Практический курс английского языка - Камянова Т.
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Weren't he so sick, he would never think of retiring from his job.
5. Indefinite Subjunctive H употребляется также в обстоятельственных придаточных предложениях образа действия с союзами as if и as though как будто бы, как если бы:
e.g. My aunt dances as If she were 20 years old.
Моя тетя танцует, как будто (словно) ей 20 лет.
You behave as though you didn't realize the danger.
Ты ведешь себя, как будто (словно) не осознаешь опасности.
6. Модальные глаголы сап и may в форме Indefinite Subjunctive I и Indefinite Subjunctive Il имеют форму прошедшего времени, соответственно could и might. В сложноподчиненных предложениях условия они могут употребляться как в главном, так и в придаточном предложении:
e.g. / could advise you anything if I had any idea what to do.
Я мог бы вам что-нибудь посоветовать, если бы я знал, что делать. I would look after these homeless children if I could. Я бы присматривал за этими бездомными детьми, если бы я мог. They might fall if they arranged this exhibition themselves.
Они, возможно, потерпели бы неудачу, если бы устраивали эту выставку сами.
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STROKE OF LIGHTENING
(after John Galsworthy)
This was before the war, and conditions were such that the tragedies and comedies of our private lives seemed still to have importance.
I hadn't seen my friend Frank Weymouth for some years, before coming across him and his wife that Christmas at the big hotel in Heliopolis. He was always a sunny fellow, and even the fact that he was teaching English at a Public School didn't change him much. His wife, whom I had only met twice before, surprised me a little. I remembered a quite little person with a doubting eye; but now this was a joyful woman flirting with anyone she met and of whom she made the acquaintance. Her husband, however, didn't seem to feel jealous about her. He was very*ired, and he only dreamed of having a quite rest.
In our Egyptian hotel, with its soft, clever servants, its large halls, palm-garden and cosmopolitan guests, with its golf area, and the desert at its doors, Jessie Weymouth really enjoyed herself. Had she a chance of being present everywhere at the same time, she would surely do it. I forget who first proposed the idea of our desert trip, but it was Jessie Weymouth who insisted on it. The Weymouths were not rich, and a desert trip costs money. They, myself, and a certain Breconridge couple had agreed to combine, when the Breconridges suddenly left for England because of their daughter's illness. Jessie Weymouth was very disappointed. «1'Il die if we don't go,» she cried, «we simply must find somebody eise.»
We found the Radolins - an Austrian couple in the hotel whom we had been meeting sometimes after dinner. He was a Count, in a bank of Constantinople, and she, I think, the daughter of a painter. They seemed to be the antipode of the Weymouths. He was making the most of his holiday, dancing, playing golf, riding; white she behaved as if she were absolutely indifferent to everything in the world. Her ice-green eyes looked tired and sad, and she never Smiled. I remember doubting if it were not going to spoil our trip. But Jessie Weymouth convinced me that the Radolins were a good company.
We started then, from Mena House, like all desert excursions on New Year's Day. We had only a fortnight before us, for the Weymouths had to return to England on the twentieth of January. We were accompanied by a guide who was an Algerian; besides him we had twelve Arabs, a Greek cook, seven camels, four donkeys, and five tents. We took the usual route for the Fayoum. I remember our start so well. In front, Jessie Weymouth on a silver-grey donkey, and our guide on his pet camel. Then Radolin, Weymouth and I on the other three donkeys, and Helen Radolin on the second riding camel. The pack camels had gone on ahead. All day we were moving along, following the river towards Samara, where we camped that night at a certain distance from the village. I had the middle tent, Weymouths to my right, Radolins to my left. Everything was well done by our joyful guide, and dinner, thanks to him, Jessie Weymouth and Radolin, was very amusing. Still we were looking forward to camping in a desert.
On the forth day of our trip we were well out on the lonely sands, and the desert air had begun to go to our heads. That night our camping was situated among sandy hills under a wonderful starry-sky, cold and clear as crystal. Everybody joked so much at dinner, especially Jessie Weymouth and Radolin. Only Helene Radoline was still not in the mood for laughing. It seemed she had lost the habit of enjoing life. That night I made up my mind, however, that she was a beautiful woman. The long days in the sun had given her colour, taken the tired look out of her face; and at least twice during the evening I caught Weymouth's eyes fixed on her. I supposed that he also had made that discovery.
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Next day I preferred walking with Arabs to a boring donkey-riding, and so I saw little of my companions. Weymouth and the Countess, I think were on the two riding camels, Radolin and Mrs. Weymouth on their donkeys. About five o'clock we stopped not far away from Fayoum. The camping ground was narrow. In tents one couldn't avoid hearing at least the tone of neighbouring talk. After dinner Jessie Weymouth seemed complaining that Frank hadn't spoken to her all day.
