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Task 15. Translate the sentences, pay attention to rendering equivalent-lacking syntactical structures.

1. The contents of the treaty have been recently published, it being no longer necessary to keep them secret. 2. The peaceful demonstration, at the big Ford plant in Dearborn was broken up, with four workers killed and fifty wounded. 3. Only the Russian Bolsheviks opposed the war consistently with the left-wing socialists in many countries also offering various degrees of resistance. 4. Being, remarkably fine and agreeable in their manners, Oliver thought them very nice girls indeed. 5. Bobbing, and bounding upon the spring cushions, silent, swaying to each motion of their chariot, old Jolyon watched them drive away un­der" the sunlight. 6. Just as I got there a Negro switchman, lantern in hand, hap­pened by. 7. That, gentleman stepped forward, hand stretched out, 8. As the hun­ger marchers moved along Pennsylvania Avenue they were flanked by two solid rows of policemen, most of them club in hand. 9. They walked without hats for long hours in the Gardens attached to their house, books in their hands, a fox-terrier at their heels, never saying a word and smoking all the time. 10. We sped northward with the high Rocky Mountains peaks far off to the West.

TASK 16. Translate the sentences, pay attention to rendering causative structures.

1. We had two enemy agents arrested, whose role was to create panic by spreading false rumours about the approach of the Germans. 2. In World War II Great Britain lost about 350,000 killed and missing and had her towns and facto­ries blitzed. 3. A very strange thing happened to him a year or two ago. You ought to have him tell you about it, 4. I can't get him to realize that in this case the game is not worth the candle. 5. These speeches were designed to obscure the issues by inflaming public opinion and stampeding Congress into repressive ac­tion. 6. The General Executive cannot give his mind to every detail of factory management, but he can get the things done. 7. No suitable opportunity offering, he was dragooned by family and Mends into an assistant-professorship at Har­vard. 8. The Tory government would have the British people believe that the US missiles would strengthen the country's security. 9. The fear of lightning is a par­ticularly distressing infirmity for the reason that it takes the sand out of a person to an extent which no other fear can, and it can't be shamed out of a person.

Task 17. Translate the sentences, pay attention to rendering causative structures.

1. Selinahad spoken to Jakob Hoogendunk about a shelf for her books and her photographs. He had put up a rough bit of board, very crude and ugly, but it had served. She had come home one snowy afternoon to find this shelf gone and in its place a smooth and polished one, with brackets intricately carved.

2. There was pork for supper. Selina's vision of chickens, wild ducks, crusty crullers and pumpkin pies vanished, never to return.

3. Shall the writer renounce his country for a religion? Mr. Evelyn Waugh has done this, only to find that it lands him in the receptive lap of another coun­try's nationalism.

4. Then he left, only to visit and revisit me until I returned to the city, fairly well restored in nerves if not in health.

5. Night did not stop us, and when my eyes ached and burned from peering too long, I pulled into a turnout and crawled like a mole into my bed, only to see the highway writhe along behind my closed lids.

6. Thus the states have weighing stations for trucks where the loads are as­sessed and taxed. The signs say, "All trucks stop." Being a truck, I stopped, only to be waved on over the scales. They were not looking for such as I.

7. They had seen classes and classes and classes. A roomful of fresh young faces that appeared briefly only to be replaced by another roomful of fresh young faces like round white pencil marks manipulated momentarily on a state, only to be sponged off to give way to other round white marks.

8. He demanded to know where I was living, wanted me to come then and there and stay with him, wanted me to tell him what the trouble was - all of which I rather stubbornly refused to do and finally got away - not however with­out giving him my address, though with the caution that I wanted nothing,

9. It may be too much to expect men of letters to possess an elementary knowledge of science, or to have any sympathy with scientific precision, but it is not unreasonable to ask for accuracy of description when they are dealing with natural facts and phenomena.

10. He could no longer pick and choose among the invitations that once had littered his writing table, and much more often that he would have liked any­one to know he suffered the humiliation of dining by himself in the privacy/if his suite.

11. My mother did not suffer her authority to pass from her without a shadow of protest.

12. As a matter of fact our immediate demands are incredibly modest. We want all transport workers to be paid a basic rate which brings their wage rates up to the level of the increased cost of living.

