Tomorrow and tomorrow and so forth

by John Updike

General vocabulary:

Compromise – компромисс

Deliberate - преднамеренный

Encourage - воодушевлять

For the good of smb – во благо к.-л.

Genuine - истинный

Odd - странный

Provoke - провоцировать

Scold - бранить

Suspense - неопределенность

Valid – обоснованный, действительный

Phrasal Verbs:

Be wrapped up in smth – быть поглощенным ч.-л.

Hang up - медлить

Laugh smth off – отшутиться от ч.-л.

Think smth up - сочинить

Idioms:

A lady’s man - волокита

Be tickled pink – быть довольным, как слон

Prepositional Phrases:

At smb’s expense – за чей-л. счет

For once – на этот раз

In all innocence – без задней мысли

Make a face at smb – скорчить рожу кому-л.

Read smth into smth – интерпретировать ч.-л. по-своему

Read to oneself – читать про себя

Refer to smth – ссылаться на ч.-л.

Right under smb’s eyes – прямо у к.-л. под носом

Shakespeare – (1564–1616), English dramatist. His plays are written mostly in blank verse and include comedies, historical plays the Greek and Roman plays, enigmatic comedies, the great tragedies and the group of tragicomedies, with which he ended his career. He also wrote more than 150 sonnets.

Dante – (1265–1321), Italian poet; full name Dante Alighieri. His reputation rests chiefly on The Divine Comedy (circa 1309–20), an epic poem describing his spiritual journey through Hell and Purgatory and finally to Paradise.

Hamlet – a legendary prince of Denmark, hero of a tragedy by Shakespeare.

Macbeth –a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corrosive psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish lord Macbeth, chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power. He commits regicide to become king and then furthers his moral descent with a reign of murderous terror to stay in power, eventually plunging the country into civil war. In the end, he loses everything that gives meaning and purpose to his life, before losing his life itself.

Othello – a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio. Because of its varied and current themes of racism, love, jealousy, and betrayal, Othello is still often performed in professional and community theatres alike and has been the basis for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.

LOUISE

by Somerset Maugham

General Vocabulary:

Delicate, delicacy – хрупкий, хрупкость

Intimate - близкий

Affect - влиять

Fly into a passion – впасть в ярость

Ambitious - амбициозный

Brace oneself for smth – приготовиться к ч.-л.

Give way to smth – уступить ч.-л.

Grudge smb smth – неохотно давать ч-л. кому-л.

Yield - сдаваться

Submissive - кроткий

Pathetic - жалкий

Worship - поклоняться

Phrasal verbs:

Hold out - подавать

Give in (to smb) – уступать к.-л.

Be laid up (with smth) – слечь с чем-л.

Go back on smb – предать к.-л.

Throw up (one’s career) – бросить карьеру

Break out - разразиться

Put oneself out – затруднить себя

Carry out - выполнить

Idioms:

Smb’s life hangs on a thread – чья-л. жизнь висит на волоске

Have the time of one’s life – повеселиться на славу

Beg smb on one’s bended knees – умолять кого-л., стоя на коленях

Stir a finger – пошевелить пальцем

Prepositional phrases:

On no account – никоим образом

Burden to smb – обуза к.-л.

Entrust smb/smth to smb – вверять к.-л./ч.-л. кому-л.

Dote on smb – души не чаять в к.-л.

By a coincidence – по совпадению

Hard on smb – быть строгим с к.-л.

Grow on smb – овладевать чувствами к.-л.

Monte Carlo – a resort in Monaco, forming one of the four communes of the principality. It is famous as a gambling resort and as the terminus of the annual rally.

Deauville – a commune in the Calvados département in the Basse-Normandie region in northwestern France.

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