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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:
1. 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.
2. catholic – general, wide-spread; broad-minded.
Mr. Prower was a politician with catholic tastes and interests.
3. 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?
4. routine – the regular, fixed, ordinary way of working or doing things.
Frequent inspections were a matter of routine in the office.
5. 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.
6. 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:
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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:
1. She was left alone – Она была левой вдоль.
2. Click here and find more information – Щелкните здесь и получите море информации.
3. We are the champions – Мы – шампиньоны.
4. To be or not to be – Пчеле или не пчеле?
5. Just in case – Только в портфеле.
6. Oh, dear – Ах, олень.
7. Manicure – Деньги лечат.
8. I’m going to make you mine - Я иду копать тебе шахту.
9. Iron Man – Человек-утюг.
10. Finnish people – Конченные люди.
11. Bye bye baby, baby good bye – Купи, купи ребенка, ребенок хорошая покупка.
12. Let’s have a party – Давай организуем партию.
13. Press escape – Побег прессы.
14. Be careful, it’s a con – Будь осторожен, это конь.
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