Отглагольное существительное

Отглагольное существительное образуется путем прибав

ления к основе инфинитива суффикса ing, т.е. по форме со

впадает с герундием и причастием. Отглагольное существи

тельное, однако, имеет все свойства существительного,

а именно: артикль, форму множественного числа, возможность

иметь определение, у него нет времени и залога:

The meeting begun at 7.

The meetings were held all over the country.

The meetings of the workers were not fruitful.

Таким образом, ing формы, часто встречающиеся в англий

ском научном тексте, могут быть соотнесены: 1) с причастием;

2) герундием; 3) отглагольным существительным; 4) глаголом

во времени группы Continuous. Это обстоятельство следует по

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мнить и относиться к переводу таких форм с повышенным вни

манием.

Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на НФГ и их

функции в предложении.

1. Growing bigger and faster, a new generation of computers

changed greatly.

2. The development of this equipment was possible largely because

of continued improvements.

3. New equipment used there far exceeded accepted standards of

the day.

4. Exhibit booths (образцы) will total more than 700 with 400

plus companies introducing and displaying products and system

ranging from microelectronics to control system of production.

5. We were all for starting the production of new hardware at once.

6. The purpose of the new method of operation is the determining

stability of system.

7. One cannot help being influenced by the result of implementing

new hardware for computing operations.

8. The aim of using new device is reducing IC size.

9. Stage two involved planning the experiment, conducting it, data

taking and data evaluation. Stage three related to drawing

the conclusions and making recommendations.

10. Despite the program having been cancelled, we continued our

effort in concept contributing to the development of the new

software.

11. This method previously mentioned as affording good results, is

widely used.

12. The new technique of computing is worth thinking about.

13. We succeeded in building of flexible systems.

14. The effects described in this article are worth considering.