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part and parcel of his soul. This to him (Drouet) represented in part high life - a fair sample of what the whole life must be. (T.Dreiser) 8. Too much of a thing is good for nothing. (Proverb) «You know there's one thing I thoroughly believe in,» she said, «but I never eat more than one thing for luncheon». Then a terrible thing happened. (S. Maugham) «Well, John, how are things?» (A.Bennett) He was satisfied with the most things, and above all other things, with himself. (C. Dickens) «.. .what a wonder­ful thing that I am here.» (Ibid.) It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error and another to put him in possession of truth. (J.Locke) All things come round to him who will but wait. (H.Longfellow) 9. Keeping his back turned, he left the doorway and straddled a chair in a corner of the kitchen. If Uncle Dave will live here, we could build another room on the back. They shook hands, with Jim Nelson's back turned to the room. (J.Galsworthy) 10. Keep these two books as long as you wish. (S.Leacock) I shall always keep this dollar. «Well,» said the doctor, «I want you to keep very quiet.» (Ibid.) In the winter it should be kept in a warm place, where it can hatch out its young. (Mark Twain) This didn't keep the neighbours from talking plainly among themselves. (K.Porter) «You needn't keep on saying it round,» said Mr. Whipple. (Ibid.) June keeps after me all the time to tell her about what Uncle Dave is like. He kept his eyes fixed on his father's face. There was no medal for the Nelsons to keep, only a reddish-brown photograph taken in London. (J.Galsworthy) 11. Alice, having fully considered the matter, thought it most prudent to write to Lady M. You ought not to consider poverty a crime. (Ch. Bronte) Con­sider our hands! They are strong hands. (P.Jones) You consider your own affairs, and don't know so much about other people's. (D. La­wrence) 12. Fox introduced Erik to French and Larkin, two other as­sistants who had withdrawn to a corner to talk shop. The March night made him withdraw his overcoat. She wanted to withdraw from the people around her. Erik took advantage of this opportunity to withdraw from the project for the while. At last one third of those who had once been willing to sign the petition to the Board of Trust­ees now asked that their names be withdrawn. (M. Wilson) 13. Davon had said that he was recaptured and as he lay on the ground Adair hit him with a club. (F. News) The game is played with a ball the size of a tennis ball and a club that's a little shorter than for ice-hockey and a slightly bent at the end. (Sports News) The chess


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club also meets once a week after school and is run by a teacher who is very keen on chess (Ibid.) They clubbed at Kain's who re­sided at the Statler Hilton Hotel, to talk on politics, to settle their affairs. (F. News) 14. Erik couldn't remove his eyes from Haveland's fair head. Erik turned: a fair slight girl in black suit stood next to him. He realized that he was greatly unfair. «It wasn't fair of you,» said Haveland. «But no one could say he hadn't been fair,» he in­sisted angrily. (M.Wilson) Fair play must be observed not only at the All-European level. (K.Post) 15. So long as Mary lived beside that monstrous man, and in that monstrous house he realised that he would never be at rest. She could endure anything so long as he took her to him in the end. A long silence ensued, then the sound re­turned swelling in from the distant hills more loudly. No matter what happened she must live for Denis in the long run. Long ago she had realized with a crushing finality that she was chained to a man of domineering injustice. (A. Cronin)

Exercise II. Translating the sentences below, be careful to choose for each common English root word in bold type a semantically corresponding Ukrainian equivalent.

