ASSIGNMENT 3

(CHAPTER 3)

1. Find English equivalents for the following word combinations. Reproduce the situations where they occur:

1.оправдывать свой нездоровый интерес

2. старомодные принципы

3. «замять» дело

4. обитать в дремучих лесах

5. одеваться безвкусно и крикливо

6. мир, сосредоточенный на книжных полках

7. грубая рассудочность

8. балансировать на канате

9. первородный грех

10. совершить безумство

11. проверить на практике

12. умереть от ползучей формы рабского благоразумия

13. «окрылять» парадоксами

14. блестящая импровизация

15. оттачивать остроумие

2. Find the extract beginning with ”And how charming he had been at dinner…” and ending at ”…grossly common in its aims”. Translate it and comment on it.

3. Find the extract beginning with “The new manner in art, the fresh mode of looking at life…” and ending at “how strange it all was”. Comment on it and learn by heart.

4. Speak on the following points, express your approval or disapproval:

1) Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow.

2) To get back one’s youth, one has merely to repeat one’s follies.

3) Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes

 

 

ASSIGNMENT 4

(CHAPTER 4)

1. Find English equivalents for the following word combinations. Reproduce the situations where they occur:

1. вор времени 9. святыня

2. не по средствам 10. своенравные солнечные лучи,

озаряющие жизнь

3. декоративный пол (о людях) 11. красноречиво разглагольствовать

4. торжество мысли над мораль 12. охваченный благоговейным трепетом

5. разбудить страстное желание 13. не показываться на глаза

6. лабиринт грязных улиц и унылых14. верх великодушия

7. бульваров без зелени 15. научный анализ страстей

8. верность 16. листы раскаленного металла

 

Find the extracts beginning with

a) “Human life – that appeared … ” and ending with “a price for any sensation”;

b) “He began to wonder….” and ending with “ we would do many times, and with joy”.

Translate them and comment on them.

 

3. Speak on the following points, express your approval or disapproval:

1)Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are

disappointed.

2) Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

 

3) А grand passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

4) When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

5) Who could say where the fleshly impulse ceased, or the physical impulse began?