Упражнение № 1. В следующих предложениях проана­лизируйте выделенные метонимичес­кие обороты и переведите предложе­ния на русский язык

1. The world was insane, and I no longer wished to have anything to do with it.

2. There was a further knock on the front door, then silence, and I raged at the stupidity of the country police.

3. Very soon afterwards there was a concerned official face staring at me through the jagged hole in the glass of the kitchen door.

4. As soon as he cut me free, he insisted on provid­ing the immemorial English answer to all the major crises of the existence and motherly watched me down two cups of his dark brown tea.

5. I had to disillusion him as to the lengths to which the literary London will go in pursuing me for my "ungainly" book.

6. I understand the commune was subsequently raided, but nothing more incriminating was found than the inevitable cannabis.

7. I spent a month of misery, I suppose, in some­thing very like a profound sulk.

8. A carbon of the first three typed-out chapters had remained in London.

9. I have tried my best, but I may have exagge­rated, especially in the attempts to transcribe my persecutor's dialogue.

10. I have a small vice, I am rather fond of watching football matches, the sight of so much mindless energy devoted to the modern equivalent of the Roman circus.