Практикум по синхронному переводу с русского языка на английский

я далек от громких слов о патриотизме — here, too, reworking is
needed. "I'm not given to making patriotic statements" is a possibility, or
"I don't go around trumpeting patriotism/patriotic slogans."

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    дело — this is "cause" or "work," or even "my life's work."
    

Interview with Professor Sergei Mironov
(Читается с британским и с австралийским акцентами)
— Sergei Pavlovich, where are most of your patients coming from?

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       Athletes... Ballet performers... circus performers. Different
       kinds of people with different lives and different injuries. During the
       years of its existence our clinic has treated Maya Plisetskaya and
       Valery Kharlamov, Vladimir Vasiliev and Olga Korbut...We've seen
       nearly all the players of the USSR hockey, football and gymnastics
       teams, and well known movie stars. Sports and art go together not just
       because they always involve spurts of creativity, and improvisation.
       It's also because these involve enormous physical stress, and,
       unfortunately, traumas.
       

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       Your patients probably are also pretty tough customers. Yet I don't
       think I've seen refined "Kremlin-style" service here.
       

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       We don't have the funds for that. Most of the wards are for
       4—5 people, our operating room is under repair, so we have to use
       other facilities, the food...What kind of food can you have in a
       hospital nowadays! You've probably seen that for yourself.
       

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       Been through it. And not Just the food. I asked the nurse far a
       bandaid, and she threw up her hands: forget it.
       

There's a real shortage of gauze bandages, and cotton, let alone medicines. And in Moscow you can still put up with the situation...

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       And yet your clinic has always been considered prestigious. People
       say you can only get in here through pull.
       

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       Well, I'd rather say that it was specialized, intended for people
       with specific kinds of trauma. Now we accept anyone. There's only
       one condition, unfortunately: you have to pay for treatment.
       

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       And would you like to become the owner of a private clinic ?
       

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       Sure.
       

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       You 're not afraid you 'd be called a big cheese, someone making
       money at the next guy's expense?
       

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       I'm afraid, even though I'm already 44, I won't live to see that
       day. And, you know, the Russian system, which is great at throwing
       around terms like that at western medicine, has gotten our people,
       

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particularly when they get sick, to the point where today they're afraid to go to the doctor, and they're even more scared of ending up in the hospital. No one can afford that kind of money.

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