Translation- unit 11c

Unit 11c
Review Semantics

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1) Read the passage below. You have done the first paragraph in unit
11b. Then translate paragraphs 2 and 3.

Only a Madman Would Choose to Live in a Large Modern City

"Avoid the rush-hour" must be the slogan of large cities the world over. If it
is, it's a slogan no one takes the least notice of. Twice a day, with
predictable regularity, the pot boils over. Wherever you look it's people,
people, people. The trains which leave or arrive every few minutes are
packed: an endless procession of human sardine tins. The flow of traffic
goes on day and night, without any distinction. The queues for buses reach
staggering proportions. It takes ages for a bus to get to you because the
traffic on the roads has virtually come to a standstill. Even when a bus does
at last arrive, it's so full it can't take any more passengers.

This whole crazy system of commuting stretches man's resources to the
utmost. The smallest unforeseen event can bring about conditions of utter
chaos. A power-cut, for instance, an exceptionally heavy hailstorm or a
minor derailment must always make city-dwellers realise how precarious the
balance is. The extraordinary thing is not that people put up with these
conditions, but that they actually choose them in preference to anything else.

III

Large modern cities are too big to control. City-dwellers are obliged to
adopt a wholly unnatural way of life. They lose touch with the land and
rhythm of nature. All the simple, good things of life like sunshine, fresh air, or
a cluster of stars in a dark sky, are at a premium. Tall buildings blot out the
sun. In addition to this, city dwellers live under constant threat. Cities breed
violence - mugging, burglary, rape and murder are commonplace. Crime
rates are soaring, but so is the trend towards urbanization. One wonders
what it is about the modern metropolis that turns people on.

2) Choose 4 items which presented problems of translation. Describe
what the problems were, what solutions you considered, and why you
finally chose your final solution.

Item1

Item2

Item3

Item4

3) Choose another 10 items connected with issues you have
learned in previous units and copy them below. Then write the definition
of the problem next to each item (actually this corresponds to steps 1&2
of the 6 steps).

ITEM	PROBLEM
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