Ex. 2: Translate the sentences using transpositions and the ensuing omissions and additions.

1. It's pretty tough to make people understand you when you're talking to them with- two crab apples in your cheeks.

2. Yossarian decided not to utter another word, thinking that it would be futile.

3. He knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.

4. It was a busy night; the bar was busy, the crap table was busy, the ping-pong table was busy.

5. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination.

6. It was truly a splendid structure, and he throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

7. There were four of them seated together at a table in the officer's club the last time he and Clevinger had called each other crazy.

8. In a bed in the small private section at the end of the ward was the solemn middle-aged colonel who was visited every day by a gentle, sweet-faced woman.

9. Most Americans were either indifferent to or indignant at the purchase of Alaska from Russia by Secretary of State William Seward, and Alaska was widely referred to as "Seward's Folly" and "Seward's Icebox".

10. The heat pressed heavily on the roof, stifling sound.

Ex. З: Give antonymous translation:

1. The warrant officer was unimpressed by the entire incident and seldom spoke at all unless it was to show irritation.

2. It seemed there was a very little basis to their conversation at all.

3. The Texan wanted everybody to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar; he was really very sick.

4. 'Who's complaining?' McWatt exclaimed. 'I'm just trying to figure out what I can do with it.'

5. Force is wrong, and two wrongs never make a right.

6. Just about all he could find in favour of the army was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

7. It was impossible to go to the movie with him without getting involved afterward in a discussion.

8. Do you happen to know where the ducks go when it gets all frozen over?

9. I was too depressed to care whether I had a good or bad view or whatever view at all.

10. He was too afraid his parents would answer, and then they would find out he was in New York.

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