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> The trick didn't come off.
I. Предтекстовые упражнения > It's easy if you know the trick.
> It's only a trick of the eyesight.
1. Запомните следующие значения существительного trick:
7. Найдите в тексте средства выражения эмфазы и правильно
> хитрость, обман передайте ту же степень выразительности в переводе.
> шутка, шалость, выходка
> фокус, трюк II. Текст
> умение, сноровка
> способ, прием TRICKS OF THE TONGUE
> характерная особенность, привычка, манера
By Steven Pinker
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания, What do Henry Kissinger, Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov have in
учитывая все перечисленные выше значения слова trick: common? They all learnt a second language and used it brilliantly, but traces of
card tricks, nicks of the trade, tricks of the memory, tricks of fortune, tricks of their native tongue never left them.
gesture and pronunciation, a trick to making a good pie, a confidence trick. Conrad had an accent so thick his friends could barely understand him.
3. Определите, к какой части речи относятся следующие сло- Kissinger's grinding logic is purveyed in a guttural German accent, while
ва, и дайте их значения: Nabokov refused ever to be interviewed in English. As he said: "I think like a
genius, I write like a distinguished author, I speak like a child".
trickery, trickiness, trickish, trickster, tricksy, tricky.
Yet here is the point. Kissinger's brother, a few years younger, travelled to the
4. Переведите на русский язык словосочетания, в которых United States at the same time as Henry, and speaks without a trace of an accent.
слово trick является определением: In him, it seems, the sound pattern of German had not had time to take over the
trick riding, trick cyclist, trick dog, trick camera, trick lock, trick work, trick language centres of his brain and set like concrete.
flying. The evidence presented in The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker's brilliant
5. Переведите на русский язык словосочетания, в которых study of language, is that those who arrive in a new land between the ages of
определением является слово tricky: three and seven gain a command of grammar and accent that is
indistinguishable from natives. Those who move between the ages of eight and
tricky politician, tricky acrobat, tricky opponent, tricky question, tricky
15 do worse the later they arrive, and those who arrive after the age of 17 do
situation, tricky problem, tricky argument.
worse still.
6. Переведите на русский язык следующие предложения:
> I am sure that he has been tricked. III. Лексические упражнения
> The trick is to make it look natural.
> He played a dirty trick upon us. Посмотрите в словаре все имеющиеся значения для следующих
> We'll show you the trick of it. трех глаголов и переведите на русский язык предложения с этими
> That will do the trick. глаголами:
> He got the money from me by a trick. > He to burn
tricked her into marrying him. My face is burning.
language
ЗАНЯТИЕ 3
I. Предтекстовые упражнения
coated (furred), cleft (bifid), smoked, bad, rough, foul, nasty, glib, sharp, smooth,
ready, loose, caustic, wicked, bitter, biting, mother, native, ancient, modern
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Today, scientists are leading a new revolution in understanding the roots of language.
ЗАНЯТИЕ 4
While linguistic pioneer Noam Chomsky and his followers have focused on language as
a psychological phenomenon, a small band of renegade scholars is revealing how
I. Предтекстовые упражнения
languages are a product of cultural evolution. Sifting through modern tongues for
1. Проанализируйте в тексте все выделенные курсивом -ing формы (всего 20) linguistic "fossils" in the form of common words and grammatical structures, these
и переведите соответствующие предложения на русский язык. "linguistic paleoanthropologists", many of whom have worked in obscurity in the Soviet
Union, are reconstructing the pathways by which the world's roughly 5,000 languages
2. Прочитайте вслух следующие слова и дайте их русские соответствия: arose from a handful of ancient "mother" tongues. A few radical linguists have gone
philologer, psyche, psychological, phenomenon, paleoanthropologist, archaeologist, even further, claiming they have reconstructed pieces of the mother of them all: The
anthro-psycho-socio-linguistics. original language spoken at the dawn of the human species.
These linguistic findings are a windfall for archaeologists, anthropologists and other
3. Найдите в словаре следующие слова и установите их кон-
social scientists who are trying to piece together the story of the peopling of the earth.
текстуальное значение: "We've come to realize", says Alexis Manaster Ramer, a researcher at Wayne State
embark, ancestry, fossil, obscurity, species, windfall, glue, dovetail. University in Detroit, "that a lot of the answers to the big questions lie in something you
4. Запомните следующие однокоренные слова и дайте варианты их might call anthro-psycho-socio-linguistics". Language is an integral part of the cultural
перевода: glue that binds people together and signals their presence. Tracing the evolution of
language can reveal how ancient peoples migrated into new lands, for instance, just as
science, scienter, sciential, scientific, scientifically, scientism, scientist, sci-fi.
reconstructing the vocabularies of lost languages can give researchers clues to what
II. Текст ancient people saw, ate and thought, or how one culture coexisted - or collided - with
THE MOTHER TONGUE another. The new linguistic findings also neatly dovetail with conclusions drawn from a
very different area of evolutionary research. Comparisons of human genes worldwide
By William F. Allman have produced a "family tree" of the human race whose branches closely mirror the
In 1786, Sir William Jones, an Englishman serving the Crown as a branching of languages proposed by linguists, leading to the startling suggestion that all
judge in India, turned a series of seeming coincidences into an people - and perhaps all languages - are descended from a tiny population that lived in
extraordinary discovery about human nature. A scholar of the Orient by Africa some 200,000 years ago.
training, Jones had embarked on an effort to learn Sanskrit, the language
in which many ancient Indian religious and literary texts are written. To
By Joannie M.Schrof phonetics, affording a simple means to write anything that could be
spoken. Moreover, one could master the 22 to 32 symbols of the early She fell in love.
alphabets in a matter of days or weeks, in contrast to the years it took to It fell into disuse.
master earlier systems. But because the earliest alphabets lacked vowels, The responsibility falls on him.
they still posed a problem for the average reader, who found words made He fell ill with fever.
only of consonants difficult to decipher. For instance, the word dbt could She fell silent.
mean debt, or debit, or doubt, or debut. The Greeks introduced vowels in The soldier fell dead.
740 B.C., clarifying written text and allowing anyone to record debates, The boy fell flat. (His joke fell flat).
speeches, personal thoughts and ideas. The alphabet transformed writing
to follow
into a tool that gave individuals of any social class the opportunity to
express themselves, and most scholars conclude its invention was Wait and see what follows.
inseparable from the first inklings of democracy and the birth of poetry. Monday follows Sunday.
Night follows day.
III. Лексические упражнения letter
Years follow one another.
Посмотрите в словаре все имеющиеся значения для следующих
трех глаголов и переведите на русский язык предложения с этими Be sure to follow these instructions exactly.
глаголами: Dinner was followed by a dance.
to fly
His plan was as follows.
How time flies! He spoke so fast that I couldn't follow him.
The dog flew at the robber. He thinks he is being followed.
He flew into a rage.
The door flew open.
The cup flew into pieces.
He flies high (low).
The wine (the blood) flew to his head.
This would fly in the face of all common sense.
He sent the book flying at me.
The devil flies away with you!
to fall
His voice fell to a whisper.
The old man fell into a deep sleep at once.
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alphabet, although they wrote a little with Germanic letters called runes.
When they got to know the Latin alphabet they found it so much better to grow
than runes that they learnt to write in it. First, of course, they wrote Latin, Не has grown by 5 inches.
then they tried to use the same alphabet to write their own language, Old My son has grown out of his clothes.
English. It will grow out of use soon.
But sometimes it was not so easy. Some sounds were not the same
Our garden is grown with grass.
in Latin and English, Latin did not have the two sounds [p] and [Θ] which
I grew to hate him.
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He grew old (pale, rich, angry, fat, thin).
we now spell th, and so the Anglo-Saxons used two old (runic)
letters, p and ю, to represent them. These two runic letters have 27
disappeared from the Modern English alphabet and Englishmen now use It is growing cold (warm, dark).
th for both these sounds. His hair has grown grey.
The Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes had the same language. But they He has grown a beard.
pronounced the same words differently. Some of them, seeing a high The crowd grew rapidly.
place on the face of the earth, called it a hill, and other called it a hulle; to gain
the earth itself could be worlds, werld, or weorld. When the language was She has gained 5 pounds in weight.
written the word was spelled differently because it had different He has gained in strength.
pronunciations. You gained by the change.
The result of all this is perhaps the most mixed up of spellings of all What gained him such a reputation?
the languages of the world. There is nothing to he gained by waiting.
When a word is taken into English from a language which has a
One gains experience as one grows older.
different alphabet the result is many different English spellings of the
same word. A great Russian composer's three names may be spelled to gather
Peter, Pyotr, Petr, Piotr - Ilich, Hitch, Ilych - Tchaikowsky, The clouds are gathering, it will probably rain.
Tschaikowsky, Tshaikovsky, Tschaikovsky, Chaykovski and various The boil has gathered and burst.
other ways. They have gathered the harvest already.
Many people tried to reform English spelling to make it not so He tried to gather his thoughts.
difficult, but almost nothing has been done so far. She gathered her shawl about herself.
N.Webster, the American scholar, worked for it all his life and I gather he is ill.
succeeded in changing only a few words - colour into color, for instance. His poems are gathered into one volume.
So Americans now write color, while in England the word is still Suspicion was gathering in his mind.
spelled colour. Tears gathered in her eyes.
A rolling stone gathers no moss. (посл.)
III. Лексические упражнения
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I. Предтекстовые упражнения English at Osaka International University in Japan. Professor Honey, a long-standing
critic of education standards in Britain and a champion of standard grammar, has spent
1. Найдите в лингвострановедческом словаре описание 15 years noting the mistakes of the famous.
следующих реалий: His main concern, elaborated in an article called "A new rule for the Queen and I" in
Leicester(shire), Lancaster(shire), Lancastrians, the Red Rose, the the journal English Today, is the pronoun case.
Queen's English, the Queen's English Society. He points out that, under existing rules, the pronoun changes if it is the object rather
than the subject. For example, we say "my wife and I went" but "he dislikes my wife and
2. Расшифруйте сокращения: BBC, ABC, ABS, CNN, CBS, CBC. me".
Though Dr Johnson was a stickler for the correct use of the pronoun, Shakespeare,
3. Проверьте, все ли названия английских частей речи и членов Thackeray and Dickens were not. Professor Honey wants the rules changed because so
предложения Вы знаете и назовите соответствующие им many well-known people are breaking them. He cites as examples:
понятия в русском языке: > Baroness Thatcher (Oxford graduate): "It is not for you and I sitting here to
condemn...".
> Sir Rhodes Boyson (Ex-headmaster and former education minister): "The Labour
> части речи: noun, article, adjective (qualitative and party have taken the Red Rose as their emblem [but] I don't think they asked
relative adjectives), numeral (cardinal and ordinal numerals), permission of we Lancastrians before they did it".
pronoun (personal, possessive, demonstrative, reflexive,
reciprocal, interrogative, connective, indefinite and negative > Professor Brian Cox (professor of English at Manchester University and chairman
pronouns); verb, adverb. of a government working party on English): "Philip Larkin expressed nervousness
about allying himself to we jackbooted characters".
> члены предложения: subject, predicate (simple verbal
predicate, modal verbal predicate, group verb predicate, compound > The case of the Prince of Wales is more complicated. In an interview with the
nominal predicate), object (direct, indirect and prepositional BBC when asked if he had been faithful to his wife, he replied: "Yes, until it had
object), attribute, adverbials. become clear that it had irretrievably broken down, us both having tried".
4. Вспомните, какие существуют возможности перевода на Professor Honey suggests that the Oxford English Dictionary recognises the use of
"us" and a participle in what is technically called an absolute construction. On the other
русский язык союзов until и unless. Найдите в тексте hand, the prince might have mixed up "we both having tried" and "both of us having
предложения с этими союзами и переведите их. tried".
П. Текст
Professor Cox said last week: "The view of all modern linguists is that the concept of A cup of tea won't hurt you.
correctness as absolute is foolish because our notions of correctness keep changing. Too much water hurts plants.
Peter Bassett, of the Queen's English Society, countered; "You would not find a
single soul among our members who would support a change in
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the rules. Words still have a specific meaning. Unless people use them correctly there
will come a time when we don't know what we mean". He looked hurt.
Professor Honey suggests an alternative rule for optional use by academics, I hope your feelings aren't hurt.
politicians, exam candidates and, of course, by you and me/I. His tone hurts bitterly.
It hurts the eyes to look at the sun.
III. Лексические упражнения It cannot hurt you to be more polite.
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II. Текст
40 He hoped that this would put an end to his perplexity. He learned to say "Sorry" for
everything and to call a cookie a biscuit. But even he was defeated in the end. Once, Mind your language (head, health, etc.).
when an old lady asked him to help her across the street, he uttered the single word Mind you bring the book.
"Sure". "Oh", said the Englishwoman, "surely you're from America".
Mind your own business.
III. Лексические упражнения I don't mind at all.
I wouldn't mind a cup of tea.
Посмотрите в словаре все имеющиеся значения для следующих трех Never mind!
глаголов и переведите на русский язык предложения с этими глаголами: ЗАНЯТИЕ 11
to miss
There is a page missing (here). I. Предтекстовые упражнения
I came at three and missed him.
1. В тексте Вам встретятся несколько сложноподчиненных
I missed the joke.
предложений. Проанализируйте одно из них:
He missed the 9.30 train (by half a minute).
He left for good but he won't be missed.
But the question is more interesting, for it illustrates how touchy
Afrikaners are these days about their language - an Africanized derivative
to move from Dutch as it was spoken in the 17th century, when South Africa's
I'm so tired I can't move. earliest - and mostly Dutch - white settlers arrived.
We're moving next week.
Синтаксический анализ рекомендуется проводить в следу-
It's your turn to move.
ющем порядке:
Tears will not move him.
Move on, please. Найдите главные члены предложения. Количество подле-
Can you move up one seat (a few seats)? жащих и сказуемых поможет установить количество прида-
It's time to be moving. (разг.) точных предложений.
to mind Найдите подчинительные союзы и союзные слова, чтобы
Are you sure you don't mind?
выделить придаточные предложения и установить характер
подчинительной связи, учитывая, что в английском языке
Who is minding the baby?
предложения часто не отделяются запятыми и могут присо-
Mind my cat while I'm away.
единяться бессоюзно.
Mind the traffic rules.
Найдите второстепенные члены главного и придаточных
Mind the steps (the paint, the broken glass).
предложений.
Переведите предложение на русский язык.
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элемента вторичного сказуемого (оборот Nominative with the
Infinitive) и переведите эти предложения на русский язык.
3. Определите значения следующих однокоренных слов:
doubt, doubter, doubtable, doubtful, doubting, doubtfulness, The worry among Afrikaners is that over time, these agreements won't
doubtingly, doubtless. be fully honored.
They fear that the 11 - language policy will turn out to be a back-handed
ploy to reduce Afrikaans to just another regional tongue.
Although many Afrikaners fear their language will wither away if it
becomes one among 11 equals, some think that is the way to guarantee it
thrives - by depoliticizing the issue.
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II. Текст
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FUTURE OF AFRIKANERS' LANGUAGE IN DOUBT
By Paul Taylor
"The Washington post"
CAPE TOWN - The Afrikaans language survived British colonization.
It seems likely to survive black liberation. Question is, can it survive de-
Coca-Colaization?
The answer is almost certainly yes. But the question is more
interesting, for it illustrates how touchy Afrikaners are these days about
their language - an Africanized derivative from Dutch as it was spoken in
the 17th century, when South Africa's earliest - and mostly Dutch - white
settlers arrived.
