4И(Англ) Г61 ковалева л. И., Куликовская л а, чевычелова а. В., Калинина в. П., Давыдова к. Д

deprecate v

adore v vivid a fuss v

self-possession n distress n claim v

доброта, человечность господство, власть, пре­обладание

сильно возражать, про­тестовать, выступать против

обожать, поклоняться яркий, ясный, живой суетиться, волноваться

из-за пустяков самообладание, хладно­кровие

горе, страдание; несча­стье, беда

требовать; предъявлять претензию, заявлять право на что-л.

down in the mouth to make the most of

in the thick of it (one's) palmy days to pass smb over

to talk shop

to bring a suit against smb

быть в засаде, выжидать кого-л.

быть без денег, находить­ся в критическом фи-нансовом положении; сидеть на мели

в унынии, как в воду опу­щенный, павший ду­хом

использовать наилучшим образом; расхвали­вать, преувеличивать достоинство

в самой гуще

период расцвета

пропускать, оставлять без внимания, обходить молчанием

говорить в обществе о своих служебных де­лах

предъявить иск кому-л.

circumspect a

fortuitous a conundrum n perusal n irretrievable a

incur v gauge v

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разжижать, разбавлять, разводить, выхолащи вать (теорию)

случайный

загадка, головоломка

внимательное чтение

непоправимый, невозме­стимый, невознагра­димый

подвергаться чему-л., на­влечь на себя

оценивать (человека, ха­рактер), измерять, проверять (размер)

infallible a

impasse n

custodian n degenerate a glean v

contingency n

deter v preternatural a

judicious a

безошибочный, непогре­шимый, надежный, верный

тупик, безвыходное поло­жение

сторож, опекун

вырождающийся

тщательно подбирать, со­бирать по мелочам (факты, сведения)

случайность, случай, не­предвиденное обстоя­тельство

удерживать, отпугивать

сверхъестественный, про­тивоестественный

здравомыслящий, рассу­дительный

that family and that Society, of which James and his son seemed to him the representative. 9) But paralyzed by unaccountable discretion Mrs Sep­timus Small let fall no word.

1. 
   Brutality is not so deplorably diluted by humane­
   ness as it used to be.
   
2. 
   ... how that long-standing suit of Fryer v. Forsyte
   was getting on, which, arising in the preternaturally
   careful disposition of his property by his great-uncle
   Nicholas, who had tied it up so that no one could
   get at it at all, seemed likely to remain a source of
   income for several solicitors till the Day of Judge­
   ment.
   
3. 
   Her own marriage, poor thing, had not been suc­
   cessful, but having had the good sense and ability
   to force her husband into pronounced error, she
   herself had passed through the necessary divorce
   proceeding without incurring censure.
   
4. 
   At the Macander, like at London, Time pauses.
   
5. 
   This small but remarkable woman merits attention;
   her all seeing eye and shrewd tongue were inscru­
   tably the means of furthering the ends of Provi­
   dence.
   
6. 
   In this search, who knows what he thought and
   what he sought? Bread for hunger — light in dark­
   ness? Who knows what he expected to find — imper­
   sonal knowledge of the human heart — the end of
   his private subterranean tragedy ...
   

3. 
   Give a written translation of the following extracts:
   a) from chapter I beginning with the words: Sometimes when he
   questioned his wife as to where she had been up to the words: It
   was really as if she were hugging to herself the thought of triumph
   over him; b) from chapter III beginning with the words: One of
   first things that June aid on getting home was to go round to Ti­
   mothy's up to the words: She had not yet been to see anyone.
   
4. 
   Translate into English making use of the active vocabu­
   lary:
   

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2. 
   Полнейшая нелепость говорить о том, что он в то
   время сидел на мели; напротив, он получил боль­
   шое наследство От своей тетки.
   
3. 
   Крайне низко с его стороны возбуждать судебное
   дело против своих близких друзей.
   
4. 
   Хорошо, если бы вы не суетились по пустякам, а
   наилучшим образом использовали свое время.
   
5. 
   Компаньоны бесстыдно обошли его молчанием,
   поэтому неудивительно, что он ходит как в воду
   опущенный.
   
