Английские частицы функции и перевод

6.‘He couldn’t believe in its being really dangerous. But later something happened to convince him, and then he got the wind up in earnest. I rather fancy he must have said something to Ronny about it. Anyway, when he was put out of the way, Ronny suspected.’

7.‘Well, that was another piece of luck. There were no other candidates – not called for interview anyway. They were quite sure they wanted to appoint this McGarrigle fellow, and they were after saving train fares. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I’ve never been to this kind of conference.’

8.‘What was Mrs Zapp’s name?’ ‘I’ve forgotten. Does it matter?’

‘I like to know names. I can’t follow a story without them.’ ‘Anyway, we never saw her.’

9.‘You are a hopeless romantic. Why do you want to marry

me, anyway?’

10.It was impossible to have any kind of intimate conversation with her, what with the cleaning woman hoovering away, and the little boy round her feet all the time. And it was obvious that she didn’t want to anyway.

11.Few of the three hundred and twenty-three souls aboard are aware of the change. Most of them still have their watches adjusted to Chicago local time and anyway most of them are asleep or trying to sleep.

12.‘Howard! Stop it! What’s gotten into you anyway?’

13.‘Well, he’s a great man. Was a great man, anyway.’

14.‘I suppose you think we ought to have a synagogue and a Hindu temple too, and a totem pole for Red Indians to dance around? What they’re doing here anyway?’

15.‘Haven’t you heard that expression before?’

‘Indeed I have. Anyway, this priest is called Father Finbar O’Malley.’

16.‘Well, he looks like a Nazi. Like all the ones I’ve seen, anyway, which is admittedly only in movies.’

17.‘What would you know about literary creation anyway, Parkinson?’

18.‘The papers did publish a correction.’

‘I must have missed it. Anyway, you could have written to me, especially when you were free.’

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19.‘I persuaded the Council to let me train as a librarian and to give me a job. They weren’t too keen, but I was able to exert a certain amount of moral pressure. Anyway, I’m a good librarian.’

20.‘Yeah, let the sonofabitch die. Where is he now, anyway?’

21.‘It wouldn’t have mattered if it had been unconvincing, or even unintelligible, because nobody is seriously reading the newspapers anyway – you keep coming across them in the Hilton waste baskets.’

22.‘I wanted to be sure you were right for her. Mind you, it would have been a good investment anyway. You’re a bright lad.’

23.He didn’t look too bad, really; anyway, better than he felt.

24.‘What about your breakfast?’

‘I don’t want any. It’ll be over by now, anyway.’

Упражнение 4. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на возможности передачи частицы just в различных функциях.

1.‘Gerald, have a drink.’

‘Thanks, I think I could just do with one now.’

2.‘It’ll do me good if I get accepted. Just to know I’m accepted.’

3.I could just make out his face in the light from the doorway. He could see more of mine.

4.Lady Coote turned and plunged abruptly into the house again. Tredwell was just examining the coffee pot.

5.‘Jimmy, you’ve got brains.’

‘Well, it just occurred to me, that’s all.’

6.Her own mind was definitely made up, but she gave no indication of it just then.

7.You could reach the place just by stepping through from the gaming room, or you could arrive there by the secret entrance.

8.One day, however, just when things were coming to a head, he and Hilary suddenly flew off to America together.

9.‘Cheerful, I always think – makes you feel warm just to look at it.’

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10.I saw them leaving the theatre just before the performance started.

11.Success is not just a matter of how many articles you published last year.

12.‘Just look at this campus – it epitomizes the whole thing: the heavy industry of the mind.’

13.She was wearing a soft blue velour dressing-gown, with a hood. Hilary had one just like it once.

14.Dr Akbil Borak is having breakfast in his little house on a new estate just outside the capital.

15.There is a small hatch in one wall that gives access to a tiny windowless bathroom, with a small chair-shaped tub just big enough to sit in.

16.Howard doesn’t just send out invitations – he calls you up and asks you whether, if he were to give a party, you would come.

17.‘That’s great! It was just the diversion I needed.’

18.As for Persse, he just drank, since he didn’t know a soul.

19.All drivers in their cars and lorries look so bored, so abstracted, just wanting to get from A to B; yet all the time they’re just inches, seconds away from sudden death.

20.I got hold of your schedule and worked it all out so that I would arrive in Ankara just as you left.

