000 delegates attended, three times more than last year.
(March, 2003)

11. Crocodile in pool 'improves' swimmers

MARK DAVIES, a swimming coach from Australia, was told in July that he would need to use a private pool if he wanted to continue encouraging his athletes by putting a crocodile in the pool with them.

"The thought of something chasing them down the pool certainly improves the speeds of my swimmers," Davies said in defence of his technique, which was condemned by the Australian minister of Sport. Before being put in the pool, the 6ft saltwater crocodile had its jaw bound with tape and its claws clipped, - the coach tried to calm down the minister.

Упражнение III. Переведите со зрительной опорой без предварительной подготовки:

1. At least 163 people drowned when two boats carrying illegal immigrants from
Indonesia to Australia sank in stormy seas. About 1,000 people have arrived illegally
in Australia by boat since July.

2. At least 350 people died in India's worst railway disaster in the north of the
country. A passenger train ploughed into the back of another that had stopped after
hitting a cow.

3. To test corruption in the police force, the interior minister sent a lorry full of

spirits on a 700-killometer journey through the country.

The police stopped it 24 times. They asked for bribes 22 times.

Упражнение IV. Переведите на слух:

Germany's chancellor, India's ambassador to Britain, Iran's foreign minister and Italian counterpart, high-ranking officials, трехдневный визит, среди встречающих были, по приглашению кого-либо, экономические и социальные реформы, по прибытии в Японию, environment, тренер по плаванью, бывший министр здравоохранения, оказывать теплый прием, current premier, the then premier, the late premier.

It's better to be late, Driver! Then to be the late driver.

Упражнение V. Запишите под диктовку цифры и прочтите их по-английски:

21, 34, 69, 19, 18, 61, 17, 8, 4, 16, 71, 82, 80, 93, 7, 66, 78, 82, 93, 99, 68. 44, 50,, 60, 90, 13, 14, 99, 38, 28, 49, 75, 77, 94, 10, 15, 66, 71, 13, 14, 99, 57, 61.

Упражнение VI. Прочтите следующие географические названия и покажите на карте (из упражнений уроков 1 и 2).

Brazil, Tokyo, Indonesia, Australia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Iran, Beijing, Sweden, Swedish, Portugal, Venezuela, Argentina, St Petersburg.

Упражнение VII. Переведите текст письменно.