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Her hands felt so soft. Руки ее были такими мягкими.

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I. Переведите следующие предложения, обращая особое внимание на перевод выделенных глаголов.

1. «The point is, though,«she went on hastily, «I’ve suddenly decided to – to run this troupe– I mean concert party. That horrid woman decided me.» 2. Wasn’t that enough to decide him that life wasn’t worth living? 3. Robert Jordan could walk well enough himself and he knew from following him since before daylight that the old man could walk him to death. 4. I offered to walk her home. 5. Mammy hurried Scarlett up the stairs. 6. And Soames hurried, ever constitutionally uneasy beneath his cousin’s glance. 7. That was why I hurried you about Grayhallock. 8. I have no money to waste on such trifles. 9. What a lot of time that wastes! 10. The evening papers sell well because they print, throughout the day, the latest sports results. 11. My father sells vegetables from a wagon. 12. The magazine was attacked on all sides. It sold very poorly. 13. They farmed their own land and worked it themselves. 14. The control sector which Keith regularly worked comprised a segment of the Pittsburgh-Baltimore area. 15. You can’t possibly work here. 16. He had worked the elevator in the house all afternoon. 17. She sat down beside him deep in thought. 18. He took me by the arm and sat me down at a table. 19. There’s no time to lose. He’s going to be a farmer – and he loses his way. I suppose she lost me the job. 22. His thoughts travelled sharply to Madrid. 23. I see vast lands stretching out before me, beckoning, and I’m eager to travel them. 24. Arriving at the Gallery off Cork Street, however, he paid his shilling, picked up a catalogue, and entered. 25. The aeroplane and its mechanical functioning absorbed Joe Patroni – so much that he entered his former employer into another dice game and allowed him to win his garage back. 26. My client wishes to enter a plea of guilty to all the charges. 27. He got up and stood before the picture, trying hard to see it with the eyes of other people. 28. The chambers stood much higher than the other houses. 29. They stood me drinks. 30. Timothy trailed back half-way and halted. 31. «Well, miss,«said the cop who stopped her, «I suppose you know why I halted you?» 32. It did not seem so remarkable to him that he should have been perfectly faithful to his young first cousin during the twenty years since he married her romantically out in the Boer War. 33. He confided to Suzanne his ambition to marry his daughter into the aristocracy. 34. Soon after the war they married. 35. When they reached the house he pulled out a crumpled letter which she read while he was washing. 36. He, too, had seen the reporters industriously getting his words down–words which would read well in print. 37. Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available. 38. One whole week had already passed since Colonel Cathcart had volunteered to have his men destroy the bridge in twenty-four hours. 39. A bad tendency of hers to mock at him not openly, but in continual little ways, had grown. 40. You shall skip back to where we were under the first Jolyon in 1760. It’ll prove the cycle theory, and incidentally, no doubt, you may grow a better turnip than he did. 41. Annette stayed a powder-puff, and said with startling suddenness: «Que tu es grossier!» [3] 42. Do you know that Jolyon’s boy is staying with Val and his wife? 43. She’lllead Larry a hell of a life. 44. I’ve been a widow a very long time and I’ve led a very quiet life. 45. I don’t believe Jane fears the rivalry of any girl under the sun. 46. That’s what fears me. 47. Andrew started along Station Road. 48. We could start you at twelve pounds a week. 49. They danced. 50. Dan Rainey caught me in his arms and danced me for a joke. 51. «It’s a miracle, I tell you,«the chaplain proclaimed, seizing Major Danby about the waist and dancing him around. 52. You’ye dropped your handkerchief, sir. 53. There was a clang, an instant’s suspense, and the cage dropped and rocketed to the bottom. 54. He ran up the porch steps. 55. He ran his tongue over suddenly dry lips. 56. He ran his eye over the card for the twentieth time. 57. He sat with his head bent over a pile of papers, running a pencil up and down a row of figures. 58. Where do you /да? 59. You haven’t lived that past. 60. He lived and breathed his captaincy. 61. May I offer you a cup of tea? 62. Now that a chance offered he was seized with an immense eagerness to profit by it. 63. Again the word «Mother!» burst from Jon’s lips. 64. Feeling that she would burst a blood-vessel if she stayed another minute, she stormed up the stairs. 65. More people came crowding in. 66. That would crowd us so. 67. He caught his death of cold one day when they were sailing. 68. Why was he sailing these lonely seas? 69. «Get him to bed,«he said wearily. «With the others. I’ll fly alone.» 70. He was a pilot and flew his plane as low as he dared over Yossarian’s tent as often as he could. 71. If the observation was meant to discomfit the widow it failed. 72. He had none of the tolerance of the older examiners, but seemed to set out deliberately to fail the candidates who came before him. 73. Papa said it relaxed him after the heavy rough work around a farm. 74. «Do you like people?» «Yes. It isn’t easy for me to relax though, and be myself, and make friends.» 75. The first thing he meant to do was to retire old Dr Parke right off the campus, far, far away. 76. Please make up your mind whether you want me to decorate for you, or to retire, which on the whole I should prefer to do.

II. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык.

1. Calvin shrugged that away. 2. He told himself that he was unreasonable, he tried to laugh himself out of such pathos. 3. A man could gamble himself to poverty and still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast. 4. But she shrugged off her momentary annoyance. 5. She would serve tea and delicious sandwiches and leisurely gossip the hours away. 6. Dixon waved him to silence. 7. She smiled a welcome. 8. «He was sunk,«said Wylie, «but I laughed him out of it.» 9. Dr Czinner put his hand under Coral’s elbow and insinuated her out of the compartment. 10. She stepped to the ground and smiled her thanks to John Wilkes. 11. I’m going to drink myself to death. 12. She let him hold her so for a minute, and then shrugged him off. 13. The Swanns had departed on holiday. She had waved them off. 14. At home somebody would be laughed out of such childish conduct. 15. And she too wanted to rise in greater anger and cry him down. 16. I told him that St Thomas Aquinas had bothered too about that very question and he’d better worry it out for himself. 17. «What an embarrassing question!» I said, trying to laugh it off. 18. He handshook his way through the crowds. 19. She revenged herself by screaming the place down and by telling the neighbours what a brute he was. 20. Mr Warburton smiled his approval. 21. He confided to Suzanne his ambition to marry his daughter into the aristocracy.

III. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык. Обратите внимание на употребление глаголов to talk, to speak, to think в значении переходных.

1. Will was talking common sense. 2. «Oh, shut up!» she cried, feeling a momentary intense relief at being able to speak her feelings. 3. She loved horses and talked horses constantly. 4. I should not write those words. I should not even think them. 5. Alex talked riddles. 6. He disliked talking business with her. 7. The truth at last. Talking love and thinking money. 8. Melly and he were always talking such foolishness, poetry, and books and dreams and moonrays and star dust. 9. He was confused and spoke his thoughts as they came to him. 10. Think practical thoughts, will you?

IV. А. Переведите следующие предложения. Укажите, в каких случаях глагол to show является переходным, в каких нет. Обратите внимание на его многозначность.