1.1 couldn't take the chance of letting it be known that there was doubt. 2. There used to be some doubt about sensitization tests. 3. He took her hand gently, his anger dissolving, only a vague, disquieting sense of doubt remained. 4. In her voice there was a trace of doubt. 5. «What do you propose to do about Brian's bill?» «I doubt we can do anything». 6. O'Donnel had no doubts that Rufus would have facts to back up a complaint like this. 7. «That's good news,» O'Donnel decided to shelve his earlier doubts. 8. One always has doubts in such cases. 9. He was a doubting Thomas without faith or hope in humanity and without any particular affection for anybody. (Dreiser) «I agree with the original diagnosis of a perfo­rated ulcer». «No doubt at all?». (A.Huxley) 10. «The baby died, Joe, I think you heard.» «I think I know what you want to say.» «Don't you think things are going pretty poor round here?» «By the way, do you know Dr. Gringer?» «I have no influence with him» «But you have - he thinks the world of you.» (A.Cronin) She did not think much of his plan. (London) «You think all your geese are swans ... never met a painter who didn't.» (Galsworthy) She thinks small beer of painters. (Thackeray). 11. The driver turned once or twice with the intention of venturing a remark, but thought better of

it. (Ibid.) 12.... the old people minded the day when he was thought little of. (E.Yates) 13. You kept from thinking and it was all mar­velous. (E.Hemingway) 14. Think today and speak tomorrow. (Prov­erb) 15. «I reckon you want to think twice before leaving my house.» (Cronin) He wondered, if the amputation to be performed tomorrow was necessary or not. «By the way, Doctor, the baby's umbilical cord has been cut short. I wondered, if you knew that or not.» He wondered if the older man was right or wrong. And so I became their wonder boy. (M.Wilson) 16. It was a nine days' wonder in the club. (Dreiser) 17. For a wonder he was not sea-sick. (C. Reade) 18. He ties his white neckcloth to a wonder. (Thackeray) 19. The seven wonders of the world. (Proverb) 20. «Are you sure about this date?» 21. «I'm not sure, I can explain, Mike.» 22. «I'm not sure I like the way we're doing this.» 23. Vivian was not quite sure what was happening. 24. «As sure as a gun - this is he.» H.Fielding) 25. «Well, I'm sure!» said Becky; and that was all she said. (Thackeray) 26. «Don't know, I'm sure.» (Ibid.) 27. They'll make for the camp as sure as fate». (A.Doyle) 28. «Bill,» he answered, nod­ding his head. «Sure, Pete, and no other.» (London) 29. Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me. (Mark Twain) 30. «I'm going to have a fight with Dad, sure as certain.» (D.Carter)

PUBLICISTIC AND NEWSPAPER STYLE TEXTS AND WAYS OF THEIR TRANSLATION

Several characteristic features pertaining to the belles-lettres style texts are also observed in publicistic substyle works, which are mostly presented by articles on different subjects (social, political, economic, etc.) as well as in essays. The latter, though close to sketches or even to short stories by their composition, have distinctly different features of their own. The main of these are as follows: 1) brevity of expression; 2) the use of personal (author's) comment; 3) careful paragraphing; 4) strong logical and emotional argumenta­tion; 5) extensive use of comparison and similes, epithets, sustained metaphors, etc.1

Like the belles-lettres texts the publicistic and newspaper texts can also be faithfully translated only by way of reaching equivalence

1 See: I.R. Galperin. Stylistics. Moscow: Vyssaja Skola 1971, p. 287.


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in the target language at the denotative, structural, stylistic and prag­matic levels of the source language text. Hence, when translating the excerpt of S.Leacock's brillaint essay Oxford as I See It below, care should be taken to select in the target language such kind of equiva­lents, which perform the same stylistic and pragmatic functions as in the source language texts. The student will certainly find no great difficulties in choosing equivalent structural forms of simple extended or composite sentences used by Leacock to create the necessary dynamism in the text of his essay. Certainly, the greatest difficulty will be found in selecting equivalents for some contextual meanings and functions of lexical and lexico-grammatical units, which help cre­ate humorous or ironic effect upon the reader and thus form the prag­matic orientation of the excerpt from this essay. Hence, the task will be to choose in Ukrainian not only lexico-grammatical and stylistic substitutions for some language signs and their meanings, but also some prosodic (intonation and stress) means to achieve the neces­sary fidelity of translation in the target language.

