линний капріз.- Don t take this little aberration of Windermere s too much to heart.
10. Мені не подобається, коли шпигують за чоловіком.- I think it wrong that a wife should spy on her husband.
11. Тобі дуже дорога честь міс Ерлін.- You are very jealous of Mrs. Erlynne's honour.
12. Даремно ти згадуєш її ім'я поруч з моїм. You should not mention this woman and me in the same breath.
13. Ну. Це вже нахабство з її боку!- How impertinent of her!
. Якщо жінка і справді кається .. - If a woman really repents ...
. Якщо ця жінка переступить поріг мого будинку, я вдарю її по ліцу.- If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it.
16. Ти не залишив мені вибору.- You leave me no choice.
Exercise 3. Дайте відповідь на поставлене запитання. Find the answer to the question: does the story begin with? Might Lady Windermere announce that she is available to all visitors when Parker tells her Darlington has come to call? Does Lady Windermere warn Darlington about his flattering statements? Why does Darlington pretend to be bad? Raquo; does Lord Darlington suggest that Lady Windermere may need a friend some day? The Duchess of Berwick s character. Why does the Duchess claim to feel totally secure at the Windermeres house? did Lord Darlington propose to Lady Windermere? Windermere likes compliments, doesn t she? she an orphan? she think that there should be the same laws for men as there are for women? What is Lady Windermere s opinion of Lord Darlington? Out the most funny extracts from the speech of Duchess of Berwick.does the duchess come for to lady Windermere? Is the purpose of her duty call? Does the whole London talk about? Did she tell Lady Windermere about her husband? Lady Windermere believe her? What was Lord Windermere s request? Has the duchess found out that Lord Windermere is infatuated about Mrs Erlynne? Is Mrs Erlynne like from the duchess point of view? Made the duchess accept her future husband s proposal of marriage? Happened to the duchess after her honeymoon? did she have to keep her husband? advice does she give to Lady Windermere to keep her husband, to make him come back to her? does Lord Darlington say he wants Lady Windermere to take him seriously? does Lady Windermere believe about her mother ? 4. Знайдіть у тексті, кому належать ці слова. Find out in the text whose words are these:
. I'm of age to-day.
. Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
. I sometimes think you pretend to be worse.
. If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it does not. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
. Nowadays people seem to look on life as a speculation. It is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. Its ideal is Love. Its purification is sacrifice.
. People are either charming or tedious.
. I can resist everything except temptation.
. Our husbands would really forget our existence if we did not nag at them from time to time, just to remind them that we have a perfect legal right to do so.
. I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
. What a charming, wicked creature! I like him so much.
. Though I am bound to say he never gave away any large sums of money to anybody. He is far too high-principled for that!
. All men are monsters.
. I want you to send her an invitation for our party to-night.
. Will not you help a woman who is trying to get back?
. If that woman comes here, I shall insult her.
. The shame would kill her.5. Fill in the gaps:
. I would have covered the .... in front of your house with flowers for you to walk on. They are made for ....
. Well, you kept paying me .... the whole evening.
. I don t like compliments, and I don t see why a man should think he is .... when he says to her a whole heap of things that ....
. But I should not like you at all if I thought you were what .... Believe me, you are better than most other men, and I sometimes think you ... ..
. Oh, nowadays so many conceited people go about Society pretending to be ...., That I think it shows rather a sweet and modest disposition to pretend ....
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