Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки (ASCII-IPA)
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exaggeration [Ig,z&dZ@'reIS(@)n] geometry [dZI'OmItrI] hideousness ['hIdI@snIs]
It was George's straw hat that saved his life that day. He keeps that hat now (what is left of it), and, on a winter's evening, when the pipes are lit and the boys are telling stretchers about the dangers they have passed through, George brings it down and shows it round, and the stirring tale is told anew, with fresh exaggerations every time.
Harris got off with merely a flesh wound.
After that, I took the tin off myself, and hammered at it with the mast till I was worn out and sick at heart, whereupon Harris took it in hand.
We beat it out flat; we beat it back square; we battered it into every form known to geometry — but we could not make a hole in it. Then George went at it, and knocked it into a shape, so strange, so weird, so unearthly in its wild hideousness, that he got frightened and threw away the mast. Then we all three sat round it on the grass and looked at it.
There was one great dent across the top that had the appearance of a mocking grin (на
Maidenhead itself is too snobby to be pleasant (сам Мэйденхед — слишком снобистский, чтобы быть приятным). It is the haunt of the river swell and his overdressed female companion (это убежище/любимое место речных франтов и их пышно разодетых спутниц; swell — возвышение, выпуклость; щеголь, франт; female — особа женского пола, женщина). It is the town of showy hotels, patronised chiefly by dudes and ballet girls (это город роскошных отелей, посещаемых главным образом щеголями и балетными танцовщицами; to patronise — опекать, покровительствовать; быть постоянным покупателем/посетителем; dude — городской житель, отдыхающий в деревне/на ферме; пижон, щеголь). It is the witch's kitchen from which go forth those demons of the river — steam-launches (это кухня ведьм, из которой выходят те демоны реки — паровые катера). The London Journal duke always has his "little place" at Maidenhead (у герцога из Лондонской Газеты всегда есть его «маленький домик/усадьба» в Мэйденхеде; journal — дневник; журнал, ежедневная газета); and the heroine of the three-volume novel always dines there (а героиня трехтомного романа всегда обедает там) when she goes out on the spree with somebody else's husband (когда отправляется кутить с чьим-то мужем; spree — веселье, шалости; кутеж; to go/be on the spree — кутить).
haunt [hO:nt] ballet ['b&leI] launch [lO:ntS]
There was one great dent across the top that had the appearance of a mocking grin, and it drove us furious, so that Harris rushed at the thing, and caught it up, and flung it far into the middle of the river, and as it sank we hurled our curses at it, and we got into the boat and rowed away from the spot, and never paused till we reached Maidenhead.
Maidenhead itself is too snobby to be pleasant. It is the haunt of the river swell and his overdressed female companion. It is the town of showy hotels, patronised chiefly by dudes and ballet girls. It is the witch's kitchen from which go forth those demons of the river — steam-launches. The London Journal duke always has his "little place" at Maidenhead; and the heroine of the three-volume novel always dines there when she goes out on the spree with somebody else's husband.
We went through Maidenhead quickly, and then eased up (мы проплыли быстро мимо Мэйденхеда, а потом замедлились), and took leisurely that grand reach beyond Boulter's and Cookham locks (и неторопливо проплыли этот большой бьеф за Боултерским и Кукхэмским шлюзами; reach — протягивание, размах; протяжение; бьеф /часть водоема, реки или канала, примыкающая к плотине, шлюзу/). Clieveden Woods still wore their dainty dress of spring, and rose up, from the water's edge (Кливденский лес все еще носил свое изящное весеннее одеяние и поднимался от кромки воды; to wear; to rise), in one long harmony of blended shades of fairy green (одним длинным ковром смешанных оттенков волшебных зеленых /ветвей/). In its unbroken loveliness this is, perhaps, the sweetest stretch of all the river (в его /ничем/ не нарушенном очаровании это, пожалуй, самый прекрасный участок на всей реке), and lingeringly we slowly drew our little boat away from its deep peace (и медленно и нехотя мы уводили нашу маленькую лодку прочь от его глубокого спокойствия; lingeringly — долго, медленно, томительно; to linger — задерживаться; колебаться, медлить; двигаться медленно, неторопливо).
We pulled up in the backwater, just below Cookham, and had tea (мы остановились в заводи, немного ниже Кукхэма, и выпили чаю); and, when we were through the lock, it was evening (а когда прошли шлюз, был /уже/ вечер). A stiffish breeze had sprung up — in our favour, for a wonder (поднялся устойчивый ветерок — попутный: «в нашу пользу», как это ни странно; a stiff wind — сильный ветер; favour — расположение, благосклонность, поддержка); for, as a rule on the river, the wind is always dead against you whatever way you go (потому что, как правило, на реке ветер всегда /дует/ в лицо, в какую бы сторону вы ни шли; dead against — в лицо, в противоположном движению направлении). It is against you in the morning, when you start for a day's trip (он дует вам в лицо утром, когда вы отправляетесь в плавание на целый день), and you pull a long distance, thinking how easy it will be to come back with the sail (и вы гребете долго, думая, как легко будет возвращаться под парусом). Then, after tea, the wind veers round, and you have to pull hard in its teeth all the way home (потом, после чая, ветер меняет направление, и вам приходится тяжело грести против него всю дорогу домой; in the teeth of the wind — против ветра).
leisurely ['leZ@lI] lingeringly ['lINg(@)rINlI]
We went through Maidenhead quickly, and then eased up, and took leisurely that grand reach beyond Boulter's and Cookham locks. Clieveden Woods still wore their dainty dress of spring, and rose up, from the water's edge, in one long harmony of blended shades of fairy green. In its unbroken loveliness this is, perhaps, the sweetest stretch of all the river, and lingeringly we slowly drew our little boat away from its deep peace.
We pulled up in the backwater, just below Cookham, and had tea; and, when we were through the lock, it was evening. A stiffish breeze had sprung up — in our favour, for a wonder; for, as a rule on the river, the wind is always dead against you whatever way you go. It is against you in the morning, when you start for a day's trip, and you pull a long distance, thinking how easy it will be to come back with the sail. Then, after tea, the wind veers round, and you have to pull hard in its teeth all the way home.
When you forget to take the sail at all (если вы вообще забываете взять парус), then the wind is consistently in your favour both ways (ветер неизменно благоприятен вам в обе стороны; consistently — согласно, в соответствии с; равным образом). But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward (но ведь этот мир — лишь испытание, и человек был рожден для тревог/забот, так же как искры летят вверх).