But (preposition, conjunction, adverbial particle)
Translate into Russian paying special attention to the equivalents of the multifunctional but.
1.... Her paper... had managed pretty well to shove any real news off any part of it but the front page, or to some obscure corner where
it was impossible to find it (Christie).
2. "I've just knocked someone over", James said. "Very slowly. I didn't hurt her but I frightened her. I feel awful" (Trollope).
3. In 1988, Mr. Ewing inherited Sunset Farm. Since he no longer lives in the Northeast and visits Narragansett but once or twice a year, Mr. Ewing hoped to sell the land. But he also felt a sentimental tug toward the property and recognized its landmark character.
4. The rooms he showed them, were almost bare of furniture. In the Macphails' there was nothing but a poor, worn bed with a ragged mosquito net, a rickety chair, and a washstand (Maugham).
5. Twenty years ago Dudley Canal and Tunnel lay derelict, forgotten by all but a small band of determined enthusiasts. Due to the tireless efforts of the Dudley Canal Trust the canal is now the busiest in the country.
6. Along the river bank there was nothing and no one but the wet brush and muddy ground (Hemingway).
7. A litter of loose pages at the bottom of the box excited my curiosity but faintly. The close, neat, regular handwriting was not attractive at first sight (Conrad).
8. Charmian said, rather slowly, "May we really tell you all about it?"
"But, of course, my dear" (Christie).
9. Toward the end he suspected them of tampering with his food and finally refused to eat anything but boiled eggs! (Christie)
10. Edward groaned...
"What's the matter?" demanded Charmian. "Nothing. It's only the awful thought that, but for Miss Marple, we might have burned these letters in a decent, gentlemanly way!" (Christie)
4.1. Word order: inversion
Translate into Russian. Note the word order in the original sentences / clauses with inversion and in their Russian counterparts.
1. Not only did we learn English parsing thoroughly, but we also practised continually English analysis (Churchill).
1....we looked for these handsome sunrise-pink birds but found none. Once only did I see a flamingo, a big solitary cock strutting in a shallow pool among the mangroves [Barton).
3. He had stopped his running, and was singing, first low, then loud...
"Eustace", we all cried, "stop! stop, dear boy, and come into the house".
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He shook his head and started off again — talking this time. Never have I listened to such an extraordinary speech (Forster).
4....he added: "You see, I am not interested in the theatre. Not only have I never attended a rehearsal, but I have never seen a performance of any of my plays" (Bennet).
5. Once abundant in the southeastern U. S., the red wolves became officially extinct in the wild in 1975; only by placing all the animals in captivity were conservationists able to save them.
6. "And you, Portal?" "No, I never met him."
So fiercely and defensively did he say it that Mr. Satterthwaite looked up in surprise (Christie).
7. He had made underseas pictures at Pago Pago in the central Pacific, and at Tahiti, but nowhere had he seen such clear water and clean, sandy bottoms (Barton).
8. We also got effective shots of Joan among the coral reefs between Jicaron and Jicarita Islands which are among the few fairly well-developed reefs in the Eastern Pacific. Only rarely do reef building corals flourish in these waters which are swept by twenty-foot tides (Barton).
9. Such brilliant musicians as Byrd, Tallis, and Dowland needed articulate expression for their sweet lute melodies. The gift of song no doubt was dormant in many an Elizabethan verse-writer. It needed some outside stimulus to call it forth, and assuredly at no time in our history has there been so rich a company of singers... (Primer).
Thing
Translate into Russian using a variety of ways to render thing.
1. The thing is that he will run away — but he won't do so without seeing me first. That is a structure which must be allowed to develop (Murdoch).
2. I couldn't conceal things from you when you were a child, I can remember your little white face, judging me. You've just held onto your childish picture of things you can't understand (Murdoch).
3. All because you've realized you'll never be a great thinker, I suppose hurt vanity makes people do daft things (Murdoch).
4. Stewart smiled, then laughed. "One has to take some risks", he said.
"That's the only human thing you've said!" (Murdoch)
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5. "Just let me alone, will you? I'm a machine. I say the same things to myself a thousand times a day, I see the same things, I enact the same things. Nothing can help me, nothing" (Murdoch).
6. Damp smells of spring, of wet earth and green things growing, which would have made him happy once, came through the window which he closed with a bang (Murdoch).
7. He had never before offered anybody so much advice, or put into words and uttered things which he so profoundly believed in (Murdoch).
8.... I sat at a long table. There were some girls and young men who I thought were art students, and some children. I didn't even identify Mrs. Baltram, everyone was rather good-looking and dressed in sort of smocks and robes and things (Murdoch).
9. "... By the way, don't worry if you hear noises in the night." "Noises?"
"Oh just owls — and things — I mean owls and foxes and things — and poltergeists and things — "
Edward giggled feebly at this jest (Murdoch).
10. "What do you do?" said Edward. "I know you weave your own dresses." — "Oh all sorts of things", said Mother May. "We are never idle. We cultivate the garden to feed ourselves, we keep the house spick and span, we make our clothes, we do carpentry, we do embroidery..." (Murdoch).
11. He wanted to think, perhaps to write, to leave London, to live in the country, to be more alone, and if these things seemed like luxuries he did not care (Murdoch).
12. "We've been here a long time and many things have changed" (Murdoch).
13. It is rugged fell country, with rounded hills and gentle slopes, shelving down to small villages, mostly set beside the fast-flowing streams that run all over those parts. It's sheep country — hardy little things, scattered about the hillsides. There are no large towns for many miles... (Hill).
4.4. Idioms with bone
Translate into Russian using equivalent idioms, if possible.
1. I wouldn't trust that fellow. If you ask me why, I can't give you any definite reason; it is just a feeling in the bones.
2. The house is bone-dry, not a trace of damp anywhere.
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3. You'll never cure him of his meanness; it's in his bones.
4. It isn't that the work is difficult, or that he hasn't the ability to do it, he's just bone-idle.
5. His speech in reply to the toast was quite witty and entertaining, but parts of it were a bit near the bone.
6. I shall say what I think of him, and make no bones about it.
7. The property left by their father was a bone of contention between the brothers.
8. I have a bone to pick with you in connection with your unpunctuality.
9. I who saw his life unfold hour by hour have the essence of him in my bones and marrow (Lawrence).
10. The grass smelled pungently of some herb as I got up (= rose), the sun was warm now on my back and the track rose steeply, steadily away. But I had no tiredness at all in my limbs today. This was a world in which I felt at home, these were places 1 knew in my bones; I had seen them before, I felt exhilarated beyond expression (Hill).
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