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Английский язык со Стивеном Кингом. Земляничная весна / Stephen King. Strawberry SpringPeople clustered in small groups that had a tendency to break up and re-form with surprising speed. Looking at the same set of faces for too long gave you funny ideas about some of them. And the speed with which rumours swept from one end of the campus to the other began to approach the speed of light; a well-liked history professor had been overheard laughing and weeping down by the small bridge; Gale Cerman had left a cryptic two-word message written in her own blood on the blacktop of the Animal Sciences parking lot; both murders were actually political crimes, ritual murders that had been performed by an offshoot of the SDS to protest the war. This was really laughable. The New Sharon SDS had seven members. One fair-sized offshoot would have bankrupted the whole organization. This fact brought an even more sinister embellishment from the campus rightwingers: outside agitators. So during those queer, warm days we all kept our eyes peeled for them. The press, always fickle (пресса, /как/ всегда непредсказуемая; fickle — непостоянный, переменчивый; ненадежный, неустойчивый), ignored the strong resemblance our murderer bore to Jack the Ripper (проигнорировала сильное = удивительное сходство нашего убийцы с Джеком Потрошителем: «сходство, /которое/ наш убийца имел с…»; to bear — носить, нести; нестинасебе, иметь/знаки, признаки, следы/; to rip — разрезать, распарывать) and dug further back — all the way to 1819 (и копнула глубже: «дальше назад», аж до 1819 года; to dig) ...» |
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