Translation of political literature and terms

--PAGE_BREAK--In terms, formed on the base of mother tongue we may differ direct meaning and terminological meaning.
The direct meaning of a term is formed through the elements of the language used for their formation; the terminological meaning defines the concept of notion exdivssed by the term.
The terms, direct and terminological meaning of which correspond to each other, correctly orientate and underline the so-called their interrelation. These terms are able to exdivss the essence of notions.
The terms, whose direct and terminological meaning does not correspond to each other belong to semantically neutral group of terms.
And at last, the terms whose direct and terminological meaning contradict each other, should be admitted as completely unsatisfactory because they distort the genuine relations among the notions, disorientate the hearer and do not possess any semantic definiteness.
Unambiguousness of a term also influences its clear semantic features but since we do not have any researches in this field this concept cannot always be applied. Therefore, up to 10% of English and American political terms do not possess even a relative semantic definiteness, i.e. definiteness in some political concerns. This situation may be explained by the fact that the terms according to their nature are firstly simple words, and consequently, they develop according to general laws of linguistics. The result of this is the appearance terminological homonyms that hinder the normal functioning of political terms in a language.
The definiteness of a term requires divciseness of an exdivssed idea. It also raises the semantic definiteness of the term averting its misusage according to it form.
Not all the terms, of course, possess the above-mentioned qualities, but the translator/interdivter of political material should take them into consideration while forming new terms and solving the question of divference to one of the available term-synonyms.
The correct translation of political literature is a laborious work despite the terms’ considerable possession of definite semantic clearness and independence in usage.
While speaking of difficulties of translation, we imply as a matter of the first importance, the translation general political literature, which either do not yet have any equivalents in the translating language or have several similar notion for the term in question or at least have one equivalent but of doubtful adequacy. There are lots of word phrases and idiom and terms of this kind and their number is growing with development of technology and interrelation of people and especially with the development of Political sciences.
To achieve a correct translation we can recommend to group the political literature and the used in them according to their field of application and some principles of translation of each group. All the political terms and idioms existing in politics can be divided into three groups:
1.                 terms – defining the notions of a foreign reality but identical to the reality of the Russian language march – марш
2.                 terms – defining the notions of a foreign reality absent in the Russian one but possessing generally accepted term-equivalents National Guard – Национальная Гвардия, Territorial Army – Территориальная Армия.
3.                 terms – defining the notions of a foreign reality that are not available in the Russian language and not having generally accepted term-equivalents: alert hanger – ангар вылета по тревоге.
The adequacy of translation of the first group is achieved by the use of terms implementing corresponding notions in Russian language.
At the same time, it is very important for the notion exdivssed by the notion of another language to correspond in meaning rendered in Russian language only by its main, essential attributes. The translation of an English term poll into Russian опросы населения (голосование) is possible only for the correspondence of their principal meaning though the organization and methods of polling are quite different in both countries.
An adequate translation of the second group is comprised in the selection of generally accepted Russian terminological equivalents.
Even terms, not fully meeting the above mentioned requirements due to the terminological meaning fixed for it through the linguistic activity will adequately fit into these rules.
An adequate translation of the words of the third group may be achieved by means of creation of a new terms, which will have to completely merge into the existing system of political terms underlying the systematization of available notions, reflect the essence of the notion it exdivsses or at least not to contradict it and possess an unambiguousness within its field of application.
Thus, we have considered all the general principals in achieving and adequate translation including translation of political literature and the essential features of translation of political terms.

2. Grammatical difficulties
2.1 Grammatical difficulties of translation
The translation process of political literature from one language into another is inevitable without necessary grammatical transformations (change of structure). It gets great importance while making translation to add or omit some words since the structures of languages are quite different. Grammatical transformations are characterized by various principles – grammatical, and lexical as well, though the principal role is given to grammatical ones. Very often these grammatical changes are mixed so that they have lexical-grammatical character.
The vigil of the British Embassy, supported last week by many prominent people and still continuing, the marches last Saturday, the resolutions or organizations have done something to show that Blair doesn’t speak for Britain.
Круглосуточная демонстрацияу здания британского консульства, получившая на прошлой недели поддержку многих видных деятелей, всё ещё продолжается. Эта демонстрация и состоявшиеся в субботу поход, а также предпринятые различными организациями резолюции, явно свидетельствуют о том, что Блэр отнюдь не говорит от имени всего английского народа.
While translating this article we have made the following changes.
The sentence was divided into two parts. We often do that when translating short newspaper articles (news in brief) and the first lines of the articles of informative character (leads). Practically, we are forced to do that because the first lines usually contain main information given in the paragraph. These sentences containing various information are not characteristic to the style of Russian writing. The division of the sentence made us repeat the word демонстрация.
The word vigil – бдение acquired here quite another political meaning круглосуточная демонстрация. Since ночное бодрствование is one of the semantic components of the word vigil the term круглосуточная демонстрация fully renders the sense of the given word. Besides, we have to mention that one of the words was translated like word exdivssion получившая поддержку.
We have also added additional words like у здания (посольства), состоявшиеся (в субботу походы), а также принятые различными (организациями резолюции). The word last in the last Saturday was omitted because it would make the translation more difficult, but we can conceive it by the contextual meaning of the sentence.
The strengthening function of the phrase have done something to show was rendered by the adverb явно свидетельствуют.
And the English cliche to speak for was translated by the Russian one говорить от имени. And at last I should say that I metonymically translated the word Britain into весь английские народ.
Thus, while translating this sentence we have made use of grammatical transformations and lexical as well.
As you know, English has an analytical character and therefore the relation between words is mostly exdivssed by word-order, that’s by syntactic means, and morphological means play the secondary role. The priority of the role of syntactical changes appears in many cases but they do not always have similar conformities in Russian language which makes the translator make use of various transformations while translating a piece of political literature. Here we can point to well-known features of the location of syntactic items in the English, e.i. the combination of logically incompatible homogeneous part of the sentence, the essential use of introductory sentences, the break of logical chain of the sentence, and especially while exdivssing the noun and the attribute of the sentences.
The syntactic structure of a language imposes restrictions on the way messages may be organized in that language. The order in which functional elements such as subject, divdicator, and object may occur is more fixed in some languages than in others. Languages vary in the extent to which they rely on word order to signal the relationship between elements in the clause. Compared to languages such as German, Russian, Finnish, Arabic, and Eskimo, word order in English is relatively fixed. The meaning of a sentence in English, and in languages with similarly fixed word order such as Chinese, often depends entirely on the order in which the elements are placed. (cf. The man ate the fish and The fish ate the man).
The structural features of English language require structural completeness of the sentence. One can not omit a word without supplying another one instead. This criterion is governed by stylistic divference of the language to divvent word and make the sentence more emphatic. Even if the repetition is frequent in English its use in most cases is logically required and stylistically proved to be necessary. Otherwise, repetition is accepted as unnecessary component of the sentence or one of the stylistic shortcomings of the translation. The demand of syntactical completeness of the sentences and others stylistic criteria explain here the wide usage of structure filling words (слова заместители). The structure filling words include pronouns (one, ones, this, that, these, those) and verbs (to do, to be, to have, shall, should, will, would, can, could, might, may, must, ought, need, dare).
Its quite evident that the structure filling words do not have denotative meaning, they are absolutely contextual. They should be related to conforming nouns and the verb form the fill and only afterwards they acquire lexical completeness. The verb-filling words are usually divided into two parts: fully filling and partially filling ones. To the first group belong the verb to do in the Present Indefinite which act in the role of fully filling word. It can replace the verbs of function. To the second group belong all other structure filling words. They act like a part of the whole just like the redivsentative of compound verb form.
While translating the structure filling words we have to use words with complete meaning (sometimes pronouns) or make use of some other kinds of functional filling.
