| EXAMPLE | TRANSLATION |
| I did begin to write some decent stories in London. | . , , , , . |
| Nevertheless, I was the only person Esquire magazine could find who knew where Kesey was. | , , , , . |
Due to the differences between English and Russian languages sometimes I had to use lexical transformations. First of all I used additions and omissions:
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OMISSION
| EXAMPLE | TRANSLATION |
| In spirit it was a world away from the woodsy gentility of the peninsula towns nearby | , . |
| His ability to offer other people a variety of satisfactions ranging from fun to transcendence was not especially verbal, which is why it remained independent of Keseys fiction, and it was ineffable, impossible to describe exactly or to encapsulate in a quotation. | , , , , , , , . |
| His forebears had feared and hated the railroads and the eastern banks. | . |
| But the ride in Kens multicolored International Harvester school bus was a journey of such holiness that being there was instantly beside the point. | , , , . |
| Who actually rode the bus, who rode it all the way to the worlds fair and all the way back, has become a matter of conjecture. | , , . |
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ADDITION
| EXAMPLE | TRANSLATION |
| Mainly in the redwood forest, it had the quality of a raw northwestern logging town transported to suburban San Francisco | , , -. |
| Its winters were like Seattles and its summers pretty much the same. | , , . |
| The Keseys had lived there while Ken did his graduate work at the university and afterward. | , , . |
| Kesey, as master of the revels sixty years later, did a great deal to advance that tradition. | 60 , , . |
| In 1962, he had published One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, a libertarian fable to suit the changing times. | 1962 , . |
| At school, Kesey was a wrestling champion, and champion was still the word for him. | , . |
| In a way, he personally embodied the winning side in every historical struggle that had served to create the colossus that was nineteen sixties America | , , , |
| But the raising of a worlds fair in the seething city was to Kesey both a breath of assurance and a challenge. | , , . |
| People worked hard, hustled hard, and stole just as they did anywhere else, but the stakes seemed higher. | , , , . |
| I remembered the good, cheap cafeteria on MacArthur Park. | . |
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