Сокращение

Упражнение 34.

Определите способ образования следующих сокращений, выделите буквенные сокращения и

усеченные слова, корректно прочитайте и расшифруйте их.

A. UNO, ad., V-day, lab., T. V., Becky, talkies, gent.

Упражнение 35.

Определите способ образования сокращений, встречающихся в следующих предложениях, корректно прочитайте и переведите слова или словосочетания, приведя их полную форму.

А. 1) “We're not going out, are we?” “Of course, we are. It's Alison's monthly.” “Oh, Lord! If you're tired we could cut that.” "My dear! Impos! She's got all sorts of people coming.” 2) America, I cannot worship your Money God. Whose brain is a cheap Holly" wood movie ... 3) It'll be ever so much more comfy. 4) I went back to the phone and Queen's Road told me ... the train was passing ... 5) I thought it was all my brilliance as a tech sergeant that made him get me this job.

Упражнение 36 (сводное).

A. I) I told her all the story of my sad childhood. 2) Great was her astonishment when she saw the whole fence white-washed. 3) On my way back I had to cross before the looking-glass. 4) The manufacturer, Mr. Wilson, looked at the newcomer with great curiosity. 5) When the inventory was read to the emperor, he first asked me for my sword, which I took out. 6) Was ever any poor girl so ill-used by her servants as I am. 7) And at last the boys and girls would come to play hide-and-seek in my hair. 8) Now I took up the knotted ends of the ropes again, and very easily began to pull fifty of the enemy's largest men-of-war after me. 9) The - master looked at him, speechless with astonishment. 10) I felt ... that it was my nest, and that my mother was my comforter and friend. 11) "Oh, mammy!" says Tom in a sleepy voice, "there are nowhite people in the street-car now!" 12) "Look Tom," cries Dick, "Here is a lady-bug! Let's take it with us!" 13) More visitors came and the story had to be told and retold for two hours more. 14) The wellknown hardheartedness of slaveowners is rarely met with here. 15) Tom is a noble-hearted faithful fellow, though he is black. 16) The teacher and the children put newspapers into the cracks of the walls and the door and into the broken windows, but when the wind blows hard the paper falls out. 17) During the recent antifascist war, the workers of Lancashire as one of the most heavily industrialized areas, not only sent many men into the armed forces but worked long and hard to produce arms. 18) Her form was the perfection of childish beauty. 19) Their opinion is that parents should not be allowed to bring up and educate their children. 20) The water came in at several places but I tried to stop the leaks as well as I could. 21) I then had to turn my mind to my clothes, which by this time had quite worn out. 22) After a wait of perhaps three quarters of an hour she was called in turn. 23) He called a page and sent him to the Captain of the guard to find out what the matter was. 24) He gazed with all his eyes at the beautifully dressed princess opposite him. 25) The cook looked at the housemaid. The housemaid looked at the footman. 26) He had never been so tongue-tied in his life. 27) She quickened her steps and assumed an air of indifference supposedly common to one upon an errand. 28) Tom felt a little foolish, the groans stopped and the pain disappeared. 29) Tess refused to tale more than the smallest mouthful. 30) A month after he had mailed it the adventure serial for boys was returned to him by "The Youth's Companion."

B. 1) Soames, the unconscious ironist, fixed his gaze on Bosinney's tie which was far from being in the perpendicular. 2) Some films were good enough to go on attracting cinema-goers even on re-issue. 3) "Don't be so stand-offish, Jeff," said Sal in her tiny pretty voice. 4) They came out of the station with a crowd of film stars and socialites. 5) Old Jolyon stood in the narrow hall at Broadstairs, - inhaling that odour of oilcloth and herrings, which permeates all respectable seaside lodging-houses. 6) If he remembered anything, it was the dainty capriciousness with which the gold-haired, dark-eyed girl had treated him. 7) Soames Forsyte, flat-shouldered, clean-shaven, flat-cheeked, flat-waisted, yet with something round and secret about his whole appearance looked down on Aunt Ann. 8) A red-haired, unshaven man sat in a rocking-chair. 9) Emanuel Bloch, the American lawyer, who defended the Rosenbergs, was hounded until his death by the F.B.I. (the G-men) and the millionaire press in the U. S ... Worse than this, the F.B.I. continuously dogged the little Rosenberg children. 10) A BBC spokesman said later that last night's programme was "live" and a decision as to whether the passage should be kept in or cut out will be taken before the first repeat at 12.25 p. m. on the Horne Programme on Saturday. 11) BBC Head of Variety Mr.Pat Hilliard told a Press Conference yesterday that these actors will star in their own half hour shows. 12) He was clearly humble and adoring before the beauty of his fiancée, almost puppydoggish in an attractive way. 13) Look: three weeks ago comrade Ford spokein Toledo and the meeting was teargassed. 14) We can therefore expect both the BBC and the commercial companies to screen similar types of programmes at the same peak listening hours. 15) The colonel occasionally boards packetships, I have heard, to glean he latest information for his journal; and he occasionally brings strangers to board here (at this boarding-house) ... 16) He saw Lizzie occasionally, and it was patent that she regretted the greatness that had come to him. It widened the space between them. Perhaps it was with the hope of narrowing it she yielded to his persuasions to go to school and business college and to have herself gowned by a wonderful dressmaker who charged outrageous prices. 17) “I'm wondering,” Holly murmured, “whether she is the modern young woman. One feels at sea coming home into all this.” “You? You get the hang of things so quick?” Holly slid her hand into his coat pocket. 18) "It is a pity you take on so, Miss Briggs," the young lady said with a cool, slightly sarcastic air. "My dearest friend is so ill, and wo-o-o-ant see me," gurgled out Briggs in an agony of renewed grief. "She's not very ill any more. Console yourself, dear Miss Briggs. She has only overeaten herself – that is all.”