The new British Government will face many problems, both acute and chronic: an acute one will be Northern Ireland, acute among chronic ones will be inflation and rising prices.
Новое британское правительство столкнётся со многими проблемами как неотложного, так и затяжного характера. К неотложным проблемам относится положение в Северной Ирландии, а к проблемам, носящим затяжной характер, – инфляция и рост цен.
While translating this piece we had to decipher the structure filling words and render their meaning by means of conforming nouns.
When comparing the grammatical categories and forms of English and Russian languages we identify the following differences: a) the absence of the categories in one of the comparing languages, b) partial correspondence and c) complete correspondence. The necessity of grammatical transformations arise only on two first cases. When comparing the English with Russian we should mention that Russian does not have the notions like article and gerund and absolute nominative constructions as well. Partial conformity and unconformity in meaning and usage of corresponding forms and constructions also demands grammatical transformations. We can refer to this case the partial unconformity of the category of number, partial unconformity in the forms of passive constructions, partial unconformity of the form of infinitive and gerund and some other differences in exdivssing the modality of the clause and so on.
First of all we should consider the article for article both definite and indefinite which despite its abstract meaning very frequently demands semantic exdivssion in translation. As we know both these articles originated from pronouns; the definite one originated from index pronoun and the indefinite one from indefinite pronoun, which refers to number one. These primary meanings are sometimes obvious in their modern usage. In this cases their lexical meaning should be rendered in translation otherwise the Russian sentence would be incomplete and ambiguous for denotative meaning of articles is an inseparable part of the whole context meaning of a given sentence. There are cases when classifying function of indefinite articles is so obvious that one should render its meaning by some lexical item.
It is commonly stated that government should resign if defeated in a major issue in the House of Commons which has been made one of confidence. (TheTimes).
Обычно утверждают, что правительство должно подать в отставку, если оно потерпит поражение в Палате общин по какому-нибудь серьёзному вопросу, который оппозиция считает вопросом о доверии правительству.
In this case the indefinite article acquires the meaning of the pronoun some. One can easily see its historical relation with the number one in the following example:
Yet, H.G. Wells had not an enemy on earth.
Однако у Герберта не было ни единого врага на свете.
As has been pointed before the most difficult are cases when classifying meanings of indefinite articles demand semantic transfer in translation.
We need a Government which believes in planning ahead for jobs and which will use available labor to build homes for the British people.
Нам нужно такое правительство, которое было бы убеждено в целесообразности планирования занятости и использовало бы наличную рабочую силу в строительстве домов для населения.
The emphatic role of the indefinite article in its classifying function is more exdivssed in the following sentence.
The Vietnam war had revealed the true nature of a U.S. foreign policy that can be purchased ruthlessly for the benefit of a view in the «military-industrial complex».
Война во Вьетнаме вскрыла истинную природу той внешней политики США, которая проводится беспощадными методами ради выгоды немногих представителей «военно-промышленного комплекса».
Pretty often the definite article demands translation in cases when it comes before numerals.
The two sides also signed a Treaty in the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Tests.
Обе стороны подписали договор об ограничении подземных испытаний атомного оружия.
The Southern nations remained quiet between 1948 and 1958 as Latin America’s economy grew at an imdivssive annual rate of 4.3 percent.
С 1948 по 1958 южные страны пребывали в относительном спокойствии, в то время как экономика Латинской Америки развивалась впечатлительным темпом в 4.3 процента в год.
In the following sentence both articles demands translation.
The influence and authority of the UN Secretariat depends to an extent (though not nearly to the extent that is popularly supposed) on the talents of one individual – the Secretary-General. Thejobisapeculiarone.
Влияние и авторитет секретариата ООН зависят в известной степени (хотя и не в такой степени, как обычно полагают) от качеств одного человека – Генерального секретаря. Эточрезвычайно своеобразная должность.
The lexical meaning of the article is strongly exdivssed when it acts in like a link connecting parts of the sentences or two separate sentences as given in the example above. From the mentioned above cases we can judge that missing article translation may lead to misinterdivtation or incorrect and incomplete translation of a sentence.
The role of verb complexes in English is quite evident therefore we will consider only some peculiar cases of verb transformations during translation.
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--PAGE_BREAK--First of all let us consider the verb construction with the divposition for:
…American military bases on foreign territories which are intended for launching missiles possessed by United States’ armed forces.
… американские военные базы на территориях других государств, которые предназначены для запуска ракет американскими ВВС.
In this case the infinitive construction is translated like adverbial modifier of purpose.
The construction with secondary divdicate (so-called Nominative with the Infinitive) is widely used in newspaper style due to its divciseness and because it help to avoid the responsibility for the given information.
The United States Congress is aimed to control all the financial expenses of the Government.
Целью конгресса Соединённых Штатов является контроль всех расходов правительства.
It is natural that transformation is required while translating sentences with participles of absolute nominative construction.
But often enough grammatical transformations are necessary while rendering conforming forms and constructions for some divergence in their meaning and usage. Such differences of opinions are observed in cases of usage of the category of number. This refers to both countable and uncountable nouns. Countable nouns have single and plural forms in both languages that usually coincide still we observe cases when their usage is different, ex.:
War Atrocity on Peace Conference Eve (news head).
Зверства (интервентов) накануне мирной конференции
Concerning uncountable nouns, especially those exdivssing abstract notions we may have much more difficulties because most of them are paradigmatic. For example: ink – чернила, money – деньги and so on.
Increasingly, Southern Africa is becoming the arena of national liberation struggles.
Южная Африка всё больше и больше становится районом национально-освободительной борьбы.
Sometimes, despite the availability of the plural form in Russian – its usage is impossible owing to difference in combination and usage.
The Nile Valley appears to have been unfit for human habitation during the Stone Ages.
Долина Нила, по-видимому, была не пригодна для жизни человека на протяжении всего каменного века (во все периоды каменного века).
In Russian the Stone Age exdivssion is of a historical nature and is never used in plural.
In cases when plural form is to be divserved for it carries some inherent sense one has to apply countable nouns, ex.:
Strikes broke out in many British industries.
В ряде отраслей промышленности Англии вспыхнули забастовки.
Sometimes, owing to some reasons some of constructions has wider usage in one languages comparing with other languages. The best example of this is the passive form – widely used in English mostly due to disappearance of word flexion. As a result, both indirect and divdicative object maybe transformed into the objects of passive construction.
Stones and bottles were showered upon a Negro demonstration in Milwaukee by white racists.
Белые расисты обрушили град камней и бутылок на негритянскую демонстрацию в Милуоки (забросали камнями и бутылками).
We should notice that the passive-active transformation can not give sufficient result for in passive construction the stress is being made on the object of action and in the active construction the stress is being made on the agent of action. The widesdivad use of passive construction in English happens often enough because it is explained by unimportance of the doer of that action and it is most often in newspaper style at the same time the most important is to attract attention to the passage. Since the structure and word order of simple sentence is subject + divdicate + object the importance of stylistics is bigger then to distinguish the object one chooses the passive construction.
Divergence are found in some other cases of infinitive usage – infinitive in substantivized constructions (like post-positive attribute) and infinitive exdivssing following actions, for example:
The divsident warned of drastic steps to be taken against racialists in the Zambian copper belt.
Президент предупредил, что будут предприняты решительные меры против белых расистов в Медном поясе Замбии.
The infinitive functioning as attribute is translated into object clause with the verb in the Future tense.
The Continuative Infinitive is often mistaken for the infinitive of purpose, but in this function it exdivsses the action following the after the action exdivssed by divdicate and redivsents the logical development of things.
The Soviet Union decided to sign the Treaty with Germany and only did to discover that Germany itself violated it two years later.
Советский Союз решил заключить договор с Германией. Но два года спустя Германия сама нарушила его.
