The Two Dead Girls

Question 1

I (presided) over seventy eight executions during my time at Cold Mountain

Answer 1

Руководил контроллировал

Question 2

the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their (ankles) were being clamped to the stout oak of Old Sparky legs

Answer 2

щиколотка лодыжка

Question 3

the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being (clamped) to the stout oak of Old Sparky legs

Answer 3

скреплять зажимать зафиксировать

Question 4

the truth of what was happening to them finally hit all the way home when their ankles were being clamped to the (stout) oak of Old Sparky legs

Answer 4

крепкий; прочный; плотный; отважный

Question 5

you would see it rising in their eyes a kind of cold (dismay)

Answer 5

смятение; тревога; испуг; уныние;

Question 6

mostly (disjointed) last remarks

Answer 6

отвлеченные раздробленные разделывать распадаться

Question 7

There was no (death row) at Cold Mountain only E-block

Answer 7

Камера смертников

Question 8

bare metal roof that (glared) in the summer sun like a delirious eyeball.

Answer 8

блеснуть; ослепительно сверкать; сверлить взглядом

Question 9

bare metal roof that glared in the summer sun like a (delirious) eyeball.

Answer 9

находящийся в бреду; сумасшедший; исступлённый; горячечный; вне себя

Question 10

Six cells inside three on each side of a wide center (aisle)

Answer 10

проход между или коридор

Question 11

Great (accommodations) for a prison

Answer 11

Удобство жилье проживание

Question 12

She (put up) with six years of her husband beating her

Answer 12

Терпеть. To have to endure an unpleasant situation or take action to remedy it.

Question 13

and (presumably) to his short term mistress

Answer 13

возможно; вероятно; приблизительно; можно предположить, что

Question 14

Never to refuse the (condemned) unless i absolutely had to

Answer 14

конфисковать; приговорить; осуждать; порицать; браковать;

Question 15

The governor called the next day around three in the afternoon (commuting) her sentence to life

Answer 15

смягчить (наказание – to commute punishment); смягчать (наказание – to commute punishment)

Question 16

i saw that name on the (obituary) page of the paper

Answer 16

связанный со смертью; заметка о смерти (Taras); сообщение о смерти

Question 17

which was (flanked) by the american flag on the left and the state flag on the right.

Answer 17

быть расположенным сбоку; располагаться по бокам; примыкать; быть на фланге;