5 курс под редакцией В. Д. Аракина Москва, Владос, 1999 unit one text one the passionate year

for the time being to work oneself up to a good position

for that matter to get nowhere (not to get anywhere)

to take offence to apply certain standards to smb.

to turn a tolerant (angry, loving, etc.) eye on smb to be well aware of smth.

a touch of pride (resentment, tenderness, humour, etc. Also: a touch of the flu)

wriggle, wander, languid, resentful, sullen, vivacious, sword, secretive, ambitious, adolescence, coal-scuttle, perplexing, cosmopolitan, temporarily, stacatto

independent, inclination, cigarette, disappointment, possibility, opportunities, generation, civilization

and though it was only cold mutton; don't sit there dreaming; and the mint sauce; I can be there and back; grunted impatiently; thin about the neck and shoulders; sprang into a vivid personal life of her own; Mr. Smeeth slowly knocked out his pipe in the coal-scuttle; grumbling about the children; he had enjoyed them when they were young; he no longer understood them; he simply tried one thing after another; he would have been quick to defend them

for the time being; letting her do everything; a way of acting, of looking, of talking; to do a bit of washing-up; when she was going out; planning and working; selling wireless sets; getting anywhere; nothing wrong; they were growing up; very perplexing and vaguely saddening; they belonged to a younger generation; knowing eye for a machine; and drooping eyelid; the smallest details of his motor-cycling and dancing

a) What can be deduced from the first five paragraphs about the relations between the parents and the daughter? Point out the sentences which indirectly reveal the relations.

b) Exemplify the use of epithets used in the portrait-sketch of Edna. What kind of attitude do they create? Find the stylistic device of contrast in the same description. Sum up what you have learned about Edna from this paragraph.

c) Explain and enlarge on: "...her father ... could not imagine how his home, for which he saw himself for ever planning and working, appeared in the eyes of fretful, secretive and ambitious adolescence".

d) What would be lost if the sentence "Mr. Smeeth... stared into the fire, brooding" ran: "Mr. Smeeth looked into the fire, thinking"?

e) Explain the meaning of:

...George had shown an inclination... to go his own way, which seemed to Mr. Smeeth a very poor way. He had no desire... to work himself steadily up to a good safe position.... to George, there was nothing wrong.... he applied to them standards they did not recognize; his huge indifferences...

f) Select the sentences and phrases in which George's portrait-sketch is given. Sum up, in your own words, what you have gathered about George from the description.

g) What is the difference in the methods of portrayal applied in the descriptions of Edna and George?

h) Explain what is meant by: "Their world was at once larger and shallower than that of their parents".

i) Comment on the syntax in the extract beginning "They were the product..." and ending "They were less English". What is the effect produced by the change of the rhythm as compared to the syntax of the preceding paragraphs?

9. Copy out from Text Seven the sentences containing the word combinations and phrases given above and translate them into Russian.

1. He was quite conscious of the general disapproval, but regarded his critics indifferently and patiently. He didn't seem particulaly hurt even by the wildest accusations and answered them rather humorously than otherwise. 2. "Let us temporarily drop the subject. We are not likely to achieve any results by this messy argument." 3. Young people will never understand their parents while they judge them from the point of their own views and tastes. So far as that is concerned, the same goes for the parents. People can never understand each other at all unless they are ready to meet each other halfway. 4. Jack was a competent and efficient employee, and everyone expected him to make a good career.

1. Вместо того чтобы смотреть на иллюзии молодых добрыми и терпеливыми глазами, взрослые подчас раздраженно говорили нам: «Любуясь на звезды, ничего не достигнешь. Нужно работать, добиваться прочного положения в обществе, а не гоняться за миражами». 2. «Нельзя же подходить ко всем со своей меркой, — сказал Чарльз с некоторой досадой. — Если уж на то пошло, не все могут позволить себе такие расходы, как ты. И ты это хорошо знаешь». 3. Конечно, Джейн обиделась на эти несправедливые слова, но решила временно сдержаться и не отвечать свекрови. Сказав, что у нее слегка разболелась голова, она ушла в свою комнату.

1. What was Mr. Smeeth's attitude to his daughter? 2. What was it that annoyed him in her? 3. What did Edna look like? 4. Do you think that her father's annoyance was well-founded or rather unreasonable? 5. What can be said in Edna's defence? (She was "languid and complaining, shrill and resentful, or sullen and tearful". Probably she had reasons other own for being all that, hadn't she?) 6. Why was it that George, "a very bright promising boy", turned out a disappointment to his father? Do you think that Mr. Smeeth was objective in his disappointment? What was it exactly that worried him about George? Do you think that George's failings were serious