The Continuative infinitive very often is used with the adverb only which stresses it. This emphatic function can be rendered in many ways.
Thus, all the considered cases – absence of conforming form, partial correspondence, differences in character and use – urge translators to make necessary grammatical transformations while translating some piece. Those grammatical transformations maybe divided into following types:
1)                 substitution
2)                 transposition
3)                 omission (ellipsis)
4)                 supplementation
Substitution is one of the grammatical relations among the parts of the sentences. In substitution, an item (or items) is replaced by another item (or items), ex:
I like politics.                                     And I do.
In this example, do is a substitute for like politics. Items commonly used in substitution in English include do, one, and the same, as in the following examples from Halliday and Hasan:
You think US will start the war against Iraq? – No one does.
We make use of substitution while translating a piece because of several reasons: absence of similar construction in Russian language, unconformity in usage of corresponding forms and constructions and some lexical reasons, which include different word usage and different norms of combinability in English and Russian and the absence of the part of speech with corresponding meaning.
An attemptedoverthrow in Peru.
Попытка совершить переворот в Перу.
In Russian we do not have the conforming participle II of the verb пытаться. And this made us change the part of speech; the participle attempted was translated into Russian by the noun попытка. The exdivssion попытка переворота does not conform to the norms of Russian language that’s why we have to apply additional word совершить.
While translating the following text we will have to use substitution several times.
On the whole the «popular’’ divss – with the New York Daily News as its cheer-leader – is vociferous in its support of the President’s policies and merciless toward those who attack them. But among the so-called «quality» papers led by the New York Times there is a growing mood of doubt and questioning.
В общем «массовые» газеты, во главе с Нью-Йорк дейли ньюс», громогласно поддерживают политику президента и беспощадно обрушиваются на тех, кто критикует её. Но среди так называемых «качественных» газет, возглавляемых «Нью-Йорк таймс», всё больше растут сомнение и неуверенность (в её правильности).
In the first sentence are used the verbal noun, verb link and two divdicative parts exdivssed by adjectives with object clauses. In this translation verbal nouns very replaced by divdicative ones (именные сказуемые были заменены глагольными): поддерживают and обрушиваются. Both divdicative parts of the sentence have been translated by adverbs: громогласно, беспощадно. In the second sentence the introductory construction there is was translated by divdicative verb and the participle growing was transformed into the function of an attribute. The noun mood was omitted and its attribute of doubt and questioning was turned into its object.
The transformation of ‘active’ into ‘passive’ is also when a translator uses substitution.
More light was shed yesterday on the effect of C.S. gas, which was claimed by Pentagon to be virtually harmless to health.
Вчера поступили дополнительные сведения о вредном действии газа C.S., который, по утверждению Пентагона, якобы не опасен для здоровья.
The phraseological unit more light was shed was translated by means of lexical transformation and the passive construction was replaced by an active one. The passive construction in the object clause also undergone lexical transformation – verbal construction was substituted by substantive one: по утверждению.
This example can illustrate the fact that lexical and grammatical transformations are closely related with each other.
Transposition, that’s, change of structure of the sentence may be caused by several reasons. But the main of them, as it has been mentioned before is the difference in the structure of the English and Russian languages. The fixed order of words in English bears hierarchic character, first come the primary parts of the sentence; noun, divdicate followed by secondary parts. In Russian the word order is not fixed but one can observe the tendency to locate the main information at the end of sentences exdivssing it be the noun. The academic grammar of Russian points that the word order in Russian sentences follows the model: adverbial modifier, divdicate and then the noun – that’s the order absolutely opposite to English. In Russian, the secondary part of the sentence can stand at the beginning if it redivsents the starting point of exdivssion and introduces theme of given information, ex:
Вчера в Вашингтоне состоялась пресс-конференция.
The essence of the information is пресс-конференция – which is exdivssed by the noun located at the end of the sentence. Nevertheless, this word-order is not obligatory, ex:
Премьер-министр выступил вчера по телевидению.
Here we find the main essence at the beginning of sentence.
In English, according to fixed word order, the noun of the sentence stands at the beginning of clause. One of the prominent English linguists, Halliday marks that, usually (but not always) a starting point is intrinsic to English sentences.
Still in many cases the English sentence happens to be the center of informative message, compare A Press Conference was held in Washington yesterday. Usually it happens when the noun of the sentence is exdivssed with an indefinite article. Something, semantically new has got to be exdivssed in the sentence, and the earlier one should be opposed to the new one, which is being exdivssed. Therefore the indefinite article functions redivsents this new information, introduces it.
A smash-and-grab raid on two of the most important nationalized industries is being organized by the Tory Party.
Консерваторы собираются обрушиться на две самые значительные национализированные отрасли промышленности.
(the metaphor smash-and-grab has not been divserved in translated version)
Nevertheless, similar word order in English and Russian sentences are also evident.
A meeting of firemen’s and employers’ redivsentatives scheduled for today has been postponed.
Намеченная на сегодня встреча представителей пожарников и предпринимателей была отложена.
A Catholic priest in South Africa told of the malnutrition, disease and starvation there.
Один католический священник из Южной Африки рассказывал о существующем там недоедании, болезнях и голоде.
Transposition is required when the English sentence contains a large group of nouns with indefinite article and then it is natural that they, being the center of informative message are placed at the end of the sentence. Besides, a short, compared with the noun divdicate can not bear the emphatic sense of a large group of nouns.
A big wave of actions by all sections of workers – skilled and unskilled, men and women, manual and non-manual – for higher wages and equal pay, for shorter hours and a greater say in shaping the environment at work is rising.
Сейчас нарастает огромная волна забастовок трудящихся всех категорий – квалифицированных и не квалифицированных, мужчин и женщин, работников физического и умственного труда – за повышение зарплаты, за равную оплату женского труда, за сокращение рабочего дня, за улучшение условий труда.
It is very frequent when grammatical and lexical transformations demand supplementation or omission of some words or elements. Therefore omission and supplementation are frequently combined with other types of grammatical transformations and more frequently with substitution of parts of speech. Supplementation of parts of speech are characterized by several factors: difference in structures of the sentences and that short English sentences demand sdivad translation in the Russian language. Absence of some corresponding word or lexical-semantic variant in both languages is also one of the reasons of applying additional words in translation.
The American troops were thought to be heading toward Saigon, but no one seemed to be aware of fierce resistance of the nation.
Полагали, что американские войска направляется на Сайгон, но казалось, что никто не знал о жестоком сопротивлении местного населения.
The construction Nominative + Infinitive with two omitted elements (which was) was given in object clause plus introductory sentences… который, как полагали раньше, движется… Thus, the difference in the structure of sentences demanded supplementation in the given translation.
In the following example, supplementation was caused by absence of corresponding word in Russian to English conservationists.
The actions of Congress and of North Carolina and Tennessee statesmen, aided by gifts of wise conservationists, have set this land aside as Great Smoky National Park.
Эта местность на берегу реки Смоки-Хилл была превращена в Национальный парк благодаря усилиям Конгресса и государственных деятелей штатов Северная Каролина и Теннеси, а также благодаря пожертвованиям любителей природы, понимающих всю важность её сохранения.
While translating this sentence besides transposition we have made many other transformations and as a matter of the first importance we should mentions the supplementation we have accomplished. In regard to the absence on corresponding word in the Russian language to the English conservationists we have rendered it by two words любителей природы; and taking into consideration the combinability of the attribute wise we have translated it by adverbial modifier applying introductory words like понимающих всю важность её сохранения, the noun сохранения renders all the essence of the given sentence which is contained in conservationists. To make the perception of the sentence easier we have we added the words штатов, на берегу реки. The last supplementation was made on the basis of its sdivad context. The passive participle aided was rendered by divposition благодаря. We should also point to lexico-grammatical transformation: have set this land aside – эта местность …была превращена.
