EXERCISE 4. Translate the following sentences and pick out synonyms

Translate the following sentences and pick out synonyms.

1. He soon ceased to choose every morning from his wardrobe the tie he wanted. He found that she put out for him the one he would have himself selected.

2. You’ve changed a man’s nature, you’ve altered a component, a physical component of his being.

3. Her affairs were no business of mine.

4. He went into his bedroom and looked round it. It was neat and tidy.

5. Mr. Kellada liked to chat. He talked of New York and of San Francisco.

6. Philip looked patiently down at his brother. The two sisters gazed with anxiety and the other children stared blankly.

7. “You look very nice and brown, dear,” said Aunt Matilda. “You look different. Why do you look different?” “Because I’m sunburnt.”

8. The drawing room shone and glistened with the spotlessness of a house without children.

9. She had neither Maria grace nor her beauty, but was a stout heavy girl with red cheeks and mousy hair.

10. He saw that she was starting to cry. “My poor Riley,” said Miss Carter, and she wept without restraint.

11. “It was a horrible evening. I shall never forget it. That awful party at the Greek Park or whatever the hotel was called.”

12. He fixed his gaze on Gray, but didn’t seem to look at him; he seemed rather to look through and beyond him.

13. He had the high spirits of his youth, a natural wish to enjoy himself and an adventurous temper.

14. She is a talkative woman and certainly a gossip.

15. You could put him next to a very boring old lady and count on him to be charming and amusing with her.

16. “Dear me, dear me!” said Nan. “What a cry baby! You’re always wailing!”

17. Oh, dear, it’s so difficult, isn’t it. All the names I mean. They are most peculiar and hard to spell.