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Выпуск No83


Переводи с английского сейчас и сразу!


Образовательные материалы и услуги,
основанные на работах Л. Рона Хаббарда

Выпуск № 30 (119) от 2010-08-05  
www.english-moscow.ru
Количество человек, получивших этот выпуск: 15214

INTRODUCTION

Дорогие читатели, на настоящий момент мы с вами разобрали половину первой главы. Cегодня, чтобы закрепить результат, мы попробуем выполнить несколько упражнений по пройденному материалу. В следующих выпусках мы можем продолжить разбирать ту же самую историю и закончить первую главу (за 5-7 выпусков), а можем, если захотите, и начать новую. Жду предложений, пишите.

EXERCISE 1 – READING

В первой части данного выпуска вам будет предложено перечитать текст, над которым работали всё это время, целиком. Правда, сейчас текст будет без перевода!

“I, HOUDINI”
by L. R. Banks

I am Houdini.

No, no, no. Not that one - of course not. He's dead long ago. Besides, he was a human being and I am a hamster. But let me assure you, that as my namesake was no ordinary man, I am no ordinary animal.

Well, that much is fairly obvious, isn't it? I mean, what ordinary hamster even knows he's a hamster? What ordinary hamster can think, reason, observe - in a word, educate himself? Show me a hamster, anywhere, with an intellect, a vocabulary like mine! You can't. Nor can you show me one which can live with humans on a footing of absolute equality because he can understand their language, and because, quite frankly, he has more brains in his head than most of them have.

I fear you will think me conceited. I assure you I’m not. It’s merely that I have a just and objective appreciation of my own exceptional qualities. It would be as futile to deny that I am exceptional as it would be for an ordinary hamster to boast that he was my equal.

Besides, if I were conceited, I would claim to be perfect. I don’t. Certainly not! I have my faults and weaknesses, my moments of frailty. I, too, have made mistakes, succumbed to temptations. But I think I may fairly claim to have built up my character, over the months of my long life, until not many fingers could be pointed at me in accusation. Indisputably I conduct myself with more wisdom, ingenuity, and restraint than many of the humans I see about me – not that that’s saying much.

Here, then, is the story of my life so far. From it you may judge if I am not, in truth, as extraordinary in my ways as the Great Houdini was in his.

My birth and infancy are almost lost in the mists of memory. I think I may have begun life in a pet shop. It was certainly a large, cold, airy place, exceedingly smelly. Every now and then I catch a whiff which carries me back to those dimly remembered early days – when a friend of my family brings a dog to the house, for instance, and once when I met a mouse, which I shall tell about in its turn.

At all events it was not a bad place, and I remember I had companions of my own kind there, who gave me warmth by day when we all cuddled up together to sleep.

It’s strange that, when I think now about living with other hamsters, I shudder with horror at the idea. With one exception I have never seen another hamster since I became mature. And believe me, I never want to. If I ever did see one, I believe I would be overcome with rage, and fly to attack it. Why this should be, I don’t know, for I have a very calm temper as a rule, and despise those who lose their self-control (something I see all too often in this house, I regret to say). So, whatever I have to complain of in my life, it is not loneliness. I am never lonely.

My worst trial here was imprisonment. I say “was” because luckily it happens less and less now. The Father is my worst enemy in this respect. He has very fixed ideas about “pets” (as I suppose I must laughingly call myself, taking the human point of view). “Pets are all right in their place,” he keeps on saying. (He does tend to repeat things, a sign of a small mind.) His notion of my place is, of course, my cage, and wherever and whenever he catches me, he grabs me up and stuffs me back through that dreaded little entrance tunnel, and claps in the round stopper. He never seems to believe it when the boys tell him I’ve even found a way round that.

Anyway, it doesn’t worry me too much anymore. The Mother, or one of the children, will soon take pity on me if I just go about it the right way, if I can’t get out by myself. So I just whip up the tubes into my loft, unearth something tasty from my store, and then curl up and go to sleep. I must say it’s quite cosy up there since they put the bits of flannel shirt in, though I much prefer my nest under the kitchen floor. One does tend to prefer a home of one’s own choice, arranged and decorated to suit oneself.

Here I go, rambling on about the present when I really meant to tell the story of my life. I just wanted to make it crystal clear that I am – well, shall we say, rather unusual? Rambling has always been one of my weaknesses. I just have to follow my nose wherever it takes me – and some fine scrapes it’s led me into, I must say!

