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1 the workings of the mind
Общая лексика: работа умаУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > the workings of the mind
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2 boggle the mind
ideas imprinted on the mind — мысли, запечатлевшиеся в уме
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3 Mind
It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)[Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive AnalysesRecent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind
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1. n ум, разумideas imprinted on the mind — мысли, запечатлевшиеся в уме
2. n умственные способности, интеллект, ум; мышление, умственная деятельность3. n рассудок, умpresence of mind — присутствие духа, хладнокровие
mind affected by drink — рассудок, расстроенный опьянением
lucid mind — здравый рассудок, ясное сознание
4. n памятьabsence of mind — забывчивость; рассеянность
to bear in mind — помнить; запоминать; иметь в виду
bear that in mind! — запомни это!; имей это в виду!
with present-day conditions in mind — учитывая сегодняшнюю действительность, имея в виду условия современной жизни
5. n уст. поминание; поминальная служба6. n настроение, состояние духа7. n направление мыслей; склад ума8. n мнение; взглядI gave him a piece of my mind — разг. я ему высказал всё, что думал
they were all of one mind — все они придерживались одного мнения, они достигли единодушного решения; они пришли к соглашению
to keep an open mind on smth. — сохранять объективность в подходе к вопросу, делу
9. n намерение, желаниеcriminal mind — преступное намерение; преступный умысел
10. n мысли, думы; стремление, помыслыvacant mind — тупость, полное отсутствие мыслей
the vultures of the mind — мысли, терзающие мозг
11. n дух; душаso many men so many minds — сколько голов, столько умов
mind laden with sin — душа, обременённая грехом
12. v в вопросительных или отрицательных предложениях, а также в утвердительном ответе возражать, иметь противdo you mind if I smoke ?, do you mind my smoking ?, would you mind my smoking ? — вы не будете возражать, если я закурю ?
yes, I mind it — нет, я возражаю
mind your eye! — берегись!, внимание!, гляди в оба!
keep in mind — помнить; учитывать; иметь в виду
13. v заботиться; волноваться, беспокоиться, тревожитьсяmake your mind easy — не волнуйтесь, успокойтесь
14. v обыкн. в повелительном предложении15. v обращать внимание, считатьсяbear sth in mind — помнить; учитывать; принимать во внимание
16. v прислушиваться; слушатьсяmind what I say — слушай, что я говорю
17. v остерегаться, беречься, обращать внимание18. v не забыть сделатьbear in mind — помнить; не забыть; не забывать
19. v обратить внимание, заметитьI have no objection, mind, but … — я не возражаю, заметь, но …
20. v заботиться; смотреть, присматривать; заниматьсяmind your footing! — не оступитесь!, смотрите, куда идёте!
21. v арх. диал. помнитьhave in mind — помнить; иметь в виду
22. v редк. напоминать23. v арх. внимательно следить, внимать24. v уст. диал. намереватьсяwhere have you been? — Never you mind! — где вы были? — Не ваша забота
to have a good mind to … — намереваться, собираться
Синонимический ряд:1. brain (noun) brain; brains; gray matter; grey matter; head; intellectual; thinker; upper story2. inclination (noun) bent; bias; disposition; inclination; leaning; proclivity3. intellect (noun) faculty; intellect; judgment; memory; mental balance; recall; recollection; remembrance4. intent (noun) desire; fancy; intent; intention; liking; pleasure; purpose; velleity; will; wish; wont5. mood (noun) humor; mood; strain; temper; tone; vein6. opinion (noun) belief; consideration; contemplation; conviction; eye; feeling; judgement; opinion; perspective; persuasion; point of view; sentiment; sentiments; view7. psychology (noun) mentality; psyche; psychology8. understanding (noun) intelligence; understanding9. wit (noun) lucidity; reason; saneness; sanity; sense; senses; soundness; soundnesss; wit; wits10. beware (verb) beware; look out; watch out11. consider (verb) consider; contemplate; excogitate; perpend; ponder; study; think out; think over; weigh12. heed (verb) abide by; adhere; behave; comply; conform; follow; heed; keep; listen; obey; observe; pay attention13. object (verb) care; complain; deplore; dislike; object14. see (verb) behold; descry; discern; distinguish; espy; mark; note; notice; perceive; remark; see; twig; view15. tend (verb) attend; attend to; be careful; care for; look; look after; minister to; see to; take care of; tend; watchАнтонимический ряд:aversion; body; conduct; coolness; disobey; element; forgetfulness; indifference; matter; neglect; object; organisation; proceeding; stuff; substance -