Afrikaans-speakers comprise about 3 million whites and 3 million
mixed-race Coloreds in a nation of 38 million. South Africa's other 2
million whites, of British descent, speak English, South Africa's other
official language.
After the election South Africa became a country with 11 official
languages, spoken by the nine different groups of South Africa's 30
million blacks.
The language bargain struck by the drafters of South Africa's new
constitution, approved by the white-minority Parliament assures that no
language will suffer a diminution of status in the post-apartheid era.
That means that Afrikaans and English are supposed to remain the
languages of record in high functions of the new national government,
LANGUAGE THAT REFUSES TO DIE teaching is in Basque, and Spanish is taught separately. Alongside the
publicly run schools there are also the ikastolas, the schools first set up in
By Peter Strafford
resistance to Franco as a way of preserving the language, where option D
The Basque language is a very old one, almost certainly the oldest is offered.
surviving in Europe. Only the most tenuous links have been made with The system has caught on, says Fernando Buesa, the councillor in
languages elsewhere, and the assumption is that it has been spoken since charge of education in the government, and there has been an increase in
prehistoric times in what are now northern Spain and southwest France. those opting for В and D.
The Basques went on speaking their own language as Celts, Romans, There are also differences of emphasis within the government
Visigoths, Franks and Arabs in turn dominated the area. coalition. As a nationalist party, the Partido Nacionalista VascO (PNV),
Over the past century, knowledge of the language, known either as the dominant partner, sees the language as central to the national identity
Euskara or Euskera depending on the area, has shrunk, partly as a result and something that should draw the Basques together:
of immigration as the Basque-speaking areas have become industrialised The other main party, the Partido Socialista de Euskadi (PSE), takes a
and less remote. less urgent view and Senor Buesa, a member of the PSE, argues for not
A further blow was dealt by General Franco who, after his victory in trying to move so fast. The party is in favour of promoting the use of the
1939 in the Spanish Civil War, tried to stamp out the language altogether. language, he says, but it believes that personal choice must be respected,
Today, in the three provinces of the Basque Country, Vizcaya, and Basque cannot be imposed.
Guipuzeoa and Alava, barely 25 per cent of the population understand Revival of the language is a long-term process. It is not possible to go
and speak the language well, while in Navarre, also considered by to 100 per cent knowledge in a generation.
nationalists to be Basque, the figure is only 10 per cent.
The language is still very much alive, however, and since the Basque
III. Лексические упражнения
Country was granted its statute of autonomy in 1979, the regional
government has set out to reverse the decline. The language is now in use Посмотрите в словаре все имеющиеся значения для следую-
everywhere, as is the once-banned Basque flag. Basque is taught щих трех глаголов и переведите на русский язык
extensively in the schools, and efforts are under way to make its use предложения с этими глаголами:
general in the various public services.
to pass
There is Basque-language radio and a Basque-language television
channel, ETB 1, in Durango. In Bilbao, the Academy of the Basque Please, let me pass.
Language, started in 1919, has set out to establish rules for a unified A smile passed over his lips.
language, in place of the differing versions spoken in Spain and France. He passed his exam in geography.
There is already greater knowledge of the language among children of Pass me the mustard, please. Parliament
school age, and many adults have been keen to learn it. passed the Bill.
He passed for my brother.
to pay
It passes my understanding.
He will pay you cash.
We passed the winter in the country. The
You will pay on delivery.
officer passed my bag.
He has passed 16. You'll have to pay in advance.
It will pay.
The shop doesn't pay.
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We are paid on Fridays.
The work has been paid for.
It would pay you to be more careful.
The shares pay 5 per cent.
to play
I n the evening they played a game of chess.
I will play white (black).
Let's р1ау at hide-and-seek.
Don't play the fool!
She played a joke on him.
He is playing a safe game (= a winning game).
They are playing a losing game.
This man is playing a double game.
We are playing a waiting game.
She can play by ear.
The piano plays well.
I don't like to play for money.
He played high (low).
He is fond of playing upon words.
Who will play Hamlet, in a farewell performance?
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II. Текст Fluency
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III. Лексические упражнения
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Найдите в словаре все имеющиеся значения для следующих
above all enjoyable. Although it is very different from old style repetitive
methods, it has received widespread academic and commercial approval. трех глаголов и переведите на русский язык предложения с
этими глаголами:
Start by Relaxing
Tension inhibits learning. So Accelerated Learning incorporates to raise
relaxation and music to create a highly receptive state of mind. If you want a ticket, please raise your hand.
He never raises his voice at anybody.
Your Preferred Way of Learning She raised him at night.
Her wages were raised. (The price was raised). Who 1. В тексте урока использованы четыре модальных глагола. Какие
raised this question? значения этих модальных глаголов (should, can, to be, to have) Вам
They began to raise money for a new undertaking. известны и что они выражают в следующих предложениях:
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He raised his glass to her health. A good course should let students make the vital breakthrough into
She didn't raise a finger to help us. thinking in a foreign language.
It could raise suspicion. No one can learn a language from nil to proficiency in three
These shoes raise blisters on my feet. weeks.
to rise Students have to be prepared to keep topped up by evening classes
The mist is rising. in their own country if they are not to lose what they have learnt.
What time does the Sun rise? 2. Найдите в словаре следующие слова и установите их контекстуальное
The wind began to rise. значение:
Prices continue to rise. to woo, to immerse, outrageous, insight, would-be, advert.
His temperature rose (is rising).
Jesus Christ rose from the dead. 3. Дайте русские соответствия следующих слов (без словаря):
She rose from her knees. group, progress, to invest, stage, specific, special, to organize.
Where does the Nile rise?
4. Определите значения следующих однокоренных слов с помощью словаря:
He rose to (the rank of) colonel.
New buildings are rising every day in our town. swift, swiftly, swiftness, swift-flowing, swift-footed, swift-
to run passing, swift-sailing, swift-tongued. swift-winged.
He ran for Parliament last year. quick, quick-acting (operating), quick-change, quick-drying, quick
This man runs a transport agency. fire, quick fix, quick-freezing, quick-frozen, quicksand, quickie,
Her father ran into debt. quickening, quickly, quickness, quickset, quick-setting, quick-
The child has a bad cold, his nose runs. sighted, quicksightedness, quick-tempered, quickway, quick-
Silk stockings often run. witted, quickwittedness.
The ship ran aground.
Buses run every 15 minutes here.
The play was successful and ran for several years.
Bravery runs in their family.
I ran my eye over the newspaper column.
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I. Предтекстовые упражнения II. Текст
SPANISH IN SPAIN
By Carmel Fitzsimons
ANN THOMAS works for GALA, a group which organises Spanish
language courses in Barcelona. She believes that studying a language
abroad is one of the most efficient ways of gaining fluency but warns that
would-be students should not be wooed by outrageous claims.
No one can learn a language from nil to proficiency in three weeks, no
matter what the adverts say. One acquires a greater command the longer
the course and progress is swifter the longer one is away from one's own
country and as one gets immersed in the language outside class time.
There really is no point in investing in less than a month. You can
learn to talk in eighty hours of classes but you really need around 300
hours for it to stick. Even then students have to be prepared to keep
topped up by evening classes in their own country if they are not to lose
what they have learnt.
The breakthrough comes when you learn to think in a language and
then you can never really lose it. We find that it's very difficult for anyone
ever to reach that stage simply studying in his own country.
"A good course", says Thomas, "should let students make the vital
breakthrough into thinking in a foreign language and also give them an
insight into the country where they are staying. Then they will feel that
they really have experienced, not just a foreign language holiday, but the
specific and rather special pleasure of studying abroad".
to strike
The lightning struck the tree.
She struck her elbow against the door.
The ship struck the bottom.
The clock has just struck four.
A happy thought struck me.
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They were striking for higher pay.
His name was struck off the list. ЗАНЯТИЕ 15
He struck a wrong note.
