For (preposition and conjunction)
Translate into Russian paying attention to the equivalents of for.
1. In order to have the right to play it was necessary for him to keep up in his studies, a very difficult matter, for while he was not dumber than an ox he was not any smarter (Thurber).
2. This was the worst season of the year for car travel among the precipitous mountains. For days it had rained; now snow was falling (Denis).
3. His mother, he knew, lived each day in an agony of fear for him, a gnawing pain that she had suffered and concealed for nearly two years now (Shute).
4. As Мог looked at him now, at his suspicious and sideways-turning face, he felt a deep sadness that he was not able to express his love for his son... (Murdoch).
5. These two missionaries were shocked at the news; for they had a genuine love and respect for the natives and the natives loved them in return (Denis).
6. As I say, there is no need for Caroline to go out to get information. She sits at home and it comes to her (Christie).
7. "She died of an overdose of veronal. She's been taking it lately for sleeplessness. Must have taken too much" (Christie).
8. "...If it's not all in there within thirty seconds I shall... I shall..."
Mr. Curry paused for breath, suddenly at a loss for words (Bond).
9. Clelia said this with a certain violence, and Clara's attention quickened, for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much (Drabble).
10. "Shall we help you?" said Mother May. "You see we always eat picnic fashion here, for simplicity. Everything is on the table, in these bowls. Or would you rather help yourself?" (Murdoch)
Occasion (noun)
Translate into Russian using a variety of equivalents for occasion.
1. I was introduced to Charlie Chaplin. He took me aside and began to talk to me about his boyhood in London when he used to see Tree's productions from the gallery at His Majesty's. For some reason we talked about Duse. Chaplin described an occasion in which he saw her act (Gielgud).
2. Then the sailor, perhaps to distract attention from this unsoldierly weakness, pulls out a copy of The Westminster Gazette, on which he spent a penny, thinking that it is right, on a great political occasion, to buy something that he vaguely understands to be a great political paper (Shaw).
3. They are determined to be in the highest spirits; and the ribbons in the hat of one of them proclaim a joyful occasion (Shaw).
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4. Because of the importance of the occasion the school had taken over a small stadium next to their grounds, and when the Browns left the house a sizeable crowd was already beginning to make its way there (Bond).
5. This was the king's semi-barbaric method of administering justice... The accused person could not know out of which door would come the lady: he opened either door he pleased, without having the slightest idea whether, in the next instant, he was to be devoured or married. On some occasions the tiger came out of one door, and on some out of the other (Stockton).
6. When the people gathered together on one of the great trial days, they never knew whether they were to witness a bloody slaughter or a hilarious wedding. This element of uncertainty lent an interest to the occasion which it could not otherwise have attained (Stockton).
7. They waded in with bare feet among the rocks although the river was inhabited by a fish with a prickly spine, as poisonous as the notorious stone fish. One of the boys had been struck by this fish on an earlier occasion (Barton).
7.4. Idioms with LAST
Translate into Russian using suitable equivalents for the idioms.
1. And now the blunder about the oak tree was the last straw (McCullers).
2. Elsie Dale had been at Fernly five months. A nice girl, quick at her duties, and most respectable. Good references. The last girl in the world to take anything not belonging to her (Christie).
3....nobody knows what I've gone through in the last twenty-four hours. If a man's house ever fell in ruins about him, mine has about me. This business of Ralph's is the last straw. But we won't talk about that now (Christie).
4. He seemed curiously averse to begin. When he did speak, the question he asked came as a complete surprise. It was the last thing I expected (Christie).
5. Take one of these tablets last thing before going to bed.
6. The inspector who escorted Dunne to the police station was garrulous... "Do you know", he said, "that you are the last man I would have suspected? If you hadn't been found in the room with the body and the loot in your pockets we'd never have thought of you" (R. Joyce).
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7. Sideham had found him, sitting in a chair in a corner of the library, in the hour just before dawn... He had been slumped down in the great wing chair and gone unnoticed when the porter had gone into the room last thing before retiring (Hill).
8....that problem had to be put off until he had seen the last of Harry Lime. He drove straight out of town into the British zone where the Central Cemetery lay....It was just chance that he reached the funeral in time (Greene).
8.4. Find (verb)
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1. The maddening thing about The Times was that you couldn't find anything any more (Christie).
2.... I walked down the alleyway of trees,... and found we still lived in the same house and that it all looked the same as when I had left it (Hemingway).
3. I have found myself getting swept up in the excitement of spying on visiting butterflies (Eames-Sheavly).
4. Economize as he would, the earnings from hack-work did not balance expenses. Thanksgiving found him with his black suit in pawn and unable to accept the Morses' invitation to dinner (London).
5. The reversal of fortune was in fact so complete that Clara sometimes found herself wondering whether she had not gone so far as deliberately to seek a world in which her name could be a credit and not a shame (Spark).
6. There was a very faint hint of light in the room, the first light of morning.... As the room made itself known to me through the faintly grey darkness and I recalled where I was and why I felt disgust, almost horror, at finding myself still in that house (Murdoch).
7. Once or twice he caught her hanging with wet eyes over the eleventh baronet; once found her with a wet face when he awoke in the morning (Galsworthy).
8. The Dean finished his lamb. He found the conversation most distasteful. He had come to seek advice about a new Master and was being treated like an undergraduate in a tutorial (Sharpe).
Indeed
Translate into Russian using different equivalents for indeed.
1. "...I've kept in touch with Launcelot but I've never been invited down."
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Lapschott raised a massive eyebrow. "If you ever are, I advise you not to go. Lady Gutterby is not a pleasant woman and she holds the purse strings very tight indeed. Very wise, considering how vague he is, but there are limits" (Sharpe).
2. Then he went to see if the Senior Tutor was in a fit state to discuss matters with the Bursar. He found him sipping a cup of beef tea and in a very nasty mood indeed (Sharpe).
3. His room, directly above Edward's, the room of his childhood, was unadorned, only lately indeed stripped of the last trophies of that time (Murdoch).
4....altogether the villa had the look of being cruder and more cockney than the grounds in which it stood. Indeed, it was either actually unfinished or undergoing some new alterations and repairs... (Chesterton)
5. "Suddenly," she said, "the interest goes out of him. He forgets you. He doesn't care a rap for you —..."
Yet the interest was not always out of him, and when he was holding his attention to a thing Wallace could contrive to be an extremely successful man. His career, indeed, is set with successes... (Wells).
6. "If it had been a girl I would have called it after my mother. My mother had the same name as myself, Margaret."
"My name is Margaret too." "Indeed!"
"Yes. You are devoted to your mother's memory, Lady Windermere, your husband tells me" (Wilde).
7. It remains to be seen whether the extension of English in the future will some day compel us to consider the reform of our spelling from an impersonal and, indeed, international point of view (Bough).
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