English idioms and their Russian equivalents

Средняя общеобразовательная школа №17
Работу выполнила:
Мишина Евгения Андреевна
ученица 9-в

класса
Руководитель:
Новикова Тамара Александровна
учитель иностранного языка

Ковров 2010

expression whose total meaning differs from the meaning of the

individual words. Idioms come from language and generally cannot be translated literally (word for word). Foreign language students must learn them just as they would learn vocabulary words.
It is generally accepted that interpreters did not know much about the laws and rules of translation at the dawn of civilization. They did not have enough scientific knowledge, and some writers maintained later that translation was a problem which could never be solved.
"All translation seems to me to be simply an attempt to solve an insoluble problem."
W. von Humboldt

language guessing skills.
The subject of the work is

idioms in English
and Russian languages.
The objective of the work is an attempt to
study all the aspects of idioms, the cases of their
usage and to analyze the frequency of idioms usage
referring to English and Russian.

all right – все хорошо

for example - например
in time – вовремя
by the way – между прочим
be married – пожениться
in summer – летом
stand up – вставать
Happy birthday! – С днем рождения!
It rains cats and dogs. – Льет как из ведра

with
people's mentality.
- Idiomatic sentences enrich a language.

- The knowledge of idioms signal that the
speaker knows the language on the level of
a native speaker.
- Idioms are integral part of language
which make our speech more colourful and
authentically native.