Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки (ASCII-IPA)
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Harris said it was the fault of the frying-pan (Гаррис сказал, что это вина сковороды), and thought it would have gone better if we had had a fish-kettle and a gas-stove (думает, было бы лучше, если бы у нас были котелок для варки рыбы и газовая плита); and we decided not to attempt the dish again until we had those aids to housekeeping by us (и мы решили не пытаться готовить это блюдо снова, пока у нас не будет этих вспомогательных средств = принадлежностей для домашнего хозяйства).
anticipated [&n'tIsIpeItId] unappetizing [Vn'&pItaIzIN]
We did not know what scrambled eggs were, and we fancied that it must be some Red Indian or Sandwich Islands sort of dish that required dances and incantations for its proper cooking. Montmorency went and put his nose over it once, and the fat spluttered up and scalded him, and then he began dancing and cursing. Altogether it was one of the most interesting and exciting operations I have ever witnessed. George and I were both quite sorry when it was over.
The result was not altogether the success that Harris had anticipated. There seemed so little to show for the business. Six eggs had gone into the frying-pan, and all that came out was a teaspoonful of burnt and unappetizing looking mess.
Harris said it was the fault of the frying-pan, and thought it would have gone better if we had had a fish-kettle and a gas-stove; and we decided not to attempt the dish again until we had those aids to housekeeping by us.
The sun had got more powerful by the time we had finished breakfast (солнце
It is a fine summer morning — sunny, soft, and still (прекрасное летнее утро — солнечное, теплое и тихое). But through the air there runs a thrill of coming stir (но в воздухе пробегает дрожь приближающейся суматохи = чувствуется приближение волнения; thrill — возбуждение, глубокое волнение, трепет, дрожь; stir — движение, шевеление; суматоха, переполох). King John has slept at Duncroft Hall (король Иоанн переночевал в Данкрофт-Холл), and all the day before the little town of Staines has echoed to the clang of armed men (и весь день накануне маленький городок Стэйнс вторил бряцанью /оружия/ воинов: «вооруженных людей»), and the clatter of great horses over its rough stones (и топоту прекрасных коней по его ухабистой мостовой: «камням»; clatter — стук, громкая поступь, топот; звон), and the shouts of captains (и крикам командиров), and the grim oaths and surly jests of bearded bowmen (и свирепым проклятиям и грубым шуткам бородатых лучников), billmen, pikemen (алебардщиков, копейщиков), and strange-speaking foreign spearmen (и говорящих на чужом языке иностранных копьеносцев).
stupendous [stju:'pend@s] rough [rVf] foreign ['fOrIN]
The sun had got more powerful by the time we had finished breakfast, and the wind had dropped, and it was as lovely a morning as one could desire. Little was in sight to remind us of the nineteenth century; and, as we looked out upon the river in the morning sunlight, we could almost fancy that the centuries between us and that ever-to-be-famous June morning of 1215 had been drawn aside, and that we, English yeomen's sons in homespun cloth, with dirk at belt, were waiting there to witness the writing of that stupendous page of history, the meaning whereof was to be translated to the common people some four hundred and odd years later by one Oliver Cromwell, who had deeply studied it.
It is a fine summer morning — sunny, soft, and still. But through the air there runs a thrill of coming stir. King John has slept at Duncroft Hall, and all the day before the little town of Staines has echoed to the clang of armed men, and the clatter of great horses over its rough stones, and the shouts of captains, and the grim oaths and surly jests of bearded bowmen, billmen, pikemen, and strange-speaking foreign spearmen.
Gay-cloaked companies of knights and squires have ridden in, all travel-stained and dusty (группы рыцарей в пестрых плащах и оруженосцев въехали в город, грязные и пыльные; travel-stained: travel — путешествие; stained — испачканный, в пятнах). And all the evening long the timid townsmen's doors have had to be quick opened to let in rough groups of soldiers (и весь вечер двери робких/испуганных горожан должны были быстро открываться, чтобы впустить грубых воинов), for whom there must be found both board and lodging, and the best of both (для которых должны найтись квартира и стол = надо накормить и разместить, и лучшим образом), or woe betide the house and all within (иначе горе постигнет дом и всех в нем); for the sword is judge and jury (ибо меч — судья и присяжные), plaintiff and executioner, in these tempestuous times (истец и палач в эти бурные времена), and pays for what it takes by sparing those from whom it takes it, if it pleases it to do so (и платит за взятое тем, что оставляет в живых тех, у кого берет, если ему это будет угодно).
