Для участия в конкурсе приглашаются все студенты и аспиранты КНИТУ-КАИ, владеющие английским языком на уровне
Intermediate и выше.
Конкурс будет проводиться в два этапа: 1ый этап – письменный перевод одного из текстов, 2ой этап – перевод научно-популярного текста без словаря.
• Секции конкурса на лучший перевод:
1. Перевод текста официально-делового стиля – Председатель: канд. филол. наук, доцент Д.А. Тишкина
2. Перевод текста публицистического стиля – Председатель: канд.филол.наук, доцент А.П. Султанова
3. Перевод текста художественного стиля – Председатель: к.п.н., доцент Нуриева Н.С.
4. Перевод текста научного стиля – Председатель: доцент Л.У. Валиева
5. Перевод научно-популярного текста – Председатель: ст.преподаватель, Т.В. Маршева
Для участия в конкурсе в срок до 20 апреля необходимо представить выполненный в печатном виде перевод одного из текстов с указанием ФИО студента и преподавателя, № группы на кафедру иностранных языков 7 зд., к.208.
По итогам 1ого этапа будут отобраны лучшие работы, авторы данных переводов будут приглашены на 2ой этап.
- 1. Официально—деловой стиль
56 Disgruntled Street
Somewhere Unhappy
1AM MAD
Customer Service Manager
That Awful Company
Somewhere Awful
UR BAD
June 15, 2008
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing today to complain of the poor service I received from your company on June 12, 2008. I was visited by a representative of That Awful Company, Mr. Madman, at my home on that day.
Mr. Madman was one hour late for his appointment and offered nothing by way of apology when he arrived at noon. Your representative did not remove his muddy shoes upon entering my house, and consequently left a trail of dirt in the hallway. Mr. Madman then proceeded to present a range of products to me that I had specifically told his assistant by telephone I was not interested in. I repeatedly tried to ask your representative about the products that were of interest to me, but he refused to deal with my questions. We ended our meeting after 25 minutes without either of us having accomplished anything.
I am most annoyed that I wasted a morning (and half a day’s vacation) waiting for Mr. Madman to show up. My impression of That Awful Company has been tarnished, and I am now concerned about how my existing business is being managed by your firm. Furthermore, Mr. Madman’s inability to remove his muddy shoes has meant that I have had to engage the services, and incur the expense, of a professional carpet cleaner.
I trust this is not the way That Awful Company wishes to conduct business with valued customers—I have been with you since the company was founded and have never encountered such treatment before. I would welcome the opportunity to discuss matters further and to learn of how you propose to prevent a similar situation from recurring. I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully,
V. Angry
V. Angry
- 2. Публицистический стиль
The goal of fixing our broken immigration system is further away than ever. President Obama’s executive orders — which would allow up to five million of about 11 million illegal immigrants to stay in this country — have been challenged in the courts, and Republicans, a majority in the new Congress, have held up appropriations and confirmations in retaliation.
Neither side is ready to compromise. But the failure to fix our immigration laws is not an exclusively Republican or Democratic failure. Just as we created the problem together, we must solve it together. There is one way to start: Mandate E-Verify for all employers — and make it the vehicle for legalizing unauthorized workers.
E-Verify, which began in 1997, lets companies verify the employment eligibility of workers they hire. Employers submit the workers’ information, over the Internet, to the Social Security Administration or to the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether it correctly matches government records. The program is supposed to prevent the use of fraudulent documents to obtain work.
During and after the last recession, illegal immigration slowed sharply, but it appears to be rising again. Migration is largely an entrepreneurial activity; it responds to economic demand. Migrants pay smugglers to get them here or, more commonly, overstay temporary visas.
If people working in the shadows come forward to an employer using E-Verify because they know they will clear a criminal-background check, and begin paying taxes honestly, in their own names, legalizing them and their families — one at a time, in a steady, manageable flow — is the right thing to do. It’s certainly a price well worth paying to stop future illegal immigration cold, through tough eligibility screening and border enforcement.
Some skeptics (mostly Democrats) will point to E-Verify’s prime vulnerability: identity theft. But Citizenship and Immigration Services, the part of the Department of Homeland Security that runs the program, has made strides in reducing the program’s error rate. Mandating E-Verify will only improve its accuracy. Other skeptics (mostly Republicans) will say that unscrupulous employers will try to dodge the mandate, so that the focus should still be on border enforcement. Both sides have a point, but we know from experience that the key to legislation is not to solve every problem in advance, but to get the ball rolling.
Making E-Verify the vehicle for legalization is the best way to get started.
