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Pass It!
Boss: (sending the office boy on an errand). On the way you'll pass a baseball park.
Boy: Yes, sir. Boss: Well, pass it!
A boss — хозяин
An office boy — рассыльный on an errand — с поручением a baseball — бейсбол
To pass — проходить мимо
Its Favourite Dish
For sale: a bulldog two years old. Will eat anything. Very fond of children.
for sale — продается anything — здесь: что угодно bulldog [buldog] — бульдог
Английский язык
A Fine Room
Landlady: How do you like the room as a whole? Visitor: As a hole it's fine; as a room, not so good.
A landlady — хозяйка дома as a whole — в целом
A hole — дыра
He Did Not Want It
An old cowboy went to the city and stopped at a hotel for the first time in his life. The clerk asked him if he wanted a room with running water.
•No*, the cowboy said. «What do you think I am, a trout? 9
a cowboy I'kauboi] — ковбой a hotel — гостиница
a clerk [kla:k] — служащий
Running water — 1) водопровод; 2) проточная вода a trout — форель
He Did His Duty
John became a policeman. On the very first day his lieutenant told him, «John, I am giving you an easy beat to start with—just from the station house to that red light and back. John disappeared for two days.
• Where the devil were you?* shouted the lieutenant when John came back*. «Didn't I tell you your beat was just from here to that red light?*
«You did, but that red light was on the back of a car*.
Duty — долг
A station house — участок (полицейский)
Приложение 2
a lieutenant [lef tenant] — лейтенант to disappear — исчезать
A beat — участок (обхода) to start with — для начала
the devil ['devl] — здесь: чёрт возьми
Over the Fields
The train came to a sudden stop. All the passengers jumped up.
•What has happened, conductor?* cried a nervous old woman.
• Nothing much, we ran over a cow*. •Was it on the track? *
«No», replied the conductor, •we chased it into a barn*.
Nervous — нервный
A track — рельсовый путь, рельсы to run over — переехать, задавить to chase — гнаться, загонять
A barn — коровник, хлев
He Wanted a Horse
CUSTOMER: Can I rent a horse? GROOM: How long do you want it?
CUSTOMER: As long a one as you have, laddie. There are five of us.
A customer — клиент a groom — конюх
How long — 1) на сколько времени; 2) какой длины to rent — взять напрокат
A laddie —паренёк
Английский язык
A Pleasant Night
Mr. Brown, a travelling man, was a very light sleep er. One night he stopped at a small hotel, and after some time he got into a sound sleep. Suddenly he heard some loud knocks on his door and nervously sat up in bed.
•What is the matter?* he asked.
• Package downstairs for you, sir*.
«Well, let it stay there: it can wait till morning, I think*.
The boy went down the corridor, and after a long time the guest fell into a sound sleep again. Then another knock came at the door.
• Well, what is up now?*, asked Mr. Brown. «It is not for you, that package*, said the boy.
A light sleeper — человек, который чутко спит to get (fall) into a sleep — заснуть
sound — здесь: крепкий loud — громкий
A knock —стук nervously — беспокойно a package — пакет downstairs — внизу
a guest [gest] — гость
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