Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки (ASCII-IPA)
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assurance [@'Su@r@ns] regard [rI'gA:d]
He gave us the required assurance, and we thanked him, but he still hung about, and seemed to be dissatisfied, so we asked him if there was anything further that we could do for him; and Harris, who is of a chummy disposition, offered him a bit of bread and jam.
I fancy he must have belonged to some society sworn to abstain from bread and jam; for he declined it quite gruffly, as if he were vexed at being tempted with it, and he added that it was his duty to turn us off.
Harris said that if it was a duty it ought to be done, and asked the man what was his idea with regard to the best means for accomplishing it. Harris is what you would call a well-made man of about number one size, and looks hard and bony, and the man measured him up and down, and said he would go and consult his master, and then come back and chuck us both into the river.
Of course, we never saw him any more (разумеется, мы больше его не видели), and, of course, all he really wanted was a shilling (и,
income ['InkVm] proprietor [pr@'praI@t@]
Of course, we never saw him any more, and, of course, all he really wanted was a shilling. There are a certain number of riverside roughs who make quite an income, during the summer, by slouching about the banks and blackmailing weak-minded noodles in this way. They represent themselves as sent by the proprietor. The proper course to pursue is to offer your name and address, and leave the owner, if he really has anything to do with the matter, to summon you, and prove what damage you have done to his land by sitting down on a bit of it. But the majority of people are so intensely lazy and timid, that they prefer to encourage the imposition by giving in to it rather than put an end to it by the exertion of a little firmness.
Where it is really the owners that are to blame, they ought to be shown up (/в тех случаях/, где действительно виноваты владельцы /земли/, они должны быть разоблачены; to show up — выявлять/ся/, обнаруживать/ся/; разоблачать). The selfishness of the riparian proprietor grows with every year (эгоизм владельцев прибрежной полосы растет с каждым годом). If these men had their way they would close the river Thames altogether (если бы эти люди добились своего, они бы совсем закрыли реку Темзу; to have one's own way — добиться своего, поступать по-своему). They actually do this along the minor tributary streams and in the backwaters (они фактически делают это вдоль незначительных притоков и в заводях). They drive posts into the bed of the stream (они вбивают столбы в русло = дно реки), and draw chains across from bank to bank (и протягивают цепи от берега до берега), and nail huge notice-boards on every tree (и прибивают огромные щиты с предупреждениями к каждому дереву). The sight of those notice-boards rouses every evil instinct in my nature (вид этих щитов пробуждает все дурные инстинкты во мне: «в моей натуре»; instinct — инстинкт, природное чутье). I feel I want to tear each one down (я чувствую, что хочу сорвать их все: «каждую»), and hammer it over the head of the man who put it up, until I have killed him (и бить ими по голове того, кто повесил их, пока я не убью его), and then I would bury him, and put the board up over the grave as a tombstone (а потом я бы его похоронил и повесил щит на могилу в качестве надгробного памятника/плиты).
I mentioned these feelings of mine to Harris, and he said he had them worse than that (я рассказал об этих своих чувствах Гаррису, и он сказал, что у него они еще хуже, чем у меня; to mention — упоминать, ссылаться на). He said he not only felt he wanted to kill the man who caused the board to be put up (он сказал, что не только хочет убить человека, который велел этот щит повесить; to cause — быть причиной, вызывать), but that he should like to slaughter the whole of his family and all his friends and relations (но также ему хотелось бы перерезать всю его семью и всех друзей и родственников), and then burn down his house (а потом сжечь /дотла/ его дом). This seemed to me to be going too far, and I said so to Harris; but he answered (это показалось мне чересчур: «заходящим слишком далеко», и я сказал об этом Гаррису, но он ответил):
"Not a bit of it (ничего подобного: «ни кусочка этого»). Serve `em all jolly well right, and I'd go and sing comic songs on the ruins (/я/ бы поступил с ними вполне хорошо = так им и надо, и я бы спел /еще/ комическую песню на развалинах; jolly well — вполне; непременно, конечно; to serve — служить, обслуживать; обходиться с)."
