Функции слова it.

1. Личное местоимение; занимает место подлежащего. Как правило, замещает упомянутое подлежащее.

2. Указательное местоимение – это.

3. Формальное подлежащее в безличных предложениях. Не переводится. Запомните: если абзац начинается с it . it никогда не переводится.

It is important that the test be repeated. Важно, чтобы опыт повторили.

4. Формальное дополнение. Не переводин я.

The commission finds it necessary to study this relationship. Комиссия считает необходимым рассмотреть это соотношение.

5. Вводное слово в предложениях с эмфатическим оборотом. Не переводится. Перевод эмфатического оборота начинается словами именно, только.

It is not the sound of the voice that travels over the wire when we talk over a telephone. Когда мы говорим по телефону, (только) не звук голоса распространяется по проводу.

IV. Переведите предложения на русский язык.

1. When a ray of any kind strikes an atom, it may knock an electron out of the atom.

2. It was in 1957 that the first man-made satellite was launched in our country.

3. It is people who are the flesh and blood of any business organization.

4. It is people who are at present doing much of the information processing for management.

5. In the course of normal system design it is not merely necessary that the system be stable. It is essential that the system be sufficiently stable.

6. It has been expedient to build most computers to handle what are called binary numbers, rather than numbers based upon our common system of tens.

7. It was this phenomenon that attracted my attention.

8. It is much easier to delete an element from an ordered list than it is to add one.

V. Обратите внимание на значения следующих слов. Предложения переведите.

future будущий

feature черта; признак; особенность;

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further дальнейший; далее

1. Elements of the library of the future are already in place.

2. The low level languages are oriented to a machine, while the high level languages feature the fact of being problem oriented languages.

3. In this chapter we shall discuss the possible features that control panel might have.

4. For the moment I thought to question him further, then decided against it.

5. He further identifies some critical issues being addressed by artificial intelligence.

weather погода

whether ли

whether ... , or или ... , или

whether ... , or not ли ... , или нет

1. Whether the control function is executed as an immediate operation depends on the operation and the type of device.

2. The condition code indicates whether or not the channel has performed the function specified by the instruction.

3. This program is used when it is necessary to define whether the device is out of order, or there are some errors in the previous program.

4. Whether or not the transfer of control operation actually occurs depends upon the results of the previous logical operations.

5. The weather in Washington reminds me of a winning candidate who promises everything, but you never know just when to expect it at all.

I. Прочитайте и переведите текст без словаря.