Round the camp-fire in the market-place gather still more of the Barons' troops (вокруг лагерного костра на рыночной площади собирается все больше людей баронов; troop — отряд, группа людей; troops — войска, армия), and eat and drink deep, and bellow forth roistering drinking songs (они едят и пьянствуют, и горланят буйные песни; to bellow — мычать; реветь, орать; drinking song — застольная песня), and gamble and quarrel as the evening grows and deepens into night (играют в кости и ссорятся, а вечер темнеет и переходит в ночь; to gamble — играть в азартные игры; to grow — расти, увеличиваться, усиливаться; to deepen — делать/ся/ глубже, темнее, громче и т.д.). The firelight sheds quaint shadows on their piled-up arms and on their uncouth forms (свет костра бросает причудливые тени на их сваленное в кучу оружие и их неуклюжие фигуры). The children of the town steal round to watch them, wondering (дети города = горожане подкрадываются, чтобы понаблюдать за ними с интересом); and brawny country wenches, laughing, draw near to bandy ale-house jest and jibe with the swaggering troopers (и крепкие деревенские девушки, смеясь, подходят ближе, чтобы перекинуться трактирной шуткой с самодовольными солдатами; ale-house — пивная; jibe — насмешка, колкость; to swagger — расхаживать с важным видом, чваниться), so unlike the village swains (столь непохожими на деревенских парней), who, now despised, stand apart behind (которые, забытые теперь, стоят в стороне /позади/; to despise — презирать, ни во что не ставить), with vacant grins upon their broad, peering faces (с бессмысленными усмешками на широких лицах; to peer — вглядываться, всматриваться). And out from the fields around, glitter the faint lights of more distant camps (а в полях кругом мерцают слабые огни /костров/ более отдаленных лагерей), as here some great lord's followers lie mustered (поскольку здесь собрались сторонники какого-нибудь лорда; to muster — собирать/ся/; созывать), and there false John's French mercenaries hover like crouching wolves without the town (а там французские наемники вероломного Иоанна, словно притаившиеся бездомные волки: «без города»; false — неверный, фальшивый; вероломный, лживый; to hover — реять, нависать; слоняться, болтаться; находиться в нерешительности).
executioner [,eksI'kju:S(@)n@] mercenary ['m@:sIn(@)rI]
Gay-cloaked companies of knights and squires have ridden in, all travel-stained and dusty. And all the evening long the timid townsmen's doors have had to be quick opened to let in rough groups of soldiers, for whom there must be found both board and lodging, and the best of both, or woe betide the house and all within; for the sword is judge and jury, plaintiff and executioner, in these tempestuous times, and pays for what it takes by sparing those from whom it takes it, if it pleases it to do so.
Round the camp-fire in the market-place gather still more of the Barons' troops, and eat and drink deep, and bellow forth roistering drinking songs, and gamble and quarrel as the evening grows and deepens into night. The firelight sheds quaint shadows on their piled-up arms and on their uncouth forms. The children of the town steal round to watch them, wondering; and brawny country wenches, laughing, draw near to bandy ale-house jest and jibe with the swaggering troopers, so unlike the village swains, who, now despised, stand apart behind, with vacant grins upon their broad, peering faces. And out from the fields around, glitter the faint lights of more distant camps, as here some great lord's followers lie mustered, and there false John's French mercenaries hover like crouching wolves without the town.
And so, with sentinel in each dark street (и так, с часовым на каждой темной улице), and twinkling watch-fires on each height around, the night has worn away (и мерцающими сигнальными кострами на каждом холме вокруг, прошла/иссякла ночь; height — высота, вышина; холм, возвышенность; to wear away — стирать/ся/, ослаблять/ся/), and over this fair valley of old Thames has broken the morning of the great day (и над этой прекрасной долиной старой Темзы наступило утро великого дня; to break-broke-broken) that is to close so big with the fate of ages yet unborn (чреватого большими переменами в судьбах грядущих: «еще не рожденных» поколений; big with child — беременная, на сносях).