SUGGESTED TOPICS FOR SELF-TESTING AND CLASS DISCUSSION. 1. The monosemantic/referential meaning of the source lan­guage units and principles of their faithful translation

1. The monosemantic/referential meaning of the source lan­guage units and principles of their faithful translation.

2. Give examples of hierarchically higher language units which are translated in the target language with the help of language units of lower language level.

3. Enumerate all possible ways of expressing the meaning of the source language compounds in the target language.

4. Point out the possible difference between the ways of trans­lating sense units at language level (out of context) and their transla­tion at speech level (when used in a contextual environment).

5. Identify the role of the source language context in the se­mantic discrimination and faithful translation of sense units missing or having no corresponding lexical equivalents in the English, Ukrai­nian or bilingual dictionaries.

6. Enumerate all known to you and possible ways of conveying the evaluative and expressive meanings of the source language words/ sense units in the target language.

7. Name the obligatory steps, which have to be observed before starting a written or oral translation/interpretation of a source language passage/work.

8. Prove the necessity of linguistic/semantic, historical, cul­tural, etc. inquiries/investigations of the passage/work prior to or in the process of its rendering into the target language.

9. Argue for or against the need for making a list of synony­mous contextual equivalents/substitutions or difficult/interesting syn­tactic constructions of the target language in the process of translat­ing the source language passage/work.

10. List and explain the requirements, which are necessary for a faithful expression/translation of stylistically marked elements of the source language passage/work to achieve a high quality translation.

11. Identify the most common features of the belles-lettres or publicistic/newspaper style texts and name the ways of their faithful expression/rendering in the target language.

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EXERCISES FOR CLASS AND HOMEWORK

Exercise I. Each block of sentences below contains a polysemantic noun, verb or adjective in bold type. Offer a cor­responding Ukrainian equivalent - word, word-group or sen­tence to substitute them semantically and then translate each block of sentences into Ukrainian.

1. I'm going to put up the notice on Saturday. (S.Maugham) Praed comes in from the inner room putting up his handkerchief which he has been using. (B.Shaw) I mustn't be upset. It will put up my temperature. (D.Defoe) What did it cost to put up those columns. (J.Galsworthy) 2. Lawrence Hadley ran the photographic department. (A. Cronin) In her mind were running scenes of the play. (T. Dreiser) After a few minutes he settled himself at his desk to run through the rest of his mail. (A.Cronin) Although she kept her head down she felt the blood run into her face. (Ibid.) «I happened to run into their Mr. Smith the other day.» (Ibid.) «I thought I'd run down for an hour. Am I a nuisance?» (Ibid.) I decided to give up running for governor. (Mark Twain) The Board is no more run as before (K.Post) 3. Listen, chil­dren, I'm going out. If you finish your work, carry on with exercises I gave you. (P.Abrahams) Only fancy if he has a dear little boy to carry the family on. (J.Galsworthy) Well, all through the circus they did the most astonishing things, and all the time that clown carried on so. (Mark Twain) 4. She realized that hers (life) was not to be a round pleasure. (T. Dreiser) The fact that work of any kind was offered after so rude a round of experience was gratifying. Her imagination trod a very narrow round. It would be an exceedingly gloomy round, living with these people. (Ibid.) 5. «Is that all you're worrying about? About what's on my mind?» (M.Wilson) Here he was with only a casual acquaintance to keep his mind from himself. «No, I've changed my mind, I'm the paragon of husbandry again. She clearly had no idea how outstanding a mind she really had.» (M.Wilson) The thoughtful serious state of mind in which Mary found herself had been unclouded in her by a conversation she had with her father the evening before. (S. Anderson) 6. He forgot the presence of the farmer and his mind racked back over his life as a married man. (Ibid.) 7. «Who's speak­ing?» he asked mildly conscious of error on his part. (T.Dreiser) Some noise was heard, but no one entered the library for the best part of an

hour. (W.Scott) She was part and parcel of his soul. This to him (Drouet) represented in part high life - a fair sample of what the whole life must be. (T.Dreiser) 8. Too much of a thing is good for nothing. (Proverb) «You know there's one thing I thoroughly believe in,» she said, «but I never eat more than one thing for luncheon». Then a terrible thing happened. (S. Maugham) «Well, John, how are things?» (A.Bennett) He was satisfied with the most things, and above all other things, with himself. (C. Dickens) «...what a wonder­ful thing that I am here.» (Ibid.) It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error and another to put him in possession of truth. (J.Locke) All things come round to him who will but wait. (H.Longfellow) 9. Keeping his back turned, he left the doorway and straddled a chair in a corner of the kitchen. If Uncle Dave will live here, we could build another room on the back. They shook hands, with Jim Nelson's back turned to the room. (J.Galsworthy) 10. Keep these two books as long as you wish. (S.Leacock) I shall always keep this dollar. «Well,» said the doctor, «I want you to keep very quiet.» (Ibid.) In the winter it should be kept in a warm place, where it can hatch out its young. (Mark Twain) This didn't keep the neighbours from talking plainly among themselves. (K.Porter) «You needn't keep on saying it round,» said Mr. Whipple. (Ibid.) June keeps after me all the time to tell her about what Uncle Dave is like. He kept his eyes fixed on his father's face. There was no medal for the Nelsons to keep, only a reddish-brown photograph taken in London. (J.Galsworthy) 11. Alice, having fully considered the matter, thought it most prudent to write to Lady M. You ought not to consider poverty a crime. (Ch. Bronte) Con­sider our hands! They are strong hands. (P.Jones) You consider your own affairs, and don't know so much about other people's. (D. La­wrence) 12. Fox introduced Erik to French and Larkin, two other as­sistants who had withdrawn to a corner to talk shop. The March night made him withdraw his overcoat. She wanted to withdraw from the people around her. Erik took advantage of this opportunity to withdraw from the project for the while. At last one third of those who had once been willing to sign the petition to the Board of Trust­ees now asked that their names be withdrawn. (M. Wilson) 13. Davon had said that he was recaptured and as he lay on the ground Adair hit him with a club. (F. News) The game is played with a ball the size of a tennis ball and a club that's a little shorter than for ice-hockey and a slightly bent at the end. (Sports News) The chess

club also meets once a week after school and is run by a teacher who is very keen on chess (Ibid.) They clubbed at Kain's who re­sided at the Statler Hilton Hotel, to talk on politics, to settle their affairs. (F. News) 14. Erik couldn't remove his eyes from Haveland's fair head. Erik turned: a fair slight girl in black suit stood next to him. He realized that he was greatly unfair. «It wasn't fair of you,» said Haveland. «But no one could say he hadn't been fair,» he in­sisted angrily. (M.Wilson) Fair play must be observed not only at the All-European level. (K.Post) 15. So long as Mary lived beside that monstrous man, and in that monstrous house he realised that he would never be at rest. She could endure anything so long as he took her to him in the end. A long silence ensued, then the sound re­turned swelling in from the distant hills more loudly. No matter what happened she must live for Denis in the long run. Long ago she had realized with a crushing finality that she was chained to a man of domineering injustice. (A. Cronin)

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