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With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form... I remember going to the British Museum to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch. And then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into – and before I had glanced half down the list of “premonitory symptoms”, it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got one. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee. I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck (Jerome K. Jerome. Three Men in a Boat).
2. Analyse the types of dictionary correspondences used in the “Dictionary of New Words and Meanings” by Z. Trofimova and “A Supplement to the New English-Russian Dictionary” by I. Galperin. State the differences:
Doublespeak – 1.демагогия; 2. ложные обещания // 1.пустые слова или обещания; уклончивые речи 2.демагогия; пышные туманные речи.
Guru – 1.духовный вождь, идеолог; 2. светило, эксперт в какой-либо деятельности // 1. духовный вождь, идеолог; 2. 1) светило, ведущая фигура (в какой-либо области); 2) специалист; знающий человек; 3. шутл. психиатр.
Con game – 1. жарг. мошенничество; 2. все противозаконное; 3. нечестный, «легкий» заработок, легкая жизнь // (сокр. от confidence game) разг. м ошенничество.
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