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Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and word combinations.






Read the text and translate it. Pay attention to the underlined words.

Alex Morton is a talented person who has led a very interesting life. Alex is a handsome man, with an aristocratic face, soft brown hair and is getting bald. He has an angular face, bushy eyebrows and small hazel eyes. He has also a big nose, thin lips and a pointed chin. He wears glasses. His face is always clean shaven.

He was born in 1970 in Manchester, and he was the youngest of six children. From the moment he could read, he was never without a book in his hands. He was an avid reader throughout his schooldays.

After he left school he went to Manchester University. Over the next few years he began writing non-stop and each of his books was more successful than the previous one. Writing was his hobby.

In spite of being busy with his work, Alex still found time for romance. He met Fiona Jones and they got married in 1995. She was a very graceful and pretty girl, delicately built, with long blonde hair and a square face. She was rather tall and slim. Her eyebrows were thin and arched. She had very expressive big, blue eyes, a straight nose and scarlet lips. She is not young now but looks much younger for her age. She has grayish curly hair now, but her beauty still attracts men’s attention. Her rosy cheeks give her wrinkled face a childlike appearance and it’s her friendly eyes that appeal to everybody.

They have two daughters, and a son. Daughters are very smart and attractive. They both have long fair hair, but Mary’s hair is longer and fairer than Jane’s. Besides Jane is fatter than Mary. She doesn’t like you to say she is fat, and her parents tell her she will get thinner when she gets older. The youngest and the smallest in the family is Tom. He is the baby of the family, he is only five. He is a sweet little darling, too serious for his age, sometimes very naughty. Tom has taken after his mother, they are as like as two peas, and girls are the picture of their father.

Alex Morton is a devoted husband and father. He is generous, polite and very patient. His wife is sensitive and honest, sometimes she is strict to her children, but they say, that she is kind and caring.

Alex Morton has a very friendly family and it helps him to create his best sellers.

Give the Russian equivalents for the following words and word combinations.

Devoted husband; caring; friendly family; generous; straight nose; thin and arched eyebrows; wrinkled face; appeal to smb; strict mother; patient; square face; graceful; successful; delicately built; get married; handsome; talented; angular face; avid reader; aristocratic face; bald; bushy eyebrows; to wear glasses; clean shaven face; pointed chin; naughty; be busy with smth; be married to.


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