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Unit 9
The woods lay basking in clear October sunlight
A riot of colour
Tang
Moist, leaf covered earth
Smile grimly
Spring lock
Ammunition
Fishing rods
Tackle
Not even his wife was allowed to have a key
Personal possessions
Outrage
If they were touched by any hand but his own
The door stood open
Pack things away for the winter
Drive back to civilization
Unopened bottle
Place a bottle invitingly on the shelf
The bottle was less than half full
His wife spoke up from the adjoining bedroom
I'm all packed
Run water off
Act as caretaker for the city folks when they are away
He's down at the lake
Take boats out of water
Pause in surprise
Chuckle
His closed hand opened
Pellet
Uncork
His eyes narrowed
Put smth over in a business deal
She caught her breath at the cruel vindictiveness of his manner
Hold up a bottle to watch the tablets dissolve
Genial bourbon
Lethal dose
Antidote
Once it's down - it's curtains
Everything nice and handy
Remark approvingly
Vengeance
Drink hearty
Begrudge
Enter a house by force
Say harshly
The law doesn't punish burglary by death
When it comes to protecting my property I make my own laws
His deep voice suggested a big dog growling at threatened loss of a bone
Hold smb up and smb of 5 dollars
Earnestness
Defeat
These things belong in the closet
Rustic table
Top coat
Wave o smb from a distance
Chipmunk
Heavy tread
Acorn
Add smth to one/s store
The electric bulb has burned out
Reach for smth
His head struck the massive table as he fell
It was not much of a fall, you've been just knocked out for a minute
It'll pull you together
Unit 10
Take a little walk
A soldier was standing guard over the boat
Rowing
Keep on the same track
His attitude towards smb became haughty
A police permit
Ling a rifle on one's back
Sit on the front seat
Stick to the invented story without explanations
Provisional visa
Withdraw a visa
Report to the police
Deny smth
You make no mistake in going there
Tentatively
Assure
Inhabitant
Courteous
Be favourably impressed
Talk art
Make a fine wife
Do the winter sport
We regret to inform you
Get a chance
Unit 8
Take smb to pieces
Exquisitely well dressed
Amazingly well read in the new books
Delicious mixture
A duck of a boy
Comfortably well off
Pull up at
Gaze in that dazzled rather exotic way
White paper armful
Stagger under smth heavy
Enamel box
Take one's hands out of the gloves
A murmur reached her
Lay/put down a box
Button
Look vague
Dreamy voice
Bow
It is all any human being could ask
Be willing to do smth
Discreet door
On the step
Rain was falling
The dark came
Spin down like ashes
Newlighted lamps
Lams burn dimly
Emerge from shelter
Give way to smth
Sob
Breathe
May I speak to you a moment
Battered creature
Clutch at the collar with reddened hand
Stammer
Would you let me have the price of a cup of tea
Not in the least
Peer through the dusk
How more than extraordinary
Smth out of a novel
Step forward
Draw back startled
Put one's fingers to one's lips
Devour with one's eyes
I'll listen to anything you care to tell me
Hungry people are easily led
Footman
Skim
Embrace
Draw smb into the hall
The fire was leaping on the wonderful lacquer
Apply lacquer
Polish
Varnish
Drag
Edge backwards
Cozy
Help smb off with smb's coat
Hold on to smth
It was quite an effort
Stager
Totter
Sway
Hesitate
Waver
Go off
Lace handkerchief
Be touched beyond words
She put her arm round those thin birdlike shoulders
She forgot to be shy
Gasp
I can't go on any longer like this
Do away with oneself
Just in time for smb to get up before the tea came
She had the table placed between them
Ply smb wit food
Nourishing
Look away tactfully
The effect of that slight meal was marvelous
Frail creature with tangled hair
In sweet languor
Languish
Weariness
Tiredness
Lassitude
Fatigue
Slackness
Limpness
Flame
Flare
Fire
Luster
Shine
Glory
Splendour
Blaze
Door-handle
Door-knob
Languid
Strangely still and unafraid
Lean against the door
A pick-up
Be nice to smb
Retort
Strike a match
Be bowled over
A ghastly mistake
Crude
Draw a checkbook towards smb
Hold a smth squeezed in the hand
Previous engagement
Keep smb against smb's will
Darken one's eyes
You are a little wasteful one
Be badly off
Give no sign of
Make smb warm
Unit 7
Hall bedroom
One iron was heating on a gas stove
Push the iron vigorously back and forth
Make the desirable crease that would extend in straight lines from the shoes to the edge of the low-cut vest
So much of it can be entrusted to our confidence
The remainder may be guessed
Genteel poverty
Drive smb to ignoble expedient
Our next view of him shall be…
Descend the steps
Lodging-house
Immaculately and correctly clothed
Assured
Handsome in appearance
Set out to do smth
Inaugurate the pleasures of the evening
Honorarium
Honestly believe
Out of each week's earnings he set aside 1$
Extra capital accumulated
Purchase with (some money)
Bargain counter
Stingy
Array oneself in the regalia of millionaires
Play smb to perfection
Wealthy idler
The sum is ample for…
A well considered meal
A bottle bearing a respectable label
Commensurate tips
Etceteras
Delectable
Cull from
A source of renascent bliss
Stand alone sweet in smb's memory
Bring a joy as keen and thrilling as the first was
Bon vivant
In the swirl of concealed music
Habitués
Short-sleeved tulle
Vespertine
He was an exhibit as well as a gazer
In cheviot and worsted
Dubious table d'hotes
Whirlwind lunch counter
In the limelight
Make up for protract one's walk until/the pleasure
Intersect
Sinister
Provocative
Alluring
The eyes were bent upon him
His garb and air proclaimed him a devoted to the hour of solace and pleasure
Come to a standstill
A girl scuttled lightly around the corner
Slip on a patch of icy snow
Fall plump on the sidewalk
Assist smb to smb's feet
With instant and solicitous courtesy
Hobble
My ankle is strained
Twist an ankle
The ankle twisted
Does it pain you much?
