Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfi) Она не чувствовала себя обиженной, но эта новость действительно ошеломила ее.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“Gertrude had just made her entrance from the dining-room, bearing a tray. She came slowly, with an air of resentment; and her skirt still needed adjusting, while her lower jaw moved at intervals, though not now upon any substance, but reminiscently, of habit. She halted before Adams, facing him.
He looked plaintive. "What you want o' me?" he asked.
For response, she extended the tray toward him with a gesture of indifference; but he still appeared to be puzzled. "What in the world - ?" he began, then caught his wife's eye, and had presence of mind enough to take a damp and plastic sandwich from the tray. "Well, I'll TRY one," he said, but a moment later, as he fulfilled this promise, an expression of intense dislike came upon his features, and he would have returned the sandwich to Gertrude. However, as she had crossed the room to Mrs. Adams he checked the gesture, and sat helplessly, with the sandwich in his hand. He made another effort to get rid of it as the waitress passed him, on her way back to the dining-room, but she appeared not to observe him, and he continued to be troubled by it.”
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)… he looked at her entreatingly, as if he wanted to explain that he was doing the best he could …
b)I wish he’d come back and get it!
c)When anything’s spoiled, people CAN’T do anything but run away from
it.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of them into indirect speech.
a)“I don’t see what difference it makes.”
b)“What an imagination!”
c)“What’s her name?”
d)“What’s the matter, little boy?”
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e)“I’m afraid you’re awfully tired and nervous.”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)As Alice spoke to her father she hastily …
b)As the little group moved toward the open door of the dining-room, Mr.
Adams …
c)There were details as unpropitious as the heat: …
d)Mrs. Adams gave her husband a glance of sudden panic because…
e)Russell pleased Mr. Adams because …
f)Alice had the strangest feeling as if …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)What transformation came upon Alice? How did she greet Arthur?
b)Was Gertrude good at doing her job? Prove your point of view using the quotations from the text.
c)Describe the behaviour and the state of every participant of the dinner. Did
Russell share Alice’s cheerfulness? Did every of them feel free? Why?
d)What questions did Alice ask herself while she chattered through the hot and heavy courses? What “was the matter with” Russell, in your opinion?
e)Who came to see Mr. Adams? Why did Gertrude get affronted?
f)What was Alice’s “momentary lapse”? What mistake did she make then?
What feeling did she have while talking to Arthur? How did everything end?
XII. Give a short summary of the Chapters under study (7-10 sentences).
XIII Make up a short story using as many words and expressions from vocabulary under study (ex-s. I – II) as possible.
2.16 Unit 16“Her mother’s wailing could still be heard … stricken and almost inanimate.”
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I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in
the sentences of your own.
Overhead, to sob, palm, to take on hard about smth, to prosecute, trap, to vociferate, fugitive, calamity, denunciation, to hinder, unobservant, humble, inarticulate, prodigiously, slicker, to bet, bruised.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Причитания, стенания; семья, домочадцы; ослабевать, утихать; подлый,
хитрый (разг.); сильно ослабеть, свалиться (от болезни, слабости, перенапряжения и т. п.); ударяться с глухим стуком; властно, настоятельно; состязаться, соперничать;
смятение, потрясение; сустав пальца; орать, вопить.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a)unable to express oneself clearly or well;
b)1. to make a loud deep cry like that of a bull, 2. to shout in anger;
c)the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers;
d)1. to fall down or cave in suddenly, 2. to fail completely; 3. to fall down from lack of strength, exhaustion, or illness; 4. to sit down and rest because of tiredness or lack of energy;
e)open condemnation.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)The child … bitterly over his broken toy.
b)Yellow apples dropped down from the tree and … against the ground.
c)“I don’t want you to be seen with these out-and-out … ,” – John said to his
son … .
d)You’d better not break the news to her now. She is as weak as a cat after her illness and can … at once.
e)I … he will do it again. But this time he will get into our … .
