Task 19. Translate the sentences, pay attention to rendering causative tructures.

1. If mere parsimony could have made a man rich, Sir Pitt. Crawley might have become very wealthy - if he had been an attorney in a country town, with no capital but Ms Brains, it is very possible that, he would have turned them to good account, and might have achieved for himself a very considerable influ­ence and competency.

2. Wood said he had never lost his respect for the fighting qualities of these people. "If they hadn't had their families with them we could have never have caught them. And if we had been evenly matched in men and weapons we couldn't have beaten them. They were men, real men."

3. The novelist, I am supposing, is faced with a situation in his story where for some good reason more is needed than the simple impression which the reader might have formed for himself, had he been present and using Ms eyes on the spot.

4. If I had to make the choice again, I should have done the same.

5. It was the kind of reception, I thought as I stood on the stairs, that might have happened in much the same form and with much the same faces, a hundred years before, except that then it would probably have been held in the Prime Minister's own house, and that nowadays, so far as I remembered ac­counts of Victorian political patties, there was a good deal more to drink.

6. It meant they had to have regular sit-down meals at the proper times, whereas if they'd been alone they could just have asked Kate if she wouldn't have minded bringing them a tray wherever they were.

7. "It would be very nice for me if Rudd's show come off. I should get some reflected glory which I could do with."

8. Martin was on the other side of the fire. I thought that he could not have heard. Nevertheless, before Puchwein began again, Martin apologized for Irene. She was finishing some work, he said; it must have taken longer than she reckoned and it looked as though she might not get there at all.

9. "Of course," Roger went on, "if you want to get anywhere on politics, you've got to be good at pushing on open doors. If you can't resist pushing on closed ones, then you ought to have chosen another job. That's what you're telling me, isn't it? Of course you are right. I shouldn't be surprised if you The developing, countries face a formidable challenge. They have the task of providing shelter, services and work in cities for an additional 150,000 people every day. They must seek to do this when more than 300 million are already jobless, 700 million people have an absolute or relative poverty, and development prospects appear more constrained then ever before.

In the countryside, housing conditions continue to be marked by mass pov­erty, malnutrition, dilapidated housing, poor water supply, inadequate sanitation, and a lack of services.

This situation, coupled with lack of employment opportunities, continues to drive rural people away from their homes, in the hope of improving their lot in the cities. The decline of traditional agriculture, rapid population growth, absence of alternative centres to disperse migratory flows, the concentration of economic activities in a few major cities - these factors will guarantee that the urban popu­lation of primate cities will continue to expand rapidly, this leading to the further expansion of slums and squatter settlements.

TASK 20. Translate the sentences, pay attention to rendering stylistic devices.

1. Freedom of speech, like many other equalities, was more honoured in the breach than in the observance. 2. Obviously something was rotten in the State of Alabama– something putrid and stinking. 3. The watchword of the graft-busting drive was "Beware of Agents Bearing Gifts". 4. The conservationists try to get the industry to realize that grime does not pay. 5. A Federal judge said at the time that the decision had made a shambles of the Smith Act. But Humpty Dumpty has been put together again by the new Administration. 6. His hair couldn't have been more violently on end, if it had been that moment dressed by the Cow with the crumpled horn in the house that Jack built. 7. As a true artist the writer held up his mirror to catch the flashes of light and shadow that make up the straggle of the working class. 8. Each member of the union must be prepared to offer his widow's mite to help the starving children of the strikers. 9. The Union ranks grow in struggle and it is in struggle that we recruit our leadership and the ranks of the best men and women of the working, class. 10. Come war, come deluge, come anything and everything except the popular uprising against the scarcity-dividend system, the international machine of profit-making must pound on. 11. The wretched slaves had no knowledge, no rights, no protection against the ca­prices of their irresponsible masters. 12. Examination convinced him that the dea­con was dead - had been dead for some time, for the limbs were rigid. 13. She did more that day than any other. For, in the morning she invariably cleared off her correspondence; after lunch she cleared off the novel or book on social questions she was reading; went to a concert clearing off a call on the way back; and on first Sundays stayed at home to clear off a call the friends who came to visit her.

Task 21. Translate the article in writing.