Unit 14 attributive groups and asyndetic substantival clusters

Exercise 48. Point out the possible meanings of the following attributive groups and translate them into Ukrainian.

1. Berlin proposals; 2. Gran Chaco war; 3. dollar export drive; 4. heavy government expenditure; 5. pre-war slump talk; 6. present national Communist vote; 7. Communist Party strength; 8. Middle East Conference; 9. aggressive supporter; 10. bold adventurer; 11. labor quiescence; 12. festering grievances; 13. the nation’s highest homicide rate; 14. wildlife management authorities; 15. four-part program; 16. environmentalist protest; 17. provincial government decision; 18. environmental consequences; 19. safety violations; 20. fish-breeding pools

Exercise 49. Give the Ukrainian equivalents to the following attributive groups.

1. hearty eater; 2. practical joker; 3. conscientious objector; 4. sleeping partner; 5. stumbling block; 6. smoking concert; 7. perfect likeness; 8. vested interest; 9. tough customer; 10. foregone conclusion; 11. top trade-union leaders; 12. collective bargaining rights; 13. consumers’ goods industries; 14. post-war anti-labor drive; 15. point four program; 16. Liberal Party whip; 17. public school boy; 18. Good Neighbor policy; 19. strong party man; 20. CIO auto union president

Exercise 50. Give the Ukrainian equivalents to the following asyndetic substantival clusters.

1) ‘World without bombs’ conference program; 2) a $40 a week wage increase offer; 3) a six-point control plan; 4) a total UK oil output figure; 5) Africa denuclearization declaration; 6) AIDS drugs; 7) anti-trade union act; 8) Bank Credit Regulation Committee; 9) birth control; 10) bread-line old age pensions; 11) British Lion film; 12) China off-shore islands oil deposits; 3) Clun Forest sheep; 14) coal face workers; 15) community education; 16) Covent Garden Opera House orchestra performance; 17) dead ball situations; 18) European Petroleum Equipment Manufacturers Federation; 19) government work offices; 20) Harwell atomic Energy Research Center; 21) high-quality investment banking services; 22) junior hospital staff; 23) land improvement work; 24) land improvement workers; 25) living fire central heating; 6) local authority staff; 27) London building workers; 28) London County Council general purpose committee member; 29) London Evening News; 30) major autumn campaign; 31) Manchester-travel-to-work area; 2) Mill Hill School; 33) new investment banking operations; 34) New Zealand world-mile record holder Peter Snell; 35) Nobel Peace Prize Winners; 36) real time Forex advisory service; 37) rent assessment committees; 38) Rome-based Food and Agriculture organization; 39) Royal Berkshire polo ground; 40) Russia leather; 41) service establishment; 42) session committee group; 43) sheet metal workers; 44) short term interbank money market rate; 45) the 40-nation Geneva Disarmament Conference; 46) the British road service parcels depots; 47) the continental China off-shore islands oil deposits; 48) the crop farmer; 49) the Labor-controlled city council; 50) the lame duck policy; 51) the London sheet metal workers section; 52) the National Union of Railwaymen jubilee celebration dinner; 53) the old books salesman; 54) the Republican Party candidate; 55) the Suez Canal Zone base agreement negotiations; 56) the three-month United Nations World Trade and Development Conference; 57) the Tory-controlled Greater London Council’s so-called ‘plan’; 58) the Turin public prosecutor; 59) the UN Security Council meeting agenda; 60) the under-16 country match; 61) the US Defence Department official decision; 62) three Black Arrow three-stage satellite launchers; 63) toxic action results; 64) Ulster Defence Regiment; 65) United Post Workers London district council postmen section chairman Mr Harry Jones; 66) welfare expenditures; 67) white collar steel industry strike; 68) World Health Organization.

Exercise 51. Identify the attributive groups in the following sentences and suggest how their meanings should be rendered into Ukrainian.

1. The 87 billions of dollars in profits, grabbed during the five war years by the corporations constitute just so much blood money. 2. All the international “news” plus the editorial, could have been given in the space devoted to one heavily illustrated item – the engagement of a son of one of minor princesses. 3. This issue devoted about half of its twenty news columns to the trial of a homicidal maniac. 4. Even the least informed person could not miss the fact that the much-publicized boom in the United States was due to the war and the aftermath of war repair. 5. My job on the Daily Sketch had for me what later I realized was an illusory attraction. 6. Besides the imperative elementary economic compulsion to find markets at any cost and with every device, big business imperialists were driven on to their expansionist program by other forms of fear and greed. Their capitalist appetites for conquest were whetted by the fact that on all sides they saw many nations weakened and ruined by the war. Being dog-eat-dog capitalists, they could not refrain from taking advantage of these countries’ disasters by trying to establish their own economic and political control over the whole ramshackle situation of world capitalism. 7. Paris underground and bus transport services were stopped today by a 24-hour warning strike called by the C.G.T. (French T.U.C.) with the support of other unions. 8. Right-wing trade-union policy was expressing itself in a bankrupt helpless dithering before the new capitalist offensive. 9. The American Labor Party Political Action Committee Election Campaign Planning Board launched a new fund-raising drive. 10. Franklin Roosevelt, the Depression-era USA president, once said the Dominican republic could become the breadbasket of the Caribbean. 11. Sushi chefs yester­day claimed that a European Union health and safety directive would ruin the quality of their food. 12. He has already had two kidney trans­plants: one from his sister, who made a live donation, and another from a deceased donor. Neither procedure worked, and so he is back on the kidney transplant waiting list. 13. The decline in eurozone labour productivity growth has come to a halt. 14. The article rightly concludes that Europe needs more flexible la­bour-market laws and more crossborder barking mergers. 15. In giving him a crushing parliamentary majority voters are handing him an exceptionally strong mandate for a tax-cutting, welfare tightening, business-friendly programme.

Exercise 52. Explain the meanings of the multi-member attributive groups and translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.

1. On January 21st the New York Times ran a story alleging that Mr McCain had a too-close-for-comfort relationship with a female lobbyist. 2. Mr Kim (Kim Jong Il) is not only party leader, he is also military boss. The shoot-while-you-talk strategy is deliberate. 3. The episode threw me into a what-is-the-world-coming-to mood, a state I am increasingly prone to these days. 4. This region provides a splendid setting for an away-from-it-all holiday for all the family. 5. ‘I know where Aystin is, I’ve got a map,’ she said, and now she was giving him a stupid-big-brother look that he liked even better than her wide-eyed-Miss-Prim gaze. 6. ‘Nope. And don’t start in with your God-told-me stuff, because right now he’s not telling you anything. 7. ‘Told you that would happen,’ she said to Melissa in a forbidding this-closes-the-discussion tone of voice. 8. There is no one-size-fits-all way to reduce stress. 9. Ahead he could see the outlines of the enormous Kaiser Wilhelm Church, floodlights illuminating the never-to-be-repaired, bombed-out tower. 10. All morning he couldn’t think of anything but what to wear. He settled on a maroon Perry-Como-type sweater with a forest green scarf peeking out. 11. Althene was not your run-of-the-mill mother, as mothers were understood by this particular son. 12. And Melanie, with a fierce ‘love-me-love-my-dog’ look on her face, made converse with astounded hostesses. 13. Derek Eden, until today only a slightly known Sun-Times reporter with a second-grade by-line; Derek Eden with the dissolute face, the casual air, the nondescript unpressed clothes; Derek Eden and his beat-up filthy-inside-and-out Chevrolet. 14. Dr Uxbridge answered the telephone at once in a no-nonsense tone of voice. 15. For many air traffic controllers, those final years proved an all-too-gruelling trial, whose end they failed to reach. 16. He glanced along the wall to the picture of James Calver: the low forehead and the fanatic bent-on-one-thing eyes. 17. He had been drinking and wore the arrogant looking-for-a-fight expression that she knew from experience meant trouble. 18. He had simply carried that part of his old life over into this job, but he hadn’t though of Jonny as the boss, in spite of his booming stage-voice and his chin-thrust-forward, I-know-exactly-what-I’m-doing manner, until now. 19. He referred to the least-sought-after dormitory, with its tiny beds and towels too small to cover anything that mattered. 20. He was a say-what-you-want-and-go manager. 21. He’s begun to suspect that if they stand here much longer a catastrophic mistake might result, a month-of-May sort of mistake, the kind that can change your life forever. 22. Her kind of out-of-town money, no matter how much of it there was, never seemed the same to people like the Grenvilles as their kind of New York money. 23. I reckon around ten. Now a couple are bed-and-breakfast places, homes where you can get a room. 24. I sat down beside her and put on my impulsive little-American-girl act. 25. The I-told-you-so-brigade will be reveling in the news that the three-and-a-quarter-year marriage between Oasis’s hellraising front-man Liam Gallagher and actress Patsy Kensit now seems to be over, even if it has been on the cards for some time. 26. In many interviews he had identified himself as a man outraged by death, but that was pretty much the same old big-balls crap he’d been selling throughout his career. 27. In the case of the mired 707, instinct told him it was a moderate-to-acute crisis, which meant there was time to finish what he was doing, or have dinner, but not both. 28. In the old you-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours theory, I had agreed to read the short stories of Margaret Mary Meehan, the detective’s daughter, a sophomore at New Rochelle, and tell her, honestly, whether or not I thought she should pursue a literary career or go into nursing as her father wanted. 29. It wasn’t a goony I’m-just-a-fan-in-love smile anymore, if it ever had been. 30. Joy, a glad-to-be-alive exhilaration, jolted through me like a jigger of nitrogen.