The room strikes you as warm when you enter. I. Предтекстовые упражнения
Strike while the iron is hot. (поcл.) 1. Переведите на русский язык предложения со словом «that» и определите, в
to stick каком качестве оно выступает в каждом из предложений:
The door sticks. (разг.)
The pages have stuck (together).
Friends must stick together (разг.) The peoples of the countries that won state independence are
Stick to the point! taking an active part in world politics.
The needle stuck in my finger. The meeting considers that the implementation of the new
The key stuck in the lock. programme would be of historic importance.
I can't stick it any longer. The development of monopoly in the British Empire proceeded
Stick around; we may need you. differently from that in other countries.
They are sticking out for higher wages. That's good.
Stick it down anywhere you like. 2. Найдите различные случаи употребления слова "that" в тексте (всего 3),
определите его функции и переведите соответствующие предложения на
to see русский язык.
Leave it to me, I'll see to it.
3. Какие из следующих однокоренных слов Вы знаете?
I'll see you out. (I can see myself out).
He will see you off at the station. to ignore, ignorance, ignorant, ignorantly, ignorable, ignoramus.
Do you see what I mean?
II. Текст
I can't see myself doing such a thing.
If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself. THE LANGUAGE IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR
Let me see what I can do.
By Jean Mackenzie
I'll be seeing you.
They say the key to a nation is its language, and nowhere is this truer
Who will see about the tickets?
than in Russia. 1 have spent many years trying to master the great and
That remains to be seen.
powerful Russian tongue, and it sometimes amuses me to think how my
experience with the language almost ended abruptly on the day of my first
Russian class. I was reading the introduction to my textbook, and learned
with relief that Russian, in contrast to English, is pronounced exactly as
written. Then I flipped to Lesson 1, where they teach you how to say
"hello".
"Zdravstvuite", I read with disbelief. I tried it a few times, gagged, and
decided that 1 wanted nothing more to do with a language where "vstv"
was considered a normal consonant combination.
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I. Предтекстовые упражнения
1. В английском языке условие может быть выражено не только
полным придаточным предложением, но и другими способами.
Проанализируйте следующий пример и дайте варианты перевода
на русский язык.
Given the widespread use of hypericum extracts, the implications of emerging
evidence of adverse reaction are potentially serious.
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
herbal remedies, alternative remedies, conventional antidepressant drugs, side-effects,
complementary medicine, inadequate treatment.
3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокорениых слов:
drug, druggist, drugster;
medicine, medicate, medicated, medication, medicative, medicinal;
remedy, remedial, remediable;
treat, treatable, treatment.
II. Текст
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Key principles
I. Предтекстовые упражнения
Our earliest awareness of being alive is connected to being touched. The skin is the body's largest
sensory organ; its second layer, the dermis, contains thousands of specialized receptors which react to 1. В следующем примере из текста английское причастие настоящего
external stimuli such as heat, cold and pressure by sending messages through the nervous system to the времени выступает в функции обстоятельства. Какие существуют
brain. способы его перевода на русский язык, и каким из этих способов можно
Basic techniques include: stroking - to aid circulation and relax muscles; kneading - to stretch and воспользоваться в данном случае? Найдите в тексте другие подобные
relax muscles; friction - deep, direct pressure to relieve tension in the spine and shoulders; and hacking примеры.
- short sharp taps, delivered with sides of the hands. It sends blood towards the internal organs, helping them to function more efficiently.
Precautions 2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
Seek medical advice before having a massage if you have phlebitis, thrombosis, varicose veins, circulatory problems, improved circulation, waste products, blood vessels, blood flow, blood
acute back pain or fever. pressure.
3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокорениых слов:
III. Лексические упражнения bath, bathe, bather, bathing.
HYDROTHERAPY
Water used in all its forms to cleanse, revitalize,
daily
restore and maintain health
therapeutic
back Main Uses
body Muscle and joint pain. Circulatory problems. Asthma, bronchitis. Cystitis. Anxiety, stress.
massage Headaches. Fatigue.
facial
closed-chest cardiac History
open-chest cardiac The Ancient Greeks believed water contained the essence of life, and no Roman town was
vibratory complete without public baths. In many towns, such as Baden-Baden in Germany and Spa in
Belgium, "taking the waters" at natural springs has continued to the present day.
The pioneer of modern hydrotherapy was Sebastian Kneipp, a 19th-century Bavarian monk
who claimed that water could cure disease by improving the elimination of waste products. His
patients had hot and cold baths and compresses, foot baths, steam baths, sitz bath, showers and
wraps - all still used today.
Key Principles
Cold water is stimulating: it makes surface blood vessels constrict, restricting blood flow and
inhibiting the biochemical reactions that cause inflammation. It sends blood towards the internal
organs, helping them to function more efficiently.
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to the skin and muscles, easing stiffness. The improved circulation boosts the immune system, helps
remove waste products from the body and sends more oxygen and nutrients into the tissues to repair I. Предтекстовые упражнения
damage.
Some therapies use hot and cold water alternately. This is said to stimulate the hormonal system. 1. Проанализируйте предложения с оборотом Nominative with the Infinitive и
Treatments include: High-powered jets - hot and cold water is directed at the back for two to three способы перевода этого оборота на русский язык.
minutes. This is said to stimulate the circulation and internal organs. Whirlpool baths - immersing the The ancient Egyptians and Greeks are said to have used healing trances.
body in pressurized bubbles for about 15 minutes. Sitz baths - two hip baths, one with hot and one The subconscious mind is extremely unlikely to accept undesirable suggestions.
with cold water, are placed side by side and sat in alternately, with the feet in the opposite bath. 2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
Minerals such as Epsom or Dead Sea salts, or therapeutic herbs and oils may be added.
trance-like state, imaginative people, self-hypnosis, weight problems, qualified practitioner.
III. Лексические упражнения 3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокорениых слов:
Дайте русские эквиваленты следующих видов лечебных ванн: Hypnos, hypnosis, hypnotic, hypnotizable, hypnotist/hypnotizer, hypnotize;
mesmerize, mesmerist, mesmerism, mesmeric/mesmerical.
II. Текст
air
HYPNOTHERAPY
hot-and-cold/alternating/contrast
Induces a trance-like state in which patients can be
medicated
desensitized to fears, phobias or pain
earth/moor/mud/bog
pine needle Main Uses
radon Pain relief. Fears, phobias. Stress, anxiety. Derpression. Insomnia. Digestive disorders.
oxygen Addictions. Weight problems.
carbon dioxide History
acid
The ancient Egyptians and Greeks are said to have used healing trances, and tribal cultures in
mustard bat Africa and the Americas have long used dancing and drumming to hypnotic effect.
sand h Modern hypnosis evolved from the work of an 18th-century Austrian doctor, Franz Anton
light Mesmer, who sent his patients into therapeutic "crises" of shaking and convulsions until they felt
radioactive better - hence the word "mesmerised".
sweating In the 1950s and 1960s, a US psychotherapist, Milton H. Erickson, developed the form of
vapor hypnotherapy now widely used in the West.
sedative Hypnotherapy has moved away from earlier associations with quackery and gained respect from
stimulating the medical establishment, but has yet to be incorporated into mainstream practice.
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Practitioners believe the mind has different levels of consciousness. Under hypnosis the
conscious, rational part is temporarily bypassed, making the subconscious part receptive to I. Предтекстовые упражнения
suggestion.
Hypnosis can be light, medium or deep, but a medium trance is normally used. 1. На примере заголовка и первого предложения текста
Imaginative people who are easily absorbed make the best subjects for hypnosis, but much проанализируйте стилистический прием обновления фразеологических
depends on willingness to be hypnotized and a good rapport with the practitioner. единиц и способы его передачи в переводе.
Hypnotherapists claim it is impossible to hypnotize anyone against their will, as the Five apples a day keep the cardiac surgeon away.
subconscious mind is extremely unlikely to accept undesirable suggestions. Several apples a day - or any kind of fruit - will keep the cardiac surgeon away.
