I. Проанализируйте и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на литоту.

1) The announcement troubled him not a little... 2) He was no gentle lamb, and the part of second fiddle would never do for the high-pitched dominance of his nature. 3) The article is by a not unknown journalist. 4) Gerald thought for a minute and corrected him not without unkindness. 5) It is not an unfavourable moment to abolish all military pacts. 6) She looked at him and sighed not unhappily. 7) Mr. Bardell was a man of honour – Mr Bardell was a man of his word – Mr. Bardell was no deceiver. 8) Not until 1821 did Venezuela shake off the Spanish yoke. 9) Some roads in Scotland were ice-bound. Cars were abandoned in many places and many people returning from Saturday's international rugby game did not reach home until the early hours. 10) He was not without taste. 11) I didn’t believe it until I saw it with my own eyes. 12) He was a trifle exited but that is not unusual of him. 13) Their attitude was not unfriendly. 14) But if I was puzzled and disconcerted, I was not unimpressed. 15) Amy is comparatively young and she is not unattractive.

II. Проанализируйте и переведите предложения, обращая внимание на гиперболу.

1) The waves were mountain-high. 2) I'd give the world to see her. 3) This medicine will do him a world of good. 4) She has found millions of reasons not to come. 5) “This is a world of effort you know, Fanny, and we must never yield when so much depends on us.” 6) When people say “I've told you fifty times”, they mean to scold and very often do. 7) It's absolutely maddening! 8) I shall be eternally grateful if you do it for me. 9) It's monstrous, it's a nightmare. 10) “How is Fleur?” said Michael's neighbour. “Thanks, awfully well.” 11) “I see a frightful lot of writers and painters, you know, they're supposed to be amusing.”

III. Переведите текст, обращая внимание на литоту и гиперболу. Прокомментируйте используемые переводческие приемы.

The ways of tourists are strange, and one afternoon as I sat in the Plaza Mayor, I heard some Frenchmen at the next table tearing Americans apart. To the first barrage of criticism, I could not logically protest: Americans were uncultured, lacked historical sense, were concerned only with business, had no sensitivity and ought to stay at home. The second echelon of abuse I did want to interrupt, because I felt that some of it was wide of the mark: Americans were all loud, had no manners, no education, no sense of proportion, and were offensively vulgar in dress, speech, eating habits and general comportment, but I restrained myself because, after all, this was a litany one heard throughout Europe, here expressed rather more succinctly than elsewhere.

Sitting as quietly as my French companions would permit, I tried to discover what my true feelings were in this manner of honest description. In my travels, I had never met any single Americans as noisy and crude as certain Germans, none so downright mean as one or two Frenchmen, none so ridiculous as an occasional Englishman, and none so arrogant as some Swedes.

But in each of the national examples cited I am speaking only of a few horrible specimens. If one compares all English tourists with all Americans, I would have to admit that taken in the large the American is worse. If some European wanted to argue that seventy percent of all American tourists are regrettable, I would agree. If he claimed ninety, I suppose I wouldn’t argue too much. But when like the Frenchman on my left he states that one hundred percent are that way, then I must accuse him of being false to the fact.