Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки
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George took the fun more soberly, and stuck to the umbrella (Джордж радовался сдержаннее и не выпускал из рук зонтика; to stick to — придерживаться, стараться сохранить; быть верным чему-либо).
enthusiastic [n,ju:z'aestk] gipsy ['ps]
We rowed on all that day through the rain, and very melancholy work it was. We pretended, at first, that we enjoyed it. We said it was a change, and that we liked to see the river under all its different aspects. We said we could not expect to have it all sunshine, nor should we wish it. We told each other that Nature was beautiful, even in her tears.
Indeed, Harris and I were quite enthusiastic about the business, for the first few hours. And we sang a song about a gipsy's life, and how delightful a gipsy's existence was! — free to storm and sunshine, and to every wind that blew! — and how he enjoyed the rain, and what a lot of good it did him; and how he laughed at people who didn't like it.
George took the fun more soberly, and stuck to the umbrella.
We hoisted the cover before we had lunch, and kept it up all the afternoon (мы
I cannot honestly say that we had a merry evening (не могу честно сказать, что мы провели веселый вечер). The rain poured down with quiet persistency (дождь лил с тихим упорством). Everything in the boat was damp and clammy (все в лодке было сырым и холодным; clammy — клейкий, липкий; холодный и влажный на ощупь). Supper was not a success (ужин не удался: «не был успехом»). Cold veal pie, when you don't feel hungry, is apt to cloy (холодный пирог с телятиной, когда вы не голодны, быстро надоедает; to be apt to — иметь тенденцию, быть склонным к; to cloy — пресыщать). I felt I wanted whitebait and a cutlet (я чувствовал, что хочу = мне хотелось рыбы и котлет; whitebait — малек, мелкая рыба; снеток); Harris babbled of soles and white-sauce, and passed the remains of his pie to Montmorency (Гаррис пробормотал что-то о камбале с белым соусом и отдал остатки своего пирога Монморенси; sole — подошва, подметка; морской язык, камбала, палтус), who declined it, and, apparently insulted by the offer (который отказался от него и, видимо, оскорбленный этим предложением), went and sat over at the other end of the boat by himself (ушел на другой конец лодки и сел /там/ один).
honestly ['nstl] sauce [s:s] insulted [n'slt]
We hoisted the cover before we had lunch, and kept it up all the afternoon, just leaving a little space in the bow, from which one of us could paddle and keep a look-out. In this way we made nine miles, and pulled up for the night a little below Day's Lock.
I cannot honestly say that we had a merry evening. The rain poured down with quiet persistency. Everything in the boat was damp and clammy. Supper was not a success. Cold veal pie, when you don't feel hungry, is apt to cloy. I felt I wanted whitebait and a cutlet; Harris babbled of soles and white-sauce, and passed the remains of his pie to Montmorency, who declined it, and, apparently insulted by the offer, went and sat over at the other end of the boat by himself.
George requested that we would not talk about these things (Джордж попросил нас не говорить об этих вещах), at all events until he had finished his cold boiled beef without mustard (во всяком случае, пока он не закончит /есть/ свою холодную вареную говядину без горчицы).
We played penny nap after supper (мы играли в карты на мелочь после ужина; nap = Napoleon /карточная игра/). We played for about an hour and a half, by the end of which time George had won fourpence (мы играли полтора часа, к концу этого времени Джордж выиграл четырехпенсовик; to win) — George always is lucky at cards (Джорджу всегда везет в картах) — and Harris and I had lost exactly twopence each (а мы
We thought we would give up gambling then (мы решили тогда бросить игру; gambling — азартная игра; игра на деньги). As Harris said, it breeds an unhealthy excitement when carried too far (Гаррис сказал, она порождает нездоровое волнение, когда заходит слишком далеко; to breed — плодиться /о животных/; разводить; вскармливать; порождать, вызывать). George offered to go on and give us our revenge (Джордж предложил продолжить и дать реванш; to give somebody his revenge — дать кому-либо возможность отыграться; revenge — месть; реванш); but Harris and I decided not to battle any further against Fate (но мы с Гаррисом решили не сражаться дальше с судьбой = не искушать судьбу).
half [h:f] revenge [r'ven]
George requested that we would not talk about these things, at all events until he had finished his cold boiled beef without mustard.
We played penny nap after supper. We played for about an hour and a half, by the end of which time George had won fourpence — George always is lucky at cards — and Harris and I had lost exactly twopence each.
We thought we would give up gambling then. As Harris said, it breeds an unhealthy excitement when carried too far. George offered to go on and give us our revenge; but Harris and I decided not to battle any further against Fate.
After that, we mixed ourselves some toddy, and sat round and talked (после этого мы смешали/приготовили себе пунша, уселись и повели беседу). George told us about a man he had known, who had come up the river two years ago (Джордж рассказал нам об одном знакомом человеке, который плавал по реке два года назад) and who had slept out in a damp boat on just such another night as that was (и спал на открытом воздухе в сырой лодке как раз в такую же ночь, как эта), and it had given him rheumatic fever, and nothing was able to save him (и получил из-за этого ревматизм, и ничто не могло спасти его; rheumatic fever — ревматизм, ревматический полиартрит; fever — лихорадка), and he had died in great agony ten days afterwards (он умер в страшных мучениях через десять дней). George said he was quite a young man, and was engaged to be married (Джордж сказал, это был совсем молодой человек, который был помолвлен; to engage — заниматься чем-либо; быть связанным /какими-либо обязательствами/; быть помолвленным, обручать/ся/). He said it was one of the saddest things he had ever known (это одна из самых печальных историй, что он когда либо знал = слышал).
And that put Harris in mind of a friend of his, who had been in the Volunteers (это напомнило Гаррису об одном его приятеле, который поступил добровольцем на военную службу; volunteer — волонтер, доброволец), and who had slept out under canvas one wet night down at Aldershot (и спал в палатке одной сырой ночью под Олдершотом), "on just such another night as this," said Harris («как раз в такую же ночь, как эта», сказал Гаррис); and he had woke up in the morning a cripple for life (и проснулся утром калекой на всю жизнь; to wake up). Harris said he would introduce us both to the man when we got back to town (Гаррис сказал, что познакомит нас двоих с ним, когда вернемся в город; to introduce — вставлять, /при/вносить; знакомить, представлять); it would make our hearts bleed to see him (заставит наши сердца облиться кровью = наши сердца кровью обольются, когда мы увидим его).
rheumatic [ru:'maetk] fever ['fi:v]
After that, we mixed ourselves some toddy, and sat round and talked. George told us about a man he had known, who had come up the river two years ago and who had slept out in a damp boat on just such another night as that was, and it had given him rheumatic fever, and nothing was able to save him, and he had died in great agony ten days afterwards. George said he was quite a young man, and was engaged to be married. He said it was one of the saddest things he had ever known.