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Foster rigged home to turn into fireball


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Проверяем усвоение новых слов

Переведите на английский язык (напишите на бумаге и сверьте с ответами внизу):

  1. Мы встречались три раза с тех пор и каждое свидание было потрясающим.
  2. Она пошла к психиатру что бы попробовать решить свои проблемы.
  3. Нет смысла ждать месяц - сделай это сейчас.

Сегодняшняя статья:

Foster rigged home to turn into fireball

Millionaire businessman Christopher Foster laid a complex network of fuel pipes through his mansion to ensure it burned to the ground, it emerged on Wednesday night.

rig something up - [phrasal verb] to make a piece of equipment, furniture etc quickly from objects that you find around you:
We rigged up a simple shower at the back of the cabin (строить наспех, сооружать из чего попало)
fuel pipe - топливопровод (труба, проводящая топливо)
mansion - особняк
emerge - if facts emerge, they become known after being hidden or secret
Later it emerged that the judge had employed an illegal immigrant. (стало известно)

The 50-year-old diverted oil from a storage tank to flood the stable, house and garage, before setting it alight, it is believed.

divert - to change the direction in which something travels
Canals divert water from the Truckee River into the lake. (направлять в другую сторону)
oil - масло, нефть
storage tank - резервуар, бак для хранения топлива
stable - a building where horses are kept (конюшня)
alight - burning:
The car was set alight and pushed over a hill. (to set alight - поджечь)

The first pictures of firefighters tackling the ferocious blaze at Osbaston House last Tuesday were also released.

picture - фотография, снимок
firefighter - пожарный
tackle - to try to deal with a difficult problem:
It took twelve fire engines to tackle the blaze.(бороться)
ferocious - violent, dangerous, and frightening:
a ferocious, hungry lion (свирепый)
blaze - a big dangerous fire - used especially in news reports
It took almost 100 firemen to bring the blaze under control. (пожар)

Two bodies found in the mansion have been identified as Mr Foster and his wife, Jill, 49, who died from a gunshot wound to the head.

gunshot - огнестрельный
wound - an injury to your body that is made by a weapon such as a knife or a bullet:
It took several months for his wounds to heal. (рана)

The body of a third victim, thought to be their daughter Kirstie, has yet to be identified.

victim - жертва

Reports suggest the 15-year-old was shot in the back of the head as she chatted to friends on the social networking website Bebo.

Det Supt Jon Groves said officers may not be able to confirm whether the third body is Kirstie for a while.

Det Supt - Detective Superintendent (старший офицер)

'It will be some time into next week, and possibly longer, before we have those results,' he said.

He would not confirm Mr Foster laid the pipe network, saying: 'I am not prepared to comment on speculation.'

confirm - подтверждать
speculation - when you guess about the possible causes or effects of something without knowing all the facts, or the guesses that you make
There is speculation that the president is ill.

Detectives think Mr Foster suffered a breakdown triggered by the collapse of his company and decided to destroy his £1.2million home in Maesbrook, Shropshire, rather than see it sold to creditors.

suffer - страдать
breakdown - a serious medical condition in which someone becomes mentally ill and is unable to work or deal with ordinary situations in life:
Two years ago he suffered a mental breakdown. (полный упадок здоровья, сил, расстройство)
trigger - инициировать, дать начало
collapse - крах

CCTV footage showed him striding around his property with the rifle he used to slaughter his wife, daughter and animals.

CCTV - closed circuit television (система охранного видеонаблюдения)
footage - cinema film showing a particular event:
old footage from the First World War (отснятый видеоматериал)
stride - to walk quickly with long steps
He strode toward her. (идти большими шагами)
slaughter - 1 to kill an animal, especially for its meat
2 to kill a lot of people in a cruel or violent way [= butcher]:
Hundreds of innocent civilians had been slaughtered by government troops. (устраивить резню) (Есть замечательная книжка Slaughterhouse-Five - Бойня №5)

Источник: http://www.metro.co.uk/

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Ответы

  1. We've met up three times since then and each date has been amazing.
  2. She went to a psychiatrist to try to sort out her problems.
  3. There's no point in waiting a month – do it now.

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