EXERCISE 2. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the adjectives in bold types

Translate the following sentences paying attention to the adjectives in bold types. Point out their different meaning.

1. Remarkably warm for the time of the year, isn’t it?

2. He was trying to warm water for tropical flowers.

3. Whenever we spent a day in any smart place, he always used to notice the ladies clothes.

4. He might be rich, he might be smart: he was not at ease with the academics, he couldn’t talk to them as he had been able to talk to his brother-officers…

5. He seems to be quite smart and decent fellow by nature.

6. He was not allowed to say for one single minute.

7. Tom, shining of his brightness and self-respect took only a single glass of red wine.

8. There is the iguana, a lizard that looks like a bad dream.

9. This was a bad start, you had to work more seriously.

10. I hadn’t had my lunch, and I was in a bad temper on account of it.

11. I don’t mind telling you, I wasn’t very bright about it.

12. He had made a reputation as a bright young man.

13. It was a bright morning and the children were playing in the garden.

14. His head was half turned, and I could see the clear profile of his clever, thin, fine-drawn face.

15. A menu card lay by Mr. March’s place; he read it out to us with satisfaction: “ clear soup, chicken fillets, caramel mouse, mushrooms on toast.”

16. I’m not clear where you come in.

17. The sky was a clear yellow, turning into green above the house tops and wireless aerials.

18. Mitchell’s voice was flat and dispassionate. He was indifferent to everything.

19. He said with curiously flat obstinacy that he was not sure of his professional skills at all.

20. There was nothing flat in his life because he tried to make it varied and had a lot of interests.