Результаты (
английский) 2:
[копия]Скопировано!
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill. So I went straight up and saw him, and he said:
"Well, what's the matter with you?"
I said:
"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is short and you might pass away before I had finished. But one will tell you what is not the matter with me. Everything else, however, I have got.
"And I told him how I came to discover it all,
Then he opened me and looked down me, and took hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I was not expecting it - a cowardly thing to do, I call it After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and it up and folded it gave me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I did not open it, I took it to the nearest chemist's, and handed it in. The man read it, and then handed it back. Said he did He not keep it.
I said:
"You are a chemist?"
He said:
"1 am a chemist. If I was a co-operative stores and family hotel combined, one might be able to oblige you."
I read the prescription. Ran It:
"1 lb. [1] beefsteak, with
1 pt. [2] bitter beer
every six hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 every night sharp.
And do not stuff up your head with you do not things understand.
"I followed the directions with the happy result that my life was preserved and is still going on.
NOTES ON SYNONYMS
1. (See Note 1 on p. 18.) Synonyms may also differ by the degree or intensity of the phenomenon described or by certain additional implications conveyed by their meanings. E. g. malady describes a more dangerous illness than disease, sometimes a fatal one, whereas ailment mostly refers to a slight disorder. Malady implies a lasting, sometimes a chronic illness, whereas ailment is short and temporary. Illness is the most general word in the group (the synonymic dominant).
2. Synonyms may differ by their stylistic characteristics. E. g. chum is a colloquial synonym of Mend, to fancy sounds less formal than to imagine. To pass away is a bookish synonym of to die.
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