Добавил:
ivanov666
Опубликованный материал нарушает ваши авторские права? Сообщите нам.
Вуз:
Предмет:
Файл:Чтение и интерпретация текста роман У.С. Моэма «Луна и грош». Учебно-методическое пособие.pdf
Cultural Background
Explain the following realia and give the context in which they are used in the book:
♦ the Venus of Milo;
♦ the Venus of the Medici;
♦ Delft;
♦ Velasquez.
Содержание
Содержание
Reading and Translation
Read and translate the following extracts:
1) (p. 127) – "I looked at her mouth for an expression that could give me a clue to what she felt ………………. and
there was something dramatic in the contrast of that with her demure appearance."
2) (p. 138) – “He was sore and bruised … to give rest to those who had laboured so diligently.”
3) (p. 140) – “When I left him, after we had buried poor Blanche . ……… Hurriedly he took the key out of his
pocket, opened, and walked in.”
4) (p. 143–144) – “I really felt something of the emotion that had caught him. …… where the soul, all naked,
adventured fearful to the discovery of new mysteries.”
Содержание
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
I. Answer the questions:
1. Where did the narrator encounter Strickland and Blanche Stroeve? (p. 126)
2. Had Blanche changed a lot when the narrator saw her with Strickland after several weeks? (p. 126)
3. What did the narrator and Strickland do in the café? (p. 126)
4. How did Mrs. Stroeve watch the game? (p. 127)
5. When did Dirk Stroeve call the narrator to ask about his meeting with Strickland and Blanche? (p. 128)
6. Why didn't the narrator tell Dirk Stroeve about the meeting? (p. 128)
7. Did the narrator feel great sympathy for Blanche? (p. 129)
8. What did Dirk Stroeve ask the narrator to do for him? (p. 129)
9. What did the narrator write to Blanche? (p. 129)
10. Why did the narrator avoid Dirk Stroeve’s society? (p. 130)
11. What did the narrator do to help Dirk collect himself? (p. 130)
12. Who found Blanche after she had taken oxalic acid and sent for a doctor? (p. 131)
13. Why did the concierge send for Dirk Stroeve? (p. 132)
14. Did Blanche want to see Dirk Stroeve? (p. 132)
15. Why did Stroeve wish the narrator to go with him to the hospital? (p. 132)
16. What did Dirk want the narrator to tell Blanche? (p. 132)
17. What did the hospital look like? (p. 132)
18. Why couldn’t they see Blanche at once when they arrived at the hospital? (p. 132)
19. How did the doctor look upon the case? (p. 132–133)
20. Did Blanche tell the nurse why she had tried to kill herself? (p. 134)
21. Who followed the hearse to the cemetery? (p. 136)
22. Where did Dirk want to go after the funeral? (p. 137)
23. Why did Dirk decide to go to Holland? (p. 137)
24. Why did Dirk’s father want him to become a carpenter? (p. 138)
25. Whom did Dirk want to marry when he was a little boy? (p. 138)
26. How did Dirk Stroeve become a painter? (p. 139)
27. What did Dirk say to Strickland when he saw him? What was Strickland’s response? (p. 144)
II. Explain the following:
Содержание
1. Mrs. Stroeve watched the game with inscrutable face. (p. 127)
2. She must be a woman of complicated character, and there was something dramatic in the contrast of that with her
demure appearance. (p. 127)
3. He was a bad winner and a good loser. (p. 127)
4. I was intrigued. I could not tell how they were getting on. (p. 128)
5. He was conscious that she regarded him with an indifference so profound that the sight of his handwriting would
have not the slightest effect on her. (p. 129)
6. I scarcely know how we got through that day. (p. 133)
7. "She says she only wants to be left in peace." (p. 133–134)
8. I tried to imagine what had happened to drive the poor creature to that dreadful step. (p. 135)
9. Nature, sometimes so cruel, is sometimes merciful. (p.136)
10. I felt in myself the desire to get the whole thing out of my mind. (p. 136)
11. He was dressed in the deepest mourning (p. 137)
12. Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the left. (p.
138)
13. The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. (p. 138–139)
14. Her methodicalness made her suicide more deliberate. Her self-possession was frightening. (p. 141)
15. He went into the studio. It was deliberately artistic. It represented Stroeve's idea of the proper environment for an
artist. (p. 142)
16. "It was a great, a wonderful picture. I was seized with awe. I had nearly committed a dreadful crime.” (p. 143)
17. But one fact he made clear to me; people talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one
carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is
deprived of dignity. (p. 144)
III. Speak on:
1. Dirk Stroeve’s state when he came to the narrator to tell him that Blanche had attempted to kill herself.
2. Dirk Stroeve’s feelings when he found Strickland's picture in his studio.
Lesson 9 (ch. XL–XLIII)
Vocabulary
Cultural Background
Reading and Translation
Questions and Tasks for Discussion
Содержание
Содержание
Vocabulary
I. Study the words and phrases from the vocabulary list. Reproduce the situations in which they are used
in the book.
1) to pull oneself together p. 146 – взять себя в руки,
2) to laugh (at smb.) up one's sleeve p. 147 – смеяться (над кем-то) про себя,
3) to be at pains to do smth p. 147 – очень стараться, прилагать усилия, сделать
что-то,
4) to do smth with (great) gusto p. 148 – делать что-л. с (большим) удовольствием,
5) on the threshold of (a surprising adventure) p.155 – на пороге (удивительного приключения),
6) to be at sea p. 157 – в полном недоумении, в растерянности,
7) to strive for (liberation) p. 157 – стремиться к (освобождению),
8) to lose sight of (smb.) p. 160 – долго не видеть, потерять кого-л. из виду,
9) to acquire proficiency (in) p. 160 – достигать мастерства (в чем-л.),
10) to hold despair at bay p. 161 – не поддаваться отчаянию.
