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Ошибка при переводе словосочетаний возможна, если переводчик не смог определить, является ли
переводимое словосочетание свободным или связанным. Вероятность появления ошибки особенно
велика в тех случаях, где контекст не позволяет с очевидностью установить статус
словосочетания. Сравните, например:
to put all eggs in one basket — класть все яйца в одну корзину;
to learn to walk before you run — научиться ходить, перед тем как начать бегать;
No news is good news. — Отсутствие новостей — хорошая новость;
You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. — Нельзя
приготовить яичницу, не разбив яиц.
В таких случаях в текст иногда вводится короткое пояснение (например: как говорят в Англии).
He hated the idea of it, but he was sensible enough to realize, even then, that ex-officers cannot be
choosers (замена слова в известной пословице Beggars can't be choosers).
She showed, her true musical colours in the 1989 production (введение слова в устойчивое выражение
to show one's true colours).
Germaine came into the room with huge armfuls of flowers and a note from Lord Merlin, saying: 'Here
are some coals from Newcastle." (to carry coal to Newcastle)
"Well, if the right woman came along," said Lester. "I suppose I'd many her. But she hasn't come along.
What do you want me to do? Take anybody? I'll come round some time, no doubt. I've got to be thirsty
when I'm led to the water." (You can take the horse to the water, but you can't make him drink.)
Практические задания
1. Indoor air pollution at work has become a serious health concern. Yet the remedy may be as simple as
cultivating a green thumb. Can a plant a day keep the doctor away?
2. For rough digging he had no peers. Only keep him from planting what he dug. He had black fingers.
3. Komisar is an accomplished hi-tech hand with 15 years' experience, something in short supply in
Silicon Valley.
4. Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie and if
mankind doesn't fit — well, that will be just too bad for mankind.
5. Governments are realistic about the extreme difficulty of restraining their citizens' green house-gas
emissions and so err on the conservative side.
6. What on earth is going on in the buy-to-let market? It is now cheaper to take out a buy-to-let mortgage
than a regular residential home loan. Have we buy-to-let gone of our senses?
7. I've vowed that I'd rather leave my fruit trees to their own devices. But that was before peachgate.
8. That was a dumb stunt and I should have set some bells ringing earlier that I did.
9. He'll always have fingers in enough pies to keep you busy.
10. "So there was something!" said Abby. "A skeleton in our respectable cupboard! I wish I could know
what it was!"
11. Few careers have sailed through the recession, but some have toughed it out better than others. In
fact, if there's a silver lining to the economy's dark cloud, it's the power of a downturn to test a career's
mettle.
12. To prevent floods millions of pounds must be spent on improving drainage and protecting
infrastructure. "You either pay upstream to prevent, or you pay downstream to mop up but you've got to
pay," says Young. "Climate change is coming home to roost."
13. Every offender is a potential repeat offender. But with young Angus the leopard really did change.
14. How much work is healthy for you? All work and no play can cause health problems.
15. Sexual harassment is a tricky territory: one person's joke is another's lawsuit.
16. Old Etonian Andrew Spicer, whose mouth had been stuffed with silver on the day he was born, was
never going to suffer that kind of discrimination.