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Class 2

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University of Montenegro

Faculty of Philosophy – Niksic

Department of English Language and Literature

Contemporary English Language III Translation Course E-S

Winter Semester

I Translate the following texts:

Author: Matt Thome

Novel: The Honeymoon Disease,

Words: 324

The sermon was followed by a period of open prayer. Michael always used this time to work out who to avoid at coffee afterwards, and just as he was focusing his disdain on a man with blue boat shoes, the entire congregation turned to stare at him and Michael felt certain Jesus had given them the power to read his mind. 'I want to tell you about my husband,' said Evelyn. Her voice was trembling and she clutched the photocopied notice sheet. 'Until Michael was baptized here, 1 felt angry with him. 1 needed him to become a Christian, and it seemed as if he was refusing to spite me. 'But I know now that it was a test from God. To be honest, although Michael wasn't a Christian when I met him, his lifestyle was much closer to the teachings of Jesus than mine. I knew I believed in God, but that faith became an excuse for a moral laxity on my part. The reason why I felt so angry with Michael is because I was angry with myself. 'I wanted Michael to believe in the same way I believed. I wanted him to know instinctively that God is there, and to use this knowledge as a way of putting off difficult questions. But he couldn’t do that. He needed me to live in a way that he could recognize as better than his own. In order to help Michael find the Christian in him, I had to rediscover the Christian in me.' Evelyn sat down. Michael took her hand, impressed by her honesty. He felt a second of resentment when he realized this would be taken as a sign that whatever was wrong with the newly-weds was now resolved, then decided he didn't care. Evelyn's words had made up for the banality of the service, and he even felt something of his old love for her as they rose to sing the final hymn.

Author: -

Magazine: Cosmopolitan, 2003

Words: 379

For eight long, hard months Angelina Jolie has been running, jumping, riding motorcycles and jet-skis (not to mention horses and bulls), kicking, punching, shooting bad guys and hanging off a helicopter. It was, she says. physically demanding and great fun. Each night, after a grueling day's filming, she'd go home and immediately fall asleep. And the only man in her life at the moment is her two-year-old adopted son Maddox. " I love learning about myself', she says. " I love being challenged. This kind of work is good for me because I think too much sometimes. I've had insomnia for years. I wanted to shut off my mind but I couldn't. " " Maddox has helped cure me of that. Now, after exhausting myself through working hard and the responsibility of having a child, I'm fine. I can sleep because I need sleep. " So it's great for me to be physically exhausted and challenged day in day out. And maybe it's good because I'm single and it's like, 'Throw me out of a helicopter! I need some release here! Drop me off the side of a cliff. Please!" She's been single for the past 15 months, following the breakdown of her two year marriage to actor and singer, Billy Bob Thornton. Since then, there have been rumors that she has been dating actor Nicolas Cage and even her first husband, Johnny Lee Miller, again. "No", she says. "Johnny and I are great friends, we're very close-but I'm single. She's, she says, quite happy about that for now. Looking after Maddox, being a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations and making movies keeps her fulfilled. But she's also 27-year-old woman, and exotically beautiful one at that - with naturally bee-strung lips, a figure to die for and piercing blue eyes. And it seems being with Thornton - a man 20 years her senior who'd been married three times before - was the wrong situation for Jolie. She has recently hinted that he didn't give her the attention she needed, and before the break-up, there were reports that he had been spending more and more time away from home touring with his band and that Jolie had become increasingly frustrated by his inability to embrace his new family life.

II Consecutive interpreting exercise

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