Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки (ASCII-IPA)
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angel ['eIndZ(@)l] disguise [dIs'gaIz] heavenly ['hev(@)nlI]
At that moment an angel came by in the disguise of a small boy (and I cannot think of any more effective disguise an angel could have assumed), with a can of beer in one hand, and in the other something at the end of a string, which he let down on to every flat stone he came across, and then pulled up again, this producing a peculiarly unattractive sound, suggestive of suffering.
We asked this heavenly messenger (as we discovered him afterwards to be) if he knew of any lonely house, whose occupants were few and feeble (old ladies or paralysed gentlemen preferred), who could be easily frightened into giving up their beds for the night to three desperate men; or, if not this, could he recommend us to an empty pigstye, or a disused limekiln, or anything of that sort. He did not know of any such place — at least, not one handy; but he said that, if we liked to come with him, his mother had a room to spare, and could put us up for the night.
We fell upon his neck there in the moonlight and blessed him (мы
It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother — good soul (мальчик жил в маленьком четырехкомнатном коттедже, и его мама — добрая душа)! — gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all — five pounds (дала нам горячую свиную грудинку на ужин, и мы съели ее всю — пять фунтов) — and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed (потом пирог с вареньем и два чайника чая, а затем мы пошли спать; pot — горшок, котелок, кастрюля, банка). There were two beds in the room (в комнате было две кровати); one was a 2ft. 6in. truckle bed, and George and I slept in that (одна была низкой кроватью на колесиках /длиной/ два фута шесть дюймов, и мы с Джорджем спали на ней; truckle bed — низенькая кровать на колесиках, на день задвигающаяся под более высокую кровать), and kept in by tying ourselves together with a sheet (и держались внутри = в кровати, привязав себя друг к другу простыней; to keep in — поддерживать; держаться внутри); and the other was the little boy's bed, and Harris had that all to himself (а другая была кроватью маленького мальчика, и Гаррис получил ее в свое полное распоряжение), and we found him, in the morning, with two feet of bare leg sticking out at the bottom (и мы обнаружили утром, что его голая нога торчит на два фута из нее: «внизу»), and George and I used it to hang the towels on while we bathed (и мы с Джорджем использовали ее, чтобы вешать /на нее/ полотенца, пока умывались).
sustain [s@'steIn] seize [si:z] towel ['tau@l]
We fell upon his neck there in the moonlight and blessed him, and it would have made a very beautiful picture if the boy himself had not been so over-powered by our emotion as to be unable to sustain himself under it, and sunk to the ground, letting us all down on top of him. Harris was so overcome with joy that he fainted, and had to seize the boy's beer-can and half empty it before he could recover consciousness, and then he started off at a run, and left George and me to bring on the luggage.
It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother — good soul! — gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all — five pounds — and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed. There were two beds in the room; one was a 2ft. 6in. truckle bed, and George and I slept in that, and kept in by tying ourselves together with a sheet; and the other was the little boy's bed, and Harris had that all to himself, and we found him, in the morning, with two feet of bare leg sticking out at the bottom, and George and I used it to hang the towels on while we bathed.
We were not so uppish about what sort of hotel we would have (мы не были так привередливы насчет того, какая у нас гостиница; uppish — чванливый, высокомерный; наглый), next time we went to Datchet (в следующий раз, когда мы отправились в Дэтчет).
To return to our present trip (возвращаясь к нашей теперешней поездке): nothing exciting happened, and we tugged steadily on to a little below Monkey Island, where we drew up and lunched (ничего увлекательного не произошло, и мы продолжали размеренно тянуть /лодку к месту/ немного ниже Обезьяньего острова, где остановились и позавтракали). We tackled the cold beef for lunch (мы набросились /было/ на холодную говядину; to tackle — энергично, с усердием приниматься /за что-либо/, набрасываться /на какое-либо дело, на еду/), and then we found that we had forgotten to bring any mustard (и тут обнаружили, что забыли взять горчицу; to find; to forget; to bring — приносить, привозить). I don't think I ever in my life, before or since (не думаю, что когда-либо в моей жизни, до или после /этого/), felt I wanted mustard as badly as I felt I wanted it then (я хотел горчицы так сильно, как хотел тогда). I don't care for mustard as a rule, and it is very seldom that I take it at all (как правило/обычно я равнодушен к горчице и очень редко ее употребляю), but I would have given worlds for it then (но тогда я бы отдал за нее все: «миры»).
I don't know how many worlds there may be in the universe (не знаю, сколько может существовать миров во вселенной), but anyone who had brought me a spoonful of mustard at that precise moment could have had them all (но любой, кто принес бы мне ложку горчицы в тот момент, мог бы получить их все; precise — точный, определенный). I grow reckless like that when I want a thing and can't get it (я становлюсь таким безрассудным, когда хочу чего-нибудь и не могу это получить).
hotel [h@u'tel] universe ['ju:nIv@:s]
We were not so uppish about what sort of hotel we would have, next time we went to Datchet.
To return to our present trip: nothing exciting happened, and we tugged steadily on to a little below Monkey Island, where we drew up and lunched. We tackled the cold beef for lunch, and then we found that we had forgotten to bring any mustard. I don't think I ever in my life, before or since, felt I wanted mustard as badly as I felt I wanted it then. I don't care for mustard as a rule, and it is very seldom that I take it at all, but I would have given worlds for it then.
I don't know how many worlds there may be in the universe, but anyone who had brought me a spoonful of mustard at that precise moment could have had them all. I grow reckless like that when I want a thing and can't get it.
Harris said he would have given worlds for mustard too (Гаррис сказал, он тоже отдал бы за горчицу миры). It would have been a good thing for anybody who had come up to that spot with a can of mustard, then (это было бы хорошим делом для любого = повезло бы любому, кто пришел бы тогда в это место с банкой горчицы): he would have been set up in worlds for the rest of his life (он был бы обеспечен мирами до конца своей жизни; to set up — основывать, учреждать; обеспечивать, снабжать).
But there! I daresay both Harris and I would have tried to back out of the bargain after we had got the mustard (однако, полагаю, оба, Гаррис и я, попытались бы уклониться от этой сделки после того, как мы бы получили горчицу; there — вон, вот, ну вот /как восклицания/). One makes these extravagant offers in moments of excitement (такие сумасбродные предложения делают в моменты сильного волнения = сгоряча), but, of course, when one comes to think of it (но, конечно, когда задумываются об этом), one sees how absurdly out of proportion they are with the value of the required article (понимают, насколько нелепы и не соответствуют они /предложения/ ценности требуемого предмета; out of proportion — несоразмерно). I heard a man, going up a mountain in Switzerland (я слышал, что один человек, восходивший на гору в Швейцарии), once say he would give worlds for a glass of beer (однажды сказал, что отдал бы все за стакан пива), and, when he came to a little shanty where they kept it (а когда он дошел до маленькой хижины, где было пиво: «держали пиво»; shanty — хижина, лачуга, хибара), he kicked up a most fearful row because they charged him five francs for a bottle of Bass (он поднял страшный скандал, потому что с него взяли пять франков за бутылку Басса; to charge — заряжать, заполнять; требовать; запрашивать цену; Bass — Басс /название светлого горького пива/). He said it was a scandalous imposition, and he wrote to The Times about it (он сказал, это наглый грабеж, и написал об этом в Таймс; scandalous — позорный, постыдный, скандальный; imposition — обложение /налогом и т.д./, налог, пошлина, сбор; обман; to write).