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Exercise VII. Choose in part B of the exercise below the corresponding English equivalents (відповідники) for the fol­lowing Ukrainian idiomatic/phraseological expressions and sub­stantiate the way in which you decided to translate them.

A. 1. виїденого яйця не вартий; 2. я не я, і хата не моя/ моя
хата з краю; 3. купається /плаває, як вареник у маслі; 4. як тільки
язик повертається; 5. як сніг на голову; 6. лупцювати, як Сидорову
козу; 7. (дивитися) як цап /баран на нові ворота 8. спіймати облизня;
9. чув дзвін, та не знає, де він; 10. як чугуївська верства (високий);
11. чого я там не бачив; 12. спасти на думку; 13. отримати
прочухана; 14. рости як із води; 15. здоров'я - найдорожчий скарб;
16. розбити глек із кимсь; 17. розв'язувати руки комусь; 18. сім
п'ятниць на тиждень; 19. кашу маслом не збавиш; 20. водити за
ніс (когось); 21. морочити комусь голову /піддурювати когось;
22. від долі не втечеш/ у всякого своя доля; 23. клепки не вистачає
(комусь); 24. верзти нісенітницю; 25. справи йшли як по маслу;

  1. з вірогідного джерела/ з вірогідних джерел, із свіжих рук;

  2. буря в склянці води; 28. гроші /гаманець, або життя; 29. не їла душа часнику, не буде й смердіти.

B. 1. is not worth a straw; 2. it does not concern me/it is not
business of mine; 3. one lives in luxury/on the fat of the land; 4) how
dare(s) one say so; 5. to come plump upon one/ to come like a bolt
from the blue; 6. to beat the life out of one; 7. to look/ be astounded,
to be very surprised; 8. to fail face/be a complete failure; 9. that is
mere hearsay/rumor; 10. (as) tall as a maypole; 11. I've nothing lost
there; 12. to bring back (call) to memory; 13. to grow (take) one's
gruel; 14. to overgrow; 15. good health is above wealth; 16. to have a
quarrel with one/to break off with one; 17. to give rein/to give full scope
(swing) to one; 18. to keep changing one's mind; 19. plenty is no
plague; 20. to pull (one) by the nose; 21. to pull one's leg;


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22. every bullet has its billet; 23. (one) has not all his buttons/one has a screw loose, one is a little wanting, one is not right up there; 24. to talk nonsense /bunkum; 25. things went swimmingly/without a hitch, work like butter; 26. straight from the horse's mouth/ straight from the tin; 27. a storm in a tea-pot/tea-cup (Am. a tea-cup/tea-pot tempest); 28. to stand and deliver; 29. people throw stones only at trees with fruit on them.

Exercise VIII. Suggest suitable Ukrainian versions for the following English proverbs, sayings and catchwords (крилаті слова та вирази):

1. actions speak louder than words; 2. not all that glitters is gold; 3. work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; 4. a bad workman always blames the tools; 5. barking dogs seldom bite; 6. beauty is only skin deep; 7. creaking gate hangs long; 8. don't cross the bridge until you come to it; 9. don't put the cart before the horse; 10. the early bird catches the worm; 11. every dog has his day; 12. forbidden fruit is sweetest; 13. if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well; 14. its easy to be wise after the event; 15. it's never too late to mend; 16. it never rains but it pours; 17. more haste less speed; 18. no gain without pain; 19. necessity is the mother of invention; 20. never look a gift horse in the mouth; 21. no news (is) good news; 22. one swallow doesn't make a summer; 23. out of sight, out of mind; 24. paddle your own canoe; 25. the proof of the pudding is in the eating; 26. the road to hell is paved with good intentions; 27. the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak (The Bible); 28. still waters are deep; 29. time and tide wait for no man; 30. too many cooks spoil the broth; 31. when the cat's away the mice will play; 32. where there's a will, there's a way; 33. while there's life, there's hope; 34. you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds; 35. you may lead a horse to water, but you can not make him drink; 36. man proposes and God disposes; 37. give a man a fish and he eats all day. Teach him catch fish and he eats for a lifetime; 38. education makes people easy to lead but difficult to drive, easy to govern but impossible to enslave; 39. good advice comes from the aged; 40. an old man is like a child; 41. early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise; 42. there is no place like home; 43. one today is worth two tomorrows; 44. a man is old as he feels, a woman is old as she looks; 45. many a good cow has a bad/evil calf; 46. one's eyes drop millstones; 47. a forgetful head makes a weary pair of heels; 48. great talkers are all little doers; 49. a great ship asks deep water/s; 50. great weeds grow apiece; 51. to have not a penny to one's name/to have not a shirt to one's back;