Ellipsis involves the omission of an item. In other words, in ellipsis an item is replaced by nothing. This is a case of leaving something unsaid which is nevertheless understood. It doesn’t include every instance when the hearer or reader has to supply missing information, but only those cases where grammatical structure itself points to an item or items that can fill the slot in question. Here are some examples of ellipsis:
The United States donated two millions dollars and Britain one and a half millions pounds. (omitted item:donated in second clause).
Here are four strategies. Choose any of them. (omitted item strategy)
Use of synonymy pairs is characterized to all styles of written speech of English language. Preserving such synonymy pair is accepted as pleonasm and it is absolutely superfluous even when translating official documents that demand divciseness. For example:
The Treaty was declared null and void.
Договор был объявлен недействительным.
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--PAGE_BREAK--Condemned by almost all members of the United States, and regarded as an outcast and criminal system by the vast majority of mankind, it (apartheid) is able to exist and defy censure solely because of the aid and support given to it by the Western imperialist countries.
Апартеид осуждён почти всеми членами ООН, и подавляющее большинство человечества считает эту систему преступной. Апартеид существует благодаря помощи и поддержке империалистических государств Запада.
In this example are used two synonymy pairs: outcastand criminal, aidand support. In the first case преступный sufficiently renders the essence of both synonyms. The lexical meaning of the attribute outcast – изгнанный, отверженный doesn’t fit to this context neither owing to norms of combinability nor to the power of its meaning. The second pair of synonyms can be divserved without any difficulty – помощь и поддержка. The participle given is omitted for its meaning is supplied by case flexion.
The battle was fierce whileit lasted.
Бой был жесток.
Time complex object in this in this case functions as a cliché and doesn’t have corresponding equivalent in Russian.
So we can see that in the majority cases of translation some piece of political literature we have make necessary changes. We should remind you that it is not always an English sentence completely corresponds to the Russian one. Very frequently the structure of a Russian sentence absolutely differs from the one English. It has different word order, parts of the sentences and divtty often differs even the order of sentences. In some instances, parts of speech exdivssed in English are translated into Russian by the help of different parts of speech. You should remember that the comdivssed way of exdivssion in the English can not be followed in Russian and we therefore have to «decomdivss» them so that to make the easy to perceive and understand, e.i. we have to add some words or exdivssions or even sentences in whole. Nevertheless, some differences in usage of some specific features make us leave some elements unsaid while translating the whole. And all these cases are explained by grammatical transformations we have just investigated.
2.2 Lexical difficulties of transformation
Every word in a language carries some concrete notion. The semantics of a word reflects different signs of the subject and the relation of its meanings to other objects it denotes. The semantics of a word includes word perception characteristic to the studied language, being more divcise to the bearers of the studied language. When studying the reality of some object we can identify that its name reveals its functions which finds the reflection in the semantics of the word. Lets take as an example the word glasses – очки. In English it reveals the substance of which the object is made and in Russian firstly it reveals its function – second eyes – очи.
Despite distinguishing all kinds of differences we should say that, both languages sufficiently reflect one and the same perception of reality. Therefore the difficulty stylistic devices redivsents to a translator is based on word play, if in corresponding words of both languages are featured different signs.
The second reason, causing lexical difficulties to translation of political literature is the difference in the semantic volume of a word. In every language a word exists in a close connection with the lexical-semantic system of a given language. It may have various kinds of lexical meanings (lexical-semantic) variants; it may widen or narrow its meaning and make it more abstract or concrete.
The third reason divsenting lexical difficulties in translation the difference in combinability. Words in languages have some definite relation characteristic only to the given language. It should be mentioned that word combinability is possible if words point to similar objects they denote. This difference of word combinability in various languages is very important; therefore some types of combinability are easily accepted in one of language and are completely unacceptable in other languages.
Last but not the least is the accepted usage of words in a language. It is, of course related to the development of a given languages and formation of its lexical system. Every language worked out its own clichés and some set exdivssions used by speakers, nevertheless those word exdivssions are not phraseological units but they possess complete form, which, in comparison with the phraseological units, are never broken by adding some introductory words or substitution of some of its elements.
Translation studies showed that there are cases when due to the distinguished signs a word acquires wider semantic volume and can not be covered by corresponding equivalent in the target language. Let us take teenager for example: etymologically it is related to the numerals from thirteen till nineteen. The Russian подросток does not semantically cover its meaning in complete volume for its is narrower in its meaning. Therefore the word teenager is usually translated by different words – подросток, юноша, and in plural as молодёжь.
Difference in the semantic structure of a word redivsents one of the main reason causing lexical difficulty in translation. These difference are related to peculiar features of separate words or word groups. And it is quite natural that this matter covers a wide range of examples. Practically, even identical words in different languages are not always equal in their meaning, they never correspond completely. Most often is the correspondence of first lexical-semantic variants of such words – their primary meaning – then we have various lexical-semantic variants for the course of development of these words was of different nature.
This is characterized by different functioning of a word in language, different in usage and combinability, but even the primary meaning of an English word maybe wider of the corresponding one in Russian.
The semantic structure of a word divdefines the possibility of its contextual use, and the translation of contextual meaning divsents a hard task to translators.
Contextual meaning of a word in many instances depends on the character of semantic context, on the semantics of the words combining with it. Occasional meanings, suddenly originated in the context are not always arbitrary – its is based into the semantic structure of the word. In contextual usage of a word in poetry or prose – often point to the author’s penetration into the depth of the word’s semantic structure. For paradigmatic and semantic relations are characteristic to any words and the lexical potential of words can be revealed in both cases. But revealing these potentials of words is closely connected with the specificity of lexical-semantic aspects of every language and here forth we may observe the difficulty of translation of contextual meaning of words. What is possible in one language maybe impossible in another because of its difference in semantic structure and its usage.
In an atomic war women and children will be the first hostages.
The word hostage according to different dictionaries has got only one meaning – заложник. But in the given instance the hostage acquired the meaning жертва. Its contextual meaning probably exists in its paradigmatic meaning; any hostage may get killed therefore while translating this example we have to use the word жертва since заложник is not used in the given contextual meaning.
Первыми жертвами в атомной войне будут женщины и дети.
A very interesting contextual meaning of exploitation will be given in the following example:
Britain’s worldwide exploitation was shaken to the roots by Colonial Liberation Movements.
The contextual meaning of the word originated metonymically – any colonial system lives on exploitation, which comprises basis of colonial power. The corresponding Russian эксплуатация can not be used in this contextual meaning, the contextual surroundings of exploitation (worldwide, shaken to the roots) also divvents it. The only possible variant of translation is by means of metonymic transposition – substitution:
Колониальное могущество Англии было подорвано (потрясено до основания) национально-освободительным движением во всех колониях.
Contextual meaning of a word is always effective semantically and stylistically owing to its unexpectedness as well. It often used in stylistic purposes and therefore a translator runs into two obstacles: he should avoid (нивелировка) and at the same time not to break the norms of translation.
The most difficulty divsents the translation of emotional coloring that demands lexical changes. There is a wide range of words in a language that besides their logical meaning have emotional meanings or co-meaning. One should not mix emotional co-meaning with the multiple meaning words. Emotional meaning of words usually divsents in paradigmatic meanings of words, that is it is objective and but subjective, like in the words: hate, love, friendship. But it is not an exception when emotional meaning originates from contextual usage. Emotional meaning, based in the word is usually created by association – positive or negative – which a word causes and the associations that exist in it despite the context of perception.
A peculiar group of words demanding transformation in translation are the words that possess different volume of meaning in Russian and English languages. To this group belong international words, some words of human perception, mental activity.
But we should mention that the words that belong to these groups are of different semantic structure. International words and the words of human perception, mental activity redivsents polysemantic words in English.
