365 дней английского. Тетрадь одиннадцатая - стр. 6
Ключ. 1. You could have sneaked into your aunt’s room and switched the pills, no one would have even noticed. 2. You could have sneaked up on the old man and stabbed him in the back, no one would have even noticed. 3. You could have got rid of the body under cover of darkness, no one would have even noticed. 4. You could have climbed over the wall under cover of darkness, no one would have even noticed. (Обратите внимание на произношение глагола climb. Последняя согласная в нем не произносится.) 5. You could have climbed out of the window and walked away, no one would have even noticed. 6. You could have pushed her off the cliff, no one would have even noticed. 7. You could have ambushed him and thrown him overboard, no one would have even noticed. 8. You could have smuggled the weapon into the prison cell, no one would have even noticed. 9. You could have replaced the bloodstained carpet with a new one, no one would have suspected anything. 10. You could have passed yourself off as your twin brother, no one would have known the difference. 11. You could have stolen the original painting and replaced it with a copy, no one would have known the difference. 12. You could have staged it to look like suicide, no one would have suspected foul play. (Foul play – это «нечестная игра», «игра с нарушением правил». Помимо буквального значения, эти слова используются также в переносном смысле как обозначение преступного умысла, вплоть до преднамеренного убийства.) 13. You could have staged it to look like an accident, no one would have suspected foul play. 14. You could have staged it to look like a hunting accident, no one would have suspected foul play.
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A police officer was investigating an accident on a narrow two-lane road on which two drivers had hit virtually head-on. One driver, an extremely elderly woman, kept repeating, “He wouldn’t let me have my half of the road!” After gathering as much information as possible, the officer approached the other driver, who was examining his own damage. The police officer said, “That old lady says you wouldn’t let her have her half of the road. Why not?” In exasperation, the man turned from his smashed car and said, “Officer, I would have been more than happy to give her half of the road, if she would have just let me know which half she wanted.”