6. 
   Я бы предпочел, чтобы вы не говорили о делах
   в его присутствии.
   
7. 
   Неожиданно для себя мы оказались в гуще собы­
   тий.
   
8. 
   Странно, что он выжидает. Обычно в таких ситу­
   ациях он идет на крайние меры.
   

1. 
   What was the "nice" point in Soames' case? Why
   was it "nice"?
   
2. 
   What word did Soames invent to characterize the
   situation in his house? Why?
   
3. 
   What kind of woman was Mrs Macander?
   
4. 
   How did the Forsytes treat her?
   
5. 
   What effect did her piece of evidence produce on
   the Forsytes at Timothy's?
   
6. 
   Did Soames know what he sought in the park?
   
7. 
   Why did young Jolyon begin to make a series of
   water-colour drawings of London?
   
8. 
   What struck young Jolyon most in Irene's appear­
   ance?
   
9. 
   Did old Jolyon manage to cure June of her depres­
   sion?
   

10. 
    How did June drag the truth about Bosinney?
    
11. 
    Why did old Jolyon make alterations in his will?
    

Irish bull, in the thick of it, to pass smb over, to go to extremes, one's palmy days, to lay too much stress upon smth, to take revenge, to be hard up, to poke one's nose into smb's affairs, to come short of smth.

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VII. Make up a list of words pertaining to appearance,

VIII. Reproduce chapter I according to the key-lines.

1. 
   Soames had brought a suit against "the Buccaneer",
   in which he claimed from him the sum of three
   hundred and fifty pounds.
   
2. 
   Sometimes when he questioned his wife as to where
   she had been which he still made a point of doing,
   as every Forsyte should, she looked very strange.
   
3. 
   And the Forsytes! What part did they play in this
   state of Soames' subterranean tragedy?
   
4. 
   When Mrs Macander dined at Timothy's the con­
   versation (although Timothy himself could never be
   induced to be present) took that wider, man-of-the-
   world tone current among Forsytes at large, and
   this, no doubt, was what put her at a premium there.
   
5. 
   Her anxiety for information had not made sufficient
   allowance for that inner Forsyte skin which refuses
   to share its troubles with outsiders.
   

X. What stylistic devices are used in the following sentences:

1. 
   Each section, in the vineyard of its own choosing,
   grew and culled and pressed and bottled the grapes
   of a pet sea-air.
   
2. 
   Yet he hated Bosinney, that Buccaneer, that prowl­
   ing vagabond, that night-wanderer.
   
3. 
   All London had poured into the Park draining the
   cup of summer to its dregs.
   
4. 
   ... they were lost to all but themselves in the heart
   of the soft darkness.
   
5. 
   ... they ... silent as shadows, were gone from the
   light.
   
6. 
   ... where, in full lamp-light, black against the sil­
   ver water, sat a couple who never moved, the wom­
   an's face buried on the man's neck — a single
   form like a carved emblem of passion, silent and
   unashamed.
   

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1. 
   It worries me out of my life.
   
2. 
   I expect the worst.
   
3. 
   I knew how it would be from the first.
   
4. 
   And this stands to reason.
   
5. 
   Where does he come in?
   
6. 
   Little they know of it.
   
7. 
   They are not the gimcrack things you like.
   
8. 
   And what ever he'll do I can't think.
   
9. 
   It's very dreadful for him, you know.
   

10. 
    He's got himself into a mess.
    
11. 
    I don't know what he is about to make, a fuss
    over it.
    
12. 
    I can't tell what you've got in your minds.
    
13. 
    But if you take my advice, you ...
    
14. 
    You can cut your coat a bit longer in the future.
    

1. 
   What is implicit in Soames' law-suit against the
   architect?
   
2. 
   A character sketch of Mrs Macander.
   

To go to extremes, to be in low water, down in the mouth, one's palmy days, to pass smb over, to talk shop, to do smth on one's own responsibility, before you could say Jack Robinson, to make a pretty mess of smth, to set one's heart on smth, to be sore at hearty a queer fish.