52. keep your mouth shut and youfears open; 53. spare the rod and spoil the child; 54. a sparrow in the hand is better than the pigeon on the roof; 55. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; 56. birds of a feather flock together; 57. the ass is known by its ears; 58. a bird is known by its note, and a man by its talk; 59. a bitten child dreads the dog; 60. a burnt child dreads the fire/a scalded cat/dog fears cold water; 61. the face is the index of the mind; 62. a fair face may hide a foul heart; 63. far from eye, far from heart/seldom seen, soon forgotten; 64. to fear as the devil fears the holy water; 65. to fiddle while Rome is burning; 66. one's fingers are (all) thumbs; 67. fish begins to stink at the head; 68. fools will be fools; 69. a fool when he is silent is counted wise; 70. friends may meet but mountains never; 71. friends are thieves of time; 72. God helps those who help themselves; 73. man is known by the company he keeps; 74. a good Jack makes a good Jill; 75. every god has his way; 76. fine feathers make the bird; 77. don't have too many irons in the fire; 78. while there's life there's hope; 79. the wish is father to the thought; 80. a word is enough to the wise; 81. a rolling stone catches no moss; 82. rain at seven, fine at eleven.

Exercise IX. Offer corresponding Ukrainian versions for the following English proverbs and sayings:

A. speak of devil and he will appear; to teach the dog to bark;
you can not wash charcoal white; velvet paws hide sharp paws; he
that will strive, must rise at five; life is not all cakes and ale; little
thieves are hanged, but great ones escape; physician, heal thyself;
rule with the rod of iron; like teacher, like pupil; like master, like land;
like father, like son; like master, like servant; like author, like book;
like mistress, like maid; like priest, like people; as the tree, so the
fruits; as old cock crows, so doth the young; like begets like; as is
the gardener so is the garden; like carpenter, like chips; as is the
workman, so is the work; like likes like; like draws to like; like cures
like. (Sayings)

B. Offer English semantic analogies/equivalents for the Ukrain­


ian proverbs and sayings below. Use part A for the purpose where
necessary.

Який учитель, такий і учень; який господар, таке й поле; яка хата, такий тин/ який батько, такий син; який автор, така й книжка; який піп, така й парафія/зі злої трави-лихе сіно; тернина грушок не родить; яке коріння, таке й насіння; яблуко від яблуні недалеко падає; яка пряжа, таке й полотно; по роботі пізнати майстра; який Яків - стільки й дяки; який пастух, така й череда; які самі, такі й сани; яка грушка, така й юшка; рибак рибака впізнає здалека;




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видно пана по халявах; який їхав, таку й здибав/стрів; малі злодії попадаються - великі вириваються.

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

Up, Up and Away

On Monday, out of the clear sky, the local travel agent tele­phoned Janice to tell her that she had won two tickets to the Albu­querque International Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico.

Janice and John, her husband, had always wanted to go bal­looning at the festival, but they thought that such a trip was beyond their reach. She was walking on air when she telephoned John to tell him the good news. At first, John thought that Janice was joking and full of hot air, but when he realized that she was not building castles in the air, his annoyance vanished into thin air. As soon as John came home from work, Janice and John eagerly talked about the trip. Soon their plans grew by leaps and bounds. Janice's head was in the clouds all the time because she was anticipating the trip and her first balloon ride.

