Девочка со спичками дает прикурить

14) отвечать за борьбу с детьми, которые живут на улице

15) делать скандальные программы, которые жители города смотрят по телевизору

16) не разрешать находиться в городе

4. Переведите на русский язык. Translate into Russian.

Section 1

1. This is not a horror story like the ones Andersen loved to tell.

2. Such things might happen to you even in your city.

3. Our heroine, you understand, does not suffer from the cold.

4. She asks no one for money. Unusual behavior (поведение)!

5. She treats everyone with great sympathy. Remarkable!

6. It seems that she herself does not need help.

7. She just worries about all the others. Commendable (Похвально)!

8. If you have a serious problem at Christmastime you will probably meet our little heroine (героиня) in any city.

9. Just look all around for a beautiful little girl with blue eyes and golden hair standing at a main intersection.

Section 2

1. Suddenly we see a suffering young man whose girlfriend has been offended by his jealousy (ревность) and wants to leave him for someone else.

2. Our little heroine offers him the matchbox to have a smoke.

3. She advises him not to choose a black match. As a result (В результате) he chooses a pink one.

4. Now the young man has lit up, and his head begins to spin. What has happened to him?

5. Suddenly his phone rings. It is she! He is forgiven (Он прощён)! We hear tender words of love, and our young friend rushes off to his beloved! Wonderful (Чудно)!

6. Now we see a patient who is even worse off (в более тяжёлом состоянии), and the match box again appears in the hands of our little heroine.

7. Here is a man about 40 who is out of work. He is very capable and has changed jobs many times.

8. He has been thrown out onto the street without work and without money because he has not kept up with the times (не работал по-современному).

9. The poor man thinks that no one needs him, and everyone is trying to get rid of him (развести его). How awful!

10. Our little girl did not allow (позволить) him choose a black match. She took it away and used a green one instead!

11. As soon as he began to smoke his head began to spin, and he caught sight of an advertisement for a wonderful job as an experienced driver.

12. A business card appeared in his hand, and he rushed off to get set up in the new job.

13. Our heroine only gave a wry smile, but she does not smile for long. Here comes (Вот едет) a woman in a wheelchair.

14. The poor invalid considers herself extremely unfortunate, and in order to forget about her illness is ready to start drinking or smoking.

15. Beautiful long women’s cigarettes suddenly appeared in the hands of our little heroine. Under these circumstances (обстоятельство) it’s probably alright to smoke once a year!

16. Of course, an invalid will always choose a black match, but when this happened our little girl reacted (среагировать) with indignation and picked out a green one for her.

17. Suddenly the wheel chair disappeared, and the woman fell right onto the ground (прямо на землю). But was she satisfied with her new freedom? No!

18. Our heroine also helped many others, such as (такие, как) the teacher who wept because he had nothing and the oligarch who was dissatisfied even though (несмотря на то, что) he had everything.

Section 3

1. A rude bureaucrat shouted at our beautiful little girl. He wanted to know where her parents were.

2. She told him that he better hurry (чтобы он поспешил) or he would be late to his meeting. How did she know that?

3. This bureaucrat, it turned out, was responsible for the city’s homeless children.

4. Conditions for homeless children in the city were horrible! They were better off (Им было лучше) on the street.

5. The bureaucrat threatened (пригрозить) to take our little darling (наша дорогая малышка) to the place for homeless children and shave her lice-covered head.

6. Good work (Молодец)! Take her away to an orphanage (детский дом)!

7. Whose voice is that? It is Mr. Kosyx, a famous television reporter (телерепортёр) who loves scandals.

8. “We’ll prepare a special report, a big (крупный) bureaucrat against a little girl! Good!”

9. A vigilant (бдительный) policeman (милиционер) now appears on the scene. After all, he must maintain order (поддерживать порядок) downtown (центр) where many “important” people regularly walk around.

10. What? A little girl disturbing (нарушать) societal order? Use the handcuffs! Detain the little extremist!

11. “No, never! Answers someone who was passing by (прохожий). “Now even children come out in protest and become victims of the regime! Shame (позор)!”

12. “You’re not local!” shouts another. “Where’s your residence permit (прописка)? Because of people like you we’re dying from hunger! Get out of here (убираться отсюда)!

13. “Fine her for smoking in public (в общественном месте)!” screamed a deputy in the local legislature (although he himself maintained a den (содержать притон) for “business.”)