Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfo)…but I could never see eye to eye with him on a lot of stuff in the Bible.
XII. Make a list of 10 questions to the text under study for your fellow-students to answer.
XIII. Give a short summary of the text under study (7-10 sentences).
1.8 Unit 8“I damn near fell over on my can … called “Little Shirley Beans.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
All over, to chisel, distinctly, filthy, to plug smb, banister, to stagger around, rubberneck, to be in the mood for smth, to be tempted to do smth, spendthrift, well-off, to give smb a hand, descent, infirmary, charitable, to screech.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Развязывать, распускать, ослаблять; давать взбучку, избивать (разг.); тощий,
худой; согнувшись пополам; высокий, пронзительный (о звуке); отпечатки пальцев;
ввернуть словечко; скромность; плохой едок; монахиня; подавленный, унылый,
грустный; модный, роскошный, шикарный, щеголеватый.
III. Note down the sentences from the text which contain the words and expressions given above. Translate them into Russian.
IV. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the following definitions:
a)place for the treatment of the sick or injured; hospital;
b)a female member of a religious order;
c)the railing and supporting balusters on a staircase;
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d)1. to make or become less tight; 2. (often followed by up) to make or become less firm, compact, or rigid; 3. to untie; 4. (often followed by up) to make or become less strict;
e)1. kind or lenient in one's attitude towards others; 2. of or for charity;
f)1. a person who stares inquisitively; 2. a sightseer or tourist;
g)an impression of the pattern of ridges on the inner surface of the end of each finger and thumb.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)На приеме Джейн была необычайно весела. Она болтала без умолку, и
невозможно было ввернуть ни словечка в этот бурный поток слов.
b)Толпа зевак наблюдала за тем, как Майкла извлекали из-под обломков его шикарной машины.
c)- Ты узнала что-нибудь о том парне из парка?
- Его зовут Эндрю Джексон. Американец ирландского происхождения,
довольно богат, возглавляет какой-то благотворительный фонд.
d)Меня так и подмывало рассказать ему всю правду об этой монахине.
e)В комнате было жарко, и она развязала шарф.
f)- Почему этот человек шатается, кода идет?
-Наверное, ему плохо. Надо проводить его в лазарет.
g)Конечно, он виноват, но я не думаю, что нужно было его избивать.
h)Кому принадлежат отпечатки пальцев на стакане с водой?
i)Почему ты такой грустный? Неприятности на работе?
j)Если ты будешь плохо есть, то станешь тощим и раздражительным, как
наш сосед.
k)Дом в ужасном состоянии! Стены грязные, двери скрипят, деревянные стойки перил подгнили, окна не закрываются… Твой агент тебя обманул!
VI. Make up 5-7 sentences (in Russian) with the words from the active vocabulary (Vocabulary exercises I-II) for your fellow-students to translate.
VII. Make up and act out a dialogue using the words and expressions under study.
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VIII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“I kept trying to picture my mother or somebody, or my aunt, or Sally Hayes's crazy mother, standing outside some department store and collecting dough for poor people in a beat-up old straw basket. It was hard to picture. Not so much my mother, but those other two. My aunt's pretty charitable - she does a lot of Red Cross work and all - but she's very well-dressed and all, and when she does anything charitable she's always very welldressed and has lipstick on and all that crap. I couldn't picture her doing anything for charity if she had to wear black clothes and no lipstick while she was doing it. And old Sally Hayes's mother. Jesus Christ. The only way she could go around with a basket collecting dough would be if everybody kissed her ass for her when they made a contribution. If they just dropped their dough in her basket, then walked away without saying anything to her, ignoring her and all, she'd quit in about an hour. She'd get bored. She'd hand in her basket and then go someplace swanky for lunch. That's what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It made me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)Why should I give her another five bucks?
b)They didn’t seem to know what […] to do with their suitcases.
c)He was quite interested in tennis, and so was I.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“You’re trying to chisel me.”
b)“We got the dough he owes us.”
c)“I’d love to. Grand.”
d)“Didn’t you just love it?”
e)“I liked him the best in the play, old Mercutio.”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)Cut the crap, now.