Self-Help 2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания: fibre
diet, regular consumption of fruit, phytochemicals in the fruit.
Self-hypnosis can be used to alleviate pain and foster self-confidence, and many
practitioners teach patients to hypnotize themselves. Autosuggestion is often used in self- 3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокорениых слов:
hypnosis. It involves repeating simple, positive statements: "I feel confident" or "I will not be cardia, miocardia, cardiac, cardiogram, cardiovascular, carditis, myocardium, myocarditis.
afraid".
II. Текст
Precautions
Ensure you choose a qualified practitioner. Avoid hypnotherapy or self-hypnosis if you have FIVE APPLES A DAY KEEP THE CARDIAC SURGEON AWAY
severe depression, psychosis or epilepsy.
By Jeremy Laurance, Health
III. Лексические упражнения Correspondent
Several apples a day - or any kind of fruit - will keep the cardiac surgeon away, researchers
Дайте русские эквиваленты следующих видов терапии: have found.
Eating fresh fruit every day cuts the risk of dying from a heart attack by almost a quarter and
from a stroke by almost one third, a study has shown. Overall, those who ate fruit daily increased
heat their life expectancy by 20 per cent compared with those who ate fruit less frequently.
high-frequency The findings of the study of 11,000 people, who were followed for 17 years, adds to evidence
hunger that regular consumption of fruit helps to prevent cancer. At least five items, such as an apple or
laser orange, a day are recommended. Phytochemicals in the fruit are known to alter almost every stage
in the development of cancer but the mechanism by which it affects heart disease is less well
light
understood.
mud
The results of the study, published in the British Medical Journal, were unexpected. Dr.
nutritional Timothy Key and colleagues at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund's epidemiology unit at Radcliffe
therapy
physical Infirmary, Oxford, who started the study in the 1970s, say they had expected to find that heart
radiation disease rates were lowest in those who ate a high fibre or vegetarian diet. Although these diets were
narcosis/sleep associated with lower heart disease rates, daily consumption of fruit had a much bigger impact.
solar
ultrasonic
X-ray/deep X-ray
zone
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Matthew Gillman, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, says in ОБЗОРНОЕ ЗАНЯТИЕ
a commentary in the BMJ that the challenge now is to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables
1. Расшифруйте сокращения, встретившиеся Вам в текстах уроков 1-15:
among children. Professor Gillman says national strategies are now required to promote the "five a
day" target. CHESS, HOPE, PHS, NHS, WHO, ЕНО, AIDS, HIV, CMI, UV.
2. Вспомните значения некоторых словосочетаний, встретившихся Вам
в уроках 1-15:
III. Лексические упражнения a wide range of diseases, mortality risk, an unhealthy lifestyle; У heart attack victims,
Прочтите следующие пословицы и проанализируйте возможные cardiovascular system; У a change in habits, personal preferences, ironclad proof; У genetically
варианты их передачи на русский язык (дословный перевод, engineered food, genetic transformation, health-enhancing plants;
нейтральный эквивалент, окказиональный контекстуальный expectation of life/life expectancy, nutritional status, height differentials;
эквивалент): irreparable damage, hormonal differences, overexposure to the sun's rays; У vertex baldness,
frontal baldness, hair growth stimulant;
V What can't be cured must be endured. opportunistic infections, silent phase of the infection, infectious disease; У active senior
Gradually, Scarlet drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful citizens, aging process, memory loss;
adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. (Mitchell) the basics of health care, private medical insurance;
alternative remedies, side effects, inadequate treatment;
V Prevention is better than cure. joint disorders, digestive disorders, acute back pain;
You are hanging around the grounds of a big house after dark; without the consent, or even the circulatory problems, blood vessels, blood pressure, blood flow;
knowledge, of the owner. Next thing you know you'll be inside. Mind you 1 prefer no charges. But trance-like state, imaginative people, self-hypnosis;
we work here on the sound policy that prevention is better than cure. So I'm just warning you.
fibre diet, regular consumption of fruit, phytochemicals in the fruit.
(Cronin)
3. Проанализируйте текст с точки зрения имеющихся в нем
V Time is a great healer. грамматических и лексических трудностей перевода, рассмотренных в
A warm April breeze ruffled her white hair. He stood at the bottom of the porch steps and saw her уроках 1-15, и переведите текст на русский язык.
framed in morning glories. "Son, son, you can forgive her now. Time is a great healer, Ben boy".
(Upshaw) STOP THAT GERM!
It's a jungle out there, teeming with hordes of unseen enemies. Bacteria, viruses, fungi and
parasites fill the air. They cluster on every surface, from the restaurant table to the living-room sofa.
They abound in lakes and in pools, flourish in the soil and disport themselves among the flora and
fauna. This menagerie of microscopic organisms, most of them potentially harmful or even lethal, has
a favorite target: the human body. In fact, the tantalizing human prey is a walking repository of just
the kind of stuff the tiny predators need to survive, thrive and reproduce.
Humans are under constant siege by these voracious adversaries. Germs of every description
strive tirelessly to invade the comfortably warm and bountiful body, entering through the skin or by
way of the eyes, nose, ears and mouth.
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Fortunately for man's survival, most of them fail in their assault. They are repelled by the tough loose its secrets in the late 19th century, it was not until after World War II that the pace of
barrier of the skin, overcome by the natural pesticides in sweat, saliva and tears, dissolved by discovery began to quicken, boosted by such achievements as the deciphering of the genetic
stomach acids or trapped in the sticky mucus of the nose or throat before being expelled by a code and recombinant DNA technology. But no early advances can match those of recent
sneeze or a cough. But the organisms are extraordinarily persistent, and some occasionally breach years, which have enabled doctors to devise ingenious new treatments for a host of disorders.
the outer defenses. After entering the bloodstream and tissues, they multiply at an alarming rate and Says Immunologist John Kappler, of the National Jewish Center for Immunology and
begin destroying vital body cells. Respiratory Medicine in Denver: "The field is progressing so rapidly that the journals are out
The invaders soon receive a rude shock, for they encounter one of nature's most incredible and of date by the time they are published".
complex creations: the human immune system. Inside the body, a trillion highly specialized cells, Kappler is not exaggerating. In the past few months alone, dozens of new immune discoveries
regulated by dozens of remarkable proteins and honed by hundreds of millions of years of and promising therapies have been reported. Researchers announce in March that by activating
evolution, launch an unending battle against the alien organisms. It is high-pitched biological certain immune cells, they had increased by 20% the five-year survival rate of patients in the
warfare, orchestrated with such skill and precision that illness in the average human being is early stages of lung cancer. In the same month, European scientists reported eliminating the
relatively rare. need for insulin shots in some diabetic children by administering a drug that suppresses the im-
Early-warning cells constantly monitor the bloodstream and tissues for signs of the enemy. With mune system. Researchers in Colombia have tested a malaria vaccine that, unlike previous,
the gusto of Pac-Man, they gobble up anything that is foreign to the body. They envelop dust efforts, seems, to provide protection against the disease. Advances have come so fast, says
particles, pollutants, microorganisms and even the debris of battle: remnants of invaders and Dana-Farber's Benacerraf, that "we're now on the threshold of being able to activate the
infected or damaged body cells. Other early warners direct the production of unique killer cells, different components of the immune system at will to ■provide therapies for cancer and even
each designed to attack and destroy a particular type of intruder. Some of the killers, alerted to body for AIDS.
cells that have become cancerous, may annihilate these too.
Endowed with such specialized weapons, the properly functioning immune system is a From Time
formidable barrier to disease. Even when an infection is severe enough to overcome the system's
initial response and cause illness, the immune cells are usually able to regroup, call up
reinforcements and eventually rout the invaders. But when the system is weakened by previous
illness or advancing age, for example, the body becomes more vulnerable to cancers and a host of
infectious diseases. And should the system overreact or go awry, it can cause troublesome allergies
and serious disorders called autoimmune diseases.
