Shaw George Bernard. Pygmalion

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Полный неадаптированный текст, изданный специально для подготовки к экзамену по английскому языку на допуск для учебы в колледже или в вузе в англоязычной стране. В конце каждой страницы приводятся синонимы и антонимы для отдельных слов, причем слова выбраны трудные и часто встречающиеся. Например, для первой страницы:PREFACE TO PYGMALION
A PROFESSOR OF PHONETICS.
As will be seen later on, Pygmalion needs, not a preface, but a sequel, which I
have supplied in its due place. The English have no respect for their language,
and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no
man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to
open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to
Englishmen. The reformer England needs today is an energetic phonetic
enthusiast: that is why I have made such a one the hero of a popular play. There
have been heroes of that kind crying in the wilderness for many years past.
When I became interested in the subject towards the end of the eighteenseventies,
Melville Bell was dead; but Alexander J. Ellis was still a living
patriarch, with an impressive head always covered by a velvet skull cap, for
which he would apologize to public meetings in a very courtly manner. He and
Tito Pagliardini, another phonetic veteran, were men whom it was impossible to
dislike. Henry Sweet, then a young man, lacked their sweetness of character: he
was about as conciliatory to conventional mortals as Ibsen or Samuel Butler. His
great ability as a phonetician (he was, I think, the best of them all at his job)
would have entitled him to high official recognition, and perhaps enabled him to- даны синонимы и антонимы для слов:abominably: (adv) atrociously,
awfully, terribly, repulsively, badly,
frightfully, awful, sadly, hideously,
sickeningly, rottenly.
conciliatory: (adj) complaisant, pacific,
mollifying, propitiatory, friendly,
appeasing, conciliating,
compromising, pacificatory,
assuaging, quiet. ANTONYMS: (adj)
provocative, challenging, hostile,
aggressive, stubborn, bellicose,
belligerent, fighting, antagonizing,
uncompromising, antagonistic.
courtly: (adj) civil, stately, polite,
elegant, gallant, dignified, respectful,
noble, formal; (adj, n) refined; (adv)
wooly. ANTONYMS: (adj) boorish,
rude, unrefined, unpolished, uncivil,
churlish, impolite, rough.
mortals: (n) people.
patriarch: (n) forefather, paterfamilias,
father, head, chief, old man,
antediluvian, head of household,
elder, founder, senior. ANTONYM:
(n) matriarch.
phonetic: (adj) vocal, phonic,
outspoken, spoken; (adj, v) oral; (v)
lingual, unwritten; (n) phonetics.
phonetician: (n) linguist.
reformer: (n) emancipationist,
abolitionist, activist, hippie,
demonstrator, crusader, insurgent,
prohibitionist, meliorist, rebel,
radical.В конце книги более полный (более подробный) англо-английский словарь.Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Emma by Jane Austen was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT, SAT, AP (Advanced Placement), GRE, LSAT, GMAT or similar examinations.
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