Royal Academy Wins Battle over Botticellis

London has beaten New York in a battle to show one of the best kept secrets of the Italian Renaissance – a spectacular collection of 92 drawings by Sandra Botticelli illustrating Dante’s Divine Comedy.

They disappeared for 250 years and became separated. They have rarely been seen in public and have never been exhibited together. The Royal Academy will display the 500-year-old drawings next March.

The drawings were commissioned by Lorenzo Medici between 1480 and 1495. Botticelli, the most influential artist in Florence at the time, was asked to illustrate the Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri 200 years earlier. Many drawings show Dante accompanied by Virgil, or Beatrice, his love, or with Lucifer. They show the poet’s journey through the circles of hell.

For unknown reasons, Botticelli never completed the enormous task but it is likely that the incomplete work left Florence when the Medicis were banished from the city in 1494.

The drawings vanished and have had a chequered history, passing through some of the greatest houses of Europe. They first resurfaced in the mid-17th century in France in the ownership of a Parisian bibliophile. Queen Christina of Sweden bought some or all of them and when she died in 1689 her nephew, a cardinal, passed eight of them to the Vatican library where they have been ever since. Eight drawings have been lost but the bulk of the collection passed to the Dukes of Hamiltone at the start of 19th century. They kept them in Scotland but put them up for sale, then bound in a volume, at Sotheby’s in 1882.

Exercise 15. Translate the following texts, paying special attention to rendering proper names.

In their book When Illness Strikes the Leader Jerrold Post and Robert Robins show that the medical advisers to heads of state have a difficult task. It is no longer true that the royal physician who lets his illustrious patient die will suffer the same fate, but professional ruin and notoriety will follow any physician who by his mistakes allows his most important client to die, and so changes the course of history.

Sir Morrell MacKenzie was the most famous ear, nose and throat surgeon of Victorian England, and would have been commemorated as such but for one mistake. He was called to Berlin to examine the crown prince, the future Frederick III of Prussia. A pleasant, liberal Anglophile, the prince had begun to lose his voice. Cancer was suspected, but MacKenzie was adamant there was no malignancy. By the time he had changed his mind Frederick was terminally ill. He was succeeded by his son, William II, the infamous Kaiser Bill, who did more than any other man to bring about the First World War

Exercise 16. Translate the following sentences with particular attention to the meaning of verbs in bald type, realized in context.

Peter Kelly, a 14-year-old English boy, made headlines by run­ning away to Malaysia on his father’s passport.

The first time Peter ran off was two years ago, when he went to Edinburgh. “We were really worried”, says his mother. “We knew he had gone but we didn’t know where he had gone ”Every time Peter runs off he calls his mother to let her know he is safe. She then calls the police and arranges for him to be cared for until he can return home. Each time his journey gets longer and longer. Before Malaysia he had been to Paris twice before his parents confiscated his passport. This time he solved the problem by using his father’s passport. As his mother says, Peter just loves travelling and will go to any lengths to plan and execute a trip. Usually when he goes off there is a row, but he seems to generate them as an excuse for going.

It, of course, provokes the question of where and why it all went wrong with the Kelly family. His parents are afraid for him. “I don’t want him to become a criminal. I imagine they start in a small way and when they find they get away with it they progress ”,says his mother.

Exercise 17. Translate the following sentences with particular attention to the meaning of verbs in bald type, realized in context.

The violent end to the siege in the small mountain town of Bailey came after the gunman threatened to harm the two female students he was holding.

Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said police had decided to storm a second-floor classroom at Platte Canyon High School, where the gunman was holding the two girls, after he broke off negotiations.

The local sheriff said he believed the gunman had shot the hos­tage and then himself, but could not confirm this.

The incident began when the man entered the school around noon (1800 GMT) with a gun and a rucksack, which he claimed held an explosive device, police said. He then took six hostages. Ne­gotiators later arranged the release of four of them.

Bailey lies 56km (35 miles) south-west of the state capital, Denver.

