Т. Шелкова - Как вести беседу по телефону

• Название: Как вести беседу по телефону
• Автор: Т. Шелкова
• Издательство: Высшая школа
• Жанр: Языкознание
• Год: 1989
• ISBN: 5-06-001624-2

Ведение разговора по телефону на иностранном языке требует от обучающегося определенных навыков понимания, восприятия и удержания в памяти услышанного, а также незамедлительной словесной реакции на услышанное. Недостаточное развитие этих навыков является препятствием к тому, чтобы хорошо и уверенно говорить по телефону.

Пособие ставит своей целью помочь учащимся овладеть навыками беседы по телефону, пользоваться общепринятой терминологией.

Во второе издание (1-е — 1980 г.) внесены исправления редакционного характера.

Для лиц, самостоятельно совершенствующих свои знания английского языка.

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rattling on: colloquial for “chattering”

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around: at home; “around the house” meaning “in the house”

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only too glad: an expressive way of saying “glad”

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Peatley two-seven-one: although more and more telephone exchanges in Britain are being converted to all-figure numbers, some are still identified by a name

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How’s things: a colloquial variant of “How are you”

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Croydon: a suburb of London

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put me in with a chance: given me a chance

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short-listed: placed on the “short list” of people who are selected from all the other applicants and given an interview.

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for goodness sake: a mild exclamation often used to express varying degrees of exasperation

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on the receiving end: in the position of receiving something

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in the hot seat: a colloquial metaphor used of any uncomfortable situation

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I shouldn’t worry too much about it if I were you: this sentence, or something very much like it, is used so often in these circumstances that it amounts almost to a fixed phrase

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with your qualifications: the sense is that there are unlikely to be many applicants “with such good qualifications”, rather than “with the same qualifications”

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we’ll see: we’ll see eventually what happens. Often used as a way of expressing doubt about the

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loaded: loaded with money — a colloquialism

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I don’t know about: a standard phrase for expressing doubt about whatever it introduces

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scope: opportunity

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old Billings : a common informal way of referring to people, especially men. The adjective “old” does not necessarily carry its normal sense, and it’s use in this way often implies a measure of affection.

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do anyone a bad turn: harm anyone

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a stick-in-the-mud: someone lacking in enterprise and averse to change. It is a classic instance of the kind of English “idiom” which used, to be collected in phrase books; and it sounds rather odd and a little old-fashioned as so many phrase-book idioms do, probably because they are not used very much nowadays. The most famous of all is perhaps “It’s raining cats and dogs” which no Englishman would ever be likely to say any longer unless he was trying to be funny.

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move with the times: keep pace with current thinking. Another idiom that to some people might sound a little old-fashioned.

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Too true: an emphatic way of agreeing’

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have a bash: have a try’

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Good for you: a common way of expressing approval of someone’s action

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fed: gave

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guff: a colloquialism for “information”, often used with the implication of irrelevance

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lay it on too thick: exaggerate

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go off: take a disliking to

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cake walk it: the sense here is “get the job easily”. A “cake walk” is a simple undertaking.

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keep my fingers crossed: the reference is to the traditional belief that crossing one’s fingers is a way of guarding against bad luck

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a bit of a bind: a nuisance

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the moors: вересковая пустошь, охотничье угодье (there are a great deal of open moorland in Yorkshire within easy reach of the large towns, and Sunday mornings walks there are popular)

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steady on: a means of asking someone to be slower or more cautious in their behaviour or statements

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pop out: go out

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the Home Counties: the counties adjacent to London

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turn in: go to bed

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within reason: not beyond one’s possibilities

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to be up to something usually implies something not altogether permissible, or at least surreptitious. “What have you been up to this time?” implies something likely to involve punishment. So the phrase is used jocularly, from one friend to another, implying that he or she must have been doing something out of the ordinary or at least interesting.

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I’m afraid implies no fear, only regret that she has nothing more interesting to tell.

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Just the usual grind is a way of describing monotony; nothing severe or otherwise unpleasant is implied.

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come up: two idioms with “come” — “come up” meaning “to arise, to occur” and “come off meaning “to take place”

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play hostess: “play” is often used as here to mean “fulfil the function of.

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this do at Turin : “do”, used as a noun, is one of the many colloquial words for a social occasion.

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Well, look here is more emphatic than “I say”, to begin a new statement.

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Why don’t I come and look after…: this is a more forceful phrase than “Why shouldn’t I?”. It contains the hint of a firm offer which ought not to be refused.

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demons: lively children are conventionally referred to as “young demons” — a phrase conveying admiration for their vitality but at the same time sympathy for the trouble which they can cause.

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get on means “get on well together”, “like each other and are good companions”.

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sort it out with James: discuss this question with James

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I’ll come over simply means “I’ll come to you”.

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frig: refrigerator

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Is this Mrs Jones?: Americans begin a telephone call by asking, “Is this…?” whereas the English ask, “Is that…?”

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To call in British English more often means to come in person, though it can have the sense of “calling up” or “ringing up” on the telephone, which is always the American meaning.

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to rent: houses in England are usually said to be “to let”. The distinction is that you let your house to someone, but you rent a house from someone.

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right now: an English person would probably just say “now” or “at the moment”.

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Closet is rarely used in England and would generally be taken to refer to “water-closet”.

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Gosh!: an exclamation of extreme surprise

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stowaway безбилетный пассажир, заяц

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Jordache Джордак

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Rudolph Рудольф

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Sarah Capa

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Deborah Дебора

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Leigh Ли (мужское имя)

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five-seven 5 футов и 7 дюймов (о росте) = 152 см

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one-twenty and one-thirty 120 фунтов и 130 фунтов (о весе) = 54 кг и 58 кг

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trouble shooter специальный уполномоченный по улаживанию конфликтов

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We’ll run what we have. Мы опубликуем то, что у нас есть.

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C’est moi Fr. Это я.

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You really must take a grip on yourself. Вы действительно должны взять себя в руки.

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Service wives have it rough. Таков удел жен военных.

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Gretchen Гретхен

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I’m just dawdling idly я просто бездельничаю

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to induct призывать на военную службу

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if he’s goofed school: if he’s not doing well at school

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he’d just fall over himself with eagerness он бы из кожи вон вылез

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the French Sûrété Nationale французская сыскная полиция.

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a bit marginal: a bit risky

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things are beginning to sit up and look pretty ситуация проясняется

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cachet Fr. here: a box

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funny colloq. подозрительный

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bug sl: an infectious disease