1. Мне не перепало ничего, кроме маленькой квартиры.
2. А мне досталась кругленькая сумма.
3. У него куры денег не клюют.
4. Сдача в аренду – хороший вид бизнеса.
5. Моя мама всю жизнь откладывала деньги на чёрный день.
6. Куда я могу перевложить свои деньги? (reinvest)
7. Она работает кассиром и подсчитывает выручку каждый вечер.
8. Я сам вынужден считать каждую копейку.
***
1. I came into nothing, but a small flat.
2. I came into a tidy sum.
3. He is rolling in money.
4. Renting out is good business.
5. My mother had been putting money away for a rainy day her whole life.
6. What could I plough back my money in?
7. She works a cashier and cashes up every night.
8. I have to pinch pennies.
Dad,
Really sorry, but I’m forced to beg you for help again. Badly need a thousand to make both ends meet. Believe me, I tried as hell for my exams. I just had no chance to take up a part-time job. Now, I can barely scrapeby1 on what my friends chipped in2. This time, though, it’s even worse – I was in the library, engrossed in reading, and my leg felt paralyzed. I was taken to hospital. Bad luck, the doctors couldn’t save it, and this is now the second leg I’ve lost. Fortunately, the university carried the payment over3 until next month, but I’m now stuck up4 in the hospital. I can’t move, I can’t get by5 without money, it’s «catch-22».
Dear sonny,
You won’t believe it, but I went see you or your doctor in the hospital. Your mother went out of6 her mind with worry, saying you were too timid to tell us the truth about your health. I didn’t pull it off7, unfortunately. I was lucky, though, to run into8 a pretty nurse you’d hung out9 with the previous day. I have to admit she is worth losing not only another leg, but your mind, too. As this is the third leg you have lost according to your letters, I’m sure you ought to be used to this by now. If my memory serves me correctly, you lost the first one in a terrible accident when a tram ran you over10 and cut it off11. The second one was bitten by a horse near the betting shop window, when you were staking your last penny on12 a horse at the hippodrome. Later, luckily, the third one has grown back14 but, tough luck, it’s paralyzed now. So hobble along14 on any other one you may have left. As you know, we are barely scraping by on our low income and are not raking in15 huge profits from my business. Money isn’t rolling in16 and I can’t cough up17 a grand each time you turn into a centipede. When your mother and I met, we started renting a part of a house and had to solely get by on18 our wage. I hope, you’ll get your mind right, get a job, and rely on your check rather than legs.
1 scrape by (on smth) – перекантовываться, выживать, сводить концы с концами
2 chip in smth – скидываться, сбрасываться
3 carry smth over/forward to – переносить ч-л. на ч-л. (более поздний срок)
4 be stuck up – застревать
5 get by (without) – обходиться (без ч-л.)
6 go out of smth (with) – лишаться ч-л. (из-за), (mind) сходиться с ума/не находить себе места
7 pull smth off – добиваться успеха, результата
8 run into smb – неожиданно столкнуться с к-л.
9 hang out (with) – тусоваться, проводить время (с)
10 run over smb – сбивать, переезжать к-л.
11 cut smth off – отрезать ч-л.
12 stake smth on smth/smb – ставить ч-л. (деньги), делать ставку на ч-л.
13 grow back – отрастать
14 hobble along – ковылять, прихрамывать
15 rake in smth – грести, загребать, «грести лопатой» ч-л.
16 be rolling in – с неба не падает/сыплется, «куры денег не клюют»
17 cough up smth – раскошеливаться, «отбашлять», «отслюнявить»
18 get by on smth – тянуть на ч-л., с трудом перебиваться, жить на/за счёт ч-л.
1. У меня мало денег, но я как-нибудь перекантуюсь.
2. Давайте скинемся немного и поможем ей!
3. Вы можете перенести встречу на следующую среду, пожалуйста?
4. Застрял в пробке. Подождите немного.
5. Я не могу обойтись без денег.
6. Она не находит себе места.
7. Если тебе это удастся, мы выплатим ипотеку.
8. Вчера столкнулся с твоим бывшим в банке, представляешь?
9. Где обычно тусуются миллионеры?
10. Если это будет мой банкир, я его перееду.
11. Банк может перекрыть нам кредитную линию.
12. Я бы сделал ставку на золото.
13. Деньги не отрастают, как волосы.
14. Наш баланс захромал июне.
15. Я деньги лопатой не гребу. Мне приходится вкалывать.
16. У неё куры денег не клюют.
