Exercise № 11.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 430.

Translate the following sentences into Russian paying special attention to the meaning of the verb to account for – 1) составлять, приходиться на долю 2) объяснять что-либо, служить причиной 3) отчитываться за что-либо, нести ответственность

Обратите особое внимание на необходимость грамматической трансформации при переводе предложений, в которых глагол to account for употребляется в значении приходиться на долю. Например: The U.S. now accounts for 45 per cent of Hong Kong's exports by value. – В настоящее время на долю США приходится 45 % от общего объема экспорта Гонконга в стоимостном выражении.

1. China accounts for about a fifth of the world's total economic output and any slowdown may hamper a global recovery.

2. The Pentagon cannot properly account for nearly nine billion dollars in Iraqi oil revenues and other funds received for Iraqi reconstruction programs after the 2003 US invasion.

3. In 2008 private consumption accounted for only 35% of GDP, down from 49% in 1990.

4. In America start-ups have accounted for almost all the job creation in the past couple of decades.

5. Exports of industrial raw materials and capital goods, especially to emerging economies, account forthe lion's share of recent gains in GDP.

6. Falsified theories are to be replaced by theories that can account for the phenomena that is, with greater explanatory power.

7. The invention of the cotton gin (машина для очистки хлопкового волокна) was one of the key factors that accounted for the explosive growth of cotton production and slave labor in the South in the 1850's.

8. The storekeeper was expected to account for any material removed.

9. An increase in net exports has accounted for no less than two-thirds of Germany's total GDP growth over the past decade, far more than any other big economy.

10. At the board meeting the sales manager accounted forthe failure to meet the target figures.

11. Bad weather accounted for the flight delay.