riparian [raI'pe@rI@n] instinct ['InstINkt] slaughter ['slO:t@]
Where it is really the owners that are to blame, they ought to be shown up. The selfishness of the riparian proprietor grows with every year. If these men had their way they would close the river Thames altogether. They actually do this along the minor tributary streams and in the backwaters. They drive posts into the bed of the stream, and draw chains across from bank to bank, and nail huge notice-boards on every tree. The sight of those notice-boards rouses every evil instinct in my nature. I feel I want to tear each one down, and hammer it over the head of the man who put it up, until I have killed him, and then I would bury him, and put the board up over the grave as a tombstone.
I mentioned these feelings of mine to Harris, and he said he had them worse than that. He said he not only felt he wanted to kill the man who caused the board to be put up, but that he should like to slaughter the whole of his family and all his friends and relations, and then burn down his house. This seemed to me to be going too far, and I said so to Harris; but he answered:
"Not a bit of it. Serve `em all jolly well right, and I'd go and sing comic songs on the ruins."
I was vexed to hear Harris go on in this blood-thirsty strain (меня взволновало /слышать/, что у Гарриса такой кровожадный настрой; strain — напряжение; черта, элемент, оттенок; наклонность). We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness (мы никогда не должны позволять нашим чувствам справедливости вырождаться в простую мстительность). It was a long while before I could get Harris to take a more Christian view of the subject (прошло много времени, прежде чем я сумел убедить Гарриса принять более христианскую точку зрения по этому вопросу; a long while — долго; subject — тема, предмет, объект), but I succeeded at last, and he promised me that he would spare the friends and relations at all events (но мне удалось наконец, и он обещал мне, что пощадит друзей и родственников, во всяком случае; to spare — беречь; жалеть, щадить; at all events — в любом случае: «при всех событиях»), and would not sing comic songs on the ruins (и не будет петь комические песни на развалинах).
You have never heard Harris sing a comic song (вы никогда не слышали, как Гаррис поет комические песни), or you would understand the service I had rendered to mankind (иначе вы бы поняли, /какую/ услугу я оказал человечеству; to render — отдавать, воздавать, оказывать /услугу, помощь/). It is one of Harris's fixed ideas that he can sing a comic song (одна из навязчивых идей Гарриса — что он умеет петь комическую песню/куплеты); the fixed idea, on the contrary, among those of Harris's friends who have heard him try (напротив, навязчивая идея среди тех друзей Гарриса, которые слышали, как он пытался /петь/), is that he can't and never will be able to (что он не умеет, и никогда не сможет /петь/), and that he ought not to be allowed to try (и что ему нельзя позволять пробовать).
vindictiveness [vIn'dIktIvnIs] Christian ['krIstS@n] view [vju:]
I was vexed to hear Harris go on in this blood-thirsty strain. We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness. It was a long while before I could get Harris to take a more Christian view of the subject, but I succeeded at last, and he promised me that he would spare the friends and relations at all events, and would not sing comic songs on the ruins.
You have never heard Harris sing a comic song, or you would understand the service I had rendered to mankind. It is one of Harris's fixed ideas that he can sing a comic song; the fixed idea, on the contrary, among those of Harris's friends who have heard him try, is that he can't and never will be able to, and that he ought not to be allowed to try.
When Harris is at a party, and is asked to sing, he replies (когда Гаррис на вечере, и его просят спеть, он отвечает): "Well, I can only sing a comic song, you know (ну, я умею петь только комические песни, видите ли);" and he says it in a tone that implies that his singing of that (и он говорит это таким тоном = с таким видом, который подразумевает, будто его пение этих песен), however, is a thing that you ought to hear once, and then die (это такая вещь, которую вы должны услышать /хотя бы/ один раз, а потом умереть = можно умереть спокойно).