В предложении
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1. Я бы предпочел, чтобы ты пошла в магазин.
2. Нам бы не следовало обсуждать наши домашние обстоятельства.
3. Вам бы не следовало ругаться все время.
4. Я бы предпочла потерять 20 фунтов, чем быть толстой (fat).
5. Тебе следовало бы бросить его.
6. Я бы предпочла не отвечать.
Section 30
Why didn't you say anything, mother?
A man used to work night shift. Once he returned home and went straight up to the bedroom. He found his wife with the sheet pulled over her head, fast asleep. Not to be denied, the horny husband crawled under the sheet and proceeded to make love to her.
Afterward, as he hurried downstairs for something to eat, he was startled to find breakfast on the table and his wife pouring coffee.
«How did you get down so fast?» he asked. «We were just making love!»
«Oh my God,» his wife gasped. «That's my mother up there! She came over early and had complained of having a headache. I told her to lie down for a while.»
Rushing upstairs, the wife ran to the bedroom.
«Mother, I can't believe this happened. Why didn't you say anything?»
The mother-in-law huffed, «I haven't spoken to that jerk for fifteen years, and I wasn't about to start now!»
shift
sheet
простыняto pull
тянутьto pull over
натягивать (наasleep
спящийto deny
отрицать, отвергатьto crawl
вползать, пробираться ползкомto proceed
приступатьto hurry
спешитьto startle
испугать, поразить, сильно удивитьto complain of sth
жаловаться (наheadache
головная больdownstairs
внизу; вниз по лестнице; на нижнем этажеto rush
бросатьсяupstairs
вверху; вверх по лестнице; на верхнем этажеmother-in-law
теща, свекровьto huff
говорить гневноjerk
night shift
ночная сменаfast asleep
крепко спящийnot to be denied
чтобы его не отверглиfor a while
в течение некоторого времениto be about to do sth
собираться что-л. делать1. Where did the man return from?
2. Why did he proceed to make love to the lady without saying a single word?
3. What was he startled at when he got downstairs?
4. Why did the wife gasp?
5. What was wrong with her mother?
6. Why didn't the mother-in-law say a single word while being made love to?
1. The man went _______ to the bedroom.
2. He found his wife _______ asleep.
3. The horny husband _______ under the sheet.
4. He hurried _______ for something to eat.
5. How did you get down so _______?
6. She came over early and had _______ of having a headache.
7. I can't _______ this happened.
1. He found his wife with the sheet pulled over her head, fast asleep.
2. The husband crawled under the sheet and proceeded to make coffee to her.
3. He hurried downstairs for something to read, and was startled to find breakfast on the table and his wife pouring coffee.
4. We were just making love!
5. That's my father up there!
6. She came over early and had complained of having a headache.
7. I told her to stand still for a while.
1. Мужчина вернулся домой с ночной смены.
2. Он обнаружил свою жену с простыней, натянутой на голову.
3. Чтобы его не отвергли, он заполз под простыню.
4. Он был обеспокоен, найдя завтрак на столе.
5. «О Боже мой, – жена от волнения едва не задохнулась, – там же наверху моя мать!»
6. Я велела ей немного полежать.
7. Жена бросилась наверх.
В предложениях