Особенности перевода страдательного залога от глаголов, принимающих предложное дополнение

Упражнения

1. Переведите предложения, предварительно подобрав к глаголу соответствующий предлог в русском языке (см. выше список глаголов с предлогами).

1. Не was well spoken of by all his friends.

2. The hour of the meeting was agreed upon.

3. This case was much spoken and written about.

4. His data can be relied upon.

5. The room has not been slept in for many years.

6. The whole story was much laughed at.

2. Переведите. Обратите внимание на место предлога в русском предложении и на перевод самого предлога.

1. The order of words (in English) is fairly rigid: it cannot easily be departed from, and most departures alter the type, or the emphasis, or the meaning of the sentence.

2. Place names cannot always be relied on for guidance.

3. For further details the reader is referred to the end of the book.

4. It's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and he has never been heard of since.

5. His poetry, which is very good, if not absolutely of the first class, may be spoken of later.

6. In English, as in other European languages, most words can be referred with certainty to Aryan ¹⁵ roots, but others are more recent than the time when written literature began.

7. This work should also be referred to for a detailed account of the Museum Collections.

8. In the fashionable districts (of Bath ¹⁶) practically every dwelling had been lived in at some time by many famous people.

9. On the whole this defective system (of writing) works quite well in literature with which the reader is well acquainted, and it is indeed surprising to the European student of the Semitic languages to discover how easily vowel signs can be dispensed with in reading.

10. The use of soft copper was given up very soon wherever intercourse with the whites became habitual and iron became obtainable.

¹⁵ Aryan — индоевропейский.

¹⁶ Bath — Бат, старинный город Англии, в котором сохранились остатки бань, построенных римлянами в I в. н. э.