Сопоставление сочетания «to bе + инфинитив» в различных функциях

9. Переведите предложения, предварительно определив функцию сочетания „to be + инфинитив".

1. The opposite view is to deny any philosophic relevance to literature.

2. A series of events took place which within a few years was to work a transformation in the island kingdom.

^l5 so far as... is concerned — постольку, поскольку речь идет о...

¹⁶ В. С. (Before Christ) — до нашей эры.

3. These tales lack the artistic beauty of expression and of imagery which are to be found everywhere in his greater poems.

4. A second, not contradictory approach, is to study the sum of individual traits by which this system differs from comparable systems.

5. The change which was to come over English poetry, and the new style which was to dominate that poetry for more than a century, owes its inception to this great poet.

6. Dickens was for a time editor of the London and Westminster Review, and his purely literary efforts in the essay are not to be ignored.

7. With the longer poems (of Shelley) went a brilliant cascade of shorter lyrical pieces. To name them is to mention some of the sweetest English lyrics.

8. The aim of the dialectical method is to enable us logically and consistently to express the real interconnection and motion of things.

9. The mural paintings are by no means to be found in all the caves inhabited during the Glacial Epoch.

10. The great achievement in the cultural field was the creation of a department of archaeology, whose function it was to preserve the monuments of Indian art and by excavations, to discover more of them.

11. This serious problem is not to be disposed of so lightly.

10. При переводе обратите внимание на сочетания модального глагола с инфинитивом.

1. The process of creating a language must have been a very slow and painful one, stretching out over thousands, perhaps millions of years.

2. Actually tools of this kind may have served a number of purposes, like the sailor's pocket-knife.

3. Now the cave differs little from how it must have looked in 1947 when it was first discovered.

4. It is easy to understand that the geologic events of the Glacial Epoch should have had far-reaching effects upon the earth's surface.

5. A few additional factors of geographical character which may also have exercised and influence on artistic developments of one sort or another may also be noted.

6. The dictionary shows that the number of words which may have originated in this way is very large.

7. Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries must have been a fearsome chaos of warring tribes and kingdoms.

8. Some finds suggest that the first edition of London bridge may have been erected in timber before the Roman Conquest. ¹⁷

Инфинитив в составном сказуемом с глаголами, характеризующими действие. Из глаголов, характеризующих действие, наиболее употребительны следующие:

to be going + to + инфинитив — намереваться, собираться сделать что-л.

I am going to speak to him.

Я собираюсь поговорить с ним.

This time-table is going to be changed soon.

Это расписание скоро переменят.

to be about+to + инфинитив — собраться что-л. делать, начал было.

The train was about to start...

Поезд уже трогался...

He was about to answer, but at that moment...

Он, было, начал отвечать, но в этот момент...

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