Задание № 17

ПРЕДЛОЖЕНИЯ ДЛЯ ПЕРЕВОДА НА СМЕШАННЫЕ ТРУДНО­СТИ

I. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на пе­ревод неличных форм глагола и их функцию.

1. One person in ten can expect to be seriously injured or killed in a road acci­dent during their lifetime, according to Prof. W. G., director of the Road Injuries Research Group at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, in a report issued today. The report is concerned with ways of reducing the 24,000 deaths in Britain each year of men and women below the age of 45. It concentrates on accidents, cancer, heart disease and suicide, which between them cause three quarters of these young adult deaths. In a foreword, Mr G. Т., director, Office of Health Economics, sug­gests that 6,000 to 7,000 young lives could be saved each year if attention was con­centrated on preventing the four main causes of premature death.

2. The Geneva conference having failed to secure an agreement, there was no way of telling what the outcome will be.

3. After months of talks and Cabinet discussions, the Government has told us what power it intends to hold over pay negotiations in the future, after "severe re­straint" has ended. Part II of the Price and Incomes Act is to be "activated", to follow the period of "severe restraint" due to end in a few months time. Increases in both incomes and prices are to be vetted through "early-warning measures". As far as prices are concerned the system (here: the Price and Incomes Act) is supposed to concentrate on those of eco­nomic significance, especially those affecting the cost of living. Part II enforces the notification of wage claims, by either the employer or the union, within seven days of their being lodged. Notification has to be made to the appropriate Gov­ernment Minister.

4. "The only alternative to letting the British Motor Corporation company close and a thousand people become redundant, was for the Government to take over responsibility," said the Minister of Aviation repudiating Tory charges that the Government was responsible for the failure of private enterprise in this field.

5. Far from steering a middle course, or a modern course, or making changes, or bringing Socialist aims up to date, as in turn he claimed, he is operating a Tory-Right Wing Labor mixture of policies as old-fashioned as top hats on Palace coach­men, but not nearly as harmless or funny. The Prime Minister said that the July measures, "so far from threatening the nation with continuing unemployment, by creating the opportunity for a new break-through in exports and production, hold out the surest guarantee we have of full employment for a generation."

6. Far from being a vote-winner, the Budget seems to have driven a bigger proportion of voters than ever to turn away from the Tories at the Derby North by-election.

7. A struggle for conscience began in America in the days of Tom Paine and the American Revolution. It started in England with the Puritans and other protes­tant sects fighting the persecution of the State and its State religion.

8. Even with the pendulum of power swinging back to the Security Council, as it is doing at present, the Assembly will retain considerable political influ­ence, provided its Afro-Asian majority continues to show a sense of responsibil­ity.

9. Having refused to recognize this in time, Washington was forced to retreat, under the pressure of rather embarrassing circumstances, from the juridical sound but politically unrealistic position it had enjoined on the United States dele­gation to the U.N.

10. "Our Government is taking a huge gamble in going into the Common Mar­ket in the belief that a single integrated large industrial area represents the best outlet for our products. This strategy is obviously very risky. Instead of going after the maximum amount of international trade, we are tying ourselves to a tight restrictive group fiercely competing among each other for vital markets in North America."

11. With no party having an over-all majority, and the political stalemate re­newed, the three possible coalitions are: Christian Democrats with Free Democ­rats; Social Democrats with Free Democrats; and last, but by no means least likely, a continuation of the 'Grand Coalition' between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.

II. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на пере­вод страдательного залога и сослагательного наклонения.

1. While Trades Union Congress leaders were being pressed yesterday at Downing Street to agree to wage freezing, Stock Exchange speculators were push­ing share prices to a new record level.

2. This report — the first of which will appear next autumn,— would give the T.U.C. views on the general level of pay increases in the following years. Claims notified to the General Council by unions would be in accordance with it. Discussions with the Department of Economic Affairs and the Confederation of British Industry would take place before the drawing up of the report.

3. Tomorrow night's meeting of the Parliamentary Labor Party, when the Prime Minister will wind up the discussions on the Market, will conclude his formal­ity of consulting backbenchers about a decision he has already made in principle. His speech to MPs is to be published immediately after it is made, which is thought to be a further indication of his efforts to guide opinion the way he wants. Anti-Market MPs hope that the speech Mr E.S. will make will also get simi­lar facilities and be published in full. Most MPs would be surprised if the Cabinet should fail to endorse the Prime Minister's known desire to ask for negotia­tions on the transitional arrangements needed during the period of Britain's adjustment to Common Market laws and practice.

4. Behind this action lies an admission of, and a determination to solve, the real problem of every weatherman — that meteorologists actually know frighten­ingly little about the weather. "If a scientist in any other field made predictions based on so little basic information," the head of the United States Weather Bu­reau's international unit remarked recently "he'd be flatly out of his mind." And if chemistry were now at the same stage as meteorology, a colleague added, the world would just be beginning to worry about the horrifying effect of gunpowder in warfare.

5. The repercussions in Nigeria, should he carry out his threat to resign, might be even more serious. In September a conference is due to be held in London at which representatives from all parts of Nigeria will be present.

6. If the British Government were to declare that the M.L.F. should be aban­doned and make a call for practical steps of disarmament it would find a big response here.

7. Both countries have an interest in avoiding such an extention of the area of conflict because of the threatening consequences, were the localization to fail.

8. A heavy expenditure on atomic development for peaceful purposes, if con­trolled by the people, would ultimately pay handsome dividends.

9. The decision that there should be no broadcast on matters which were about to be debated in Parliament was originally neither negotiated nor bargained for.

10. An undertaking by non-nuclear states not to acquire nor manufacture nu­clear weapons would be an important step. The guarantee through the U. N. should safeguard against threats by countries embarking on a nuclear weapons capability, as well as those which already had that capability, the Indian delegate said.

11. That the decision of the steering committee should have been overruled by the narrow margin of one vote only points to the necessity of continuing the debates.

12. "Of the 550,000 people who die each year, at least 100,000 die of condi­tions that can now be prevented or whose destructive powers can be diminished or postponed." Dr W. illustrated his point with the case of the Rhondda, where the health facilities "are quite inadequate." Of the 1,380 people who died there in 1965, 388 would have survived if the death rate had been as low as in the rest of England and Wales.

13. Mr H. suggested that the Lord Chancellor should help the Smith regime make sense of the proposals for setting up an interim Government which it had not been able to accept. He said it was "a mark of bankruptcy of statesmanship" to come to the point where mandatory sanctions had to be used — a remark which -brought murmurs from the Labor benches. He asked the Prime Minister for a cate­gorical undertaking that if oil sanctions were proposed particularly against South Africa, the British Government would use its veto. This brought cries of "no" from a number of Labor back-benchers.

14. Women demanding equal pay should press home their campaign. For the P.I.B.'s proposal that nationalized industry chiefs should get the same as the heads of the firms with similar responsibilities is, after all, only another way of saying that pay should be equal for work of equal value.