his captaincy. 61. May I offer you a cup of tea? 62. Now that a chance offered he was seized with an immense eagerness to profit by it. 63. Again the word «Mother!» burst from Jon’s lips. 64. Feeling that she would burst a blood-vessel if she stayed another minute, she stormed up the stairs. 65. More people came crowding in. 66. That would crowd us so. 67. He caught his death of cold one day when they were sailing. 68. Why was he sailing these lonely seas? 69. «Get him to bed,«he said wearily. «With the others. I’ll fly alone.» 70. He was a pilot and flew his plane as low as he dared over Yossarian’s tent as often as he could. 71. If the observation was meant to discomfit the widow it failed. 72. He had none of the tolerance of the older examiners, but seemed to set out deliberately to fail the candidates who came before him. 73. Papa said it relaxed him after the heavy rough work around a farm. 74. «Do you like people?» «Yes. It isn’t easy for me to relax though, and be myself, and make friends.» 75. The first thing he meant to do was to retire old Dr Parke right off the campus, far, far away. 76. Please make up your mind whether you want me to decorate for you, or to retire, which on the whole I should prefer to do.

II. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык.

1. Calvin shrugged that away. 2. He told himself that he was unreasonable, he tried to laugh himself out of such pathos. 3. A man could gamble himself to poverty and still be a gentleman, but a professional gambler could never be anything but an outcast. 4. But she shrugged off her momentary annoyance. 5. She would serve tea and delicious sandwiches and leisurely gossip the hours away. 6. Dixon waved him to silence. 7. She smiled a welcome. 8. «He was sunk,«said Wylie, «but I laughed him out of it.» 9. Dr Czinner put his hand under Coral’s elbow and insinuated her out of the compartment. 10. She stepped to the ground and smiled her thanks to John Wilkes. 11. I’m going to drink myself to death. 12. She let him hold her so for a minute, and then shrugged him off. 13. The Swanns had departed on holiday. She had waved them off. 14. At home somebody would be laughed out of such childish conduct. 15. And she too wanted to rise in greater anger and cry him down. 16. I told him that St Thomas Aquinas had bothered too about that very question and he’d better worry it out for himself. 17. «What an embarrassing question!» I said, trying to laugh it off. 18. He handshook his way through the crowds. 19. She revenged herself by screaming the place down and by telling the neighbours what a brute he was. 20. Mr Warburton smiled his approval. 21. He confided to Suzanne his ambition to marry his daughter into the aristocracy.

III. Переведите следующие предложения на русский язык. Обратите внимание на употребление глаголов to talk, to speak, to think в значении переходных.

1. Will was talking common sense. 2. «Oh, shut up!» she cried, feeling a momentary intense relief at being able to speak her feelings. 3. She loved horses and