Rest one's weight on one's ankle
If I can be of any further service to you…
You need not trouble yourself any further
Glossy hair
The hair showed its coils beneath the hat
Ornament (velvet ribbon and bow)
She can pose as a model for the self-respecting working girl of the best type
An idea came to his head
The element his feasts lack
A brief season of elegant luxury
Doubly enjoyable
Her manner and speech settled that she was a lady
Thoughts passed swiftly through his mind
A breach of etiquette
Oftentimes
Waive formalities in matters of some kind
Be a shrewd judge of men
Think better of one's own judgement than one does of useless conventions
A wonderful experience thrown into the dull routine of smb's life
It would add to his own triumph
With frank gravity
Game ankle
It'll carry you home very nicely
Look up into smb's clear pleasant countenance
Eyes twinkled brightly
Smile ingenuously
Say candidly
Bid smb good evening
Attend smb safely to the door
Whichever you prefer
Elaborate dinner toilette
Admit
Attempt a limping step
Lean on smb's arm
A waiter hovering in attendance
Showy
Pretentious
Cuisine
Beyond criticism
Add distinction to the natural beauty
Animated but self-possessed manner
Kindling eyes
Bacillus
Brag
Pose
It seized upon him
Wee eyes
One's good angel
Not to have the power to prevent smb from doing smth
Prate to smb of smth
Kennel
Cotillion
Endorse (one's pose)
Random insinuations concerning smth
Mention familiarly a few names handled reverently by
Wring from smth the best that can be had
Egotism
Futile purposeless
If you get up any greater speed than a donkey cart's gait
Do-nothing
Feed the waiter generously
Her limp was scarcely noticeable
Stunning
I had to play up to my clothes
Speed swiftly cross-town
The house faced on the avenue
Look anxiously out of the window
Madcap
When will you quit frightening us this way?
In that rag of an old dress
Thoughtless
Mauve insertion
Sidewalk
Hobble
Cuddle down with one's head in smb's lap
Scatter-brain
Live an idle life between society and clubs
Unit 6
Possess the faculty of observation
Even in a larger degree than
Interesting cases came to him through his brother
A Greek by extraction
Be a remarkable linguist
Earn one's living partly as interpreter in the law courts
Act as guide to wealthy Orientals
Have some slight acquaintance with
In one's perplexity
Take up the case
We were joined by a short stout man
It proclaimed his southern origin
Speech of an educated Englishman
Shake hands eagerly with smb
His eyes sparkled with pleasure
Be anxious to hear smb's story
I am all attention
It happens not infrequently that…
Sent for smb at strange hours
Get into difficulties
Fashionably-dressed
Come to see smb upon business
Speak nothing but one's own tongue
The service of an interpreter were indispensable
Seat oneself opposite to smb
Start off through Charing Cross
Without having the least clue as to
In the dim light
Make out
Mean-looking
Speak in a jerky, nervous fashion
With some giggling laughs in between
Impress smb with fear
What you want with me?
Ask a few questions of a Greek gentleman and let smb have the answers
He returned leading with him a gentleman…
Clad in some sort of loose dressing gown
As he came in the circle of dim light
Enable
Be thrilled with horror at smb's appearance
Deadly pale
Emaciated
Signs of physical weakness
A face grotesquely criss-crossed with sticking plaster
Pad of plaster
Fasten a pad of plaster over smb's mouth
Are your hands loose?
Now then
His eyes flashed fire
Slate
Do you know what awaits you?
I care nothing for myself.
These are samples of the questions and answers which made up our strange conversation.