The school has nearly 800 students. It was in Jefferson County in 1999 where two students killed 13 people at Columbine High School before taking their own lives.

Exercise 18. Translate the following sentences with particular attention to the meaning of verbs in bald type, realized in context.

Asda stores chief Archie Norman was branded a ‘Scrooge’ yesterday after withdrawing Christmas bonuses from women who have taken maternity leave.

As part of a crackdown on absenteeism, management is reducing or withdrawing the festive pay-out to anyone who has taken time off within the last six months.

The company has made no exception for pregnant women and could now be taken to court for sex discrimination by GMB general union. The fact that fathers who have taken paternity leave could also lose their bonus, will prove no defence to any lawsuit, employees’ representatives argue.

Employees will not be paid the bonus if they have an absence rate within the last six months of 3,4 per cent – approximately four days on a 37,5 hour shift.

Exercise 19. Translate the following sentences with particular attention to the meaning of verbs in bald type, realized in context.

“Trademarking the Net”

Net-based shopping is becoming commonplace, and the value of Internet real estate has become obvious both to established companies and to new Netbased companies. Name recognition is synonymous with an easy-to-remember domain name (2). Because there is only one dot-com top-level domain name, names in the dot-com domain have become a scarce resource (3). The irony is the current set (4) of domain names is an artificial construct, created before the rush to cash in on the Internet and e-commerce. In theory, the number of domain names that can be created is unbounded, but the practical realities might force us to continue living under the current regimen, even though it is obviously flawed (5). The question is: Will the Net survive efforts to apply trademark law to domain names, and, if so, how will it look in the future?

Trademark law has become intertwined with doing business – or just hanging out – on the Internet. The kind of trademark law that some envision for the Net is much more restricted than that which exists in “real life”. In the U.S. there are at least two dimensions (6) for trademarks: area of business and physical location. Thus, there is no problem with United Van Lines and United Airlines coexisting. Few people who want to fly from San Francisco to New York are likely to contract United Van Lines, and people with a household of furniture to move (7) are unlikely to purchase tickets on United Airlines (8). But there can be at most one www.united.com. (It belongs to an Internet messaging company.) Similarly, there could be a Simon’s Shoe Store in Reno and another Simon’s Shoes in Miami.

It’s bad enough the current system of domain names collapses a two dimensional space (9) into a small set of points. Worse yet is the effort to restrict look-likes (10) on the Net. A dramatic example is the situation that pits eТoys.com against etoy.com (11). In October 1995, etoy, a group of European artists, started an etoy.com Web site. Roughly two years later eToys Inc., an Internet toy retailer (12) (eToys.com) started its Web site; it also filed for a U.S. trademark. When the owners of the etoy.com Web site learned of the eToys.com trademark filing, they filed for a trademark (13). A trademark was granted to eToys.com, but the etoy.com trademark request is still pending. Meanwhile, eToys (14) attempted to purchase the etoy.com Web site for about $400.000 in stock and cash. When the offer was rejected, eToys sued etoy. The lawsuit claims that “antisocial, obscene, and offensive images associated with defendants’ use of the mark etoy, both on the Internet and elsewhere, have tarnished the eToys mark and the eToys brand name…” In November 1999 a federal judge in California issued an injunction against etoy.com. Because of potential fines of up to $10.000 per day, the etoy.com Web site was shut down (15). Etoy appealed the decision, and in December eToys announced it had offered to drop its lawsuit against etoy. However, eToys also either requested, or stating as a precondition (16) (depending on which release you read), that etoy “give good faith consideration (17) … to concentrating the profanity, nudity, and violence that is sometimes part (18) of the etoy corporation’s other Web sites.” An etoy lawyer, quoted in the New York Times, rejected the eToys request, saying “etoy cannot give eToys veto power over the content on its site.” On January 25, 2000, eToys droped its lawsuit against etoy.

