Упражнение 5. Переведите предложения, стараясь подобрать наиболее точный эквивалент для выражения безличного или неопределенно-личного предложения в русском.

1. It will be seen that the distinction between different parts of speech always depends on formal criteria.

2. It was doubted that Shaw's plays would retain their interest when the problems treated in them — slums, women's rights, marriage customs had ceased to be of immediate concern.

3. Views as to ²¹ the actual date of the manuscript varied; the seventh century was the most usually favoured, but it was generally agreed that the illustrations belonged to an archetype perhaps as early as ²² the second century.

4. It will be readily understood that the difficulty of arriving at the ²³ meaning of such compositions is very considerable.

5. In considering loan-words it has to be remembered that, when two languages are in contact, words which are themselves borrowed may pass from one to another.

6. It has been said that Latin is more concise than English. The reverse is the case.²⁴ English is briefer than Latin.

7. It is to be remembered that it was advisable to issue the proclamation of Henry Ill's adherence to the Provisions ²⁵ in English as well as in Latin.

8. Speaking of the influence exerted on the African peasants by workers who lose their jobs and return to their native villages, Woddis writes: «One is inevitably reminded here of Lenin's observations regarding the influence of the Russian workers on the peasant in the period leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1905».

9. The Eskimos of the North-west Coast, it will be remembered, use to this day harpoon-heads of this kind.

10. Let it be stressed, however, that an understanding of the build and form of the land, a knowledge of the routes of communication and an idea of the character of the natural resources — are all of them factors which should be considered at the outset ²⁶ by every historian of art in the course of his examination of a particular area or a particular civilization.

11. It has been thought not superfluous, however, to add a few data of this kind, without a knowledge of which it is impossible to understand the course of the literary development.

12. «Better a live dog than a dead lion». The last example, it will be observed, contains transverse alliteration and assonance.

13. As is readily seen, the problems and questions in regard to ²⁷ this subject are far more numerous than the solutions.

14. People living upon lakes plentifully stocked with fish, it can be imagined, availed themselves of all means in their power for capturing them.

15. It has been ascertained beyond doubt that two kinds of cattle were common during the stone age.

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