5.Most of the men she knew in their thirties were already married, and the ones that were divorced seemed to be looking for someone younger whom they could somehow mold into exactly what they wanted (SN).
6.She also wanted to shop this week. Not at JCPenney or Sears or places that advertised Nike shoes and Chicago Bulls T-shirts, but at little trinket stores that Kevin found boring (SN).
7.Then Bilbo sat down on a seat by his door, crossed his legs, and blew out a beautiful grey ring of smoke that sailed up into the air without breaking and floated away over The Hill. (TR).
8.Translate the sentences using narrowing.
1.But now, I admitted, the entire thing was a complete and total washout.
2.Dragons did not mate with the beasts of the field, and Targaryens did not mingle their blood with that of lesser men.
3.His fingers toyed with the hilt of his borrowed blade, though Dany knew he had never used a sword in earnest.
4.In 1929 a crew of German scientists set out to track the journey of one particular bottle. It was set to sea in the South Indian Ocean with a note inside asking the finder to record the location where it washed up and to throw it back into the sea. By 1935 it had rounded the world and travelled approximately sixteen thousand miles, the longest distance officially recorded (SN).
5.Looking back, Theresa felt that David became a different person altogether, although she couldn’t pinpoint the moment when it all began to change (SN).
6.All that the unsuspecting Bilbo saw that morning was an old man with a staff.
7."Very pretty!" said Gandalf. "But I have no time to blow smokerings this morning. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone."
9.Translate using antonymic translation.
1.So they went away once more, not without some grumbling and whispering. The miller was sniggering (JRT).
2.I hope I can get away without bloody Perpetua kicking up (FH)
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3.However, Farmer Giles's blunderbuss … did not do execution, because he seldom loaded it, and never let it off (JRT).
4.And shortly after that they looked into a room that was quite empty except for one big wardrobe; the sort that has a looking-glass in the door (CSL).
5.There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur (CSL).
6.The place was white and there was something aloof and puritanical and uncaring about the whiteness, as if the city stood so lofty in its thoughts that the crawling scum of life was as nothing to it (S.C).
7.If he didn't want to talk about where he'd come from, it was all right with me (S.C).
8.Yet Ned could not help but notice that those pleasures were taking a toll on the king (MG).
10.Translate the sentences substituting the subject. Why this way of interpretation is possible in these sentences?
1.Smith's face was wreathed in beatitude and a look like that, planted on his flabby, vacant face, reeked of obscenity (SC).
2.There had been, in past history, many people who had heard voices, but until now not too many people bad paid attention to them (SC).
3.It took Ned a moment to comprehend her words, but when the understanding came, the darkness left his eyes (GM).
4.There came a soft knock on her door. “Come,” Dany said, turning away from the window (GM).
5.The shifting shadows made the stone figures seem to stir as the living passed by (GM).
6.The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors.
7."Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!" he said aloud. "Why don't they come and lend a hand?" Lo and behold! there stood Balin and Dwalin at the door of the kitchen…
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11.Translate the sentences using consolidation\deconsolidation of the proposition.
1.I realize it has become too easy to find a diet to fit in with whatever you happen to feel like eating and that diets are not there to be pick and mixed but picked and stuck to, which is exactly what I shall begin to do once I've eaten this chocolate croissant (F.B).
2.Find self constantly scanning face in mirror for wrinkles and frantically reading Hello!, checking out everyone's ages in desperate search for role models (Jane Seymour is forty-two!), fighting long-impacted fear that one day in your thirties you will suddenly, without warning, grow a big fat crimplene dress, shopping bag, tight perm and face collapsing in manner of movie special-effect, and that will be it (FB).
3.Tuck, at the first word from her, had gone swarming up the ladder, with his robe tucked up underneath his belt so he wouldn't trip, and now was handing down the duffle bags and the other plunder to Sara, who was halfway up the ladder, taking the stuff from him and dropping it as gently as she could at the ladder's base (CS).
4.Long furrows in the sand showed where our bodies had plowed through it, pushing up little mounds of sand ahead of us (CS).
5.But she had heard the talk in the yards; a direwolf dead in the snow, a broken antler in its throat (MG).
6.She had been born on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to ripthe island fastness apart(MG).
7.Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack (MG).
12.What is the reason of using grammar transpositions in these fragments?
1.The city and the ships and the field itself all were china-white, as if they had been carved by some industrious sculptor out of one great block of stone to form a single piece of statuary. – И город, и корабли, и само поле похожи на белые изваяния, вырезанные трудолюбивым скульптором из одной-единственной каменной глыбы.
