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VIII. Некоторые способы перевода глагола to follow и его производных (Participle I, II):
to follow 1) следовать за; 2) следить за; 3) использовать (о методе, теории и т.д.); прослеживаться
following – 1) следующий за; 2) использующий; 3) после followed by – за которым следует, с последующим
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1. Here is a complicated introductory paragraph followed by a slightly easier one. 2. The following is a brief outline of these components. 3. The review is followed by a discussion of the problem. 4. The following parameters should be monitored and controlled. 5. The proof follows the same type of arguments as the one for Lemma 1. 6. A sudden increase in demand will be followed by the rise of plant capacity. 7. Following a procedure analogous to that of Kurokawa, one obtains. 8. Following the war the firm's output greatly increased. 9. The logical strategy to follow would be to proceed to the following step.
IX. Некоторые способы перевода глагола to get:
1) получать, доставать – смысловой глагол;
2) становиться – глагол-связка;
3) заставлять – в обороте «дополнение с инфинитивом»;
4) get не переводится, когда является вспомогательным глаголом при образовании страдательного залога.
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1. The latter problem has started to get special attention. 2. What happens when a boxer gets knocked out in the ring? 3. To get the best out of any language, some knowledge of simulation techniques is essential. 4. As people get older they grow more set in their ways and do not welcome any innovation. 5. You cannot expect to get anything without working for it.
6. He got his proposals accepted.
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X. Основные способы перевода слова that:
1) тот, та, то – если that стоит перед существительным в единственном числе; указательное местоимение;
2) который – если that стоит после существительного; вводит определительное придаточное предложение;
3) то, что – если that стоит в начале предложения; вводит придаточное подлежащее;
4) что – если that стоит после сказуемого; вводит дополнительное придаточное предложение;
5) чтобы – если that вводит придаточное предложение со сказуемым в сослагательном наклонении;
6) слово-заместитель; переводился ранее упомянутым существительным, за ним идет предлог или причастие;
7) that может входить в состав второго элемента усилительной конструкции it is ... that.
Запомните также сочетание:
now that – теперь, когда.
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1. Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. 2. The procedure that has been followed has many disadvantages. 3. The method investigated for solving these problems is that of combinatorial programming. 4. They did not ask us to prove that the symbols in question were effective. 5. That these patterns can be critical has been demonstrated by Fogg. 6. It is necessary that the criteria should be made explicit. 7. It is imperative to good management that risks and costs be minimized. 8. We simply assume that names will be substituted by the expressions that define them. 9. This solution has the disadvantage that it is too complicated. 10. The Greeks in the fifth century B.C. had the idea that the Earth was a sphere. 11. It is from this point that the theory takes off. 12. If one believes that one will believe anything. 13. It is the end that matters. 14. This formulation reduces to that given in table 6.
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XI. Некоторые способы перевода слова very:
1) истинный, настоящий, сущий (перед существительным);
2) самый, тот самый (перед существительным);
3) очень, в значительной степени.
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1. We aim to give learners a very rich input of natural English from the very beginning. 2. Students come with very specific and diverse interests.
3. They liked the work very much. 4. A very important task was set before him. 5. On the very day of its arrival the delegation visited the plant.
6. Science by its very nature is adequate to aid the manager in producing good decisions. 7. The only significant irregularity is the very low constant term in the first equation. 8. From the very beginning geometry was based rather on experience than on axioms.
XII. Некоторые способы перевода слова well:
1) родник; скважина; колодец; источник (перен.);
2) хорошо – обычно стоит в конце предложения;
3) вполне – если well используется перед инфинитивом (в составе сказуемого). Запомните следующие словосочетания:
as well – также (обычно as well стоит в конце предложения, при переводе также выносится в начало предложения) as well as – 1) так же, как и; 2) так же хорошо, как и (в научном тексте встречается редко)
well below – значительно ниже well above – значительно выше well after – значительно позже well in advance – значительно раньше well over– значительно больше
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1. All is well that ends well. 2. It could well be maintained that this is a result of knowing the concept well. 3. This value may well express different propositions. 4. These events are known well enough. 5. The
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same seems to be true for other applications as well. 6. There are advantages as well as disadvantages in having a king who is a foreigner.
7. Material well-being depends on consumption. 8. They regard these phenomena as reasonably well established. 9. The rate of growth in these countries was well below the long-term underlining trend. 10. This type of production process is fairly well understood. 11. He could change his mind as well. 12. We got the value which is well above the predicted one.
