02 Инфинитив и инфинитивные обороты (Т.Н. Михельсон, Н.В. Успенская - Практический курс грамматики английского языка), страница 7

в сложном дополнешш и в составном глагольном сказуемом

Упражнение

Переведите следующие предложения и укажите заключающийся в них инфинитивный оборот:

1. Dr. Innes expected CdS to fluoresce.

2. Dr. Innes was expected to report his new discoveries.

3. ZnS is known to fluoresce.

4. ZnS was expected by Dr. J. E. Parkins to fluoresce.

5. The atomic weight of oxygen has been assumed to be
   integral.

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6. Scientists assume the atomic weight of carbon to be

integral.

7. The nucleus has been shown by recent research to be

an exceedingly complex structure.

1. Recent research has shown the nucleus to be an
   exceedingly complex structure.

2. Uranium X proves to be isotopic with, and chemically
   inseparable from, thorium.

10. Joule and other scientists proved heat to be a form

of energy.

1. According to the light-quantum hypothesis, one might
   expect the kinetic energy of the emitted electron to be
   dependent upon the size of quantum of energy received, and
   this, in turn, upon the frequency of the incident radiation.

2. The alpha-particle has atomic mass, so that its passage
   through matter might be expected to cause disruptive effects.

26. Инфинитив после причастия II и слов likely, sure, certain

Инфинитив после причастия II, образованного от глаголов типа assume — считать, believe, think — пола­гать, find — оказываться, know — знать и др., перево­дится глаголом в личной форме в функции сказуемого придаточного определительного предложения с относи­тельным местоимением который. Причастие передается вводным неопределенно-личным предложением с сою­зом как, вводным словом или оборотом:

The changes assumed to take place on adding salts are illustrated in Fig. 1.

Изменения, которые, как считают, имеют место при добавлении солей, представлены на рис. 1.

Примечание. Тот же перевод требуется, если инфинитив стоит после причастия I от глагола appear или после слов likely, sure, certain:

Не used a substance appearing to induce X-rays.

Он использовал вещество, которое, видимо, испускало рентгенов­ские лучи.

Here is the apparatus likely to give the results required.

Вот аппарат, который, вероятно, даст (может дать) требуемые результаты.

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Упражнение Переведите следующие предложения:

1. A substance known to possess these properties is called
   an acid.

2. The only known sulphur compounds reported to have
   been found in oils fall into the following classes.

3. Account should be taken of the worst conditions of
   air temperature and humidity likely to arise.

4. A total of 2100 pictures were taken of which only a
   small fraction showed tracks appearing to stop in the bottom
   chamber.

5. The findings appearing to belong to the same period
   are of considerable interest.

6. These characteristic features may be due to a
mechanism, analogous to the one found to exist for soft
X-ray emission.

7. An effect reported to be due to the space charge in a
retarding field was found and investigated by Marx and Meyer.

27. Сопоставление инфинитива после причастия II с инфинитивом в составном глагольном сказуемом

Упражнение

Переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на ин­финитив в составном глагольном сказуемом:

1. Many substances are known to dissolve in hot water.

2. A substance which is known to dissolve in acids may
   not dissolve in water.

3. The substance reported to dissolve in hot water was
   thoroughly tested.

4. This substance is reported to possess the property of
   radioactivity.

5. Substances thought to possess the property in question
   were thoroughly investigated.

6. The eclipse of the sun was predicted to occur in 1460.

7. The eclipse of the sun predicted to occur in 1460 took
   place at the exact moment foretold.

8. This was the cubic equation which was believed in
   ancient Egypt to be insoluble.

9. The question is how closely these data represent the
   results likely to be obtained in practice.

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10. The following particulars have been selected as those
most likely to be useful in judging and criticizing the work.

1. The postulates of the theory are of fundamental
   importance, and are likely to form the nucleus of future
   theories of the structure of molecules.

2. In 1886, the Allis Lake Laboratory, a privately
   supported institution and said to be the first fresh-water
   biological station in this country, was established in Wisconsin.

28. Повторение инфинитивов и инфинитивных оборотов

Упражнение

Переведите следующие предложения, определяя инфинитивные обороты и функции инфинитивов:

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1. The radius of our orbit is believed to be increasing
   very slowly.

2. The copper to be refined is cast into large plates.

3. This property allows the alpha particle to be detected.

4. The source is so weak as to add comparatively few
   additional counts above the background.

5. There appear to be two distinct effects in this case.

6. Electrons can be made to travel at very high speeds.

7. The idea of nuclear charge and atomic number is now
   realized to be most important.

8. The cooling is effected by methods to be discussed in
   the next chapter.

9. A certain period of time must be allowed for the oil
   drops to be removed by the electric field or by precipitation.