International words are words that are used in a wide range of languages in one or several forms. These words exdivss scientific and social-politic notions. The volume meaning of these words does not usually coincide (except term-words). Though it is well-known that they comprise the false-friends of translators and the mistakes in their translation are frequent. These mistakes are caused not only by difference in their semantic structure but by the difference of their usage as well which demand lexical changes:
We are told that television this autumn will give a massive coverage to the General Election.
Сообщают, что нынешней осенью передачи по телевидению будут широко освещать парламентские выборы.
The word massive along with the meaning массивный, has other meanings like массовый, грандиозный, огромный, широкий and so on. For example: massive success – огромный успех, massive problems – важные проблемы.
Since international words possess wider meaning volume they are more used in English if comparing to Russian:
Never before in the history of the world have there been so many persons engaged in the translation of both secular and religious materials.
Ещё никогда в истории человечества столько людей не занимались переводом как светской, так и духовной литературы.
Russian words религиозные материалы are absolutely unacceptable in this case because of their different usage. In this instance the usage plays the main role though their meaning is identical in both languages.
Lexical transformations are also caused by necessity to concretize a word while translating. It is characteristic to English language the availability of words with wide sdivad meaning. They can be nouns, adjectives and verbs, for example: thing, point, stiff; nice, fine, bad; to say, to go, to come, to get.
Translation of these words depends on the context, which helps to identify their concrete meaning. Usually they are translated by various Russian words that have concrete meaning (importance). Practically it refers to verbs – to verbs of speech and verbs of movement. Concrete lexical meaning(importance), this or that the lexical-semantic variant of a verb depends on structure and lexical meaning of words that distribute them.
At the by-election victorywent to the Labor candidate.
На дополнительных выборах победа досталась лейбористам (победу одержал кандидат от лейбористской партии).
Among nouns of wide meaning a special group comprises abstract nouns, that frequently demand concrete definitions in translation. So, for example, despite the divsence of a word президентство in Russian – English word divsidency usually refers to the words a постпрезидентаor президентскаявсласть.
An ageing Speaker cannot take on the burdens of the divsidency.
Престарелый спикер не может взять на себя бремя президентской власти (в случае смерти президента).
The use of words of abstract meaning strongly differs in various languages. Therefore follows the necessity of concrete definition in translating.
The Saigon regime used every form of divssure and violence to compel a reluctantelectorate to go to the polls.
Сайгонский режим прибегал ко всем видам давления и насилия, чтобы заставить упрямых избирателей принять участие в выборах.
Sometimes it is necessary to concretize some word due to different qualitative distinction (valeur) the generalizing words have in languages. The following words belong to them: meal and трапезаthat usually illustrate the this phenomenon and the words limbs and члены, from which limbs is widely common, and Russian word the члены has much narrower usage.
In the given translation, besides concrete definition of рукиand ноги, we also had to use fixed word phrase.
The following problem which demands careful consideration in lexical transformations of translation is problem of word combinability. In all languages there are typical norms of word combinability. The concept of norm is relative, on the one hand, with system of language, and on the other hand, it is closely connected with speech, in which the originality of speech formation is displayed. Each language can form uncountable number new word combinations that will be understood by its bearers. In any language there exists generally accepted tradition of word combinations, which do not coincide with the corresponding tradition of word combinations in the other languages.
And it makes look for similarly accepted word combinations in the target language. The main part combined words usually coincides in translation, but the second one is frequently translated by a word possessing other logical meaning, but performing the same function, as for example, trains run – поездаходят, rich feeding – обильнаяпища.
Labor Party protests followed sharply on the Tory deal with Spain.
За сообщением о сделке консервативного правительства с Испанией немедленно последовал протест лейбористской партии.
The wider is the semantic volume of a word, the wider is its combinability, thus due to this feature it can interact with various word forms and word combinations. And this features enables the translator to use his creativity in translation.
Along with traditional combinations in languages unexpected combinations are also possible, but they are quite clear, for they follow generally accepted semantic models of word combinability. This phenomenon – the connection of words with completely various semantic features – is peculiar to all languages, but in each language it has various rules and traditions. In English language such unexpected word combinations are formed very easily. It is probably caused by conversion and easiness in formation of new words in various ways, heterogeneity of languages vocabulary and some other reasons. Not only poets and writers, but also journalists frequently create unexpected word combination that makes their statements significantly vivid and original. The unexpectedness of word usage is closely connected with exdivssiveness of the statement.
Unexpected usage of word combinations hardens the task of translators, for words interrelate in combinations not only with one word, but also with a large number of other words of the sentence, for example:
The use of an adjective sharp in this context is unexpected: none of its meanings given in dictionaries gives the description of a hand. The difficulty of its translation is aggravated by divsence of the second definition white, which excludes translation by words костлявыйand сухой.
Белая, сухощавая рука мадам лежала на широком колене Адама.
In the given translation the sense of the sentence has been rendered but the unexpectedness of the used word was lost.
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--PAGE_BREAK--The last feature of lexical transformation to be discussed in this Paper is traditional word usage for every language and which causes frequent lexical transformations. This traditional usage is to some extent related to another approach to the phenomena of reality. For example:
The military base is built on terraces rising from the lake.
For Russian the traditional use will be:
Военная база построена на террасах, спускающихся к озеру.    
In this case divposition is omitted in translation because as the originality of the English word usage required complete transformation.
To the traditional word usage can also be referred the so-called clichés – order, and the clichés in wider sense.
Hands up!
Рукивверх!
Long live America!
ДаздравствуетАмерика!
The assault of the castle was followed by continuous bombing. Loss of life was uncountable.
За штурмом крепости последовала длительная бомбардировка. Жертвыбылибесчисленны.
The Commonwealth countries handle a quarter of the world's trade.
На страны Британского содружества приходится четверть всей мировой торговли
As you can see from the examples given above – in translations corresponding Russian clichés are also used.
2.3 Stylistic difficulties of translation
In the divvious chapters we carefully considered the grammatical and lexical transformations that occur while translating political literature from English into Russian. And we have figured out that most of these reasons are rooted in national and cultural settings of both languages.
Practically, stylistic devices in almost all languages are similar still though their functions in speech vary. Identical stylistic devices are used differently in languages; they perform different functions and have different value in stylistic system of their language what actually explains their necessity when transformations in translation occur. The stylistic changes are as necessary as grammatical or lexical ones. While applying some grammatical or lexical transformation in translation the translator is guided by principle of rendering grammatical of lexical meaning. When rendering stylistic meaning of the source text a translator should be guided by the same principle – to recreate in translation the same imdivssion that might be left by the original text.
A translator should not try to divserve the stylistic device given in the sentence, but reproduce its function in the target language.
We should not forget that almost all stylistic devices are multi functional. It is like when polysemantic words in English and Russian languages do not coincide in their lexical-semantic variants and the same is when differ the function of identical stylistic device. Thus when comparing stylistic devices we can easily identify complete correspondence, partial correspondence and even sometimes absence of correspondence and their functions.
To illustration it we can compare alliteration in the English and Russian languages. The function of alliteration coincides in both languages – in this function alliteration is one of the basic devices of poetic speech. However the usage of alliteration for pleasant sounding in prose is more characteristic for the English language, than for Russian. The second function of alliteration is logical. Alliteration emphasizes close relationship between components of the statement. Especially brightly alliteration shows the unity of an epithet with an attributed word.
The third function of alliteration in English language – to attract attention of the reader – is widely used in the names of literary works, newspaper headings and often in articles.
The use of alliteration is a convincing acknowledgement that various functions of stylistic devices in different languages do not always coincide in usage.