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6 the workings of the human mind
Общая лексика: мыслительный процессУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > the workings of the human mind
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1. noun1) Arbeiten, das2) (way something works) Arbeitsweise, die2. attributive adjective1) handlungsfähig [Mehrheit]; [Entwurf, Vereinbarung] als Ausgangspunkt2) (in employment) arbeitend; werktätigworking man — (labourer) Arbeiter, der
* * *work·ing[ˈwɜ:kɪŋ, AM ˈwɜ:rk-]I. adj attr, inv1. (employed) berufstätig, erwerbstätigthe \working population die arbeitende Bevölkerung2. (pertaining to work) Arbeits-\working breakfast/lunch Arbeitsfrühstück nt/-essen nt\working clothes Arbeitskleidung f\working conditions Arbeitsbedingungen pl\working hour/hours Arbeitsstunde f/-zeit f\working model Arbeitsmodell nt\working practices Arbeitsweise f\working relationship Arbeitsverhältnis nt37-hour \working week 37-Stunden-Woche f\working order Betriebsfähigkeit f, Funktionsfähigkeit fto restore sth to \working order etw wieder in Ordnung bringenin \working order betriebsfähig, funktionstüchtigthe \working parts of a machine die beweglichen Teile4. (of theory)\working definition/hypothesis/theory Arbeitsdefinition f/-hypothese f/-theorie f5. (basic) Arbeits-6. (of animal)\working dog/horse Arbeitshund m/-pferd ntII. nopencast \working Abbau m über Tage3. MIN4.▶ the \workings of fate die Wege des Schicksals* * *['wɜːkɪŋ]1. adjworking man — Arbeiter m
I'm a working man, I need my rest — ich arbeite den ganzen Tag, ich brauche meine Ruhe
2) (= spent in or used for working) Arbeits-your order will be sent within three working days — ihre Bestellung wird innerhalb von drei Werktagen geschickt
in good/perfect working order — voll funktionsfähig
4) farm, mill, sailing ship, steam train in Betrieb2. n1) (= work) Arbeiten nt, Arbeit f2) pl (= way sth works) Arbeitsweise f, Funktionsweise fworkings of fate — Wege pl des Schicksal
in order to understand the workings of this machine/system — um zu verstehen, wie die Maschine/das System funktioniert
* * *A s1. Arbeiten n2. auch pl Wirken n, Tun n, Tätigkeit f3. TECH Be-, Verarbeitung f4. TECHa) Funktionieren nb) Arbeitsweise f5. meist pl Bergbau etc:a) Abbau mb) Grube f6. mühsame Arbeit, Kampf mB adj1. arbeitend, berufs-, werktätig:the working population auch die Erwerbsbevölkerung;working mother berufstätige Mutter;working student Werkstudent(in)2. Arbeits…:working companion Arbeitskamerad(in);working method Arbeitsverfahren n3. WIRTSCH, TECH Betriebs…:4. grundlegend, Ausgangs…, Arbeits…:working hypothesis Arbeitshypothese f;working title Arbeitstitel m (eines Buchs etc)5. brauchbar, praktisch:working knowledge ausreichende Kenntnisse pl* * *1. noun1) Arbeiten, das2) (way something works) Arbeitsweise, die2. attributive adjective1) handlungsfähig [Mehrheit]; [Entwurf, Vereinbarung] als Ausgangspunkt2) (in employment) arbeitend; werktätigworking man — (labourer) Arbeiter, der
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arbeid--------driftIsubst. \/ˈwɜːkɪŋ\/1) arbeid2) ( ofte i flertall) funksjon, funksjonsmåte, gang, virkemåte3) ( ofte i flertall) utgraving4) virksomhet, drift5) utregning6) ( ofte i flertall) trekning, rykning7) forklaring: vann i bevegelse8) ( sjøfart) manøvrering9) gruvegang, gruvesjakt• are there any disused workings?10) ( sted hvor det brytes stein e.l.) bruddcontinuous working kontinuerlig drift, døgndriftof one's working som man selv har forårsaketworkings verkthe workings of Providence skjebnens verkthe workings of somebody's mind det som rører seg i noenIIadj. \/ˈwɜːkɪŋ\/1) arbeidende, arbeider-• look at the working masses!2) arbeids-3) drifts-4) funksjonsdyktig5) praktisk, funksjonell, anvendelig6) provisorisk, foreløpigin working order se ➢ order, 1 -
9 Artificial Intelligence
In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, EventuallyJust as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the ProgramMany problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)[AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract FormThe basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory FormationIt is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular ContextsEven if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial IntelligenceThe primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary PropositionsIn artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
