differentiate ["dIfqrenSIeIt], deliberate [dI'lIbqrIt], advantage [qd'vRntIG]
And here you can see how Mrs. Harris differentiated between a fib and a lie. A fib such as the above did nobody any harm, while a lie was a deliberate untruth, told to save yourself or gain an unfair advantage.
Thus a never to be forgotten moment of preparation was the day the instructions arrived from the Passport Office, a formidable blank to be filled out with photographs of the applicant 2 inches by 2 inches in size, etc.
"Whatever do you think (что бы ты ни думала)," Mrs. Harris confided to her friend Mrs. Butterfield (миссис Харрис сообщила по секрету своей подруге миссис Баттерфилд; to confide — верить, доверять; поверять, сообщать в тайне, по секрету) in a state of high excitement (в состоянии сильного волнения), "I've got to 'ave me photograff tyken (я должна сфотографироваться; tyken = taken). They want it for me passport (она нужна им для моего паспорта). You'd better come along and hold me 'and (ты бы лучше пошла со мной и подержала за руку)."
The one and only time that Mrs. Harris had ever faced the camera lens (один единственный раз, когда миссис Харрис стояла лицом перед фотообъективом; lens — линза; объектив) was upon the occasion of her wedding to Mr. Harris (был по случаю ее бракосочетания с мистером Харрисом), and then she had the stout arm of that stout plumber (и тогда у нее была крепкая рука того крепкого водопроводчика) to support her during the ordeal (/которая/ поддерживала ее во время этого тяжелого испытания).
occasion [q'keIZqn], plumber ['plAmq], ordeal [L'dJl]
"Whatever do you think," Mrs. Harris confided to her friend Mrs. Butterfield in a state of high excitement, "I've got to 'ave me photograff tyken. They want it for me passport. You'd better come along and hold me 'and."
The one and only time that Mrs. Harris had ever faced the camera lens was upon the occasion of her wedding to Mr. Harris, and then she had the stout arm of that stout plumber to support her during the ordeal.
That picture in a flower-painted frame (тот портрет в разрисованной цветами рамке; picture — картина; фотография) now adorned the table of her little flat (теперь украшал стол ее маленькой квартиры). It showed Mrs. Harris of thirty years ago (он показывал миссис Харрис тридцать лет назад), a tiny (крохотную), thin-looking girl (худощавого вида девушку) whose plain features were enhanced by the freshness of youth (чьи простые черты выглядели более привлекательными благодаря свежести молодости;
