Грамматические трудности перевода. Английский язык для юристов

15. It is recommended that you should conduct an Internet search for legal expressions together with the name of the jurisdictions.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us

that someone might be looking.

H. L. Mencken

14. Модальные глаголы May, Must, выражающие предположение, уверенность

MODELS

May / might

You may (might) have read his account of the case.

Вы, возможно (может быть), читали его отчет об этом деле.

Must

The parties concerned must have stopped debating the claim. Заинтересованные стороны, очевидно (должно быть), прекратили обсуждение иска.

1. Economists say that inflation might double and even treble in the near future.

2. This politician used to be known as a tough old guy and people must have had reasons to think so.

3. The Prime Minister mentioned that a more radical stand on the issue must have enabled his party to avoid defeat.

4. Individual companies might have been more efficient if they had been liberated from central management.

5. Without a constructive means of tackling disputes among WTO member countries, some of them might have led to a serious political conflict.

6. Both sides in the cause must have grasped that they were living on “only one earth”.

7. The court can never know exactly what was in the head of a criminal at the time of committing the crime, so it has the difficult task of deciding what his intentions must have been.