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DAVID: I should be much obliged if you are quite sure it won't hurt you?
WAITER: Well, we'll see. (He drinks it at one drink without spilling a drop, David watching him very anxiously but quite relieved when nothing serious happens. He sets down the glass and then takes up a fork and sticks it into the dish.) Why, what have we got here? Not chops?
DAVID: Yes, chops.
WAITER: Lord bless my soul. I didn't know they were chops. Why, a chop is the very thing to get rid of the bad effects of that beer. Isn't it lucky? (He takes up a chop and a potato.)
DAVID: Have another chop. That beer needs two.
WAITER: I will-and a potato. If only we'd had chops and potatoes when Topsawyer drank that beer we might have saved his life.
DAVID: There's still one more chop. Won't you have that?
WAITER: Well, perhaps it would be safer; why there's another potato too-better take that and then I think I'll be quite safe.
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(The chops and potatoes being finished, the Waiter takes away the dishes and brings in a plum pudding. David begins eating.)
WAITER: How's the pie?
DAVID: It isn't a pie, it's a pudding.
WAITER: Pudding! Why, bless my soul, so it is! (Comes nearer.) You don't mean to say it's a plum pudding?
DAVID: Yes, indeed it is.
WAITER (taking up a large spoon): Why, a plum pudding is my favourite pudding. Isn't that lucky. Come on, boy, let's see who gets most. (They both eat, David with his small spoon and rather slowly; the Waiter with his tablespoon and very fast.) Come on, you're getting behind.
DAVID: Well, your spoon is so much bigger.
WAITER: There's just one little piece more. Ah! I just beat you for that. Well, it was a good pudding, wasn't it and I like a bit of fun, don't you?
DAVID (rather doubt fully): Yes. (Sound of horses and wheels outside.) I must go now. Er-is there-do I-is there anything else to pay for besides the dinner?
WAITER: No, there's nothing except the waiter.
DAVID: What should you-what ought I-what would it be right to pay the waiter, please?
WAITER: Well, if I hadn't a family and that family wasn't all ill, I wouldn't take sixpence. If 1 didn't keep a poor old father and a lovely sister (he almost bursts into tears) I wouldn't take a farthing. If I had a good place and was treated well, I should ask you to accept something from me instead of taking it from you. But all I get to eat are dry crusts and I sleep on the coals. (He buries his face in his hands.)
DAVID: Well, here's a shilling.
WAITER (his tears quite forgotten): Thank you, sir; thank you. You are a real gentleman. Thank you. Whenever you come here again, ask for me.
(Enter Landlady.)
LANDLADY: Come on, the coach is waiting. Here, William, help him into the coach.
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(The Waiter takes David out and puts him into the coach; the Landlady looks at the table.)
LANDLADY: Bless my soul, he's eaten six chops and the whole pudding. He'll need helping into the coach. (Puts her head through the window and shouts to the coachman.) Take care of that child, George, or he'll burst!
(Curtain.)
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Работа с глаголом (7): get
В Уроке 10 встретилось восемь примеров употребления глагола get.
1. Your dinner's ready. I'll get it sent in.
2. David gets more and more shy.
3. There's half a pint of beer for you. Shall 1 get it?
4. The landlady gets annoyed if things are left.
5. It won't hurt me if I throw my head back and get it down quickly.
6. A chop's the very thing to get rid of the bad effects of that beer.
7. Come on, you 're getting behind.
8. All I get to eat are dry crusts.
Вот еще несколько значений этого глагола и примеров его употребления:
1. "to obtain" (as in 3 and 8 above), or "become the owner of':
I got a letter his morning.
I got a bad cold at the dance last night.
He always gets his own way.
2. "become" (as in 2 and 4):
In time everyone gets old.
You will get better if you work harder.
Sit by the fire and you will soon get warm.
If you are not careful you will get hurt.
3. "to arrive", "to go":
I didn't get home till 10 o'clock.
The train was so full I couldn't get into it.
This is where I get ojf\ht bus.
Never get into debt if you can avoid it.
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4. "cause to be done":
Why don't you get your hair cut?
I must get the tailor to make me a new suit. I'll get him to do the work.
Три основные модели употребления get.
(1)
Subject, etc. get Indirect Object Direct Object
Will you get me some cigarettes, please?
His uncle got him a goodjob.
(2)
Subject, etc. get (Pro) noun Adjective, Participle
You have got your feet wet.
They soon got the fire burning.
I must get that radio mended.
(3)
Subject, etc. get (Pro)noun Infinitive
They finally I got will get him the boy to sign the paper, to write you a letter.
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1. Работа со словами. Придумайте предложения:
inn (compare with in); map; dust (noun and verb); shy; chop (noun); pour (compare with poor); annoy; spill; drop (noun; use it also, with a different meaning, as a verb); anxious (what is the corresponding noun?); stick (verb; use it also, with a different meaning, as a noun); effect; crust; coach
