12. Human beings need to find someone to blame both for their misery and for their guilt. Hilary Robarts makes a convenient scapegoat. (25,29).
13. - What home?
- Just a home, before the baby was born.”
- How long were you there?
- Two weeks. Two weeks too bloody many. Then I ran away and found a squat. (25,36).
14. … he was rather desperately keeping his attention on that slut Yvonne. (44,70).
15. I’ve married a tailor’s dummy. (29,60).
16. Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter. (25,115).
17. You … made her life a bloody misery… (25,134).
18. The witch’s voice was cool. (25,135).
19. We’re going to be dealing with intelligent suspects. I don’t want a balls-up at the beginning of the case. (25,171).
20. It was the best thing I’ve ever done in my life and that bitch destroyed it. (25,191).
21. But would she have told him a lie which could be detected merely by consulting the telephone directory? Only if she were so confident of her dominance, of his enslavement to her. (25,251).
22. After the pathologist had left he had turned to the nearest PC and said: “For God’s sake, can’t we get this thing out of there?” (25,280). – После ухода патологоанатома он повернулся к ближайшему полицейскому и сказал: «Ради бога, разве нельзя убрать отсюда это (тело)?»
23. He could still react physically to the memory of it, feel the tightening of the stomach muscles, the hot serge of anger. … He should have looked the arrogant bastard in the face and spoken the truth, even if it had cost him his stripes. (25,280).
24. You’re obviously grubbing about for all the dirt you can find. I’d rather you had facts from me than rumours from other people. (25,296). – Похоже, вы откапываете всю грязь, какую найдете. Я бы предпочёл, чтобы вы получали информацию от меня, а не людские домыслы.
25. - Did she ever speak about the encounter, to you or to anyone else you know? …
- I think she regarded it as too valuable a piece of information to cast before the swine. (25,298).
26. With luck you can take a dozen or so poor sods with you, people who can cope with living, who don’t want to die. (25,366).
27. Rickards isn’t a brute. (25,385).
28. She could see Miss Mortimer’s mouth moving… She saw again those restless blobs of flesh… (25,395).
29. We’re calling her Stella Louise. Louise is after Susie’s mother. We may as well make the old trout happy. (25,397). – Мы назовем её Стелла-Луиза. Луиза – в честь матери Сьюзи. Заодно осчастливим старую клячу
Метафоры положительной оценки (мелиоративные метафоры).
1. Tom Hartigan sat down awkwardly and looked with some awe at what he called in his own mind “One of the big wigs”. (9,117). – Том Хартиган неуклюже сел и с трепетом посмотрел на человека, которого про себя он называл «большой парик».
2. There was something of the panther about him altogether. A beast of prey – pleasant to the eye. (9,173).
3. Hurstwood could not keep his eyes from Carrie. She seemed the one ray of sunshine. (13,277).
4. She renewed me, she made me a flower. (24,64).
5. As usual the American buyers got the plums of the collection. (5,98).
6. She is grand like royalty. I married a princess. (15,22).
7. As she drew nearer with quickening step she could see the swathe of long blond hair under a tight-fitting beret. (25, 6).
8. He was grateful when the door opened and Nora Gurney, the firm’s cookery editor, came briskly in, reminding him as always did of an intelligent insect. (25,14).
9. He had seen her a bright exotic flower. (25,32).
10. The stark overhead lights threw deep shadows under the deep-set eyes and the sweat glistened on the wide, rather knobbly forehead with its swathe of fair undisciplined hair. (25,45).
11. She … had a mane of fair hair beneath a tight-fitting beret. (25,72).
12. She slept always with her window open and would drift into sleep soothed by that distant murmur (of the sea). (25,107).
13. But lying there beside her, listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled … with an agreeable languor… (25,113).
14. “You’d think so, wouldn’t you? I’d like it, she’d like it, but there’s a little problem of Sue’s ma. She doesn’t want her ewe-lamb mixed up with any unpleasantness, particularly murder, and particularly just now. (25,257).
15. After tonight the kitchen might never be home to her again. (25,380).
3. Адвербиальная метафора S – V – (O) – Aмет:
Метафоры нейтральной оценки.
1. That hundred guineas was just Mr. Owen’s little bit of cheese to get me into the trap along with the rest of you. (9,223).
2. To the west his eyes could travel along the narrow road between the reed beds and the dykes. (25,58).
3. … I’ve always been able to believe that at the heart of the Universe there is love. (25,106).
4. … the moon glimpsed fitfully, sailing in a majestic splendour above the high spires of the trees… (25,140).
5. … the cloud moved from the face of the moon… (25,147).
