Упражнение № 2. Переведите следующие примеры на русский язык, определяя степень зна­чимости того или иного имени собст­венного в ироническом контексте:

Переведите следующие примеры на русский язык, определяя степень зна­чимости того или иного имени собст­венного в ироническом контексте:

1. Philbrick sat at the next table at the Maison Basque eating the bitter little strawberries which are so cheap in Provence and so very expensive in Dover Street.

2. One by one the girls were shown in. 'Name?' said Margot. 'Pompilia de la Conradine.' Margot wrote it down. 'Real name?' 'Bessy Brown.'

3. Is Oxford worth while? As far as I can judge from my own experience and that of my friends it is certainly not. Of my classmates only one is earning "real money"; he is a film star at Holly­wood; incidentally he was sent down for failing to pass his preliminary schools.

4. Hollywood has made its business the business of half of the world. Yet the great pachyderms of the film trade have no suspicion that in most of America and in the whole of Europe the word "Hollywood" is pejorative.

5. In the England of the first half of the century there was published a series of architectural designs for the use of provincial builders and private patrons, displaying buildings of different sizes from gate lodges to mansions, decorated in various "styles", Palladian, Greek, Gothic, even Chinese.