17. Он отслюнявил мне немного бабла на прошлой неделе.
18. Я не скупердяй. Просто перебиваюсь на одну зарплату.
***
1. I have a little money, but I’ll scrape by somehow.
2. Let’s chip in some money and help her!
3. Could you carry the meeting over till the next Wednesday, please?
4. I am stuck in the traffic jam. Wait for me a little, please.
5. I can’t get by without money.
6. She is going out of her mind now.
7. If you pull it off, we’ll pay off the mortgage.
8. Just imagine, I ran into your ex in the bank yesterday.
9. Where do millionaires usually hang out?
10. If he’s my banker, I’ll run him over.
11. The bank can cut us off from the credit line.
12. I’d better stake on gold.
13. Money can’t grow back like your hair.
14. Our balance started hobbling along in June.
15. I am not raking in the money. I have to work hard.
16. She is rolling in heaps of money (she keeps money rolling in).
17. He coughed up some dough last week.
18. I’m not a cheapskate. I’m getting by on my wage.
Вспомните несколько фразовых глаголов и приведите их синонимы из заимствованных слов.
Пример: To bring up – to educate
Cоставьте рассказ о себе со всеми фразовыми глаголами. После проверки – запишите на диктофон в телефоне (планшете, компьютере) и, слушая себя, выучите наизусть.
1. It’s a steal! – Просто даром! / За беcценок!
2. Let’s go Dutch! – Давай разделим счёт пополам!
3. This jobis a real gravy train! – Это работа – настоящая халява (лафа)!
4. Well, I have no nest egg yet – Ну у меня нет заначки на чёрный день.
5. It’s a golden handshake. – Это огромное выходное пособие.
6. You are a cheapskate! – Ты – жмот!
7. Money doesn’t grow on trees. – Деньги не растут на деревьях.
8. I don’t have money to burn. – У меня нет денег, чтобы шиковать.
9. I haveto tighten my belt so far. – Пока я должен затянуть ремень потуже.
10. I don’t complain, I’m trying to keep the pot boiling. – Я не жалуюсь и пытаюсь держаться (зарабатывать на еду).
11. It’s a little bit tricky. – Как-то стрёмно это.
· CAN YOU CAN A CAN AS A CANNER CAN CAN A CAN?
Bill has finished a brokerage course at a bank and decided to make his first investment as an independent broker. He was assisted by a friend who has worked in the other bank for ten years and was said to be an experienced broker. One day he called Bill and said that his boss, a senior broker who was considered almost a god in NYSE, invited them to invest in shale gas development. At that time there was a boom in the industry. The senior broker hinted that he had been advised to do that by his friends from Federal Reserve Bank. «We’ll get on to the gravy train», he promised. It was the kind of proposal, which Bill could not turn down. He shared this information with his wife Julie, who reminded him that money didn’t grow on trees. A month later, Bill’s investment paid off, and even the chairman praised him. The friends were on cloud nine. But another month passed, gas prices suddenly fell and the development of shale gas was halted across the country. Bill, his friend and the senior manager of the bank lost all they had earned and invested in this operation. Only the chairman, who had real friends in FRB and never told anyone about them, had made a stake on copper and put all his money in it just a few days before the gas prices dropped. So now he was rubbing his hands and kept muttering under his breath: money goes to money.
· MONEY GOES TO MONEY / деньги к деньгам (идут), деньги любят деньги
«Excuse me, could you tell me where I could take money out1, please?»
«No problem! It’s just around the corner. Go down the street till the traffic lights and turn left. The ATM is over there. But there is a limit as far as I know. You are not allowed to withdraw more than 300 pounds a day.»
«Thanks a lot! It’s surprising, but there is not much choice, I’m afraid.»
Good luck, guys! See ya!»
«Thanks a lot!.. (a few minutes later) Look, the ATM is out of order. We shall have to cut back our expenditure on2 entertainment.»
«Stop it! You sound like the Prime Minister. Call Jill, she might lend us a hundred for tonight, and we’ll pay her back3 tomorrow.»
«Highly unlikely. She paid our bill yesterday. It came to4 one hundred dollars, and we still owe her our share.»
«What a bummer! You are right.»
1 take smth out – снимать ч-л. (деньги со счёта, из банкомата)
2 cut smth back (on) – сокращать, снижать сумму
3 pay smth back – возвращать ч-л.
4 come to – составлять в итоге сумму для к-л.
1. Она забрала все деньги со счёта своего мужа, и с тех пор её больше не видели.
2. Теперь, когда я потерял работу, я вынужден сократить все свои расходы.
