I. Translate into Russian. 1. And he was now going to give him an extra heavy dose of attention to make up for his approaching departure

1. And he was now going to give him an extra heavy dose of attention to make up for his approaching departure. (M. Wilson)

2. As he got to the door, Demoyte said, " She went by the path over the fields. Not that it will help you much." (I. Murdoch)

3. I must hurry. I am late as it is. (Gr. Greene)

4. It happened that I had a knack for drawing. (W. S. Maugham)

5. I intended the thing as a private and personal record for myself, so there was no point in telling him about it. (J. Murdoch)

6. You'll soon get the knack of it. I warn you that you'll get nowhere without this key in Eastershaws. (A. Cronin)

7. It was not that she did not understand his arguments. In her presence, in the overwhelming atmosphere of her per­sonality, his arguments simply did not begin to exist. (J. Mur­doch)

8. Tony Haviland due to personal matters wanted to stop working at the project but stubborn Erik would not stretch a point.

9. It cost me a pretty penny too, I can tell you. (K. Por­ter)

— Oh, but I never trust my first impressions. One never

can fell, ⁸ even with people you think you know in­side out.

— But even if he turns out to be the sort you had not

expected, you can't take it back now that ⁹ you've invited the man.

VOCABULARY NOTES

(1) to work — to be successful or effective; to have the desired result (of a plan or a method, something used or attempted)

1. This idea might just work. (I. Murdoch)

2. It's a pretty theory, Shannon. In practice it won't work. (A. Cronin)

3. Then he decided not to be taken in by the confidence trick. He knew how it worked: he was softened up by eating something he enjoyed and by six hours of dreamless sleep. (J. Braine)

(2) scraps (snatches) of conversation (talk, song, etc.) —

fragments of conversation (song)

to work in snatches — to work not continuously

1. Scraps of conversation he had heard — posters he had read — warnings — flashed through his mind. (D. Cusack)

2. Scraps of conversation floated into his mind. When we're married we'll go to Heaven every day. (J. Braine)

3.... snatches of their speech mingled with the phrases that insistently barked inside his brain. (J. Wain)

(3) to go into something — to occupy oneself with; to be busy with

to go deep(ly) into something (details, particulars, question, problem, evidence, etc.) — to examine carefully

1. " Before we go into it in more detail, " said Charles, able to speak at last, " could you clear up one point for me? " (J. Wain)

2. Could Clare get a divorce from him without publicly going - into their life together? (J. Galsworthy)

3. " I've often thought of going into the question: why a nation ceases to be poetic. (J. Galsworthy)

(4) a wet blanket (a kill-joy) — a person who damps enthu­siasm or checks ardour

to throw a wet blanket over (upon) one's spirits —

to distress somebody

1. Clare's restlessness was nothing new. To come the elder sister! To be a wet blanket! Impossible! (J. Galsworthy)

2. " Don't be such a damned old wet blanket, " Dick said. " Think big, man, think big." (J. Braine)

3. This little pilgrimage threw quite a wet blanket upon his rising spirits. (Th. Dreiser)

(5) small talk — conversation on subjects of little impor­tance

1. 1 sometimes wish I weren't such a dull sort of chap, Robert. 1 try to be bright, but 1 can't. I've no small talk at all. (A. Cronin)

2. She stood with her feet apart and her arms crossed on her breast, as Dixon had seen her many times, making small talk in this room or one of the little teaching-rooms upstairs. (K. Amis)

3.... he watched her guide the conversation into the channels of an urbane small talk... (W. S. Maugham)

(6) not to know one's own mind — to be full of doubt hesitation etc. (to be in two minds)

1. Then you ought to have known your own mind before enter­ing into such a very serious engagement. (B. Shaw)

2. " I don't hold with a man marrying till he knows his own mind, " she went on. " And a man doesn't know his own mind till he is thirty or thirty-five." (W. S. Maugham)

3. I ought to know my own mind by then; if i don't, i can't have got one. (J. Galsworthy)

(7) to size somebody up — to estimate a person's character; to form a judgement or opinion of a person

1. He began to " size up" Drouet from the standpoints of wit and fascination. (Th. Dreiser)

2. Here 1 was trying to size you up, and failing because you didn't fit into any type I knew and now it turns out you've got a job I'd never even heard of. (J. Wain)

(8) to tell (generally with can, could, be able to, etc.) — to know, to judge

one (you) never can tell (you can't ever tell) — appear­ances often deceive us

there + to be + no telling — it is impossible to know

1. You could never tell they might have other children. (J. Braine)

2. You could never really tell what Magda was thinking — her face in repose was blank. (D. Cusack)

3. Charles could not tell who spoke. (J. Wain)

4. But Weston said that from the outside you never could tell with T. B.'s. (D. Cusack)

5. There's no telling what may happen. (A. S. Hornby)

(9) now (that) — as; considering that

1.... now you are in, you may never get out of this chamber of horrors. (A. Cronin)

2. Wormold knew that nothing he could say would check the eloquence of his assistant, now that he had embarked on the great Havana subject. (Gr. Greene)

3. They've got a marvellous excuse now that they're all three directors of the firm. (J. Priestley)

4. " How are you feeling tonight? " — " Fine! Especially now that you are here." (D. Cusack)

5. " Suppose you can see her for a while now that you've come all this way, " she grumbled, " but I wish you'd rung first." (D. Cusack)