Translate into Russian

 

1. Force should be held in reserve.

2. NATO should be open to new members.

3. Such declarations should be taken with a pinch of salt.

4. People who abuse alcohol should not be allowed into positions of power.

5. If you should chance to meet her any time, any place, any way, tell that I love her and want her back again.

6. Temperatures today should range between 18 to 20 degrees above zero.

7. A superpower should be able to simultaneously address several global threats.

9. You’ve got to look to the future and be prepared to deal with things if an emergency should arise.

10. Europeans should focus on understanding the revolutionary trends in US military doctrines.

11. America should have a president who is responsible impartially to Americans.

12. Should the candidate fail to win a majority, a second round will be held in April.

13. If anyone should be brought before an international criminal court, it is surely the Baghdad leader.

14. If a product is effective in treating ageing, it should be classified as a drug, not as a cosmetic, critics say.

15. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), economic growth should continue in Russia this year and next.

 

11. Translate into Russian:

 

1. If something happens to you on the way there, you ought to inform your embassy as soon as possible.

2. Every package of cigarettes ought to carry a reminder of the hazards of smoking.

3. The new peace plan ought to be given a serious thought. It’s worth considering.

4. Instead of discussing what ought or ought not to be done the trade union leaders ought to be campaigning to put an end to the wage freeze.

5. For that purpose there ought to be kept in being trained and technically proficient personnel.

6. Far more people ought to take part in deciding the policies which are put before the electorate.

7. I really oughtn’t to be surprised.

8. We ought to have turned to the police long ago.

 

12. Translate into Russian:

 

1. If NATO is to survive, it must be transformed.

2. Vladimir Putin is to make London his first port of call after his expected election as Russian President this year.

3. If the US is to maintain peace in Europe, it must make a clear commitment to fight those who threaten the peace.

4. Bank of America is to scale back its operations in Japan.

5. The conquest of Everest by a British expedition 40 years ago is to be celebrated in May.

6. In foreign policy the main task is to raise Russian prestige.

7. The spacecraft is to be placed in a low polar orbit.

8. The old Chinese leader is to step down as the party’s general secretary during the congress.

9. If Turkey is to join the European Union, it must stop abusing the Kurds.

10. PCs will need to look and operate a lot more like traditional consumer electronic products, if they are to make further inroads into the home.

11. Foreign banks are to be allowed to conduct yuan-denominated business on an “experimental basis in China”.

12. The centerpiece of the program is to eliminate the national debt by 2013.

13. The ministers are to discuss the likely role of the United Nations in administering a post-Hussein Iraq.

14. The US Secretary of State who will visit five West European capitals, will need to tread a careful line if unity in the Western camp is to be maintained.

15. The principal task of the American diplomat was to try to talk Israelis and Palestinians back into peace negotiations.

18. The presidential candidate is to discuss a detailed economic blueprint in a speech here on Wednesday.

19. It was essential to raise levels of tax collection and cut public spending if Russia was to avoid financial difficulties at that time.

20. If the Russian leader is to save his country’s economy, he must hugely cut its budget deficit and make a switch from guns to consumer goods.

21. It is to be assumed that the UN Secretary General is going to that country to get a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

22. For Russia, the Japanese trip was to be the first in a series of four major Asian visits this year. A visit to South Korea, which was to immediately follow Russian President’s days in Tokyo, has also been postponed indefinitely.

23. An immigration reform beneficial to both the US and Mexico was to have been the centerpiece of the new relationship, and Mexican prime minister is frustrated that the effort was derailed by Al Qaeda.

24. The bonds were to have been backed by 7.5 percent of the country’s shares currently owned by the government, but last week came a surprise government move to cancel the bond issue.

25. The new bank is to be known as CB Delta Credit and is to continue specializing in mortgage lending.

13. Translate into Russian:

 

1. That decision will have to wait. One other issue has to be dealt with before the visit takes place.

2. “Sometimes you have to live with differences in the family,” said the German Foreign Minister before heading to New York for negotiations over Iraq.

3. Complicated political and security issues will have to be resolved before the conflict ends.

4. The cuts in the deficit would have to begin soon if the deficit is to be eliminated in five years.

5. The company had to turn away orders that cost it four hundred thousand pounds of profits over two years.

6. When our relatives are at home we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. (Bernard Shaw)

7. The new South Korea’s finance minister will have to accelerate the sale of stakes in Seoul Bank and other companies.

8. Wherever the fault lies, practical politics mean it is Europe and Japan that will have to swallow their pride and come to the rescue of the World Bank’s International Development Association.

9. Unless lines of policy are quickly clarified and coordinated, the costs of the confusion will be high if force has to be used.

10. What makes the judgement hard is that you have to consider the man’s earlier triumph and his later disappointments.

11. Patients have to fight not only with their illnesses to survive, but with the very people who have been hold on to help them recover.

