Use be used rather
To use get used to involve(d)
1. Engineers use the experience of previous generations.
2. Architects make use of fresh forms, fresh materials and fresh technique.
3. They have used the conventional crystal growth methods.
4. This approach is used for time and money saving purposes.
5. They presented mass of data necessary for effective land use planning.
6. Most laboratories have small machines (установки) which are being used for
demonstration purposes.
7. I’ve got a useful information.
8. On the one hand, platinum is one of the most useful metals, but on the other
hand, it is too expensive to be widely used in industry.
9. He is used to listening to the nine o’clock news.
10. They got used to driving left.
11. I’m used to getting up early.
12. Members of Everest expeditions must get used to the thin air (разреженный
воздух) of the Himalayan heights; they do this by spending as many weeks
as possible in the high mountain country.
13. I feel useful here.
14. During his useful life he often felt he was useless.
15. Society is now more tolerant than it used to be of unmarried people, unmar-
ried couples and single parents.
16. The members of the family used to meet more often than they do it now.
17. He used to do sports a lot.
18. Any of these methods is useful.
19. My friend uses glasses only for reading.
Rather
20. This problem is rather difficult.
21. Rather we attempt to develop in detail the principal mathematical method.
22. Two approaches with a rather well established methodology suited well in our
case.
23. We shall concentrate, however, on the process which generates this
knowledge, rather than on the knowledge itself.
24. He is rather difficult to deal with.
Involve(d)
25. The branch of optics which involves quantitative measurements of the intensity
of light and the illumination provided by different sources on surfaces at
varying distances from the source is called photometry.
26. The method involved was quite new.
27. The phenomenon involved was rather difficult to explain.
28. We have to analyse all the factors involved.
29. The quantities (values) involved in our study are interrelated.
30. Robert Koch was involved in the investigation of infectious diseases
throughout his life.
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31. Besides being very involved this procedure is very costly.
32. The problem is far too involved for one to be able to solve it.
33. Under these conditions the requirements involved are only partially met.
XI. Переведите предложения, обращая внимание на значение следующих слов:
provide mean means main(n)
Provide for to mean by means of main (adj)
Provided water main mainly (adv)
1. Research and technology should provide the basis for a better everyday living.
2. Special measures must have been taken by tunnel builders to provide stability
to the works and safety to the workers in boring this tunnel.
3. We are to provide all the necessary equipment for the experiment to be carried
out successfully.
4. Apochromats are highly corrected optical systems (точно-скорректированные
оптические системы) providing maximum optical quality and are used in
microscopy and astronomy.
5. Timekeeping (служба частот и времени) at the Royal Greenwich Observatory
began in 1675, when it provided a standard by which sailors could set their
clocks before they set out on voyages.
6. A water-supply system provided the city of ancient Rome with water in the
year 512 before our era.
7. There is always an element of risk in providing capital and starting business.
8. The cenral organization provided all the expeditions with the necessary equip-
ment; it has provided our expedition with means of radio communication.
9. Well provided with food now we shall start in two days provided there is no
change of the weather.
10. In hot weather water is the best drink provided it is cool and pure.
11. Provided the supplies arrive in time, all will go well.
12. Great increase in labour productivity would be made provided mechanization
and automation of manufacturing process were increasingly used.
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13. Plastics are the wonder engineering materials of the modern age, provided
that they are properly employed.
14. The colleges provide for residence and tutoring personal instruction of
the students; by means of personal contact the tutor may influence the
student’s political and social ideas.
15. Providing for the doubling of the U.S. expanding population at their current
level of living is equivalent to building a complete new small town every day of
the year for the next 30 years, including all of its buildings and facilities.
16. The contract provides for that possibility.
mean; to mean; means; by means of
17. Science is the means by which the whole of our civilization is rapidly being
transformed.
18. A. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) is acknowledged to have invented a means
of protection against the disastrous affects of lightning – the lightning rod.
19. To meet the accelerated demands for resources, we must find means to
accellerate our acquisition of knowledge.
20. Today the optical telescope is no longer the only means of exploration of space;
as an astronomical device the radio-telescope is a far more efficient means than
any of those used in the last century.
21. Means must be provided for a system to be adjusted for the important
experiment.
22. In addition to being a means of exchange, money is also a means of measuring
the value of men’s labour.
23. By means of the radio-telescope some remarkable studies of the surface
of the sun and of solar activity have been made and a method of investigating
the movement of planets has been worked out.
24. A mean solar day is the mean time during which the Earth makes one revo-
lution round the sun.
25. Utilizing solar power on a large scale means getting possession of an
immense source of power.
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26. I mean to leave tomorrow.
27. Your friendship means a lot to me.
28. This will mean a lot of expense for him.
29. The title means nothing to me.
30. The golden mean (середина).
31. He is mean with his money.
32. Some fundamental questions about the physical properties of the earth may
be answered by relatively simple means.
33. To concentrate railway facilities means to increase the average capacity and
load per wagon.
34. What did you mean by looking at me like that?
35. To work means to live.
36. Radio, telegraph, telephone, internet and TV, are means of communication.
37. The word «farm» comes from the Latin «firma», meaning a fixed payment,
a rent, a settled agreement, and it wasn’t until the 16th century that the
«farm» came to mean a piece of land.
38. This doesn’t mean that the result is correct.
39. This means that the method of geometric means leads to more satisfactory
results than that of arithmetic means.
40. The fastest means to detect an artificial satellite is radio, largely used for that
purpose.
main(n) – магистраль; water main – водопроводная
магистраль;
main (adj) – главный, основной;
mainly (adv) – в основном, главн. образом.
41. The main thing is to work.
42. The main theme of the conference – «Ecology».
43. The main concern of an engineer is the rate at which work is being done.
44. The main problem is to survive.
45. All main Rutherford’s works deal with the nuclear atom.
46. It was the main factor in their difference.
47. They mainly focused on fundamental problems.
48. Those people were mainly students.
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49. This enterprise produces mainly the equipment for medicine.
Обратите внимание на различие значений двух глаголов:
to affect – влиять на …; to effect– осуществлять, приводить к …,
вызывать …;
50. This will affect their decision.
51. The change affects the whole process.
52. Moisture affects all kinds of metal.
53. They effected some changes in the plan.
54. If you give up smoking, you’ll effect about £ 100 a year.
55. Thus they effected the desired result.
XII. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на значения слов:
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