Exercise 4, pp. 18-20

A. 1. Charles had planned to see Arthur Brown in Hall and on the side pick up the latest rumours. 2. You meet other boats there and rumours, often groundless about the people living or work­ing on the river are exchanged. 3. He had mentioned that George's behaviour and private life were being much talked about. 4. He gave people the latest rumours about others' affairs in the same way that he gave them drinks. 5. Bess was a person who habitually spread rumours of an intimate nature and noth­ing could make her mend her ways. 6. Bant marvelled how quickly rumours of an intimate nature traveled/circulated. 7. At last the town busybodies stopped prattling about her private life. 8. Next day, while he was at its last office bringing to an end its last tattered affairs, I telephoned Mrs. Skelton. 9. Don't you see that she can make anyone do whatever she likes? 10. The paint on the wall was coming off in thin strips, and a banister leg was loose. 11. The wallpaper came off in long, broad ribbons. 12. Sitting down and taking off her gloves, Jane took a mirror out of her bag and looked at herself. 13- It was a most difficult job to remove all the rust (by firmly pushing something edged across the surface again and again). 14. The lazy boy was lucky to squeeze through the examination: he got a very low grade but it allowed him to pass. 15. John had managed with difficulty to save enough money to pay for his first year at college. 16. I ran the risk of getting into some unpleasant situations. 17. "If you don't take care, your friend will get you into serious trouble some day," said Carrie. 18. My father and I picked all the change out of our pockets and managed to collect enough to pay for a breakfast at a diner. 19. Be careful!/Look out!/Watch out! There is a broken step here. 20. He often visited their home. 21. He said in a shaky/faltering voice, "I understand, Mrs. Evans." 22. Caroline repeated the ejaculation, but this time her voice shook a little. 23. The snow was falling continuously/non-stop out of a tawny sky. 24. He clutched at her to keep from falling. 25. He is a staunch fighter for peace. 26. "No", said Mary in a firm voice, "he never comes here." 27. He moved forward in the dark­ness with faltering steps. 28. I'm a bit of a Don Juan, my dear, you need someone more serious and dependable. 29. He has got a character and a regular job, and he's no fool. 30. "I'm not going," was his invariable answer (he always answered) to all her threats and requests. 31. He kept losing weight.

В. 1. You've bungled the job/you've blown it. I wish you had refused to do it. 2. Why did you leave all the dirty dishes and rem­nants/leftovers of food on the table? 3. Nothing to do but clean up the broken eggs - and such nice eggs they were. 4. "Now we've got to clean everything up", he said. "All I hope is that it doesn't take too long." 5.1 imagined how badly he would do the job - it was inevitable that he would botch it up/blow it. 6. It is very difficult for foreigners to pronounce this word properly. 7. He is a person not easily understood or overcome or influ­enced. 8. He is fond of making jokes, but they are not to my lik­ing. 9. A winded horse, a broken bow and a foe forcibly turned friend cannot be relied upon. (Надсаженный конь, надлом­ленный лук да замиренный друг равно ненадежны - посло­вица). 10. If one pours some liquid into a vessel that has an opening, however thin, caused by breaking, it will leak out. 11. He made some invaluable scientific discoveries. 12. Mr. Winfield listened and soon understood that he was expected to take part in the conversation. 13. M. Sholokhov wrote quite a lot of world-class fiction. 14. My own earliest boating recollection is of five of us paying three pence apiece (three pence each) hik­ing a boat on the lake. 15. This is not the right attitude lo begin some new work with. (This is not the right frame of mind to begin some new work in.) 16. We found him alone, spend and depressed. 17. He immediately cheered up when the door swung open and he saw Saundra on the threshold. 18. Despite;ill her troubles she too seemed to be enjoying the occasion. 1^СЛ Can you feel the flavour of pepper in this soup? 20.1 don't think that I ever ate pumpkin pie as good as hers. 21. His likes and dislikes did not seem to have changed. 22. The house was handsome, he admitted, but it wasn 't to his liking/but it wasn't the sort of house he could like. 23. "Your understanding of brandy, Doctor, is much better than your understanding of music," said Chris. 24. After that, having taken a liking to the water/having taken to the water, I did a good deal of rafting.

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