2. Translate the words in italics. Pay attention to translation shifs. Comment on them and think about different possibilities

1. But this time I'm just down from Atlanta for a spell to visit my aunt. And rather than sit around twiddling my thumbs all day, doctor Brooks suggested I might work here. (K. E. Woodiwiss)

2. With a little prodding, he reviewed the crime scene in Ford County - stolen pickups, fights at the honky-tonks, drug activity in Lowtown, the colored section. (J. Grisham)

3. "How do you know?" "The baby-sitter. We've had some scintillating goddam conversations. We're close as hell. We're like two goddam peas in a pod." (J.D. Salinger)

4. I start thinking about the first time we drove up to New Haven for the Princeton game. We had a flat right after we got off the Parkway, and it was cold as hell, and she held the flashlight while I fixed the goddam thing - You know what I mean. I don't know. (J.D. Salinger)

5. She explained to Eloise, who had come out to the driveway to meet her, that everything had been absolutely perfect, that she remembered the way exactly, until she had turned off the Merrick Parkway. Eloise said, "Merritt Parkway, baby," and reminded Mary Jane that she had found the house twice before ... (J.D. Salinger)

6. There was no sense in doing otherwise, no sense in catching his death out in the way a young man never would. Drenched through his clothes Henry had time and again returned from these fields to the kitchen, when Bridget had hung his sodden garments on the pulley rails. (W. Trevor)

7. You know as well as I do that she is innocent of what she has been accused." "And I think you're being too easy on the little hussy," Roberta objected. "How can you be so blind, Cole? You saw the way she acted with that lieutenant. Why, she's leading him around by the nose. (K. E. Woodiwiss)

8. „Keep your eyes open. ... The more cases you have in the class, the bigger the settlement." "I'll put out the word." „See you, Bro." „Be careful, Forrest." (J. Grisham)

3. Read and translate the following sentences. Discuss the possible differences between the original and translation.

1. Sophie actually had the nerve to give a satisfied smile. „Exactly". (D. Brown)

2. But the last hundred yards were on dirt road, totally devoid of light. Despite this, Laura scarcely slowed her car. (E. Segal)

3. I know one thing. I know one goddam thing. I'm through beating my brains out. (J.D. Salinger)

4. There are windows in it, of course? (A.C. Doyle)

5. "She only weighed sixty-two pounds. When she died. Isn't that terrible?" "No." "Eloise, you're getting hard as nails." (J.D. Salinger)

6. A fine kettle of fish you've gotten us into," Alaina fussed. (K.E. Woodiwiss)