Базовый курс английского языка - Эккерсли К.Э.
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In the centre of the town is the market-place where several times each week country traders come to sell their produce. Everywhere there are teashops, some in modem and many in old buildings. The streets are narrow and crowded. There is a great deal of bicycle traffic,
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mainly undergraduates who race along thoughtless of safety, with long scarves (in various colours to denote their College) wound round their necks.
Continuing, I find my way to the river which flows behind the College buildings and curls about the town in the shape of a horseshoe. This narrow, river is the Granta, and a little farther on it changes its name to the Cam. It flows slowly and calmly. The " Backs", as this part of the town behind the Colleges is called, have been described as the loveliest man-made view in England. It is indeed beautiful. To the left, across the stream, there are no buildings, merely meadows, College gardens and lines of tall trees. Everything is very green and peaceful.
Walking along the river-bank, where the only sound is the noise of the gentle wind in the tree-tops, I come to my College, King's College. Across a bridge and beyond a vast carpet of green lawn stands King's College Chapel, the largest and most beautiful building in Cambridge and the most perfect example left of English fifteenth-cen-tury architecture.
The Colleges join one another along the curve of the river. Going through a College gate one finds one is standing in an almost square space of about 70 yards (the size varies from College to College) known as a "court". Looking down into the court on all sides are the buildings where the students live. The Colleges are built on a plan common to all. There is a chapel, a library, and a large dining-hall. One court leads into another and each is made beautiful with lawns or a fountain or charming old stone path. The student gets a good impression of all the English architectural styles of the past 600 years-the bad as well as the good.
It is difficult to walk around the quiet courts of the Colleges without feeling a sense of peace and scholarship. And the sense of peace that green lawns always suggest to me is found in the town too, for often one is surprised to meet open stretches of grass in the midst of the streets and houses giving a charmingly cool countiyside effect and reminding one of the more graceful days of the eighteenth century. I'll finish as I began on that note, the feeling one has here of the past in the present, of continuing tradition and firm faith. Kind regards and best wishes,
Your sincere friend, Pedro.
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Работа с глаголом (18): put
Основное значение глагола put "Ставить". Например:
Не fell into a barrel of cold water put there by joking students. Глагол put употребляется также в идиомах. Например:
The three students were put to death.
You put down a portion of the money.
Вот еще примеры употребления глагола put I want to put in (= do) an hour or two's work before dinner.
Olaf is going to put in (= apply) for a job with a business firm. They have put up (= raised) the price of coal again.
We put up (= stayed) at a very good hotel in Paris.
I have put off (= postponed) my holidays until September.
Put the light out (off) before you go to bed.
His modesty is all put on (= pretence).
The hotel is not good but we are only staying for two days so we can put up with (= endure) it.
"Never put off MW tomorrow what you can do today." (Proverb)
The Non-Finites (1): The Infinitive
MR. PRIESTLEY: When you look up a verb in the dictionary, the form of it that is given is the infinitive, and when we speak of a verb we generally use this form (with to), e.g. "the verb to be", "the verb to go", etc. The infinitive cannot form a predicate by itself but it plays an important part in many sentences. Here are some examples of it in action:
To grow roses one must have good soil. I want to know the answer. You must learn to work hard and to save money. Frieda and Jan are to be married soon. She has come here to learn English. You should eat to live, not live to eat. He likes having nothing to do. They gave him something to eat. I was very glad to see you. Richard is sure to be at the party; he will be the first to come and last to go. He helped me to do my work. I asked her to write to me.
The infinitive is also used after know (and one or two other verbs) together with an interrogative word like how, where, what, e.g.
I don't know how to do this exercise.
If you want me you know where to find me.
I don't know what to say.
When the verb know is followed by a simple infinitive it must always have one of these interrogative words after it.
Such a sentence as,
"He knows to drive a car" is WRONG.
Change it to:
He knows how to drive a car.
The Non-Finites (2): The "Bare" Infinitive
In some cases the infinitive is used withput to; this form is the "bare" infinitive. The bare infinitive is used with all the "special" verbs except ought and used, e.g.
