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Explain the pun in the following joke




Listen to a few proverbs and match them with their meanings. There will be a pause after each proverb.

a) You’ll be a success if you do everything in time

b) If we want something we should not wait until it may be too late.

c) Nothing can be gained without a certain amount of discomfort, effort or compromise.

a) Only early or prompt action will bring success.

b) Don’t treat unimportant things as if they were important.

c) If the final result is good, previous failures are forgotten as the end result is more important.

 

a) Inner qualities, not outward appearance show a true nature of a person.

b) Clothes do not make the man.

c) Appearances can be deceptive.

 

a) If a person wants something badly enough, he will find a way of getting it.

b) An important task cannot be completed in a short time.

c) One must learn to do things gradually as knowledge cannot be gained all at once.

 

 

Teacher: When was Rome built?

Pupil: At night.

Teacher (surprised): Why? What makes you think so?

Pupil: You said the proverb runs “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

 

155 It is not uncommon for the literati to include in their works not only proverbs but aphorisms, maxims, quotations and other popular phrases which make the language more colorful and expressive and add to the aesthetic perception of their works.

 

An aphorism is a concise expression of doctrine or principle or any generally accepted truth conveyed in a pithy (concise), memorable statement. For example, Life is short, art is long (Vita brevis, ars langa). A maxime (максима) is a well-known phrase or saying, especially one that gives a rule for sensible behaviour. The popular phrases below are taken either from the Bible or ancient literature, or other literary sources. Can you explain their meanings? Write their Belarusian/Russian equivalents in the blanks.

 

1. (one’s) Achilles’ heel.

2. Cherish as the apple of one’s eye.

3. Blessed are the poor in spirit.

4. The Prodigal son (bibl).

5. The Confusion of Babylon (bibl).

6. Great minds think alike.

7. Let us return to our muttons/sheep.

8. Come the full circle.

9. The Eternal City.

10. See the mote in your brother’s eye.

11. In the beginning was the word.

12. Love thy neighbour as thyself (bibl).

13. By/in the sweat of one’s brow.

14. Physician, heal thyself.

15. To everything there is a season.

16. All (animals) are equal,but some are more equal than others (Orwell).

17. The/A voice crying in the wilderness.

18. Let this cup pass me.

19. The sword of Damocles.

20. The voice of the people is the voice of God.

21. Money has no smell.

22. Eat to live, not live to eat.

23. Caesar’s wife is above suspicion.

24. The die is cast.

25. The lost sheep.

26. Not to see the wood for the trees.

27. Forbidden fruit.

28. The Promised Land.

29. Much ado about nothing.

30. He who/that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

31. Seek and ye shall find.

32. Each his own.

33. Brevity is the soul of wit.

 




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