mine."
They had moved into that house two years before (
; to move , ), and he knew ( ), and
Julia knew ( ), that they had put it into the hands of an expensive
decorator ( :
; to put , ) when they were going on tour (
), and he had agreed to have it completely ready for
them ( // ), at cost price (
) in return for the work ( ; in return ,
, ), they promised him in the theatre ( :
) by the time they came back ( ,
/ /). But it was unnecessary ( )
to impart such tedious details (/ ) to a
young man whose name even they did not know ( ,
). The house was furnished in extremely good taste
( // // ; to finish
, , , ), with a
judicious mixture of the antique and the modern (/ /
), and Michael was right (
) when he said ( ) that it was quite obviously a
gentleman's house ( ;
obviously , , ).
expensive [Ik'spensIv] unnecessary [An'nesqs(q)rI] tedious ['ti:dIqs]
judicious [dZu:'dISqs] antique [xn'ti:k]
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They had moved into that house two years before, and he knew, and Julia
Knew, that they had put it into the hands of an expensive decorator when they
Were going on tour, and he had agreed to have it completely ready for them,
At cost price in return for the work they promised him in the theatre, by the
Time they came back. But it was unnecessary to impart such tedious details to
A young man whose name even they did not know. The house was furnished in
Extremely good taste, with a judicious mixture of the antique and the modern,
and Michael was right when he said that it was quite obviously a gentleman's
House.
Julia, however, had insisted (, , ) that she must have her
bedroom as she liked ( :
), and having had exactly the bedroom that pleased her in the old
house in Regent's Park ( ,
, // ) which they had occupied
since the end of the war ( ; to occupy
, , ) she brought it over bodily (
|
|
|
//; bodily , ; ). The
bed and the dressing-table ( / /) were
upholstered in pink silk ( ), the chaise longue
and the armchair in Nattier blue ( / /
/, , / ; Nattier (1685-1766),
); over the bed there were fat little gilt cherubs (
// ) who
dangled a lamp with a pink shade ( :
), and fat little gilt cherubs swarmed all round the
mirror on the dressing-table (
). On satinwood tables were
signed photographs ( :
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; to sign , ,
), richly framed ( ), of actors and actresses
( ) and members of the royal family (
). The decorator had raised his supercilious eyebrows (
// / /; to raise ,
, ), but it was the only room in the house (
) in which Julia felt completely at home (
/). She wrote
her letters at a satinwood desk (
), seated on a gilt Hamlet stool ( ).
upholstered [Ap'hqVlstqd] chaise longue ['SeIz'lON] cherub ['tSerqb]
supercilious ["s(j)u:pq'sIlIqs]
