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Chapters 15, 16, 17, 18
1. Find the English equivalents of the following expressions in the text and produce the
situations in which they occur.
вскружить голову
подшучивать над к-т
перехватить дыхание
втрескаться в к-т
зубы сводить
работать на публику
2. Explain the meaning of the italicized phrases.
1. … Harry Retford, though he never had a bob, behaved as if he had,… .
2. Rosie liked his devil-may-care attitude toward life, … , and the generosity with which he
flung his money about when a lucky win put him in funds.
3. He seemed to be a gay dog.
4. “He is old and fat and horrible. It gives me the creeps to look at him.
5. … there is not a word that could bring a blush to the cheeks of the most guileless, not an
episode that could cause the novel reader of the present day to turn a hair.
3. Find in the text the descriptions of Rosie’s appearance and learn any to your liking (no less
than 10 lines).
4. Comment on the following words of Rosie’s: “Why not be happy with what you can get?
Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and
what will anything matter then? Let’s have a good time while we can.” How do they
characterize her? Do you share her motto?
5. Translate in writing the following extract from Chapter 15: “Sometimes when we were
sitting side by side in a music hall …in which echoes still the trembling of a sigh.”
6. Divide this part of the novel into 8-10 logical parts and entitle them.
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