I had the sane indignant reply
Take to doing smth
Add on little sentences of my own
Test
They showed no sign.
Our conversation ran smth like this:
Do no good by this obstinacy
Your fate will be on your own head
What ails you?
Starve smb
Go free
You are not doming here any service. (Этим ты делу не поможешь)
Worm out the whole story
Under smb's very noses
Clear the matter up
At that instant
Step into the room
Speak English with a broken accent
A convulsive effort
Tear the plaster from the lips
Scream out
Their embrace was but for an instant
Seize
They easily overpowered his emaciated victim
Spring to one's feet
A vague idea
Stand in the doorway
With his eyes fixed on me
A sufficient fee
Tap smb lightly on the chest
If you speak to a human soul about this
Have mercy upon your soul!
Follow closely at smb's heels
Without a word (молча)
In silence
Drive for an interminable distance
Pull up at
Any attempt upon your part to … can only end in injury to yourself
Save (за исключением того,)
There is foul play going on
Subsequently
Narrative
Any steps?
Pick up
A side table
Anyone supplying any information as to the whereabouts of … will be rewarded
Give information about
Dailies
Take up the case by all means
Rise from the chair
In the meantime
Be on the guard
Ascend the stairs
Look over one's shoulders
Give a start of surprise
Be equally astonished
Say blandly
Smile at smb's surprised faces
You didn't expect so much energy from me, do you? (Не ожидал от меня такой прыти, а?)
I had an answer to my advertisement
In answer to
Of today's date
The lady in question
If you should care to call upon me
Give some particulars as to
At present
Call at Scotland Yard for Inspector Gregson
Pick smb up upon the way
It was almost dark before we found ourselves in …
At the rooms of
Thin in the face
Pleasant in his ways
Say abruptly
This grows serious
Get hold of smb
Our hope was that
It was more than an hour before we could get Inspectors
Comply with the legal formalities
The house stood back from the road
The windows are all dark
The house seems deserted
Make one's way into a large apartment
A low, moaning sound was coming from …
Rush to the door and out into the hall
Dismal noise
He dashed up, the inspector at his heels
He followed as quickly as his great bulk would permit
Fling open the door
In an instant
With is hand to his throat
Give it time. It will clear.
Peer in
Crouched against the wall
Run to the top of the stairs
Draw in the fresh air
Drag smb out on to the landing
Blue-lipped
Insensible
Part from smb
In the last stage of emaciation
Cease to do smth
A glance showed me that for him, at least, our aid had come too late
He still lived (Он был еще жив)
With the aid of ammonia and brandy
I had the satisfaction of seeing him open his eyes (к своей радости, удовольствию)
It was a simple story which he had to tell (Его рассказ был прост)
Act as interpreter in a second interview
Menace the prisoner with instant death
Comply with the demands (подчиниться требованиям)
Be proof against every threat (стойко выдерживать, не поддаваться на угрозы)
Hurl smb back into the prison
Reproach smb with treachery
It appeared from the newspaper (это выяснилось из)
Stun smb with a blow
The explanation is still involved in some mystery (не до конца пролит свет, до сих пор покрыто мраком)
We were able to find out by communicating with the gentleman (из разговора с … нам удалось выяснить)
Come of a wealthy Greek family
Be on a visit to some friends
Be shocked at the event
Content oneself with informing them that
Wash one's hands of the matter
On the arrival in
Place oneself in the power of the criminal and his associates
Through his ignorance of the language (из-за незнания, по незнанию)
Keep smb a prisoner (держать к-л в заключении)
Endeavor by cruelty and starvation (пытаться пытками и голодом …)
Sign away one's property to (отказать к-л собственность)
Without his knowledge (без его ведома)
Their secret was out (вышел наружу)
He was not to be coerced
The villains fled away at a few hours' notice
Take vengeance upon smb
Betray
A curious newspaper cutting
Meet with a tragic end
Stab
Be of opinion that (склоняться к тому, что)
Inflict mortal injuries upon smb
, I fancy,
Be of a different way of thinking
Hold to smth to this day (придерживаться к-л мнения до сего дня)
Wrongs, to right the wrongs
Come to be avenged (оказаться отмщенным)
Unit 3
Be installed
I'm staying with my aunt for the night
Get back in time for dinner
Enrapture
First-class carriage
Sun-warmed
Blissful silence
Walk out up the lane
Smell of dust and honeysuckle
Sure of smb
Separation
Dawdle
Illumined
Every light touch they gave each other
Flowers scrolled in among the text
Communing
Without afterthought
Coppice
At the milking hour
Larch
At the winding of the path
Come on smb
Log
Vertebrae
Potent
Shock to personal dignity
Do an indelicate thing
Sneak smb in
Consumed with shame
Put on a front as brazen as his nature would permit
Say defiantly
Startled face
Impersonal
Gracious
Utter the words