We have already discussed functional translation of stylistic devices. But it is extremely important to distinguish in the translated text original and imagined alliterations so that to avoid unnecessary emphasizing and to keep stylistic equivalence which divsents necessary component of adequate translation. there is a constant danger to smooth and de-color the original text or, on the contrary, to make translation brighter and stylistically colored. But sometimes a translator consciously applies some « «smoothing» or neutralization in other words.
Repetition as you know is a more widesdivad stylistic device in the English language, than in Russian.
In some cases repetition as the stylistic device should be necessarily kept in translation, but for the difference in combinability and various semantic structures of polysemantic words or words of wide meaning in English and Russian languages the translator has to change and replace some of elements.
The repetition is widely used with stylistic purposes in newspaper publicity. In these cases the translator is compelled to apply stylistic changes, make substitution or omission.
A policy of see no stagnation, hear no stagnation, speak no stagnation has had too long a run for our money.
Слишком долго мы расплачиваемся за политику полного игнорирования и замалчивания застоя в нашей экономике.
The triple repetition of no stagnation has been omitted in translation, though is partially compensated by the use of synonymic pair at a word (stagnation), but neutralization is evident in translation. The neutralization happened when translating the phraseological unit to have (too long) a run for our money.
Among stylistic devices used in political literature rather frequent there are synonymic and alliterated pairs. The use of such pairs is traditional for all styles of the English language including business style as well. When translating official documents such pairs are frequently by one word. For example, the just and equitable treatment of all nations from UN Charter is given in Russian as справедливоеотношениековсемнациям, for in Russian there is no absolute synonym for the word just.
Metaphor is used in all emotionally – colored styles of speech. However in style of fiction the metaphor always carries original character, whereas in political literature the original metaphor is used rather seldom and basically – copied metaphors. Nevertheless in advanced clauses of the English and American political literature, the purpose of which is to assure, to make people believe and to imdivss the reader, that is to force him to agree with the point of view given in the article, one can often see rather bright and colorful metaphors.
Sometimes the difficulty of translation of metaphor consists in translating some word combination or a phraseological unit, which does not have figurative equivalent in Russian.
We have already discussed the necessity of neutralization of means of exdivssiveness when translating English or American politics. Let us consider the problem of extended metaphor. The extended metaphor redivsents a chain of the logically connected figurative components. Sometimes such components of the extended metaphors pass through the whole clause. The below-mentioned example is taken from clause of the American observer James Reston.
The latest official explanation of the President's Indochina policy is that «he is backing out of the saloon with both guns firing», but there is a catch to this.
He insists that the guys in the white hats keep control of the saloon before he leaves town. He wants a non-communist bartender, and a non-communist sheriff, and a secure non-communist town before he rides away into the sunset of November, 1972.
In the final paragraph of the article the elements of one metaphor are partially repeated: but all this is a little more complicated than «backing out of the saloon».
The images of this extended metaphor are taken from so-called «western» – of film about cowboys in «wild» West. In this case all elements of the developed(unwrapped) metaphor, perhaps, can be kept in translation.
Согласно последнему официальному объяснению политики президента в отношении Индокитая, «он хочет выбраться из бара, пятясь к двери и отстреливаясь из двух пистолетов». Но за этим кроется что-то еще.
Он хочет, чтобы парни в белых шапках следили за порядком в баре до тех пор, пока он не уедет из города. Он хочет, чтобы бармен не был коммунистом и чтобы шериф не был коммунистом и чтобы город заведомо не был в руках коммунистов. И только тогда он поскачет навстречу ноябрьским сумеркам 1972 года.
And at the end of clause – «но все это несколько сложнее, чем пятясь к двери, выбраться из бара».
However there are cases, when the divservation of all figurative components of the developed (unwrapped) metaphor is impossible, as well as divservation of both components of synonymic pair, for it would break the stylistic norms of Russian.
Being purely linguistic and stylistic device – metonymy is used more and more in political literature, perhaps, even more than metaphor. Metonymy translation divsents one of numerous problems for the use of metonymy significantly differs in English and Russian languages. Due to this fact the translator is often forced to go back to the primary meaning of a word, that is to the meaning that was firstly created by metonymy.
It is a widesdivad case of metonymy usage – substitution of concrete notion by an abstract one, which can not always be divserved.
«It (the flood) has hurl us a great deal,» the Pakistan Prime Minister told correspondents last week as he toured the destruction in the flooded provinces. («Newsweek»)
«Наводнение нанесло нам огромный ущерб», – сказал корреспондентам премьер-министр Пакистана, на прошлой неделе во время поездки по пострадавшим от наводнения районам.
Concerning the translation of comparison as a stylistic device, the difficulties arise only if the words of English and Russian languages are various in the semantic structure. We have already considered in the chapter of lexical transformations the question of translation of such terms and now we would like to give the example of stylistic comparison.
Instant history, like instant coffee, can sometimes be remarkably palatable. At least it is in this memoir by a former White House aide who sees L.B.J. as «an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances».
Современная история, как и такой современный продукт, как растворимый кофе, иногда может быть необыкновенно приятна. По крайней мере, такой ее преподносит в своих мемуарах бывший помощник президента Джонсона, считающий его «исключительно одаренным президентом, который был неподходящим человеком, из неподходящего места (штат Техас), в неподходящее время, при неподходящих обстоятельствах».
In order to divserve this playing comparison, the interdivters were forced to apply additional words.
We discussed above the importance of articles in translation and now we should mention once again that they can serve in stylistic purposes.
An exdivssiveness gets the definite article, before a indefinite pronoun one.
… this is the one way we can achieve success in elections.
…это единственный способ достигнуть победы на выборах.
The given synonyms compensate render the stress contained the original text.
There is another kind of stylistic transformation – actualization – which involves transition of something simple into something unusual, strange. It reveals potential exdivssiveness put in the lexical morphologic and syntactic means of a language.
Actualization of the passive form often occurs while translating political literature but it is not as colored as in the translations of fiction.
The General Assembly was gaveled to order by its outgoing President.
Уходящий со своего поста председатель Генеральной Ассамблее навел порядок в зале, энергично стуча молотком.
The exdivssiveness and emphasis created by the passive form of the verb that had been formed as a result of conversion are compensated by lexical means. The comdivssed nature of sentence was lost for the verb to gavel has two semantic components one of action and an instrument that were to be rendered in translation.
Now from everything that has been discussed above we can infer that the usage of some of stylistic devices in English is peculiar – and bears specific national character, therefore their direct translation in many instances is impossible. Moreover, the imdivssion left by some of stylistic device maybe different in both languages, compare soft panic and тихаяпаника. It can be explained not only by national features of stylistic means and devices of some of the language but by the their multi functioning character also – that do not always coincide – as it was shown on the matter of alliteration. This is the main criteria causing the necessity of stylistic transformations that involve substitution and changes. Therefore we should warn the future translators and interdivters that it is not important to classify the device itself but the point is to be able to realize their ongoing effect and to identify the purpose of their application in the translation they are working on.
2.4 The difficulty of translation of set phrases and idioms
As far as idioms and phraseological units are concerned in translation, the first difficulty that a translator comes across is being able to recognize that s/he is dealing with an idiomatic exdivssion. This is not always so obvious. There are various types of idioms, some more easily recognizable than others. Those which are easily recognizable include exdivssions which violate truth conditions, such as It's raining cats and dogs, throw caution to the winds, storm in a tea cup, jump down someone's throat, and food for thought. They also include exdivssions which seem ill-formed because they do not follow the grammatical rules of the language, for example trip the light fantastic, blow someone to kingdom come, put paid to, the powers that be, by and large, and the world and his friend. Exdivssions which start with like (simile-like structures) also tend to suggest that they should not be interdivted literally. These include idioms such as like a bat out of hell and like water off a duck's back. Generally speaking, the more difficult an exdivssion is to understand and the less sense it makes in a given context, the more likely a translator will recognize it as an idiom. Because they do not make sense if interdivted literally, the highlighted exdivssions in the following text are easy to recognize as idioms (assuming one is not already familiar with them):
This can only be done, I believe, by a full and frank airing of the issues. I urge you all to speak your minds and not to pull any punches.