As they probe the intricate workings of the immune system, scientists are awestruck. "It is an
enormous edifice, like a cathedral", says Nobel Laureate Baruj Benaceerraf, president of Boston's
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The immune system is compared favorably with the most complex
organ of them all, the brain. "The immune system has a phenomenal ability for dealing with
information, for learning and memory, for creating and storing and using information'", explains
Immunologist William Paul of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Declares Dr.Stephen
Sherwin, director of clinical research at Genentech: "It's an incredible system. It recognizes
molecules that have never been in the body before. It can differentiate between what belongs there
and what doesn't".
Knowledge about the inner workings of the immune system has undergone an astonishing
explosion in the past five years. Although researchers began to pry
I. Предтекстовые упражнения psychiatrist at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North
Carolina, who studies stress in macaque monkeys.
1. Передайте на русский язык собственные иностранные имена, In their research, 40 male macaques were randomly assigned either to stable or
использованные в тексте: shifting groups, the latter having three or four new monkeys added to their cage
Ronald Glaser, Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Sheldon Cohen, Jay Kaplan, every month. For macaques, joining a new group of monkeys is highly agitating
John Cacioppo, Mary Snydersmith, Lisa Berkman. and stressful; the males threaten each other until a dominance hierarchy is
established.
NB! Особое внимание обратите на передачу английских звуков, Yet even under the duress of the straggle for dominance, some monkeys re-
отсутствующих в русском языке, а также на передачу mained friendly. «These monkeys touched other monkeys more, groomed their
редуцированных гласных, удвоенных и непроизносимых cagemates or simply sat close to them», Dr. Cohen said. «In monkeys, those are
согласных. all gestures of affiliation».
After 26 months of shifting groups and fights for dominance, the friendliest
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания: monkeys were found to have stronger immune responses while the most hostile
and aggressive monkeys had the poorest.
heart attack victims, close/closest relationships, cardiovascular system,
Dr. Cohen's results were reported in the journal Psychological Science.
the struggle for dominance, gestures of affiliation, stable groups, shifting If friendly intimacy protects the immune system from stress, consider what a
groups, marital fights/argument, elderly men and women. fight does. «How couples handle their disagreements seems to affect their im-
3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокоренных слов: mune system», said Dr. Kiecolt-Glaser. She has been studying couples with her
stress, stressed, stressful, stressor. husband, Dr. Ronald Glaser, an immunologist and associate director for research
at Ohio State University Medical School.
In their study, 90 couples were brought into a laboratory and asked to resolve
II. Текст an issue of disagreement. Continuous blood monitoring for 24 hours allowed
HOW STRESS ERODES HEALTH their immune responses to be measured during and after the discussion.
By Daniel Goleman «We found a far stronger effect on the couples' immune system than we ever
People with many friends or family ties tend to live longer than loners. Heart expected», said Dr.Kiecolt-Glaser. «The more hostile you are during a marital
attack victims who have emotional support survive longer than those who do argument, the harder it is on your immune system».
not. The mind has many subtle influences on the body, and a spate of new It is not, of course, the sheer number of relationships in a person's life that
studies are seeking to explore further the nature of this mysterious axis. seem to offer a buffer against stress so much as the quality of those connections.
«Your closest relationships seem to matter most for your health», said Dr. For example, a study of college students found that the more roommates dis-
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, a psychologist at Ohio State University Medical School liked each other, the more often they came down with colds and the flu and vis-
who has just completed a study showing that marital fights can weaken the ited a physician.
immune systems of couples. «It's the most important relationships in your life, the people you see day in
She and other researchers are trying to find out how the body turns states of and day out, that seem to be crucial for health», said Dr. John Cacioppo, a psy-
mind like close relationships into a biological advantage that improves health. chologist at Ohio State University who did the roommate study with Mary
The evidence to date points to physiological mechanisms in the immune and car- Snydersmith, a graduate student.
diovascular system. But not all relationships are of equal significance. «If you have a romantic
«What is it that happens in a social network that makes such a difference for partner, we found, how you're getting along with your partner matters far more
health?» asked Dr. Sheldon Cohen, a psychologist at Carnegie Mellon for your health than does how you like your roommate», Dr. Cacioppo said.
University. To find the answers, Dr. Cohen joined forces with Dr. Jay Kaplan, a In a study of 194 elderly men and women who had suffered heart attacks, those
who had two or more sources of emotional support were found to be twice as
likely to survive longer than a year after the attack than those with no support,
according to a report in The Annals of Internal Medicine.
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University Medical School, found that of the patients who said they had ЗАНЯТИЕ 3
two or more people they could count on, only 27 percent died within the
first year of the heart attack. But of the patients who reported no such I. Предтекстовые упражнения
close supports, 58 percent died within the year. 1. Проанализируйте предложения, содержащие определения,
образованные соположением, и дайте варианты их перевода на
русский язык.
III. Лексические упражнения Correlations and relative risks are merely clues to possible cause-
1. Обратите внимание на многозначность слова stress. Дайте and-effect relationships.
значения этого слова в зависимости от контекста: In years past, panic-button-pushing reports have included a link of
hair dyes to cancer and coffee to heart disease.
1) общ., 2) лингв., 3) муз., 4) тех., 5) психол.
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
2. Определите, к какому контексту относится слово stress в
the steady steam of reports, the headline news, a dip in sales, a change
следующих словосочетаниях и переведите эти словосочетания на
in habits, personal preferences, ironclad proof.
русский язык:
primary/main stress, secondary stress, rhetorical stress, logical stress, 3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокоренных слов:
mental stress, strong stress, weak stress, under stress, allowable stress, panic, panicky;
limit stress, times of stress, the stress of war, under the stress of fear. warn, warning;
lethal, lethality.
3. Переведите на русский язык предложения со словом stress в II. Текст
зависимости от функций, выполняемых им в этих
предложениях, и контекстуального значения. DON'T PANIC!
Our school lays stress on foreign languages. THOSE HEALTH WARNINGS AREN'T SO LETHAL
In Britain there has been a dramatic rise in stress-related absence By Jane E.Brody
from work over the last two years. The steady stream of reports ascribing horrendous health risks to
They stressed that all regulations would be strictly enforced. nearly every aspect of modern life, from electric blankets and cellular
Stress and rhythm are important in speaking English. phones to post-menopausal hormones can fill otherwise rational people
with feelings of panic and paranoia.
Most people see or hear only the headline news when a purported
health threat looms, like the report several weeks ago linking the use of
cellular telephones to brain cancer or today's story reporting a link
between baldness and heart disease.
In years past, panic-button-pushing reports have included a link of hair
dyes to cancer; coffee to heart disease, and alcohol consumption to breast
cancer, among many others.
In the weeks after such reports, there is typically a dip in sales or a
change in habits.
The average person has great difficulty interpreting these findings.
Still, there are some guidelines that can help everyone better Weigh the degree of danger and whether there are safer and equally ac-
understand the significance of reported findings and avoid frenetic and ceptable alternatives.
pointless changes in habits.
A link between two phenomena does not imply cause and effect.
Correlations and relative risks are merely clues to possible cause-and- 14
effect relationships. III. Лексические упражнения
For example, there is a well-known association between the number of 1. Переведите на русский язык сочетания существительного
television aerials in a region and death rates from heart attacks. This does warning с некоторыми глаголами:
not mean television causes heart attacks, but it might mean that people give
who watch a lot of television get little or no exercise and eat fattier foods, issue
both of which can increase their coronary risk. send
to
And just because consumers of artificial sweeteners tend to be heavier shout
than users of sugar does not mean low-calorie sweeteners cause obesity. receive
More likely it means that overweight people trim calories wherever they take
can. heed
Establishing cause and effect is often a scientific challenge when
studying people, since it is unethical to expose a group of people to a
suspected hazard deliberately to see if it indeed harms them. Also, it can
take decades of study for the hazard to be unequivocally established. This to
is why the tobacco companies can argue that science has yet to prove that
warning
cigarette smoking causes cancer in people.
