Практикум по синхронному переводу с русского языка на английский

мотивы эмансипации, в соответствии с которыми — the sentence is
awkward, since the young woman is referring to "women's liberation," but
says эмансипации. Simply "the reasons why" will do, but the "reasons for
that liberation which explains," though time-consuming, is better in the
light of the next question,

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   но таков этикет маленького городка — here, again, "etiquette" is not
   the best word, since it implies a formal or somewhat codified system of
   behavior. "That's the way things are done/that's life in a small town/that's
   the way people behave in a small town" would be better.
   

5. 
   одноэтажной Америке — very few Americans will understand the
   reference to Ilf and Petrov's book, and it is most unlikely that the
   interpreter will have a chance to insert an explanation. "Small-town
   America" is an accepted idiom which gets this idea across.
   

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   скажем — "Let's say" does not work at all and sounds extremely
   awkward. "Well," or "for example" would do. Nowadays many Americans
   tend to insert the word "like" in such situations, where it acts purely as a
   verbal filler. This usage is ungrammatical, and sounds quite uneducated.
   Such use of the word in English translation is certainly not recommended,
   and in fact should be actively discouraged; but the interpreter must be
   
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   alert to its use (which is why it is included as a variant here!), be able to recognize it as such when used by English speakers, and to distinguish it from the use of the verb "like" meaning "нравиться."
   

9) никогда не выезжали за пределы Америки — anything involving
"borders" or "frontiers" will sound awful in English. "Have never left the
country" or "have never been abroad" will do. If you must use "America,"
then "have never been outside America" is acceptable.

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