I. Translate into Russian. 1. "But Lilly," he warned with sober clarity

1. "But Lilly," he warned with sober clarity. "Don't let me down." (M. Wilson)

2. It's Mrs. Sally, herself's made up her mind, she's coming with us. And that's all there is to it. (K. Prichard)

3. Charles stood up on his way to the door. "I said I liked it best, let's leave it at that." (J. Wain)

4. He could not bring himself to ask him what he really wanted to know. (D. Cusack)

5. If you want to annoy me so early, you're not going about it the right way. (G. Gordon)

6. Tim had always treated her with a slightly ludicrous sort of gallantry which Nan put down to his racial origin. (I. Murdoch)

7. His unfaithfulness was now complete. He had written to Nan hinting as much — but he had not dared to speak clearly to her. (I. Murdoch)

8. I was going to break the news to Mother myself and my friend forestalled me. Unfortunately she went the wrong way about it.

9. "Catch me riding on a bus!" Sammy let out his roar. "Not likely," he said ([. Murdoch)

10. No, the gov'nor ain’t so bad, poor old chap; and I don't dislike him as much as you might expect. He means well. (B. Shaw)

11. Although Мог struggled in his seat he could not bring himself to get up. (I. Murdoch)

12. "That's all. Good-bye. Good-bye." He banged it (the

to school and keep in touch with it. If you keep on quarrelling with him, it won't get you anywhere.⁷

To tell you the truth, I've been thinking about that. In fact, I shall make a point of ⁸ doing that first thing next week. Yesterday we had an awful row. Victor was all for going to Peter's again and I tried to talk him out of it, but I might have spared my breath — he wouldn't listen. I was beside myself with anger, and I told him then and there that if he went, I'd wash my hands of ⁹ him.

Well? In the end he did go to Peter's and I had a good cry. You poor thing, how I feel for you. But you must learn to take the rough with the smooth. That's all there is to it.

I know. But it's easier said than done. When I told Mother not to worry about us, I had had no idea that it would be so difficult. It's anything but easy to look after one's younger brother. And Victor seemed such an easy-going sort. ¹⁰

Don't take it so hard. Victor is not so bad as you imagine. I'm sure you'll make it, ¹¹ and when your mother returns you'll have nothing to worry about. Only none of those foolish rows! Be grown-up about it and keep a hold of yourself.

VOCABULARY NOTES

(1) the long and the short of it (to cut a long story short, to put something in a nutshell) — the general result or effect; all that need be said; the upshot (in the fewest words possible, in short, in brief); the substance of it; that which may be stated briefly

1. I won't repeat her language, it fair startled me, but the long and the short of it was she was jealous of the kite. (W. S. Maugham).

2. To cut a long story short, 1 want you back. (A. Cronin)

3. "To put it in a nutshell," said Charles slowly, "You're will­ing to come in with me because you think my business could be built up." (J. Wain)

(2) to be at one's wits' end — not to know what to do or say; quite at a loss; at the point of having exhausted one's last idea or mental resource

1. But in that flash was seen the other Carrie — poor, hungry, drifting at her wits' end... (Th. Dreiser)

2. Mrs. Fogarty was at her wits' end where to put all the men and a few women, who demanded the best her rough and ready accommodation could afford. (K. Prichard)

3. Mrs. Howels was at her wits' end. (A. Cronin)

(3) to put one's foot down — to be firm in one's attitude; to object to or protest against

1. Well, whose fault was it? The kid's fault for building himself that lunatic machine and racing it along the drive... or mine for not putting my foot down? (J. Wain)

2.... when she got engaged to Mr. Sunbury and he ventured to call her Bea, she put her foot down firmly. (W. S. Maugham)

(4) to keep (a person) going — to keep him alive; help him with money, etc.

