Раздел 4. Фразеология современного английского языка

Упражнение 41.

Выпишите фразеологические сочетания и переведите их.

A. 1) He knew the three people were looking at him but he took no notice. 2) I must apologize for making that speech. 3) I made my way to one of the fireplace". 4) He paid no attention to the noisy music. 5) I caught sight of a large fir-tree and made up my mind that I would stay in it till daylight. 6) Just as I was going to close the suitcase, a horrible thought came into my head. 7) The chair slipped and George caught hold of the trout-case to save himself. 8) I soon made friends with, the captain. 9) I will do you no harm. 10) My master went out to the fields again, and as I understood by his voice told his wife to take care of me. 11) He became a soldier and, took part in many wars. 12) You may set your mind at ease. 13) You're making an ass of yourself. 14) She lost courage and hurried by too overcome with shame to enter. 15) He wouldn't make a fool of himself like that. 16) Mr. Osborn made a few sharp remarks about the fish. 17) Rogov gave a friendly laugh. 18) Gideon nodded, making up his mind to keep his mouth shut and listen. 19) Gideon, quick to take offense at anything now, answered, "I ain't from the hills, ma'am." 20) Marian took a drink of the spirits. 21) I would take some long walks over the island. 22) He does not lose heart and continues to write and study at the same time. 23) They shook hands, said goodnight, and he lifted his hat.

B. 1) Dondolo took the floor after the unfortunate candidate. 2) The advocates are men who have taken a doctor's degree at college. 3) Yates did not take the hint. 4) When she took a thing into her head there was no stopping her. 5) She was, only too inclined to take advantage of his weakness. 6) I have taken a fancy to the place. 7) He would put an end to that sort of thing once and for all. 8) He and Loomis hurried over the Chateau to introduce themselves and to make a good impression. 9) He is a foreigner, Val, one must make allowances. 10) Did you take cold that night you half drowned me? 11) "And what do you think, my dear?" Miss Crawley said to the young lady, for whom she had taken a liking at first sight. 12) Give him a sovereign, Hector, and get rid of him. 13) She had never been in love in her life though she has always been trying to fall in head over ears. 14) The assistant engineers find fault with the foreman. 15) He took the chair one night at a sort of people's concert. 16) He had made an attempt to read, failed, and fell again to thinking. 17) He made his living by selling brooms.

Упражнение 42.

Выпишите фразеологические единицы и расклассифицируйте их на сочетания, единства и сращения. Переведите их на русский язык.

В. 1) June saw she had played a wrong card and broke down. 2)He took a look at her, she was smiling. 3) She has got some silly bee in her bonnet about Eliza. 4) Ah, there you have hit the nail on the head. 5) Little Jon could see that he played second fiddle to her in his father's heart. 6) I couldn't forget it and I took revenge. 7) The sooner they stop calling one another names the better. 8) His son, the apple of his eye, fell ill with scarlet fever. 9) Are you very rich? No, living from hand to mouth. 10) He must be in very low water.

Упражнение 43.

Переведите предложения на русский язык, выпишите фразеологические сочетания и подберите, где возможно, соответствующий однословный эквивалент. Обратите внимание на возможность разобщения компонентов.

B. 1) This was the time to make the quick dash south to the Mediterranean. 2) He caught a glimpse of a most singular thing. 3) The woman cast a shy glance full of constraint at Ransie. 4) The elder sister, a girl of about twenty-one, gave me a smile and a bright look from her brown eyes. 5) He took a swift turn up and down the room. 6) When she saw me behind him, she gave a little cry and stood up radiant. 7) He took a look at her, she was smiling. 8) George knew that his papa was about to take a nap. 9) I made him a bow. 10) Miss Murdstone gave a hoarse chuckle. 11) He gave her a sidelong look, and found she was giving him the same. 12) Pettinger took a drink and offered the bottle to Jasha. 13) I had my reward in the first glance of admiration she ever gave me. 14) She took a step backwards and put out her hands. 15) Mantin gave orders to bring all the sandbags. 16) Soames stole a glance. 17) I took a resolve and lay down. 18) Miss Sharp gave a little puff, and a little scream, and a little giggle. 19) On the days when he does not come, she takes a long walk into London.

