Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения. 1. The major deterrent is in a man's mind

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 lan­
guage.

8. Top British economists today fired a deadly broadside at govern­
ment 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 ex­
actly 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 move­
ment and taken up by the workers in all industries.

15. The movement «to kill the Bill» may snowball to irresistible pro­
portions 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.

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 Cali­
fornia) 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 moto 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 pol­
icy 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 fa­
vors big business by faster depreciation writeoffs. This measure is par­
ticularly opposed by organized labor as a big business ripoff

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 re­
sult 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 produc­
tive 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. Unfortu­
nately, 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 ab­
sorbed in domestic political questions and neglecting broader issues of
Western security.

28. American think tanks offer prolific proposals for Transatlantic re­
design.

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 pro­
posals from the Government's favoured think-tank for root-and-branch
reform of the monarchy.

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 jour­
nalist 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 demon­
strators 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 inevita­
bly 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 hel­
mets» 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 ap­
pears 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 influ­
ence at minimum risk.

44. President of the Czeck 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, law­
yers 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 liv-
ingry, not weaponry,

49. The picture of a European economy in perpetual decline is a cari­
cature. For example, American punditry has ignored the one-time effect
of German unification in slowing European growth.

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 com­
panies. 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 intergration of minority cultures into mainstream Britain.

56. Mr.Bauer's think-tank was created by James Dobson, a pluto­
cratic 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, acro­
nyms, 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 adver­
saries 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, ulti­
mately, 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 dur-

ing 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 offi­
cial is accused of scandal,» Davis tells US News.

67. Sometimes the world of spin is more than an inside-the-beltway
game.

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 Govern­
ment'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 ir­
relevance 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 re­
ligious 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 Amer­
ica 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 «Re­
nault» 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 com­
munication — 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 discus­
sions with students and faculty members.

§ 15. 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, сочетаемо­стью 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:

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» перево­
дчика представляют многозначные английские слова, одно из зна­
чений 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, неожидан-

ный, впечатляющий, важный

realize выполнять, реализовать; представлять себе, осо-

знавать

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.

3. 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 множест-

венном 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