Well, so I am, as I say, a rather extraordinary and quite exceptional “little furry animal” as some people call anything smaller than a pony which runs around on four legs and can’t actually talk. I call them large hairless animals, and I try to use, in my thought, the same degree of superiority that humans do about us. I must admit that nothing infuriates me more than being treated as a pet, picked up, stroked (usually the wrong way), made to climb or jump or run or whatever it is my supposed owners want – and as for eating from their hands and all that sort of degrading nonsense, I’ve no time for it.

Mind you, my protest against this sort of thing is, nowаdays, limited to trying to avoid it by escaping, which is my specialty (hence my name). I wouldn’t dream of biting, which I regard as very uncivilized behavior. “Brain, not brawn” is my motto. Besides, they’re so vulnerable with their bare skins, it’s not really sporting when you’ve got jaws and teeth like mine. I won’t say I’ve never bitten anyone, but the feeling of shame I had after letting myself go was awful, not to mention the disgusting taste…

EXERCISE 2 – TRUE OR FALSE

В этой части вам будет ответить, верны ли следующие утверждения. Текст произведения, представленный выше, поможет вам это сделать!

1. Эта история про Гудини.

2. Историю рассказывает самый обыкновенный хомячок.

3. Гудини очень любит поболтать.

4. Гудини не уверен когда и как он появился на свет.

5. Если Гудини не может убежать, он кусается.

6. Гудини - не домашний любимец, потому что Отец его не любит.

7. У Гудини есть гнездо под полом кухни.

8. Гудини не любит людей за то что они называют его волосатым животным.

9. У Гудини есть семья - мама, папа и дети.

10. У Гудини челюсти и зубы как у меня :)

EXERCISE 3 – WORDS

В этой части вам будут предложены слова, которые вы встречали в тексте, а также предложения, в которых пропущены эти слова. Вам необходимо вставить в пропущенные места слова, которые подходят по смыслу.

cage
ordinary
tasty
brain
mature
hamsters
nest
faults
enemy
pet
animal
unusual
intellect
companions
pointed

1) I mean, what _______ hamster even knows he's a hamster?

2) Show me a hamster, anywhere, with an _______, a vocabulary like mine!

3) I have my _______ and weaknesses, my moments of frailty.

4) But I think I may fairly claim to have built up my character, over the months of my long life, until not many fingers could be _______ at me in accusation.

5) I think I may have begun life in a _______ shop.

6) At all events it was not a bad place, and I remember I had _______ of my own kind there...

7) It’s strange that, when I think now about living with other _______, I shudder with horror at the idea.

8) With one exception I have never seen another hamster since I became _______.

9) The Father is my worst _______ in this respect.

10) His notion of my place is, of course, my _______...

11) So I just whip up the tubes into my loft, unearth something _______ from my store, and then curl up and go to sleep.

12) I must say it’s quite cosy up there since they put the bits of flannel shirt in, though I much prefer my _______ under the kitchen floor.

13) I just wanted to make it crystal clear that I am – well, shall we say, rather _______?

14) Well, so I am, as I say, a rather extraordinary and quite exceptional “little furry _______”...

15) “_______, not brawn” is my motto.

EXERCISE 4 – PEDANTIC PART

В этой части вам нужно будет вставить нужный предлог или специальное выражение. Посмотрим, как вы усвоили самые педантичные части нашей рассылки!

1) What ordinary hamster can think, reason, observe - _______, educate himself?

2) Nor can you show me one which can live with humans on a _______ of absolute equality because he can understand their language...

3) It would be _______ futile to deny that I am exceptional _______ it would be for an ordinary hamster to boast that he was my equal.

4) Here, then, is the story of my life _______.

5) _______ I catch a whiff which carries me back to those dimly remembered early days...

6) At all events it was not a bad place, and I remember I had companions of my own kind there, who gave me warmth by day when we all _______ together to sleep.

7) If I ever did see one, _______ I would be overcome with rage...

8) Why this should be, I don’t know, for I have a very calm temper _______.

9) He has very fixed ideas about “pets” (as I suppose I must laughingly call myself, taking the human _______).

10) “Pets are _______ in their place,” he keeps on saying.

11) The Mother, or one of the children, will soon _______ on me if I just go about it the right way...

12) ... and _______ eating from their hands and all that sort of degrading nonsense, I’ve no time for it.

13) I won’t say I’ve never bitten anyone, but the feeling of shame I had after letting myself go was awful, _______ the disgusting taste…

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