13. Ah! But the sea is cruel. I have seen it tear a boat as big as our house all to pieces.

14. He saw Bosinney turn to Irene and say something and her face sparkle as he often saw it sparkle at other people - never at himself.

15. Danny saw Mm give her a long look enquiring and detached, as of a man watching a| new kind of bird; she saw him over Ms eyes, speak and laugh, then gaze back at her.

16. I've looked after the investments of some of my clients for thirty years and they trust me. To tell you the troth, I'd rather lose my own money than see them lose theirs.

17. I was struck by his evident power of concentration. He had neither no­ticed me go nor come.

18. The modem reader will be surprised to find in the third volume of the book a detailed description of rocket techniques which he may have believed to be quite recently invented.

19. They know that deliberately to refuse trade is cold-bloodedly to allow the standards of the British workers to be savagely cut.

20. Can the consciences of the American people permit this invasion to be the first act of World War Three?

21. We regard the Newsletter as an essential means of communication with our members. But we also look to the Newsletter to bring in more members.

22. You could put. him next to a very boring old lady and count on him to be as charming and amusing with her as he knew how.

23. Urgent matters such as the Middle East are sure to take up much time.

24. Nor have poets failed in labour and industry - Ben Jonson is knowy,o have been a bricklayer, Robert Burns was a plough-boy. '"—*

25. Art. thieves have been known to paint another picture on top of a "hot7' work and clean this off once it is clear of the country.

26. The Premier could never be expected to admit in public that the previ­ous policy was a catastropliic error, nor could any such admission be expected of other leading conservatives.

27. The dinner, incidentally, proved to be excellent, and the Californian that Mr. Fuessli ordered was equal to some Charles had tasted from far more familial" bottles.

28. On the surface, the Lancashire coastal town where I was born in a place of almost idyllic happiness. It was reputed to be one of the sunniest and healthiest towns in the north of England.

29. This statement may well turn out to be just as important in the over-all world situation as the direct results of the conference itself.

30. At Potsdam there had appeared to be no serious obstacles to a solution of this problem which would serve the cause of peace.

31. They mightn't like to seem to expect something.

32. The second belief, loudly trumpeted by whichever political party happens to be in opposition, states that because 40 per cent of all American children go on from school to college, as against only 7 per cent in Britain, America's educational situation must be much better that our own. It is only partly true and is horribly oversimplified.

33. The U.S. still occupies hundreds of military and aircraft bases, many of them thousands of miles from its own territory. Their purpose can hardly be said to be the defence of the U.S.

34. Last week-end's party congress can hardly be said to have simplified the British political scene.

35. During his entire literary life, Theodore Dreiser sought for a theory of

existence. His mind seems constantly to have been filled with "whys". Why was life? Why was there this human spectacle of grandeur and misery, of the powerM and the weak, the gifted and the mediocre?

36. He had firmly marked eyebrows over dark, expressionless eyes, that seemed never to have thought, only to have received life direct through his senses, and acted straight from instinct,

37. The Government could not claim to have been surprised at the latest, changes in the British trade affairs.

38. The causes of the industrial disputes which have reached their climax in the railway and dock strikes are certain to be given careful consideration both by the Government and by the leaders of the trade-union movement.

39. Were this claim to be admitted it would justify any oppression and any crime committed against a weak people whose territory happens to contain valu­able raw material.

40. The Prime Minister is to visit 10 Downing Street about lunch-time to­day from his home in Sussex, where he is supposed to be having a few days' holiday.

41. The Treasury is reported to be demanding, drastic cuts in the estimates prepared by Government departments dealing with health, housing, education and transport.

42. The average actor looks on television with a pretty cool eye. He may get an occasional job out of it, but he is just as likely to lose two others because of it.

43. He considered himself a personage of sorts, and was. The minister, the moralist, the religionist, the narrow, dogmatic and self-centered in any field were likely to be the butt of his humour, and he could imitate so many phases of char­acter so cleverly that he was the life of any idle pleasure-seeking party anywhere.

44. Except for the fact that we sometimes act without thinking it would seem obvious that how we act is determined by how we think. But even when we act without thinking, our actions are likely to follow the lines laid down by our patterns of thought.

45. The union conferences meeting this week are likely to turn a very deaf ear to the Prime Minister's impudent appeal for a wages trace.

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