Translate the following sentences into Russian, paying special attention to the words in italics.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 485.
Exercise ¹ 13.
Plummeted slipped jumped
6. Sales held steady, profits ………….from $29.7 million to $12.1 million.
drifted lower crumbled leapt
7. Farm prices………….0.7% from September as raw milk prices continued their rise.
edged uprocketed surged
8. In the first eight months of the year exports to Germany …………….by 15% and hit the record, while those to France were up only 5%.
fell drifted lower soared
9. Stocks and bonds …………..as trading activity remained sluggish.
roared aheadedged lowerleapt
10. Forte's shares were among the week's best performers,………….20p to 309p.
Jumping plummeting tumbling
all time high – íàèâûñøåå çíà÷åíèå çà âåñü ïåðèîä íàáëþäåíèé, èñòîðè÷åñêèé ìàêñèìóì
ant. all-time low
record high – àáñîëþòíûé ìàêñèìóì, ðåêîðäíî âûñîêîå çíà÷åíèå
year's low – ñàìûé íèçêèé ïîêàçàòåëü çà ãîä
1) Historically, from 1914 until 2012, the United States inflation rate averaged 3.36% reaching an all time high of 23.7% in June of 1920 and a record low of -15.8% in June of 1921.
2) Foreign investment by U.S. businesses and investors is on track to be the second highest on record.
3) Having touched a 20-year low in 2006, this year sales fell every month until October.
4) Manufacturing output has already declined at a 2.2% annual rate in the fourth quarter, the largest quarterly drop since the 2001 recession.
5) Since January, exports to Asia have accounted for almost half of total shipments, andin the three months through July, the growth rate for shipments of all goods, adjusted for inflation, accelerated to a 30% annual rate.
6) The figures also showed that input prices – the cost of raw materials bought by industry – rose 1.8% on the month to stand 15.4%up on a year ago, the second biggest increase on record.
7) Singapore's economy slowed sharply from the third quarter. Growth fell by 3.2 per cent on an annualised, seasonally adjusted basis, the first contraction in four and a half years.
8) The main cause of the problem has been steadilyweakening prices, which are at about 20-year lows.
9) In the US, companies are generally quicker to shed jobs, the rate reached 9.8% in September, a 26-year high and up by around four percentage points since mid-2008.
10) In Germany and Britain, the forecast suggests a marked fall in output, year onyear.
11) According to WSD's (World Steel Dynamics) calculations, steel consumption in the US will pick up only marginally to 125m tones, from this year's expected 122,8m tones.
12) Last month exports were $1.64bn, fractionally downon the same month in 1984.
13) In fact, corporate profits are now at a peak in dollar terms and close to an all-time high as a percentage of GDP.
14) Japan's production of crude steel (íåðàôèíèðîâàííîé ñòàëè) rose dramatically in April to 8.830 million metric tons, up 15% from a year earlier and 5% from March.
15) The latest figures reflected only the normal seasonal improvement in the labour market and gave no sign that the present modest upswing in the economy was creating new jobs.
16) The rise in manufacturer's buying prices is also uncomfortably high in comparison with the domestic inflation rate, which was 4.6 per cent in the yearto December and is projected by Treasury (Ìèíèñòåðñòâî Ôèíàíñîâ) to remain at about that level this year.
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