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A English for Professional Purposes

(Third Year- Second Semester)
Translation and Interpretation II
Tutorial
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I. Translate the following passage into &'anmar.
End of the (ourne'
Our journey was at an end, our return to London overdue. By the time we had driven
back to Alice Springs, our car could go into further. acked and pounded by the
desert, it could not tackle another thousand miles back to !arwin. "e left it in a
garage to be sent back to !arwin on a land#train.
"e ourselves had to fly back. Below us lay the $orthern %erritory, the Stuart
&ighway a thin line scratched on its surface. 'en had given their lives trying to
e(plore this country. )lanters and pastoralists had tried to dominate it and had failed.
)rospectors had died trying to rifle it of its minerals. *ack 'ulholland and the other
men at Borroloola had come to hide themselves in its loneliness. But only the
aborigines living in their traditional manner can survive n it unaided. +nlike the white
man, they make no attempt to dominate it. %hey do not try to tame its animals or to
cultivate its sands, but to them it yields enough to keep a man,s soul in his body. -n
return, the aborigines worship it. -ts rocks and its water#holes are the creations of their
gods and their walkabouts through it become pilgrimages. )erhaps no one else can
ever understand it as they do, accepting e.ually its beauty and brutality.
/!avid Attenborough0 Journeys to the Past1