Практический курс английского языка - Камянова Т.
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4. Герундий употребляется с предлогами (указанными ниже) и наречием instead (of). При переводе возможно использование придаточных предложений или деепричастного оборота.
after / before после / до (того как) Before (after) entering a college she worked as a secretary.
on после (при скорой смене действия) On ironing a shirt he cleaned his shoes.
by посредством He earned his money by working day and night.
without без He translates articles without using a dictionary.
besides помимо Besides learning English she learns Genman.
for для This medicine is for losing weight.
in spite of несмотря на (то, что) In spite of being sick he came to the office.
instead of вместо того, чтобы Instead of going home he went to the cinema.
С предлогом of герундий употребляется также после сочетаний с именным сказуемым: to be afraid of I to be tired of I to be sure of I to be proud of I to be fond of любить, увлекаться.
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A DAY'S WAIT
(after Ernest Hemingway)
He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looks ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly. It seemed that it was difficult for him to move. ,
«What's the matter, Schatz?» «I've got a headache.» «You better go back to bed.» «No. I'm all right»
«You go to bed. I'll see you when I am dressed.»
But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever. «You go back to bed,» I said, «you're sick.»
«I'm all right,» he said. '
When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature. «What is it?» I asked him. «One hundred and two.»
Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in colored capsules with instructions for giving them. He said that it was influenza, and there was nothing to worry about if the temperature did not go above one hundred and four degrees. He seemed to know everything about this illness. It was a light epidemic of flue and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia.
Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules. «Do you want me to read to you?» «All right. If you want to,» said the boy.
His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed to be very far away from what was going on.
I read aloud Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; but I could see he was not following what I wa& reading. «HoW do you feel, Schatz?» I asked him.
«Just the same, so far,» he said. I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be the time to give another capsule. I thought he would fall asleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed in the same way.
«Why don't you try to go to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine.» «l'd like to stay awake.»
After a while he said to me, «You don't have to stay here with me, Papa, if it bothers you.» «It doesn't bother me.»
«No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's qoing to bother you.»
I thought perhaps he said so because he had a fever, and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out for a while.
It was a bright, cold day. It snowed a day before, and it was freezing at night. Now it seemed that all around was covered with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little walk up the road, but it was so difficult to stand or walk on the surface covered with ice that I fell down twice, hard, once dropping my gun. Under a high bank of the river we noticed a covey of quail, and as they flew up I killed two of them. It was very difficult to shoot and almost impossible to move on the icy ground. So I started back pleased to have found a covey not far away from the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day.
At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room.
«You can't come in,» he said. «You mustn't get what I have.»
I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.
I took his temperature. «What is it?»
«Something like a hundred,» I said. It was one hundred and two and four-tenth. «It was a hundred and two,» he said.
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«Who said so?» «The doctor.»
«Your temperature is all right,» I said. «It's nothing to worry about.» «I don't'wbrry,» he said, «but I can't keep from thinking.* «Don't think,» I said. «Just take it easy.» «l'm taking it easy,» he said.
It seemed there was something in his mind he was concentrated on.
«Таке this with water.»
«Do you think it will do any good?»
«Of course it will.»
I sat down and opened the Pirate book and began reading, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.
«About what time do you think I am going to die?» he asked.
«What?»
«About how long wiH it be before I die?»
«You aren't going to die. What's the mater with you?»
«Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two.»