A. 1. The next moment the cat was shooting out of the room, hotly pursued by the spaniel. 2. It was true that she had let Toby embrace her, but the implied charge of having actually pursued the young man was too unjust. 3. The whole mob was pouring after him. George swerved sharply to the right casting a swift glance at his pursuers. He disliked them all, especially the man with the pitchfork. 4. "Do you know a hyphenated word of nine letters, ending in 'k' and signifying an implement employed in pursuit of agriculture?" "Pitchfork," said George. "But you may believe me, as one who knows, that agriculture is not the only thing it is used in pursuit of." 5. Every man should have a fixed pursuit of the business of his life, to which the principal part of his life should be devoted. 6. "You say your stay here will be but temporary. But where will you go when you leave London?" the stranger pursued. 7. Strictly speaking, that school, Worrel (one of the second-class public schools) is not very old, but it has turned out so many fellows ready to boast about it to all and sundry that has acquired, by verbal association, the antiquity of Eton. 8. He was one of those who had been robbed of acquiring knowledge through a university course. 9. Miss Matfield typed her letters with slightly less contempt and disgust than usual, and she had acquired an assistant, a second typist. 10. Dersingham did not think of Golspie as an Englishman; he contrived to think of him as a kind of foreigner who had acquired an extraordinary command of the English language. 11. "And look at the way she went and encouraged you at first," said Mrs. Pelumpton, "cheapening herself as anything — that ought to have told you what sort of a girl she is, but of course boys can never see that." 12. The city, too hot and airless in summer, too raw in winter, too wet in spring, and too smoky and foggy in autumn, assisted by long hours of artificial light, by hasty breakfasts and illusory lunches, by fuss all day and worry all night, had blanched the whole man, had thinned his hair and turned it grey. 13. Finally he volunteered to go on to the stage to assist in a conjuring trick. 14. She and Dersingham, assisted by Mr. Pearson, who said that he was used to clearing a table, did what they could to make the dinner come to a civilized end. 15. The new typist had been a great disappointment to Turgis, not because she was of no assistance to him in his work but because she was not the attractive young creature his heated fancy had conjured up to fill the post.

1. Soames fixed his ... on Bosinney's tie, which was far from being in the perpendicular. 2. He saw at a... what had happened during his absence. 3. This masterpiece has been exhibited during centuries to the admiring ... of the multitude, and today we don't see it through our own eyes but through their eyes as well. 4. One... was enough to understand the situation. 5. Her ... rested on the muscular neck bronzed by the sun spilling over with rugged health and strength. 6. He turned one more corner and found himself ... at the immense panorama of the Thames. 7. After a brief ... he ignored the stranger or pretended to. 8. Both the blind eyes and the lighted eyes of the innumerable windows seemed to answer his ... and to tell him that he did not amount to very much, not here in London. Then his ... swept over the bridge to what could be seen beyond. 9. You would not have noticed him in a crowd, or, rather, you would have given him one... and then decided that that was enough. 10. As he said this, he tried to make Miss Matfield accept a friendly grin, but all that he got in return was a ... like a high wall with broken glass along the top. 11. She brought to bear upon this intruder the full force of her contemptuous.... On this objectionable man it had no effect at all. He ... hard at her, and then grinned broadly. 12. And then they were gone, leaving Mr. Smeeth and Turgis ... at each other in utter bewilderment. 13. "I don't care a damn what he said," cried Goath agressively,... round at them all. "If I hate the feller, I do hate him, and that finishes it." 14. He moved slowly along, sometimes ... into the windows of shops that meant nothing to him. 15. When he found her at last, she was ... into the jeweller's window, entirely absorbed by the sparkle and glitter within. 16. ... at him, she was reminded of the heroes of old. 17. The child ... the stranger with suspicion and fear. 18. All the women sat up and... at him with adoration. 19. «Any more of that impudence from you," Mr. Smeeth shouted at her, ... . 20. If Cleopatra herself in full regalia had been standing there, Mr. Smeeth could not have ... at her in greater astonishment.

1. Увлечение искусством — это не только способ заполнить свободное время; это — дверь в новый мир, мир ярких красок и высоких чувств. 2. Особенно впечатляющей в фильме была сцена погони. Правда, события развивались так быстро, что трудно было понять, кто за кем гонится. 3. «Погоня за счастьем — пустое дело, — сказал он. — Счастье — это свойство души; или оно есть у вас или нет». 4. Она была так гротескно накрашена, что люди смотрели на нее с удивлением, а одна старушка даже с гневом. 5. Наша школа, при поддержке семьи, выпускает каждый год толпы подростков, не готовых ни к чему, кроме погони за примитивными удовольствиями. 6. Она с грустью смотрела на эту знаменитую картину, обесцененную и вульгаризированную миллионами плохих репродукций на конфетных коробках и обертках. 7. «Мисс Грин обладает всеми знаниями и умениями,

1. Where did she acquire such beautiful accent? 2. You needn't cheapen yourself in this way. 3. Did you actually assist in producing the film? 4. You shouldn't nurse grievances. 5. Adolescents are seldom tolerant. 6. It is a temporary arrangement. 7. Yes, she is a vivacious child. 8.1 refuse to pursue the subject. 9. You have a very vivid imagination. 10. What are the girl's acquirements?

a) There are four characters in the extracts. What methods of characterization are used in the portrayal of each? Do a thorough analysis of all the portrait-sketches illustrating what you say with quotations from the text.

b) What is the dominant atmosphere of the narrative? By what lexical elements of the text is it created? (Give examples.)

c) What is the manner of the writer? Does he make use of numerous tropes (stylistic devices)? (Give examples.) What is the effect achieved by this? Is his style lucid or obscure?