Match the words and phrases with their definitions. .

1. rite— burial rites, initiation rites 2. teetotaller— n teetotal— adj 3. rogue— 4. bedraggled— 5. come to the end of one's resources— 6. keep body and soul together— 7. file (into, out) —: in single (Indian) file 8. stay the pangs of hunger — 9. smuggle — 10. tumble-down a tumble-down old house 11. be bound for — 12. haunt [ho:nt] — 13. be adrift — turn sb adrift — 14. lay hands on — 15. at the hand of — 16. do sb in — 17. at the expense of — 18. look for trouble — 19. scatter — 20. scrimmage — 21. buy (sell) for a song —

adj dilapidated, likely to collapse at sb's hands, from sb n 1. scoundrel, rascal; 2. (humor­ously) person fond of playing tricks, teasing people is used of someone earn­ing very little money, barely enough to buy food and keep alive 1. seize, get possession of; 2. do violence to: 3. find. а confused struggle or fight have nothing left to use going to; ready for (a journey) (sl) kill a person with the loss of n the form in which a ceremony is carried out vt 1. get (goods) secretly and illegally into (out of) a country; 2. take sth secretly in defiance of rules and regulations (fig) at the mercy of circumstances; send him away without money or means of livelihood vt, vi throw in all directions; to drive away in different directions; go away in different directions n person who abstains completely from alcoholic liquor; adj not drinking, opposed to the drinking of alcoholic liquor satisfy one's hunger vt 1. visit (a place, a person) often or habitually; (esp of ghosts and spirits) appear repeat­edly in; 2. fill the mind, keep coming back to the mind (colloq) behave in such a way that trouble is likely adj dirty or untidy (esp of clothes) from rain, mud, etc buy or sell at a very cheap price vi move or march in files, one behind the other, in a single line

A. Training Exercises

I. Translate into Russian a passage beginning with "Tahiti is a lofty green island...", ending with "...in the harbour of Papeete" (Ch. XLV).

II. Find in the text the following words and phrases and translate the sentences in which they are used:

all the better for; a wedge of bread; to keep body and soul together; into the bargain; to stop still.

III. Give English equivalents to the following words:

утолить голод; часто посещать; потасовка; трезвенник; с незапамятных времен; провозить контрабандой; на прашиваться на неприятность; потрепанный; идти цепочкой; полуразвалившийся.

IV. Give definitions for the following expressions:

to stop still; vivid narrative; a wedge of bread; well-to^: do; to come to the end of one's resources.

V. Suggest words or word combinations from your active vocabulary for the following:

1. to be left with no means to use

2. to import or ex­port sth secretly and in such a manner as to disobey the law

3. to visit often or habitually

4. one who takes no strong drink

5. to still hunger

6. a dishonest person

7. the form in which a ceremony is carried out

8. a gen­eral row 9. floating at random

10. to be going to

11. to march in a line

12. almost dilapidated, ramshackle

13. a confused struggle.

VI. Give the context in which the following words and word combina­tions occur:

at the expense of; to buy for a song; at the hands of; to be destined to; to have the heart; not to make head or tail; backward; a suite of mahogony furniture; stamped velvet; indulgently.

VII. Learn the following idioms with do used both as a noun and as a verb:

do — n 1. social function, party; 2. affair

to-do — n a fuss, a state of confusion

do-gooder — -n one who is anxious to do good for others

whether they want it or not do — vt, vi 1. cheat; 2. see the sights

do sb out of sth — cheat

do away with — get rid of

do sb down — cheat, swindle sb

do sb in — 1. kill; 2. exhaust

do one's stint — do one's share of work

do sb proud — 1. to entertain sb lavishly; 2. give sb cause to be proud

do the dirty on sb — play a mean trick on sb

do the trick — succeed in achieving the desired result

do sb a favour — do sth to help him (a good turn)

do one's sums — think clearly and logically

do well out of sb — get personal advantage or benefit from it

do wonders — produce good or unexpected results

VIII. Translate the following sentences into Russian. Make up a few sen­tences of your own using the given idioms:

1. The Youth Club have a do in this hall tonight.

2. You may have hurt yourself, but you needn't make

all that to-do about it.

3. It was not a one-man burglary, there must have been several people involved in that do.

4. An unscrupulous agent did me over the sale of that house.

5. Tomorrow we are planning to do London.

6. He'll do you down if he gets the chance.

7. We've had enough of the attention of church work­ers, public welfare officers and other do-gooders; what we need is a little help.

8. I can't go any farther; I'm done in.

9. I'm willing to do my stint, but I object to being exploited.

10. You won't deceive me with that kind of talk; I'm quite capable of doing my sums.

11. During our week's visit to the city the authorities certainly did us proud.

12. His life-long friend, whom he had always trusted, did the dirty on him.

13. All attempts to persuade the child to stop howling were in vain, until someone thought of offering it a piece of chocolate, and that did the trick.

14. By attaining such distinction at so early an age, the young man did his parents proud.

B. Speech Exercises

I. Explain what is meant by the following sentences and comment on them:

1. They are as fond of gossip in Tahiti as in an English village, and one or two enquiries I had made for pictures by Strickland had been quickly spread.

2. His face was deeply lined, burned brown by long exposure to the sun, and he had a pair of small blue eyes which were astonishingly shifty.

3. Their career was devoid of adventure, if by adven­ture you mean unexpected or thrilling incident, for their days were occupied in the pursuit of enough money to get a night's lodging and... stay the pangs of hunger.

4. For all I know, this picture may still adorn the par­lour of the tumble-down little house somewhere near the Qua! de la Joliette...

5. Now, Tough Bill was not the man to put up with humiliation at the hands of a common sailor.

6. Strickland set off at once, and that was the last Captain Nichols saw of him.

7. There was a Jewish trader called Cohen, who had come by one of Strickland's pictures in a singular way.

8. I made allowances.

9. The place had got hold of him by then, and he want­ed to get away into the bush.

10. There's money to be made.

II. Say what you know about the island of Tahiti. Try and glean some information about it (see eg J. B. Priestley's essay "The Smell of Tahiti"). Why do you think artists and writers are so attracted and enchanted by this island?

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