The etoy vs. eToys dispute raises (19) several disturbing issues. Even if one accepts that U.S. law should apply to organizations located in Europe, etoy and eToys differ both in physical location and in area of business. In fact, etoy is not even a commercial entity; it is an artists group. So, if the case did not involve the Internet, it’s unlikely that the injunction would have been issued.

Exercise 20. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of polysemantic words.

1. It was very difficult in the early days of atom-smashing to deliver a hit on the nucleus.

2. Storage batteries do not deliver their maximum output at extremely low temperature.

3. A simple radiotelescope consists of a directional antenna, which collects incoming radio waves and delivers the collected energy to a reservoir.

4. The money is being kept on time deposit.

5. Rich mineral deposits have been discovered near this river.

6. When no more silver deposits on the copper, the operation is completed.

7. With this they may pay the first deposit on farms.

8. We were required to pay a security deposit of 200 dollars.

9. Radioisotopes constitute a potential danger and we must handle them carefully.

10. Using this device, the Geiger counter is able to handle signals at a rapid rate.

11. It is much more difficult to handle radiation received from reactors in indirect ways.

Exercise 21. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of international words and false friends of the translator.

Radio, genius, human, priority, demonstrate, contribution, physical, chemical, university, laboratory, problem, electromagnetic, communication, operation, apparatus, progress, transmission, music, signal, television, meeting, industry, period, centre, radar, microscope, history, orbital, date, data, rocket, test, programme, serious, practice, ballistic, satellite, station, list, astronaut, realize, surprise, revolution.

Exercise 22. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of international words and false friends of the translator.

Director, gymnasium, medal, pedagogical, master, commission, congress, professor, technological, bureau, container, nation, periodic, element, principle, organic, combination, alcohol, specific, patriot, energy, activity, industry, thesis, general, vacuum, absolute, balance, diaphragm, metal, instrument, specially, recommend, phosphor, bronze, diameter, mechanism, type, operate, control, disc, maximum, principle, thermometer, construction, temperature, condition, special, distance, indicator, application, gas, diesel, panel, figure, model, patent, guarantee, plastics, material, vibration.

Exercise 23. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of international words and false friends of the translator.

1. Before discovery of the structure of atomic nuclei, it was thought that there existed two general types of forces explaining all natural phenomena: electrical and gravitational forces.

2. The word “helium” comes from the Greek word “sun” because the element was discovered in the sun before it was discovered on earth.

3. After it became clear that some mistake had been made in the calculation, the experiment was stopped.

4. After a period of discharge the battery can be restored to its original condition by supplying energy from an outside source.5. For days and weeks after the reactor was turned off, the radiation intensity has been so great inside that repairs there have never been attempted.

6. Before the diaphragm can move back, however, the next pulse enters the electromagnet coil and the diaphragm is pulled a little closer.

7. The problem therefore is to devise a system that will build up the signal before it reaches the detector.

8. Earlier no one ever considered interplanetary navigation to be within the compass of modern technical means.

9. The direction of the air, after it leaves a symmetrical body, is the same as before it struck the body.

Exercise 24. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of interbranch words.

1. strong forces, strong paper, strong magnetic field

2. solid particles, solid argument, solid book

3. careful observation, careful work

4. fine wire, fine edge, fine sand

5. the performance of a plane, the performance of a task

6. the stroke of a piston, the stroke of a clock

7. the treatment of a problem, the treatment of metal, the treatment of diseases

8. the handling of an instrument, the handling of dangerous fission products

Exercise 25. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of neologisms.

1. Enterprise networks are proliferating; laptops, notebooks and palmtops are available.

2. Security in a computer can be improved by using a password, which is a random mixture of numbers and letters, or by using a smart card to access the computer.

3. The critical flaw identifie d i n th e lates t version s o f Window s operating system can leave computers vulnerable to hackers.

4. On many campuses registering for classes, declaring majors, checking grades and obtaining class handouts are all done online.

