Грамматические трудности перевода общественно-политического текста с английского языка на русский. Домбровская И.В - 31 стр.

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значении предположения со значительной долей уверенности и переводится
словами должно быть, вероятно, по всей вероятности и т. п. Перфектная
форма инфинитива после must означает, что предположение относится к
прошедшему времени.

      They must have known about it for a certain time. Они, должно быть, уже в
течение некоторого времени знали об этом.
       П р и м е ч а н и е. Предположение со значительной долей уверенности,
относящееся к прошлому, может также передаваться глаголом will с перфектным
инфинитивом.

       Some kind of decision will have been taken by now. К настоящему времени какое-то
решение уже по всей вероятности принято (...вероятно, они уже приняли какое-то решение).
They will have finished that discussion by now. К этому моменту (сейчас) они, наверняка,
закончили это обсуждение.

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1. By spurring inflation, some economists say, consumers and companies could be
persuaded to spend more now.
2. The foreign banks are launching a counterattack into markets for domestic loans
and services that until now have been dominated by the Japanese banks. They are
also exploring some new fields that the Japanese banks could not, or would not
touch.
3. People of Russia say that the former president could have been a better president
if he had been able to be elevated one degree above the political combat he faced.
4. Such is the speed of history today that, when this is published, so many new and
perhaps more shocking developments may have taken place that the events herein
detailed may seem even more remote.
5. He might have fallen into the trap but he understood the danger in time.
6. The Norwegian Foreign Minister has said that the Security Council might well
be given greater powers over the financing of peacekeeping.
7. What can the West do to increase the chances of success, however defined? For
a start, it can and should do its utmost to tell the Serb people at large that the
outside world bears no animus against them.
8. The US President outlined a foreign policy of active involvement overseas,
saying Americans “must embrace the inexorable logic of globlization”.
9. In massive demonstrations in colleges all over the country yesterday, students
showed exactly what they thought of the Government’s plan to treble the fees of
overseas students. If the Education Minister didn’t get the message three weeks
ago, when more than 4,000 students lobbied their MPs, then it surely must have
been rammed home on him yesterday.
10. It can’t have been easy for them to agree to this resolution, but at that time
there was no alternative course open to them.
11. Meanwhile it will not have escaped notice that some members (of EU) seem to
be contemplating just that sort of un-European behaviour.