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7) severe mental or physical pain or suffering –
8) nearness in place or time; nearness, closeness, proximity –
9) modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence –
10) physical or mental weakness –
11) a lack or deficiency of something –
12) a travelling salesman –
13) to make a stupid or careless mistake; act or speak clumsily –
14) to survive or recover; get through an illness or other dangerous or difficult situation –
15) ottoman, a backless sofa or couch –
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Cultural Background
Explain the following realia and give the context in which they are used in the book:
♦ Marsyas;
♦ Mallarme;
♦ Gaboriau;
♦ Maenad;
♦ Sir Toby Belch.
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Reading and Translation
Read and translate the following extracts:
1) (p. 107–108) – " Dirk Stroeve, giving up his work entirely, nursed Strickland ………………. have made them
larger, and they had an unnatural brightness."
2) (p. 109) – “In a few days Strickland began to get up. … a primitive force that existed before good and ill.”
3) (p. 120–121) – “I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband. ……… She hated him.”
4) (p. 122–123) – “I could not believe that Strickland had fallen in love with Blanche Stroeve…… I felt he was at
once too great and too small for love.”
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Questions and Tasks for Discussion
I. Answer the questions:
1. How long was Strickland ill? (p. 107)
2. Did he talk to Mrs. Stroeve in the nighttime when he was ill? (p. 108)
3. Did Strickland ever thank the Stroeves for what they did for him while he was ill? (p. 108)
4. What books did Strickland like to read? (p. 109)
5. How did it happen that Dirk Stroeve could no longer paint in his studio? (p. 111)
6. Did Dirk Stroeve agree to the narrator’s proposal to get rid of Strickland for him? (p. 111)
7. How much money did Dirk Stroeve give his wife when he left his studio to her and Strickland? (p. 117)
8. Was Dirk Stroeve prepared to take his wife back? (p. 117)
9. Did Dirk Stroeve have any suspicion that there was something between Blanche and Strickland? (p. 118)
10. Was Dirk Stroeve jealous of every man his wife knew? (p. 118)
11. Why did Dirk Stroeve insist on going himself to fetch his things from the studio? (p. 123)
12. Did Dirk Stroeve give anyone an account of his troubles? (p. 123)
13. What did Dirk Stroeve tell his wife when he waylaid her in the street? What was her response? (p. 124)
14. What was the narrator’s reaction to Dirk Stroeve’s story? (p. 124)
15. Where did Dirk Stroeve’s parents live? (p. 125)
16. What was Dirk’s father’s occupation? (p. 125)
17. Why did the narrator recommend Dirk to go to Holland for a while? (p. 125) I
18. Who is described in the following extracts?
a) He was nothing but skin and bone. His clothes hung upon him like rags on a scarecrow. (p. 109)
b) He looked woebegone [ˈwəʊbɪgɒn] and yet ridiculous, like a man who has fallen into the water with all his clothes
on, and, being rescued from death, frightened still, feels that he only looks a fool. (p. 110)
c) He stood like a schoolboy with whom a master is finding fault. (p. 111)
d) He laughed a little; …not as though he were amused, but as though you were a damned fool. (p. 113)
e) For the present he seemed quite lost. He wanted to go out and walk about the streets till day. He was evidently in
no state to be left alone. (p. 120)
f) His appearance was wild and uncouth; there was aloofness in his eyes and sensuality in his mouth; he was big and
strong; he gave the impression of untamed passion. (p. 121)
g) He slept very quietly, without a movement, so that he might have been dead, and he was like some wild creature of
the woods, resting after a long chase. (p. 121)
h) He looked like an overblown schoolboy, and though I felt so sorry for him, I could hardly help laughing. (p. 124)
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i) He remained fat, and his round, red cheeks shone like ripe apples. (p. 125)
j) He looked more than ever like a prosperous bagman. (p. 125)
k) He had the passion of Romeo in the body of Sir Toby Belch. (p. 125)
l) He had a real feeling for what was beautiful and the capacity to create only what was commonplace. (p. 126)
II. Explain the following:
1. I have never known a more difficult patient. (p. 107)
2. But Dirk was a little puzzled by the behaviour of Blanche and Strickland towards one another.
(p. 108)
3. I never knew a man so entirely indifferent to his surroundings. (p. 110)
4. "She went with her eyes open. If she had to put up with certain inconveniences it was her own lookout." (p. 117)
5. "I love her so much better than myself. It seems to me that when vanity comes into love it can only be because
really you love yourself best.” (p. 118)
6. He preferred the anguish of jealousy to the anguish of separation. (p. 119)
7. He had reached that stage of exhaustion when he could not stop talking. (p. 119)
8. I was not so much puzzled by Blanche Stroeve's action. (p. 120)
9. Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite. Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and
everything that had made up her life till then became of no account. She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and
petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a Maenad. She was desire. (p. 121)
10. I did not understand Strickland at all. I racked my brain, but could in no way account for an action so contrary to
my conception of him. (p. 122)
11. I have an idea that there was some cruelty in her indifference. Perhaps she got enjoyment out of the torture she
inflicted. I wondered why she hated him so much. (p. 124)