5. There are plenty of downsides to the conveniences that come as colleges migrate to the Web.

6. Such high-tech heavies as Berkley or Stanford found Yahoo’s criteria so questionable (one measure is the prevalence of cybercafes) that they boycotted the survey.

7. The main reason for shifting money offshore is to avoid taxation and regulation.

8. Near-to-eye display technologies can use microdisplay technology for portable PCs as well as Web-enabled cell phones.

9. Wi-fi (“wireless fidelity”) i s th e ter m fo r a high-frequenc y wireles s local area network.

10. Although there are sophisticated multimedia devices on the market, which have more processing power than many computers, there are still technological barriers that prevent their widespread take-up.

11. All the advisory, legal and clerical work involved in international financial transactions has to be done somewhere on terra firma.

12. Traffic build-ups at the exits from and entrances to large cities have long been a feature of super-highways.

13. Slowly and unevenly a ‘can-do’ attitude is beginning to replace the inertia employees’ attitude to work.

14. Capital flight is now becoming less accessible from foreign creditors.

15. If the merger boom is now nearing a close, will it be followed by a demerger boom?

16. E-commerce has become wide spread all over the world.

Exercise 26. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation shift as a translation device.

1. Nowadays new electric power plants with larger capacity are under construction.

2. Economical methods have not been developed yet for directly converting solar radiation into work on a large scale.

3. Because of a high pressure, combustion is initiated spontaneously in the diesel engine.

4. Gas burners heat water in conventional boilers.

5. A new method of energy conservation was developed in the research lab yesterday.

6. Plastics as well as metals are widely used nowadays in various branches of industry.

7. Some attempts have been made to classify the elementary particles for the last several years.

8. The application of quantum generators in this branch of industry is now being investigated.

Exercise 27. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of neologisms.

ADSL, valley girl, apitherapy, ashtanga, at sign, outsourcing, FOAF, G8, to genotype, to burn (a CD), Bushism, C2C (transactions), domain name, dot-com (also dot.com), Wi-Fi, to surf (the Internet), ATM, secret shopper, Segway, hybrid car, in-box (letters), intranet, keypal, nanotechnology, must-have, hightism.

Exercise 28. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of neologisms.

affluenza (from affluent and influenza) — a psychological malaise supposedly affecting young wealthy people, symptoms of which include a lack of motivation, feelings of guilt, and a sense of isolation;

aggregator — an Internet company that collects information about other companies' products and services and distributes it through a single Web site;

areology (from Ares (Greek equivalent of the Roman war god) the study of the planet Mars;

Asiago (named after Asiago, the plateau and town in northern Italy where the cheese was first made) — a strong-flavoured cow's milk cheese made in northern Italy;

barkitecture (from bark and architecture) — the art or practice of designing and constructing doghouses; the style in which a doghouse is designed or constructed;

bicoastal — living on, taking place in, or involving both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the US;

bioclimatology — the study of climate in relation to living organisms and especially to human health;

broast (from broil and roast) — cook (food) by a combination of broiling and roasting;

buildout — the growth, development, or expansion of something;

clonality — the fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling or other biological source;

CRM — customer relationship management, denoting strategies that enable a company to organize and optimize its customer relations;

cybrarian (from cyber- and librarian) — a librarian or researcher who uses the Internet as an information resource;

ecolodge — a type of tourist accommodation designed to have the minimum possible impact on the natural environment in which it is situated;

express lane (in a grocery store) — a checkout aisle for shoppers buying only a few items;

flexecutive (from flexible and executive) — an executive or high-level employee who has flexible hours and can choose to work in any location;

gap year — a period, typically an academic year, taken by a student as a break between secondary school and higher education;

global commons (usually plural) — any of the earth's ubiquitous and unowned natural resources, such as the oceans, the atmosphere and space;

heartsink patient (from the notion that the appearance of the patient makes the doctor's heart sink) — a patient who makes frequent visits to a doctor's office, complaining of persistent but unidentifiable ailments;

hoteling — the short-term provision of office space to a temporary worker;

kleptocrat (from Greek kleptes 'thief' + -crat) — a ruler who uses political power to steal their country's resources;

life coach — a person who counsels and advises clients on matters having to do with careers or personal challenges;