Exercise 53. Explain the meanings of the multi-member attributive groups and translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.

1. Just bring Doris and Jim back and I’m a one-drink-with-dinner guy. 2. Like most shy men he greatly admired airy, viva­cious, always-at-ease girls. 3. Marino’s state-of-the-art Chevrolet was near the door, and he was inside alone at a corner table facing the cash register. 4. Now that you’ve revealed yourself, are you going to show up in one of those tight black leather girls-of-the-S.S. uniforms, like they have in men’s magazines? 5. Pangborne eyes were sending a clear you-are-lying-and-we-both-know-it message. 6. She had apologized humbly to him on the morning after their how-do-I-know-I-know-you dialogue. 7. She spent the rest of the day selecting a back-to-school wardrobe for herself. 8. Managers sometimes moan that their people aren’t interested in financial quotations or quality statistics or productivity measures; they are just a time-for-lunch bunch. 9. She was never going to get mother-of-the-year award. 10. She’d called herself a hard-headed babe, and maybe she was, but right now she was also an almost-scared-to-death babe. 11. Six restaurants ranged from a gourmet dining-room with gold-edged china and matching prices to a grab-it-and-run hot dog counter. 12. The ‘old man’ was – had been – their father, Wally Bakerrsfeld, stick-and-goggles aviator, stunt flier, crop duster, night mail carrier, and parachute jumper – the last when he needed money badly enough. 13. The hands-off-Ogilvie rule didn’t make sense. 14. The situation had already assumed a proficient, get-on-with-it pattern. 15. Then she hadn’t given it much consideration, but now looking at it gave her a bad feeling. A weak-in-the-knee feeling. 16. The actors will appear in the soon-to-be-released film. 17. They had a ‘don’t-care’ appearance that James, to whom risk was the most intolerable thing in life, did not appreciate. 18. They stand facing each other beneath the glow-in-the-dark stars, not noticing when the stars begin to fall, one by one, pulled down by the thick air. 19. Proportional representation is needed to force parties to work together and reduce the winner-takes-all confrontation which alien­ates the public. 20. Usually, after an arduous, snow-fighting winter, airport maintenance and management had an evening stag session together which they called ‘kiss-and-make-up night’. 21. You’ve just got that prayboy look about you, great-gosh-a’mighty eyes and a real jeepers-creepers mouth. 22. He was a dead ringer for a cheerful, happy-go-lucky extovert who is the life and soul of the party where the guests park their brains along with their hats and coats. 23. The south-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line voice was quiet and courteous, but without any genuine regret that I could detect. 24. Zabrinski was sitting half-turned in his chair, an ear-to-ear beam on his face. 25. He would cruise through the little shopping mall at Jamaica Avenue, and then run west on Jamaica to one of the few all-night restaurants supported by the quiet, early-to-bed neighbourhood. 26. You’re not kidding me none, old man, with your ‘Come-her-little-boy-and-sit-on-my-lap’ routine. 27. The British engineering industry must be nationalized to overcome the obstructive stick-in-the-mud, ‘take it or leave it’ traditions of many engineering firms. 28. The preoccupation with selling papers against fierce competition leads to the American practice of an edition every thirty seconds. This mania for speed, plus the man-bites-dog news formula, works to corrupt and discourage the men who handle news. 29. Many a citizen fed up with the loud and prolonged bickering between the Republicans and the Democrats, began thinking plague-on-both-your-houses thoughts. 30. Fitch kept a hats-cleaned-by-electricity-while-you-wait establishment, nine feet by twelve, in Third Avenue. 31. He was being the boss again, using the it’s-my-money-now-do-as-you’re-told voice. 32. Vilified in everything from Little Red Riding Hood to late-night horror movies, Cannis lupus, the wolf, has traditionally suffered from a bad press. 33. There is a sort of Oh-what-a-wicked-world-this-is-and-how-I-wish-I-could-do-something-to-make-it-better-and-nobler-expression about Montmorency.

