4. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на перевод сокращений.

1. Win — full name Windson Home — looked like his name. The poster boy for the quintessential WASP.

2. Ali Larter played Marigold, an actress from LA.

3. According to the report, a landmine destroyed a RAF Hercules in Afghanistan.

4. ITV, the commercial broadcaster, said it increased its adult watching by 23 per cent.

5. The report confirmed that al-Rawi, 39, was only held after M15 sent the CIA a telegram stating he was an 'Islamic extremist' who had a timer for an improvised bomb in his luggage.

6. The time agenda behind the new BMA guidelines is to legiti­mize what is taking place illegally in NHS hospitals.

7. The USA spends almost 6 per cent of its national income on primary and secondary education, more than any OECD country except Denmark and Canada.

8. NEST is more than a high-tech SWAT team.

9. Today the ECB's reputation stands sky-high and until this week the euro was soaring as well.

10. Many IT products consume more resources during their manufacture than over their productive lifetime.

11. P&G has invested $200 million in developing, studying and testing destra (synthetic oil). If the FDA approves, the company plans to use the fat in its own chips and snacks under the trade name Olean.

12. WWF is calling on the European Commission to push through the immediate closure of the Mediterranean tuna fishery.

13. UNITE, a collaboration between the Scouts Association and UNICEF, aims to raise funds for immunization and AIDS preven­tion in Uganda.

14. Unlike the neutron, RNA has been known about for a long time.

15. Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, is secure in his position.

16. Large firms require an MBA or other postgraduate degree.

5. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на передачу содержательной структуры имен собст­венных. Прокомментируйте использованный переводческий прием.

1. Не was about forty with the knitted brow and dark craggy good looks of a Heathcliff.

2. As Michael Douglas once observed being a celebrity is like having Alzheimer's: everybody knows who you are, but you haven't the foggiest who they are.

3. Number 15 was a house like its neighbours, a similar Dorothy Perkins trailing over the front door.

4. She turns at once to the Women's page, where there is a Posy Simmonds strip cartoon satirizing middle-aged, middleclass liberals.

5. It could not be pointed out to Mr. Wilcox that his furniture, mostly bought from the Co-op in the nineteen-thirties, was hardly worth careful preservation.

6. At first Robyn thought that Debbie's cockney accent was some sort of joke, but soon realized that it was authentic. In spite of her Sloaney clothes and hair-do, Debbie was decidedly lower-class.

7. I think our neighbours' kids should be allowed a bit of free­dom to wear what they like and get dirty having fun, not made look like Little Lord-Fauntleroy.

8. Come on! I've never met anyone so reluctant to spend money, you Scrooge.

9. I wasn't going to take any unnecessary risks. Private eyes who do that have as much chance of collecting their pensions as a Robert Maxwell employee.

10. No nation can enforce linguistic pride unless it employs an Orwellian thought-police.

11. The trouble with modern life is that there isn't any etiquette any more. Things change so much and so fast that even if Emily Post were still around, she wouldn't be able to devise a set of proto­cols that stay abreast of tortured human relationships.

12. I went over to Shepherd's Bush this evening to appear on Newsnight, where it turned out that the guest presenter was none other than my old enemy Beamish.

13. Asda stores chief Archie Norman was branded a "Scrooge" yesterday after withdrawing Christmas bonuses from women who have taken maternity leave.

14. She possessed a boiler suit bought recently from Next, which seemed in theory appropriate, but it was bright orange, and it might, she thought, lack dignity.

15. His orange socks matched the tie and his shoes looked like Hush Puppies.

16. The new appliance will soon be on sale in High Street elec­trical stores.

17. What I wrote about may be too much of a Hovis commercial for your taste and naturally it is not a full social snapshot.

18. "Mrs. McCuire, I would like to warn you..." Ryan began to recite the Miranda warning in a flat voice.