21.My stock has gone up rather surprisingly, you know, just lately.

22.She gave me some books to read that I just couldn’t make head or tail of.

23.‘What are you doing in Jerusalem? You’re just too late for the conference.’

24.I went towards her, but just as I was going to speak they moved off into a waltz.

25.‘I’ve been wondering just how I stand, you know.’

26.‘Ah, just caught you. I thought you’d gone without me.’

27.‘I’m just asking for information, that’s all.’

28.‘Yes, I know, but that just means that I can’t be taken on to permanent staff until two years are up.’

29.‘Before I get my husband, I’d just like you to tell me, if you don’t mind, what you did to the sheet and blankets on your bed.’

30.‘There’s a graveyard on that hill.’ I could see it, just barely, through the pines.

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31.‘You’re always saying that, but I just don’t think it’s true.’ ‘Would you just listen to me for a second?’

32.I arrived just as the janitor was unlocking the building for the day.

33.It gives me the creeps just to think about it.

34.‘Of course I wouldn’t trust just anyone with this sort of thing.’

35.It was really snowing. There were tiny flakes, just visible at the top of the pines.

36.This is just the sort of thing he would do and it’s just the way he would do it.

37.‘Look at Mel,’ she said. ‘Don’t you just love him? If he called up and asked me to marry him I would do it in, like, one second.’

38.‘Staying away, just now, is much wiser.’

39.And the dress just suited her. She was the right type for it, just as I was the wrong type.

40.She almost broke down, but just controlled herself.

41.‘You didn’t come here just to see me then?’

42.‘Just keep quiet, Eric, and don’t get excited.’

43.‘Go on, Gerald – just you object!’

44.‘I’m just not going to run away and bawl in a bedroom.’

45.‘Have some brandy.’

‘Not just now, thank you.’

Упражнение 5. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на возможности передачи now – частицы или обстоятельства времени.

1.‘Do you like the brandy?’ ‘Very much.’

‘It always reminds me of Armagnac. Now. Shall I continue?’

2.‘I don’t know what you are trying to tell me.’ ‘Not to jump to conclusions. Now. Where was I?’

3.‘He’s had a warning letter.’ ‘What? You can’t mean it.’

‘Yes, I do. He told father about it. Now what do you think that points to?’

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4.‘One hundred thousand dollars is less than one-twentieth of your royalties from Difficult Days. Now, although I take absolutely no credit for that achievement, I mean it was entirely your own creative genius, it is nevertheless true that if I hadn’t been such a lousy husband to you all those years you wouldn’t have been able to write the book.’

5.‘That’s fine,’ he said with apparent feeling. ‘Now there’s something on the academic side I’d like to discuss with you.’

6.‘You mean Christine? Ah, now there’s a grand girl for you, a grand girl. One of the best, she is.’

7.Glancing about him, he moved closer, bent forward, and said as gently as he could: ‘Now, Margaret, please don’t talk like that. It’s quite unnecessary.’

8.‘Dearfold? Well, isn’t it strange. I don’t know any Dearfolds around here. Now, I used to know a fellow name of Breedlow, but that must have been, oh, twenty years ago. He was in business.’

9.He had so passionately wanted Edward to be, as it were, his son-in-law, as Marian was, as it were, his daughter. Now, it came to him more and more clearly, he had lost both of

them, and for ever.

10.‘Now, Sheila, don’t tease him.’

11.‘I don’t see that it’s any concern of yours how I choose to run my business. Is it now?’

12.‘Thank you, my dear. I’ll enjoy disliking Beckel again – two parts Marx, one part Freud, a dash of Pavlov, and sprinkle well with sociological jargon. Now I spent half an hour this evening acquiring a bottle of what is probably not much better than cooking sherry. I’ll go and uncork it for us.’

13.‘Now, Sam, what’s going to happen to you in the next world?’

14.‘When did her hand shake?’

‘When was it now? I can’t remember … I think she was just nervous.’

15.‘Sit down, Miss Meredith, sit down. Now, don’t be alarmed. It’s not so bad, really.’

16.‘You let me do the thinking,’ said Battle kindly. ‘Now then, suppose we have your address first of all.’

17.‘No one in particular?’ he murmured to himself. ‘Now, I wonder.’

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18.‘I don’t know anything about car engines. Now, if John was here, he’d certainly help you.’