Exercise 54. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to the complex derivative adjectives.

1. A blue-black man in a Burberry loden coat and an African cap spoke in French to a like-colored woman wearing a turban. 2. A grey-haired man in the uniform of a high-ranking customs official stood by a steel-framed window, smoking a cigarette. 3. Behind the yellow-scarfed man, man more passengers with other problems pressed forward urgently. 4. Bello didn’t tell cop stories; he was not free with tricks of the trade; he didn’t respond to the good-natured jibes that passed for social interaction in the squad room. 5. Cursing, he assembled some yellow pages of notes, together with various report forms, slipped into his blue pin-striped suit jacket, and headed upstairs. 6. Gone were shining black hair and thick-rimmed glasses. 7. He had gold-rimmed spectacles. 8. He knelt and began rubbing the cake of soap up and down, first on the inside of one white-painted vertical bar, then on the other. 9. He looked at her looking at him with her steady if skew-eyed gaze. 10. He moved with the twinkle-footed gait adopted by many of the stout, but his progress would have been faster had he not slowed to check his image in the reflecting glass. He saw a bland and moonlike face, neatly mustached in the manner of the late King Farouk, a face that demanded topping with a fez, but which at the moment supported a smoke-colored homburg hat. Below the man’s several chins there was a heavy silk rolled collar, a large-knotted Sulka tie in burgundy, and a double-breasted pinstripe suit of a beautiful, if antique, cut. 11. He passed a hand lightly over his barber-styled, grey-streaked hair, fingering the smoothness of his chin and cheeks and his keen sense of smell confirmed that the exclusive face lotion, which he always used after shaving and sunlamp sessions, still lingered. 12. He removed his gold-framed half glasses and said, “It’s not very elegant, Roger.” 13. He was a loose-jointed, tall, red-haired man, and very nearly the youngest and least experienced member of Karp’s staff. 14. He was light-headed form hunger, and with an all-enveloping joy, as if he had found a long-lost brother or child. 15. He was nearly seven feet tall and built like a coal-fired home furnace. 16. He was wearing a double-breasted blue blazer with a yacht club crest on the pocket, over a white shirt and a yellow spotted tie. 17. He wondered why it had never occurred to him that the wooden-floored loft with its great empty spaces was a perfect practice room for basketball. 18. He wore horn-rimmed glasses and his pepper-and-salt hair was conventionally cut. 19. Her laugh was full-throated and hearty. 20. His pale eyes and square-cut lumpy face was rescued from an appearance of brutality only by his engaging, if bad-toothed, smile. 21. I get the feeling that Chaney wasn’t all that interested in the beauty business. A little pansy-ish for a red-blooded he-man like him. 22. In that case the defendant was a cold-blooded killer who knew exactly what he was doing and didn’t care that it was wrong. 23. It’s owned by a man named Salti, who must be a far-sighted businessman, since he is not obviously going to build $175,000 split-levels with car ports in the middle of Long Island City. 24. Johnny had time to see that Billy Rancourt stopped crawling, that he was looking back over his shoulder at them, that his blood-streaked broken-nosed face wore an expression of unspeakable resignation. 25. Just then the bell rang and Ariadne Stupenagel waltzed in the door, knee-booted and dressed in a flowing black maxi-skirt and a man’s ruffled formal shirt. 26. Karp found himself playing on the same side as a large coffee-coloured professional type with a pointed spade beard and thick glasses on an elastic band. 27. Larry Bouchard was a small, elegant tan person, whose fine-boned Creole features were perpetually lit by the apprehension of some delicious surprise. 28. Leans Simmons got out and pushed her way through the black-coated, rag-headed players who adorned its steps, and entered the building. 29. Mackey wore an open-necked white shirt with a yellow alpaca golf sweater over it. 30. Men talked insultingly to women telephonists, and even who at other times were courteous and mild-mannered, turned snarly and disagreeable.