13. The firms may be informed about the changes well in advance.
XIII. Некоторые способы перевода слова with:
1) с – предлог;
2) путем, с помощью;
3) в зависимости от;
4) в случаеобычно если with находится в начале предложения.
With не переводится в двух случаях:
1) когда указывает на отношения, выражаемые творительным падежом;
2) когда вводит абсолютные (независимые) обороты Запомните следующие словосочетания:
along with – наряду с, вместе с with an exception – за исключением with по exception – без исключения with regard to – относительно
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1. With this technique the calculation can be carried out more exactly. 2. In this chapter we attempt to make certain suggestions with regard to higher education and research. 3. Appetite comes with eating. 4. You can prove anything with statistics. 5. To be good with children is considered to be a virtue. 6. I liked the new machine with its enormous engine. 7. They were extremely pleased with the results. 8. They should be provided with tools, techniques, and terminology. 9. All the representatives were invited, with no exception.
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XIV. Некоторые значения слова consider и его производных: to consider
1) рассматривать, обсуждать;
2) считать, полагать;
3) учитывать, принимать во внимание. consideration
1) рассмотрение, обсуждение;
2) соображение, мысль.
Запомните следующие словосочетания:
under consideration – рассматриваемый without consideration – не учитывая to take into consideration – принимать во внимание considerable – значительный
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1. In this case time considerations were sometimes overlooked. 2. All the criteria were also motivated by purely economic considerations. 3. The developments must be taken into consideration in any implementation decision. 4. These techniques therefore will not be considered here.
5. Their work was considered important. 6. They made further definitions without consideration of the recent findings. 7. His interest is focused on commercial considerations. 8. The problem under consideration is of utmost importance for further development of the method. 9. They failed to consider the possible results. 10. The work was a considerable contribution to the development of the design.
XV. Некоторые способы перевода слова on:
1) на (поверхности)предлог;
2) по, о – часто употребляется в названиях статей;
3) после (on, upon) перед герундием;
4) ( и ) далее – например: to go on – продолжать (идти далее), переходить к; and so on – и так далее.
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1. We can judge a person's character on very small evidence. 2. If you propose to do whatever it is later on, you will never do it at all. 3. However clever a person may be at his trade, he should not try to give advice on other matters. 4. Bad times don't go on forever.
XVI. Некоторые способы перевода слова too:
1) также, тоже, к тому же если too стоит в конце предложения или в запятых;
2) слишком – если too стоит перед прилагательным или наречием. В значении «слишком» слово too используется с инфинитивом в роли обстоятельства следствия.
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1. То have great poets, there must be great audiences, too. 2. Trust but not too much. 3. It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen.
4. The article was too brief to bring out all the important areas of economics. 5. Of course, here too, it may be very difficult to account for these differences. 6. There is a danger in projecting present conditions or trends too uncritically into the future. 7. It would be too time consuming and too tedious to go through various works, author by author. 8. Often too much data are gathered in a system study and they become too voluminous to analyze.
XVII. Некоторые способы перевода глагола to make:
1) делать, производить, составлять (up);
2) заставлять – если после make стоит дополнение с последующим инфинитивом без to;
3) компенсировать (up, for).
Запомните следующие словосочетания:
to make a decision – принимать решение to make the difference – существенно менять дело, быть очень
важным
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to make allowance for – делать допуск (поправку) на to make sure (certain) – удостовериться, убедиться to make comparison of – проводить аналогию, сравнивать
to make provision for – предусматривать, принимать меры to make the best of – использовать что-л. наилучшим образом to make haste – спешить to make smth + прилагательноеделать что-л. (каким?) +
прилагательное
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1. Life is made up of little things. 2. Some people possess particular qualities, some acquire them, and others are made to assume them. 3. He made his voice heard. 4. If all other things make no difference he is sure to succeed. 5. His French is not perfect but he makes himself understood.
6. The improvement may make this approach more widespread in the future. 7. Laws were made to be broken. 8. Never make treats you cannot carry out. 9. The improvement made the process more complicated.
