Практикум по синхронному переводу с русского языка на английский

духовное подвижничество — "Spiritual abnegation" sounds like a
prescription for a religious retreat, and "selflessness" is too emotional for
this context. The idea here is a more general one of shared rather than
individual interests.

9. 
   реальные факты — are best rendered as "realities," since "real facts"
   is both a tautology and idiomatically awkward.
   

9. 
   космический мусор must be translated by the accepted term, "space
   debris." Anything involving "garbage" or "trash" would sound ridiculous.
   

15) нормотворчество — is the setting or establishing of norms or
standards in a given field.

16. 
    пренебрежение этим обстоятельством — is best translated by a gerund,
    "Ignoring this aspect." Using the noun "ignorance" would radically change
    the meaning, implying невежество rather than пренебрежение.
    

16. 
    сообща задуманное — The word задуманное often is better translated
    as "planned" or "intended" rather than "thought up," which can imply
    frivolity or a lack of seriousness.
    

16. 
    в целом в конструктивном направлении — the last sentence of this
    text is extremely tricky syntactically. The interpreter who does not have a
    text and starts in with "in a constructive direction" will have to insert
    something to finish the sentence properly, e.g. "On the whole a
    constructive direction (is the way) the discussion of the question of... is
    going." Направление here can to be rendered as "tone," "way" or "spirit."
    If the interpreter has started in with "On the whole a constructive
    direction" (and we hope that he would not say "in a constructive
    direction," but think nominative!) he can try to save the sentence by
    turning it into: "On the whole a constructive direction is the way the
    discussion on... has been going.." The sentence is a good example of why
    it pays to wait for an extra few seconds before starting the interpretation.
    

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