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Mr John Galsworthy stands practically alone among latter-day novelists, as the social philosopher who, however often he delivers his own message, repeats it in a voice of astonishing quietness and clarity. Of all

the qualities that make up the rich timbre of that voice, it is surely this trait of quietude, of coolness, that im­presses the hearer first and haunts him longest. ... One can best summarize the style of Mr Galsworthy by say­ing that no single quality of it has the dubious distinc­tion of calling attention to itself. It is a style that wins without arresting, and persuades without ever having challenged. It is quite without self-assertiveness, yet it is charged with individuality. Its frequent brilliance of phrase is simply the maximum of fitness and neat con­densation — the brilliance that comes from self-disci­pline and long apprenticeship, not from the paroxysmal cleverness of particular moments. It manages to become a profoundly personal means of expression. There is nothing meretricious in it that one can identify it by — no hysterical violence, no sacrifice of sense to sound or of trust to wit. Where many an artist has lost himself in self-assertion, Mr Galsworthy has evidently found himself in self-effacement.

... We find thriving more and more in his pages, as the number of them grows, what must surely be called the finest flower of artistic experience — artistic self-knowledge and self-command. Academically, Mr Galsworthy would be a writer of importance if he had nothing of unique impressiveness to communicate, simply because, through this distinguished restraint of his craftsmanship, he has proved more conclusively than any one else now writing fiction that English prose can be unmistakably modern without having to be either ugly or cold.

Galsworthy's composition in the novel is essentially dramatic rather than epic; it consists of a series of dra­matic nuclei or kernels, careful foreshortenings of the subject-matter. He does not so much try to give the history of his personage in a continuous line or curve as to plot it by a dotted line.

Each dot is a chapter dedicated to one episode, the episode so chosen that it implies its own past and fu­ture, as a figure in paint or stone may imply in one frozen attitude the action of preceding and succeeding moments.

Mr Galsworthy elaborates his central episode and leaves out the connection — which means that the epi-

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sode is in itself more decisive, more crowded with self-explaining relations. Each of his chapters has its own unity of mood, its exquisite symmetrical finish, with an almost complete freedom from the extraneous — the preparation and exposition, the backing and filling, which we are accustomed to think of as the neces­sary — evils of the fictional art. Each episode has the singleness of effect, it is like a skilful and separately complete sketch.

... Mr Galsworthy turns the chain of mountains into a chain of beads, all of them strung on the in­visible thread of the story and all consisting of a skil­fully manufactured alloy of setting, action, character, talk, and dominant mood.

... The units are much the same in size and con­tour. What saves the succession of them from monotony is that the artificer, a master of colour and contrast, has given each its own tint of mood, so that, although they are alike in form, no two are the same in effect.

(H. Th. Follett and W. Follett. Some Modern Novelists)

extent n collapse v

Jack v

compassionate, a

amount n unprecedented a

manifest a contemptuous a

протяжение, простран­ство, степень, мера

рушиться, обваливаться, терпеть крах (о пла­нах), свалиться от бо­лезни

испытывать недостаток, нуждаться, не иметь, не хватать

жалостливый, сочувству­ющий

количество; сумма, итог

не имеющий прецедента, беспрецедентный, бес­примерный

очевидный, явный, ясный

презрительный, пренебре­жительный, высоко­мерный

Word Combinations

to provide against smth

to be on the look-out to play smb a trick

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принимать меры против

чего-л.

быть настороже обмануть, надуть

to bargain for

to throw light on the mat­ter

to tax smb with to eat one's words to track smb down

fresh for the morrow

условливаться, согла­шаться разъяснить вопрос

обвинять, осуждать брать назад свои слова следить, прослеживать,

выслеживать утро вечера мудренее

RECOGNITION VOCABULARY

overmastering о engulf v dejection n

fleeting a sidelong a uncanny a

askew adv jettison v

ominous a perilous a lugubrious a

portent n flinch v

непреодолимый

поглощать

подавленное настроение, уныние

быстрый, мимолетный, скоротечный

боковой, косой, направ­ленный в сторону

жуткий, сверхъестест­венный

криво, косо, искоса

выбрасывать (груз) за борт, отделываться (от кого-л., помехи), отвергать

зловещий, угрожающий

опасный, рискованный

печальный, мрачный, тра­урный

предзнаменование, зна­мение

вздрагивать "(от боли), уклоняться, отступать

Exercises I. Paraphrase the following:

1. 
   There has been a movement in Turners.
   
2. 
   It is now to George Forsyte that the mind must turn
   for light on the events of that fog-engulfed after­
   noon.
   

