Revision (for students)
Thу Labours of Hercules
Glossary list
- to apply to sb. –
- to throw money about –
- to say without undue modesty –
- to impose a certain task upon (oneself) –
- lead –
- to suit sb. down to the ground –
- to make a bee-line for sth. (somewhere) –
- German sausage-dog –
- to have a personal appeal –
- Pekinese dog –
- to grudge the expense –
- to be in the habit of doing sth. –
- pram –
- to prosecute –
- inevitable –
- kidnapping / to kidnap –
- to lean forward –
- to poison –
- fee –
- charity organization –
- to growl –
- to risk one’s neck for sth. –
- to take advantage of sth –
- Keep your eyes open! –
- gang –
- to be suspected of sth. –
- ruthless –
- coincidence –
- to give away –
- to be not at ease –
- unpredictable –
- bore –
- to occur to sb. –
- to keep an eye on sb. –
- to swing open –
- the laugh is with me –
- to be in sb’s debt –
- to turn sb. over to the police –
- bribe / to bribe –
- to get on sb’s track –
- to shiver –
- immobile –
- indignation –
- jealous –
- interpreter –
- stroll –
- to get in rage –рость
- spanner –
- to take in the situation like lightning –
- for one’s own sake –
- to see sb’s point –
- to be condemned to death for sth –
- to hush the thing up –
- to blackmail –
- to make one’s living by sth –
- wig -
- negotiations –
- to make a fool of sb –
- to break off the engagement –олвку
- to be sane –
- insanity
- pretext –
- specimen –
- to give in –
- asylum –
- sth. is (runs) in the family –
- to worship sb. –
- to catch one’s breath –
- to pay the penalty –
- innocent –
- to smuggle –
- to be on the alert –
- to kill two birds with one stone –
- to drop in –
- (not) to make sense –
- bruise –
- ransom –
- to lose one’s nerve with sth. –
- to be mixed up in an affair –
- to throw light upon sth. –
- to look uneasy –
- to gasp –
- signature –
- consolation –
- to be expelled from –
- oriental –
- ardent –
- to spy on sb –
- sacrament –
- warrant for –
- martyr –
- ignorance –
- scoundrel –
- evidence -
- to and fro –
- to sway –
- femininity -
- taxpayer –
- (not) to make the most of oneself –
- drug racket –
- emerald –
- to be framed –
- to take the rap –
- Colonel
- masterpiece
- pneumonia
- wilderness
- retirement
- unconscious
- mascara
- to commit a crime
- typhoid
- syringe
- threat
- conjuring trick
- compromising circumstances
- to investigate
- bandage
- surgeon
- concussion
- to drown
- sacred
- to bury
- accomplice
- theft
- disguise
(I – VII) Read the words.
Femininity; pretext; warrant; originality; terrace, opposite; escalator; scoundrel; Colonel; Rubens; Hercules; wallet; hotel; masterpiece; pneumonia, arrangement, funicular; artistic, competence, influenza, wilderness; retirement, unconscious; mascara; extraordinary, typhoid; attendant; bruise; shiver; heredity; injured; syringe; ridiculous, threat; jealous; organization, abnormality; resemblance, conjuring trick; compromising circumstances; tortured face; to salute, influential; precisely; inevitable; hysteria; hallucinations; manageress, masquerade; psychoanalyst; display; physique; café; to investigate; creature; abominable crime; bandage; worship; miraculous; claw; companion; surgeon; surgery; civilization; flamboyant; concussion; to drown; condemned to death; hydrophobia; guarantee, chorus; distinguished; luggage; disfiguring; invaluable, experiment; persuade, prohibition; instinct, appraising; Pekinese; to ascend; seize; rendezvous; profile; ruthless; specimen; reluctantly, ulcer; moustache; immobile; kidnapping, Belgium; psychologist; suspicion; comment; perambulator; sacred; to bury; coincidence; priority; inquiries, insanity; grudge the expense; enthusiasm; accomplice; colleague; theft; disguise; appropriate; tuberculosis; asylum; millionaire; occurred; occurrence; prosecute; anxiety; bacteria; Balkan; invisibility, doubtfully, abruptly, curiously, inaudible; devotee; accomplishment; despairingly; growl; chemist’s; voluptuous; bourgeois.
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- Find synonyms to the given words:
To waste money; not guilty; to come to one’s head; walk; to be used to doing smb; madness; from the East; to fling open; chef-d'oeuvre; holy; to become furious; cruel; to address smb; passionate; payment; mental hospital; to feel embarrassed; to keep an eye on smb; vow; he laughs best who laughs last; to tremble; talks; an example; to hold one’s breath; rascal; to be put in jail.
2. Give definitions to the following words and expressions:
Accomplice; to disguise; warrant; wilderness; to poison; interpreter; immobile; gang; asylum; wig; to take the rap; negotiations; mascara; bruise; to be on the alert; charity organization.
Finish up the sentences using words from the glossary list.
- When he saw his wife with a young man, he ……………………
- I can say without undue modesty that …………………
- He took in the situation like lightning and decided …………………………………………….
- You should keep an eye on her ………………………………….
- This woman can make the most of herself …………………………….
- If I learn that you’re mixed up in this affair ………………………….
- She has killed two birds with one stone ………………………..
- Lily got drowned last year ……………………………………..
- It’s not my father’s signature ………………………………
- It’s a coincidence that ………………………………………
5. Translate the given phrases and make up sentences with them:
Посадить в тюрьму невиновного человека; раскачиваться взад и вперед; жестокая банда; обратиться к хирургу; напасть на след негодяя; жить за счет взяток; неизбежное наказание; заниматься контрабандой изумрудов; дрожать от негодования; полковник оценил ситуацию с быстротой молнии; сдать подельника в полицию; расследовать похищение; воспользоваться совпадением; направиться кратчайшим путем к клинике для душевнобольных; под предлогом безумия, похоронить мученика, быть в долгу у переводчика; напасть на след шантажиста; выкуп за похищенный экземпляр древнего животного; восточные мужчины умеют себя подать; негодяй был наготове; понимать налогоплательщиков.
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6. Translate from Russian into English: