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Ooth (ME); oath (NE) - по-русски означает "подарок"

Sir Thopas fell in love with a young peasant girl

Sir Thopas was born in the country of Fairye

The action of The Franklin's Tale takes place in France

The Canterbury tales is the only thing Chaucer ever wrote

The merchant held a worthy house

The merchant was quite poor

The Miller's tale is a "fabliau"

The tale of Sir Thopas is a burlesque of the metrical romances:

The tale of Sir Thopas is a tragic story of the young knight

Основная часть "Кентерберийских рассказов" написана пятистопным ямбом и парнорифмованным двустишием со свободным чередованием мужских и женских рифм

Тhinges (ME); devotions (NE) - по-русски означает "молитвы"

Aileen was tall, beautiful, liyely, gracious and learned in persiflage

Choose the correct answer. Bogle likes to chat with his customers about anything

Choose the correct answer. Delia was very talented in music

Choose the correct answer. Joe was painting in the class of the great Magister

Choose the correct answer. Seeders loved Tildy desperately

Choose the correct answer. The census-taker was much older than Samuel

Delia said she must give music lessons to keep the chafing dish bubbling

Delia was working in the big Twenty-Fourth Street Laundry

Joe and Delia met in an atelier where a number of art and music students had gathered

Joe liked the idea of Delia giving music lessons

Mr. Seeders was thin and had light hair, and he usually sat at one of Tildy's tables

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Samuel's face was black, smooth, impenetrable; the eyes had seen too much

Tildy was dumpy, plain-faced, and too anxious to please to please

To make one*s living означает "давать средства к жизни"

When Mr. Seeders had finished his weakfish he got up, put his arm around Aileen's waist, and kissed her loudly and impudently

William Faulkner was born near Oxford, England, in 1897

As a result of his "interview" with the witches Macbeth is very angry because all the information he gets seems hopeless

At the start of the feast Macbeth tries to win popularity

Banquo fails to be present at the feast in person because he has been murdered

During the feast Macbeth has to speak with the murderer and so he leaves his guests

How now? - приветственное восклицание

Macbeth cannot take his seat at the table because all the seats are in fact occupied - "the table is full"

Macbeth is particularly disappointed that Fleance has managed to escape because that means that the witches' prophecy may still come true

Macduff is the Thane of Fife

Mirth переводится как "веселье"

None of woman born переводится как "никто, кого родила женщина"

Prithee - устаревшее поэтическое сокращение - I pray thee

Remembrancer переводится как "тот, кто помнит"

The apparitions and their prophecies may be interpreted only retrospectively when one has read the tragedy to the end

The prophecies of the first and of the second apparitions apparently contradict each other

The prophecy of the third apparition is that Macbeth will only be conquered when something impossible happens

Trammel up имеет значение "стреножить (коня)" и "опутать сетью"

Не is about it переводится как "Он делает свое дело"

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in the end of the 18th century

Federico and Catherine were going to have a child:

Federico wished Catherine and he had gotten married

Recognition of Hemingway's position in contemporary literature came in the end of his life only