Maki (Japanese, from maku 'roll up' + -zushi, sushi) — a Japanese dish consisting of sushi and raw vegetables wrapped in seaweed;

parachute — appoint or be appointed in an emergency or from outside the existing hierarchy;

permalancer (from permanent and freelancer) — a long-term freelance, part-time, or temporary worker who does not have employee benefits;

second-hand speech — conversation on a cell phone that is overheard by people nearby;

shopgrifting — the practice of buying an item, using it, and then returning it for a full refund;

stolen generation (Australian) — the Aboriginal people forcibly removed from their families as children between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions;

sympathetic smoker — a person who smokes only in the company of another smoker.

Exercise 29. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the translation of neologisms.

1. The property also included an elaborate doghouse that was a stunning example of pampered pooch barkitecture.

2. Doctors fear the problem will lead to a bed-blocking crisis in Birmingham as elderly flu victims take up hospital spaces.

3. An Indian swami sat in a corner, near an enigmatic Haitian "breatharian" who is admired by all because he lives, supposedly, on air alone.

4. He scoops up business donations by the bucketload.

5. In this restaurant one can select from enchiladas, chalupas, quesadillas, burritos as well as exotic tropical sea foods.

6. Because on-line drug stores bypass doctors to deliver drugs, medical professionals are beginning to take alarm at cyberchondriac behaviour.

7. A typical example would be shopping in a cybermall, where a user might move from store to store and acquire various merchan-dise along the way.

8. Physicians are being threatened, impoverished, delicensed, and imprisoned for prescribing this drug in good faith with the intention of relieving pain.

9. Statistics show that the community disappears about 200 pounds of cabbage a year.

10. These capsules were labelled as an "extremely effective fat burner, working especially well for conditions of obesity and reducing problematic areas of fat (cellulite)".

11. Their readers are generation D, the digital generation, which adapts very easily to new technology.

12. He spent the afternoon googling aimlessly.

13. Don't drink that milk — it went south a few days ago.

14. In a modest way, hoteling has been around for a while, but it's specific to each company.

15. Michael is a "hyperflier", a relatively new species whose members spend more time aloft than aground.

16. Your headaches may be related to job spill so try to reduce your workload.

17. The recent news is that in Japan karoshi — death from overwork — is now the second leading cause of death after cancer.

18. The industrial sector is largely organized into great families of companies — keiretsu — each of which consists of 20 to 40 big corporations.

19. Linguistic profiling revealed that the bomber was probably an uneducated southerner.

20. We've added features that make our site much easier to navigate.

21. A century before scientists researched the nocebo effect — the phenomenon of negative, fearful thoughts causing harm.

22. It's basically a huge database where users identify themselves by name and school graduation date. To see classmates' e-mail addresses, nostalgics pay $36 a year.

23. Companies find their absenteeism rates dwindle to virtually nothing for homeworkers. Working at home is presented as expanding, progressive and even fashionable.

24. From 2008, eco-driving is set to become a standard feature of the UK driving test.

25. Calcuholism has increased in recent years and will continue to increase due to advances in technology. To avoid dependency, we must do mathematics with our minds from time to time rather than with a machine.

26. Information and communications technologies have made possible the emergence of the teleworker seen by many pundits as the figure of the future. With a lap-top and a mobile phone the teleworker can, in principle, work almost anywhere.

27. It is fairly bold to spend $40 million filming an approximately 2 700-year old classic that many channel-surfers will associate with the drudgery of compulsory education.

28. As they try to sell higher-end electronics and add-ons, including customer warranty plans, such companies will also want to control staffing costs.