1. There appears to be direct evidence of the existence
   of negative electrons in matter.

2. The distance d was calculated from equation 1—25
   and found to be 2.814 Angstroms.

3. The best agreement is to be found in the case of
   carbonic acid.

4. In our discussion the nucleus will be taken to be
   at rest.

5. We may suppose the alpha-particles within the nucleus
   to be in motion.

6. Ordinary objects are not likely to move with a velocity
   approaching the velocity of light.

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16. The lithium nucleus is too small for so many collisions
to occur.

17. Secondary radiation may be expected to rise when
the primary radiations are observed.

1. Light is to be considered as some kind of wave motion
   of electromagnetic origin.

2. There is no reason for the conversion of mechanical
   into rediated energy to be continuous.

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1. Alpha-rays were shown to be identical, no matter
   from what radioactive element they are emitted.

2. There is no definite molecular weight to be ascribed
   to water when in a liquid state.

22. Pitchblende was shown by X-ray and emission
examination to have been a mixed salt.

1. It will be necessary for the observer to remain in the
   dark at least ten or fifteen minutes to accustom his eyes to
   the darkness.

2. In liquids and solids the movement of molecules must
   be supposed to be more restricted.

3. One may consider the charge-exchange reaction to
   have been established under these conditions.

4. Radium appeared to be an element, whose salts were
   found to be isomorphous with the corresponding salts of barium.

5. The proportion of colouring matter to be mixed with
   a body depends chiefly on the effect to be produced.

6. The nucleus of every atom is assumed to contain
   enough protons to account for the nuclear charge.

7. At first the alpha-rays were thought to be undeviated
   by the magnetic fields.

8. As information accumulated, it became possible to plan
   experiments that were likely to yield the material sought for.

9. During the Dark Ages people believed the Earth to
   be flat.

10. All circumstances likely to affect the accuracy of the
    measurements should be carefuly observed.

33. Samples of two ores from a region known to be
geologically very old have ages close to 2000 million years.

34. When a current is said to be flowing from the positive

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pole of a battery towards the negative pole, actually electrons are running in the opposite direction.

III

1. To test for a soluble iodide one adds to a test tube
   containing the solution to be tested, one cubic centimeter of
   carbon disulphate, and a few cubic centimeters of chlorine
   water and shakes the mixture vigorously.

2. To maintain a constant temperature in a small or
   large container was for years and still is a very important
   technical problem because most precise physical and chemical
   experiments require the temperature of the object to be
   constant at the moment when the readings or any other kind
   of observation are made.

3. The speed of the particles (about ten thousand miles
   per second) is a bit too swift for us to study in detail.

4. Any metal will displace another metal, occupying a
   lower position in the activity series, from a solution of any
   of the salts of the second metal, provided that the metal to
   be displaced is not very far above hydrogen,

39. The equilibrium methods of measuring relative
activities allow the substance whose relative activities are to
be measured to come to equilibrium and to determine the
conditions of the equilibrium.

i 40. We consider the hotness or coldness of any body to depend on the quantity of heat possessed by the body.

1. Ions have been found by numerous experiments to
   move as easily through a jell as through the liquid solution.

2. One of the main objects of experiments on mesons
   has been to determine whether the properties of the particles
   found in cosmic rays fit the predictions of the meson theory
   started by Yukawa.

3. Galacturonic acid was shown by Hagglund and his
   colaborators to be present in the sulphite liquors from pine
   wood.

4. A body with total kinetic energy reduced to zero
   would not be able to transfer heat to any other body and
   might then be said to be at the absolute zero temperature.

5. With an increased production of uranium in recent
   years interest in uranium steel is reviving again and its

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outstanding properties make it seem likely to earn for itself a favourable position among special alloy steels.

1. For the growth to continue steps must be formed
   gradually at ordinary temperature.

2. We must discuss the actual values of — x for contacts
   between metals and insulators, and see whether they are
   likely to be small enough for any current to pass.

3. To begin with a simple example, let us in the first
   place, without troubling about velocity, consider the question
   of the number of molecules which on the average are to be
   found in a definite volume of element W.

4. The streams of ionized particles assumed to be emitted
   at the time of flares and to excape sometimes from the solar
   atmosphere and reach the Earth, giving rise to sudden
   magnetic storms, also have velocities of the right order.

5. The condition for the rays SA and SB to reinforce
   each other on reuniting at P is that their light paths differ
   by an integral number of wave lengths.

1. It is quite common to use the so-called probable
   error, or the error for which there seems to be an even
   chance of existing in the case of anyone observation.

2. In astronomical subjects it is customary to print to
   a high contrast in order to render visible details likely (or
   even certain) to be otherwise missed.

1. The theorists were not sure whether what the observers
   considered to be the brightest stars in a galaxy were actually
   stars.

2. In the present discussion observations of declination
   have been accepted as likely to provide the best representation
   of the sun's liongitude.

3. The discussion of too many details and special cases
   does not seem to be desirable, since it is likely to obscure
   the fundamentally important points.