1. Translate the following into Hindi:

A small colony of shopkeepers and hawkers has grown up around the station to supply travellers with food, betel leaves, cigarettes biscuits and sweetmeats. This gives the station an appearance of constant activity and its staff a somewhat exaggerated sense of importance. Actually the station master himselfsells tickets through the pigeonhole in his office, collects them at the exit beside the door, and sends and receives messages over the telegraph ticker on his table. When there are people to notice him, he comes out on the platform and waves a green flag for trains which do not stop. In the evenings, he lights the long line of lamps on the platform. He takes heavy aluminium lamps to the signals and sticks them in the clamps behind the red and green glass.

2. Translate the following into Hindi:

I got an appointment as a teacher in my school a few days before the summer vacation began.

It was an ancient stone-building with three large rooms and a narrow corridor.

Studies show that there is a link between humour and health.

He walked with a consciously erect gait, a few yards in front of the policeman.

The guard blew his whistle a second time and waved the green flag.

3. Translate the following words:

enclose

acceptance

terms and conditions

notify

gazette

officer

undertaking

corporation

quarantine

registration

4. Write short notes on any four of the following:

Register

Standard language

Technical term

Translation from different cultures

Noting and Translation

5. Answer any three of the following:

What are the points to be kept in mind while translating an official document?

Discuss the problems and their solution in translation.

What are the characteristics of a translator How can good translation be distinguished from bad translation

Explain the difference between literary and non-literary translation.

Explain the different steps in the process of prose translation.