Упражнение 44.

Выпишите фразеологические единицы; составьте список глагольных фразеологических единиц (поставив глагол в неопределенной форме) с переводом на русский язык. Обратите внимание на переносное значение нижеприведенных фразеологических единиц; где возможно, сопоставьте с русскими фразеологическими единицами и обратите внимание на случаи несовпадения лежащего в их основе образа.

B. 1) She sat down by Mrs. Small determined to get to the bottom of the matter. 2) She would not get what she had set her heart on. 3) She had built for herself a most magnificent castle in the air, of which she was mistress. 4) He ought perhaps to have put a spoke in the wheel of their marriage. 5) He had no right to leave her in the lurch. 6) His mother was beginning to come to the end of her tether. 7) Swithin had an impulse to take to his heels. 8) It's not my fault that I haven't been able to put my heart into it. 9) That evening passed for Fleur in putting two and two together. 10) I did not yet have the harsh facts of life at my fingers' ends. 11) Well, she wouldn't dream of giving herself any airs with you. 12) "I'm not going to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds," he thought. 13) "I perceive," said Jolyon, "that you are trying to kill two birds with one stone." 14) I don't see how I can avoid putting my foot into my mouth without, do you? 15) You fool, why do you catch at a straw? 16) The feeling that after all she had won, was every moment gaining ground in her. 17) His second impulse therefore was to let sleeping dogs lie. 18) "You’d better realise, "he said, "that the fat is in the fire." 19) I shouldn't be surprised if Irene had put her oar in. 20) She can't keep her foot out of anything. 21) He would be able to keep his eye continually on the plans. 22) Cool your heels and wait for me. 23) Lucky men, you have all the trumps in your hand. 24) I suppose your father had no head for business and made a mess of it.

Упражнение 45.

Из следующих предложений выпишите именные и глагольные фразеологические единицы и переведите их.

B. 1) The Boers are a hard nut to crack. 2) The garden party, a dinner party, and the reception! Too much of a good thing. 3) He had conspired against me like the rest, and they are birds of a feather. 4) Ten to one he isn't in. 5) The meeting was in full swing when he arrived. 6) The fact is they're cat and dog. 7) It was during this time that his little son, the apple of his eye, fell ill with scarlet fever. 8) Everything was in apple-pie order. 9) How I am worried, tied neck and heels. 10) I expect she's in bed somewhere with a dozen nurses and six doctors all dancing attendance on her. 11) So he took himself off with a flea in his ear. 12) I should certainly rap him over the knuckles. 13) Mrs. Crupp had indignantly assured him that there wasn't room to swing a cat there. 14) All this mass of business will be Greek to you. 15) It was reported by members of the family, who would drive up once in a blue moon and ask after their surviving uncle. 16) He had let the cat out of the bag. 17) Unfortunately, he makes no bones about it. 18) Either complete frankness, or complete ignoring - and that meant living with the sword of Damocles above his head.

Упражнение 46.

Выпишите синонимические фразеологические единицы.

B. 1) She had decided to learn something at all costs. 2)All right, come on, Marianne, make a clean sweep of it.3) I have not reason to feel everything you have just said to the very marrow of my bones. 4) That is what you always contrive to do, by hook or by crook. 5) He didn't care a pin about his master. 6) He thinks nothing we do matters a rap. 7) Well, Jo, I may as well make a clean breast of it - everybody knew it. 8) You could not get a Referee for love or money. 9) She doesn't care two pence about you. 10) I dislike him to the very roots of me. 11) The road wound back and forth. 12) Mr. Weller after surveying Mr. Winkle from head to foot said ... 13) He honestly performed his promise, walking miles hither and thither. 14) She began swiftly walking to and fro. 15) Our organisation will be closely looked at from top to bottom and efforts made to improve it. 16) I can't get head nor tail of the situation. 17) We don't care' a fig for her. 18) Tom was at his wit's end what to say.19) Mr. Dombey was so surprised and so perfectly at a loss how to continue the conversation that he could only sit looking at his son by the light of the fire.