14. Translate into Russian:

1. I must be going crazy today.

2. Both sides must respect human rights and those who don’t must be brought to trial without delay.

3. The US must make up its mind on what kind of Atlantic partnership it wants.

4. Both sides must follow their pledges on nuclear arms reductions.

5. A strategy for dealing with Baghdad is needed, but it must be acceptable to world opinion.

6. Tax policy must be revised to reduce the burden on businesses and the black market commerce must be crushed.

7. As far as international crises go, this one must rank among the most dangerous.

8. The decision on the share issue must be unanimously approved by the bank’s board of directors.

9. Japan must find a way to cut, or at least loosen, its constitutional Gordian knot.

10. Patients who must use new drugs should be informed of the drug’s limited experience and safety record.

11. Our constitution “stipulates that Swiss citizens abroad must be kept informed of all important changes and political issues at home,” said a consular official.

12. In China private road repair companies, banks and trash collection companies, all of which in theory must be owned by the state, operate openly.

13. At the dictate of Europe, soya milk must now be marketed under another name lest we confuse it with a dairy product.

14. Washington must not get into a situation where diplomatic and military resources are so tied up in Iraq that it is unable to cope with threats from North Korea and terrorism.

15. We must find ways to starve the terrorist and the highjacker of the oxygen of publicity.

 

 

15. Translate into Russian:

 

1. The State Duma would also like to raise its own legal status.

2. Why she had to go I didn’t know, she wouldn’t say.

3. The sun would shine when you were mine and mine alone.

4. I thought I would tell him something referring to Canadian Hockey just to please him.

5. The German Foreign Minister said that his country would fully support any Security Council resolution.

6. “I would say that we are two friends, two allies that occasionally find themselves with areas of disagreement,” said the State Secretary.

7. The US Administration is opposing a World Bank proposal that would increase exports from the poorest nations.

8. The British Foreign Secretary said in London that he expected agreement ultimately would be reached.

9. Poorer countries feel the proposed changes would tip the balance in favor of wealthier WTO members.

10. James Cameron, the director and producer of the movie Titanic, is another would-be space tourist.

11. John Kennedy preparing for TV debates would ask questions that send his aids rushing off for additional information.

13. Q. – What would be your first edict if you become president?

A.- I wouldn’t want to be president. I wouldn’t want to issue edicts. I wouldn’t want to consult with the heads of my security. I wouldn’t want to sweat with satirical writers in steam baths or play tennis with them. (from an interview of M.Zhvanetsky to “Moscow Journal”)

14. Such a deal would advance not only the US economic interests but its national security.

15. European Commission officials stressed that the fresh money would be drawn from funds that have already been earmarked but remain unused.

16. I would rather be right than be president, but I am perfectly willing to be both. (Norman Thomas, American Socialist politician)

17. The new Chinese leader pledged that private businesses would be granted equal access to bank credit.

18. It’s unclear how a test ban would curb nuclear proliferation.

19. Most developing countries argue that the proposed changes would serve the interests of rich WTO members at the expense of poorer ones.

20. The-START-2 (CHB-2) treaty would cut the strategic arsenal of both countries almost by half. Duma have refused to ratify it, arguing that the cuts would leave Russia at a disadvantage.

21. Efforts to devise a constitution for the European Union would encourage a searching examination of ideas and purposes, which would be splendid.

22. Fifty years ago, only five actors had the necessary authorization to play the role of Lenin. But by the second half of the 1970s, their number exceeded 600. And in Moscow organized actors’ seminars for them would be held. The participants would sit in a hall, all looking like Lenin and would swap experiences and insights.

23. Do onto others as you would be done by.

 

16. Translate into Russian:

 

1. “We will part from the summit as friends,” said the Russian president on arrival.

2. “I will not dodge your question, I will answer it right back straightforwardly: “I’m neither,” General Powell told a woman who asked him before a crowd of 4,000 people at Trinity University. “Are you a Republican or a Democrat?”

3. Each UN member state is willing to act only if its interest or prestige is at stake.

4. “I will long remember the man’s contribution to my election campaign when he was by my side throughout,” said John Major about his campaign manager.

5. Weather will be partly cloudy or, if you will, partly sunny today.

6. “When I’m president,” Senator Dole insisted, “I will keep my word. My word is my bond.”

7. The results mean that a single party, the Republicans, will once again control both houses of Congress and the White House.

9. Sceptics’ large objection is that some countries will ignore the treaty or cheat on it. It is true these things will happen.

10. “If NATO goes ahead with enlargement, we will have a divided Europe again and almost certainly a nationalist government in Russia,” said a liberal politician.

11. “I will present a bill to the Parliament soon that would allow me to fulfill my responsibilities with greater powers,” said Iran’s president.

12. “I think the president will have really gained from the North Korean tour before Okinawa G-8 summit,” said deputy director of the Institute for the International Economy and International Relations.

13. Assuming that we are going to open a new branch office of this bank in Djakarta you will be good enough to agree to include this office into the agency arrangements between our banks.

19. It’s important to realize, before misunderstandings solidify, that at the right time certain bargains will and must strike.

 

 

17. Translate into Russian:

 

1. “ Shall we tell the president?”(the title of a book by J.Archer)

2. The Seller shall be responsible for losses.

3. The European Union treaty says EU governments “ shall refrain from any action which is contrary to the interests of the Union (A Constitution for the European Union).

