Karpik


 * //Ch.1.//**
 * //Try to explain and translate into Russian the following sentences.//**

-I was hospital in myself. -I walked into that reading-room a happy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. -Life is brief, and you may pass away before I had finished. -The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression through-upon our brains has produced a general depression through-out the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for though, will restore the mental equilibrium. -We were three to one, however, and the motion was carried. -I remember going to the British Museum one day,…so I conclude there was nothing else the matter with me.


 * //Ch.//****//2.//**
 * //Match the word combinations with their explanations. Remember the situations where they occur.//**
 * # -to arrange to start
 * 1) -to be for smth
 * 2) -to be no poetry about smb
 * 3) -to be damp
 * 4) -to play the fool
 * 5) -to mutter to smb
 * 6) -to cheer and inebriate
 * 7) -to be smothered
 * 8) -hoarse whispers
 * 9) -to be withhold from mankind
 * 10) -to bring the tears into the eyes
 * 11) -to venture the nose outside the door
 * 12) -to have enough oratory for smth
 * 13) -by common assent || # to act the buffoon ||


 * //Ch.3.//**
 * //Find as many as possible food items mentioned in the chapter, make up a list of them. Think over the types of dishes you may prepare using them.//**

- to saturate the scenery - to swear for smth - to make too much of itself - to dash off - to fall back respectfully - to detect a faint odour of melons - to gain the place quite a reputation - to have the compartment to oneself - to harp too much on smth - to boss the job - to be a noble task - to make oneself life a misery -a light-hearted spirit -to split the difference
 * //Ch.4.//**
 * //Find the following word combinations in the text, write them out, translate into Russian, remember the situations where they occur.//**