29. One of the renewable energy technologies that has received the most hype in the past few years has been fuel cells.

30. Headhunters say at least 300 high-tech companies are looking for seasoned chief executive officers who can take them to the next level.

Exercise 30. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to neologisms.

1. They are the Par-Dons, a new generation of people who split their lives between London and Paris for work, study or simply to get the best of both worlds. Figures show the number adopting this sophisticated lifestyle increased by 17 per cent in the first half of this year compared with last. … Another high-profile Par-Don resident is designer Giles Deacon, who lives in Islington but moved his studio to Paris and shows there. (E.S., Aug. 3, 10) 2. Enter the greens, from stage left. They have long held that proper policy should tax “ bads ”, not “goods”. Pollution and the consumption that causes it are bad; work and jobs are good. Therefore, tax the consumption of polluting products such as the motor car, and reduce income tax, which is levied on work. (S.T., Feb. 22, 98) 3. Earthship s are already a growing movement in the United States where it is possible to rent them as holiday homes to encourage more people to build them. Estates of hundreds of self-build earthships have been built in New Mexico with names like Dunlopin and Firestone Avenue. (G., July 20, 02) 4. Physicians … are trained to run tests for rare, exotic diseases – what in the trade are known as “ fascinomas ” – to be sure they will not miss some obscure but medically fascinating syndrome that another physician might find. (S., Nov./Dec. 99) 5. The experts agree that container gardening will still be the biggest trend around for city-dwellers with little space. Gardening guru Marjorie Mason Hogue, who leads gardening tours in Europe, prefers to call it “ potscaping. ” (N.P., May 17, 03) 6. And then there’s “ carbage,” coined by one of us to refer to the empty Pepsi cans and used Kleenex that collect in the foot wells of the back seat. (P.D., July 1, 07) 7. I see no problem with nonagenarians having driving tests a tad more frequently. Probably some of the other “ genarians ” could use more frequent testing, as well. My guess is that they will perform better than those who are on the cellphone or text messaging while driving. (D.M.N., Feb. 24, 07) 8. After three Garbage albums, Manson hasn’t yet become a tedious pop princess. Undeniably charismatic, she can be distinguished from most of the pop world’s thrusting teens and vainglorious himbos by one easy test: she has opinions. (S.M.H., Jan. 25, 02) 9. The usual concerns arise, knowing teen drivers will be packing the ever-present buzzing and ringing cell phones from which most seem incapable of parting. We’ve had the discussion many times at our house of the idiocy of driving while using a cell phone and especially driving while “ intexticated ”, and as confident as I am that my kid won’t do it, there’s always that nagging concern that the slightest distraction can lead to tragic consequences. (S.P.T., May 31, 09) 10. Ted Sanders, co-chairman of the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board who helped draft the report, said: ‘We need to understand how to develop just-in-time learning strategies that last a lifetime, so that learning opportunities can be structured and delivered exactly when the individual needs them – whether a young child in school or an adult in the workplace.’ (C.T., Dec. 17, 96)

Exercise 31. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to neologisms.