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working ['wɜ:kɪŋ]∎ ordinary working people les travailleurs ordinaires;∎ the party of the working man le parti des travailleurs(b) (day, hours) de travail;∎ during a normal working day pendant la journée de travail;∎ Sunday is not a working day le dimanche est chômé, on ne travaille pas le dimanche;∎ a working week of forty hours une semaine de quarante heures;∎ he spent his entire working life with the firm il a travaillé toute sa vie dans l'entreprise;∎ to be of working age être en âge de travailler;∎ a working breakfast/lunch un petit déjeuner/un déjeuner d'affaires(c) (clothes, conditions) de travail;∎ a relaxed working environment un milieu professionnel détendu;∎ we have a close working relationship nous travaillons bien ensemble(d) (functioning → farm, factory) qui marche;∎ in (good) working order en (bon) état de marche;(e) (theory, definition) de travail; (majority) suffisant; (agreement) de circonstance; (knowledge) adéquat, suffisant;∎ working agreement modus vivendi m;∎ to have a working knowledge of French/the law posséder une connaissance suffisante du français/du droit2 noun(b) (operation → of machine) fonctionnement m∎ it's difficult to understand the workings of his mind il est difficile de savoir ce qu'il a dans la tête ou ce qui se passe dans sa tête∎ old mine workings anciennes mines fpl►► Finance working account compte m d'exploitation;Accountancy working assets actif m circulant;Finance working capital (UNCOUNT) fonds mpl de roulement, capital m de roulement;Finance working capital cycle cycle m du besoin en fonds de roulement;Finance working capital fund compte m d'avances;the working class, the working classes la classe ouvrière, le prolétariat;working copy (of document, text) copie f de travail;working drawing épure f;working expenses frais mpl généraux, frais mpl d'exploitation;Computing working file fichier m de travail;working girl (prostitute) professionnelle f;working hypothesis hypothèse f de travail;working interest participation f d'exploitation;working lunch déjeuner m d'affaires ou de travail;working majority majorité f suffisante;British working man ouvrier m;working men's club = club d'ouvriers, comportant un bar et une scène où sont présentés des spectacles;working model modèle m qui fonctionne;Mathematics working out (of problem) résolution f;∎ show all working out (in exam paper) montrez les étapes de votre raisonnement;working party (committee → for study) groupe m de travail; (→ for enquiry) commission f d'enquête; (group → of prisoners, soldiers) groupe m de travail;working speed vitesse f de régime;working title titre m provisoire; -
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tr['wɜːkɪŋ]1 (clothes, conditions, surface) de trabajo; (week, day, life) laborable2 (population, partner, etc) activo,-a; (person, mother) que trabaja1 (machine, model) que funciona; (part) móvil1 (majority) suficiente2 (hypothesis etc) de trabajo1 (of mine, quarry) pozos nombre masculino plural1 (mechanics) funcionamiento\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto be in (full) working order funcionarworking capital capital nombre masculino activoworking knowledge conocimientos nombre masculino plural básicosworking breakfast/lunch desayuno/almuerzo/comida de negociosworking party grupo de trabajoworking relationship relación nombre femenino laboralworking ['wərkɪŋ] adj1) : que trabajaworking mothers: madres que trabajanthe working class: la clase obrera2) : de trabajoworking hours: horas de trabajo3) functioning: que funciona, operativo4) sufficient: suficientea working majority: una mayoría suficienteworking knowledge: conocimientos básicosadj.• de trabajo adj.• obrador adj.• obrero, -a adj.n.• efecto s.m.• elaboración s.f.• explotación s.f.• funcionamiento s.m.• labrado s.m.• operación s.f.'wɜːrkɪŋ, 'wɜːkɪŋadjective (before n)1)a) <mother/parent> que trabajaworking population — población f activa
b) <hours/conditions> de trabajoall my working life — toda mi vida activa or laboral
2)a) ( capable of operating)b) ( suitable for working with) < hypothesis> de trabajo['wɜːkɪŋ]1. ADJ1) (=economically active) [person] trabajador, que trabaja; [population] activoworking mothers — madres fpl trabajadoras, madres fpl que trabajan
the working man — el hombre trabajador or que trabaja
the working woman — la mujer trabajadora or que trabaja
he's a working dog — es un perro de trabajo or labor
2) (=relating to work) [conditions, practice, environment, week] laboral; [life] laboral, activo; [day] laborable; [breakfast, lunch] de trabajo; [clothes] de faena, de trabajoyour order will be sent within three working days — (Brit) su pedido será despachado en un plazo de tres días laborables
my working day begins at eight a.m. — mi jornada (laboral or de trabajo) empieza a las ocho de la mañana
working patterns — pautas fpl laborales, pautas fpl de trabajo
3) (=provisional) [title, definition] momentáneo, provisionalworking hypothesis — hipótesis f inv de trabajo
