9. … and steam from the almost constantly boiling kettle made the caravan a damp mist. (25,31).

10. She had a snub nose with a splatter of freckles. (25,32).

11. The wave retreated to leave its tenuous lip of foam. (25,37).

12. Why didn't you at least try to resuscitate her, give her the kiss of life? (25,80).

13. He had lain in bed night after night drifting into sleep on a tide of euphoria. (25,110).

14. The door to the … room … where the twins slept was open and she passed through and stood for a moment looking down at the small humps closely curved together under the bedclothes… (25,128).

15. In the frail sunlight the surrounding trees were flushed with the first gold of autumn. (25,143).

16. The small bush of hair had been pushed under the upper lip, exposing the teeth, and giving the impression of a snarling rabbit. (25,147).

17. …and plastic sheeting laid over the path now lit by a string of over-head lights. (25,170). - …и пластиковое заграждение лежало на тропинке, освещенной сверху ниткой фонарей.

18. His mouth opened and she plugged in the teat of the bottle… (25,178).

19. Alex Mair, for all his assurance, … was only a man and if he had killed Hilary Robarts he would end up, as better men that he had done, looking at the sky through iron bars and watching the changing face of the sea only in his dreams. (25,195).

20. The ground with its mat of pine needles on the sand was unlikely to yield footprints… (25,148).

21. … watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day. (25,118).

22. I cannot work, to beg I am ashamed. Luckily the Lord has tempered the wind to his shorn lamb. (25,309). - Я не могу работать, попрошайничать мне стыдно. К счастью, Всевышний смягчился по отношению к своему бедному агнцу.

23. He stood over six foot tall and, with his pail freckled face and thatch of red hair… (25,360).

24. I pictured him desperately working on her, giving her the kiss of life, saw her eyes slowly open. (25,392).

25. She felt a prick of doubt. (25,133).

1. …and it's not reasonable0for anybody to give up business for that freckled cat. (40,358).

2. They are a bunch of grubby little animals always mooning after you. (34,244).

3. I got up to the table, and there's Caruso sitting with these 6 gorillas, see? (36,103).

4. Not that Mrs. Ascher had been afraid of him - a real tartar she could be when roused. (9,31).

5. How often I called him a silly copy-cat. (18,78).

6. Why should we have the disgrace of harboring such wretches?… Oh, I hate poor. At least, I hate those dirty, drunken, disreputable … pigs. (35,86).

7. When the girls named him an undeserving stigma was cast upon the noble family of swine. (22,180).

8. Dolly's folks in Blue Mountain are nothing at all but the poorest white trash… (43,245). - Родня Долли в Блю Маунтин никто иначе, как самые последние белые бедняки…(из белого населения).

9. She had to ride with the two old wrinklies. (25,5).

10. He greeted his newest candidate for media fame with a mixture of dogged optimism and slight apprehension, as if knowing that he was faced with a hard nut to crack. (25,12).

11. As an exschoolmistress I should have thought she'd had her fill of children. (25,28). - Поработав директором школы, я бы подумала, что она сыта детьми.

12. Human beings need to find someone to blame both for their misery and for their guilt. Hilary Robarts makes a convenient scapegoat. (25,29).

13. - What home?

- Just a home, before the baby was born.”

- How long were you there?

- Two weeks. Two weeks too bloody many. Then I ran away and found a squat. (25,36).

14. … he was rather desperately keeping his attention on that slut Yvonne. (44,70).

15. I've married a tailor's dummy. (29,60).

16. Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter. (25,115).

17. You … made her life a bloody misery… (25,134).

18. The witch's voice was cool. (25,135).

19. We're going to be dealing with intelligent suspects. I don't want a balls-up at the beginning of the case. (25,171).

20. It was the best thing I've ever done in my life and that bitch destroyed it. (25,191).

21. But would she have told him a lie which could be detected merely by consulting the telephone directory? Only if she were so confident of her dominance, of his enslavement to her. (25,251).

22. After the pathologist had left he had turned to the nearest PC and said: “For God's sake, can't we get this thing out of there?” (25,280). - После ухода патологоанатома он повернулся к ближайшему полицейскому и сказал: «Ради бога, разве нельзя убрать отсюда это (тело)?»

23. He could still react physically to the memory of it, feel the tightening of the stomach muscles, the hot serge of anger. … He should have looked the arrogant bastard in the face and spoken the truth, even if it had cost him his stripes. (25,280).

24. You're obviously grubbing about for all the dirt you can find. I'd rather you had facts from me than rumours from other people. (25,296). - Похоже, вы откапываете всю грязь, какую найдете. Я бы предпочёл, чтобы вы получали информацию от меня, а не людские домыслы.

25. - Did she ever speak about the encounter, to you or to anyone else you know? …

- I think she regarded it as too valuable a piece of information to cast before the swine. (25,298).

26. With luck you can take a dozen or so poor sods with you, people who can cope with living, who don't want to die. (25,366).

27. Rickards isn't a brute. (25,385).

28. She could see Miss Mortimer's mouth moving… She saw again those restless blobs of flesh… (25,395).

29. We're calling her Stella Louise. Louise is after Susie's mother. We may as well make the old trout happy. (25,397). - Мы назовем её Стелла-Луиза. Луиза - в честь матери Сьюзи. Заодно осчастливим старую клячу

Метафоры положительной оценки (мелиоративные метафоры).

1. Tom Hartigan sat down awkwardly and looked with some awe at what he called in his own mind “One of the big wigs”. (9,117). - Том Хартиган неуклюже сел и с трепетом посмотрел на человека, которого про себя он называл «большой парик».

2. There was something of the panther about him altogether. A beast of prey - pleasant to the eye. (9,173).

3. Hurstwood could not keep his eyes from Carrie. She seemed the one ray of sunshine. (13,277).

4. She renewed me, she made me a flower. (24,64).

5. As usual the American buyers got the plums of the collection. (5,98).

6. She is grand like royalty. I married a princess. (15,22).

7. As she drew nearer with quickening step she could see the swathe of long blond hair under a tight-fitting beret. (25, 6).

8. He was grateful when the door opened and Nora Gurney, the firm's cookery editor, came briskly in, reminding him as always did of an intelligent insect. (25,14).

9. He had seen her a bright exotic flower. (25,32).

10. The stark overhead lights threw deep shadows under the deep-set eyes and the sweat glistened on the wide, rather knobbly forehead with its swathe of fair undisciplined hair. (25,45).

11. She … had a mane of fair hair beneath a tight-fitting beret. (25,72).

12. She slept always with her window open and would drift into sleep soothed by that distant murmur (of the sea). (25,107).

13. But lying there beside her, listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled … with an agreeable languor… (25,113).

14. “You'd think so, wouldn't you? I'd like it, she'd like it, but there's a little problem of Sue's ma. She doesn't want her ewe-lamb mixed up with any unpleasantness, particularly murder, and particularly just now. (25,257).

15. After tonight the kitchen might never be home to her again. (25,380).

3. Адвербиальная метафора S - V - (O) - Aмет:

1. That hundred guineas was just Mr. Owen's little bit of cheese to get me into the trap along with the rest of you. (9,223).

2. To the west his eyes could travel along the narrow road between the reed beds and the dykes. (25,58).

3. … I've always been able to believe that at the heart of the Universe there is love. (25,106).

4. … the moon glimpsed fitfully, sailing in a majestic splendour above the high spires of the trees… (25,140).

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