Exercise 55. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to the complex derivative adjectives.

1. Nadleman came into the court wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and electric blue sweatpants. 2. Now he saw a newcomer join the queue – a nervous-looking man – spindly and stoop-shouldered, and with a small, sandy moustache. 3. On Monday mornings, therefore, Francie had walked off to public high school, where she had become a fixture among the motorcycle-riding, car-boosting, leather-jacketed fraternity that the era called “hoods”. 4. Running across the fronts of the booths were brass rods holding red-checked curtains. 5. She was dressed primly in black, with an old-fashioned high-necked blouse, and might have been somebody’s great-grandmother on her way to church. 6. She was tall, about five-eight, Marlene reckoned, with her brother’s elegant long-necked grace. 7. Something to bring – she couldn’t keep going down there empty-handed. 8. The chairman was a heavy-jowled, balding man named Floyd Zanetta, who was a printing firm manager and Meadowood homeowner. 9. The guy wasn’t as starry-eyed about meeting his favourite author as he had seemed. Maybe not starry-eyed at all. 10. The nose was thin and hooked, and the mouth was deep-lipped, wide and tightly held. 11. The proprietor was, flashing a gold-toothed smile, nodding behind the counter, giggling with his wife in Cantonese. 12. The two detectives were a Mutt and Jeff act: one tall, angular, watery-eyed – Barney Wayen; the other, shorter, younger by a dozen years, stockier – Joe Frangi. 13. There was more good-natured joking of this sort as the team finished and drifted out to the lobby. 14. They went through another door into a much larger room, high-ceilinged and shadowy, thickly carpeted, with an ornate fireplace. 15. Wallace smiled and walked across the room towards him, not swaggering exactly, but at ease, with a loose-jointed stride, bouncing off his toes, with the toes turned outward. 16. We got one beefy older guy and one younger round-faced guy with more hair in both sets, but it’s not the same two guys. 17. We’re short-staffed and everybody is under the gun. Including me. 18. A wild-eyed man stood at the lip, swaying, one hand up against the brilliant sun. 19. He got up and walked to a rust-stained sink. 20. She was a tiny dark-haired woman with red-rimmed eyes. 21. He barely had time to rejoin me when three duffel-coated figures came hurrying up an adjacent gangway, turned in our direction and stopped when they reached us. 22. He let me proceed him through the door then made for the counter while the other sailor, a red-complexioned character about the size and shape of a polar bear, nudged me gently into an angled bench seat in one corner of the room. 23. A steward, white-jacketed, appeared from what I took to be a pantry. 24. The hull of the Dolphin can withstand terrific pressures, but a relatively minor tap from a sharp-edged object can rip us wide like an electric can-opener. 25. “Stiff-necked pride,” I said. “I don’t like throwing my hand in on a job before I’ve even started it.” 26. Swanson, I knew, hadn’t been to bed at all the previous night, but for all that he had the rested clear-eyed look of a man with eight solid hours behind him. 27. At first Curly and I thought that it was the signal that was weak, then we thought it was the operator who was weak or sick, but we were wrong, he’s just a ham-handed amateur. 28. He and Zabrinski had, as I’d found out, established themselves as the home-spun if slightly heavy-handed humorists on the Dolphin. 29. The only dismaying thing around here is the level of intelligence of certain simple-minded sailors.