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b)High-class kid.
c)God, what a jerk I was.
d)… to get a good shot of bourbon to steady my nerves.
e)But we chewed the fat for a while.
f)… it probably was a freshman.
g)She gave me a pain in the ass, but she was very good-looking.
h)… it was no fortune or anything.
i)… and we sort of struck up a conversation.
j)I swung the conversation around to general topics.
k)… it was quite moving, on the whole.
l)I’m not saying it ruined our conversation or anything - it didn’t - but it sure as
hell didn’t do it any good.
m)I apologized like a madman.
n)It was hard to picture.
o)I knew it would knock old Phoebe out.
XII. Make a list of 10 questions to the text under study for your fellow-students to answer.
XIII. Give a short summary of the text under study (7-10 sentences).
1.9 Unit 9“It was a very hard record to get … I really felt sorry for her.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Mobbed, to charge … bucks for smth, to treat smb to lunch (breakfast, dinner), goose flesh (goose-flesh), lumpy, to bounce, to paddle, seesaw, couch, seductive, to get dizzy, checkered, nauseating, to slobber, to horn in, brutal.
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II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Терпеливость, терпение; повесить телефонную трубку, дать отбой;
натягивать(ся), затягивать(ся); поднять мятеж (особ. военный или против военных властей), взбунтоваться (against), замена, замещение; пускать пыль в глаза,
рисоваться; вытягивать шею, глазеть, любопытствовать.
III. Note down the sentences from the text which contain the words and expressions given above. Translate them into Russian.
IV. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the following definitions:
a)1. cruel; vicious; savage; 2. extremely honest or frank in speech or manner;
b)marked with alternating squares of colour;
c)a person or thing that takes the place of another, such as a player who takes the place of a team-mate;
d)the bumpy condition of the skin due to cold or fear, in which the muscles at the base of the hair follicles contract, making the hair bristle;
e)to replace (a telephone receiver) at the end of a conversation;
f)a plank balanced in the middle so that two people seated on the ends can ride up and down by pushing on the ground with their feet.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Я, конечно, угощу твою тетю обедом, но я не думаю, что у меня хватит терпения снова слушать рассказы о ее юности.
b)Когда я нахожусь на одном из верхних этажей высотного здания, у меня всегда кружится голова.
c)Миссис Смит положили в больницу. Нужно срочно найти ей замену.
d)Качество продовольствия было настолько плохим, что солдаты подняли
мятеж.
e)Наш мебельный магазин проводит выставку диванов в следующем
месяце.
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f)Весть была настолько ошеломительной, что даже сдержанный мистер Хопкинс покрылся гусиной кожей от страха.
g)Девочки-близнецы в одинаковых клетчатых платьицах катались на качелях во дворе.
h)- Меня раздражает ее отвратительная привычка постоянно вмешиваться
вчужие разговоры!
-Она просто рисуется. Не обращай внимания.
i)Вы когда-нибудь плавали на каноэ?
j)Энн не хочет с ним разговаривать. Она все время вешает трубку, когда
он звонит.
k)Улица была переполнена людьми, и все они с любопытством наблюдали за происходящим.
VI. Make up 5-7 sentences (in Russian) with the words from the active vocabulary for your fellow-students to translate.
VII. Make up and act out a dialogue using the words and expressions under study.
VIII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deer would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat on this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those
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puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some
way - I can't explain what I mean.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)It made me feel better. It made me feel not so depressed any more.
b)I couldn’t stand looking at them.
c)I felt like marrying her the minute I saw her.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“She’s in Miss Callon’s class, isn’t she?”
b)“This is Sunday.”
c)“Absolutely marvelous. Am I late?”
d)“Me? No. No special time.”
e)“That’s the most marvelous idea you’ve had all day.”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)Everybody was all dressed up.
b)You really have to be in the mood for that stuff.
c)She liked shows that are supposed to be very sophisticated and dry and all.
d)I was anxious as hell to see it.
e)I got a big bang out of that.
f)I keep worrying about whether he’s going to do something phony every
minute.
g)It didn’t seem at all like Christmas was coming soon. It didn’t seem like
anything was coming.
h)You could put a skate key in my hand fifty years from now, in pitch dark, and I still know what it is.
i)We all used to sneak a good look at it.
j)It didn’t exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn’t make me feel gay as
hell, either.
k)… all of a sudden I wouldn’t have gone inside for a million bucks.