4) (=functioning) [farm, mill, steam train] en funcionamiento2. N1) (=operation) [of machine, engine, computer] funcionamiento m ; [of mine] explotación f2) workingsa) [of organization, parliament] forma f de funcionar; [of machine, engine, computer] (=operation, way of working) funcionamiento m ; (=mechanism) mecanismo m3.CPDworking assets NPL — (Comm, Econ) activo m circulante
working capital N — (Comm, Econ) capital m circulante, capital m de explotación
working-classthe working class(es) N (PL) — la clase obrera, la clase trabajadora
working expenses NPL — gastos mpl de explotación
working face N — cara f de trabajo
working group N — grupo m de trabajo (on sobre)
working holiday N — vacaciones en las que se combina el trabajo con el ocio
working majority N — (Pol) mayoría f suficiente
working model N — modelo m articulado
working paper N — documento m de trabajo
working parts NPL — partes fpl activas
working partner N — socio m activo
working party N — = working group
working relationship N — relación f de trabajo
they have a good working relationship — tienen una buena relación de trabajo, trabajan bien juntos
working vacation N (US) — = working holiday
* * *['wɜːrkɪŋ, 'wɜːkɪŋ]adjective (before n)1)a) <mother/parent> que trabajaworking population — población f activa
b) <hours/conditions> de trabajoall my working life — toda mi vida activa or laboral
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12 Memory
To what extent can we lump together what goes on when you try to recall: (1) your name; (2) how you kick a football; and (3) the present location of your car keys? If we use introspective evidence as a guide, the first seems an immediate automatic response. The second may require constructive internal replay prior to our being able to produce a verbal description. The third... quite likely involves complex operational responses under the control of some general strategy system. Is any unitary search process, with a single set of characteristics and inputoutput relations, likely to cover all these cases? (Reitman, 1970, p. 485)[Semantic memory] Is a mental thesaurus, organized knowledge a person possesses about words and other verbal symbols, their meanings and referents, about relations among them, and about rules, formulas, and algorithms for the manipulation of these symbols, concepts, and relations. Semantic memory does not register perceptible properties of inputs, but rather cognitive referents of input signals. (Tulving, 1972, p. 386)The mnemonic code, far from being fixed and unchangeable, is structured and restructured along with general development. Such a restructuring of the code takes place in close dependence on the schemes of intelligence. The clearest indication of this is the observation of different types of memory organisation in accordance with the age level of a child so that a longer interval of retention without any new presentation, far from causing a deterioration of memory, may actually improve it. (Piaget & Inhelder, 1973, p. 36)4) The Logic of Some Memory Theorization Is of Dubious Worth in the History of PsychologyIf a cue was effective in memory retrieval, then one could infer it was encoded; if a cue was not effective, then it was not encoded. The logic of this theorization is "heads I win, tails you lose" and is of dubious worth in the history of psychology. We might ask how long scientists will puzzle over questions with no answers. (Solso, 1974, p. 28)We have iconic, echoic, active, working, acoustic, articulatory, primary, secondary, episodic, semantic, short-term, intermediate-term, and longterm memories, and these memories contain tags, traces, images, attributes, markers, concepts, cognitive maps, natural-language mediators, kernel sentences, relational rules, nodes, associations, propositions, higher-order memory units, and features. (Eysenck, 1977, p. 4)The problem with the memory metaphor is that storage and retrieval of traces only deals [ sic] with old, previously articulated information. Memory traces can perhaps provide a basis for dealing with the "sameness" of the present experience with previous experiences, but the memory metaphor has no mechanisms for dealing with novel information. (Bransford, McCarrell, Franks & Nitsch, 1977, p. 434)7) The Results of a Hundred Years of the Psychological Study of Memory Are Somewhat DiscouragingThe results of a hundred years of the psychological study of memory are somewhat discouraging. We have established firm empirical generalisations, but most of them are so obvious that every ten-year-old knows them anyway. We have made discoveries, but they are only marginally about memory; in many cases we don't know what to do with them, and wear them out with endless experimental variations. We have an