Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки
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I sat and pondered (я сидел и размышлял; to sit; to ponder — обдумывать, взвешивать, размышлять). I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view (думал /о том/, каким интересным случаем я, должно быть, являюсь с медицинской точки зрения; to think), what an acquisition I should be to a class (каким приобретением я был бы для группы /студентов/)! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me (студентам не нужно было бы «обходить больницы», если бы у них был я; need — необходимость, надобность, нужда; to walk — идти, ходить пешком; делать обход; to walk the hospitals — проходить студенческую практику в больницах). I was a hospital in myself (я сам по себе был больницей). All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma (все, /что/ им нужно было бы сделать, — обойти вокруг меня и после этого получить свои дипломы).
invidious [n'vds] grasping ['r:sp] malignant [m'lnnt] seized [si:zd]
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view, what an acquisition I should be to a class! Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma.
Then I wondered how long I had to live (потом
heart [h:t] tongue [t] certain [s:tn]
Then I wondered how long I had to live. I tried to examine myself. I felt my pulse. I could not at first feel any pulse at all. Then, all of a sudden, it seemed to start off. I pulled out my watch and timed it. I made it a hundred and forty-seven to the minute. I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. It had stopped beating. I have since been induced to come to the opinion that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but I cannot account for it. I patted myself all over my front, from what I call my waist up to my head, and I went a bit round each side, and a little way up the back. But I could not feel or hear anything. I tried to look at my tongue. I stuck it out as far as ever it would go, and I shut one eye, and tried to examine it with the other. I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man (я вошел в тот читальный зал счастливым, здоровым человеком). I crawled out a decrepit wreck (/а/ выполз немощной развалиной; decrepit — дряхлый, ветхий, престарелый; wreck — крушение, гибель; остатки кораблекрушения; развалины).
I went to my medical man (я пошел к своему врачу; medical man — врач-терапевт, медик). He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse (он мой старый приятель, и он щупает мой пульс; chum — близкий друг, приятель), and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather (смотрит /на/ мой язык, говорит о погоде), all for nothing (и все это бесплатно), when I fancy I'm ill (когда мне кажется, что я болен; to fancy — воображать, представлять себе; полагать); so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now (поэтому я подумал, /что/ окажу ему добрую услугу, если отправлюсь к нему сейчас; to do a good turn — оказать хорошую услугу). "What a doctor wants (что нужно врачу; to want — желать, хотеть; нуждаться)," I said (сказал я /себе/; to say), "is practice (/так это/ практика). He shall have me (у него буду я). He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients (он получит больше практики от меня, чем от семнадцати сотен ваших обычных, банальных больных), with only one or two diseases each (с одной-двумя болезнями каждый)." So I went straight up and saw him, and he said (итак, я пошел прямо /к нему/ и повидал/навестил его, и он сказал; to go up — подниматься, идти вверх; to see):
"Well, what's the matter with you (ну, что с тобой)?"
crawled [kr:ld] decrepit [d'krept] wreck [rek] patient ['pent]
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
I went to my medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now. "What a doctor wants," I said, "is practice. He shall have me. He will get more practice out of me than out of seventeen hundred of your ordinary, commonplace patients, with only one or two diseases each." So I went straight up and saw him, and he said:
"Well, what's the matter with you?"
I said:
"I will not take up your time, dear boy (я не стану отнимать у тебя время, мой дорогой: «дорогой парень»; boy — мальчик, парень), with telling you what is the matter with me (рассказывая тебе, что со мной = чем я болен). Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished (жизнь коротка, и ты можешь умереть прежде, чем я закончу; to pass away — исчезать, проходить; умереть, скончаться). But I will tell you what is not the matter with me (но я скажу тебе, чем я не болен). I have not got housemaid's knee (у меня нет воспаления сумки надколенника). Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you (почему у меня его нет, не могу тебе сказать); but the fact remains that I have not got it (но факт остается /фактом/, что у меня нет его). Everything else, however, I have got (все остальное, тем не менее, у меня есть)."
And I told him how I came to discover it all (и я рассказал ему, как я смог обнаружить все это; to tell; to come to — приходить /к какому-либо положению дел, выводу, в какое-либо состояние/, достигать /чего либо/).
Then he opened me and looked down me (потом он раздел меня и осмотрел /сверху/ донизу; to open — открывать/ся/, раскрывать/ся/; to look — смотреть, глядеть; осматривать), and clutched hold of my wrist (схватил меня за запястье; to clutch hold of — схватить что-либо; to clutch — схватить, зажать; hold — схватывание, сжатие, захват), and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting it (затем он ударил меня в грудь, когда я не ожидал этого) — a cowardly thing to do, I call it (трусливая вещь, я называю это = подлый номер, по-моему; coward — трус) — and immediately afterwards butted me with the side of his head (и тотчас же после этого боднул меня головой; to butt — ударять головой, бодать/ся/; side — сторона; бок; край). After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription (затем он сел и выписал рецепт; after that — после того, затем; to write out), and folded it up and gave it me (сложил его и отдал мне; to give-gave-given), and I put it in my pocket and went out (я положил его в карман и вышел; to go out).
wrist [rst] cowardly ['kaudl]
I said:
"I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is not the matter with me. I have not got housemaid's knee. Why I have not got housemaid's knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I have got."
And I told him how I came to discover it all.
Then he opened me and looked down me, and clutched hold of my wrist, and then he hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting it — a cowardly thing to do, I call it — and immediately afterwards butted me with the side of his head. After that, he sat down and wrote out a prescription, and folded it up and gave it me, and I put it in my pocket and went out.
I did not open it (я не разворачивал рецепт). I took it to the nearest chemist's, and handed it in (я взял = отнес его в ближайшую аптеку и подал /аптекарю/; chemist — химик; аптекарь; to hand in — подавать, вручать). The man read it, and then handed it back (человек прочитал его, а потом отдал обратно; to hand back — возвращать, протягивать назад).