Short of ironclad proof, then, what can you look for in deciding how
much influence a study finding should have on your life?
The source of the report matters. Whether the study was done at
Harvard or Podunk university, the most reliable reports are those that are
published in peer-reviewed journals, like the New England Journal of 2. Переведите на русский язык сочетания существительного
Medicine or the Journal of the American Medical Association. warning с некоторыми прилагательными:
Unpublished reports that come out of medical meetings or news
conferences are generally least reliable. Also less reliable are studies done early
at private research institutes that do not receive government grants, since tacit
there may be good reason why taxpayer money is not awarded to them. warning cryptic
Find out if more than one study reached the same conclusion. It is dire
rarely wise to make radical changes based on a single study. Scientific
research demands replication by independent researchers. warning
Consider the size of the risk involved as well as benefits that may
result from the suggested cause. A 200 percent increase in a very small
risk is less important than a 50 percent increase in an already large risk.
3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокоренных слов:
3. Переведите на русский язык сочетания прилагательного immune, immunity, immunize, immunization, immunoassay,
warning с некоторыми существительными: immunodeficiency.
look
light
signal
net
shot
bell
gun
order
II. Текст
EATING YOUR WAY TO IMMUNITY
By Rick Weiss
Imagine you are a child in need of vaccination. A nurse approaches, a
syringe in one hand and a banana in the other. «You can have this big
needle stuck into your arm», she says, «or you can eat this bаnаnа».
15 For all but the most inveterate banana haters, the choice is easy. And it
ЗАНЯТИЕ 3 may become a reality within the next decade or two. Researchers reported
recently that for the first time they had immunized people against a
I. Предтекстовые упражнения disease by having them eat a few servings of genetically engineered food.
In that experiment - the first such effort in people - volunteers dined on
1. С помощью необходимых грамматических трансформаций, gene-altered potatoes and developed immune responses against a disease-
вызываемых некоторыми особенностями словообразования в causing bacterium. The researchers who developed the special spuds are
английском языке, переведите на русский язык предложения, growing engineered bananas that could accomplish the same thing with a
обращая особое внимание на выделенные слова: single piece of fruit.
Fruit and vegetable vaccines would be a blessing for the millions of
For all but the most inveterate banana haters, the choice is easy.
Americans who grow faint at the sight of a needle. More important, they
They could make the difference between life and death in many of
could make the difference between life and death in many of the world's
the world's poorer countries, where modern vaccines are
pooprer countries, where modern vaccines are unaffordable or
unaffordable or impractical.
impractical.
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
«Неге in this country we have no trouble buying clean needles and
genetically engineered food, gene-altered potatoes, health-enhancing syringes», said Dr.Carol Tacket of the University of Maryland's Center
plants, transgenic banana plants, genetic transformation. for Vaccine Development in Baltimore, who led the recent potato vaccine
test. «But in the developing world, this crop could be locally grown and
harvested and distributed to the local people who need it. And it would do 1. Прочтите текст и определите, в каких случаях при его переводе на
away with the need for needles and cleaning them and the need to русский язык можно использовать прием генерализации
refrigerate the vaccines». значений.
Even tobacco might gain some respect as a health-enhancing plant if
1. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
current experiments by plant biotechnologists fulfill their promise.
Meanwhile, work is under way to make vaccines out of bananas, which expectation of life/life expectancy, foster parents, nutritional status, height
are tasty when raw and relished by most children - the prime target differentials.
audience for edible vaccines. The group has created transgenic banana 3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокоренных слов:
plants, but it will be a few years before those grow into trees with fruit. longeval, longevity;
For those who live in climates too cool for bananas, tomatoes are easy to adolesce, adolescence, adolescent.
grow and amenable to genetic transformation.
Regina Rabinovich, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases vaccine and treatment evaluation program, said much more work II. Текст
remains before people can eat their way to immunity. AN EXTRA INCH OF LIFE
Being tall does not make you healthy, but is recognized as a symptom of
III. Лексические упражнения good health. "The factors that explain the increasing height of the British,
1. Переведите на русский язык предложения со словом also explain improved public health and longevity", says the historian Dr.
immune и его производными: Reginald Floud.
Anyone who has had scarlet fever becomes immune to it for the Dr.Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, says: "We now have
future. some very good evidence from Norway that the taller you are - up to a
Her prestige made her immune from criticism. height of about 6ft 2in, the greater your expectation of life. The reasons
The children have been immunized against poliomyelitis. probably have a lot to do with your nutritional status before birth and in the
There is now an immunization against the disease which has been first years of life.
proved to be effective. However, warm environments, lack of disease and love are also very
We cannot guarantee immunity from taxation. important. When you take children who have been well cared for in
2. В приведенных ниже сокращениях буква "I" обозначает institutions and put them with foster parents, they grow taller.
immune/ immuno-/immunity. Расшифруйте эти сокращения и In the 19th century, aristocratic adolescent boys were 20 centimetres
переведите их на русский язык: taller than slum children of the same age. The height differentials between
AIDS, HIV, CMI. classes are less obvious now, although people in social classes four and five
3. Дайте несколько русских синонимичных эквивалентов are still shorter.
следующих английских синонимов: The average height of the British male is at present between 5ft 9in and
congenital / genetic / inborn / inherent / innate / natural immunity. 5ft l0 in., Dr. Floud says. "Ideally, according to the Swedish evidence, men
need to be taller, but no fatter than we are today. It is bad news to be short
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and overweight".
ЗАНЯТИЕ 5
I. Предтекстовые упражнения 18
A number of studies have confirmed that short men are more prone to
heart attacks. A study of physicians in America found that those measuring
5ft 7in or less were at significantly greater risk than those who were 6ft or
over. 19
However, it is important to remember that heart disease does not
appear to have a single cause. According to a study published last year in
the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians, people with a large
number of creases in their ear-lobes can be at higher risk.
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания: A suntan is not a sign of health. It is a crude defence mechanism: your
overexposure to, the sun's rays, irreparable damage, likelihood of body's desperate - and always unsuccessful - attempt to protect you from
developing the disease, hormonal differences, sunbathing habits. damage that can be irreparable. Your system throws a dark curtain of
3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокоренных слов: pigment called melanin over you to keep dangerous UV radiation from
skin, skinned, skinner, skinny; doing even more harm. But it is too late. Once a suntan appears, the
sunbath, sunbathe, sunbathing; damage has already taken place.
pigment, pigmental, pigmentation, pigmented, pigmentizc. Unfortunately, even those at lower risk are not immune to skin cancer or
other ravages of the sun.
II. Текст People who tan now may pay later. And the price they pay may be high:
skin cancer, ugly aged skin, impaired vision and a damaged immune
SUNTANS CAN KILL YOU system. With all those risks, who needs a suntan?
Combined Reports Dermatologists know from several studies that sunburn in childhood can
Sunbathing only became popular in the 1930s, and soon almost be particularly dangerous. These studies show, for example, that white
everyone believed a bronzed body was a symbol of fitness and vigour. children who spent the first five years of their lives in South Africa or
Before, it was regarded as a mark of having to work at a menial, low-status Australia are two to three times more likely than average to develop
job to be tanned, and those who could afford to deliberately avoided maligqant melanoma.
overexposure to the sun's harmful rays. Another risk factor is skin type. Northern Europeans, particularly those
Then the designer Coco Chanel returned from a holiday in the South of with red or fair hair, light-coloured eyes and fair skin, are most vulnerable
France sporting a suntan, and a trend was born. to malignant melanoma. Also, an abnormally large number of moles (more
The lure of a bronzed skin is acknowledged even by scientists only too than 100 in young people, more than 50 in older people) seem to increase
aware of its potentially dangerous effects, such as Dr. Antony Young, a the likelihood of developing the disease.
senior skin photo-biologist at St.Thomas's Hospital, London. "We are Last year, the 1,300 deaths from malignant melanoma were divided
conditioned to think of tanned bodies as being sexually attractive", he says. equally between men and women, but far more women than men actually
develop it -seven cases in women to every four in men. The reasons for the
variation may be connected with hormonal differences or sunbathing
habits, and are not yet fully understood by doctors.
