Supplementary Reading and Translation for Bachelors. Учебное пособие
.pdfb)“You can’t just do something like that.”
c)“You’re sorry. You’re sorry. That’s very funny.”
d)“Well! How’s Connecticut? How’s Florida?”
e)“Same old Caulfield. When are you going to grow up?”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)It’s a nervous habit.
b)I had quite a few topics on my mind.
c)Take most people, they’re crazy about cars.
d)A horse is at least human.
e)… and everybody sticks together in these dirty little […] cliques.
f)Lots of boys get more out of school than that.
g)That’s my point.
h)Which was crap, because I wasn’t even screaming at her.
i)The terrible part, though, is that I meant it when I asked her.
j)… but he thought he was very hot stuff. All muscles and no brains.
k)She acted like she felt sorry for him or something.
l)It’s a funny thing about girls.
m)I couldn’t take my eyes off it.
n)She was about as kindhearted as a […] wolf.
o)They weren’t too flitty-looking.
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).
1.11 Unit 11“They never want to discuss anything serious … and nobody around anywhere.”
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.
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Faint, to pursue, bartender, satisfactory, to keep one’s voice down, psychoanalyst, to be up to smth / smb, extensive, boisterous, to drip, to hold onto smth / smb, to dunk, to get soaked, checkroom, hunk, nickel, superintendent, to sneak in.
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.
Вообще; общее направление, тенденция; бессмысленный, бессодержательный;
испортить (что-л.), напортачить (в чем-л.) (разг.); нестись, мчаться; прятать,
скрывать, утаивать, укрывать; знать как свои пять пальцев; представлять себе,
воображать.
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)lacking clarity, brightness, or volume;
b)senseless or silly;
c)to visualize or imagine;
d)1. to follow (a person, vehicle, or animal) in order to capture or overtake; 2. to try hard to achieve (some desire or aim); 3. to follow the guidelines of (a plan or policy);
4.to apply oneself to (studies or interests); 5. to follow persistently or seek to become acquainted with; 6. to continue to discuss or argue (a point or subject);
e)to put (something) in liquid;
f)to mishandle or spoil (something).
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Он прожил в этом маленьком провинциальном городке почти полвека и знает его как свои пять пальцев.
b)Я могу согласиться с тем, что многие современные песни абсолютно бессодержательны, но некоторые молодые авторы и исполнители создают вполне удовлетворительные вещи.
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c)Когда у врачей не осталось ни малейшей надежды на выздоровление пациента, случилось настоящее чудо.
d)Ее спутник понизил голос и доверительным тоном стал рассказывать о своих злоключениях. «Может, мне стать психоаналитиком?» - подумала Дженни.
e)Хотя ваш спонсор и настаивает, я не буду вводить в сценарий этот второстепенный персонаж. Это безнадежно испортит весь фильм!
f)Я думаю, в данной ситуации все зависит только от тебя.
g)Майкл несся по коридору, как вихрь.
h)Я не знаю, что ты себе вообразил, но мне совершенно нечего от тебя
скрывать.
i)В лаборатории новые образцы ткани подверглись всестороннему
анализу.
j)Лил сильный дождь. Роберт пожалел, что не взял с собой зонт: он весь промок, и вода каплями стекала по его лицу.
k)Что вы знаете о новых тенденциях в моде?
l)Но как вору удалось незаметно пробраться в дом?
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.
“Anyway, I kept worrying that I was getting pneumonia, with all those hunks of ice in my hair, and that I was going to die. I felt sorry as hell for my mother and father. Especially my mother, because she still isn't over my brother Allie yet. I kept picturing her not knowing what to do with all my suits and athletic equipment and all. The only good thing, I knew she wouldn't let old Phoebe come to my goddam funeral because she was only a little kid. That was the only good part. Then I thought about the whole bunch of them sticking me in a goddam cemetery and all, with my name on this tombstone and all. Surrounded by dead guys. Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.