Exercise 56. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to the complex derivative adjectives.

1. Franciosa was a slim, dark, saturnine man, dressed in a black seaman’s sweater and clay-encrusted jeans. 2. From a closet, near the wide mahogany desk he used in daytime, he took out a heavy topcoat and fur-lined boots. 3. From the simple self-told lie that the killer had never seen him, he had gone on to fantasies of flight, to fits of incoherent rage, and finally to his current dull sense of despair. 4. He rolled, hit the glass-littered floor on his side, got to one knee, and then the courage was on him. 5. He was dressed in two sets of long underwear, a sweater, ski hat and ski socks of heavy wool, and over all, a black snowmobile suit and fleece-lined boots. 6. It made the right, well-remembered sound of the wooden floor. 7. It turned right on Ralph Avenue and pulled up double-parked in front of a high-stooped brownstone. 8. It’s easy for people like you – ground-bound, desk-tied, with penguins’ minds. 9. Karp had some good friends among the other A.D.A.s, but he was not generally well-liked. 10. She tossed the plastic-wrapped bouquet she had purchased at the shop downstairs onto his bed. 11. Shot hit the back wall of the room and thudded into the plastered stairwell outside the open door with a sound like wind-driven sleet hitting a windowpane. 12. The dark eyes glistened with hatred and frustration; the fur-lined, saliva-soaked jaws slapped open and shut, emitting the shrill, vicious sounds of animals reaching the quarry but unable to sink their teeth into flesh. 13. The entire Hustlers team was there, gigantic and somber, like a grove of rain-washed poplars, and the other NBA teams had all sent representatives. 14. The Sunday school hall was now uncomfortably crowded, stuffy and smoke-filled. 15. The thing which had been Ellen Carver stood on the steps of the Municipal Building, staring north along the sand-drifted street.

Exercise 57. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to the adjectives ending in –ish.