Упражнение 47.

Выпишите фразеологические единицы, построенные на сравнении, и переведите их.

B. 1) She thinks I am as mild as a kitten and as good-natured and stolid as the family cow. 2) You are as slippery as an eel. 3) The America of George Washington is as dead as Queen Anne. 4) His hand was as cold as ice. 5) That little affair of your father-in-law and your Aunt Irene, Val - it's old as the hills. 6) He was as drunk as a lord last night. 7) No man knows better than you when to make scenes and when to be as cool as a cucumber. 8) She was as lively as a squirrel. 9) I'm hungry as the devil.10) He is as mad as a March hare. 11) He wasn't as mute as a poker. 12) We are as cross as two sticks. 13) You are as bold as brass. 14) But can I help people seeing what is as plain as the sun in the heavens? 15) After all, I can hardly expect him to come home merry as a lark when he's been sitting for hours with a bedridden invalid. 16) You gave me books to read. But I couldn't read them: they were as dull as ditch water. 17) "When Sissy got into the school here," he persuaded, "her father was as pleased as Punch." 18) For a week Bicket had seen "the job," slippery as an eel, evasive as a swallow, for ever passing-out of reach. 19) I will be silent as the grave, I swear it. 20) I wish I had your health. You look as hard, as nails. 21) He is as mad as a hatter, you know, but quite harmless, and extremely clever. I only know the chap is as cool as a cucumber.

Упражнение 48.

Выпишите парные фразеологические единицы и переведите их.

B. 1) At three o'clock that afternoon, they all stood high and dry, safe and sound, hale and hearty, upon the steps of the Blue Lion. 2) The sister, who was an industrious girl, looked high and low for the necklace, but I needn't say, didn't find it. 3) In the main street of Ipswich stands an inn known far and wide by the appellation of “the Great White Horse.” 4) I shouldn't have objected to a ten-pound note here and there. 5) Your hard and fast scientific men – they don't understand this. 6) Even envious Miss Briggs never spoke ill of her; high and mighty Miss Saltire allowed that her figure was genteel. 7) She held the two new pound notes up in the air for all and sundry to see. 8) Now and then I looked through the carriage windows. 9) He could see wide straight-sided stretches every now and then. 10) He slipped the few odds and ends that he had not packed into his bags. 11) She could play fast and loose with him. 12) My grandfather is his cousin, so he's kith and kin to me somehow. 13) Stuff and nonsense, said my aunt, don't talk to me. 14) And all were cheering with might and main. 15) The whole district shows the wear and tear of glacial ice moving outwards and downwards from the central plateau. 16) Now she walked quite aimlessly for a time, turning here and there, but finding no courage to go on with her inquiry.

Упражнение 49.

Переведите следующие пословицы:

B. 1) All that glitters is not gold. 2) No pains, no gains. 3) All cats are alike grey in the night. 4) All is well that ends well. 5) As you sow, you shall mow. 6) Better late than never. 7) A great ship asks deep waters. 8) One swallow does not make a summer. 9) Speech is silver, silence is golden. 10) Tastes differ. 11) A stitch in time saves nine. 12) Choose an author as you choose a friend. 13) Don't trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. 14) Every cloud has a silver lining. 15) First think, then speak. 16) Necessity is the mother of invention. 17) Where there's a will, there's a way.

Упражнение 50.

Из следующих пословиц выберите синонимические:

B. 1) There is no place like home. 2) Well begun is half done. 3)Two heads are better than one. 4) Good health is above wealth. 5) So many men, so many minds. 6) A good beginning makes a good ending. 7) Four eyes see more than two. 8) So many countries, so many customs. 9) East or West home is best. 10) A good beginning is half the battle. 11) Wealth is nothing, without health.