Лексические, грамматические и стилистические проблемы перевода. Калинкина С.К. - 22 стр.

      15. It was the kind of thing Mr. Sandberg or Mr. Masters might have done             30. But you know the wonderful way of women! Do what I might,
after an evening's walk on a hot night, say, in West Congress Street in Chicago.     nothing could turn her from me. (A.C.D.)
(Sh.A.)                                                                                    31. "… Then someone came into your room and placed the pistol there in
      16. He lay still and death was not there. It must have gone around another     order to inculpate you." "It must have been so." "And when?" "It could only
street. (E.H.)                                                                       have been at meal-time, or else at the hours when I would be in the schoolroom
      17. He must have got mixed up in something in Chicago. (Sh.A.)                 with the children." (A.C.D.)
      18. "Is the fire hot, sir?" But the man could not hear with the noise of the         32. From father to son our heritage has come down, and from father to
furnace. It was just as well. He might have answered rudely. (J.J.)                  son it shall continue. (G.K.Ch.)
      19. "Do you think father would mind if we gave his top-hat to the                    33. Sophie was packing. A whole day in bed in a huge, soft bed, like Ma-
porter?" "The porter?" snapped Josephine. "Why ever the porter? What a very          dame's. One would doze, one would wake up for a moment, one would doze
extraordinary idea!" "Because," said Constantia slowly. "He must often have to       again. (A.H.)
go to funerals. And I noticed at – at the cemetery that he only had a bowler."             34. In his office he unlocked the drawer and took out the special file.
She paused. "I thought then how very much he'd appreciate a top-hat. We ought        Could he have mistaken Canonbury for Canon Wood? (G.G.)
to give him a present, too. He was always very nice to father." (K.M.)                     35. Those envelopes were the torment to Lally; they were the sickening
      20. And suddenly, for one awful moment, she nearly giggled. Not, of            monstrous manifestations which she could not understand. There were always
course, that she felt in the least like giggling. It must have been habit. (K.M.)    some of them lying there, or about the room, bulging with manuscripts that no
      21. "Do you mind following me into the drawing-room, Constantia? I've          editors – they couldn't have perused them – wanted; and so it had come to the
something of great importance to discuss with you." For it was always to the         desperate point when, as Lally was saying, something had to be done about
drawing-room they retired when they wanted to talk over Kate. Josephine              things. (A.E.C.)
closed the door meaningly. "Sit down, Constantia," she said, still very grand.             36. "You always said you loved Paris. We could have stayed in Paris or
She might have been receiving Constantia for the first time. (K.M.)                  gone anywhere. I'd have gone anywhere. I said I'd go anywhere you wanted. If
      22. What was Constantia thinking? She had such a strange smile; she            you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting in Hungary and been
looked different. She couldn't be going to cry. (K.M.)                               comfortable." (E.H.)
      23. Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn't have called            37. Standing under the Fragonard which he had given her, grizzled, neatly
her beautiful. (K.M.)                                                                moustached, close-faced, chinny, with a gaze concentrated on nothing in par-
      24. In these days no man of genius need starve. The following story of         ticular, as of one who has looked over much and found little in it, he might
my friend Bruce may be taken as proof of this assertion. Nearly sixty when I         have been one of her ambassadors. (J.G.)
first knew him, he might have written already some fifteen books, which had                38. That young American chap must have overheard something, too, but
earned him the reputation of "a genius" with the few who knew. (J.G.)                he shouldn't allude to the matter with him; not dignified. (J.G.)
      25. He was a bachelor, who seemed to avoid women, perhaps they had                   39. Decidedly he should not mention his visit when he dined in South
"learned" him that, for he must have been very attractive to them. (J.G.)            Square that evening. (J.G.)
      26. She misunderstood the words and looked up. There was a gleam of                  40. "You haven't room, have you, for two more little girls, if we pay for
hope in her heavy eyes. "You'll let me go?" No. you shall sail for San Francisco     them …?" "Give me the address. I'll go and see them myself; if they haven't got
on Tuesday." (W.S.M.)                                                                anything catching, they shall come." (J.G.)
      27. The doctor was feeling wan and nervous. "You were with her very late             41. You might dislike, but you couldn't sneeze at him, as at some of these
last night," he said. "Yes, she couldn't bear to have me leave her." (W.S.M.)        modern chaps. (J.G.)
      28. The inevitable must be accepted. (W.S.M.)                                        42. The Hospital was deserted, yet strangely alive. I could hear it purring
      29. I should choose Mr. Neil Gibson as my model. His tall, gaunt, craggy       and murmuring like a sleeping beast, and even when at times there came as it
figure had a suggestion of hunger and rapacity. An Abraham Lincoln keyed to          were a wave of silence I could still sense within it its great heart beating. (I.M.)
base uses instead of high ones would give some idea of the man. His face might             43. "Some situations can't be unraveled," said Hugo, "they just have to be
have been chiseled in granite, hard-set, craggy, remorseless, with deep lines        dropped. The trouble with you, Jake, is that you want to understand everything
upon it, the scars of many a crisis. (A.C.D.)
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