WorksheetsТеория перевода 200-250
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Say what means of emphasis is used in the following sentence: ‘On your marks! Get set!’ Bang went Mr.Philbrick’s revolver. Off trotted the boys on another race.
stylistically-marked vocabulary
emphatic ‘do’
lexical intensifiers
lexical repetition
inversion
Say what means of emphasis is used in the following sentence: “I think it was then she recognized me.”
emphatic ‘it’
stylistically-marked vocabulary
inversion
lexical repetition
contaminated speech
Say what means of emphasis is used in the following sentence:
“And now I am going to play the organ”, said Beste-Chetwynde. “After all, my mother does pay five guineas a term extra for me to learn.”
inversion
lexical repetition
emphatic ‘do’
transposition
stylistically-marked vocabulary
Choose the most appropriate variant of translating the sentence: “A book fell off the shelf.”
Книга упала с полки.
Одна из многих книг упала с полки.
С полки падала книга.
С полки упала книга.
Упала книга с полки.
There exist various classifications of grammatical transformations, yet most frequently specialists speak about four groups of such transformations. What are they?
transcription, transliteration, concretization, generalization
addition, omission, replacement, transposition
lexical, grammatical, stylistic and syntactical
addition, omission, word-for-word translation, descriptive translation
generalization, concretization, addition, omission
Change in the order of linguistic elements, such as words, phrases, clauses and sentences is .
transposition
omission
replacement
addition
descriptive translation
Omissions are used to .
make a greater impression on the reader
ensure a greater degree of compression
compensate for the lost expressiveness
connect two parts of the sentence
to add new important information into the text
What kind of transformation is called the reverse of addition?
replacement
transposition
omission
concretization
generalization
A very common grammatical transformation which consists in the replacement of a simple sentence by a complex one and vice versa. What is the name of this transformation?
concretization
transposition
replacement of sentence types
replacement of sentence elements
omission
A very common grammatical transformation which consists in the replacement of coordinate connection by subordination and vice versa is called
.
replacement of word-forms
replacement of parts of speech
replacement of sentence elements
replacement of sentence types
replacement of the type of syntactic relations
Replacements as a type of grammatical transformations can affect practically all types of linguistic units. Some of them are listed below. Find an outsider.
allomorphs
word-forms
parts of speech
sentence types
sentence elements
Define the type of grammatical transformation. SL: ‘a novel about the lives of common people’
TL: роман о жизни простых людей/ қарапайым халықтың өмірі туралы роман.
replacement of word-forms
replacement of parts of speech
replacement of sentence types
replacement of sentence elements
replacement of the type of syntactic relations
SL: ‘I heard my mother go out and close the door.’ TL: Я услышал, как мама вышла из комнаты и закрыла двери. The translation technique used in the given example is .
compression
sentence integration
sentence division
replacement of parts of speech
stylistic transformations
A replacement of two simple sentences by one complex or compound and vice versa is called .
replacement of word-forms
replacement of sentence types
replacement of parts of speech
replacement of sentence elements
replacement of the type of syntactic relations
Sentence division and integration are closely interrelated with the grammatical transformation known as replacement. In fact, these two techniques are subtypes of the .
replacement of word-forms
replacement of parts of speech
replacement of sentence types
replacement of sentence elements
replacement of the type of syntactic relations
Coordination and subordination are .
different types of subjects in a sentence.
homogeneous parts of the sentence.
two major types of compound sentences.
two major types of syntactic relations.
two major types of complex sentences.
The English ‘gun license’ may be rendered into Russian and Kazakh as ‘удостоверение на право ношения оружия'/ ‘қару ұстау құқығына куəлік’.
In this example we deal with the transformation called .
addition
compression
antonymic translation
omission
transposition
is reducing the redundancy of the text by omitting words which can be easily restored from the context.
Addition
Modulation
Compression
Transposition
Inversion
Define the type of translation technique used in the English- Russian/Kazakh translation.
SL: The treaty was pronounced null and void. TL(Ru): Договор был признан недействительным. TL(Kz): Келісімшарт жарамсыз деп танылды.
omission
addition
descriptive translation
generalization
concretization
Define the transformation:
oil talks – переговоры по вопросу о нефти / мұнай бойынша келіссөздер.
omission
addition
replacement of parts of speech
semantic development
compensation
SL: ‘So I paid my check and all. Then I left the bar and went where the telephones were.’
TL(Kz): ‘Ақшасын төлеп, ойын автоматтарына бардым’.
TL(Ru): ‘Я расплатился и пошел к автоматам.’
