Ambition [sem'bijbn]л честолюбие attitude ['aetitju:d] n отношение background ['bskgraund] n фон clash [klaef] л столкновение 3 страница

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Church), Martin (the Anglican Church) and Jack (puritanism). It carries such ruthless attacks on religions that even now it remains one of the books, forbidden by the Pope of Rome.

In 1713 Swift was mad e Dean o f St Patric's Cathedral in Dub­lin. Living in Dublin Swift became actively involved in the strug­gle of the Irish people for their rights and interests against Eng­lish op_p_ression_ and poetry.

Swift's literary work was also closely connected with his po­litical activity. In the numerous political pamphlets Swift ridi­ culed different spheres of life of bourgeois society: law, wars, politics etc.

In 1726 Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels appeared. All Swift's inventive genius and savage satire were at their best in this work. This novel brought him fame and immorality. Swift died on the 19th of October, 1745, in Dublin.

Vocabulary

oppression [э'рге/эп] л угнетение proposal [ргэ'рзигэ1] п предложение retired [n'taisd] о удалившийся от дел ridicule ['ndikju:l] v высмеивать ruthless ['ru:91is] а безжалостный savage ['saevicfe] а жестокий symbolize [ 'simbalaiz] v изображать символически tub [Ub] n бочка vicar ['vikaj n приходский священник welfare ['welfea] n благосостояние

charity ['tfaenti] n благотворительность;

милосердие dean [di:n] n настоятель собора distract [dis'traekt] v отвлекать forbid [fs'bid] v (forbade; forbidden)

запрещать forbidden [fa'bidn] p. p. от forbid introduction I intra d\kjbn] n предисловие inventive [m'ventrv] о изобретательный involve [m'vrjlv] v вовлекать miserable ['тггэгэЫ] а печальный

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