Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки
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"Well, I'm going to chuck him out," replied Joe.
"So am I," said George's father, valiantly.
There was a brief struggle, followed by two heavy bumps on the floor, and then a rather doleful voice said:
"I say, Tom!"
"Yes!"
"How have you got on (как у тебя дела)?"
"Well, to tell you the truth, my man's chucked me out (ну, сказать по правде, мой человек вытолкнул меня)."
"So's mine (мой тоже)! I say, I don't think much of this inn, do you (знаешь, мне не особенно нравится эта гостиница, а тебе)?"
"What was the name of that inn (как называлась та гостиница)?" said Harris.
"The Pig and Whistle (Свинья и Свисток; pigs and whistles — всякая ерунда, мелочи)," said George. "Why (а
"Ah, no, then it isn't the same (а, нет, тогда это не та)," replied Harris.
"How have you got on?"
"Well, to tell you the truth, my man's chucked me out."
"So's mine! I say, I don't think much of this inn, do you?"
"What was the name of that inn?" said Harris.
"The Pig and Whistle," said George. "Why?"
"Ah, no, then it isn't the same," replied Harris.
"What do you mean (что ты имеешь в виду)?" queried George (спросил Джордж; to query — спрашивать, осведомляться, уточнять).
"Why it's so curious (это очень любопытно)," murmured Harris (пробормотал Гаррис), "but precisely that very same thing happened to my father once at a country inn (точно такой же случай произошел однажды с моим отцом в одной деревенской гостинице). I've often heard him tell the tale (я часто слышал, как он рассказывал эту историю). I thought it might have been the same inn (я думал, это, может быть, та же самая гостиница)."
We turned in at ten that night, and I thought I should sleep well, being tired (мы легли спать в десять в тот вечер, и я подумал, что буду хорошо спать, утомившись); but I didn't (но нет). As a rule, I undress and put my head on the pillow (как правило, я раздеваюсь и кладу голову на подушку), and then somebody bangs at the door, and says it is half-past eight (а потом кто-нибудь стучит в дверь и говорит, что сейчас полдевятого): but, to-night, everything seemed against me (но сегодня вечером, казалось, все было против меня); the novelty of it all, the hardness of the boat, the cramped position (новизна всего этого, жесткость лодки, стесненная = неудобная поза) (I was lying with my feet under one seat, and my head on another) (я лежал, положив ноги под одно сиденье, а голову — на другое), the sound of the lapping water round the boat (звук плещущейся воды вокруг лодки), and the wind among the branches, kept me restless and disturbed (и ветер в ветвях — все это держало меня беспокойным и встревоженным = беспокоило и тревожило меня; to keep — держать, удерживать).
query ['kwr] branch [br:n]
"What do you mean?" queried George.
"Why it's so curious," murmured Harris, "but precisely that very same thing happened to my father once at a country inn. I've often heard him tell the tale. I thought it might have been the same inn."
We turned in at ten that night, and I thought I should sleep well, being tired; but I didn't. As a rule, I undress and put my head on the pillow, and then somebody bangs at the door, and says it is half-past eight: but, to-night, everything seemed against me; the novelty of it all, the hardness of the boat, the cramped position (I was lying with my feet under one seat, and my head on another), the sound of the lapping water round the boat, and the wind among the branches, kept me restless and disturbed.
I did get to sleep for a few hours (я заснул на несколько часов), and then some part of the boat which seemed to have grown up in the night (потом какая-то часть лодки, которая, видимо, выросла ночью) — for it certainly was not there when we started, and it had disappeared by the morning (потому что ее, несомненно, там не было, когда мы отправились в путь, и она исчезла к утру) — kept digging into my spine (продолжала вонзаться = все время вонзалась мне в спину; spine — позвоночник, спинной хребет). I slept through it for a while, dreaming that I had swallowed a sovereign (я спал через это = терпя это некоторое время, и мне снилось, что я проглотил соверен), and that they were cutting a hole in my back with a gimlet, so as to try and get it out (и
sovereign ['svrn] money ['mn] excruciating [k'skru:et]
I did get to sleep for a few hours, and then some part of the boat which seemed to have grown up in the night — for it certainly was not there when we started, and it had disappeared by the morning — kept digging into my spine. I slept through it for a while, dreaming that I had swallowed a sovereign, and that they were cutting a hole in my back with a gimlet, so as to try and get it out. I thought it very unkind of them, and I told them I would owe them the money, and they should have it at the end of the month. But they would not hear of that, and said it would be much better if they had it then, because otherwise the interest would accumulate so. I got quite cross with them after a bit, and told them what I thought of them, and then they gave the gimlet such an excruciating wrench that I woke up.
The boat seemed stuffy, and my head ached (лодка казалось душной = в лодке было душно, и у меня болела голова); so I thought I would step out into the cool night-air (поэтому я решил выйти на прохладный ночной воздух). I slipped on what clothes I could find about (я накинул/надел одежду, что смог найти) — some of my own, and some of George's and Harris's (частично мою собственную, частично Джорджа и Гарриса) — and crept under the canvas on to the bank (и выполз из-под парусины на берег).
It was a glorious night (была великолепная ночь). The moon had sunk, and left the quiet earth alone with the stars (луна зашла /за тучи/ и оставила тихую землю наедине со звездами; to sink; to leave). It seemed as if, in the silence and the hush, while we her children slept (казалось, будто в безмолвии и тишине, пока мы, ее дети, спим), they were talking with her, their sister (они говорят с ней, их сестрой) — conversing of mighty mysteries in voices too vast and deep for childish human ears to catch the sound (беседуют о великих тайнах голосами, слишком широкими и глубокими, чтобы детские людские уши = слух мог уловить их; vast — обширный, громадный, безбрежный; sound — звук, шум).
They awe us, these strange stars, so cold, so clear (они внушают нам благоговейный страх, эти странные звезды, такие холодные, такие ясные). We are as children whose small feet have strayed into some dim-lit temple of the god (мы — словно дети, чьи маленькие ножки забрели в тускло освещенный храм божества; to stray — сбиться с пути, заблудиться; скитаться) they have been taught to worship but know not (/которого/ их научили почитать, но которого они не знают; to teach; to worship — поклоняться, почитать, боготворить); and, standing where the echoing dome spans the long vista of the shadowy light (и, стоя /там/, где гулкий купол простирается над длинным рядом призрачных огней; to span — охватывать; простираться; vista — перспектива, вид /в конце аллеи и т.д./; аллея, вереница) glance up, half hoping, half afraid to see some awful vision hovering there (смотрят вверх, и надеясь, и боясь: «полунадеясь и полубоясь» увидеть величественное видение, парящее там; to glance up — поднять голову и бросить взгляд; awful — ужасный, внушающий страх, благоговение).