Практикум по синхронному переводу с русского языка на английский

укрепления роли женщин — since this is the last clause in the sentence
it needs "and" before it. If the interpreter fails to insert that, he can always
say, once he realizes that the sentence has come to an end, "enhancing
the role of women, — etc./and other issues."

2. 
   заложена солидная основа — a good or reliable foundation has been
   laid is what is meant.
   

9. 
   по обеспечению — can easily be omitted — "for sustainable
   development" is sufficient.
   

9. 
   сделано немало — antonymic translation is needed: "much" or "a
   good deal" or "a lot" has been done,
   

11. 
    об этом свидетельствует — this required "thinking nominative,"
    turning the об этом into a nominative subject: "This demonstrates/proves..."
    

11. 
    в последнее время — often can simply be rendered as "recently,"
    which is idiomatic and saves time.
    

11. 
    в условиях — can easily be omitted.
    

11. 
    ставит технологическое обновление — this needs a compound tense,
    since it involves description of a continuing process: "The challenge...is
    being posed by..."
    

11. 
    призван — the idea here is either "is being called on," or, simply,
    "must."
    

11. 
    сосредоточиться на... — this is best translated by being turned into a
    subject: "It must focus on..."
    

17) среди них — another example of how "thinking nominative"
simplifies the English syntax: "These include..." rather than the clumsy
construction, "Among them are..."
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18) указом — yet another "think nominative:" "An edict of the
President..." Be sure to say "Boris Yeltsin" and not "B.N.Yeltsin," since
English does not ordinarily use initials with last names.

19. 
    мы неукоснительно выполняем — this needs a continuous compound
    tense: We have been/we are unswervingly/strictly complying with our
    obligations, since there is obviously a process involved here.
    

19. 
    претворить в жизнь идеологию и практику — a literal translation is
    very clumsy. "To bring to life," "to implement in word and deed" get the
    idea across.
    

21) кардинальные усилия — кардинальные is best rendered as
"fundamental" or "radical," but definitely not as "cardinal."

22. 
    борьбе с истощением — истощение of the ozone layer is "depletion",
    and борьба can be omitted since the meaning of the sentence is clear from
    the verb "counteract" or "resist."
    

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