In the given example the translator employed .
replacement of word-forms
transposition
replacement of the type of syntactic relations
omission
addition
Name the transformation. SL: ‘other philosophies’
TL: другие философские теории / басқа философиялық теориялар.
descriptive translation
addition
replacement of sentence elements
replacement of syntactic relations
transposition
Define the type of translation technique used in the translation from English:
SL: 125 passengers and 5 crew
TL(Kz): 125 жолаушы мен 5 экипаж мүшесі
TL(Ru) 125 пассажиров и 5 членов экипажа
descriptive translation
omission
addition
generalization
concretization
Which is the most common formula for the English word-order?
subject – object – predicate
there is no formula at all as the English word-order is not fixed
object – predicate – subject
subject – determiner - predicate
subject – predicate – object
What syntactic unit is considered to be the starting point in describing an idea or situation?
predicate
attribute
adverbial modifier
subject
object
A change in the word-order of the sentence is known as .
reversion
inversion
conversion
aversion
immersion
In theory of translation ‘rheme’ is the term applied to specify .
the old information
a group of grammatical transformations
the general idea of the utterance
the translator’s own commentaries
the new information
The location of theme and rheme in Russian and English .
is identical
is not important for the translator
is different
depends on the macro-context
is difficult to define
In Russian the new information (rheme) is usually placed .
at the beginning of the sentence
in the middle of the sentence
at the end or in the middle of the sentence
at the end of the sentence
all the variants are right
In translation theory ‘theme’ is the term applied to specify .
the new information
the new information
the old information
a group of grammatical transformations
the translator’s own commentaries
Some information already known or supposed to be known to the receiver from the previous context is .
theme
rheme
monorheme
compression
anadiplosis
The part of the sentence which contains completely new information is called .
theme
monorheme
dirheme
monotheme
rheme
Taking into account ‘theme-rheme’ relations, the sentence ‘A boy came in’ should be translated into Russian as .
Мальчик вошел.
Мальчик вошел в комнату.
Некто вошел в комнату.
Мальчик вышел.
Вошел мальчик.
Rheme in the Russian sentence .
usually takes the initial position.
usually takes the medial position.
usually takes the final position.
never takes the initial position.
can take any position.
In English can often mark the rheme/theme of the sentence.
grammatical endings
articles
gerunds
predicates
ellipsis
Find the rheme in the sentence:
‘A lecture followed on the inadequacies of modern policemen and immorality of modern youth’.
followed
inadequacies
a lecture
immorality
modern youth
Find the rheme in the sentence: В нашу страну пришла перестройка.
в нашу страну
пришла
нашу
перестройка
в нашу
In the English language there are a number of grammatical forms that are not always available in the target language. If no grammatical forms are available in the target language, the translator must .
omit the difficult structure.
look for lexical means to render the same semantic content.
use transposition.
translate it at his/her own discretion and write a commentary.
use antonymic translation.
Say which of the following English grammatical phenomena do/does not have direct analogues in the Russian language:
Adverbial modifier of time
Articles
Conjunction ‘though’
Grammatical meaning of plurality
Inflectional affixes
Say which of the following meanings is not typical for the English article:
the meaning close to that of the stative verbs
the meaning of definiteness
the meaning ‘some, certain’
the meaning close to that of the pronoun ‘one’
the same meaning as that of the numeral ‘one’
In the process of translation articles are usually (unless they have some special role in the sentence or some additional meaning).
translated with the help of possessive pronouns
translated with the help of personal pronouns
omitted
translated with the help of numerals
all variants are true
‘A Mr.Brown’ should be rendered into Russian as .
Мистер Браун
Господин Браун
Мистер Коричневый
Некий Мистер Браун
Семья Браун
According to Professor Galperin the definite article has meanings.
11
7
3
1
9
According to Professor Galperin the indefinite article has
meanings.
11
2
5
1
1
Any translator should bear in mind that the noun category of number in English and Russian .
is fully identical
differs in every point
is not always identical
is presented only by Singularia Tantum and Pluralia Tantum
is expressed by different personal pronouns
Find the example of Singularia Tantum among the following words:
a copper
scissors
people
ink
cherries
Find the example of Singularia Tantum among the following words:
milk
a can
people
a people
pants
Find the example of Pluralia Tantum among the following words:
a tin
tin
a people
knowledge
people
What is the English for ‘корь/ қызылша’?
oats
measle
measles
quinsy
cancer
Complete the phrase: forty one .
books
trousers
pants
chair
data