24 Baldness is common and affects about one-third of men under the age of
55.
2. Существительное skin сочетается в английском языке со They usually do not make diagnostic or treatment decisions based on
such an observation in a patient.
следующими прилагательными: chapped, coarse, rough, delicate,
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
sensitive, soft, smooth, fair, light, dark, oily, dry. Дайте русские
эквиваленты этих сочетаний. vertex baldness, frontal baldness, hair growth stimulant, adverse effect.
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The Boston University study was paid for by a grant from the Upjohn Co. in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, the maker of minoxidil, a hair growth stimulant.
Upjohn was concerned about the possibility of reports of adverse effects like
heart attacks among minoxidil users and then in trying to determine whether
such cardiac problems reflected use of the medication or a general risk factor.
But doctors generally do not recognize baldness as a risk factor for heart at-
tacks and they usually do not make diagnostic or treatment decisions based on
such an observation in a patient. Studies of a link between baldness and heart
attacks have not come up with consistent findings. Some have found such a link,
but others have not.
It turns out that at least a third of HIV-infected people develop a fever or The researchers required tenacity - and more than a bit of luck.
a severe sore throat. After all, to study someone at the beginning of a relatively silent phase of the
HIV infection, they had to find people who did not yet realize they had
These Y-shaped bits of protein sought out the virus and targeted it for contracted the virus. It turns out that at least a third of HIV-infected people
destruction. develop a fever or a severe sore throat within in a few weeks to months after
Now researchers must figure out exactly how the body puts together this first exposure. Such signs, which usually clear up on their own, can easily be
early effective defense. misdiagnosed as a bad flu or mononucleosis. Researchers realized the tip-off
would come when they tested the patients and found HIV instead of influenza
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания: viruses or other disease-causing agents. By hanging out in hospital emergency
opportunistic infections, debilitating stages of the disease, silent phase of the rooms and talking to colleagues, the researchers identified seven young
infection, infectious disease. homosexual men - three in Alabama, four in California - suffering from a
primary HIV infection.
3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокорениых слов: Using advanced laboratory tests that had been developed only in the past few
body, bodily, bodiless. years, both sets of scientists discovered an explosive growth of virus in the
men's bloodstreams. (Half of the men were able to pinpoint exactly when they
4. Прочтите текст и определите, какие из использованных в нем became infected, and in each case it was during unprotected sex).Each liter of
the men's blood contained as many as 10 million infectious viruses. "This is the
сокращений являются окказиональными.
first time anyone has reported such high levels of infectious virus early on", says
Dr.Eric Daar, a specialist in infectious disease and one of the leaders of the
II.
Текст UCLA study. "We've never seen these levels before except in people with
THE BODY WINS ROUND 1 severe AIDS".
By Christine Gorman Within days after the viral burst, the researchers measured a
For the past decade, AIDS researchers have focused on the last phase of the rapid increase in the bloodstream of the number of anti-HIV antibodies. These
infection. Their main question: Why do people with the AIDS virus, or HIV, Y-shaped bits of protein sought out the virus and targeted it for destruction.
succumb to cancers, opportunistic infections and nerve disorders? During the Once the antibody attack reached full scale in the seven test subjects, the level of
past two years, however, a small number of immunologists and virologists have HIV in the bloodstream dropped precipitously. In the majority of cases, the
started asking a different, and potentially more useful, question: Why do so researchers could detect little or no virus two to three weeks later. "In other
many people with the virus live in such good health for so long - in some cases words, the normal immune system can shut down the AIDS virus", says
for more than 12 years? Dr.Stephen Clark, who organized the study at the University of Alabama. Now
Two groups of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles, and researchers must figure out exactly how the body puts together this early
the University of Alabama believe they have found the beginning of an answer. effective defense - and how the virus manages, years later, to circumvent it.
In independent studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine, they
demonstrated for the first time that the body launches a massive, effective coun-
terattack on the virus soon after infection begins. If doctors can figure out how III. Лексические упражнения
1. Короткие послелоги, присоединяемые к глаголу, придают ему
новые значения. Определите эти значения и переведите предложения
на руеский язык.
She turned away in disgust.
It's getting dark, we'd better turn back.
He asked Jane to marry him but she turned him down.
His toes turn in (out).
Is this where we turn off?
This music turns me on (off).
The child turned over in bed.
Turn round and let me see your new hairstyle.
The book you've lost may turn up one of these days.
The child turned to its mother for comfort.
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2. Многие послелоги многозначны. На примере послелога down
Занятие 9
отразите эту многозначность при переводе на русский язык.
I. Предтекстовые упражнения
The rain came down heavily.
We went down to Brighton. 1. Следующие предложения из текста, содержащие предлог with,
He was knocked down by a bus. иллюстрируют его многозначность. Какими значениями он
The building burnt down. представлен в этих предложениях?
The machinery (his health) broke down.
Harry will never let you down.
The wind died down. Researchers at the university's Brain Endowment Bank are seeking
people now in their 70s, 80s and 90s with spry minds to donate their
Write down my address.
brains to science upon death.
Let's get down to business.
By comparing the brains of Alzheimer's disease victims with the brains
of people who remained mentally sharp through old age, the researchers
may find clues.
With a grant from the National Institute on Aging, Mash is recruiting
donors.
When a volunteer dies, the brain is removed from the back of the head
under the hairline, which doesn't interfere with a family's wish to have
an open casket.
31
Nearly all brains eventually accumulate a substance that triggers memory
loss and decline but some people do not succumb to it and no one knows why.
"In order to understand what happens in the Alzheimer's brain, we have
to know what happens in the normal aging brain", said Andrew Monjan, a
deputy associate director at the National Institute on Aging.
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With a grant from the National Institute on Aging, Mash is recruiting
donors. Ninety-three have signed up so far but hundreds more are needed. Занятие 10
Volunteers sign a consent form for brain autopsy. They undergo an initial I. Предтекстовые упражнения
assessment and answer questions about lifestyle, diet and medications. A
follow-up evaluation is done each year.
1. Проанализируйте одну из моделей сослагательного наклонения,
When a volunteer dies, the brain is removed from the back of the head представляющую определенную трудность при переводе с
under the hairline, which doesn't interfere with a family's wish to have an open английского языка на русский (в придаточном дополнительном после
casket. глаголов тина to recommend, to suggest, to demand и т.п. и в
"Donors are making an endowment to the next generation", Mash said. придаточном предикативном если подлежащим главного
"We can't do the work without this gift". предложения является существительное того же корня:
recommendation, suggestion, demand и т.п.)
Does duty demand that doctors always intervene?
III. Лексические упражнения The doctors recommended to the Lakebergs that Amy and Angela be
Дайте русские эквиваленты устойчивых сочетаний с предлогами allowed to die.
with, without, within:
with: ~ regard to, ~ this, ~ that, ~ the exception, to begin ~,
2. Переведите на русский язык следующие словосочетания:
pale (red, tired) ~, popular ~, to shiver ~ cold, to tremble ~ fear, to cry ~
pain. an intensive-care unit, the basics of health care, private medical insurance.
without: ~ regard to, not ~, ~ exception, ~ date, ~ number, ~ doubt, ~
fail, ~ notice, it/that goes ~ saying, to do - somebody/something. 3. Найдите в словаре перевод следующих однокоренных слов:
within: ~ one's right(s), ~ an inch/асе of, ~ oneself, ~ reach, ~ sight, - to twin, twins, twinned, twinning.
hearing.
III. Текст