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3. 
   "Why, it's 'The Buccaneer'!" and he put his big fig­
   ure on the trail.
   
4. 
   There was something here beyond a jest!
   
5. 
   The spacious emptiness... was marked now and then
   for a fleeting moment by barristers in wig.
   
6. 
   He must assume knowledge of where Irene had
   gone, take it all as a matter of course, and grope
   out the meaning for himself.
   

7) ... but he did not wish to run up against him, feel-
' ing that the meeting would be awkward.

8. 
   It was only when Mr Justice Bentham delivered
   judgement that he got over the turn he had re­
   ceived.
   
9. 
   It seemed impossible to bring out his news.
   

II. Explain the following:

1. 
   ... a vast muffled blackness, ... where, all round,
   voices or whistles mocked the sense of direction.
   
2. 
   Into a denser gloom than ever Bosinney held on at
   a furious pace; but his pursuer perceived more meth­
   od in his madness — he was clearly making his way
   westwards.
   
3. 
   Down the long avenue of his man-about-town expe­
   rience, bursting, as it were, through a smirch of
   doubtful amours, there stalked to him a memory of
   his youth.
   
4. 
   The sound of their voices arose, together with as­
   cent as of neglected wells, which, mingling with the
   odour of the galleries, combined to firm the savour,
   like nothing but the emanation of a refined cheese,
   so indissolubly connected with the administration of
   British justice.
   
5. 
   The long, lugubrious folds in his cheeks relaxed
   somewhat after seeing him, especially as he now per­
   ceived that Soames alone was represented, by silk.
   
6. 
   And the creepy feeling that it gave him of a man
   missing, grated on his sense of comfort and secu­
   rity — on his cosiness.
   
7. 
   In that moment of emotion he betrayed the Forsyte
   in him — forgot himself, his interests, his property —
   was capable of almost anything; was lifted into tne
   pure ether of the selfless and unpractical.
   

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III. Give a written translation of the following extracts:

а) from chapter IV beginning with the words: One figure, however,

not far from Soames, waited at the station door up to the words:
Serve him right; he should arrange his affairs better! b) from
chapter VI beginning with the words: But Soames gave them no
help, sitting with his knees crossed... up to the words: ... was he
going to leave London at once, and live in the country, or what
was he going to do?

IV. Translate into Engjish making use of the active vocabu­
lary:

1. 
   Он всегда начеку, чтобы не упустить возможности
   неожиданным вопросом сбить с толку своего со­
   беседника.
   
2. 
   Нам следует принять необходимые меры в случае,
   если наши планы потерпят крах.
   
3. 
   Идти на попятный не входило в его расчеты.
   
4. 
   Давно пора разъяснить этот вопрос на собрании.
   
5. 
   Он опять сыграл с нами шутку. Мы имеем пол­
   ное право обвинить его в этом.
   
6. 
   Нам было ясно, что случай был беспрецедентный,
   и требовались большие усилия, чтобы все уладить.
   
7. 
   Ее презрительная улыбка была красноречивее
   всех слов.
   
8. 
   Было совершенно очевидно, что спортсмену не
   хватало воли и упорства, чтобы добиться нужных
   результатов.
   
9. 
   Охотники выследили медведя и спрятались в
   кустах.
   

V. Answer the following questions:

1. 
   What were the doings of the day Soames was occu­
   pied with?
   
2. 
   What change did George's feelings undergo when
   he followed Bosinney?
   
3. 
   How and where did he lose Bosinney?
   
4. 
   How did George relate the events to Dartie?
   
5. 
   Why was James proud of his son in court?
   

б) What tortured the members of the family beyond
bearing?

7. 
   What course was Soames going to pursue on get­
   ting home?
   
8. 
   What were Soames' emotions when he learned that
   Irene had left him?
   

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9) What decision did the family come to on Irene's flight?

VI. Make up a list of words and word combinations used in
chapter V for the description of court proceedings.

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