intellectually impressive group of theories, but history offers little confidence that they will provide any meaningful insight into natural behavior. (Neisser, 1978, pp. 12-13)A schema, then is a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are schemata representing our knowledge about all concepts; those underlying objects, situations, events, sequences of events, actions and sequences of actions. A schema contains, as part of its specification, the network of interrelations that is believed to normally hold among the constituents of the concept in question. A schema theory embodies a prototype theory of meaning. That is, inasmuch as a schema underlying a concept stored in memory corresponds to the mean ing of that concept, meanings are encoded in terms of the typical or normal situations or events that instantiate that concept. (Rumelhart, 1980, p. 34)Memory appears to be constrained by a structure, a "syntax," perhaps at quite a low level, but it is free to be variable, deviant, even erratic at a higher level....Like the information system of language, memory can be explained in part by the abstract rules which underlie it, but only in part. The rules provide a basic competence, but they do not fully determine performance. (Campbell, 1982, pp. 228, 229)When people think about the mind, they often liken it to a physical space, with memories and ideas as objects contained within that space. Thus, we speak of ideas being in the dark corners or dim recesses of our minds, and of holding ideas in mind. Ideas may be in the front or back of our minds, or they may be difficult to grasp. With respect to the processes involved in memory, we talk about storing memories, of searching or looking for lost memories, and sometimes of finding them. An examination of common parlance, therefore, suggests that there is general adherence to what might be called the spatial metaphor. The basic assumptions of this metaphor are that memories are treated as objects stored in specific locations within the mind, and the retrieval process involves a search through the mind in order to find specific memories....However, while the spatial metaphor has shown extraordinary longevity, there have been some interesting changes over time in the precise form of analogy used. In particular, technological advances have influenced theoretical conceptualisations.... The original Greek analogies were based on wax tablets and aviaries; these were superseded by analogies involving switchboards, gramophones, tape recorders, libraries, conveyor belts, and underground maps. Most recently, the workings of human memory have been compared to computer functioning... and it has been suggested that the various memory stores found in computers have their counterparts in the human memory system. (Eysenck, 1984, pp. 79-80)Primary memory [as proposed by William James] relates to information that remains in consciousness after it has been perceived, and thus forms part of the psychological present, whereas secondary memory contains information about events that have left consciousness, and are therefore part of the psychological past. (Eysenck, 1984, p. 86)Once psychologists began to study long-term memory per se, they realized it may be divided into two main categories.... Semantic memories have to do with our general knowledge about the working of the world. We know what cars do, what stoves do, what the laws of gravity are, and so on. Episodic memories are largely events that took place at a time and place in our personal history. Remembering specific events about our own actions, about our family, and about our individual past falls into this category. With amnesia or in aging, what dims... is our personal episodic memories, save for those that are especially dear or painful to us. Our knowledge of how the world works remains pretty much intact. (Gazzaniga, 1988, p. 42)The nature of memory... provides a natural starting point for an analysis of thinking. Memory is the repository of many of the beliefs and representations that enter into thinking, and the retrievability of these representations can limit the quality of our thought. (Smith, 1990, p. 1)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Memory
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1. [ʹwɜ:kıŋ] n1. работа, действие, функционирование2. эксплуатация3. обработка4. часто pl горн.1) выработки2) разработка5. метал. ведение плавки6. режим работы7. воен. результат операций8. движение ( воды)9. брожение (пива и т. п.)10. подёргивание мускулов лица и т. п.2. [ʹwɜ:kıŋ] a1. позволяющий осуществлять работуworking knowledge of a foreign language - практическое знание иностранного языка
2. способствующий работеworking group - рабочая группа (конференции и т. п.)
