Эмфатические уступительные предложения

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Причастия (и прилагательные) в составе сказуемого, вынесенные на первое место, и причастия в функции определения, обстоятельства и вводного члена предложения

Переведите, предварительно определив функцию причастия.

1. Cut in the rock on the face of a great cliff in the eastern part of Persia, there was an inscription in three languages.

2. Look closely at the bare branches of a tree, on which not the palest gleam of green can be discerned. Yet, spaced along each branch are the leaf buds, safely preserved under the insulating layers.

3. Lying in the open Atlantic between Brazil and Africa, St. Paul's Rocks are an obstruction thrust up from the floor of the ocean into the midst of the Equatorial Current.

4. These animals could have been portrayed only when they were still living during the Glacial Epoch. Confirming this is the fact that representations of these animals have been found embedded in the hearth ashes and detritus associated with skeletal remains of animals of the same species.

5. Viewed in the right way, it is evident that the local «Stone Age» lasted in Central Russia up to the first millenium В. С.

6. Intermingled with these shells are found the bones of various animals.

7. In the midst of the most extraordinary abundance, here are men, women and children dying of starvation; and running alongside a splendid chariot are poor, forlorn, almost naked wretches.

8. Viewed from the standpoint of palaeonthology all this evidence is untenable.

9. Close to the famous Cave is the railway-station of Shell-Mound so called for an uncommonly large deposits of shells.

10. Simultaneous with this outburst of rhetoric was the school of Venetian painters, artists who delighted the rich travellers by producing views of Venetian life.

11. Meanwhile, nourished on the soil of Umbria to the south, another group of painters was maturing.

Уступительные предложения с именной частью сказуемого, вынесенной вперед. В уступительном предложении этого типа на первом месте стоит именная часть сказуемого, выраженная прилагательным, причастием или наречием, за которой следует союз as или though. Все сочетание переводится «как (бы) ни... + именная часть сказуемого», «какой...ни», «хоть и...»:

Important as this work is, it does not cover the problem on the whole.

Как ни важна эта работа, она не охватывает проблему в целом.

Harmful though it is for his health, he is not able to give up smoking.

Хоть это и вредно для его здоровья, он не может бросить курить.

Примечание. Глагол may (might), входящий иногда в состав сказуемого уступительных предложений, обычно не переводится:

Strange though it may seem, I did not think about it.

Как ни странно это покажется (может показаться), я не думал об этом.

Упражнение

1. Переведите следующие уступительные предложения.

1. Important as fishing was for the Eastern Islanders,¹⁰ it was never as vital to them as to the Tahitians.¹⁰

¹⁰ Жители о-вов Пасхи и Таити 166

2. The following translations, inadequate as they are, may help to give some idea of the character of this poetry.

3. Strangely as it seems to us, the play is devoid of real action, for the above events are not shown on the stage.

4. But, great as have been the triumphs of these new methods, it should not be forgotten that everything is not said when the facts of a language are interpreted in the terms of linguistic history.

5. Inexperienced though they were in navigation, the two men safely reached that island in a small boat.

6. Excellent though it be from a literary standpoint, this book is yet a paradox; for it gives a most unexciting (but far from boring) account of a most exciting experience.

7. Little as he (Galsworthy) indulged in dialect, he occasionally admitted a certain satisfaction in this fact, and lived much of his working life in this country, and made it the scene of some narratives.

Уступительные предложения, начинающиеся с союзов. Если в начале уступительного предложения стоит союз however, после которого идет именная часть сказуемого, выраженная прилагательным, причастием или наречием, то перевод таких предложений следует начинать со слов «как ни...», «как бы ни...», «хоть и...»:

However complicated the problem is, we are to solve it. Как ни сложна эта задача, мы должны решить ее.

Уступительные предложения также могут начинаться следующими союзами:

however	— как (бы) ни; хоть и;
whoever	— кто (бы) ни; всякий, кто...;
whatever |	— что (бы) ни; всё, что...; — какой (бы) ни; всякий, который...;
wherever I	— где (бы) ни; всюду, где...; — куда (бы) ни; всюду, куда...;
whenever	— когда (бы) ни; всякий раз, когда...

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Упражнение

2. Переведите следующие уступительные предложения.

1. Science teaches us inseparability of matter and motion. However static some things may seem to be, there is in them continual motion.

2. Whatever value may be attached to the work as history — it is probably biassed as regards the character of Richard — it is the work of a master of English prose.

3. According to idealism, however closely the mind may be connected with the body, it is nevertheless distinct and separable from the body.

4. Whatever the reason, there are few panels of early date in existence today which show really first-class work.

5. Most of this volume is taken up with dissertations on the principles of government, which, however necessary for a comprehension of the motives and ideas of Japanese statesmen of the old regime, are not very interesting to the European reader.

6. Whoever the authors may have been, their primary object was the promotion of piety.

7. This work, however valuable it may be for research into mythology, the manners, the language, and the legends of early Japan, is a very poor production, whether we consider it as a literature or as a record of facts.

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