Задание № 10 Перевод абсолютных конструкций

1. Engineers on the Tyne, their pockets hit by the spate of rising prices, are demanding action to stop the increase in the cost of living. (Daily Worker)

2. Fishing for shark was also a favorite with us. But this was purely sport, full-grown sharks being unedible. (W. Foster, Pages from a Worker's Life)

3. She squatted in front of him, brown eyes grave again, and held her mirror so that he could see. (H. Bates)

4. Stanton had confidently expected that, with Johnson removed, his own enhanced prestige would land him in the Presidency in the 1868 election. (F. X. Busch, Enemies of the State)

5. With the nomination of Grant Stanton's dream of attaining the supreme authority was ended. (Ibid.)

G. From the heroic days of Stalingrad, the greatest, grandest military feat of all time, the people of this and other countries had followed with ever increasing momentum the Red Army offensive that swept across Russia, through the intervening countries and ended in Germany with the Nazi armies laid prostrate. (W. Gallacher, Rise Like Lions)

7. It is especially in the sheet and tinplate rolling mills that hot-mill cramps are likely to develop. The ailment may be local, affecting only one part of the body, or it may be so general and intense as to

cause death. It is so painful that in severe cases doctors sometimes inject cocaine, with corresponding danger to men having weak hearts. (H. B. Davis, Labor and Steel)

Упражнения по переводу абсолютного оборота с предлогом with см. на стр. 84.