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Assignments to the text for comparative analysis.


1. Read the text.
2. Identify different types of idioms and stylistic devices.
3. Review the possible ways of solving a particular problem involved.
4. Translate the text.
5. Check your translation against the suggested Russian translation of the text.
6. Classify the revealed discrepancies under the following headings:
(a) Minor variations requiring no alterations in your translation.
(b) Obvious errors in your translation due to wrong interpretations or unhappy choice of TL equivalents.
(c) Doubtful cases where the suggested text seems to be inferior to your own wording.
7. Correct (b) and discuss (c) with your teacher or fellow-students.
MY Mr. JONES
I was one time Mr. Jones' lodger but I had to leave him because I could not see eye to eye with my landlord in his desire to dine in dress trousers, a flannel shirt, and a shooting coat. I had known him ever since I was a kid, and from boyhood up this old boy had put the fear of death into me. Time, the great healer, could never remove from my memory the occasion when he found me - then a stripling of fifteen - smoking one of his special cigars in the stables. Since then I have trodden on his toes in many ways. I always felt that unless I was jolly careful and nipped his arrogance in the bud, he would be always bossing me. He had the aspect of a distinctly resolute blighter. You have to keep these fellows in their place. You have to work the good old iron-hand-in-the-velvet-glove wheeze. If you give them a what's -its-name, they take a thingummy.
But now he was a rather stiff, precise sort of old boy, who liked a quiet life. He was just finishing a history of the family or something, which he had been working on for the last year, and didn't stir much from the library. He was rather a good instance of what they say about its being a good scheme for a fellow to sow his wild oats. I'd been told that in his youth he had been a bit of a bounder. You would never have thought it to look at him now.