3. отведённый для работы4. пригодный для работы5. связанный с работой6. работающий7. спец.1) действующий; рабочийworking load - тех. рабочая нагрузка
2) эксплуатационныйworking costs /expenses/ - эксплуатационные расходы
8. поэт. бушующий ( о море)9. дёргающийся (о щеке и т. п.) -
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1. n1) робота; дія2) експлуатація; розробка3) обробка4) часто pl гірн. виробки5) проведення плавлення (плавки)6) система обслуговування7) військ. результат операцій8) рух (води)9) сіпання (м'язів тощо)10) бродіння (пива тощо)2. adj1) працюючий; трудовий; що працюєworking woman (girl) — робітниця; працівниця
2) робочий (про худобу)3) придатний для роботи; пов'язаний з роботою (працею)working hours — робочий час; години праці
working place — робочий простір; гірн. робочий вибій
working print — робочий позитив, студійна копія (кінофільму)
4) діючий; робочийworking load — тех. корисне навантаження
working order — готовність до роботи; робочий стан
5) експлуатаційний6) поет. бурхливий (про море)working capital — ек. обіговий капітал
working churn — маслоробна машина, маслороб
working paper — пам'ятна записка; робочий документ
working papers — амер. дозвіл на роботу, (що видається неповнолітнім)
working party — робоча група, комісія (в ООН тощо)
working standard — технічна одиниця; загальноприйнятий стандарт
working steam — тех. свіжа пара
* * *I ['wxːkiç] n1) робота, дія, функціонування2) експлуатація3) оброка4) pl гірськ. вироблення; розробка5) метал. Ведення плавки6) режим роботиshift working — багатозмінний режим роботи
7) вiйcьк. результат операцій9) бродіння (пив;)II ['wxːkiç] a6) що працює7) cпeц. діючий; робочийworking load — тex. робоче навантаження; експлуатаційний
working costs /expenses/ — експлуатаційні витрати
8) пoeт. що бушує ( про море)9) що смикається ( про щоку) -
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I ['wxːkiç] n1) робота, дія, функціонування2) експлуатація3) оброка4) pl гірськ. вироблення; розробка5) метал. Ведення плавки6) режим роботиshift working — багатозмінний режим роботи
7) вiйcьк. результат операцій9) бродіння (пив;)II ['wxːkiç] a6) що працює7) cпeц. діючий; робочийworking load — тex. робоче навантаження; експлуатаційний
working costs /expenses/ — експлуатаційні витрати
8) пoeт. що бушує ( про море)9) що смикається ( про щоку) -
16 actually
В наиболее общем виде коммуникативный смысл частицы actually связан обычно с указанием на какой-либо актуальный факт как на факт реальной действительности, часто выступающий как нечто новое, неосознанное, а порой и неожиданное по сравнению с тем, что говорилось ранее, что обычно считается истинным, что думал собеседник. В этой связи функцию указания на действительное положение дел следует, пожалуй, считать базисной, изначальной функцией actually, от которой развились другие ее функции, часто встречающиеся в разговорной речи. В письменном, книжном языке указанная частица употребляется, в основном, именно в базисной функции, и здесь подходящими эквивалентами частицы могут служить русские на самом деле и действительно:
•... the people who were appointed to top posts never actually applied for them before they were approached (DL: 164)
... люди, назначаемые на высшие должности, на самом деле всегда подавали заявления лишь после того, как им предлагали это сделать.
Функция указания на действительное (в противоположность несуществующему) положение дел встречается, однако, не только в письменном стиле, но и в нейтральном, и в разговорном, где в качестве эквивалентов, в силу своей нейтральности, могут выступать те же, уже указанные выше слова:
• None of them actually saw the Monster.
Никто из них на самом деле не видел Лохнесское Чудовище.
•... it was just like being married, really, and when we actually got married it was a purely social event... (DL: 219)
... на самом деле мы жили в точности как муж и жена, а когда мы действительно поженились, это было чисто формальное мероприятие.
При сопоставлении в одном предложении двух фактов с точки зрения того, какой из них ближе к действительному положению вещей, actually может выполнять эмфатическую функцию и переводиться различными усилительными средствами:
•... it led to the development of mathematics which were viewed as akin to, if not actually identical with, the workings of the mind of God. (RS: 314)
... это привело к развитию математики, поскольку считалось, что математические процессы схожи с процессами, происходящими в уме Творца, а то и полностью совпадают с ними (или даже полностью совпадают с ними).
Одной из наиболее распространенных разговорных функций actually следует признать функцию привлечения внимания к актуальному для данной ситуации факту. В этом случае значение, приобретаемое частицей, становится близким к значениям русских вводных слов кстати, надо сказать и между прочим:
• And he did introduce us to two people. The Greek actor he said was going to play the poet. And the director. Another Greek. We all had dinner... actually we liked them both. (F: 341)
И он действительно познакомил нас с двумя людьми. С актером-греком, который, как он сказал, будет играть роль поэта. И режиссером. Тоже греком. Мы обедали все вместе... между прочим, они оба нам понравились.
• It's just a technique, actually rather a marvellous one, for helping you get into a part. (F: 292).
Это просто способ, кстати, очень даже неплохой способ помочь вам вжиться в роль.
С помощью частицы actually говорящий может не просто привлекать внимание к какому-либо факту, а использовать вводимое частицей высказывание в качестве уточнения, объяснения сказанного выше. В этом случае подходящим эквивалентом частицы может стать русское выражение дело в том, что (или частица вообще-то):
• - I suppose we both preferred our own company.
- That's not very complimentary of you.
- Sorry. I didn't mean to sound offensive. Actually, I was feeling rather dreary, and thought I'd better keep it to myself. (Pr: 126)
- Мне кажется, мы оба не хотели никого видеть.
- Это не очень-то вежливо с вашей стороны.
- Извините. Я не хотел никого обидеть. Дело в том, что я был в довольно дурном настроении и подумал, что мне лучше побыть одному.
