Практикум по синхронному переводу с русского языка на английский

российская сторона очень высоко оценивает усилия — "has a high
assessment of," a commonly used translation, is extremely unidiomatic.
Often this can be simply rendered by "appreciates."

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   в целях разработки — в целях can be skipped, as it adds nothing; it
   is obvious that this is the purpose of the exercise.
   

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   благодаря их профессионализму — how the interpreter begins this
   clause will determine the rest of the sentence. The second variant would
   be possible if the interpreter had the text, since успешно appears towards
   the end of the sentence.
   

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   трудно переоценить важность вопросов, которыми... — time can be
   saved by dropping которыми, a word which is obligatory for the Russian
   grammatical construction but can be skipped in English: "the questions
   facing our committee."
   

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   одну из наиболее болезненных мировых проблем, выступая серьез­
   ным дестабилизирующим фактором... — any attempt to translate высту­
   пая as a gerund will lead to a very awkward sentence. It basically means
   "is" here, and should be translated as such. "And" makes for a much
   smoother sentence: "and is a serious destabilizing factor." Or the
   interpreter can use a pronoun: "it is a serious destabilizing factor."
   

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