Two weeks before the trip, Janice was rushed to the hospital. After examining her, the doctor burst her bubble when he said that she would need an operation. The doctor's decision went over like a lead balloon. Janice was devastated. Now their balloon vacation was up in the air. She knew that without the free tickets, the cost of the trip would be sky high. But Janice was lucky. The operation was not serious, and she begged the doctor to let her go on the trip. One week later, Janice and John took their dream trip. They were on cloud nine as their balloon rose into the blue sky. Janice smiled and thought: sometimes it pays to reach for the sky.



Idioms to the story:

  1. The sky's the limit - there is upper limit;

  2. Out of the clear blue sky - suddenly; without warning;

  3. Go sky high -go very high;

  4. Walk on air- be very happy; euphoric;

  5. By leaps and bounds - rapidly;

  6. Full of hot air -talking nonsense;

  7. Go fly a kite - go away and stop bothering me;

  8. Burst one's bubble - disillusion someone;

  9. Have one's head in the clouds - be unaware of what is going on; .<

  10. Up in the air - undecided; uncertain;




  1. Out of thin air - out of nowhere; out of nothing;

  2. Vanish into thin air-disappear without leaving a trace;

  3. On cloud nine-very happy;

  4. Reach for the sky - aspire to something; set one's goals high;

  5. Beyond one's reach - more than one can afford;

  6. Under a cloud of suspicion - be suspected of something;

  7. Go over like a lead balloon - not well received by others;

  8. As high as a kite-very happy;

  9. Breath of fresh air - new, fresh, and imaginative approach;

20. Build castles in the air - daydream; make plans that never
come true.


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IV. LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION

RENDERING OF THE CONTEXTUAL MEANINGS OF THE DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE ARTICLES

The article, both the definite and indefinite, is a functional word serving to identify or determine the noun (cf. to work-the work), the superlative degree of its quality (the tallest tree) or the order of nouns in a word-group (the first step) or in a row of similar nouns. In some prepositional phrases and word-combinations the definite and indefi­nite articles, however, may change their lexico-grammatical nature (become a particle), as in the expression the more, the better (чим більше, тим краще), or acquire some peculiar grammatical, func­tional and lexical meaning (the Browns/Petrenkos подружжя Браунів/ Петренків); the article may be lexicalized as in the Alps/the Carpathians Альпи/Карпати, at the baker's/butcher's у пекаря/ м'ясника (в хлібному /м'ясному магазині). Such and the like lexicalized articles, naturally, in no way weaken or lose their deter­mining, i.e., grammatical function. As a result, their lexical meaning is inseparable in these cases from their functional meaning. The de­termining and lexicalizing nature of the definite and indefinite articles also manifests itself in several set expressions (cf. in the cart, in a word, what a pity, all of a sudden, etc.)

1). On several other occasions the definite/indefinite article may acquire some lexical meaning in contextual environment (only for a time) and thus serve as a peculiar means of «expressive connota­tion»1 . This kind of articles is each time endowed in different contex­tual environments with some quite different meaning, which may be, nevertheless, of implicitly different semantic and lexico-grammatical/ logically-grammatical type, as for instance, that of a demonstrative, possessive, identifying, indefinite or some other pronoun: Cf.: He lived more poorly than an artisan. (S. Maugham) Жив він бідніше за будь-якого ремісника. Carot never sold a picture. (Ibid) Каро не продав жодної картини/ні однієї картини.

2) That of an adjunctive/identifying adjective and a specifying or modal particle:... and she had acquired a reputation for neatness and



1 See: Rayevska N.M. Modern English Grammar. - Київ, Вища школа, Головне вид-во, 1976, p. 86.

accuracy (Maugham) і вона здобула за ретельно виконану роботу солідну репутацію. She would have called him a fish. (Carrol) Вона назвала б його просто карасем.