1. ‘What about that hotel in the market place, Jimmy?’ ‘Might be a bit dearish.’ 2. He was beginning to feel wonderlandish again, what with Mr Mensworfh and the champagne. 3. The Hairless Mexican was a tall man, and though thinnish gave you the impression of being very power­ful. 4. He was tallish, very spare. 5. He wore thick tortoiseshell glasses and an owlish expression. 6. I had a sweetish taste in my mouth. 7. I’m a baldish, stoutish gentleman of fifty-two. 8. Immediately below Mel, at Braniff ticketing, a youngish man with long, blond hair and a yellow scarf was proclaiming somehing loudly. 9. It was a longish ride. 10. It was a smallish room, with big deep leather chairs of a delicate brown colour. 11. Near the front of the audience, a youngish man sprang to his feet. 12. She had known of many separated wives, living equivocally on smallish incomes, and knew how quickly their friends found them tiresome. 13. She was slender, girlishly so, not the starved, ravenous look a Ukrainian woman gets when she diets to stay slim. 14. We have lodges in all the biggish places. 15. Well, if you do, I shall feel I ought to go too, and though I’m tiredish too, I hate to think I’m missing anything. 16. The reddish colour of the disk is caused by dust and the whitish region in the centre is the bulge. 17. He is not much of a talker; a longish sentence for him is um, his standard reply to most questions. 18. Rehearsals were hell – although not quite as hellish as the first performances in Cambridge. 19. The same materials, thrown into the Martian atmosphere by strong winds, give the Martian sky a pinkish color. 20. He had an engaging smile, quite boyish, which transformed his otherwise serious face. 21. By contrast with European countries, which were always deeply involved in diplomacy, the diplomatic service of the United States was notoriously amateurish and shabby. 22. Nutty sat back and gave himself up to feverish thought. 23. The path coiled down abruptly into a narrow ravine between two tumbled and knotty masses of blackish scoria. 24. Pontellier’s eyes were quick and bright; they were a yellowish brown, about the color of her hair. 25. Is it possible that Miss Henley, the cold, prudish Miss Henley, can indulge an improper attachment after all? 26. If I have any fault to find with New York society, it is on account of its formal and almost priggish quiet – the female voice being usually quite lost in it – thus leaving a void in the ear, not to say the heart, that is painful to endure. 27. I had had brothers myself, and it was no revelation to me that little girls could be slavish idolaters of little boys. 28. She had not long to wait before the punctual attorney entered, knitting his brow with an examining glance at the stout blond woman who rose, curtsying deferentially, a tallish man, with an aquiline nose and abundant iron-gray hair. 29. I found myself lying prone upon a bed of yellowish, mosslike vegetation which stretched around me in all directions for interminable miles. 30. In the interior, and especially in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, the soil is generally blackish, though sometimes yellow.

Exercise 58. Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian paying special attention to the adjectives ending in –ish.

1. However his health seemed unimpaired so far, and looking at his noble, clear-skinned countenance which had grown fattish of late, he [Pyotr Petrovitch] for an instant was positively comforted in the conviction that he would find another bride and, perhaps, even a better one. 2. Capricious, variable, close, giddy, free, prudish, a virgin armed with claws, Erigone stained with grapes, she sometimes overturned, with a single dash of her white fingers, or with a single puff from her laughing lips, the edifice which had exhausted Malicorne’s patience for a month. 3. The prospect of it frightened her so thoroughly, that, with a mixture of true girlish perverseness and folly, she resolved on getting out of the house and proceeding directly by the stage to her friends, the Clarkes; and had really got as far as the length of two streets in her journey when she was fortunately missed, pursued, and overtaken. 4. He thought drowsily of her thin face, with its delicate features, and the greenish pallor of her skin. 5. “There is some speculation that they will soften their reference to ‘extended period’ and I agree that they’ll have to do that  soonish, yet I am not convinced they will do it at this meeting,” said Adam Carr, senior economist at ICAP. 6. Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham and Shane Lynch join Keith – will play to a doubtless screaming crowd of predominantly ladies of a certain thirtyish age. 7. “The weather forecaster said it would be a clear day today, but I think it’s more like clearish!” 8. For a moment Jack’s smile had a wolfish quality to it. 9. My return to Cork was an effort to get in touch with some of that childish innocence. 10. I’m looking for something a little less babyish and relatively plain. 11. They all looked, and a longish way off, it seemed, they saw a red twinkle in the dark; then another and another sprang out beside it. 12. Burden thought him a weak womanish fool. 13. I am a little thickish, but I swear diligently I grow thin. 14. “I like your place here very much,” she said, and smiled, and from that faint, diffident smile one could tell how unwell she really was, how young and how pretty; she had a pale, thinnish face with dark eyebrows and fair hair. 15. He worked with feverish  excitement. 16. He had a sort of reddish beard. 17. She was oldish – about 60, I’d say. 18. We’ll start at sevenish.