Translate the situations from the story and remember the contents

The curious case of Benjamin Button

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Asignment 1 (up to 36:54 min)

Speak about F.Scott Fitzgerald

Read these historic realities and explain what you know about them

Yale College

phaeton

Translate and reproduce the situation from the story

judge for oneself

an enviable position

family physician

triplets

outrageous

on the verge of collapse

to mount the steps

threw smb. a look of hearty contempt.

an impostor

a septuagenarian

to scent one`s shameful secret.

prodigious

a mishap

an outbreak of the Civil War

At his father's urging

the network of wrinkles became less pronounced

registrar

attired in their
full-dress suits

a handsome brougham

beautiful as sin

curtsied

murderous eyes

Translate the situations from the story and remember the contents

1. As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. Roger Button were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day in the summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in ahospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon the
astonishing history I am about to set down will never be known.

2. Mr. Button seized a hospital shears and with three quick snaps amputated a large section of the beard. But even with this improvement the ensemble fell far short of perfection. The remaining brush of scraggly hair, the watery eyes, the ancient teeth, seemed oddly out of tone with the gaiety of the costume.

3. When his grandfather's initial antagonism wore off, Benjamin and that
gentleman took enormous pleasure in one another's company. They would
sit for hours, these two, so far apart in age and experience, and,
like old cronies, discuss with tireless monotony the slow events of
the day. Benjamin felt more at ease in his grandfather's presence than
in his parents'--they seemed always somewhat in awe of him and,
despite the dictatorial authority they exercised over him, frequently
addressed him as "Mr."

4. But he was not fated to escape so easily. On his melancholy walk to the railroad station he found that he was being followed by a group, then by a swarm, and finally by a dense mass of undergraduates. The word had gone around that a lunatic had passed the entrance examinations for Yale and attempted to palm himself off as a youth of eighteen. A fever of excitement permeated the college. Men ran hatless out of classes, the football team abandoned its practice and joined the mob, professors' wives with bonnets awry and bustles out of position, ran shouting after the procession, from which proceeded a continual succession of remarks aimed at the tender sensibilities of Benjamin Button.

5. The girl was slender and frail, with hair that was ashen under the moon and honey-colored under the sputtering gas-lamps of the porch
Over her shoulders was thrown a Spanish mantilla of softest yellow, butterflied in black; her feet were glittering buttons at the hem ofher bustled dress.

6. Benjamin felt himself on the verge of a proposal--with an effort he
choked back the impulse. "You're just the romantic age," she
continued--"fifty. Twenty-five is too wordly-wise; thirty is apt to be
pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole
cigar to tell; sixty is--oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is
the mellow age. I love fifty."

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 985