Задание № 2 Перевод конструкций с инфинитивом
1. Mr Woodcock was the
first to speak at the conference, but he was excused owing to a very bad cold.
(The Times)
2. June saw the
President freeze the assets of Germany and Italy in this country. (Mew York
Times)
3. As machines take more
and more of the jobs of men the coming years will see more people join the ranks
of unemployed. (Daily Worker)
4 The Security Council
is given the power to decide when a threat to peace exists without waiting for
the war to break out. (The Guardian)
5. The day seemed endless.
Roper, thinking that hours had passed, would look at his watch only to find
that
scarcely an
hour had gone by. (W. Somerset Maugham, The Hour before the
Dawn)
6. He was in pain. He
turned from side to side on
the hay trying to make himself comfortable and when he fell asleep it was only
to be awakened after a few minutes by the throbbing of his shoulder.
(ibid)
7. He dreaded seeing
Dora. He longed, he longed desperately for her to have an explanation of (hose
damning facts. (ibid.)
8. "My dear, it's no
good fooling ourselves. We shall never be able to live here after the war. We
shall be as poor as church mice. The life we knew and loved had gone never to
return. (ibid.)
9. The reactionaries
know, it is written clear in history, wherever the workers accept Communist
leadership the landlords and capitalists go down never to rise again. (W.
Foster)
10. She's very nervous.
That's another reason why I hated like hell for her to know I got the axe again.
(J. M. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye)