3. Не люблю одалживать деньги своим друзьям. Во первых, они никогда не возвращают их, а во вторых, ты теряешь друзей.
4. Счёт в ресторане составил 85 долларов.
***
1. She has taken out all the money from her husband’s account and has not been seen since.
2. Now that I’ve lost my job I have to cut back on all my expenditure.
3. I don’t like to lend money to my friends. Firstly, they never pay you back and secondly, you’d lose your friends.
4. The bill for meals at the restaurant came to 85 dollars.
«What are you going to do after school? Going to university or taking a year off?»
«The former, I hope. I’m going to work and pay the bills. My parents will be paying off1 the mortgage on our flat for another ten years. So I’ll have no support from them.»
«I see. Mine have no mortgage, but I’ll have to earn some money too. I don’t want to take a year off, either. How much do you need to pay?»
«Last week I got the first term bill. It’s six hundred, and I’ll have to payup2 by the end of the month. I have to cut down3 some expenses. Last month I ran up4 my telephone and Internet bills for a hundred bucks. Games, streaming video, sharing files on social media, listening to music, online games, you know… So stupid of me! I’ve just found a job in a mall, but I’ll only get paid next week.»
«I see. Mate, I’ve saved two grand5. My payment is due on November 30, I could lend you a few hundred for a week or two.»
«Really?! Oh, great! Thanks, man! I’ll settle up6 with you when I get paid.»
«It’s OK. We’re brother-in-arms. Don’t worry, take your time.»
1 pay smth off – выплачивать полностью ч-л.
2 pay smth up – оплачивать, выплачивать ч-л.
3 cut smth down (on) – сокращать ч-л.
4 run up smth (of) – набегать, набирать (-ся), накапливать (-ся) (о счетах)
5 grand – штука (тысяча)
6 settle up (with smb) – рассчитываться, расплачиваться с к-л.
1. Ты все долги выплатил вовремя?
2. Заплати всю сумму, или я заберу это!
3. Мне надо каждый месяц платить фиксированную сумму за ипотеку.
4. Если ты не заплатишь вовремя, тебя могут привлечь к суду.
5. Тебе пришлось сократить расходы из-за ипотеки?
6. Нам пришлось сократить расходы на спортивные клубы.
7. За год у меня накопилось три штрафа за неправильную парковку на обочине.
8. У меня накопилось много коммунальных платежей.
9. Ты сможешь рассчитаться с ним вовремя?
10. Я рассчитаюсь с вами, как только вернусь в отель.
***
1. Have you paid off all your debts on time?
2. Pay off all the money or I’ll take it away.
3. I have to pay up a fixed amount for the mortgage every month.
4. If you don’t pay up on time, you can be taken to court.
5. Did you have to cut down your expenses because of the mortgage?
6. We had to cut down on or sport clubs.
7. This year I have run up three traffick tickets for parking on the sidewalks.
8. I have run up a lot of utility bills.
9. Can you settle up with him on time?
10. I’ll settle up with you as we get back to the hotel.
«I heard that higher education in Germany was free. Is this true?»
«Yes, it is. But it’s a little bit tricky. You have to speak German to enter a university.»
«It’s quite fair. My parents studied free of charge, but now things have changed completely. We have to pay it annually.»
«So do we. My parents and I started saving up1 already. We try to set aside2 a fixed amount each month so that we have enough by next year.»
«I see. I bought so many expensive gadgets last year. I tried hard3 to sell them this summer to add some funds to my account, but to no avail. It looks like I have to just write the money off4.»
«I agree. It’s not worth trying, I’ve got the same problem. The gadgets are not worth a dime, believe me.» «You won’t get this money back5. I’m ashamed to tell you, but my parents and I are now looking for sales and discounts everywhere, and yesterday they were giving away6 free tickets to a stand-up show and I got one. My mother was lucky to pick up7 a cookery book last week at a knockdown8 price. You can’t imagine how happy she was!»
«I can. I always feel the same when I snap up a bargain9.»
1 save smth up – копить, экономить ч-л.
2 set aside smth (for smth) – откладывать ч-л. (на ч-л.)
3 try hard – отчаянно пытаться
4 write off smth – списывать ч-л.
5 get smth back – получить назад, вернуть ч-л.
6 give smth away – раздавать бесплатно, распространять ч-л.
7 pick smth up – прикупить, отхватить ч-л.
8 knockdown – бросовый, невероятно дешёвый
9 snap up a bargain – отхватить по дешёвке
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