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акул капитализма ("sharks of
capitalism"), westerners in Russia have always been treated with special honour and respect. Their moral privileges extended to many material ones, e.g. there were special (i.e. first-class) hotels, shops, etc. which served only those who spoke a foreign language and who could pay in hard currency. Soviet media, fully controlled by the communist government, used to dutifully criticize преклонение перед иностранцами ("admiration for foreigners"). However, neither the critics themselves nor their powerful bosses would have missed any opportunity to visit a foreign (especially western) country, to buy foreign goods or to watch those foreign movies or shows which had been classified as indecent and, therefore, unsuitable for the general public. To tell the truth, this special (admiring) attitude to westerners was not created by the Soviet system. Rather, it was a centuries-old Russian tradition. Have you ever read "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy? Do you recall that nearly all Russian aristocrats mentioned in the book preferred to speak and write French? Why? Because Russian for them was a "language of peasants". Paragraph 9.8 (g). A literal translation of the first sentence is not possible. If you try, you get something like "What you, what you!" 172 Paragraph 14. Легковая машина is a generic term for any light vehicle designed for transporting people rather than goods. The word легковая is a derivative from another adjective лёгкий which means "light" (not heavy). By analogy, a truck or lorry in Russia is called грузовая машина or грузовик because the Russian word груз is equivalent to the English word "load". Paragraph 14 d). Жигули was one of the most popular Soviet cars. Outside Russia it was known as 'Lada'. Paragraph 15 d). In English, as a rule, any thing (inanimate object) which has been mentioned before is called "it" (although in some cases you would say "she" talking about things traditionally regarded as feminine, e.g. a car or a ship). But be careful when you translate "it" into Russian since just a small proportion of things is referred to in the singular as оно, i.e. of neuter gender. Many more objects, like persons or animals, belong to either masculine or feminine gender (you can always check it in the dictionary) and are accordingly referred to as Download 3.08 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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