9.2 Перевод страноведческого текста. Индивидуальное задание.
В качестве индивидуального задания предлагаю сделать перевод на русский язык страноведческого текста об общине Амишей в Америке.
Для хорошего перевода важны две вещи:
1. Понимание текста на языке оригинала
2. Грамотное оформление его на родном языке в соответствии с нормами родного языка (т.е. переведенный текст должен читаться носителями русского языка как-будто он и был написан на русском, без шероховатостей и нескладных языковых конструкций, которые часто могут получиться при переводе с иностранного языка).
Для того, чтобы лучше вникнуть в тему, предложенную в тексте, можно посмотреть фильм "Свидетель" (1985), о котором упоминают в тексте статьи.
America’s Amish: the model society?
America’s Amish community live a lifestyle that has change little since the
18th century, but in other respect, they are showing other Americans the way
forward in the twenty-first.
The roadsign is, to say the least, unexpected. Driving through a prosperous
rural part of North America, the last thing you expect to see beside the
highway is a yellow diamond roadsign with a horse and buggy in the middle!
Watch out for horses and buggies on the road? Do they exercise racehorses here,
or what?
You keep an eye open for horses, for two miles you see nothing, then all of a
sudden, look! Coming towards you on the other side of the road, two black
horse-drawn buggies! Are they making a movie about eighteenth century America?
The men and the women in the buggy look like they jumped out of a novel by
Fennimore Cooper. Then, another mile and things get even stranger. Beside a
neat-looking farm-house, there is a whole line of buggies. In the door of the
house half a dozen men in black coats are talking while some women dressed in a
curiously ancient fashion are sitting on a bench. Is this 2020 or 1720?
You drive on, wondering what has happened to this part of the United States of
America? Have you driven into a time-warp, and without realizing it, gone back
300 years, or is it the people you've just seen who're stuck in a time-warp?
A quick inquiry at the nearest gas station gives you the answer. You are in
Amish country, and the men and women you have just seen are the Amish, part of
a strange religious group that settled in America in the 18th century, and much
of whose lifestyle has changed little since then.
If you had seen the movie "Witness", you would have already known
something about the Amish, how their community is strictly religious and
self-contained, how Amish people do without the essentials of modern-day life
such as electricity and cars, and how they do not mix with people outside of
their own community. It is virtually unheard of for anyone to become an Amish,
who was not born an Amish. This is about all that most Americans know about
Amish people, unless, that is, they actually live near them and come across
them in daily life. So who are they?
In brief, the Amish are members of an ultra-protestant religious movement that
first came to America from the upper Rhine valley over three hundred years ago,
and have kept their traditions and lifestyles. They are very law-abiding
citizens, and their community is one in which there is little crime, or at
least little reported crime. Amish families are patriarchal and live strict
lives, following the same code of morals as their ancestors. In a sense, they
are indeed stuck in a time-warp.
Yet the most remarkable things to note about the Amish are not their quaint
lifestyles and their home-made clothes, but the expansion of their
community, its efficiency, its social cohesion, and their recent adoption
of "green" technology, including wind-power and solar energy.
Although they work the land using traditional horse-drawn machines, and use no
chemical fertilizers, their agriculture is - interestingly - among the most
productive in North America!
Contrary to popular belief, the Amish are not cut off from the rest of America;
like any farmers, they need markets for their products and suppliers for their
goods; some work for non-Amish employers. Many have non-Amish neighbors. They
know what is going on in the rest of the United States, and like many other
Americans, they are alarmed by many modern developments.
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