1. Переведите следующие предложения, содержащие английские фразеологизмы из сферы бизнеса и финансов.

1. The proposal went over big with big business.

2. In the times of stagnation many overseas companies pulled over, but somehow we managed to buck the trend.

3. Let’s deal him in and give him a piece of the cake.

4. The manager has put our project into cold storage, so it is still up in the air.

5. Lots of hot money is being transferred to Switzerland which has always been the tax haven for Europe’s wealthy.

6. All we understood from his double-dutch was that it was supposed to be a Dutch party.

7. The company has gone on the hook recently.

8. If you think he is a soft touch, you have another guess coming; he is just a loan shark, something of a shylock.

9. The turnover has increased considerably before the triple witching hour.

10. The business is slack, and our sales level hardly reaches the break-even point.

2. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на случаи передачи артикля:

1. A new team was formed to develop the project.

2. The new team was accommodated in the University Inn,

3. The few objections I have are not aimed at ruining the project.

4. I'm waiting here for a Dr. Fisher to get the papers.

5. She is a kind of person you never know what to expect.

6. The report now seems to be more solid than the one presented in the previous board meeting.

7. Following the agreement, a third of the funds cannot be spent until next July.

8. Miss Trotwood came on the Friday when David was born.

9. This is a most serious matter, and it needs to be treated with care.

10. Many women in the U.S., now in the professions, would be unable to work without illegal immigrants' domestic help.

11. The danger of forest fires is the greater the more carelessly people act when camping.

12. I'm sure they've got a motivation for completing the research be­fore the financing is stopped.

13. Under the circumstances, a courier is the only safe way to send them a message.

14. A peculiar coalition of business and consumer groups defends the system.

15. Usually, Taiwan prefers to talk of becoming a "regional operations centre". However, at a conference in Taipei earlier this month, many speakers at long last applied the phrase to the island's con­nection to mainland China.

16. To smooth future international bankruptcies, new rules are needed.

3. Переведите следующие фразеологизмы и укажите способ перевода (фразеологический эквивалент, аналог, калькирование, описательный перевод).

1) to assume an air of injured innocence;

2) a little bird told me;

3) Peeping Tom;

4) whom the gods love die young;

5) a clever tongue will take you anywhere;

6) to fish in troubled waters;

7) least said soonest mended;

8) to bite the hand that feeds you;

9) to dance to somebody’s pipe;

10) to add fuel to the fire;

11) to throw sands in the wheels;

12) a stitch in time saves nine;

13) run with the hare and hunt with the hounds;

14) when Queen Ann was alive;

15) to pull chestnuts out of the fire for somebody.