II. Give Russian equivalents:
- neck and crop (150) –
- ill-assorted pair (150) –
- prudence (151) –
- hackneyed phrases (152) –
- caged beast (152)
- a rage for domination (152) –
- ruthless chance (153) –
- callous selfishness (154) –
- preposterous attempt (154) –
- common bonds of humanity (154)
- fleeting expressions (155) –
- the clumsiness of his technique (156) –
- lop-sided (156) –
- stupendous farce (156) – [stjuː'pɛndəs]
- prodigious effort (158) –
- eternal pilgrim (158) –
- shrine (158) –
- arbitrary (159) –
- imposing figure (159) –
- moving subject (159) –
- a picaresque novel (160) –
- arduous (161) – ['ɑːdjuəs]
1) cheerfulness, good nature;
2) unwillingness, reluctance;
3) repulsive, loathsome;
4) aversion, disgust;
5) disapproval , condemnation;
6) rogue, cad, villain;
7) dispassionate, apathetic;
8) sympathetic , pitiful;
9) serenity , calmness;
10) fixation, preoccupation;
11) bondman, slave;
12) senseless;
13) awkward; clumsy;
14) very hazardous, dangerous;
15) fanatic , fanatical;
16) irritating; annoying.
a) tranquility;
b) compassionate;
c) disapprobation;
d) abhorrence;
e) detestable;
f) scoundrel;
g) ungainly;
h) disinclination;
i) geniality;
j) irksome;
k) bigoted;
l) inane;
m) impassive;
n) perilous;
o) chattel;
p) obsession.
- paramount interest (163) –
- empyrean (163) – [ˌɛmpaɪ'riːən]
- odious man (164) – ['əʊdɪəs]
III. Match the synonyms:
Содержание
IV. Give corresponding nouns:
- genial – [ˈdʒiːnɪəl]
- abhorrent –
- prudent –
- indignat –
- lustful –
- serious –
- jealous –
- irritable ['ɪrɪtəbl] –
- cruel –
- wretched –
- simplified –
- incompatible –
Содержание
- monotonous –
- coherent –
- extreme –
- subtle –
V. Fill in the verbs using them in the appropriate form: frame, forsake, cease, arouse, seduce, snare,
irritate, distract, account for, torment, regain, bind, convey, nurse, glean, sacrifice, strive
1. For the next month, occupied with my own affairs, I saw no one connected with this lamentable business, and my
mind _________________ to be occupied with it.
2. You were dying, and Dirk Stroeve took you into his own house. He ______________ you like a mother. He
_________________his time and his comfort and his money for you.
3. She was a governess in the family of some Roman prince, and the son of the house ______________her. She
thought he was going to marry her.
4. His vocabulary was small, and he had no gift for__________________ sentences, so that one had to piece his
meaning together out of interjections, the expression of his face, gestures and hackneyed phrases.
5. With infinite patience she prepared to _________________ me and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to
her level.
6. We seek pitifully to ____________________ to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to
accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
7. I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some
goal where you expect to find a final release from the spirit that ______________ you.
8. …..it must have had causes in the circumstances of his life, I am ignorant of them. From his own conversation I was
able to _________________nothing. If I were writing a novel, rather than narrating such facts as I know of a curious
personality, I should have invented much to ________________________ this change of heart.
effective story might also have been made by bringing him into contact with some old painter whom the
9. An
pressure of want or the desire for commercial success had made false to the genius of his youth, and who, seeing in
Strickland the possibilities which himself had wasted, influenced him to____________________________ all and
follow the divine tyranny of art.
10. I suppose that Strickland painted, and it must have _________________her when she saw him absorbed in
his work.
11. In those moments she realised that to him she was not an individual, but an instrument of pleasure; he was
a stranger still, and she tried to ____________him to herself with pathetic arts.
12. She _______________to ensnare him with comfort and would not see that comfort meant nothing to him.
13. But even during the brief intervals in which they are in love, men do other things which
_________________their mind; the trades by which they earn their living engage their attention; they are absorbed
in sport; they can interest themselves in art.
14. When he had ____________________ command over himself, he shuddered at the sight of the woman he
had enjoyed.
15. I should have pictured him impatient of the restraints of life; and in the struggle between his passion for art and
the duties of his station I could have _______________sympathy for him.
Содержание
VI. Match the words below with their definitions:
a) evil, b) conjecture, c) debauchery, d) reproduction, e) temptation, f) scoundrel, g) torment, h) distaste, i)
self-possession, j) chuckle, k) proficiency, l) yearning, m) disapprobation, n) contemplation, o) anchorite.
1) a quiet or suppressed laugh –
2) strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds –
3) thoughtful or long consideration or observation –
4) profound immorality and wickedness, especially when regarded as a supernatural force –
5) a dishonest or unscrupulous person; a rogue –
6) severe physical or mental suffering –
7) mild dislike or aversion –
8) a copy of something such as a piece of furniture or a work of art –
9) an opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information –
10) the state or feeling of being calm, confident, and in control of one's feelings –
11) excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures (sex, alcohol, or drugs) –
12) a desire to do something, esp. something wrong or unwise –
13) a person who lives in seclusion, esp. a religious recluse; hermit –
14) a high degree of competence or skill; expertise –
15) a feeling of intense longing for something –
Cultural Background
Explain the following realia and give the context in which they are used in the book:
♦ Sisley;
♦ Degas;
♦ Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique;
♦ Fontainebleau;
♦ Marseilles;
♦ Prometheus;
♦ The Derby;
♦ Mrs. Langtry;
♦ Titian.
Содержание