УЧЁТ МЕЖЪЯЗЫКОВЫХ РАЗЛИЧИЙ В ОБОЗНАЧЕНИИ ПРИЗНАКОВ ПРЕДМЕТА
ФРАЗОВЫЕ АТРИБУТИВНЫЕ ГРУППЫ
I.Свободные сочетания в атрибутивной функции
1. Hillary Clinton’s stand-by-your-man reaction to her husband’s conduct is also being replicated. More American political wives are behaving the way their sad, dignified British counterparts do, rather than running to a divorce lawyer. (D.T., Apr. 21, 98)
2. Intellectual property is an ugly term and guaranteed to turn off most newspaper readers (and newspaper journalists, come to that). It is not a natural read-me subject. (G., Sept. 18,91)
3. Just as British yobs seem unable to go anywhere or do anything without a carries-bag full of lager, so ordinary Americans (especially those on vacation) can be seen walking about with lunch boxes, just in case they fall victim to a snack attack. Meal times for many no longer exist: life in the US has become one long eat-all-you-can-for-$5.99 experience. (Sunday Telegraph, Jan. 11, 04)
4. Not that many years ago, shopping in China mostly consisted of lining up to entreat surly clerks to accept cash on exchange for ugly merchandise that did not fit. But now China has utterly embraced America’s modern “shop-till-you-drop” ethos and is in the midst of a buy-at-the-mall frenzy. (I.H.T., May 25, 05)
5. The most expensive, most hyped movie in the exalted history of Russian cinema [“The Barber of Siberia”] premièred on Feb. 20, and at the exclusive, be-there-or-be-square party in Moscow afterward, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the fiery right-wing politician, gave it one thumb up. (It would have been two, but he was holding a tumbler of vodka at the time). (Nws., March 8, 99)
6. What is hot on the shelves on this side of water [in Britain]? Dark jeans and humidors for the guys and soft fabrics for the ladies. And as usual a single toy has emerged as t h e must-have-but-nowhere-to- be-found item for parents desperate to please their offspring. Made by Hasbro, it is a fluffy robot that goes by the name of Furby. (Ind., Nov. 28, 98)
7. With the films such as “The Deer Hunter” and “Apocalypse Now,” featuring in so many filmgoers’ All Time Top Tens, the odds are stacked against a new film about Vietnam War. Joel Schumacher’s “Tigerland” does a decent job, however, by opting for a low-budget-wobbly-hand-held-camera look and never actually getting to Vietnam at all. (Daily Mail, May 20, 01)
8. Frederick’s of Hollywood Inc., the warhorse that made risqué lingerie that tickled the fancy of gray-haired men, is coming back from bankruptcy with an image designed to attract young shoppers. The company began an “inner-wear-as-outwear” campaign, in which lace and cotton camisole tops are shown with jeans and leather pants. (I.T.H., Oct. 26-27, 02)
9. “Business@ the Speed of Thought” [by Bill Gates] is meant to be Bill Gate’s statesmanlike ruminations on how the tools of his trade can help businesses and people work faster, better and cheaper. But it is also painfully obvious that he would like to sell some more software with this book; that goal repeatedly undercuts the one-chief-executive-to-another-straight talk he aims to the deliver. (I.H.T., May 29-30, 99)
II. Устойчивые сочетания (фразеологизмы, пословицы, крылатые слова и т.п.) в атрибутивной функции
1. State enterprises [in China] were allowed to convert the fruits of their success into wages and bonuses but were bailed out with loans or direct subsidies when failed. This neither-fish-nor-fowl character of China’s state enterprises has produced much the same effect that “perestroika” had in the last days of the Soviet Union. (I.H.T., Sept. 20-21, 97)
2. He [Stephen Timms, the school standards minister of the UK] said: “The time of ‘ one-size-fits-all’ approach to secondary has long gone. We now have a mature understanding of the benefits of a diverse system, tailored to meet the needs of every pupil.” (D.T., Dec. 8, 01)
3. Throughout Latin America that sort of legalized theft of tribal land is made easier by the see-no-evil attitude of government agencies charged with protecting indigenous rights. (Nsw., Sept. 21, 81)
4. Watching Tebbit as television interviewer always have a certain edge-of-the-seat feeling. (G., Apr. 26, 90)
5.Fossil fuels currently generate about 10 terawatts worldwide, more than three quarters of energy production, and there is but a snowflake-in-the-hell’s chance of “renewables” generating even a fraction of this. (T., Feb. 25, 03)
6. Rudolph Giuliani, the mayor who defeated New York’s strip clubs, sex shops, hot dog’s stalls, squeegee merchants(малолетний мойщик машин) and jaywalkers(неосторожный пешеход) with his popular shoot-from-the-lip style, was finally vanquished(покорять, подавлять) himself by an army of urban gardeners led by an actress who came to prominence singing in gay bath houses. (G., May 14, 99)
7. His [N. Mikhalkov’s] fans believe his ability to make a knock-your-socks-off political commercial – which he did for Yeltsin in 1996 – makes him Ronald Reagan and Michael Deaver in one package. (Nsw., March 8, 99)
8. He [Sen. J. McCarthy] was a hail-fellow-well-met demagogue, not too intelligent, onto a good thing, who liked the bottle – which eventually got him. (I.H.T., Oct. 29, 98)
9. Arnold Weinstock, alas, no longer rules. He was last of the don’t-judge-a-book-by-its-cover bosses, refusing to allow GEC (general electric company) Britain’s biggest industrial group, to have a marketing director or worry about its “image.” He had the self-confidence to let his products be judged by their quality, not their brand packaging. (G., Sept. 9, 97)
10. But Roy Rosson’s kids will not be raised in that unquestioning my-country-right-or-wrong patriotism his parents imbued in him. The memories of the Vietnam war have left him bitter at the country that sent him. (Nsw., Dec. 14, 81)
11. But the Brigadier’s [Brigadier Roger Lane, commander of the marine contingent in Afghanistan] gravest sin, it was an assertion two weeks ago to a group of reporters that “that the war is all but won.” This was an open contradiction of Washington’s insistence that Afghanistan’s erstwhile rulers and their allies in the al-Qaeda network are still a powerful force, requiring massed military might to smash them. The Brigadier’s “emperor’s-got-no-clothes” bluntness seems to have drawn an angry reaction in high American places. (E., May, 25, 02)
12. The most damaging result of the computer virus panic of the 1990s is that any data loss can now be blamed on a mystery virus attack, Smith says, potentially ignoring real software malfunctions or simple theft. “Blaming everything on viruses is the-dog-ate-my-homework excuse,” he says. (G., Feb. 12, 98)