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l)… and standing around waiting for their dates to show up.
m)… but he was one of the biggest bores I ever met.
n)They were all just a bunch of actors.
o)He was standing next to the wall, smoking himself to death.
XII. Make a list of 10 questions to the text under study for your fellow-students to answer.
XIII. Give a short summary of the text under study (7-10 sentences).
1.10 Unit 10“We took off our goddam skates … That’s the trouble with these intellectual guys.”
I. Translate the following words and expressions from the text. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Ashtray, to lean, scratch, someplace, to stick together, brook, to starve to death, to hate each other’s guts, crude, to hit the ceiling, entire, to cut in, conceited, to be ashamed of smth, enlightening, homey, to be all set to do smth, furlough, to go overseas, overnight.
II. Find in the text the English equivalents to the following words and expressions. Use them in the sentences of your own. Read the sentences for your fellow-students to translate.
Задний, тыльный; совершенно новый; клика; кончаться, иссякать; огромное количество; принимать извинения; сытый по горло, пресытившийся; доступный,
наличный; кощунственный, святотатственный; славный малый (разг.); вызваться добровольно (сделать что-л. - for).
III. Note down the sentences from the text which contain the words and expressions given above. Translate them into Russian.
IV. Choose a word (or a word-combination) from ex-s. I - II to match the following definitions:
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a)1. to offer (oneself or one's services) by choice and without being forced; 2. to give (information) willingly; 3. to offer the services of (another person);
b)like a home; pleasant and cosy;
c)having an excessively high opinion of oneself;
d)a small exclusive group of friends or associates;
e)a dish for tobacco ash and cigarette ends;
f)made up of or involving all of something, including every detail, part, or
aspect.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)- Дай мне, пожалуйста, пепельницу.
-Не знал, что ты куришь!
b)Если ты не хочешь, чтобы твои дети умерли от голода, то пойди и поищи работу.
c)Он немного стыдится своего акцента, поэтому старается говорить как можно меньше.
d)Я попросила у Клода прощения, но он не принял моих извинений. Он сказал, что сыт по горло моими безумными выходками.
e)Она пришла в ярость от вашего кощунственного поступка.
f)Ваша история очень поучительна, но я не думаю, что, выслушав ее, он за одну ночь превратится в добродетельного парня.
g)Говорят, что детям лучше сидеть на заднем сиденье автомобиля. Это более безопасно.
h)- Какой славный малый этот Рэй! Он добровольно вызвался помочь мне
сорганизацией выставки.
-Надо же! А мне он показался грубым и самодовольным.
i)Здесь так красиво! За всю свою жизнь я не видела более уютного
местечка!
j)Мы были полностью готовы начать эксперимент, но его отменили из-за какой-то царапины на оборудовании.
k)Это совершенно новый продукт на нашем рынке.
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VI. Make up 5-7 sentences (in Russian) with the words from the active vocabulary (Vocabulary exercises I-II) for your fellow-students to translate.
VII. Make up and act out a dialogue using the words and expressions under study.
VIII. Make a literary translation of the abstract given below.
“I said no, there wouldn't be marvelous places to go to after I went to college and all. Open your ears. It'd be entirely different. We'd have to go downstairs in elevators with suitcases and stuff. We'd have to phone up everybody and tell 'em good-by and send 'em postcards from hotels and all. And I'd be working in some office, making a lot of dough, and riding to work in cabs and Madison Avenue buses, and reading newspapers, and playing bridge all the time, and going to the movies and seeing a lot of stupid shorts and coming attractions and newsreels. Newsreels. Christ almighty. There's always a dumb horse race, and some dame breaking a bottle over a ship, and some chimpanzee riding a goddam bicycle with pants on. It wouldn't be the same at all. You don't see what I mean at all.”
“Maybe I don't! Maybe you don't, either,” old Sally said. We both hated each other's guts by that time. You could see there wasn't any sense trying to have an intelligent conversation. I was sorry as hell I'd started it.
“C'mon, let's get outa here,” I said. “You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)But you could tell she wanted me to change the [ … ] subject.
b)He used to go to the same school I did.
c)You could see there wasn’t any sense trying to have an intelligent
conversation.
d)It made old Sally madder than ever.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“You’ve asked me that about twenty times.”
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