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Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went with them a couple of times, but I cut it out.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)… he was afraid somebody would say something smarter than he had.
b)… it kept to be darker and darker.
c)Some new guy I’d never seen was on the car.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“I like a mature person, if that’s what you mean. Certainly.”
b)“What would he do to me? I mean what would he do to me?”
c)“Why are you calling at this hour, Holden? Do you know what time it is?”
d)“I can’t hear you. Go to bed now.”
e)“Why don’t you go home?”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)I felt like getting stinking drunk.
b)Let’s get one thing straight.
c)I was getting a little too personal.
d)… a bunch of us.
e)Your mind is immature.
f)… he’d help you to recognize the patterns of your mind.
g)I sort of gave her the old eye.
h)But, boy, I could hardly see straight.
i)All these handsome guys are the same. When they’re done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.
j)I didn’t have any place else special to go.
k)I just felt blue as hell.
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l)… it kept getting darker and darker and spookier and spookier.
m)I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all.
n)I went with them a couple of times, but I cut it out.
o)It was a childish way to think.
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).
1.12 Unit 12“The best break I had in years … That isn’t anything really!”
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.
To bump smack into smb, casual, to hold one’s breath, eardrum, for a change, underneath, affectionate, pageant, to be wide-awake, to betray smb/smth, cripple, to feel grippy, windbreaker (wind-breaker), to keep in touch with smb, to reason with smb.
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.
Благоприятная возможность, счастливый случай, шанс (разг.); на перемене;
шлепаться, плюхаться; ущипнуть кого-либо; братство, община, ассоциация, лагерь,
содружество; доносить, выдавать (on - кого-л.); омерзительный, отталкивающий,
противный; декламировать, выступать, читать вслух (стихи и т. п.); свитер с высоким воротом; перекличка.
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. a person who is lame or disabled; 2. a person with a mental or social
problem;
b)1. a body of people united in interests, aims, etc.; 2. friendship between groups of people; 3. (US & Canad) a society of male students;
c)having or displaying tenderness or warmth;
d)disgusting or distasteful;
e)1. to hand over or expose (one's nation, friend, etc.) treacherously to an enemy; 2. to disclose (a secret or confidence) treacherously; 3. to reveal unintentionally.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)В этой местности такая погода, что даже жарким летом нужно надевать
ветровку.
b)Я сказала ему уйти, но он бесцеремонно плюхнулся в мое кресло и начал рассказывать омерзительные истории о своих похождениях в Африке.
c)Я не смогу выступать с этим монологом перед публикой! У меня всегда был страх перед сценой.
d)- О чем фильм?
-О каком-то братстве калек-ясновидцев. Давай посмотрим что-нибудь
другое.
e)Они давно переехали в другую страну, но до сих пор поддерживают контакт с нашими знакомыми.
f)Извините, что прерываю ваше нежное прощание, но мы опаздываем в
аэропорт.
g)Ты все время думаешь о своей работе! Может, тебе найти какое-нибудь хобби для разнообразия?
h)Затаив дыхание, Энни прислушивалась к голосам за дверью.
i)Пожалуйста, найди какой-нибудь способ уговорить его.
j)Что я вижу? Мэг! Собственной персоной! Это сон! Ущипните меня!
k)Он не хочет иметь друзей, потому что когда-то лучший друг предал его.
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.
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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.
“When I came back, she had the pillow off her head all right - I knew she would - but she still wouldn't look at me, even though she was laying on her back and all. When I came around the side of the bed and sat down again, she turned her crazy face the other way. She was ostracizing the hell out of me. Just like the fencing team at Pencey when I left all the goddam foils on the subway.
“How's old Hazel Weatherfield?” I said. “You write any new stories about her? I got that one you sent me right in my suitcase. It's down at the station. It's very good.”
“Daddy'll kill you.”
Boy, she really gets something on her mind when she gets something on her mind.
“No, he won't. The worst he'll do, he'll give me hell again, and then he'll send me to that goddam military school. That's all he'll do to me. And in the first place, I won't even be around. I'll be away. I'll be - I'll probably be in Colorado on this ranch.”
“Don't make me laugh. You can't even ride a horse.”
“Who can't? Sure I can. Certainly I can. They can teach you in about two minutes,” I said.”
IX. Write down 3 sentences of your own for each pattern given below. Use the
patterns in a short story of your own.
a)I had to be careful not to bump into anything and make a racket.
b)… it has […] this big, gigantic bed that’s about ten miles wide and ten miles
long.
с) … a doctor isn’t supposed to take things away from God.