6. The pool of light from his torch shone on the … carpet of pine needles dusted with sand… (25,150).
7. Theresa wrenched her mind through clogging layers of sleep to the familiar morning sounds… (25,177).
8. But when she picked up the pan of milk her hands were shaking so violently that she knew she wouldn’t be able to pour it into the narrow neck of the bottle. (25,178).
9. She saw every detail with a keener eye; the motes of dust dancing in the swathe of sunlight which fell across the stone floor… (25,123).
10. She was short and very thin with strait red-gold hair, …falling in a gleaming helmet to her shoulders. (25,323). – Она была невысокая и очень худая, с прямыми золотисто-рыжими волосами до плеч, …которые блестели как шлем.
11. She was short and very thin with strait red-gold hair, …falling in a gleaming helmet to her shoulders. (25,323). – Она была невысокая и очень худая, с прямыми золотисто-рыжими волосами до плеч, …которые блестели как шлем.
12. She saw in imagination her pale and lifeless body plummeting through the miles of wet darkness to the sea bed, to the … ribs of ancient ships. (25,342).
13. The baby clothes fell in a brightly coloured shower… (25,353).
14. Her hair and clothes were alight and she lay there staring upwards, bathed in tongues of fire. (25,400).
Метафоры отрицательной оценки (пейоративные метафоры).
1. And after his death it seemed to her that she had walked in darkness like an automaton through a deep and narrow canyon of grief. (25,103).
2. She was a good cook but worked in a perpetual lather of bad temper. (25,120).
3. …hand lying, fingers curved on the sheet and fixed now in its blackening carapace of dried blood… (25,165).
4. When Tobby was happy, no one was more joyous. When he was miserable he went down into his private hell. (25,298).
5. We’re not going back because we can’t. When I recruited you from that London squat I didn’t tell you the truth. (25,335). – Мы не вернемся, потому что не можем. Когда я забрала тебя из того притона в Лондоне, я соврала тебе.
Метафоры положительной оценки (мелиоративные метафоры).
1. I think there are some in Michael’s den. (29,13). – Я думаю, несколько есть в кабинете Майкла.
4. Предикативная метафора имеет широкое распространение в речи в идентифицирующей структуре N + связка + Nмет. Данную форму структурной организации метафоры представляет собой квазитождество.
Метафоры нейтральной оценки.
1. Their love imprisons me. I am a trapped hare. (27,144).
2. That hundred guineas was just Mr. Owen’s little bit of cheese to get me into the trap along with the rest of you. (9,223).
3. They (compliments) were food and drink to him. (29,82).
4. Once again the theatre was her only refuge. (29,219).
5. I noticed that the pupils of her eyes were pin-points. (9,90).
6. Who is your date? (32,52). – С кем ты встречаешься?
7. - Who is that tall bird?
- I tell you he’s just a radical bastard. (21,166).
8. As always she had left it until the last minute to leave the disco and the floor was still a packed, gyrating mass of bodies. (25,1).
9. That’s been done. It’s old hat. (25,12). – Это уже было. Это старый трюк.
10. That visit could have been the last straw. (25,261).
Метафоры отрицательной оценки. (пейоративные метафоры).
1. Don’t be an ass. (9,275).
2. I’ll be a babbling baboon. (20,77).
3. Though I knew that he was not informidable, I knew also that he was a bit of a humbug and a bit of a clown. (37,36).
4. The place is a pig-sty. (29,49).
5. But man was a ridiculous animal anyway. (9,31).
6. “…Wilmer’s rather an old goose…” (17,40).
7. Go outside, all of you, or you’ll be a lot of sweeps. (40,25).
8. You are a pure evil. (41,163).
9. This is a hungry, vicious, ungrateful little monster with large ambitions. (14,138).
10. You’re just a jelly-fish. (18,281).
11. That child is a pig and a beast. (38,104).
12. I’m a beast, I’m a slut, I’m just a bloody bitch. I’m rotten through and through. (29,223).
13. The public are a lot of jackasses. (29,221).
14. I was rather a muff at the letter. (40,87).
15. - You know, I’m not a squealer, Harry.
- You are a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get. (9,54).
16. He told himself. “Man, you just a big black bugger.” He kept referring to himself as black, which, of course, he was, Lou thought, but it was not the thing to say. (38,139).
17. What do you want to go and hamper yourself with a man who’ll always be a millstone round your neck? (29,51).
18. - Who is that tall bird?
- I tell you he’s just a radical bastard. (21,166).
19. His face was a picture of red ferocity. (25,26).
20. … a superfluous man however unattractive or stupid was acceptable; a superfluous woman, however witty and well-informed, a social embarrassment.” (25,53).
21. They’re the devil, these serial murders. (25,63).
22. Horror and death were his trade… (25,82).
23. She’d be a disaster. (25,98).
24. But Father can be remarkably obstinate when he thinks he knows what he wants and Mother is a putty in his hands. (25,102).
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