Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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LUCILLE: I'd love to hear some of them.
MR. PRIESTLEY: Well, here's the opening one:
The Art of Biography Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps.
FRIEDA: That's lovely. Do you know any more?
MR.PRIESTLEY:
Sir Christopher Wren2
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I'm designing St. Paul's."
LUCILLE: I saw a little poem a day or two ago about a boy called Jim. It reminded me of Hob. It went:
"Pudding and pie,"
Said Jim, "Oh my!"
"Which would you rather?"
Said his father.
"Both," said Jim.
That's just like him.
HOB: It's a funny thing but I saw a little poem a day or two ago that reminded me of Lucille. It went:
"She could dance till long past midnight,
She could swim and she could run,
She could row upon the river;
And to climb, she thought, was fun.
1 (1875-1956).
2 (1632-1723). England's greatest architect. Planned the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral and fifty-two other churches in London after the Great Fire in 1666.
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She'd play golf from mom till evening,
Or tennis all day long,
But she never touched the housework-
Because she wasn't very strong."
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As most of the new words in this lesson are "poetic" or part of a special rather than a general vocabulary, they are given here as a separate list. With the more unusual words a simple definition is given.
archaic [at'kenk]
bloom [blu:m]
bonny ['bDni]
bough [bau]
chaps [tfaeps]
consummate ['konsAmeit]
dew [dju:]
dome [daum]
dove [dAV]
Eastertide ['i:stataid]
enrich [in'ntj]
garment ['gaimant]
glideth ['glaidsB]
glitter I'glita]
leisure Пезэ]
masonry ['meissnri]
melody ['mebdi]
mighty ['maiti]
owl [aul]
requiem ['rekwiem]
score [sko:]
secure [si'kjua]
shiver ['Jiva]
splendour f'splends]
steep (verb) [sti:p]
temple ['tempi]
thorn [0o:n]
wren [ren]
= very old; no longer used = flowers; blossoms
= beautiful; the usual meaning is "pretty;
healthy looking"
= large branch of a tree = men (slang)
= perfect
= small drops of water formed on cool objects after the sun goes down = large rounded roof = bird; kind of pigeon = Eastertime = make rich = article of dress = poetic form of glides = shine; send out a bright light = time not given to work = stonework = tune
= great and strong = bird that flies at night = music for the dead = twenty = safe
= tremble; shivering-sweet = so sweet it makes you tremble = magnificence; beauty; great brightness = soak, wet through = building used for worship = sharp point on a plant, e.g. rose = small singing bird
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The End of Another Year's Work
JAN: We've been studying here together for nearly three years now; doesn't time fly?
PEDRO: Yes. Another six months or so, and I shall be leaving Mr. Priestley. What are you thinking of doing when you leave, Jan?
JAN: Oh, I shall try to get a job in England, in an office, 1 expect, though 1 should hate it.
PEDRO: Why, isn't that what you really want to do?
JAN: No. I don't want that at all.
PEDRO: What would you like to do if you could please yourself?
JAN: I should like to be a doctor. I have always wanted that ever since I left school. I had planned to go to a university to study medicine, but that is out of the question now.
PEDRO: How is that; if you don't mind my asking?
JAN: Oh, I don't mind at all. The fact of the matter is, my father died three years ago and I can never hope to have enough money to pay for a university course-unless I can sell my factory in England.
HOB: What do you mean? Do you mean to say you own a factory in England?
JAN: Yes, worse luck. It happened like this. My father was an electrical engineer and he invented a new kind of electric lamp that would give more light than the old kind and use less current. He was doing very well with it in his own factory and then, about five years ago, an old friend of his, Antony Bruton, an Englishman whom he had been with at Cambridge, suggested that they should go into partnership together and build a place in England.
HOB: Antony Bruton captained England at cricket against Australia, didn't he? I've heard my Uncle Albert speak about him; he was a grand fellow.
PEDRO: Bruton lost his life when the Alcestis was shipwrecked.
JAN: How did you know that?
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PEDRO: I knew Bruton. I was on that ship too, but I'll tell you about that some other time. What about your factory, Jan?
JAN: Well, Bruton and my father sank all their capital in building a big factory. It's a beautiful place with about four square miles of land round it. The only disadvantage is that there is no railway or road near it.
PEDRO: But, good heavens, I should have thought that would have been the first thing they would see about.
JAN: Yes, they should have made sure of that, but Bruton had been told on what he thought was absolutely trustworthy authority that the railway company were going to build a line running just past the factory. Well, they didn't. Their plans were changed just about the time the factory was finished, and there it stands all complete but empty and lifeless, miles from anywhere. My father and Bruton were ruined. My father worked himself to death to pay off the debt, and all I have in the world is about ?200 and a factory that no one will buy, miles from anywhere.