19.Daisy’s only dangerous fault was her willingness to kick. Now, a camel can kick you in any direction, within a radius of six feet.

20.Once again she felt faint. What was it now, that sudden startling pain?

21.‘Now then, sleepyhead! It’s time to go to bed.’

22.‘Now would you believe it?’ – ‘I don’t know till you tell me.’

Упражнение 6. Определите функцию частицы indeed и переведите на русский язык. Дайте возможные варианты перевода.

1.He was fascinated, indeed obsessed, by this war.

2.The Negro stood with folded arms, like a bored attendant in a museum – or perhaps indeed like some janissary at the gates of the imperial harem.

3.‘Did he ever write his book on Warren Hastings?’ Blanche beamed at her. ‘Fancy you remembering that! Yes, indeed, a hundred and twenty thousand words.’

4.‘Professor Zapp, I did so enjoy your lecture,’ she said, with a greater degree of enthusiasm than Persse had expected or could, indeed, bring himself to approve.

5.‘Goodnight, Mrs Oliver. You ought to get some copy out of this. Better than your untraceable poisons.’ Poirot left the room. Mrs Oliver said bitterly as the door closed behind him: ‘Copy! Copy indeed! People are so unintelligent. I could invent a better murder any day than anything real. I’m never at a loss for a plot.’

6.It is eight-thirty-five a.m. in Greenwich – Greenwich Mean Time, indeed, the zero point from which all the world’s time zones are calculated.

7.Of course the heroine fell in love with the film director. She had read enough romances to know that – indeed she hardly needed to read any further to predict exactly how the story would end.

8.‘Haven’t you heard the expression before?’ ‘Indeed I have.’

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9.I had no intention at that point of letting you make love to me, indeed I didn’t think you would have the nerve to even

make a pass.

10.The boat was dangerously low in the water – indeed it was beginning to look more like a bath than a boat.

11.‘What a magnificent figure of a girl!’

‘Indeed she is,’ Persse agreed ardently.

12.She doesn’t stir, but everybody else does – indeed there is something of a stampede to the exit.

13.The MLA (Modern Language Association) is best known for its annual convention. Indeed, if you pronounce the acronym “MLA” to an American academic, he will naturally assume that you are referring not to the Association as such, but to its convention.

14.‘That’s all very well, Elsie. Don’t mind me calling you Elsie, do you? Feel as though I’d known you all my life.’

‘Well, you haven’t! Elsie, indeed.’ She tossed her head.

15.‘You can always depend upon your Uncle Charles.’ Indeed I could; and there was Susan to prove it.

16.‘These modern chaps would spoil everything, and we don’t want that, do we?’ ‘Indeed we don’t, sir, as you say.’

17.Mrs Oliver was partial to apples and had indeed been known to eat as many as five pounds straight off whilst composing the complicated plot of her latest novel.

18.‘She died out there. You know that, I suppose?’ ‘No, indeed I didn’t.’

19.As Poirot departed with his purchase, the next girl at the counter said: ‘I wonder who the lucky girl is? She seems to be stringing him along good and proper. Stockings at thirtyseven and sixpence indeed!’

20.Lehzen’s severity, like everything else, sprang from devotion. Indeed, she drew up a regime for herself even more strict than the one she imposed on Princess Victoria.

21.She confided to Melbourne that ‘formerly’ she had been nervous of robbers at night. Indeed she was superstitious and frequently woke up in a fright.

22.It was true that the Sovereign’s Household, according to precedent, was a private not a political matter; but it wouldn’t do to break off negotiations on this issue – nor indeed on any other.

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23.His visit to England in 1836 was memorable for sightseeing rather than love-making. Indeed, Ernest went home under the impression that he, not Albert, was Princess Victoria’s choice.

24.Nothing put out the Queen, not even the perpetual moving of her seat in the billiard-cum-sitting-room, where the ladies couldn’t avoid blocking the way round the table. Indeed she and the Prince wanted an even smaller home.

25.The Generals, and indeed the upper reaches of Society from whom they were entirely recruited, were in for a rough time.

26.Uncle Tim was for Benet, and indeed for others, a romantic and somewhat mysterious figure.

27.Pat had not believed in God, indeed he hated Christianity.

28.Benet watching Edward was amazed by his coolness, indeed his coldness.

29.A reconciliation later on, or indeed soon, was not at all impossible.