V. Match the synonymous pairs.
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Inarticulate, imperatively, to hamper, to vociferate, calamity, agitation, imperiously,
denunciation, to bawl, condemnation, unintelligible, to hinder, to compete, confusion, to
vie, disaster.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Не переживай так сильно об этих глупых мальчишках! Я думаю, что беглецов скоро найдут.
b)Причитания домочадцев были слышны на весь дом.
c)Говорят, по линиям ладони можно узнать судьбу человека.
d)Ты сегодня очень невнимателен.
e)Эти бесконечные разговоры по телефону мешают мне работать.
f)Она до сих пор вся в синяках после той катастрофы.
g)«Ты подлый мошенник!» – завопил человек в шляпе.
h)Думаешь, их фирму будут преследовать судебным порядком?
i)Вскоре шум на улице утих, наступила глубокая ночь, прямо над головой появились яркие звезды.
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“And though she followed him to the front door, entreating, he could not be stayed or hindered. He went through the quiet morning streets at a rickety, rapid gait, swinging his old straw hat in his hands, and whispering angrily to himself as he went. His grizzled hair, not trimmed for a month, blew back from his damp forehead in the warm breeze; his reddened eyes stared hard at nothing from under blinking lids; and one side of his face twitched startlingly from time to time; - children might have run from him, or mocked him.
When he had come into that fallen quarter his industry had partly revived and wholly made odorous, a negro woman, leaning upon her whitewashed gate, gazed after him and chuckled for the benefit of a gossiping friend in the next tiny yard. "Oh, good Satan! Wha'ssa matter that ole glue man?"
"Who? Him?" the neighbour inquired. "What he do now?" "Talkin' to his ole se'f!" the first explained, joyously. "Look like gone distracted - ole glue man!"
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VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)She could neither be stilled upon it, nor herself exhaust its urgings to self-
reproach.
b)The letters were large enough to be read two blocks away.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Fact is, your brother Walter’s got in a little trouble – well, I suppose you might call it quite a good deal of trouble.”
b)“He didn’t hear me, did he?”
c)“Every last penny! I can raise it – I GOT to raise it!”
d)“You don’t look able. You’ve walked all night.”
e)“Tell him to hurry!”
X. Complete the following sentences.
a)Alice ran up the stairs and into her father’s room, where …
b)Mr. Adams slammed the door and …
c)Alice fell asleep, after a time, while …
d)When Mr. Adams had come into that fallen quarter his industry …
e)Adams stared vaguely at the man’s outstretched hand and pointing forefinger, then turned and saw …
f)So, it happened, the great J. A. Lamb a second time …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)What news did Charley Lohr break to the Adamses? How did the family react
to the news?
b)How did Mr. Adams decide to act in the situation with Walter? How did the
family spend that hot night after Charley Lohr’s visit?
c) What did Mr. Adams and Alice talk about in the morning? Where was Mr. Adams going to go?
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d)What sign did Mr. Adams see upon the facade of the big factory building across the street?
e)What did Mr. Lamb want to talk to Virgil Adams about?
f)Why did Mr. Lamb have to bring his former clerk home?
XII. Give a short summary of the Chapters under study (7-10 sentences).
XIII Make up a short story using as many words and expressions from vocabulary under study (ex-s. I – II) as possible.
2.17 Unit 17“About five o’clock that afternoon … and the steps at the top were gay with sunshine.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own.
To frown, gruffly, glimmer, pacifically, to charge smb with smth, to exclaim, to get ahead of smb, restitution, to perceive, spunk, to cast smb down, first-rate, to detain, to squirm out of smth, to pry, to go against one’s gizzard, to overtake smb, inmost, imminence.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and
expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own.
Выпутаться из неприятного положения, преодолеть; проговориться,
проболтаться; спрятать, тщательно прикрыть; нехватка, недостаток; всякий, каждый,
первый встречный (разг.); одеяние, наряд; давать имя при крещении, нарекать;
озлобленный, ожесточенный; трудный, требующий больших усилий; закутывать,
обматывать, пеленать; замечать, обнаруживать; постричься в монахини.
III. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the
following definitions:
a) to wrap a bandage, garment, or piece of cloth around (a person or part of the
body);
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b)1. the act of giving back something that has been lost or stolen, 2. (Law) compensation for loss or injury;
c)clothes, esp. fine or formal ones;
d)(Old-fashioned: informal) courage or spirit;
e)feeling anger and despair as a result of misfortune.
