I. Translate into Russian

1. I’d just fixed up this trip to the interior, and I’d set my heart on going. I shan’t get such a good chance again. (A. Christie)

2. That’s Harris all over – so ready to take the burden of everything himself and put it on the backs of other people. (Jerome K. Jerome)

3. I am getting on, Soames. At my age I can’t tell, I must die any time. (J. Galsworthy)

4. Erik interrupted him. “ But Holtzer said that the proposed bill will insist that all parents that come out of this work have to be assigned to the Government.”- What of it? It’s all to the good. It’s simply matters”. (M. Wilson)

5. He rubbed his eyes, and looked hard at me. It seemed human enough on the outside; he couldn’t make it out. (Jerome K. Jerome)

6. Now I have to keep an eye on our damned Ricketts. (K. Porter)

7. She had never been able to make out Jimmy Carde; and since he had become her brother’s best friend a special hostility had existed between them. (I. Murdoch)

8. What I am trying to do now is to take the rough with the smooth. (K.Amis)

9. I’ve got a pull with Doctor Thoroughgood. I’d get her into his ward for a certaintly. I’d keep my eye on her. (A. Cronin)

10. I’ve been pretty difficult lately, Chris! We haven’t been getting on too well, I suppose. Let’s- oh! Let’s make up, darling. (A. Cronin)

11. “Hum! She’s sluggish. Didn’t you notice how that Buick kept head of us? I want one of these new Vitesse saloons”.

“ But why?”

“ Why not? We can afford it. We’re getting on, you know, Chris. Yes!” He lit a cigarette and turned to her with every sign of satisfaction. (A.Cronin)

12. Jan had a sort of way of seeing into you and through you. You couldn’t lie to her. (D. Cusack)

13. I should have thought after all these years, Michael, that you knew me better than that. I thought it is my duty to warn you, but I’m prepared to take the rough with the smooth. I am not the woman to desert a sinking ship. I daresay I can afford to lose my money better than you can. (W. S. Maugham)

14. I simply know that I’m in this affair, and that I’m bound to see it through. (Th. Dreiser)

II. Paraphrase the following sentences using the idioms studied

1.Of course not. That’s just like Phil- he was always like that!

2. I wanted to show you that I could accept things as they come- but now, I don’t want to.

3. June was eager to have Old Jolyon buy the hours at Robin Hill.

“ I don’t know,” June went on, abruptly, “ I don’t know, perhaps, it was all for the best. You’re happy, aren’t you?”

4. Soames married Irene. He couldn’t understand why she was not happy. Didn’t she have all a woman could desire?

5. Mary, you’ll never master the language if you don’t work regularly at your English.

6. Soames said nothing to Fleur, he just watched her.

7. Chris loved Andrew and was ready to share with him the ups and downs of life.

8.At the beginning of their married life Chris and Andrew never quarreled.

9. No matter how hard you try to look indifferent you can’t deceive me.

10. When Nora said she would not be able to come home for dinner in time her mother retorted that it was just like her.

11. The parents were all for helping their son to rise in life.

12. If she goes to the sanatorium now, it will be very beneficial for her.

13. The poor girl at once understood what sort of person Rosemary was.

14. It serves you right: you always do things in sudden bursts of energy which do not last.

15. He will easily see the true state of things and have nothing to do with us.