X. Say, who made these utterances and in connection with what. Convert all of
them into indirect speech.
a)“How’s the play? What’d you say the name of it was?”
b)“Swell, except Alice had a cold, and her mother kept asking her all the time if she felt grippy.”
c)“You don’t like anything that’s happening.”
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d)“Allie’s dead - You always say that!”
XI. Explain what is meant by the following phrases and sentences.
a)… the new elevator boy was sort of on the stupid side.
b)So I took it very, very easy when I went past their door.
c)She says she likes to spread out.
d)It was all about this play she was in in school.
e)I figured the hell with it.
f)What’s that got to do with the kind of stories he writes?
g)How come you’re not home Wednesday?
h)She gets very fisty when she feels like it.
i)She was ostracizing the hell out of me.
j)Boy, she really gets something on her mind when she gets something on her
mind.
k)It was a stinking school. Take my word.
l)He was supposed to be incognito or something.
m)The trouble was, I couldn’t concentrate too hot.
n)She was in a cockeyed position.
o)I damn near dropped dead when he asked me, I was so surprised and all.
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).
1.13 Unit 13“It is so something really! … he didn’t have too much brains.”
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.
Rye, snappy, to kid around with smb, to jitterbug, feverish, to have a splitting headache, pitch-black, to choke, garbage, highball, dandy, buffalo, to show smb the door,
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spontaneous, digression, to stick to the point, to have much (little) to do with, provocative,
to unify.
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.
Влечь, манить, нравиться; в самую точку, прямо, прямиком; дернуть (резко или грубо); дышать с трудом, задыхаться; давить, жать; безденежный, бедный, без гроша; умеренный, избегающий крайностей, воздержанный, сдержанный;
немедленно, тотчас же; упрощать(ся), делать(ся) более простым, легким.
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)directly, squarely;
b)to make (something) less complicated;
c)1) not extreme or excessive; 2. (of a size, rate, intensity, etc.) towards the middle of the range of possible values; 3. of average quality or extent;
d)1. a man who is greatly concerned with the elegance of his appearance; 2. (Informal) very good or fine;
e)(of headache) extremely painful;
f)having no money;
g)1. (US) household waste; 2. worthless rubbish or nonsense.
V. Translate from Russian into English using vocabulary under study.
a)Выключи, пожалуйста, телевизор. У меня голова раскалывается.
b)Он достаточно разумен, чтобы не отвечать на эти провокационные
действия.
c)Мой отец хочет, чтобы я поступала в театральное училище, но меня не привлекает карьера актрисы.
d)Отец Джона указал ему на дверь, после того, как он промотал половину его состояния в казино.
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e)Вам лучше упростить формулировку этого задания, а то студенты не поймут, что от них требуется.
f)Во время презентации тебе нужно убедительно доказать, что наш товар является самым доступным и качественным, поэтому говори четко и не допускай отклонений от текста
g)- Почему ты так тяжело дышишь?
-У вас не работает лифт, и мне пришлось подниматься пешком на
восьмой этаж.
h)Мой дядя был человеком средних способностей, но добился многого благодаря упорству и силе характера.
i)Давайте поставим палатку прямо в центре поляны.
j)А почему у тебя в детстве было такое странное прозвище - «буйвол»?
k)Девочка, наверное, заболела. У нее горячий лоб.
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.
“Mr. and Mrs. Antolini had this very swanky apartment over on Sutton Place, with two steps that you go down to get in the living room, and a bar and all. I'd been there quite a few times, because after I left Elkton Hills Mr. Antoilni came up to our house for dinner quite frequently to find out how I was getting along. He wasn't married then. Then when he got married, I used to play tennis with he and Mrs. Antolini quite frequently, out at the West Side Tennis Club, in Forest Hills, Long Island. Mrs. Antolini, belonged there. She was lousy with dough. She was about sixty years older than Mr. Antolini, but they seemed to get along quite well. For one thing, they were both very intellectual, especially Mr. Antolini except that he was more witty than intellectual when you were with him, sort of like D. B. Mrs. Antolini was mostly serious. She had asthma pretty bad. They both read all
D. B.’s stories - Mrs. Antolini, too - and when D. B. went to Hollywood, Mr. Antolini phoned him up and told him not to go. He went anyway, though. Mr. Antolini said that
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