Выступая в функции привлечения внимания к актуальному факту, частица actually может приобретать дополнительные оттенки смысла, а именно выражать противопоставление или поправку по отношению к предыдущему высказыванию. Однако приобретаемый частицей оттенок полемичности носит вежливый и мягкий характер, в связи с чем на роль ее эквивалента хорошо подходят русские частицы вообще и вообще-то (хотя часто возможно использование также и уже упомянутого выражения на самом деле). Рассмотрим ряд примеров:
• "But I thought he did something rather fine during the resistance." - "Not on your nelly. Actually he did a deal with the Germans." (F: 621)
"Но мне казалось, что он неплохо проявил себя в период Сопротивления." - "Ничего подобного. Он вообще сотрудничал с немцами."
В приведенном примере частица вводит факт, вступающий в отношение противопоставленности по отношению к высказыванию первого собеседника: герой не только не участвовал в Сопротивлении, но, напротив, сотрудничал с оккупантами.
• 'Have you two introduced yourselves?" - "We've met before, actually. In Genoa." (DL: 216)
"Вы представились друг другу?" - " Вообще-то мы уже встречались раньше. В Генуе."
• "Have you published much?" -"No, not a lot. Well, nothing, yet, actually. I am still working on my PhD." (DL: 10)
"У вас много публикаций?" - "Нет, не очень, вообще-то, пока на самом деле ни одной. Я ещё работаю над своей диссертацией."
В двух последних примерах видно, как с помощью частицы actually говорящий вводит коррекцию либо собственного высказывания, либо высказывания собеседника.
Особый интерес с точки зрения перевода представляют случаи, когда частица предваряет высказывание, подкрепляющее или усиливающее предыдущее. В этом случае в переводе необходимо отразить дополнительный эмотивный компонент смысла, появляющийся у частицы в таких контекстах, что позволяет сделать русская частица даже:
• Only one passenger has a hardback book on her lap, and actually seems to be making notes as she reads. (DL: 88)
Лишь у одной пассажирки на коленях лежит серьезная книга, и, читая, она, похоже, даже делает в ней пометки.
• 'Would you say you were a strikingly pretty little girl... were you conscious that there was something rather special about you?" - "... the answer is yes, I believe there was. Actually I was painted." (F: 602)
"Могли бы вы сказать, что были поразительно красивым ребенком... вы осознавали, что в вас есть что-то особенное?" - "... я отвечу да, я думаю, что-то было. Один художник даже писал мой портрет."
Эмотивный компонент удивления говорящего по поводу какого-либо факта реальной действительности в целом встречается достаточно часто и, в зависимости от контекста, может переводиться другими русскими средствами:
• Lampton, in the same position, made no attempt to escape, but devoted his attention to his studies, passing his main accountancy examination whilst actually a prisoner. (JB: 149)
Лэмптон в такой же ситуации не предпринял попытки бежать, а посвятил себя учебе, сдав свой основной экзамен по бухгалтерскому делу, фактически находясь в заключении.
• "What did he use to do at the orgies?" - "I don't know, darling. Mummy would never be very explicit. Though actually she seems proud of him." (JB: 155)
"А что он обычно делал во время этих оргий?" - "Не знаю, дорогой. Мама всегда отвечала на этот вопрос уклончиво. Хотя, как ни странно, она, кажется, гордится им."
Интересно также отметить случаи, когда частица actually употребляется для обозначения перехода от одной темы к другой или возврата к предыдущей или основной теме монолога. В этой функции частица может быть переведена различными функциональными эквивалентами в зависимости от контекста и в соответствии с принципом естественности звучания:
• "Nothing, old boy. Really. All damned absurd. Actually I was out walking one day. May or June, can't remember." (F: 622)
"Ничего, старина. Поверь мне. Все чертовски глупо. Ну, короче, вышел я раз прогуляться. Было это в мае или июне, сейчас не помню." (переход к более конкретному рассказу)
• "Не spoke English?" - "Perfect. Moved round Europe all his life, best society and all that. Well, actually I found one of the twins a shade off. Not my type. (F: 623)
"Он говорил по-английски?" - "Великолепно. Ездил по Европе всю свою жизнь, лучшее общество и все такое. Да, ну так вот, одна из девиц меня слегка разочаровала. Не в моем вкусе." (переход к основной теме разговора)
В заключение стоит сказать, что в разговорной речи иногда происходит почти полная десемантизация частицы actually, когда она используется фактически лишь для того, чтобы заполнить паузу или смягчить эффект неприятной для собеседника информации. Следующий пример иллюстрирует подобное употребление:
• "Well actually then there is only this. We've just advertised it." She handed me a clipping. (F: 22)
Мы видим, что actually, как и well, не несет в себе никакой информации, кроме чисто прагматической: героиня думает, как лучше преподнести собеседнику то, что ему, скорей всего, не понравится, что может его расстроить. В переводе возможно, наверное, обойтись вообще одним ну (на обе английские частицы), хотя добавление такого десемантизированного слова как, например, собственно (или в общем-то), в данном случае позволяет, на наш взгляд, дополнительно усилить прагматический эффект:
"Ну, собственно, тогда есть только это. Мы только что подали объявление в газету." Она протянула мне газетную вырезку.
