Kitobni o'qish: «Gulliver's Travels. A Voyage to Lilliput. A2 / Путешествия Гулливера. Гулливер в стране лилипутов»
© Солодун Д. А., адаптация, словарь, упражнения
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Chapter I
The author tells us about himself and family. When he travels, the bad weather finds theirship: he has to swim in the open ocean for his life. That's how he comes to the country of Lilliput.
My father had a small house in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. At fourteen years old, I went to Emmanuel College in Cambridge, where I lived for three years. To make money for my life, I had to become an assistant of Mr. James Bates, a famous doctor in London, with whom I worked for four years. When my father sent me money, I mostly spent it learning navigation, which Ibelieved could be good for my future journeys.
After working with Mr. Bates, I went back to my father: with his and my family's help, I got some money for my life in Leyden, where Icontinued studying.
Just after I came back from Leyden, Mr. Bates helped me to find a job as a doctor to theship called Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannel, on which I made a journey or two into the Levant, and some other parts.
When I came back, Idecided to stayin London; and it was Mr. Bates, who told some of his patients about me. I got part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and married Mrs. Mary Burton, getting four hundred pounds from her father.