3. Художественный стиль
Of Mortimer she saw very little; farm and woods and trout- streams seemed to swallow him up from dawn till dusk. Once, following the direction she had seen him take in the morning, she came to an open space in a nut copse, further shut in by huge yew trees, in the centre of which stood a stone pedestal surmounted by a small bronze figure of a youthful Pan. It was a beautiful piece of workmanship, but her attention was chiefly held by the fact that a newly cut bunch of grapes had been placed as an offering at its feet. Grapes were none too plentiful at the manor house, and Sylvia snatched the bunch angrily from the pedestal. Contemptuous annoyance dominated her thoughts as she strolled slowly homeward, and then gave way to a sharp feeling of something that was very near fright; across a thick tangle of undergrowth a boy’s face was scowling at her, brown and beautiful, with unutterably evil eyes. It was a lonely pathway, all pathways round Yessney were lonely for the matter of that, and she sped forward without waiting to give a closer scrutiny to this sudden apparition. It was not till she had reached the house that she discovered that she had dropped the bunch of grapes in her flight.
«I saw a youth in the wood today,» she told Mortimer that evening, «brown-faced and rather handsome, but a scoundrel to look at. A gipsy lad, I suppose.»
«A reasonable theory,» said Mortimer, «only there aren’t any gipsies in these parts at present.»
«Then who was he?» asked Sylvia, and as Mortimer appeared to have no theory of his own she passed on to recount her finding of the votive offering.
«I suppose it was your doing,» she observed; «it’s a harmless piece of lunacy, but people would think you dreadfully silly if they knew of it.»
«Did you meddle with it in any way?» asked Mortimer.
«I — I threw the grapes away. It seemed so silly,» said Sylvia, watching Mortimer’s impassive face for a sign of annoyance.
«I don’t think you were wise to do that,» he said reflectively. «I’ve heard it said that the Wood Gods are rather horrible to those who molest them.»
«Horrible perhaps to those that believe in them, but you see I don’t,» retorted Sylvia.
«All the same,» said Mortimer in his even, dispassionate tone, «I should avoid the woods and orchards if I were you, and give a wide berth to the horned beasts on the farm.»
It was all nonsense, of course, but in that lonely wood-girt spot nonsense seemed able to rear a bastard brood of uneasiness.
«Mortimer,» said Sylvia suddenly, «I think we will go back to Town some time soon.»
Her victory had not been so complete as she had supposed; it had carried her on to ground that she was already anxious to quit.
«I don’t think you will ever go back to Town,» said Mortimer. He seemed to be paraphrasing his mother’s prediction as to himself.
Sylvia noted with dissatisfaction and some self-contempt that the course of her next afternoon’s ramble took her instinctively clear of the network of woods.
4. Научный стиль
Some languages, such as Chinese, show grammatical relations entirely by means of word-order and form-words. Others, such as Latin, rely mainly on inflections, though they use many form-words as well, with which, indeed, no language can dispense. We call such a language as Chinese an isolating language as distinguished from an inflectional language such as Latin. English is mainly an isolating language which has preserved a few inflections.
We have now to consider how these means of grammatical expression, especially word-order, form-words, and inflexions, are used in language to express logical relations.
The first main division is that of modifying and connective. The in the earth is a modifying form-word; is, and in the earth is round, you and I, are connective form-words. So also the plural inflection in trees is modifying, while the genitive inflection in a day’s work is connective. A modifying form requires only one word to make sense (the earth, tree-s), while a connective form requires two words to make sense (you and I, a day-s work). The relations between words in sentences are therefore shown mainly by connectives, while modifiers have almost the function of word-formers.
When two words are associated together grammatically their relation may be one either of coordination or of subordination. Coordination is shown either by word-order only, or by the use of form-words, as in men, women, and children, where the first two full words are connected only by their position, while the last two are connected by the form-word and.
5. Научно-популярный подстиль
If you needed any more incentive to beef up your iPhone’s password, here’s one: security researchers at MDSec have tracked down a device called an «IP Box» that can brute force the phone’s 4-digit security code and gain access to its data.
In and of itself, that’s not particularly surprising: a 4-digit PIN is widely considered to be insecure. What is novel about the IP Box’s approach is that it can bypass one of iOS’s optional built-in security features, which erases the device after 10 incorrect PIN attempts.
To do so, the box connects to the iPhone via USB and directly to the device’s power supply. After it enters an incorrect attempt—which it cleverly determines via a light sensor, as the screen brightness changes when the correct code is input—it cuts power to the phone and reboots it, before iOS can record a failed entry.
Granted, that means this hack takes a lot of time—around 40 seconds per attempt. Trying all 10,000 possible combinations at that rate would take around 4 and a half days, though that may not be that long for someone really determined to get at your data.
Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to protect yourself against this kind of hack. Simply adding another digit to your passcode (on iOS, by going to Settings > Passcode and turning off Simple Passcode) increases the number of combinations to 100,000, which, according to security firm Sophos, would take the IP Box a month and a half at the same speed. Up it to 7 digits and you’re looking at 12 and a half years. And that’s not even counting using an alphanumeric passcode, which would increase the number of combinations astronomically.
Of course, if you’re using a recent iPhone, there’s no reason at all not to use Touch ID fingerprint scanner in concert with a complex passcode. Touch ID may not be totally secure, but as of yet there’s no box to automatically crack it, so that’s a plus.