Unit 11 rendering the meanings of the english aspect forms

Exercise 36. Choose the appropriate Ukrainian aspect forms to render the meanings of the verbs in italics in the following sentences (Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous).

1. The end of the Cold War has reawakened problems that were never properly settled and plunged Europe into the world wars. (T., June 9, 93) 2. The real fool is he who does not know himself. I was such a one too long. You have been such a one too long. Be no more. (Wilde) 3. The UK stock market yesterday reached a new all time peak, as indeed it has been doing all this week. (Ind., June 7, 01) 4. Statisticians have been telling us that private car ownership is shooting up in Russia but now you can really feel it. On some day Moscow seems as choked as Tokyo or Los Angeles. (Ind., Oct. 1, 94) 5. In the days after September 11, the FBI responded to America’s mood of rising panic by launching a nation-wide round-up of suspects. Over several weeks, as every possible lead was pursued, nearly 12 people were detained in an operation characterised by extraordinary secrecy. A year later, just four of them have been charged with offences related to terrorism. Most of the rest have since been freed after long stretches spent in high security prisons. (G., Sept. 9, 02) 6. In May Nissan, Japan’s second-biggest car maker, was rumored to be selling Nissan Diesel, its lorry-making subsidiary, to Germany’s Daimler-Benz, though nothing has yet been settled. (E., Aug. 29, 98) 7. Violence towards others and themselves by patients whose psychotic conditions have been neglected is commonplace – and has been for years. (Ind., Dec. 30, 93) 8. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) is the best loved poet in America, and has been for some years. (T., Apr. 28, 94) 9. Britain is – and long has been – a diverse society. Leaving aside distinct Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish traditions, England has had a dominant culture refreshed and enriched by regular waves of immigrants. (R., Apr. 23, 01) 10. [Arminius] Vambery [Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Budapest], whom Queen Victoria described as “a wonderfully clever man,” once wrote: “The pursuit after filthy lucre, however humiliating and despicable it may appear, is and ever has been, a cruel necessity.” (T., Apr. 1, 05) 11. Interestingly, antagonism [to the U.S.] spread beyond the usual suspects. [George W.] Bush made anti-Americans not only of “Guardian” readers but of plenty of home county “Spectator” types. I shared their opposition to the war [against Iraq], believing as they did that it was an unnecessary, unprovoked attack on a country that posed no threat to its invaders. But I did not – and have not – lost my love for America. I have trembled at almost every decision made by the US government these last three and a half years, but they have not made me an opponent of the United States. (S., Aug. 7, 04) 12. Our day of political pride is over. A great race we are and shall remain; a great power we have been and are no longer. (Inge) 13. We have written before that this is a president [Bill Clinton] who regards the truth as something to be manipulated rather than to be told. He lies, and does so most particularly when he is in trouble with regard to his own behavior. He has done it before; he did so in this case. (I.H.T., Feb. 8, 99) 14. In the Pinellas county courtroom yesterday, the benches behind the defendants were crammed with black members of the church, including Mr Lyon’s wife Deborah, who in a fit of jealous rage in July vandalised and tried to burn down the luxury house her husband had bought with his mistress. Mrs Lyons has since said she was drunk at the time, and has forgiven her husband. She sat directly behind him smiling through much of the proceedings, but turned and moved away from him when the court adjourned. (G., Jan. 26, 99)

Exercise 37. Choose the appropriate Ukrainian aspect forms to render the meanings of the verbs in italics in the following sentences (Past Perfect vs Past Perfect Continuous).

1. He was already Dean of Edinburgh when in 1962 he went to Birmingham as Bishop of Aston. He had suffered the painful loss of his wife from a brain tumor, and later remarried, and both he and his new wife were very reluctant to leave Edinburgh. (Ind., May 27, 93) 2. In 1952 Elia Kazan appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities. There he not only stated that he had once been a member of the American Communist Party but also named eight other people who to his knowledge had also been members. (T., March 22, 99) 3. When I flew back to London last month after reporting on the World Trade Centre atrocities, I was cross-examined by an armed American security man. He wanted to know where I had stayed in Washington, why I had changed my flight home and who I had met during my time in the United States. (D.T., Oct. 11, 01) 4. Lawyers for Martha Stewart are seeking a new trial, saying a juror had failed to disclose that he had been arrested on an accusation of assault and provided other false information about his background. (I.H.T., Apr. 2, 04) 5. Sherpas and Buddhist lamas told him the glacier no longer reached to where Hillary’s base camp tents were pitched: it had melted three miles up the valley. (Obs., June 9, 02) 6. Ten years ago, [Heston] Blumenthal was a photocopier salesman. He had never worked in a kitchen, and his knowledge of food came entirely from books. Now he is one of the youngest chefs in history to earn three Michelin stars and, just shy of his 39th birthday, is the leading light of molecular gastronomy, an emerging school of cooking that emphasizes the science of cuisine. (T., May 2, 05) 7. Cuba suffered its worst hurricane in more than 50 years when gusts of up to 125 mph battered the island, killing five people and destroying tens of thousands of homes. Cuba’s president, Fidel Castro, had ordered 750,000 people to move away from Havana to safety shelters. “I said we would survive the hurricane and we have,” he told the country’s Granma newspaper. (G., Nov. 10, 01) 8. Not long before he died in 1973, my wife and I visited Noel Coward in Switzerland because we had been neighbours in the village of Aldington. (D.T., Jan. 7, 02) 9. In 1927 Kitty married Malcolm Muggeridge. He had shared a room with her brother Leonard at Cambridge and had recently returned from teaching in Alwaye in India. (Ind., June 26, 94) 10. On the tenth of October, 1879, I drove over from Norwich to Mannington Hall, to spend the night at Lord Orford’s. I arrived at four o’clock in the afternoon and was engaged in pleasant and animated conversation until it was time to dress for dinner. We dined at seven. Our party numbered six persons, of whom for at least had been great travellers. I myself was rather a listener. (Lindley) 11. Without a word he led me to the picture gallery and stood simply pointing to an empty picture frame. He told me that the frame had contained one of the rarest and most valuable pictures in England – in the world – the original Velasquez. (Hornung) 12. It had to happen sooner or later. The president ran out of guests to entertain on Martha’s Vineyard. Every man, woman and child had been invited to a presidential event, and with school starting, there was no one left to break bread with the president. (I.H.T., Aug. 28, 97) 13. Before I moved here [to the UK] eight years ago, I only had to take my U.S. passport into the British embassy in Paris (where I lived at the time), along with a letter from my employer. In a few minutes I was given a visa under the category “representative of an oversea news organization.” When it came time to renew the visa, one year later, I had quit and was working as a free-lance writer in London. (I.H.T., Feb. 22-23, 03) 14. On Saturday January 17 I was waiting in Miami Airport for my flight to London. I had been on a three-month holiday in the US with my American boyfriend and I needed to get back to the UK to renew my visa. (G., Feb. 19, 04)