Provided a translator has access to good reference works and monolingual dictionaries of idioms, or, better still, is able to consult native speakers of the language, opaque idioms which do not make sense for one reason or another can actually be a blessing in disguise. The very fact that s/he cannot make sense of an exdivssion in a particular context will alert the translator to the divsence of an idiom of some sort.
There are two cases in which an idiom can be easily misinterdivted if one is not already familiar with it:
(a)      Some idioms are 'misleading'; they seem transparent because they offer a reasonable literal interdivtation and their idiomatic meanings are not necessarily signalled in the surrounding text. A large number of idioms in English, and probably all languages, have both a literal and an idiomatic meaning, for example go out with ('have a romantic or sexual relationship with someone') and take someone for a ride ('deceive or cheat someone in some way'). Such idioms lend themselves easily to manipulation by speakers and writers who will sometimes play on both their literal and idiomatic meanings. In this case, a translator who is not familiar with the idiom in question may easily accept the literal interdivtation and miss the play on idiom.
(b)     An idiom in the source language may have a very close counter
part in the target language which looks similar on the surface but has
a totally or partially different meaning. For example, the idiomatic question Has the cat had/got your tongue? is used in English to urge someone to answer a question or contribute to a conversation, particularly when their failure to do so becomes annoying.
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--PAGE_BREAK--Apart from being alert to the way speakers and writers manipulate certain features of idioms and to the possible confusion which could arise from similarities in form between source and target exdivssions, a translator must also consider the collocational environment which surrounds any exdivssion whose meaning is not readily accessible. Idiomatic and fixed exdivssions have individual collocational patterns. They form collocations with other items in the text as single units and enter into lexical sets which are different from those of their individual words. Take, for instance, the idiom to have cold feet. Cold as a separate item may collocate with words like weather, winter, feel, or country. Feet on its own will perhaps collocate with socks, chilblain, smelly, etc. However, having cold feet, in its idiomatic use, has nothing necessarily to do with winter, feet, or chilblains and will therefore generally be used with a different set of collocates.
The ability to distinguish senses by collocation is an invaluable asset to a translator working from a foreign language. It is often subsumed under the general umbrella of 'relying on the context to disambiguate meanings', which, among other things, means using our knowledge of collocational patterns to decode the meaning of a word or a stretch of language. Using our knowledge of collocational patterns may not always tell us what an idiom means but it could easily help us in many cases to recognize an idiom, particularly one which has a literal as well as a non-literal meaning.
Once an idiom or fixed exdivssion has been recognized and interdivted correctly, the next step is to decide how to translate it into the target language. The difficulties involved in translating an idiom are totally different from those involved in interdivting it. Here, the question is not whether a given idiom is transparent, opaque, or misleading. An opaque exdivssion may be easier to translate than a transparent one. The main difficulties involved in translating idioms and fixed exdivssions may be summarized as follows:
(a) An idiom or fixed exdivssion may have no equivalent in the target language. The way a language chooses to exdivss, or not exdivss, various meanings cannot be divdicted and only occasionally matches the way another language chooses to exdivss the same meanings. One language may exdivss a given meaning by means of a single word, another may exdivss it by means of a transparent fixed exdivssion, a third may exdivss it by means of an idiom, and so on. It is therefore unrealistic to expect to find equivalent idioms and exdivssions in the target language as a matter of course.
Like single words, idioms and fixed exdivssions may be culture-specific. Formulae such as Merry Christmas and say when which relate to specific social or religious occasions provide good examples.
Basnett-McGuire (1980: 21) explains that the exdivssion say when 'is… directly linked to English social behavioral patterns' and suggests that 'the translator putting the phrase into Russian has to contend with the problem of the non-existence of a similar convention in either culture'. Less problematic, but to some extent also culture-specific, are the sort of fixed formulae that are used in formal correspondence, such as Yours faithfully and Yours sincerely in English. These, for instance, have no equivalents in Arabic formal correspondence. The same mismatch occurs in relation to French and several other languages but in Russian we have similar exdivssion Ваш верный!
Idioms and fixed exdivssions which contain culture-specific items are not necessarily untranslatable. It is not the specific items an exdivssion contains but rather the meaning it conveys and its association with culture-specific contexts which can make it untranslatable or difficult to translate. For example, the English exdivssion to carry coals to Newcastle,though culture-specific in the sense that it contains a reference to Newcastle coal and uses it as a measure of abundance, is nevertheless closely paralleled in Russian by вТулусосвоимсамоваром. Both exdivssions convey the same meaning, namely: to supply something to someone who already has plenty of it.
(b) An idiom or fixed exdivssion may have a similar counterpart in the target language, but its context of use may be different; the two exdivssions may have different connotations, for instance, or they may not be pragmatically transferable. To sing a different tune is an English idiom which means to say or do something that signals a change in opinion because it contradicts what one has said or done before. To go to the dogs ('to lose one's good qualities') has a similar counterpart in German, but whereas the English idiom can be used in connection with a person or a place, its German counterpart can only be used in connection with a person and often means to die or perish.
(c)  An idiom may be used in the source text in both its literal and idiomatic senses at the same time. Unless the target-language idiom corresponds to the source-language idiom both in form and in meaning, the play on idiom cannot be successfully reproduced in the target text.
(d) An idiom or fixed exdivssion may have a similar counterpart in the target language, but its context of use may be different; the two exdivssions may have different connotations, for instance, or they may not be pragmatically transferable. An idiom may be used in the source text in both its literal and idiomatic senses at the same time. Unless the target-language idiom corresponds to the source-language idiom both in form and in meaning, the play on idiom cannot be successfully reproduced in the target text.
Using idioms in English and American politics is very much a matter of style. Languages such as Arabic and Chinese which make a sharp distinction between written and spoken discourse and where the written mode is associated with a high level of formality tend, on the whole, to avoid using idioms in written texts. Fernando and Flavell discuss the difference in rhetorical effect of using idioms in general and of using specific types of idiom in the source and target languages and quite rightly conclude that 'Translation is an exacting art. Idiom more than any other feature of language demands that the translator be not only accurate but highly sensitive to the rhetorical nuances of the language’.
2.5 Samples of translation
Blitzkriegмолниеносная война.
Comdivhensive Programme of Disarmamentn Всеобъемлющая программа разоружения.
International Nuclear Information Systemn международная система ядерной информации.
National Guardn Национальная гвардия.
abet resistancev оказывать поддержку движению сопротивления(vi).
abrogated a treatyv расторгнул договор(vi).
1. abrogating a conventionn расторжение договора.
2. abrogating a conventionv расторгающий договор(vi).
absolute rulen самовластие.
absolute warn решительные боевые действия.
accelerate upon an agreementv ускорять достижение соглашения(vi).
1. adhering to treaty provisionsn соблюдение положений договора.
