47. Insert prepositions where necessary and translate the sentences:

1. Toward dawn I heard a taxi go … Gatsby’s drive, and immediately I jumped … … bed and began to dress – I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him …, and morning would be too late. 2. But he knew that he was … Daisy’s house … a colossal accident. 3. … the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly … this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown … the sad horns … the floor. 4. That force took shape … the middle … spring … the arrival … Tom Buchanan. 5. What could you make … that, except to suspect some intensity … his conception … the affair that couldn’t be measured? 6. He went … … the open vestibule 7. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke … the radiant and understanding smile, as if we’d been … ecstatic cahoots … that fact all the time. 8. Up … the city, I tried … a while to list the quotations … an interminable amount … stock, then I fell asleep … my swivel-chair.

47. Translate the following passages into Russian (in writing) and comment on the transformations you have chosen:

    1. From “His house never seemed so enormous…” to “… out into the darkness”.

    2. From “She was the first “nice” girl…” to “…and echoes of still vibrant emotions”.

    3. From “He came back from France when...” to “…was pervaded with a melancholy beauty”.

The Great Gatsby By f.S. Fitzgerald (Chapter 9)

47. Find the following expressions in the text and describe the situations in which they were used:

clustered postpone distortion

inquest reluctantly refuse

surmise fumble overtake

reassure in vain defiantly

token indignantly elude

superfluous seek (sought)

scornful by accident

interrupt clasp

47. Answer the following questions:

1. How was Gatsby’s death reported in the newspapers?

2. Why did Nick feel responsible for taking care of Gatsby’s affairs?

3. Who was the only person to arrive to Gatsby’s funeral?

4. Describe Gatsby’s father? Why, do you think, he never mentioned him to Nick?

5. Why did Nick feel a certain shame for Gatsby? Do you agree with him?

6. Was Nick satisfied with his visit to Meyer Wolfshiem?

7. What was Mr. Gatz so eager to talk to Nick about?

8. How did Nick describe Middle West? Why did he call it “my”?

9. How did Nick say his goodbye to Jordan? Why did he think that he was making a mistake? (Was he?)

10. Why did Nick while talking to Tom suddenly felt as though he were talking to the child?

11. Why did Nick call Gatsby’s house “huge incoherent failure”?

12. Comment on the meaning of the following expressions and paraphrase them:

I found myself on Gatsby’s side, and alone.

I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all – Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.

But I wanted to leave things in order and not just trust that obliging and indifferent sea to sweep my refuse away.

I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honour.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.

13. Sum up the events described in chapter 9.

58. Find the following expressions in the text and use them in the examples of your own:

стал камертоном для отчетов, появившихся в утренних газетах; адресовалось мне; торопливо рыться; во мне поднялось чувство гнева; послышалось короткое восклицание; еле держится на ногах; распоряжения были приостановлены; явно не соответствовало действительности; это не помогло; одно из самых ярких воспоминаний; неприятное тягостное дело; затаил дыхание.