Инна Гивенталь - Как Это Сказать По-Английски?

We can't afford to spend money like water. They say they can't afford to spend money like water. They confessed they couldn't afford to spend money like water. They complained that under the circumstances or, rather, in their parents' presence they couldn't afford to spend money like water. Are you pleased with the fact that you can spend money like water? She wondered if we were pleased with the fact that we could afford to spend money like water at last. I am not sure we can afford to spend money like water. Are you sure that you can afford to throw your money around?

She failed in exams to university. She said she had failed in exams to university. She confessed that had failed in exams to university ever the previous year/the year before. She is crying because she has failed in the exam. He wondered why she had failed in exams. Didn't you wonder why she had failed in exams? Did she tell you that she had failed in exams? I don't know when she will confess to her parents that she has failed in exams.

I give English lessons every day. - I'm given English lessons every day.

I pay taxes honestly. - I'm never paid a salary in cash.

He usually tells fabulous stories. - He is usually told fabulous stories.

He seldom offers his help under the delicate circumstances. - He is often offered help.

I hardly ever give advice. - I'm often given advice how to act in some unforeseen situation.

I always invite a lot of people to my birthday party. - I am usually invited to blow round with great pleasure.

He never envies anybody but he is envied by everybody.

Unfortunately, we excuse our enemies too seldom. - We are always glad when we are excused.

I refuse to get this job. - I'm usually refused to get extra profit.

I allow you to stay up late. - I'm usually allowed to stay up late very seldom.

Put it into your pipe and smoke it: you won't set the Thames on fire that's why you are asked at school so often. My heart usually sinks into my boots when I'm asked some tricky question, especially when I am not ready for the exam properly. A young hopeful! It's the first time I've asked you such a tricky question on history and you have got out of a difficulty with great ease!

You are always making a mountain out of a molehill! Good ice cream is made of high-quality food. It isn't usually done like this! These miniature toys are made of ivory. Is your ice cream made of liquid milk? He has just made such an ugly thing! We have been doing lessons since the very morning. If you make a mountain out of a molehill, we'll live a cat and dog life. Just imagine: he told me if I made a mountain out of a molehill, we would live a cat and dog life!

That's the heart of the matter! You are always openhearted that's why you are tricked so often. I've never tricked anybody! I've been sitting on a powder keg since I understood that everyone was tricked there. Don't let the grass grow under your feet and if you are tricked once again, leave our town immediately and go in search of a job somewhere to a proper place. If I'm tricked, then I'll trick anybody with the greatest pleasure.

I refuse point-blank to explain new material to you if you don't bring yourselves to your senses. She has been explaining her favourite theorem to us for an hour and, to my mind, she is on the top of the world. He is at odds with math and even if everything is explained to him in detail, he can't solve even a primary sum. Have you explained the main thing to her yet? Have you already explained the main thing to her? Have you already managed to explain the main thing to her? By the way, is everything always explained to you in detail?

It's the first time; I've read an English book in the original. I have the title of the book I read last week with great pleasure on the tip of my tongue. In my opinion, she is from a different world: just imagine, she perceives nothing when it is read to her aloud; and one day when I asked her why it happened like that, she answered very roughly: " It's out of your business!" — " It serves you right! Never interfere in other people's business if you aren't asked." How often English texts are read to you at the lessons? To my mind, she won't read this book completely if you don't make her do it.

Have you ever read English writers in the original? Nothing is never read to us at English lessons and it is real careless work if call a spade a spade.

A

I usually wait for the necessary bus for hours. - The necessary bus is usually waited for hours.

We often send him for beer. - He is usually sent for when somebody needs first aid/is in need of first aid.

I speak about it quite often. - It is often spoken about.

We always listen to classical music with great pleasure. - Classical music isn't always listened to with great pleasure.

Sometimes I look at today's young people with great surprise. - Rebellious young people are usually looked at with misunderstanding and dislike.

Teenagers usually look for something unrealizable. - She is often looked for before the beginning of the classes.

You are laughing at her for nothing. - Unfortunately, she is often laughed at.

I look after aged people; it's my extra earnings. - Evidently, this child is looked after very well.

She referred me to you. - Ancient authors are often referred to in the lectures on history.

Our principal usually finds fault with his favourites. - For some reason, I'm always found fault with at physic lessons.

My daughter usually looks forward to the coming of heat. - The 14th of February and the 25th of December are usually looked forward to in all the Catholic countries.

I am glad that I can always rely on you in everything. - Sometimes kids are relied on more often than their disorganized parents.

The young seldom pay attention to weather. - The slightest change in weather is paid attention to in London.

We never live in the country-cottage in winter. - In winter the country-cottage is never lived in.

We drink out of old cups. - Old cups are drunk out of in our family.

B.

How long have you been looking for your keys? Why are you usually looked for in the attic? Will you have been looking for him before it starts raining? Had you looked for the keys in your own room before you phoned me?

He is never found fault with because he has showed himself as an excellent hard-worker. He said he would never find fault with me providing I learnt some poems by heart.

He said I was spoken about at every corner. I had been speaking about you for an hour before you entered the room.

Have you heard from him recently? Have you heard about him? I've never heard of him. Can you hear me?

I've been waiting for you for 15 minutes. Unfortunately, I am not waited for there. He said he wasn't waited for there. I'll be waiting for you at the cinema at 5 o'clock sharp.

How often do you do your flat? He is just playing for time and isn't going to tide up his room. It goes without saying that you are madly glad that your room is always done/is always tided up by your friends' arrival / coming. The hall is being tided up now so you will be able to get in at any moment. He promised he would do his room sooner or later. I can't understand why it is never tided up here; this mess just drives me wild and I confess I'm fed up with all this complete chaos.

Follow me! Oh, I'm scared, to my mind; I'm being followed closely. Don't worry! It just seems to you: there are always so many people on a bus in the rush hour that any person can suppose that he is followed.

We are having a heart-to-heart talk, so please, don't bother us. We are always being bothered here, it's just unbearable! I feel that I always bother you. It looks as if you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth if you aren't prevented to work on/at your book under present power.