Очевидно, однако, что перевод десемантизированной частицы будет в каждом конкретном случае сильно зависеть от контекста. -
17 working
1. n работа, действие, функционирование2. n эксплуатация3. n обработка4. n горн. частоpressman's working area — участок, обслуживаемый печатником
5. n выработки6. n разработкаworking out — разрабатывающий; разработка
7. n метал. ведение плавки8. n режим работыworking conditions — условия труда, работы
working towards — работающий для; работа для
9. n воен. результат операций10. n движение11. n брожение12. a позволяющий осуществлять работу13. a способствующий работеworking state — состояние "работа"
14. a отведённый для работы15. a пригодный для работы16. a связанный с работойlive working — работа с проводкой, находящейся под током
17. a работающий18. a спец. действующий; рабочий19. a спец. эксплуатационный20. a спец. поэт. бушующий21. a спец. дёргающийсяСинонимический ряд:1. busy (adj.) busy; engaged; occupied2. going (adj.) active; alive; dynamic; functioning; going; live; operative; running3. hired (adj.) employed; hired; jobholding4. practical (adj.) applicable; applied; practical5. reaction (noun) behaviour; functioning; operation; performance; reaction6. acting (verb) acting; behaving; performing; reacting; taking7. kneading (verb) kneading; manipulating8. running (verb) functioning; going; handling; operating; running; using9. solving (verb) fixing; resolving; solving; work out; working out10. tending (verb) cultivating; culturing; dressing; tending; tilling11. working (verb) driving; fagging; laboring; labouring; moiling; straining; striving; sweating; tasking; taxing; toiling; travailing; tugging; working -
18 internal
internal [ɪn'tɜ:nəl]∎ the internal workings of the mind les opérations fpl secrètes de l'esprit(b) (inside country) intérieur(c) (inside organization, institution) interne;∎ internal disputes are crippling the party des luttes intestines paralysent le parti2 nounMedicine examen m gynécologique►► internal affairs affaires fpl intérieures;Finance internal audit audit m interne;Finance internal auditor audit m interne, auditeur(trice) m,f interne;internal bleeding hémorragie f interne;Telecommunications internal cable câble m d'immeuble;internal check contrôle m interne;Computing internal command commande f interne;internal company document document m interne à l'entreprise;internal debt endettement m intérieur;Computing internal drive unité f (de disque) interne;Medicine internal examination examen m interne;School internal examiner examinateur (trice) m,f (faisant passer un examen dans son propre établissement);internal flight vol m intérieur;internal injuries lésions fpl internes;internal mail courrier m interne;internal marketing marketing m interne;American internal medicine médecine f générale;internal memo note f à circulation interne;internal modem modem m interne;internal rate of return taux m de rentabilité interne;internal revenue recettes fpl fiscales;internal rhyme rime f intérieure;internal telephone téléphone m intérieur;internal travel voyages mpl à l'intérieur d'un même pays -
19 working
A n1 ( functioning) fonctionnement m ;2 (shaping, preparation) travail m (of de) ;3 ( draft solution) calculs mpl ; candidates must show all working les candidats doivent montrer leurs calculs ;B workings npl lit, fig rouages mpl ; the workings of the human mind les rouages de l'esprit humain.C adj1 ( professional) [parent, woman, mother] qui travaille ; [conditions, environment, methods] de travail ; [population] actif/-ive ; [life] actif/-ive, professionnel/-elle ; [breakfast, lunch, day, week] de travail ; during working hours ( in office) pendant les heures de bureau ; ( in shop) pendant les heures de travail ; the working woman la femme active ; working mothers les mères qui travaillent ; we have a good working relationship nous avons de bons rapports professionnels ;3 ( functional) [model] qui fonctionne ; [farm, mine] en exploitation ; to have a working knowledge of connaître les éléments de base de ; in full working order en parfait état de marche ;4 Accts [expenses, plant, ratio, stock] d'exploitation.
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