Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с книгой "Девять рассказов" Дж. Д. Сэлинджера. Афанасьева Н.Р - 23 стр.

8. At length, in effect to get rid of these unpleasant resemblances…         11. Incidentally, if you have a command of the French language, I
    I swung over to the subject of my parents' oldest and dearest friend:        hope you will let me know…
    Pablo Picasso.                                                           12. …an American from Bangor, Maine, who said in his questionnaire,
9. It was not, need I add, that he was consciously or unconsciously              with wordy, Honest-John integrity, that he was his own favorite
    hiding his talent, or deliberately saved it, but that it simply wasn't       artist.
    his to give away.                                                        13. …I decided to let my reservation at the Hotel Windsor go by the
10. Then, while I stood stunned and incessantly nodding…                         board.
11. She said she only hoped that she could some day paint as well as or      14. They'll be something to see, if she hasn't lost her touch.
    even better than they.
12. There were no other serious defects in the picture.                      IV. Find in the text the English equivalents for the following words.
13. You will see that I have drawn them rather rapidly and they are by             Мольберт; автопортрет; эскиз; экспонировать (картины);
    no means perfect and even can't be praiseworthy.                         псевдоним; оттенок; передний план; обнажённая фигура (в живо-
14. I wondered, in a real panic, how I would manage not to go crazy          писи, скульптуре); картина, написанная маслом; акварель(2); по-
    through the next thirteen days …                                         лотно; тонкая, искусная работа.

III. Paraphrase the underlined parts of the sentences. Translate the         V. Think of the definitions for the following words.
     sentences into Russian.
1. "Oh, darling, don't be a horrible wet blanket," Mrs. X said to him.                  to pray             a nun
2. My opening paragraph ran some three pages, and very nearly                           depravity           to tempt
     smoked.                                                                            chaste              a convent
3. I stood up to meet him – head on, if necessary – with a fresh little                 perverse            impious
     Picasso story, but, to my horror, by the time he reached me I was                  a monk              a halo
     minus the plot.
4. After he'd returned to his own desk, it took me several minutes to                           POINTS FOR DISCUSSION
     pull myself together.
                                                                             1. What is the general tone of the story? What are the passages where
5. …who said that his wife had been after him for years to branch
                                                                                the narrator becomes very serious? Why?
     over into the painting racket.
                                                                             2. Do you think the young man was a talented artist? Explain and
6. …when I was nineteen, my funny bone invariably had the
                                                                                prove your point of view.
     distinction of being the very first part of my body to assume partial
                                                                             3. What is the young man’s pseudonym supposed to mean? How does
     or complete paralysis.
                                                                                it sound?
7. She said the only reason she was teaching it was that Sister
                                                                             4. How old do you think sister Irma is? Describe how you see her.
     somebody had passed on and…
                                                                             5. What might be the reason that she was not allowed to correspond
8. Her favorite painter was Douglas Bunting. (A name, I don't mind
                                                                                with the art school?
     saying, I've tracked down to many a blind alley, over the years.)
                                                                             6. Consider the passage at the top of page 169. Give your understand-
9. She wore no part of her grief, so to speak, on her sleeve…
                                                                                ing and interpretation of it.
10. I asked her (and I knew what long shot it was) if she had ever seen
     any reproductions of paintings by Antonello da Messina.

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