Прагматический аспект перевода названий и имен собственных

This agreement will enhance the security and stability of the Gulf.
A week ago, the Dow hit 14,000 for the first time in the year.
Не said they would continue to work with Metronet.

The second rule honoured by Titanic, is equation of capitalism with evil. Funny this, coming from Fox, which is owned by Rupert Murdock.

Various websites have reported that Mrs. Arafat had married the brother of her close friend Leila, wife of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The writer's son met with the reporter at a Thai restaurant and provided him with family photographs and permission to use them in his book.

It turned out that no copies of the book were available at the local Waterstone's.
Downing Street announces another two public figures are to be made Knights of the Garter.

Sleight of hand like his, he could have been the new David Copperfield if he'd gone straight.	1)
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Практические задания

1. Переведите следующие названия и имена собственные с учетом существующей традиции.

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the Middle East the Bill of Rights

the English Channel the Non-Proliferation Treaty

the Strait of Dover the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty

District of Columbia the Oval Office

the Gulf countries the Foreign Office

the Arabian Desert Church of England

the Golan Heights Human Rights Watch

the Emerald Isle the League of Nations

the Northern Lights the Metropolitan Police

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Alexander the Great Joshua

Edward the Confessor Moses

William the Conqueror Herod

King James Magi

Frederick Barbarossa Job

William of Orange John the Baptist

Red Riding Hood Matthew's Gospel

Snow White John's Gospel

Wandering Jew Mary Magdalene

Jove (Jupiter, Zeus) Apollo (Phoebus)

Juno (Hera) Odyssey (Ulysses)

Athena (Minerva) Hermes (Mercury)

Aphrodite (Venus) Venus of Milo/Melos

Eros (Cupid)

2. Переведите предложения, передавая названия и имена собственные с учетом существующей традиции.

1. Another landmark of their visit was a trip to Mount Nebo from which Moses was said to have seen the Promised Land, as chronicled in the Old Testament.

2. Legend has it that it was from Oman that three wise men travelled to Bethlehem to see Jesus.

3. This right is specifically given to Man by God himself, as appears in the sacred book of Exodus.

4. This thief of an innkeeper, had he been the one at Bethlehem, would have taken every groat from Joseph and Mary even for that poor stable where Christ had his nativity.

5. Lewis felt that his arguing with the boss in this mood was almost as sacrilegious as Moses arguing with the Lord on Sinai.

6. By the turn of the century, the Orient Express, started in 1883, was dubbed "The train of kings, the king of trains."

7. The Great Vowel Shift can take a lifetime to investigate and another to explain.

8. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, reformers from within the Church of England requested James VI of Scotland, who had become James I of England, to authorize a new translation of the Bible.

9. The 55 delegates who drafted the Constitution included most of the outstanding leaders, or Founding Fathers of the Nation.

10. The ship passed from the Ionian to the Aegean: it was a little fresher in the Cyclades, but nobody minded.

11. The cruise was ten days old when they stopped at Rhodes.

12. They were steaming towards Crete, and at eleven o'clock Franklin began his usual lecture on Knossos and Minoan Civilization.