XVIII. Pick out occasional compounds in the following extracts. Comment on their meaning. Try to give a good literary translation of the extracts.

1.She had apologized humbly to him on the morning after their how-do-I-know-you dialogue, and had been a very good girl since, carrying on nobly through her bouts of feeling seasick without any hint of self- onsciousness. 2. There was none of Richard's live-and-let-live attitude about Henry. 3. Above all, I have to be in some small market town, far away from the search-and-lug-queue supermarkets… 4. The still-waters-run-deep women were often hardest to solve in this matter. 5. And the process was an all-or-nothing one; either you failed to modify at all, or else you modified the whole way. 6. This I'll-go-where-you-go-do-what-you-do-be-what-you-are-and-I'll-be-happy phylosophy worked out splendidly for Mother for she followed my mining-engineer father all over the United Slates and led a fascinating life. 7. "What's your name?" she inquired at the end of the interview. "Plover, madam," I answered, making a bad-smell-under-the-nose face.

XIX. Replace the second element of the words by woman; translate both words:

1. chairman, 2. airman, 3. laundryman, 4. clubman, 5. aircraftman, 6. tradesman, 7. fisherman, 8. Congressman 9. sportsman, 10. birdman, 11. penman, 12. spokesman-13. policeman, 14. workman, 15. salesman.

XX. Translate the following nouns; give synonymous words where possible.

1. seaman, 2. salesman, 3. airman, 4. newsman, 5. tradesman, 6. oilman, 7. boatsman, 8. flowerman, 11. railroadman, 12. cameraman, 13. milkman, M, radioman, 15. postman, 16. woodman, 17. statesman, 18. pressman, 19. roadman, 20. fireman, 26. radarman, 27. chessman.

XXI. Identify the neutral compounds in the word combinations given below and write them out in 3 columns:

A. Simple neutral compounds. B. Neutral derived compounds. C. Neutral contracted compounds.

An air-conditioned hall; a glass-walled room; to fight against H-bomb; a loud revolver-shot; a high-pitched voice; a heavy topcoat; a car's windshield; a snow-white handkerchief; big A. A. guns; a radio-equipped car; thousands of gold-seekers; a big hunting-knife; a lightish-coloured man; to howl long and wolf-like; to go into frantic U-turns (U-turn ['ju:t3:n] — R. поворот "кругом"); to fix M-Day (M-day — the first day of mobilization.)

XXII. Arrange the compounds given below into two groups: A. Idiomatic. B. Non-idiomatic. Say whether the semantic change within idiomatic compounds is partial or total. Consult the dictionary if necessary.

butterfly, п.; medium-sized, adj.; bluebell, п.; good-for-nothing, adj.; wolf-dog, п.; highway, п.; dragon-fly, n.; looking-glass, п.; greengrocer, п.; bluestocking, п.; necklace, п.; earthquake, п.; lazy-bones, n.

XXIII. Identify the compounds in the word-groups below. Say as much as you can about their structure and semantics.

Emily, our late maid-of-all-work; a heavy snowfall; an automobile salesman; corn-coloured chiffon; vehicle searchlights, little tidbit [very important news] in The Afro-American [the name of a newspaper]; German A. A. Fire [A. A. fire — anti-aircraft fire (R. зенитный огонь)]; a born troubleshooter; to disembark a stowaway [stowaway — one who hides himself on a ship to make a journey without paying.]; an old schoolmate; a cagelike crate; a slightly stoop-shouldered man; a somewhat matter-of-fact manner; a fur-lined boot; to pick forget-me-nots and lilies-of-the-valley; a small T-shirt; a sportscar agency.