3) A distinctly nominal or rather nominalizing meaning. The lat­ter can be explicitly illustrated in the following sentence. He (Mr. Gills) took it (the bottle) up and having surveyed and smelt it said with ex­traordinary expression: «The?» «The», returned the instrument maker. (Ch. Dickens)

The real meaning of thus emphasized article can be disclosed only in the sentence that follows, where Mr. Gills fills the glass with liquour and drinks it. Without the broader context it would certainly be impossible to guess what this definite nominalizing article stands for in the extract. Nor is it always easy for our students to identify in some sentences the rhematic and the thematic function of articles and to express their meaning. Therefore, the occurrence of lexically meaningful articles is not occasional or accidental, for it is predeter­mined by context. Due to this, the number of lexically meaningful articles in different speech substyles often varies. Their occurrence can also depend on the personal taste of the author who may be more or less inclined to use them in his narrative. But whatever their quan­tity, none of the lexically meaningful articles should be ignored or overlooked in the passage under translation and its meaning must be correctly rendered in the target language.

In order to faithfully convey each kind of the aforementioned meaningful articles, the student will be advised first of all to subject the whole passage, which is to be translated, to a thorough content analysis in order to select possible lexical substitutes for the articles in the target language. The substitutes in languages like Ukrainian (or Russian), which have no functionals of the kind, can differ by their logico-grammatical nature, as well as be contextually synonymous. Because of this the choice of the contextually equivalent substitutes depends much on the translator who, when selecting a fitting lexical equivalent for the article, has to take some factors into consideration. These include first of all the semantic factor playing a predominant role, and the stylistic factor eliminating an unnecessary repetition of the same equivalent substitute in sentences close by. In other words, the co-occurrence of the same synonymous substitutes must be strictly regulated. Besides, the translator has to keep it in mind, that some contextual meanings of the definite article may seem similar to those of the indefinite article and vice versa. Hence, the translator should be no less attentive to the style of his target language pas-


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man was beyond him. (J.London)1 цьому чоловікові, він не міг

збагнути. The thought was fire in him. Ця думка пекла його, мов Martin came back and looked at вогонь. Мартін опритомнів і, the beady eyes - sneering.... глянувши в ці злі, хитрі очі.... 2) as the demonstrative pronouns такий (той, та, те, ті), той самий, (саме той, та сама), такий самий:


1 All cited instances in illustration of the lexical meaning of articles, unless indi­cated otherwise, have been picked up from J.London's works and their transla­tions in Ukrainian.

sage which in its turn will help him achieve a faithful translation of sentences or the passage as a whole, where both the defining and the nominalizing lexically charged articles are used.

When conveying the lexical meanings of the definite and indefi­nite articles into Ukrainian, attention should be paid to their functional meanings in the sentence/word-combinations. Thus, the meanings of the definite article are usually expressed through different Ukrainian attributive pronouns, adjectives, participles, adverbs or cardinal/ordi­nal numerals. The meaning of the numeral one, on the other hand, is always expressed only through the indefinite article, which is histori­cally derived from this part of speech. Cf.: Most of felllows in the Quar­ters share a studio. (Maugham) Багато хлопців з латинського кварталу орендують гуртом одну студію.

The nominalizing articles are mostly rendered through the parts of speech having the functions of attributes to the noun: «...I believe that a young person in a city tea-shop has left her situation. (Maugham) .. .Гадаю, в одній із кав'ярень якась офіціантка зникла.

The emphatically used articles, on the other hand, have usually particles for their contextual equivalents in Ukrainian: But I must con­tent myself with a few paragraphs. (Maugham) Жаль, що можу обмежитись лише кількома епізодами.

The rhematic use of the articles introducing the new informa­tion, a new core of an utterance, and its thematic use repeating the already known information about an object or event is often disclosed in Ukrainian sentences by other than lexical means, as will be shown further. Still, the bulk of meanings which the lexically charged articles can acquire due to their syntagmatic environment in speech are those of pronouns. This can also be seen from the citied illustrations on the forthcoming pages.