1. I kept myself going on black coffee, whisky and cigarettes. (A. Cronin)

2.... and she was so tired herself that she did not know how long she could keep going. (D. Cusack)

3.... still struggling to pay off the mortgage he'd had to raise to keep them going at all during the depression. (D. Cusack)

(5) to leave a person to his own devices, to leave a person

all on his own — to leave him alone to do what he wishes, giving him no help or advice

to be on one's own, to work (live, do something, etc.) on one's own — to be independent, not directed or controlled by others, or simply just to be by oneself

1. He left us to our own devices; he didn't give a damn how the work was done as long as it was finished, when we'd promised, and he refused to be bothered with details. (J. Braine)

2.... he flung a blazing scrap of paper into the middle of the floor. Charles stepped over and trod it out. He felt almost guilty at leaving the idiot to his own devices. (J. Wain)

3. He thought it was wrong of him to go off forever and leave his mother all on her own. (J. Osborne)

4. Oh, I feel so sleepy. Don't feel like standing behind that blink­ing sweet-stall again to-morrow. Why don't you do it on your own, and let me sleep in. (J. Osborne)

(6) to be up to — dependent upon, depending upon the de­cision of

1. I suspected that it ought to be up to me whether we fought or not. (I. Murdoch)

2. They accepted him without much curiosity and with complete friendliness. He was Rosa's business, and it was up to her to make something of him. (J. Wain)

3. It wouldn't be necessary if we'd heard more of the truth per­ haps when there was an inquest. And it's up to you, Olwen. You were the last to see Martin. (J. Priestley)

4. Erik felt only a frustrated realization that no matter how he worked, from this point on, his future was squarely up to Haviland. (M. Wilson)

(7) to get (take) anywhere (nowhere, somewhere) — to

obtain any (no, some) result; make any (no, some) progress

1. "We seem to be really getting somewhere at last," Bart agreed. "All those tests and examinations in the first few days. Phew! Just think what that would be costing outside!" (D. Cusack)

2. "And to think," he said, "of the thousands of millions for war and a few lousy thousands for Т. В." Little Weston answered in his usual calm manner. "Sentimentality gets you nowhere. You've got to do something about it. They'll go on spending thousands of millions for war and a few thousands for Т. В. just as long as we are fools enough to put up with it." (D. Cusack)

3. If the positions were reversed — if Gorin had Haviland's training and experience, and Haviland were the neophyte, the success of the experiment would be less of a gamble. But even then, what would it get them? (M. Wilson)

(8) to make a point of — to insist on; lay stress on; con­sider as necessary or very important

1. I used to make it a point of honour not to be squeamish about anything. (J. Braine)

2. She made a point of arriving late, to the perpetual irritation of Handy. (I. Murdoch)

3. Hundt was confident of the outcome of the meeting since he had, previous to it, made a point of seeing those committee

members upon whom he knew he could rely, and securing their support. (G. Gordon)

(9) to wash one's hands of — to decline responsibility, to rid oneself of the responsibility for

1. As far as Ken and Vicky were concerned, Davy had washed his hands of them. (M. Wilson)

2. "1 simply wash hands of the whole affair," he said under his breath. (A. Cronin)

3. And if Miss Blakeley had had any sense she needn't be as sick as she is, wheedling permission out of Sister Wawn as soon as my back was turned and going down to the seat again last Sunday after being in bed half the week. I wash my hands of her altogether. (D. Cusack)

(10) a good (nice, jolly, shy, timid etc.) sort — a likeable, friendly person a bad lot — a bad or wicked person

1. "Alice wasn't perfect," Joe Lampton said. "But who is? She was a jolly good sort, and I'm going to miss her very much." (J. Braine)

2, You know, people are often frightened of Mummy. She's a bit overwhelming, but she's a good sort really. (J. Braine)

3. An attractive man, with his crisp dark hair, brown complexion, little dark moustache and rather high soft voice; a good sort, ener­ getic and upright-looking. (J. Galsworthy)

4, It wouldn't have been very nice for the Davidsons to have to mix with all that bad lot in the smoking-room. (W. S. Maugham)

(11) to make it — (a) to succeed in traversing a certain distance; to reach the station in time to catch the train; to com­plete something in the allotted time set; (b) to be successful

1. With a bit of luck we should be there in about half an hour. We might even make it in time for you to forget you missed the train. (D. Cusack)

2. "I've been meaning to get in touch with you," he said apolo­ getically at last, "but somehow in the last week or so I just haven't been able to make it." (D. Cusack)

3. The list of examinations which stood between Erik and the degree was made even more formidable by Maxwell's quiet recita­tion. "Some fellows make it, and others don't. It depends on what

you want." "I want to make it," said Erik simply. "I want to take my Ph. D. and then go on and do research." (M. Wilson)

4. "What have you got to say now?" He pointed to the chart. "Look at it. If you'd give me just one more week — just one more — we could make it easily." (M. Wilson)

Exercises

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