Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 32 стр.

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when-to-go-home look (J.D.Salinger). 16. On coming of age he had spent a few
weeks at Thornby Place, but the place, and especially the country, had appeared to
him so grossly protestant – so entirely occupied with the material well-to-doness of
life – that he declared he longed to breathe again the breathe of his beloved
sacristy, that he must go away from that close and oppressive atmosphere of the
flesh (G.Moore). 17. “The trouble with me is… I don’t trust any out-of-towners in
New York” (J.D.Salinger). 18. No regrets or good-byes formed in her mind
(J.Cheever). 19. “Also there were mostly old show-off-looking guys with their
dates (J.D.Salinger). 20. “The still-water-run-deep women were often there… ”
(A.Sillitoe). 21. He wad or led down the hall and wheeled at the far end, shouting,
“Now don’t tell you-know-who” ! (J.Updike). 22. “Sissy must be extra-let-down,
toting it through all that hot weather so tell her too I am sorry” (R.Price). 23.
Velvet Goldmine recognises that pop revolutions are invariably short-lived and
their seismic effects often denied by the very people that caused them. The
polysexual youthquake that Slade heralds has its phoney side, too (J.Romney). 24.
How are the secondhand breeks? – They fit well enough, Stephen answered. Buck
Milligan attacked the hollow beneath his underlip. The mockery of it, he said,
contentedly, secondleg they should be (J.Joyce). 25. “Is all this really true?” he
asked. “Or are you pulling my leg?” Charlie looked slowly around at each of the
four old faces… They were quite serious. There was no sign of joking or leg-
pulling on any of them (R.Dahl).

                                    Conversion

Exercise 1. Translate these sentences. Analyse semantic relations between the
converted verbs in italics and the nouns.

1. So she gardened or sewed, and asked friends in, being a person who was bound
to have a lot of friends (D.Lessing). 2. He sat, shirted and slippered, in a chair by
the window, looking out (Ibid.). 3. She would stand gazing at a hillside brilliant
with ferns and bracken, jewelled with running water, and see nothing but her
devil… (Ibid.) 4. The teacher had telephoned from school to say Joan’s teeth were
paining her, and she hadn’t known what to say (Ibid.). 5. He was frequently
approached by gays and once, in Polk Street San Francisco, literally nodded
(I.McEwan). 6. George was pouring more Scotch and spooning ice into the glasses
(Ibid.). 7. She was fashioned, observe, soon after God had “formed every feast of
the field, and every fowl of the air” , and his hand, still turning to those same
rhythms, imparted to Woman a creaturely shapeliness (J.Updike). 8. “Ah,” John
said, “that first drag of the day, clawing and scraping its (cigarette) way down your
throat” (Bid). 9. “Drive carefully” Mrs. Lutz said from the shadowed porch, where
her cigarette showed as an orange star (Ibid.). 10. When I lowered the lemonade jar
from my mouth, she licked, in an access of empathy that seemed to betray fright,
her own upper lip, which was moustached with moisture (Ibid.). 11. He dressed
and breakfasted alone in the dining-room (W.Trevor). 12. Beyond the curtained
windows the light of dawn broke into night (Ibid.). 13. … Fielding had been