WorksheetsFUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSLATION
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 4mins
The Russian-American Linguist Roman Jakobson makes a very important distinction among the three types of written translation. _____ is not one of Jakobson's distinctions.
Intralingual
Intersemiotic
Interlingual
Pragmatic
Within the type of Audiovisual Translation, the ______ consists of the replacement of the soundtrack contained in an audiovisual material from one language to another.
Marketing and publicity
Subtitling
Voice-over
Dubbing
It consists of translations of reference or reference texts, which usually handle a language and a specialized terminology, often restricted to a specialized audience. It fulfills a more practical than aesthetic function.
multiple translation
texts official translation
academic text translation
specialized translation
One of the following statements is true.
Translation and interpretation means the same.
Any individual speaking two languages can translate suitably.
A translator can always be faithful to the original text or "source's author".
The most impoprtant condition to translate well is not only to have a great foreign language proficiency.
"She ____ for a walk (podría haber ido), but it rained cats and dogs!" The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is
would have gone
could have gone
could go
might have gone
"___ I borrow your car for a while? (podría) Mine is broken down". The missing auxiliary verb here is
Could
May
Do
Might
"____ we go? (¿quiere que ...?) or we’ll get there too late". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is
Would rather
Do
Shall
Will
"She ____ mistaken (posiblemente), but she is not willing to go back on her word". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is
may be
was possible to be
can be
is possible to be
"Who knows? It ____ the whole night long (es probable que llueva)". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is
may be raining
could be raining
have been raining
has been raining
"Evelyn ___ play the guitar every day (solía tocar la guitarra) when she was a teen(ager)". Besides "used to", the most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is
did
use to
would
would rather
"That woman ___ (pudo haber sido) my mother since she was my dad’s first girlfriend". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is
could had been
might have been
may have been
can have been
"I __ buy a new one (Preferiría) to get it repaired because of the long it takes". The most suitable missing auxiliary verb here is
should prefer
would rather
might prefer
will prefer
Tender___ features female's women____. (La ternura caracteriza la feminidad de la mujer).
less / hood
ure / ship
ness / ship
ment / hood
"Kids often fear of dark____, solitude, and ___". (oscuridad / desamor).
fullness / unlove
ment / mislove
ness / lovelessness
ship / loveless
"New soaps don’t white____ (verb) color___ (adj) clothes as expected".
er / ed
less / full
en / ish
en / ful
The warn___ (-adj) effects of the JEP’s decisions in Colombia are going to be ____expected (-adj) as well.
ive / mis
less / un
ful / un
ous / dis
Wind__ (adj), drizzle), and barren feature Tunja whereas rainy, warm___ (adj), and peaceful feature Moniquirá.
ing / ful
ish / uous
like / ish
y / ful
Beg___ (n) raising tests marks clearly means a child-___ (adj) attitude that attempts against human being’s dignity.
gar / ly
ing / y
ness / ly
ing / ish
"An each-other year lunar ceremony". Best translation
una ceremonia de cambio de luna de cada uno.
una ceremonia lunar de día de por medio
una ceremonia lunar bienal .
una ceremonia bienal de luna.
"the last four half-one-minute rounds". Best translation.
los últimas cuatro minutos de las rondas.
el último minuto de las cuatro rondas
las últimas cuatro rondas de medio minuto.
el último medio minuto de las cuatro rondas
"a paper-based TOEFL examination." Best translation.
un examen TOEFL basado en papel.
un examen TOEFL básico de papel
el papel base para un examen TOEFL
un papel basado en el examen TOEFL
Best translation of the Connective "furthermore" is
aún más
además
más aún
por demás
Best translation of the connective "meanwhile" is
mientras tanto
entre tanto
mientras que
mientras
The best translation of the connective "though" is
aunque
completamente
sobre excelente
aún cuando
The best translation of the prepositions "As for / as to" is
en referencia a
en relación con
para
en todo lo que
The best translation of the connective "whereas" is
en cambio
a cambio de
en cuanto a
donde sea que
It can be said that the ____ is a set of words, at least two, where the first one is a preposition and the last one a noun. The latter may or may not be affected by an adjective, which must precede it, and / or by a determiner. The resulting chunk must necessarily be translatable, as this is the sole purpose of the segmentation process.
nominal phrase
infinitive phrase
prepositional phrase
phrase
A phrase cannot contain:
Punctuation marks (apart from distributive comma),
Personal and relative pronouns (I, you, He, she, it, we, you, they & that, which, who). These always precede a verb.
Subject or predicate
Meaning
We are going to call on the Bensons today.
announce
chat with
visit
phone
The work of a teacher calls for a lot of tolerance.
asks for
demands
has
advise
How are you getting along in French?
copying/ managing
accompanying
coming to
succeeding
I put up with the disco noise as long as I could.
enjoy
replay
bear
overpayed
We ran across them at the Macey’s store.
competed
met with
saw and passed by
bumped into
Stephanie always puts away her toys after she has used them.
throws away
gets rid of
brings with them
puts in order
Please, drop off the book in the library while you go back home.
buy
deliver
leave
pick up
The teacher promised to look over this letter for me and to correct the mistakes in English.
examine
get better
overlook
amend
In the middle of the carnival, I saw a beer / _________ coming down to the funeral house. (This is its homonym).
bear
beer
bier
bir
A birth / _________ is useful, comfortable, and saves room. (this is its homonym)
berth
beerth
birth
bearth
Mrs. King hardly uttered a word because she was horse / __________ that morning. (This is its homonym)
hurse
hourse
hoorse
hoarse
___ is the art of using speech to convince or persuade, the art of speaking or writing effectively.
Grammar
Syntax
Rhetoric
Prosody
In linguistics, ___________ is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences in a given language, usually including word order.
Rhetoric
Syntax
Semantics
Pragmatics
____ is the study of the internal structure of words and forms a core part of linguistic study today.
Semantics
Orthography
Spelling
Morphology
_____ is a set of conventions for writing a language. It includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. It ultimately means “the correct way of writing a language.”
Mechanics
Plagiarism
Blunder
Basics
Somebody, anybody, someone, no one, something, and everything, are ___ pronouns.
relative
indefinite
compound indefinite
relative compound
this, the latter, the former, that, those, are ____ pronouns.
reciprocal
objective
indefinite
Demonstrative
us, him, them, me, her, your, are ______________ pronouns.
direct
indirect
objective
subjective
“Tom, lend me the book”. This is an example of a __________ case.
subjunctive
nominative
accusative
imperative
“Go over there, right away!”. This is an example of an _________ case.
demonstrative
accusative
imperative
nominative
____: word or phrase that is used as a short, sudden expression of emotion. It has no grammatical function in a sentence i.e. ouch! Gosh! Sugar!
onomatopoeia
conjunction
interjection
phrase
It's at the beginning of a word, attached to the root, or word base, to make a new word: reuse, undertaken, rewrite, impossible.
Affix
Prefix
Infix
Morpheme