4. The Act says that the approval given by each House “ shall not be questioned in any legal proceedings.” (an Act of the British Parliament)

5. Any foreign person, who carries on business in Bulgaria, without permission shall be punished by a fine.

6. The right of the people to keep and bare arms, shall not be infringed. (2^nd Ammendment to the US Constitution).

7. The 1983 Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights said: “The death penalty shall be abolished. ”

 

18. Translate into Russian:

 

1. You can’t have everything! Where would you put it?

2. You can work hard, yet enjoy time with your family.

3. – Marriage can be a blessing.

- So can be a divorce.

4. Of course the Russian President can live with less US involvement in Russian affairs.

5. None of today’s security dangers can be dealt with effectively without Russia.

6. Today’s real security dangers make America so vulnerable that it can no longer be considered a superpower.

7. Some countries can’t even afford to keep a permanent delegation in Geneva.

8. A new force is at work, which European politicians cannot afford to ignore.

9. One-term ex-senator with the confusing name travels across America, hoping to replace a popular president. Yet one cannot help admiring his determination.

10. One can easily see that in addition to being selfish and hypocritical, Europe’s farm policy also is self destructive.

11. The International Herald Tribune is a unique mix of top quality, global and US news that cannot be found in other papers.

12. Sleep deprivation can bring on feelings of stress, anger and sadness.

13. They prefer to keep the hearings private. That way they cannot be held accountable for the results.

14. Remember that no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

15. While we cannot expect the US president to promise never to strike first, we can define the standards to which we intend to hold him.

16. The study shows that prolonged common replacement therapy can do more harm than good.

17. Snow cover can keep heat from escaping from the land, allowing deformation of cold air masses.

 

 

19. Translate into Russian:

 

1. – Sorry, could I just say something?

- If everybody is ready perhaps we could have things started?

2. The effects of Iraq, like Vietnam, could last a generation.

3. It is doubtful he could have remained in office as long as he has were it not for his international prestige, which constitutes an important asset for the country.

4. The new Chinese leader said that private businesses could be allowed to issue bonds to raise capital.

5. The tragic error could have been avoided had US commanders bothered to consult with Afghan Authorities.

6. Several tens of thousands old Soviet and American nuclear weapons are real. Some could fall into hostile hands.

7. NATO expansion in no way poses anything that could be faintly called a threat to Russia.

11. As the US Secretary of State prepares for the first visit to the Middle East this week, the circumstances could hardly be less suspicious.

12. We couldn’t help wondering if Al Qaeda’s expression of solidarity with Iraqi might have been a way of luring the United States into an attack on Baghdad.

13. Russia needs a new type of economy, responsive to the demands of ordinary people for the “thousand and one tiny things” which central planning could never deliver.

14. Doctors could have discovered anyone of a myriad conditions which needed to be put right before surgery, expected to be done in Moscow.

15. With $7 billion in a bank and ownership of the operating system, Microsoft could probably conquer practically any market if it wanted to badly enough.

16. Had the Russian president been the first to go to North Korea, opening a window into a country ruled by despots, he could have been viewed as a maverick. But North Koreans have been playing a strange new game for the past few months, beginning with a warm welcome they gave to the South Korean president.

17. Global investors could take fright if there is a setback in the US stock markets or a rise in inflation, which would force the Fed to raise interest rates.

 

20. Translate into Russian:

1. The war may tip the European Union into recession.

2. I may have a change of heart by tomorrow.

3. It may be six months before North Korea starts mass-producing nuclear weapons.

4. No hard evidence of the alleged abuses has yet appeared, and it may well be that none exists.

5. Studies in people and animals suggest that lack of sleep may also interfere with the working of the immune system.

6. The US president may be having trouble formulating a clear view of his country’s international role.

7. Up to thirty people may have been affected by a disease contracted from sheep, after hugging lambs at a farm open day in Berkshire.

8. The chemical link between chocolate and marijuana: I may chew, but I never swallow.

9. The New York Times may or may not be the world’s finest newspaper, but the International Herald Tribune has always held a special place for those living outside of the United States.

10. The commissioners who prepared the report may have reason to be happy, but for the rest of us, it is time for sorrow.

11. The bank may well be declared an insolvent debtor in the near future.

12. Instead of strongly recommended market decisions, the report simply notes that ministers may wish to comment on the subject.

13. Japanese experts fear that at the end of the road there may well be a Chinese-American war, probably triggered by a clash over Taiwan.

14. This week the UN Secretary Council may impose economic sanctions on North Korea, which, in protest, may withdraw from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

15. Though the candidate might have thought he had the votes to win, many feared he did not.

16. The outcome might have been different had the US administration paid more attention to handling properly the Senate.

17. Creditors hope that some day there might be a viable institution credited out of the merger of two banks that might choose to return some of their money.

18. The United States must take care not to set a dangerous example that might, say, tempt India to launch its own preemptive strike against Pakistan.

19. It is hard to see how Lloyd’s insurance company might find substantial additional sums of money.

20. Bridging language differences might help overcome reservations from Russia and China.