Задания по главам 13-15 Jerome k. Jerome “Three Men in a Boat”

I. Please, find the Russian equivalents for the following words and expressions:

Chapter XIII	Chapter XIV	Chapter XV
a quiet unassuming old gentleman (p.99) to pervade smth (p.100) the expression of a new-born lamb(p.101) to trot across the road a prey to forage round a blatant bumptiousness (p.103) to be foolhardy (p.105) to put on a winning smile to discard the heavenly theory (p.107) our blood froze in our veins	the retina of memory (p.108) to be exhibited under a glass case to be such an undertaking (p.109) a taste like nothing else on earth (p.110) to be nourishing nutritious to manifest great curiosity to have too much all-round discouragement to meet (p.111) to unnerve any man to advertise smth for sale at a great sacrifice(p. 112) to put smb in mind of smb unaccountable strangeness (p.115)	to afford a pretty clear insight into a question (p.117) to accumulate work not to chime in with the idea to crave for smth to impose upon smb (p.118) a cast-iron opinion truth compelled me to support smb it is the way of the world superfluous (p.120) to dodge up to afford smb a lesson against ambition and uppishness (p.122) to be indignant at smth to devote one’s mind to doing smth to make bets (p.124) to chaff smb unmercifully to hurl at smb all the private family jokes belonging to one’s set (p.125) in an ignominious fashion (p.127)

II. Please, translate the following extracts into Russian

Chapter XIII (two paragraphs)

“…There is lovely country round about it, too, if….

……trying to wash its ghostly hands clean in a ghostly basin.” (p.98)

Chapter XIV. (three paragraphs)

“….we finished with tea and cherry tart...

….it was only a little kettle, but it was full of pluck, and it up and spit at him.” (p.110-111)

(three paragraphs)

“…Young Jefferson only learnt to play one tune on those bagpipes….

….and he would row over from the island to fetch us….” (p.113)

Chapter XV. (three paragraphs)

“…It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do….

…..I do not ask for more than my proper share...” (p.117)

III. Please, answer the following questions:

Chapter XIII.

1. What was their trip to Marlow and Bisham Abbey like?

2. What kind of relations did Montmorency have with cats? Show the author’s irony.

3. Please, describe the steam lunch. Why was it unsuccessful?

4. Why did it seem strange for the friends to see Harris and a pie?

Chapter XIV.

1. What kind of wax-works did they see?

2) Why was Montmorency sarcastic? What kind of fight and with what did he have?

3. Were they fond of music? What instrument did they prefer to learn to play?

4. Why did Harris feel sad after supper?

5. What was George and the author’s walk like?

6. Please, tell about the trouble that Harris had with the swans.

Chapter XV.

1) Why was the author’s attitude to work? Show the author’s irony.

2) What is the reason for the skepticism of the new generation?

3) Please, describe rafting and sailing, different methods and techniques of navigation.

4) What are the pleasures of friendship?

5) Tell about the author’s first experience of sailing.

IV. Please, present small reports on the things that the following characters dealt with in these chapters

1) Harris; 2) Jeffrey (the author); 3) George 4) Montmorency

V. Please, comment on the following:

1) What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over… (p.105)

2) It must be disheartening work learning a musical instrument (p.112)

3) If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect is sent mad… (p.113)

4) Work fascinates me. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. (p.117)

5) Sailing is a thing that wants knowledge and practice too. (p. 125)

VI. Please, render the following story in English: