N58 : Fifty-eighth lesson S00-TITLE : Famous Opening Lines (From "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens) S01 : Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. S02 : The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. S03 : Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. S04 : Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. S05 : Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. S06 : I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. S07 : But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. S08 : You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. S09 : Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? S10 : Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! S11 : A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! S12 : Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. S13 : (From "1984", by George Orwell) - It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. S14 : Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, S15 : though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. S16 : The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. S17 : It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: S18 : the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. S19 : On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. S20 : It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. S21 : BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran. T00-TRANSLATE : Exercise: Translate T01 : We kept our noses to the grindstone and our mouths shut. T02 : They really have to win this match, otherwise they're done for. T03 : Rajiv has just graduated from university and the world is his oyster. T04 : After much hesitation, the editor finally ran the story about police corruption. T05 : She's so talented that she can turn her hand to anything she wants.