Specific English. Грамматические трудности перевода - [36]
Б. 1. It was a smallish room, with big deep leather chairs of a delicate brown colour. 2. We have lodges in all the biggish places. 3. Near the front of the audience, a youngish man sprang to his feet. 4. «What about that hotel in the market place, Jimmy?» «Might be a bit dearish.» 5. Well, if you do, I shall feel I ought to go too, and though I’m tiredish too, I hate to think I’m missing anything. 6. He was beginning to feel wonderlandish again, what with Mr Mensworth and the champagne. 7. The Hairless Mexican was a tall man, and though thinnish gave you the impression of being very powerful. 8. It was a longish ride. 9. I had a sweetish taste in my mouth. 10. I’m a baldish, stoutish gentleman of fifty-two. 11. She had known of many separated wives, living equivocally on smallish incomes, and knew how quickly their friends found them tiresome. 12. He was tallish, very spare.
XIII. Переведите следующие предложения. Обратите внимание на различие в употреблении степеней сравнения в русском и английском языках.
A. I. That was the room that Nancy liked best in all the house. 2. The holiday proved to be one of the happier times that Keith and Natalie had ever known. 3. He changed into the Chinese trousers and silk tunic in which he felt most at ease. 4. The findings of the mission include: the desirability of the countries concerned to meet and discuss early how best to initiate further action. 5. In general they went to dine at one of the better restaurants in Montparnasse. 6. But that which 1 liked best is that section of which the artery is the Boulevard du Montparnasse. 7. She congratulated me, somewhat ironically perhaps, on my acquaintance with the more disreputable parts of Paris. 8. Peter crossed to the telephone beside the nearer bed. 9. Among the more important decisions was the resolution on solidarity with that country. 10. My friend Wyman Holt is a professor of English literature in one of the smaller universities of the Middle West. 11. Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out. 12. «That’s it,«he said, «you young people, you all stick together; you all think you know best!»
Б. 1. Вот вам все (имеющиеся у нас) купальные костюмы. Выбирайте тот, который вам нравится больше всех. 2. Расскажите нам о наиболее значительных (significant) событиях последних дней. 3. Они все хорошо плавают (хорошие пловцы). Но Гаррис плавает лучше всех. 4. Были упомянуты лишь наиболее важные подробности. 5. Ее жаргон напоминал ему о беднейших кварталах Парижа. 6. Лора и ее мать, миссис Клейтон (Clayton), вдова, жили в одной из лучших гостиниц. 7. Это была выставка работ (show) одного из наиболее прогрессивных (advanced) художников. 8. Они заставляли своих жен и детей регулярно посещать самые модные церкви города.
XIV. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык. Обратите внимание на субстантивированные прилагательные.
1. Nothing you can possibly do could improve the situation in the slightest. 2. «Is he really a bad musician?» «He is. I haven’t heard a worse.» 3. There always lurked in the back of her mind the disquieting memory that he had seen her at her worst. 4. I don’t like him in the least. 5. Afterwards, when the worst of the emergency was over, he could return to work for the remainder of his shift. 6. He always referred to the soldiers as «our brave boys» or «our heroes in gray» and did it in such a way as to convey the utmost in insult. 7. Each was trying his hardest to read the other’s thoughts. 8. In normal circumstances he would have had only one thought, which would have been to show himself to Mrs Merle at his most light-hearted, his most urbane. 9. «And I,«cried Dorothy, «and I?» She was at her most dangerous. 10. I really did my damnedest.
XV. В следующих предложениях укажите наречия степени, которые представляются избыточными или не совместимыми по смыслу с определяемым словом с точки зрения русского языка.
1. She’s quite the best dancer I know. 2. Christine realised suddenly how very tired she was. 3. Think of something not quite so expensive. 4. «Are you staying here?» he asked. «Only for a very few days.» 5. Hans and Peter are quite the noisiest boys that I know. 6. But they had come on a very different errand. 7. Al lived then at Gorney’s Hotel, which was not quite the worst hotel in Gibbsville. 8. I’ve talked with her quite a few times. 9. You’ve spoken a little too much tonight. 10. Isn’t it rich to hear her? How very original she is! 11. I want you to give his reports your very best attention. 12. It’s a bit too much. 13. Isn’t the telephone working? How very trying. 14. She is a darling, he thought, and so very dense. 15. We’re Matthew’s very oldest friends. 16. She was interested to see how very disagreeable and ill-dressed many of the women visitors seemed. 17. But he had been a little too quick at this point. 18. «How very kind,«she murmured. 19. In the end she found herself obliged to give quite a little lecture.