XVIII. Возможные способы перевода слова because:
1) так как – если because находится в начале фразы;
2) потому что – обычно если because находится в середине фразы; because of – из-за, вследствие
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1. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. 2. And we forget because we must, and not because we will. 3. He is not able to do things properly because he does not give them enough thought. 4. The company has lost several customers because of its very bad work. 5. The process has been widely used because it was relatively easy to implement. 6. Because modelling methodology is becoming increasingly broad, more powerful tools and techniques must be developed. 7. Because of this the strategy of both players has high stability.
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XIX. Некоторые способы перевода слова while:
1) время, промежуток времени;
2) пока, в то время как;
3) несмотря на то что; тогда как; хотя;
4) одновременно – когда while используется перед герундием. Запомните следующие словосочетания:
a long while – долго a short while – недолго for a while – на время, некоторое время meanwhile – тем временем
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1. While there is life there is hope. 2. While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. 3. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. 4. A man learns only while living. 5. These conclusions are hopeful, while those of Chapter 6 are less encouraging.
XX. Основные способы перевода слова since:
1) так как, посколькуесли since вводит придаточное предложение;
2) с – перед любыми словами и словосочетаниями, указывающими на время: since spring – с весны; since 1995 – с 1995 года;
3) с тех порчасто в сочетании со словом then (since then).
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1. Since the region in Fig. 5 did not change with slightly different parameters, we consider it as the model. 2. Changes in the system since the last sensing result in new conditions. 3. Whether the circumstances have been changed since then is not known. 4. The process has been used since its first announcement. 5. I have not had a competent lab assistant since Joe left. 6. Since the theory should be a general one it should apply in all cases mentioned. 7. Since then attention has been focused on
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understanding the fundamental mechanisms involved in this process.
8. Since the early 1970s a happy equilibrium has been reached in the society. 9. Their computation on a digital computer is efficient since only logical expressions and elementary algebraic functions are involved.
10. Since his forecasts are imperfect, every day he suffers an opportunity loss. 11. The heat problem will become insignificant, since transistors emit a negligible amount of heat. 12. Since the unit of potential is called a volt, potential itself is called "voltage".
XXI. Основные способы перевода слова mean:
1) mean – средний;
2) a mean – средняя величина, среднее число;
3) a means – способ, средство;
4) by means of – с помощью;
5) by по means – ни в коем случае;
6) by all means – во что бы то ни стало, обязательно;
7) to mean (meant) – 1) значить; 2) иметь в виду, думать,
подразумевать под;
8) by some means or other – тем или иным способом.
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1. These facts mean that talk about properties might well be in order.
2. The process cannot be described clearly by means of the model. 3. The revolution was by no means fully accepted. 4. This means that such a market can apply only to exchanges of ready-made goods. 5. At any moment the stocks of means of production are more or less specific. 6. It meant a higher rate of growth of consumption. 7. Chapter 2 reviews the means by which control can be attempted. 8. The problem will by all means be considered later. 9. They considered the mean values only.
10. By a game we will mean the specification of a set of players, rules for playing the game. 11. The game cannot be described by means of quotas and weights.
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XXII. Запомните:
as it does (as they do) – фактически, в действительности in doing so – при этом to do away (with) – уничтожить, покончить с to do without – обходиться без to have to do with – иметь дело с, иметь отношение к to have much to do with – иметь много общего с to have nothing to do with – не иметь ничего общего с to do для усиления
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1. It doesn't do to be too curious or inquisitive. 2. Our desires for what we do not have keep us from enjoying what we do have. 3. The book does not simply discuss what you must do, but gives you effective tools for how to do it. 4. Every force does its own job no matter how many other forces are acting. 5. The fact that the theory does not fail in some other cases is irrelevant. 6. It does indeed lead to problems. 7. People would agree that education has something to do with economic growth. 8. The difficulty has nothing to do with these changes. 9. More education does not necessarily mean faster growth. In general, however, it probably does. 10. The first argument relies as it does on these assumptions. 11. The labour market does not work perfectly. 12. It cannot be done satisfactorily. 13. Only then did it work perfectly. 14. The investigation does, however, illustrate two basic approaches to the problem. 15. We do not possess any accurate understanding of cause and effect. Nor do we know how to evaluate the performance of the system.
XXIII. Переведите текст, отмечая случаи нарушения прямого порядка слов в предложении.
Material Research is not new, but the interdisciplinary aspects of materials research now are receiving considerable emphasis. It has been only since chemists, physicists, metallurgists, ceramicists, polymer chemists, and other scientists began studying the detailed structure and