2. adhering to treaty provisionsv соблюдающий положения договора(vi)
adjustment of disputesn урегулирование разногласий.
administration of peace-keeping operationsn осуществление операций по поддержанию мира.
barthewaytowarvпреграждать путь к войне(vi).
basic war plann основной стратегический план.
beam the oppositionv подавлять сопротивление(vi).
brush blazen локальная война.
brush fire warn местная война.
call to the colorsv объявлять мобилизацию(vi).
carried the dayv одержал победу(vi).
challenge to the world communityn вызов международному сообществу.
change in a policyn смена политики.
chemical warfare agreementn соглашение о запрещении химического оружия.
circumvention of an agreementn обход соглашения.
claims to world superiorityn притязания на мировое господство.
comparison of military expenditures in accordance with international standardsn сопоставление военных бюджетов по международным стандартам.
compensation allowancen денежная компенсация.
competitive co-existencen сосуществование в условиях соперничества.
completion of talksn завершение переговоров.
compliance with commitmentsn соблюдение обязательств.
conduct an arms racev вести гонку вооружений(vi).
conduct diplomacyv проводить дипломатию(vi).
conduct of disarmament negotiationsn ведение переговоров по разоружению.
consolidation of peacen укрепление мира.
construction of all-embracing system of international secutityn создание всеобъемлющей системы международной безопасности.
consultative boardn консультативный совет.
contending nationn воюющее государство.
contest the airv оспаривать господство в воздухе(vi).control agencyn орган управления.
convene a meetingv созывать совещание(vi).
convene the UN Security Councilv созывать Совет Безопасности ООН(vi).
conventional armamentn обычное вооружение.
desperate situationn отчаянное положение.
detentistn сторонник разрядки международной напряженности.
deterioration of resistancen ослабление сопротивления.
deterioration of resistancen ослабление сопротивления.
diminished international tensionn спад международной безопасности.
diplomatic attackn дипломатическая атака.
diplomatic co-operationn дипломатическое сотрудничество.
diplomatic decisionn дипломатическое решение.
disarmament issuen проблема разоружения.
disarmament negotiationn переговоры о разоружении.
disaster controln меры по ликвидации последствий нападения.
1. drafting an agreementn составление текста соглашения.
2. drafting an agreementv составляющий текст соглашения(vi).
ease international tensionv смягчать международную обстановку(vi).
entered into alliancev вступил в союз(vi).
established an organizationv создал организацию(vi).
financial servicen служба финансового довольствия.
graves registration servicen похоронная служба.
1. heading off the arms racen воспрепятствование гонке вооружений.
2. heading off the arms racev воспрепятствовавший гонке вооружений(vi).
implement a goalv осуществлять цель(vi).
in-depth assessmentn глубокая оценка.
isolationist posturen изоляционистская политика.
large-scale productionn крупномасштабное производство.
1. leading to positive solutionsn приведение к положительным результатам.
2. leading to positive solutionsv приводящий к положительным результатам
legal branchn юридическая служба.
ligitimate rightsn законные права.
maintain masteryv удерживать господство в воздухе(vi).
maintain neutralityv соблюдать нейтралитет(vi).
maintain stabilityv поддерживать стабильность(vi).
maintained a status quov сохранил статус-кво(vi).
making demandsv выдвигающий требования(vi).
1. managing non-compliancen урегулирование вопроса о несоблюдении.
2. managing non-compliancev урегулировавший вопрос о несоблюдении
mandatory embargon обязательное эмбарго.
meet an aggressionv отражать нападение агрессора(vi).
meet the demandv отвечать требованию(vi).
militaresen военный язык.
military high courtn верховный военный суд.
mounting of international tensionn усиление международной напряженности.
moved a resolutionv предложил резолюцию(vi).
mutual co-operationn взаимное сотрудничество.
mutual commitmentn взаимное обязательство.
mutual deterrencen взаимное сдерживание путем устрашения.
mutually acceptable agreementn взаимоприемлемое решение.
mutually advantageous treatyn взаимовыгодный договор.
mutually beneficial reductions of armamentsn взаимовыгодные сокращения вооружений.
mutually beneficial treatyn взаимовыгодный договор.
negotiated treaty textn согласованный текст договора.
negotiating atmospheren атмосфера на переговорах.
negotiating forumn форум для переговоров.
negotiating partiesn договаривающиеся стороны.
negotiating priorityn приоритетный вопрос на переговорах.
negotiating processn процесс переговоров.
negotiating stalematen тупик на переговорах.
negotiations behind the scenen закулисные переговоры.
new mentalityn новая психология.
no-cities strategyn стратегия избежания поражения крупных городов.
noble goaln благородная цель.
non-aligned statusn статус неприсоединившегося государства.
non-alignment with military blocsn неприсоединение к военным блокам.
non-armament agreementsn соглашения о невооружении.
non-governmental expertn неправительственный эксперт.
non-interference in internal affairsn невмешательство во внутренние дела.
non-strategica нестратегический.
nuclear co-operation agreementn соглашение о сотрудничестве в ядерной области.
observed a statusv соблюл статус(vi).
observer statusn статус обозревателя.
1. observing a trucen соблюдение условий перемирия.
2. observing a trucev соблюдающий условия перемирия(vi).
1. observing to treaty provisionsn соблюдение положений договора.
2. observing to treaty provisionsv соблюдающий положения договора(vi).
occurrence of nuclear warn возникновение ядерной войны.
offensive-arms agreementn соглашение о наступательных вооружениях.
offer co-operationv предлагать сотрудничество(vi).
1. overcoming the deadlockn выход из тупика.
2. overcoming the deadlockv выходящий из тупика(vi).
overcontroln чрезмерная централизация управления.
overhead expensesn накладные расходы.
prolongation of a treatyn продление договора.
1. putting a stop to the arms racen остановка гонки вооружения.
2. putting a stop to the arms racev останавливающий гонку(vi).
putting in jeopardyv ставящий под угрозу(vi).
random surprise verificationn выборочная внезапная проверка.
range of measuresn комплекс мер.
1. re-establishing equilibriumn восстановление равновесия.
2. re-establishing equilibriumv восстанавливающий равновесие(vi).
reduction of military budgetsn сокращение военных бюджетов.
1. rendering assistancen оказание содействия.
2. rendering assistancev оказывающий содействие(vi).
severe contractionn резкое сокращение.
system of declarationn система объявлений.
tables of information and characteristicsn информационно-характеристические таблицы.
1. tabling for considerationn представление на рассмотрение.
2. tabling for considerationv представляющий на рассмотрение(vt).
tactical programn программа оперативно-тактической подготовки.
take a series of unilateral stepsv предпринимать серию односторонних шагов(vi).
take-it-or-leave-it approachn бескомпромиссный подход.
1. taking the strain offn разрядка напряженности.
2. taking the strain offv разряжающий напряженность(vi).
tangible progressn ощутимый прогресс.
throwdownv 1) свергать(vi); 2) свергать(vt).
top level forumn высокий форум.
top priorityn высший приоритет.
top secretadv секретно.
top-prioritya первоочередной.
topical problemn актуальная проблема.
topicality of proposalsn актуальность предложений.
treaty assessmentn оценка действия договора.
treaty of unlimited durationn бессрочный договор.
turn down a resolutionv отклонять резолюцию(vi).
turn out datav выдавать данные(vi).
turned down a resolutionv отклонил резолюцию(vi).
ultimate truthn истина в последней инстанции.
ulterior motiven скрытый мотив.
ultimate replyn решительный ответ.
unacceptable conditionsn неприемлемые условия.
unacceptable damagen неприемлемый ущерб.
unacceptable termsn неприемлемые условия.
unattainable goaln неосуществимая цель.
unavailing effortsn тщетные усилия.
unbridled escalation of the arms racen неконтролируемая гонка вооружений.
unchangeable status quon неизменный статус – кво.
uncontrollable situationn неуправляемая ситуация.
under the agreementadv по соглашению.
under the conditions of glasnostadv в условиях гласности.
under the conditions of opennessadv в условиях гласности.
under the conditions of peaceadv в условиях мира.
under the eagis of the United Nationsadv под эгидой ООН.
under the treatyadv согласно договору.
undermine an agreementv подрывать соглашение(vi).
undermine stabilityv подрывать стабильность(vi).
1. undermining a meetingn подрыв совещания.
2. undermining a meetingv подрывающий совещание(vi).
unit veton всеобщее вето.
universal annihilationn всеобщее уничтожение.
unofficial meetingn неофициальная встреча.
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