Неопределенные местоимения
Задание 15. Переведите предложения, уделяя особое внимание неопределенным местоимениям some, any, no, every.
I. No satisfactory explanation of this observation has been offered. 2. These solids show no basic properties whatever. 3. He gave me some good advice. 4. Any discussion is useful. 5. The halogen must be ionized to some extent. 6. The product alone with no admixtures weighed 20 g. 7. No increase of human happiness comes from increase of wealth. 8. As a rule, calculation of the value presents no special difficulties. 9. No doubt some 200 people will attend the symposium. 10. The solvent exerts no influence on any of the constants. 11. The book is available at any library. 12. Every science generalizes the facts. 13. Any map may be drawn either in the plane or on the surface of a sphere. 14. Some proofs are neither difficult nor interesting – merely a little tiresome. 15. Therefore, any method good for treating weak shocks should be applicable .at early and intermediate stages of the process. 16. No damage occurred during any of the tests. 17. These metallic ions .account for no more than 9% of dimer. 18. No matter how, complicated the map, four colours suffice. 19. This is certainly no longer a system for any discussion. 20. Trying to minimize the importance of the discovery was of no use. 21. The train was no longer visible.
Задание 16. Переведите предложения, выделяя производные от неопределенных местоимений some, any, no, every.
1. When you have nothing to say, say nothing. 2. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 3. To whom nothing is given of him nothing can be required (J. Fielding). 4. None of the available documents was entirely accurate. 5. There is nothing so simple that it cannot be made difficult. 6. Distinct natural numbers never have the same immediate successor. 7. We must silently add "as far as I know" to everything we say. 8. We don't claim to know all about anything anyhow. 9. The article went on and on and did not say anything about anything. 10. The classification missed something important. 11. Something is better than nothing. 12. Every thing is affected by its relations to everything else. 13. None of us is completely innocent of the broad features of the environment. 14. Ethics has something to do with satisfaction. 15. User is anyone who provides input for the system or receives output from it. 16. Nobody doubts that human reason is a great power. 17. The disutility of this term is obvious to everybody. 18. Anything about reality must be abstracted from reality. 19. Everybody knows that a bad act is bad. 20. This admission makes nothing to his point of view.
Задание 17. Заполните пропуски местоимениями something, anything, nothing, somebody, anybody, nobody.
1. Do you know ….. in group 12?
2. They could not understand ….. .
3. He is late. ….. is wrong with him.
4. Can ….. answer my question?
5. We can see ….. because it is dark.
6. It rained hard. I saw ….. in the street.
7. ….. is looking for you. He is downstairs.
8. ….. in our class can speak English well.
9. ….. may smoke here.
10. If ….. comes, tell him to wait.