III. Speak on:
1. The circumstances that made Dirk Stroeve leave his wife and his studio.
2. Dirk Stroeve’s attitude to his wife.
3. The narrator’s understanding of love.
Lesson 8 (ch. XXXII–XXXIX)
Vocabulary
Cultural Background
Reading and Translation
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
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1) to trifle away time
p. 126 – понапрасну растрачивать время,
2) as a matter of course
p. 127 – естественно, само собой разумеется,
3) to be beside oneself (with grief…)
p. 128 – быть вне себя (от горя…),
4) to lie on the bed one has made
p. 128 – пожинать плоды собственных усилий = сам кашу
заварил, сам и расхлебывай,
5) if (the) worst comes to (the) worst
p. 129 – в самом худшем случае; если случится самое худшее,
6) to fly into a temper
p. 130 – вспылить, выйти из себя, потерять самообладание,
7) to have a row [rau] with smb
p. 131 – поссориться с кем-либо,
8) to be cross with smb
p. 131 – сердиться на кого-либо,
9) to keep one's own counsel
p. 139 – держать свои мысли при себе, не высказывать своего
мнения,
10) to hack (a picture) to pieces
p. 143 – разрубить (картину) на куски.
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Vocabulary
I. Study the words and phrases from the vocabulary list. Reproduce the situations in which they are used
in the book.
II. Give Russian equivalents:
- inscrutable face (127) –
- woeful eyes (129) –
- flippant (129) –
- sultry (p. 130) –
- jaded nerves (130) –
- sun-baked streets (130) –
- lamentations (130) –
- oxalic acid (131)
- gaunt building (132) –
- offhand manner (132) –
- brusque (132) –
- frigid contempt (133) –
- piquet (133) –
- words of condolence (135) –
- refuge (138) –
- renunciation (139) –
III. Give corresponding nouns:
- bitter –
- cruel –
- tolerable –
- sincere –
1) grimly mocking, cynical
2) susceptible , vulnerable
3) calm , unperturbed
4) inconceivable , incomprehensible
5) unjust , offensive
6) terrible
7) unexpected , unforeseen
8) modest, meek
9) mournful , sorrowful
10) sleepless , wakeful
11) aloof, nonchalant
12) worried, concerned
13) trivial, ordinary
14) overemotional
15) squalid, miserable
16) obedient, submissive
17) strange, odd, unusual
18) refined, graceful
19) well-considered, planned
20) frenzied, furious
21) invincible, indestructible
a) sensitive
b) sardonic
c) deliberate
d) singular
e) unconquerable
f) untroubled
g) demure
h) injurious
i) horrid
j) inscrutable
k) humble
l) hysterical
m) offhand
n) sudden
o) anxious
p) frantic
q) exquisite
r) shabby
s) commonplace
t) restless
u) woeful
- clean –
- firm –
- dreadful –
- obscure –
- tidy –
- orderly –
- methodical –
- miraculous –
- spiritual –
- eternal –
- mysterious –
- susceptible –
IV. Match the synonyms:
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V. Fill in the verbs using them in the appropriate form: sway, take, commit, console, toil, impel, linger,
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necessitate, soften, drag, thump, betray, vanquish, beat, accompany, clench, reproach
1. He was ______________by Blanche Stroeve, and they were just going to Strickland's favourite corner.
2. I always tried my best to ____________ Strickland, because he was a player who despised the opponent he
__________________ his exultation in victory made defeat more difficult to bear.
3. A man ______________his character nowhere more clearly than when he is playing a game.
4. My heart _________________against my ribs, and, I do not know why, I flew into a temper.
5. I ______________________ my hands, seeking to control my irritation. I attempted a smile.
"I'm sorry. _________________your time. Don't hurry, there's a good fellow."
6. He hid his face in his hands and ____________________ backwards and forwards, groaning.
7. He begged me to repeat to her that he loved her still; he would _______________her for nothing, but desired only
to help her.
8. The nurse was pitiful to his distress, but she had little to say that could______________ him.
9. The circumstances of Blanche Stroeve's death ______________ all manner of dreadful formalities, but at last we
were allowed to bury her.
10. I saw a neat little old woman, with cheeks like apples, __________away from morning to night, through the long
years, to keep her house trim and spruce.
11. Something ____________________him to go to the studio, some obscure desire for self-torture, and yet he
dreaded the anguish that he foresaw.
12. I hoped that the grief which now seemed intolerable would be _______________by the lapse of time, and a
merciful forgetfulness would help him to take up once more the burden of life.
13. He ____________________ himself up the stairs; his feet seemed unwilling to carry him; and outside the door
he ______________ for a long time, trying to summon up courage to go in.
14. "It was a great, a wonderful picture. I was seized with awe. I had nearly ___________a dreadful crime.”
6. Match the words below with their definitions:
a) hand-to-mouth, b) inference, c) encounter, d) surmise, e) to gibber, f) offhand, g) dismay, h) folly, i) volubility,
j) outcast, k) hazard, l) frequent, m) exultation, n) dumbfounded.
1) a strong feeling of fear, worry, or sadness that is caused by something unpleasant and unexpected –
2) a danger or risk –
3) with barely enough money or food to satisfy immediate needs –
4) a feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing –
5) a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning –
6) a supposition that something may be true, even though there is no evidence to confirm it –
7) to visit (a place) often –
8) an unexpected or casual meeting with someone –
9) lack of good sense; foolishness –
10) to speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock
11) ungraciously or offensively nonchalant or cool in manner –
12) the quality of talking fluently, readily, or incessantly; talkativeness –
13) a person who has been rejected by society or a social group –
14) astonished, extremely surprised by something –
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