1. Outside the business pages, it will probably be Tesco the bulldozer that makes headlines, as it is lambasted for supposedly demolishing traditional high streets and replacing small shops with its category-killing megasheds. (R.W., April 21, 06) 2. “According to stock-tracking firm IPO.com, more than a quarter of the 71 Netcos that went public in the past year are now trading under their offering price.” (N., April 3, 2000) 3. The shared belief, as articulated on the many and growing Web sites dedicated to the practice, is that cooked food is poison – “dead food” – that we primates were never designed to eat. “In nature, all animals eat living foods,” wrote T.C. Fry, an early raw-food advocate who nonetheless passed away six years ago at the relatively early age of 70. … This health regime goes beyond mere Veganism: For the Rawist, even a simple baked potato has been rendered not only less nutritious, but carcinogenic by virtue of its time spent in an oven. (G.M., Nov. 23, 02) 4. A new Montgomery County summer school program that sought to accelerate struggling students, rather than concentrate on tedious review, appears to have stemmed the academic free-fall that many poor and non-English-speaking children experience during the summer, according to a study to be released today. The study found that 4,000 children who attended the intensive four-week program did not experience what researchers call “ summer slide ”, forgetting key academic concepts over the summer break. (W.P., Nov. 11, 02) 5. “Sweet, their fans call the sound that comes from the vacuum-tube stereo equipment of the 1960’s: sweet, natural and warm. … Now, two of the most famous names from the golden days of tubes, Marantz and McIntosh, have introduced exacting reproductions of equipment from 30 years ago. … The reissues remind many aficionados of their own youth, the way 60’s muscle cars remind their owners of happy adolescent days. Such enthusiasms combine technophilia with nostalgia, merging into a new compound – technostalgia. ” (N.Y.T., Sep. 18, 97) 6. “Balancing the demands of career, family and social commitments – and the non-stop connectedness of our lifestyles – can lead to over-stimulation and constant mental agitation,” said certified nutritionist Michele McRae, Rainbow Light’s Director of Formulation and Quality. “When the mind is racing and stressed out, it can be difficult to focus and think clearly during the day, or sleep well at night. We call this ‘misfiring,’ or ‘ busy brain. ’” (E.T., Nov. 17, 10) 7. Joining her were Michael Redman, whose foreclosure blog drew the White House into the controversy, and Thomas and Ariane Ice, who run a boutique law firm that was the first to depose “ robo-signer ” Jeffrey Stephan of Ally Financial’s GMAC mortgage unit in December. (W.P., Oct. 21, 10) 8. These chefs and their devoted clientele are less vegetarians than vegivores, a term that connotes fervid vegetable love rather than ardent meat hate. It’s a subtle but important distinction. For the vegivore, a vegetable can occupy the center of the plate, with meat adding flavor or functioning as a condiment. (N.Y.M., Nov. 15, 10) 9. “We have less control to move away our attention from half a conversation (or halfalogue) than when listening to a dialogue,” said Lauren Emberson, a co-author of the study that will be published in the journal Psychological Science. “Since halfalogues really are more distracting and you can’t tune them out, this could explain why people are irritated,” she said in an interview. (R., May 20, 10) 10. The number of women age 45 and over choosing to have breast enhancements has doubled. Procedures popular among cougars include facial fillers and buttock implants. Leading the ‘ Cougar Lifts ’ trend are stars like Demi Moore, Kylie and Madonna. (MMD.N., June 28, 10) 11. Balancing your laptop on your knees could cause permanent discolouration of the skin and, in rare cases, cancer, doctors have warned. The heat generated by the computers can cause a nettle sting-like rash – a condition named ‘ toasted skin syndrome ’. (D.M., Oct. 5, 10)

Exercise 32. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to the parts in bold type.

1. It’s pathetic how USans are trying to catch like a drowning man every possible straw and it’s even more pathetic how some little nations are looking for a new Big Brother, but the word ‘pathetic’ is too small to characterize the FYROMians. (S.M., Feb. 6, 07) 2. Shaquille Makes Ewing Eat His Words. NEW YORK -- Patrick Ewing guaranteed New York would beat the Orlando Magic. He was wrong. The Phoenix Suns figured they could beat the Clippers without Charles Barkley. They were just as wrong. (M.T., March 2, 95) 3. Are you uptight about the language of the acid heads, the teeny-boppers and the flower children? Do you turn off when the militants do their own thing, y’know, in search of a meaningful, viable relationship with the Establishment? (T.V.G., April 12, 05)
4. Actors Make Up for Lack of Depth

Two recent shows reminded me of a few theatrical truths:

1. Actors are any show’s final line of defense;

2. We, the public, are only too happy to be pleased; and

3. Brevity is the soul of wit. (M.T., Dec. 4, 98)

Exercise 33. Translate the story below into Ukrainian. Use the list of idioms below where necessary for the purpose.

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