Translate into Russian and reproduce a situation from the story.

Translate and reproduce the situations from the story

¾ curious history was related to me

¾ the unmistakable stamp of truth

¾ a token of gratitude

¾ my calamities began

¾ at dead of night

¾ fearful misfortune

¾ was beside myself with terror error and anxiety

¾ collected my faculties

¾ a man of middle size and compact frame

¾ iron self-possession

¾ buried in thought

¾ must be warily taken;

¾ a pickpocket

¾ peculiarities in theappetites

¾ valuable things in our trade

¾ detectives in plain clothes

¾ to report

¾ promptly

¾ in the minutest detail

¾ mislead the detectives

¾ villain

¾ on the night in question

¾ scoundrel

¾ to meet current expenses

¾ raise

¾ lose my credit with my government

¾ was thick with sarcasms

¾ that heart of oak

¾ serene confidence

¾ at smb`s side

¾ to scrape the amount together

Explain the meanings of the adjectives

¾ insignificant

¾ intricate and difficult business

¾ succinct

¾ not prejudiced

¾ utmost's secrecy

¾ impenetrable secrecy

¾ self-contained

¾ troublous news

¾ grow monotonous

¾ exhausted

¾ calm, untouched, unaffected

¾ ingenious and extraordinary theory

Translate into Russian and reproduce a situation from the story.

1) "This is no ordinary case. Every step must be warily taken; each step

must be made sure before the next is ventured. And secrecy must be

observed--secrecy profound and absolute. Speak to no one about the

matter, not even the reporters. I will take care of them; I will see

that they get only what it may suit my ends to let them know.

2) I shook him warmly by the hand and thanked him; and I felt my thanks,

too. The more I had seen of the man the more I liked him and the more I

admired him and marveled over the mysterious wonders of his profession.

Then we parted for the night, and I went home with a far happier heart

than I had carried with me to his office.

3) Fame, reputation, constant public mention--these are the detective's bread and butter.

We must constantly show the public what we are doing, or they will believe we are doing nothing.

4) "It is not our province to prevent crime, but to punish it. We cannot

punish it until it is committed."

5) About three weeks after the elephant's disappearance I was about to say,

one morning, that I should have to strike my colors and retire, when the

great detective arrested the thought by proposing one more superb and

masterly move.

6) This was to compromise with the robbers. The fertility of this man's

invention exceeded anything I have ever seen, and I have had a wide

intercourse with the world's finest minds

5. Answer the questions?

1) Who was that white elephant? What was his name? What happened to him?

2) Why did the narrator had to find him?

3) What did the inspector want to know about the elephant?

4) What is the narrator`s attitude to the inspector?

5) When did the police celebrate the victory?

6) What was the real result of the investigation? What did it cost the narrator?

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