Практическое занятие 6.

Задание 1. Ответьте на вопросы.

1. Чем отличаются свободные словосочетания от устойчивых?

2. Что такое калькирование?

3. Каков алгоритм перевода атрибутивных препозитивных словосочетаний?

Задание 2. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод атрибутивных препозитивных словосочетаний.

1. Electronic book readers are still a minority pursuit for book lovers, but the devices have the potential to become the norm one day.

2. The world's top cell phone maker Nokia said on Monday it would start to make laptops, entering a fiercely competitive but fast-growing market with a netbook running Microsoft's Windows operating system.

3. Dancho Danchev is an independent security consultant and cyber threats analyst, with extensive experience in open source intelligence gathering, malware and cybercrime incident response.

4. DrPic is one of the easiest free online picture editors.

5. Nokia has produced PCs before, but in 1991 it started to focus on the mobile phone industry.

6. Though the U.S. has the lowest software piracy rates in the world at 20%, the country still lost $9.1 billion in 2008.

7. Apple's music-and-movie-management software seems due for an upgrade, some tech pundits say. They expect a new version of the popular software to be released.

8. Google says the idea behind the new service is to make online news-browsing faster and replicate the reading experience of flipping through a magazine or newspaper.

9. Also this week, Google introduced a test product called Fast Flip, which takes a retro look at Web design by making online news look like something magazine readers will find familiar.

10. While consumers may have less cash for big-ticket items such as cars, and their distrust of banks has increased, they still have enough coins in their pocket for Coca Cola, McDonalds, Gillette and H&M.

Задание 3. Переведите следующий текст, обращая внимание на перевод атрибутивных препозитивных словосочетаний.

iPhone app for fresher students

A university is offering a free iPhone application it has developed to help students starting their first term. The University of Central Lancashire in Preston says the mobile phone service will provide maps and details of entertainment and local transport. There will also be details of campus facilities and access to students' university e-mail accounts. Director of learning, Michael Ahern, say this will help connect with students who "lead very busy lives". He believes this is the first such iPhone application for a university in the UK.

"At the beginning of term you're always being stopped by students asking for directions, now they're going to have the information they need in their pockets," says Mr Ahern. "As they roam around the campus they can get information about lectures, theatres, places to eat and libraries," he says. The mobile phone service links to an alternative student guide, written by fellow students, and can also access student union services, such as letting students book tickets for bands.

Students are increasingly likely to be studying part-time - or to have term-time jobs - and Mr Ahern says that a mobile phone is a convenient way for the university to keep in touch with busy people in many different locations. "It's a different track for reaching students," says Mr Ahern. But he says that there is a question about the lack of access for students who do not have iPhones - and although not wrapped into a single package, the same information can be accessed through laptops and other mobiles which can access the internet.

The university has just invested a £1m in laptops and online access for students who cannot afford their own computers, he says. The iPhone "applications" are customised information services which can be downloaded onto this type of mobile phone. It has been estimated that there will be 100,000 applications available by the end of the year, with 1.8 billion having been downloaded so far.