Enjoy Rendering!: Сборник текстов для перевода и реферирования. Батурина С.А. - 24 стр.

      1. Vocabulary notes:                                                                         Breathe or be Strangled
      1) rule – постановлять, решать (в судебном порядке)
      2) prosecutor – обвинитель                                                                                      If eskimos have dozens of
      3) hijacker – воздушный пират, бандит                                                                    words for snow, Germans have as
      4) suspect – зд. подозреваемый                                                                           many for bureaucracy. The most popu-
      5) alleged – предполагаемый, обвиняемый                                                                  lar is Amtsschimmel, a word of ob-
      6) mastermind – руководитель, вдохновитель                                                               scure origin that translates roughly as
      7) comply – подчиняться, уступать                                                                        “the office horse”. The government
      8) defendant – подсудимый, обвиняемый                                                                    declares that it is bent on chasing these
      9) pending – предстоящий, ожидающий решения                                                              clodhoppers out of Germany. But has
                                                                                                               it any more chance of success than in
      10) treatment – обращение, обхождение
                                                                                                               the past? The Institute for the German
      11) detain – арестовывать, содержать под стражей
                                                                             Economy, the research arm of the country’s business associations,
      12) try – зд. допрашивать, привлечь к суду
                                                                             hopes so, if only because the economy might be strangled to death
      13) eligible – подходящий, приемлемый
                                                                             unless red tape is loosened.
                                                                                    Germans are fed up with forms and rules. Pollsters at the Allens-
       2. Statements for discussion.                                         bach Institute say that as many as 90 % of Germans have had rows with
       1. Al-Oaeda is a very potent, well-financed, militant organiza-       bureaucrats, up from 64 % in 1978. Bild, Germany’s biggest tabloid,
tion, responsible for a lot of suicide hijackings.                           recently sent out a reporter in search of ridiculous rules. One example:
       2. An accused terrorist can’t call the witnesses he wants because     a tailor who had to put up a sign saying “fire extinguisher” next to
of threat to the US national security, caused by possible disclosure of      (guess what) her fire extinguisher, to produce a thick folder with all
confidential information.                                                    regulations relevant to her business, to raise her work table by ten cen-
       3. Military court provides detainees with less rights than civilian   timeters, to buy a special emergency kit, and to check if her only em-
court.                                                                       ployee was allergic to nickel – at a cost of €400 ($428).
       4. Keeping some 660 al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects at Guan-                   Germany is, in short, one of the most rule-bound countries in the
tanamo Bay may be “Solomon’s decision” of the American Govern-               world. And that is bad news for the economy, particularly for entrepre-
ment.                                                                        neurs hoping to set up in business. A new World Bank study, “Doing
       5. Prisoners of all kinds should be treated humanely.                 Business in 2004”, illustrates the problem . The study shows that it
                                                                             takes an average of 45 days to register a new firm in Germany, com-
      3. Give a summary of the text.                                         pared with 18 in Britain and only four in America. The process is also
                                                                             cheaper in America, Britain, Canada and France than in Germany.
                                                                                    The government has launched a “masterplan for reducing bu-
                                                                             reaucracy”, listing dozens of cases where archaic rules should be
                                                                             scrapped or simplified. It recently brought in a bill to do away with
                                                                             such workplace regulations as where to put light switches or the shape
                                                                             of rubbish bins. The government has also chosen three regions where
                                                                             some laws will be suspended while local and federal agencies try out
                                                                             alternatives.

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