среда, 30 ноября 2011 г.
понедельник, 28 ноября 2011 г.
Practice your translation skills! Irwin Shaw. The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.
"First let's go see a football game. A professional football game," Frances said, because she knew Michael loved to watch them. "The Giants are playing. And it'll be nice to be outside all day today and get hungry and later we'll go down to Cavanagh's and get a steak as big as a blacksmith's apron, with a bottle of wine, and after that, there's a new French picture at the Filmarte that everybody says... Say, are you listening to me?"
"Sure," he said. He took his eyes off the hatless girl with the dark hair, cut dancer-style, like a helmet, who was walking past him with the self-conscious strength and grace dancers have. She was walking without a coat and she looked very solid and strong and her belly was flat, like a boy's, under her skirt, and her hips swung boldly because she was a dancer and also because she knew Michael was looking at her. She smiled a little to herself as she went past and Michael noticed all these things before he looked back at his wife. "Sure," he said, "we're going to watch the Giants and we're going to eat steak and we're going to see a French picture. How do you like that?"
"Sure," he said. He took his eyes off the hatless girl with the dark hair, cut dancer-style, like a helmet, who was walking past him with the self-conscious strength and grace dancers have. She was walking without a coat and she looked very solid and strong and her belly was flat, like a boy's, under her skirt, and her hips swung boldly because she was a dancer and also because she knew Michael was looking at her. She smiled a little to herself as she went past and Michael noticed all these things before he looked back at his wife. "Sure," he said, "we're going to watch the Giants and we're going to eat steak and we're going to see a French picture. How do you like that?"
четверг, 24 ноября 2011 г.
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Hello, my name is Chris Brown and I'd like to welcome everybody to Yellowstone National Park. Just _____ from our present location the Yellowstone River _____ the Upper Falls. At that point it flows for another 22 miles through one of the prettiest and most _____ canyons in North America. Families love Artist's Point. It gives them an _____ to view the lower falls as well as the walls of the Grand Canyon.
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is just fantastic for families because of all that you can see in just this one spot. You're so high up and it's so _____ large and deep, it gives the kids the _____ on things. It left a great impression on me.
It's pretty _____, don't you think?
Mm, hmm, you wouldn't want to _____ there.
No, you wouldn't.
Mm, hmm, you wouldn't want to _____ there.
No, you wouldn't.
The _____ visitor's center at Canyon is a _____ place to take kids after a day of being out in the wild. There's so much information. _____ they can touch and feel. Computers that give them the information, maps, _____, just all sorts of things that they can interact with and learn, I mean that's what this is all about is learning about why _____ places like Yellowstone and having them is important.
Cardiff, Wales.
So where is Wales? First let’s ________, its not in England. This distinction is not only correct, it is ________ important to the Welch. Wales is a part of Great Britain along with Scotland and England. The UK or United Kingdom includes the countries of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland.
Isolated ________ discovery showed there were people in Wales 250 years ago. Monolithic monuments can be found along many the country road, ______ the memory of the ______ as they have for thousand of years. Around 600 BC the Celts began ______ in Wales where they ______ for 500 years until the arrival of the Romans. The ______ Celts were never really conquered; they were able to live side by side with the Romans, all the while preserving their language and traditions.
Like their ______, the Welsh today has ______ pride in their culture and on going resistance to the domination of their bigger stronger neighbors. They strive to secure their _____ and future as a separate nation to the localized government. A passion for their ______ is never afar from the surface.
A good place to start your trip in Wales is the bustling ______ capital city of Cardiff. The center piece of the city is the 12 century Cardiff castle.
Cardiff Bay ______ quietly next to contemporary hotels, the huge millennium center and the old harbor. During the industrial revolution Cardiff enjoyed tremendous _____ exporting much of the worlds iron and coal. To step back into the past, we visited the museum of Welsh life where _____ buildings from all over Wales represent various periods of history. Animals _____, shop windows display the wears of the day and rooms _____ that the iron workers will be home for dinner any minute.
Isolated ________ discovery showed there were people in Wales 250 years ago. Monolithic monuments can be found along many the country road, ______ the memory of the ______ as they have for thousand of years. Around 600 BC the Celts began ______ in Wales where they ______ for 500 years until the arrival of the Romans. The ______ Celts were never really conquered; they were able to live side by side with the Romans, all the while preserving their language and traditions.
Like their ______, the Welsh today has ______ pride in their culture and on going resistance to the domination of their bigger stronger neighbors. They strive to secure their _____ and future as a separate nation to the localized government. A passion for their ______ is never afar from the surface.
A good place to start your trip in Wales is the bustling ______ capital city of Cardiff. The center piece of the city is the 12 century Cardiff castle.
Cardiff Bay ______ quietly next to contemporary hotels, the huge millennium center and the old harbor. During the industrial revolution Cardiff enjoyed tremendous _____ exporting much of the worlds iron and coal. To step back into the past, we visited the museum of Welsh life where _____ buildings from all over Wales represent various periods of history. Animals _____, shop windows display the wears of the day and rooms _____ that the iron workers will be home for dinner any minute.
вторник, 22 ноября 2011 г.
Practice your translation skills! Mark Twain. A Dog's Tale.
My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me; I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education. But, indeed, it was not real education; it was only show: she got the words by listening in the dining-room and drawing-room when there was company, and by going with the children to Sunday-school and listening there; and whenever she heard a large word she said it over to herself many times, and so was able to keep it until there was a dogmatic gathering in the neighborhood, then she would get it off, and surprise and distress them all, from pocket-pup to mastiff, which rewarded her for all her trouble.
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