ИЗ «ЛЕКСИКОЛОГИИ» Г.Б. АНТРУШИНОЙ

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“You’re at some sort of technical college?” she said to Leo, not looking at him.

“Yes. I hate it though. I’m not good enough at maths. There’s a chap there just down from Cambridge who puts us through it. I can’t keep up. Were you good at maths?”

“Not bad. But I imagine school maths are different.”

“Well, yes, they are. I can’t cope with this stuff at all, it’s the whole way of thinking that’s beyond me. I think I’m going to chuck it and take a job.”

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My wife has been kiddin’ me about my friends ever since we was married. She says that they ain’t nobody in the world got a rummier bunch of friends than me. I’ll admit that the most of them ain’t, well, what you might call hot; they’re different somehow than when I first hung around with them. But of course they are old friends and I can’t give them the air.

A Yankee passenger in an English train was beguiling his fellow passengers with tall stories and remarked: “We can start with a twenty-story apartment house this month, and have it finished by next,”

This was too much for the burly Yorkshireman, who sat next to him. “Man, that’s nowt”, he said, “I’ve seen ‘em in Yorkshire when I’ve been going to work just laying the foundation stone and when I’ve been coming home at neet they’ve been putting the folk out for back rent.”

Объясните, в чем особенность нижеследующего признания в любви (слова Гвендолин из «Как важно быть серьезным» О. Уайльда):

“The story of your romantic origin as related to me by mamma, with unpleasing comments, has naturally stirred the deepest fibres of my nature. Your Christian name has an irresistible fascination. The simplicity of your nature makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me”.

Определите стиль текста и перечислите соответствующий вокабуляр:

Sir,

in re Miss Ernestina Freeman

We are instructed by Mr. Ernest Freeman, father of the above-mentioned Miss Ernestina Freeman, to request you to attend at these chambers at 3 o’clock this coming Friday. Your failure to attend will be regarded as an acknowledgement of our client’s right to proceed.

“I want you to keep an eye on that air-speed indicator. Remember that an airplane stays in the air because of its forward speed. If you let the speed drop too low, it stalls – and falls out of the air. Any time the ASI shows a reading near 120, you tell George instantly. Is that clear?” “Yes, Captain. I understand.” “Back to you, George. I want you to unlock the autopilot – it’s clearly marked on the control column – and take the airplane yourself. George, you watch the artificial horizon. Climb and descent indicator should stay at zero.”

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