The clue to the pragmatic orientation of the excerpt is partly indicated by the author in the concluding words of the introductory paragraph where he promises to submit «the place (i.e. Oxford Uni­versity) to a searching scrutiny.» The realization of this «scrutiny» on the forthcoming pages is performed, in fact, with great skill, which the translator will have to recreate correspondingly in Ukrainian as well.



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The essay as a literary work aims at a psychological influence on the reader or listener in order to convince him of the reality and authenticity of the described topic/subject. This is achieved, as can be seen from the excerpt of S.Leacock's brilliant essay Oxford as I See It below, by means of the logical and emotional argumentation of the author's point of view, by the use of coherent logical syntactic structures and by often reference to historical events or prominent personalities, etc. Cf. «When I add to this that I had already visited Oxford in 1907 and spent a Sunday at All Souls with Colonel L.S. Amery1, it will be seen at once that my views on Oxford are based upon observations extending overfourteen years.»

All peculiar stylistic features of the essay including the author's individual style have to be faithfully reflected in the translation of each single sentence.

Stylistically close to the style of essays are many newspaper

1 L.S. Amery - a member of Parliament, politician and Oxford university graduate.

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and journal/magazine articles, dealing with social, political, economic and other subjects. They are aimed at acquainting the reader with some important or disputable problems of various social, political or economic aspects of life. The text of such articles is carefully paragraphed, as can be seen below, too; also it mostly consists of coherent sentences, which can not be omitted without mining the logical structure or sense of the paragraph, which it is the part of. This can be especially observed in the excerpt of the article on economy below. Other articles may contain elements of belles-letters style with emotionally coloured elements and several stylistic devices, as shown in the article on post-Chomobyl' life.

The bulk of newspaper space, however, occupy shorter and longer news items containing generally common lexical material and syntactic structures (cliches) having corresponding equivalents in the target language, and usually presenting no great difficulty for begin­ning translators.

The newspaper article on Chornobyl' is more like a belles-lettres short story with a vivid description of the situation in which many Ukrai­nians found themselves after several years of the world's most hor­rible technological disaster. The Ukrainian version of the articles, natu­rally, must also faithfully express the high literary qualities of the source language text.

All other Ukrainian articles that follow represent scientific (his­tory) and didactic style texts, which have mostly lexico-grammatical and syntactic/or stylistic equivalents in English as well. Consequently, they can not present any difficulties in translating or interpreting them even in viva voce.



Exercise I. Translate the excerpt of S. Leacock's essay Oxford as I See It. Be sure to find and faithfully render into Ukrai­nian all characteristic features of its style. Make use of the ways of semantic and stylistic analysis employed in the translation of the belles-lettres text (Arrangement in Black and White) above.

  1. My private station being that of a university professor, I was naturally deeply interested in the system of education in England. I was therefore led to make a special visit to Oxford and to submit the place to a searching scrutiny.

  2. Arriving one afternoon at four o'clock, I stayed at the Mitre Hotel and did not leave until eleven o'clock next morning. The whole of this time, except for one hour in addressing the undergraduates, was

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devoted to a close and eager study of the great university. At any rate I can at least claim that my acquaintance with the British university is just as good a basis for reflection and judgment as that of the numer­ous English critics, who come to our side of the water. I have known a famous English author to arrive at Harvard University in the morning, have lunch with President Lowell, and then write a whole chapter on the Excellence of Higher Education in America. I have known another one come to Harvard, have lunch with President Lowell, and do an entire book on the Decline of Serious Study in America. Or take the case of my own university. I remember Mr. Rudyard Kipling coming to McGill and saying in his address to the undergraduates at 2.30 p. m., «You have here a great institution.» But how could he gather this information? As far as I know he spent the entire morning with Sir Andrew Macphail in his house beside the campus, smoking ciga­rettes. When I add that he distinctly refused to visit the Palaeontologic Museum, that he saw nothing of our new hydraulic apparatus, or of our classes in Domestic Science, his judgment that we had here a great institution seems a little bit superficial.

  1. To my mind these unthinking judgments about our great col­lege do harm, and I determined, therefore, that anything that I said about Oxford should be the result of the actual observation and real study based upon a bona fide residence in the Mitre Hotel.