30.‘Look, Clun has driven the car round.’ Clun had indeed brought the hired car to the door, and then vanished into the greenery as was his wont.

31.The owners of the houses indulged a rapidly growing audience for national history in its desire to write about, read about and indeed to visit the mansions of England.

32.These hundred or so plates were a revelation to a public that had never before had so full an opportunity to visualize the actual physical settings of their Scott and Ainsworth romances, the buildings in which their history scenes took place. Indeed, few architectural specialists would have seen or for that matter known of many of the houses that Nash depicted.

33.Aristocratic culture wasn’t necessarily much affected by these changes, particularly male aristocratic culture. Publicschool and university education was, indeed, notoriously immune to them, continuing to subsist well into the nineteenth century on the eighteenth-century diet of classical literature and history.

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Упражнение 7. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на функцию частицы Oh и естественность звучания русского варианта.

1.‘I always thought he was a most frightening man.’ ‘Why?’

‘Oh, well he was! That awful smile!’

2.‘Would you like a cup of coffee?’

‘Yes,’ she said, ‘Oh yes, thanks – I hope I’m not in the way.’

3.The door opened. Anna appeared instantly, smiling. ‘Oh Benet, I’m so glad to see you!’

4.‘Good afternoon, Alfred,’ said Bundle pleasantly. Alfred jumped. ‘Oh! Good afternoon, your ladyship. I – I didn’t recognize your ladyship just for a moment.’

5.‘What’s the joke, Jim?’ Carol asked. Bertrand stared at him. ‘Oh, nothing.’ He returned Bertrand’s stare.

6.‘I could feel quite happy about everything, if only my big worry were out of the way.’

‘I don’t quite see … ’

‘My probation,’ Dixon said loudly.

The frown cleared. ‘Oh. That. You’re on two years’ probation here, Dixon, not one year.’

7.‘Oh shut up. I don’t care if you’re the Borough Treasurer, I don’t care if you own the bloody pub.’

8.‘Oh dear, I’d forgotten. Joe, you do like onions, don’t you?’

9.‘Where were you educated?’ ‘Oh, various places,’ she said vaguely. ‘Mainly England and America.’

10.‘Don’t forget that this is entirely your idea.’ She suddenly prodded the glass. ‘Oh, look, there’s a little creature in the snow down there – can it be a rabbit, or a hare?’

11.‘Then they put me in some stocks and encouraged the others to throw bread rolls at me, and I had to look as if I was enjoying that too.’ Hilary crowed with laughter and clapped her hands. ‘Oh, now I wish I’d gone. Did they really throw rolls at you?’

12.‘What was that you said about my book?’ he asked. – ‘Oh, haven’t you had my letter?’

13.‘What will you tell them?’ – ‘Oh, that my meetings were cancelled, or something.’

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14.‘And what was it you wanted to tell me?’ said Hilary. – ‘Oh, nothing, nothing important.’

15.‘Alas, she has departed.’ – ‘Oh, no!’ Persse groaned. ‘You mean she’s gone for good?’

16.‘It was a case of mistaken identity. It turned out to be her sister.’ – ‘Oh? Has she a sister?’

17.‘I’m coming to your lecture … ’

19.‘How much longer are you thinking of staying here?’ ‘Oh, not more than a fortnight, I hope.’

20.‘The weekend after is the Summer Ball at the College.’ ‘Oh, is it really?’

21.‘I’ve got to go in here’, he added, pointing the library. Dixon nodded slowly. ‘Oh? You’ve got to go in here’, he said.

22.‘I said I may get some fun out of it.’ ‘Oh, I expect you will.’

Упражнение 8. Переведите на русский язык, обращая внимание на то, являются ли выделенные слова частицами или их грамматическими омонимами.

1.The life I described in the letters was detached and impersonal; with a few changes of date and circumstance they could have been as easily from Francis as myself.

2.If the cops had seen you that night, you’d probably be in jail right now.

3.I told him about Charles’s outburst. ‘Oh, he’s mad at Henry all right.’

4.‘Scholars these days are like the errant knights of old, wandering the ways of the world in search of adventure and glory.’

‘Leaving their wives locked up at home?’

‘Well, a lot of the knights are women, these days. There’s positive discrimination at the Round Table.’

5.One window fairly blazed in the late afternoon light.

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