Exercises
I. Questions for discussion:
1. Givethedefinitionofaeuphemism. 2. How do euphemisms depend on social, political and economic changes taking place in our society? 3. What groups of euphemisms do we distinguish? 4. What is the function of political euphemisms? 5. Give the examples of the useof one and the same euphemism depending on different situations.
II. Pay attention to the use of the following euphemisms:
1. 1. His daughter's mental unedequateness greatly increased his fear. (J. S.) 2. They would not know for some years that he was subnormal, his brain development arrested by his adenoidal condition (J. S.). 3. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry (Transfer of population or rectification of frontiers). 4. People are imprisoned for years without trial, shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvey in lumber caneps. (Elimination of unreliable elements). 5. Defenceless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants are driven into the countryside, and the huts set on fire. (Pacification).
2. 1. the dence, old Nick, the dickens (instead of devil). 2. Heaven, Jove, Lord, goodness (God). 3. to go west, to expire, to pass away (to die). 4. undernourishment (starvation). 5. loss fortunate elements (poor people). 6. blue word, cuss word, cussing, naughty words, take the Lord’s name in vain, turn the air blue, call names (curse).
1. Кундузи яқин орадаги махсус магазинлардан сумкалаб “оби зам-зам”дан олиб келишади-да,хонадонларида “тунги магазинлар” очишади. (рўномадан). 2. Сизни ёмонотлиқ қилиб шундай бобиллаб беришадики, гапирганингизга пушаймон бўласиз (рўзномадан). 3. Дардга чалиниб кимларга хор-зор бўлиб ўлиб кетди. Уни ўз қўлим билан тупроққа қўя олмадим. 4. Хуллас, “учар”лардан икки-уч баравар қимматига сотиб олиб деворларни қўндирдик. 5. Маннон каттакон бархан салқинида ёнбошлаб ётар, “яримта”ни бўшатай деб қолган эди. 6. ...оғир жароҳатдан ўзига келмай, касалхонада ҳаётдан кўз юмади.
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