an ill-fated attempt or negation of the action. It’s often translated by the
negative form of the finite verb.
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The negotiators
failed to come
to agreement.
Участники переговоров
не пришли к согласию
(не смогли до-
говориться).
3.
To be bound
with the Infinitive is translated as
обязательно,
неизбежно
должно быть
.
It was bound to happen
.
Это
неизбежно должно было
произойти (случиться).
Task 1. Analyze the sentences and translate them into Russian.
1. Even from the point of view of Britain’s homegrown capitalists, the
current policies are failing. That is the only conclusion
to be drawn
from
the Bank of England’s quarterly review and the report of the Commons
Treasury and Civil Service Committee.
2. Information comes in floods now, but we haven’t installed a way
to use the brains
with the capacity
to filter and distill
it.
3. The decision
to ban
export of beef and cattle from Portugal was
made after a sharp increase in the number of cases last year of « mad
cow» disease in cattle grown in Portugal.
4. The candidate said this morning that he was fully aware of the
obstacles
to be faced and
the charges that would be made.
5. The Euro-American democracies have, in the new NATO, a
central organization
to co-ordinate
the military actions of those NATO
members which decide they need to act.
6. The US government controls exports of strong encryption products
to preserve
its capability
to decode
messages from foreign governments
and criminals.
7. There are lessons
to be learnt
from the cold war, but the inevitability
of a peaceful outcome is not one of them.
8. Most Japanese educators concede that a reliance on role learning
and cramming does great damage to creativity, and many universities
are moving
to include
interviews and essay writing in their entrance
tests.
9. A personal campaign
to acquaint
the farmers with the facts about
this year’s agricultural price review will be launched by the Minister of
Agriculture on Monday.
10. Peru plans
to raise
$1 billion through bond sales and loans
to
help
the country’s struggling companies restructure debt.
11. Britain had the most extensive network of double taxation
agreements in the world
to protect
companies trading in Britain and
other countries from paying tax twice over.
12. The said tax increases
to reduce
government borrowing would
do little to help recession hit industry or reduce unemployment.
13. The United States used the UN inspection team
to send
a US spy
into Baghdad
to install
a highly sophisticated electronic eavesdropping
system.
14. In his semiannual report to Congress, the US Federal Reserve
chairman suggested that « storm clouds
massing
over the western Pacific
and headed our way» might dampen demand for US goods and services
just
enough to relieve
inflationary pressure – and render unnecessary a
Fed hike in short-term rates.
15.
To meet the need
for increasingly precise forecasts, meteorologists
hope
to extend
their observational system until it covers every corner
of the earth.
16. The general feeling in Egypt is that the government has won its
war against the Islamist militants. What it is still not confident
enough
to do
is to allow political Islam a public voice.
17. Japanese consumers have simply not been purchasing many
of the high-ticket items–particularly automobiles and appliances –
in
sufficient
volume
to keep
Japan’s economy moving at the higher rate
business would like to achieve.
18. Although Mr. Kim [South Korea] was the
first
of the three
to
embrace
the need for a rescue by the International Monetary Fund, he
made worrying noises about wanting
to renegotiate
the deal once he
entered office.
19. Mr. Cook is not
the first
British foreign secretary
to arrive
in
office determined to change things, nor will he be
the last to run up
against the diplomats’ natural skepticism about his ability to do.
20. The achievement [of Ireland] is
certainly not to be dismissed,
as
some would have it, as a matter of statistical fudges, subsidies from
Europe and tax dodges for multinationals. But lessons for would-be
tigers are either
difficult to infer
or of little use.
21. Scientology tries
to turn
its followers’ minds and part them from
their money; of course it will try
to change
their lives forever. But so do
lots of religions.
22. Any newly elected government can expect
to be given
the benefit
of the doubt by the public.