Unit 10 rendering the meaning of syntactical complexes with a causative meaning

Exercise 21. State how the meaning of the causative structures in the following sentences should be rendered into Ukrainian. Explain your choice of the translation method.

1. Clinton’s presence caused the hotel front door to be locked, the street to be jammed, and armed police to patrol the roofs. (T., May 14, 98) 2. I am amazed that Britain is attracted by the idea of federalism. A more serious look at the structure and efficiency of government in Australia and other federations might cause some of those in favour of the idea to rethink. (E., Apr. 17-23, 99) 3. Concern grew over the impact of the fire at one of Toyota’s part suppliers. The blaze has forced Japan’s largest carmaker to halt output at most of its domestic plants this week. (F.T., Feb. 7, 97) 4. A bomb scare forced a Greek aircraft flying from Athens to New York to make an emergency landing at Standsted airport yesterday accompanied by two RAF fighter jets. (T., Sept. 27, 04) 5. Nonetheless, analysts say that despite continued falling of gas prices cold winter weather should send more gas flowing through the pipelines, possibly increasing the revenue. (W.S.J., Feb. 23-24, 96) 6. The plunge in Hong Kong stocks sent a chill across Europe on Thursday, sending stock prices tumbling in all major European markets and raising some fears of a blow of confidence that could curtail the Continent’s economic recovery. (I.H.T., Oct. 24, 97) 7. William Richard Hurdman was born at Sutton, in South London. After Latymer Upper School, his life-long love of the sea led him to spend six years in the Navy, in part as a diver. (T., May 28, 02) 8. British forces in the Gulf are going short of rations, leading their families to send out food parcels, it was claimed. (T., Feb. 22, 03) 9. Hungry sharks are venturing tens of kilometers up Australian rivers and schools are warning children not to swim in rivers. A drought in Australia has caused fresh water levels in rivers to fall and salt water is extending further inland, with lower stocks of river and estuary fish forcing sharks further upstream. (I.H.T. Nov. 28, 02) 10. Plaster falls in the classrooms and the presence of pneumatic drills has forced some of science teachers to write their lessons on the blackboard, because they cannot make themselves heard above the din. (Ind., Oct. 10, 98)

Exercise 22. State how the meaning of the causative structures in the following sentences should be rendered into Ukrainian. Explain your choice of the translation method.

1. A group of 16 United Technologies Corporation employees have filed a suit charging that the company tried to intimidate them into abandoning their plan to form a union. (Nsw., Oct. 6, 84) 2. The Welsh actor nearly drunk himself out of a career during the 1970s, after which he struggled back to sobriety and stardom. (F.T., March 3, 90) 3. The ticket touts are having a rough time. The latest plan to starve them out of business. The burger bars, sandwich sellers and tea ladies have been asked not to serve suspicious-looking men who have a pocketful of tickets. (T., June 26, 93) 4. In the years following her stroke, Dahl bullied his wife into recovery of her injured faculties – jeering at her, refusing to let anyone help her up flights of stairs or, in the early days, to so much as cut her food. (I.H.T., Apr. 20, 94) 5. As the Labour government pursues its policy of trying to tax people out of their cars and on to public transport by raising fuel prices in the UK beyond the rate of inflation, what we spend at the pump bulks larger in the overall cost of running a car. (F.T., Nov. 14-15, 98) 6. In wanton disregard of its own precedents, the U.S. Supreme Court has announced that the wrongful use of a coerced confession at a criminal trial need not automatically require the reversal of a conviction. Even if the accused was clubbed into confessing, the prosecution’s use of that confession can be deemed “harmless error”, a minor flaw in an otherwise fair trial. (I.H.T., March 30-31, 91) 7. When Boris Yeltsin this week bodged and blustered his way out of an increasingly embarrassing trip to Japan, he did us all a second-hand kind of favour. He made us remember, amid our sea of troubles, that Asia too is getting distinctly turbulent again. (G., Sept. 12, 92) 8. The very kindest of popes, Gregory the Great, while forbidding torture and persecution of Jews, was not above bribing them into baptism. Any Jew in Rome who converted had his rent reduced by one-third. (D. de Rosa) 9. When [playing chess] you see a good move, the great Dr Tarrasch advised, sit on your hands and look for a better one. That may be right for grandmasters, but as every club player knows, a good move should be played quickly before you think yourself out of it. (Ind., June 21, 93) 10. There is a formidable array of opinions against whipping as a punitive measure. “You can whip vice into a boy, but you can’t whip it out,” is the opinion of Mr Walter Parson, Chairman of Leeds Juvenile Court. (Scott) 11. Dr H. Lehman-Grube, [the mayor] of Leipzig, has had to deal with hooligans who spill out of football grounds onto the streets and kick their way across town, sometimes as part of neo-fascist groups. (G., Sept. 20, 91) 12. Giving the people what they have been brainwashed into thinking they want is not necessarily best for the people. (D.M., Feb. 2, 98)