Т.А. КАЗАКОВА Практические основы перевода

After only a brief rest they started on their way again. All were eager to get thejourney over as quickly as possible, and were willing, tired as they were, to go onmarching still for several hours. Gandalf walked in front as before. In his left hand heheld up his glimmering staff, the light of which just showed the ground before hisfeet; in his right hand he held his sword Glamdring. Behind him came Gimli, his eyesglinting in the dim light as he turned his head from side to side. Behind the dwarfwalked Frodo, and he had drawn the short sword, Sting. No gleam came from theblades of Sting or of Glamdring; and that was some comfort, for being the work ofElvish smiths in the Elder days these swords shone with a cold light, if any Ores werenear at hand. Behind Frodo went Sam, and after him Legolas, and the young hobbits,and Boromir. In the dark at the rear, grim and silent, walked Aragorn.81Упражнение 5: Найдите в английском тексте транскрипции древнегреческихимен и определите их русские соответствия при переводе. Сопоставьтеанглийский и русский варианты этих имен и прокомментируйте различия.Какие исторические комментарии могут понадобиться для понимания текста?When Schliemann read Homer's description of the Gorgon shield of Agamemnon andwas told that the buckler strap had been decorated with a figure of a three-headedsnake, he accepted all this as gospel truth. The chariots, weapons, and householdarticles portrayed in detail by Homer were for him part and parcel of ancient Greece.Were all these heroes -- Achilles andPatroclus, Hector and ^neas -- and this pageant of friendship, hate, love, and highadventure, nothing but mere invention? Schliemann did not think so; to his mind suchpeople and such scenes had actually existed. He was conscious that all Greekantiquity, including the great historians Herodotus and Thukidides, had accepted theTrojan War as an actual event, and its famous names as historical personages.Упражнение б: Проанализируйте текст и определите в нем термины итерминологические словосочетания. Составьте для текста двуязычныйтерминологический словник, отметив в нем единицы, транскрипция которыхдля данного текста неуместна. Переведите текст.Science often means different things to different people. To many it means bodies ofknowledge about82the physical world grouped under different subjects; to some it means research or thepursuit of truth; to some it means the development of technology intended to benefitmankind; and to others it means finding out, experimenting, measuring. These are alldifferent aspects of science, as the knowledge, experimenting, technology, etc., haveall been produced by what could be called the "processes of science". Environmentalproblems are just one aspect of life to which science can be applied, but they are quiteurgently in need of solution. Some science concepts are particularly relevant in thesolving of environmental issues. Among them are