IV. Choose a necessary word or a word-combination from ex-s. I – II to
complete the sentences.
a)He tried to … his guilt by lying.
b)I don’t want every … to know about this fact.
c)Did you hear the news about Tom? He is … bank robbery.
d)They found it quite a … task to accomplish.
e)They … the child Joseph.
V.Match the synonymous pairs.
To detect, glimmer, peacefully, embittered, to overtake, shimmer, to catch up (with), shortage, acerbate, ineluctability, deficit, to detain, clothes, to delay, to notice, pacifically, attire, imminence.
VI. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Услышав, что брата обвиняют в воровстве, Джон нахмурился. Он вовсе не хотел, чтобы каждый в их небольшом городке знал об этом позоре.
b)Вдали показалось какое-то мерцание. «Да это же маяк!» - воскликнул один из матросов.
c)- Мне показалось, что она немного озлоблена.
-Просто у нее очень трудная работа.
d)Джин захотела догнать ее, чтобы спросить, действительно ли она решила постричься в монахини.
e)Я знаю, что этот разговор стоит у тебя поперек горла, но не увиливай от ответа, пожалуйста.
f)У нее хватило мужества защищать свои права.
g)Не трудись выведывать у нее ее секрет – рано или поздно она проговорится сама.
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h)Неизбежность происходящего повергала ее в уныние.
i)И как же нарекли младенца?
VII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“She passed the tobacconist's, and before her was that dark entrance to the wooden stairway leading up to Frincke's Business College - the very doorway she had always looked upon as the end of youth and the end of hope.
How often she had gone by here, hating the dreary obscurity of that stairway; how often she had thought of this obscurity as something lying in wait to obliterate the footsteps of any girl who should ascend into the smoky darkness above! Never had she passed without those ominous imaginings of hers: pretty girls turning into old maids "taking dictation" - old maids of a dozen different types, yet all looking a little like herself.
Well, she was here at last! She looked up and down the street quickly, and then, with a little heave of the shoulders, she went bravely in, under the sign, and began to climb the wooden steps. Half-way up the shadows were heaviest, but after that the place began to seem brighter. There was an open window overhead somewhere, she found; and the steps at the top were gay with sunshine.
VIII. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short dialogue.
a)… then (he) stood frowning as if he hesitated to decide some perplexing
question.
b)… and I’d rather talk to you than I would to your mother.
c)He seemed very much of a gentleman.
IX. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“Well, how is he now?”
b)“Time for thinking – for me, I mean?”
c)“You wouldn’t want that Mildred Palmer to think you’re cast down about – well, you know you wouldn’t want her not to think you’re holding your head up, would you?”
d)“I’m so - I’m so glad to have this – this chance.”
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X. Complete the following sentences.
a)About five o’clock that afternoon, the old gentleman …
b)Mr. Lamb never even hardly noticed …
c)Mr. Lamb paused abruptly and Alice was surprised when she saw …
d)One morning, that autumn, Mrs. Adams came into Alice’s room, and found
her …
e)Alice was afraid her father wouldn’t find …
f)When Alice went down-town upon her errand, she met …
XI. Answer the questions given below. Make 5 questions of your own for your
fellow-students to answer.
a)What did Alice and Mr. Lamb talk about when the old gentleman came to visit her father? Why did Mr. Lamb want to talk to Alice but not to her mother? Did Mr. Lamb prove to be a generous person?
b)Where was Alice going to go one morning that autumn? Was it really “time for thinking” for Alice?
c)What did Alice’s mother think about how Alice was to look? Did Alice agree
with her? What did she understand then about pretending?
d)How was the family going to earn money?
e)Whom did Alice meet downtown? What were Alice’s feelings after the
meeting?
f) Do you consider the end of the story realistic? How did the character of the main heroine change through the book? What do you consider to be the main idea of the book?
XII. Give a short summary of the Chapters under study (7-10 sentences).
XIII Make up a short story using as many words and expressions from vocabulary under study (ex-s. I – II) as possible.
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Список использованных источников
Практикум по стилистике английского языка. = A Manual of English Stylistics:
[учебное пособие] / М.П. Ивашкин, В.В. Сдобников, А.В. Селяев. – М.: АСТ:
Восток-Запад, 2005.
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