REALIZATION OF CONTEXTUAL MEANINGS OF THE DEFINITE ARTICLE

The definite article when endowed with the lexical meaning in a sentence or passage can have various realizations in Ukrainian. It is expedient to begin with the most common of them which may refer not only to nouns but to other parts of speech as well, as for example:

1) as the demonstrative pronoun цей (ця, це, ці):

What his sister has seen in the Що його сестра знайшла у

І was realized as the I who made things, the thinking I, and the speaking I (P. Freire)

«Sometimes there is the im­pression that the I.M.F. is on the same side of the barricades with the forces which are out to reverse the course of development back to Soviet times,» Ukrainian presi­dent said. (Kyiv Post)

Prime Minister's dismissal had been rumored from the date of his appointment. (Ibid.)

But surely Ruth did not under­stand it, he concluded. How could she, living the refined life she did?

He was amazedatthe man's sympathy with the life and his in­cisive psychology. (J. London)

The fellow behind us in the crowd was talking again. (E.Caldwell)

....and when I could see again, the fellow who stayed with me was dragging me down the street. (Ibid.)



Я реалізувався як Такий Я, що створює речі, як мислячий Я і промовляючий Я. «Іноді створюється таке враження, що МВФ стоїть на одному боці з тими самими силами, які намагаються повернути курс розвитку до радянських часів», - заявив президент України.

Чутки про зняття прем'єр-мі­ністра поширювалися від само­го початку його призначення.

Рут навряд чи розуміла цей твір. Та і як вона могла зрозуміти, живучи таким витонченим, як у неї, життям?

Його вразила така любов цієї людини до життя і її психологічне проникнення.



Той самий хлопець із натовпу позад нас тепер озвався знову.

...а коли мені розвиднілось в очах, саме той хлопець, що зостався зі мною, тяг мене за собою.




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3) as the possessive pronoun //', їхні, свій (своя, своє, свої):


gags of hisown... (O. Wilde) фарсовими вибриками

власного штибу.




7) as the identifying attributive pronoun сам, сам собою, інший/


4) as the identifying pronoun весь, вся, все/цілий:

The room was situated over the laundry...

«Why don't you eat?» he de­manded, as Martin dipped dole­fully into the cold, half cooked oatmeal mush.

...Mr. Higginbotham sneered throughout mealtime at the «lit­erary» person they had discovered in the family.



Його кімната була/ знаходилась над пральнею...

«Чому ти не їси?» -запитав він, бачачи, як неохоче Мартін копирсає свою недоварену вівсяну кашу.

...містер Хіґґінботем під час обіду стільки кепкував з «писаки», що виявився у їхній родині.

інша:

But the man did not seem to know of the content of the great mind.



The toil meant nothing to him.

...which was new to him, for of the women he had known - that was the only way he thought.

Та, очевидно, сам бібліотекар нічого не знав про творчість цієї великої голови.

Сама собою праця нічого не важила для нього.

.... і це було нове для нього, бо про інших жінок, яких він знав, він інакше взагалі не думав.




8) as an adjective or adjectivized participle (according to the




5) as the relative pronoun який (яка, яке, які):

Не looked up, and it seemed that the room was lifting...

The romance and beauty, and high vigour of the books were coming true.

Her trained ear detected the overemphasis of the tyro...

«What the hell you guys block-ingthe street?» (E.Caldwell)

Не caught himself imagining the wonder of a caress from such a hand, and flushed guiltily...

She did not know the actual fire of love.

Він підвів голову, і йому здалося, що вся кімната ходить ходором...



Вся романтика і краса, всі високі поривання, про які він читав у книжках, виявились правдою.

її витончене вухо враз вловило всі перебільшення новачка...

«Якого біса ви, волоцюги, запрудили всю вулицю?»

Він подумав, яку насолоду повинні приносити пестощі такою рукою, і зніяковіло зашарівся...

Вона не знала, яке то справжнє полум'я коханая.

contextual meaning):

Martin Eden did not go out to hunt for a job in the morning.

He had worked the day before in the basement and the money had been kept all the time. (E.Caldwell)

9) as a particle emphasizing some other part of speech:

But the story was grand just the same, perfectly grand.




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