occur to you to close the window to keep the noise back?
7. toenjoy υi получать удовольствие, наслаждаться, е.g. I enjoyed the trip very much.
I've enjoyed seeing you.
to enjoy oneself, е.g. I enjoyed myself at the concert last night.
enjoyment n удовольствие, наслаждение
8. fun n 1. веселье, забава, развлечение, е.g. Children are fond of fun. What fun we had
when we were together! He is full of fun.
to makefun of высмеивать, подшучивать, е.g. He's fond of making fun of people. Nobody
likes to be made fun of.
to do smth. in (for) fun делать что-л. в шутку, е.g. I said it only in (for) fun.
2. предмет шуток, источник веселья, удовольствия, е.g. The party (your friend) was great
fun.
funny adj смешной, забавный, е.g. I have a funny story to tell you.
NOTES ON STYLE
1. In Leacock's story "How We Kept Mother's Day" you will find numerous words and
phrases of informal functional style (See Note A on p. 52), е.g. all that kind of thing (cf. the Russian
«и все такое»), awfully (in "awfully becoming", cf. the Russian «ужас как идет; потрясающе к
лицу»), a little bit («чуть-чуть»), have a big day («здорово провести время»), get messed up
(«перемазаться, вывозиться в грязи»), the dinner... was great fun («весело было за обедом»), etc.
Note also the interjection well introducing some of the passages (which normally occurs in
oral speech), the omission of the conjunction that and the syntax imitating that of oral
communication by its free and careless structures.
2. The story presents an interesting example of the indirect method of characterization. The
author does not say directly that the members of the family were selfish, callous and hard-hearted
people (that would be the direct method of characterization) but makes them act and lets the reader
draw his own conclusion.
3. "How We Kept Mother's Day" is a humorous story. Humour in fiction may be of two
principal types. It may be humour of situation when the author makes us laugh at certain funny or
absurd facts, е.g. the members of the family buying presents for themselves on Mother's Day, but
buying nothing for their mother. There is also humour of words when the reader does not laugh at
what is happening in the story but at how it is put by the author. E. g. But of course we all felt that it
would never do to let Father stay at home, especially as we knew he would make trouble if he did.
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY (I)
Words
afford υ
funny adj
repay υ
effort n
get υ
sacrifice υ, n