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Subject: help gen. His son Ted aspired to a Packard and an established position inthe motored gentry. He looked at his bank and considered how clever and solid he was to bank with so marbled an establishment. |
| What kind of help do you need, Kate? |
| translate these sentences, please |
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Hah! You're a very funny girl, isn't it? Try it by yourself. |
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-'twin-six' у Вас потерялся, а ведь это важно- ........ They went, with ardor and some thoroughness, into the matters of streamline bodies, hill-climbing power, wire wheels, chrome steel, ignition systems, and body colors. It was much more than a study of transportation. It was an aspiration for knightly rank. In the city of Zenith, in the barbarous twentieth century, a family's motor indicated its social rank as precisely as the grades of the peerage determined the rank of an English family—indeed, more precisely, considering the opinion of old county families upon newly created brewery barons and woolen-mill viscounts. The details of precedence were never officially determined. There was no court to decide whether the second son of a Pierce Arrow limousine should go in to dinner before the first son of a Buick roadster, but of their respective social importance there was no doubt; and where Babbitt as a boy had aspired to the presidency, his son Ted aspired to a Packard twin-six and an established position in the motored gentry. ..... |
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*You're a very funny girl, а вдруг нас дети читают? а им ЕГЭ сдавать ююю |
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Сколько можно уже упоминать, что учебник Бонк устарел... :0) а Вы с этой замшелой английской грамматикой ... комментарии делаите.. |
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