  2. On the strength of this basis of experience I am prepared to make the following positive and emphatic statements. Oxford is a noble university. It has a great past. It is at present the greatest uni­versity in the world: and it is quite true that it has a great future. Oxford trains scholars of the real type better than any other place in the world. Its methods are antiquated. It despises science. Its lec­tures are rotten. It has professors who never teach and students who never learn. It has no order, no arrangements, no system. Its curricu­lum is unintelligible. It has no president. It has state legislature to tell it how to teach, and yet - it gets there. Whether we like it or not, Oxford gives something to its students, a life and a mode of thought, in America as yet we can emulate but not equal.

  3. These singular results achieved at Oxford are all the more surprising when one considers the distressing conditions under which the students work. The lack of an adequate building fund compels them to goon working in the same old buildings which they have had for centuries. The buildings at Brasenose College have not been re­newed since the year 1525. In New College and Mandolin the stu-

dents are still housed in the old buildings erected in the sixteenth century. At Christ Church I was shown a kitchen which had been built at the expense of cardinal Wolsey in 1527. Incredible though it may seem, they have no other place to cook in than this and are com­pelled to use it today.

  1. The same lack of a building-fund necessitates the Oxford students living in the identical old boarding houses they had in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Technically they are called «quad­rangles», «closes» and «rooms»; but I am so broken into the usage of my student days that I can't help calling them boarding houses. In many of these the old stairway has been worn down by the feet of ten generations of students: the windows had little latticed panes: there are old names carved here and there upon the stone, and a thick growth of ivy covers the walls. The boarding house at St. John's Col­lege dates from 1509, the one at Christ Church from the same period. A few hundred thousand pounds would suffice to replace these old buildings with neat steel and brick structures like the normal school at Schenectady, N.Y., or the Peel Street High School at Montreal. But nothing is done.

  2. It can hardly be due to anything in the curriculum or programme of studies. Indeed, to anyone accustomed to the best models of a university curriculum as it flourishes in the United States and Canada, the programme of studies is frankly laughable. There is less Applied Science in the place than would be found with us in theological col­lege. Hardly a single professor at Oxford would recognize a dynamo if he met it in broad daylight. The Oxford student is the merest amateur.




  1. This is bad enough. But after all one might say this is only the mechanical side of education. True: but one searches in vain in the Oxford curriculum for any adequate recognition of the higher and more cultured studies. The more one looks at these things, the more amazing it becomes that Oxford can produce any results at all.

  2. The effect of the comparison is heightened by the peculiar position occupied at Oxford by the professors' lectures. In the col­leges of Canada and the United States the lectures are supposed to be a really necessary and useful part of the student's training. Again and again I have heard the graduates of my own college assert that they had got as much, or nearly as much, out of the lectures at col­lege as out of athletics or the Greek letter society or the Banjo and Magdalen Club. In short, with us the lectures form a real part of the


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college life. At Oxford it is not so. The lectures, I understand, are given and may even be taken. But they are quite worthless and are not supposed to have anything much to do with the development of the student's mind. «The lectures here,» said a Canadian student to me, «are punk.» I appealed to another student to know if this was so. «I don't know whether I'd call them exactly punk», he answered, «but they're certainly rotten». Other judgments were that the lectures were of no importance; that nobody took them; that they don't matter; that you can take them if you like; that they do you no harm.

  1. I understand that the key to this mystery is found in the operations of the person called the tutor. It is from him, or rather with him, that the students learn all that they know: one and all are agreed on that. Yet it is a little odd to know just how he does it. «We go over to his rooms,» said one student, «and he just lights a pipe and talks to us.» «We sit round with him,» said another, «and he simply smokes and goes over our exercises with us.» From this and other evidence I gather that what an Oxford tutor does is to get a little group of stu­dents together and smoke at them. Men who have been systemati­cally smoked at for four years turn into ripe scholars.