2.It was Sara Foster coming down the ladder and she was having trouble with that silly ballistics rifle slung on a strap across one shoulder. – По ле-
стнице спускалась Сара Фостер, и было заметно, что дурацкая баллистическая винтовка, висевшая на ремне через плечо, причиняет ей неудобство.
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3.Out there, at the base of the city wall, something seemed to be moving, an elusive flow and sparkle. – Где-то там, у подножия городской стены, ощущалось волнение, неотчетливое движение и блеск.
4.Like wild running horses some crummy artist would draw for a calendar, but keeping the set pose the artist had given them, never changing it. –
Подобные изображения обычно помещают на календарях, где лошади застывают навеки в позе, выбранной для них художником.
5.Four of the horses came rocking up and I began loading them. – Раска-
чиваясь,к нам приблизилисьчетыре лошади,и яначалнагружатьих.
6.The sun was touching the city skyline and hunks were being nibbled out of it by the topmost towers. – Город на линии горизонта соприка-
сался с солнечным диском, и самые высокие башни вгрызались в светило, откусывая от него целые ломти.
7.He had made quite a dent on the beautiful door; he had also, by the way, knocked out the secret mark that he had put there the morning before. –
Он (Гэндальф) так измолотил свежевыкрашенную дверь, что знак, начертанный им, попросту осыпался.
13.What translation techniques is better to use in given in bold fragments and why?
1.AEGIDIUS DE HAMMO was a man who lived in the midmost parts of the Island of Britain. In full his name was Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo; for people were richly endowed with names in those days, now long ago, when this island was still happily divided into many kingdoms.
2.But bustle has very little to do with business. Men did their work without it; and they got through a deal both of work and of talk.
3.He had his hands full (he said) keeping the wolf from the door that is, keeping himself as fat and comfortable as his father before him.
4.That was more than enough for Garm. He gave a yelp of fright and bolted home. Quite forgetting that he was out without leave, he came and barked and yammered underneath his master's bedroom window. There was no answer for a long time. Farmer Giles was not easily wakened.
5.As for Farmer Giles, when the blunderbuss went off it knocked him over flat on his back; and there he lay looking at the sky and wondering if the giant's feet would miss him as they passed by.
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6.Next market day he got enough free drink to float a boat: that is to say, he nearly had his fill, and came home singing old heroic songs.
7.The capital of that realm, the Middle Kingdom of the island in those happy days, was some twenty leagues distant from Hams and they paid little heed at court, as a rule, to the doings of rustics in the provinces.
8.There was one dragon who was deeply moved. Chrysophylax Dives was his name, for he was of ancient and imperial lineage, and very rich.
9.They all crowded round him, calling him Good Aegidius, Bold
Ahenobarbus, Great Julius, Staunch Agricola, Pride of Ham, Hero of the Countryside. And they spoke of Caudimordax, Tailbiter, The Sword that would not be Sheathed, Death or Victory, The Glory of the
Yeomanry, Backbone of the Country, and the Good of one's Fellow Men, until the farmer's head was hopelessly confused.
10.The visitors poured through the castle gates in a river of gold and silver and polished steel, three hundred strong, a pride of bannermen and knights, of sworn swords and freeriders (GM).
14.Choose the best variant of translation. Find lexical transformations and prove your answer.
1.Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive. Mr. Vernon Dursley had been woken in the early hours of the morning by a loud, hooting noise from his nephew Harry’s room. – В доме № 4 по Тисовой улице во время завтрака разразился очередной скандал. Ранним утром мистер Вернон Дурсль проснулся от громкого уханья совы, долетевшего из комнаты племянника // В который уже раз в доме номер четыре по Бирючинному проезду за завтраком кипела ссора. Доносившееся из комнаты племянника Гарри громкое уханье разбудило мистера Вернона Десли ни свет ни заря.
2.For the first couple of weeks back, Harry had enjoyed muttering nonsense words under his breath and watching Dudley tearing out of the room as fast as his fat legs would carry him. But the long silence from Ron and Hermione had made Harry feel so cut off from the magical world that even taunting Dudley had lost its appeal – and now Ron and Hermione had forgotten his birthday. – Первое время Гарри наслаждался тем, что бормотал себе под нос бессмысленные слова и смотрел, как Дадли вылетает из комнаты со всей скоростью, на кото-
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