  2. In what was said above, I seem to have directing criticism against the Oxford professors as such: but I have no intention of doing so. For the Oxford professor and his whole manner of being I have nothing but a profound respect. There is indeed the greatest differ­ence between the modern up-to-date American idea of a professor and the English type.

  3. The American professor deals with his students according to his lights. It is his business to chase them along over a prescribed ground at a prescribed pace like a flock of sheep. They all go humping together over the hurdles with the professor chasing them with a set of «tests» and «recitations», «marks» and «attendances», the whole obviously copied from the time-clock of the businessman's factory. This process is what is called «showing results». The pace set is necessarily that of the slowest, and thus results in what I have heard Mr. Edward Beatty describe as the «convoy system of education».

  4. Now the principal reason why I am led to admire Oxford is that the place is little touched yet by the measuring of «results», and by this passion for visible and provable «efficiency». The whole sys­tem at Oxford is such as to put a premium on genius to let mediocrity and dullness go their way. On the dull student Oxford, after a proper lapse of time, confers a degree which means nothing more than that

he lived and breathed at Oxford and Kept out of jail. This for many students is as much as society can expect. But for the gifted stu­dents Oxford offers great opportunities. He need wait for no one. He may move forward as fast as he likes, following the bent of his genius. If he has in him any ability beyond that of the common herd, his tutor, interested in his studies, will smoke at him until he kindles him to a flame. For the tutor's soul is not harassed by herding dull students, with dismissal hanging by a thread over his head in the class-room. The American professor has no time to be interested in a clever stu­dent. The student of genius merely means to him a student who gives no trouble, who passes all his «tests», and is present at all his «reci­tations». Higher education in America flourishes chiefly as a qualifi­cation for entrance into a money-making profession, and not as a thing in itself. But in Oxford one can still see the surviving outline of a noble type of structure and a higher inspiration. In one respect at least I think that Oxford has fallen away from the high ideals of the Middle Ages. I refer to the fact that it admits women students to its studies. Oxford... has not stood out against this change.

Exercise II. Translate the following newspaper articles into Ukrainian. Be careful to convey faithfully their peculiar features of style and expressiveness.

1. RADIATION, LONELINESS HAUNT CHORNOBYL'S NEIGHBOURS

The sunlight reflects dully off a sign along the road «ATTENTION: Forbidden Area». It is a wasteland disguised as rustic paradise.

This is a place where an invisible poison of radiation released during the 1986 ChomobyP meltdown has seeped into the land and people's psyche. Yet some know no other home. «We were born here and we will die here,» says an elderly peasant woman. «There can be not other way. It is our fate».

It is a ghost-town life for many who remain in Ukraine's forbid­den areas more than a decade after the world's worst nuclear acci­dent. International health authorities estimate nearly five million people in Ukraine and neighbouring countries were exposed to wind-borne radionuclides. Thyroid cancer has increased greatly in children, but officials are unsure how many people have died or been affected by Chornobyl'-related cancer, chromosome damage or post-traumatic stress. The disaster still haunts Ukraine, taking 15 percent of its bud-




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get to operate damaged power complex, provide medical care for vic­tims and pay other expenses.

Some people refuse to leave the contaminated areas, while others return years later out of economic desperation or a longing for their forefather's home. Authorities allow them to stay, and weekly food deliveries are sent to some areas. One forbidden zone is the Narodychi district, about 45 rniles west of Chomobyl'. Here, past check­points manned by bored police, villages are abandoned, window shut­ters bang in the wind against crumbing houses, door-ways stand open like missing teeth. Silence is on the land, the whitewashed houses like scattered skeletons, the bones still there but the flesh gone. A few figures move furtively, dogs and people, birds startled up, like survivors of an apocalypse, only without the crude damage of war, fire or flood.

In Loznydtsya, where the population dropped from 200 to 60 after the accident, Maria Zymuha still opens up the village library for a few hours a day. It is a cold little room in the village's theatre, which closed years ago. Large drama masks symbolizing comedy and trag­edy still hang on the building's facade.



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