Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки
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fraternity [fr't:nt] motto ['mtu] monastery ['mnstr] cowl [kaul]
The famous Medmenham monks, or "Hell Fire Club," as they were commonly called, and of whom the notorious Wilkes was a member, were a fraternity whose motto was "Do as you please," and that invitation still stands over the ruined doorway of the abbey. Many years before this bogus abbey, with its congregation of irreverent jesters, was founded, there stood upon this same spot a monastery of a sterner kind, whose monks were of a somewhat different type to the revellers that were to follow them, five hundred years afterwards.
The Cistercian monks, whose abbey stood there in the thirteenth century, wore no clothes but rough tunics and cowls, and ate no flesh, nor fish, nor eggs. They lay upon straw, and they rose at midnight to mass. They spent the day in labour, reading, and prayer; and over all their lives there fell a silence as of death, for no one spoke.
A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright (мрачное
From Medmenham to sweet Hambledon Lock the river is full of peaceful beauty (от Медменхэма до прелестного Хамблдонского шлюза река наполнена мирной красотою), but, after it passes Greenlands, the rather uninteresting looking river residence of my newsagent (но после того, как она проходит Гринлендс = сразу за Гринлендсом, довольно скучной речной резиденцией моего газетчика; greenland — лугопастбищное угодье; луг; newsagent — газетный киоск; киоскер) — a quiet unassuming old gentleman, who may often be met with about these regions, during the summer months (тихого непритязательного пожилого джентльмена, которого часто можно встретить в этих краях в летние месяцы), sculling himself along in easy vigorous style (когда он гребет легким, энергичным стилем), or chatting genially to some old lock-keeper, as he passes through (или беседует добродушно с каким-нибудь старым начальником шлюза, проходя этот шлюз; to chat — непринужденно болтать, беседовать, разговаривать) — until well the other side of Henley, it is somewhat bare and dull (и до другой стороны = до конца Хенли река несколько пуста и скучна; bare — голый, пустой; бедный /об обстановке, ресурсах и т.д./).
taught [t:t] solemn ['slm] newsagent ['nju:z,ent] region ['ri:n]
A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them — the soft singing of the waters, the whisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind — should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.
From Medmenham to sweet Hambledon Lock the river is full of peaceful beauty, but, after it passes Greenlands, the rather uninteresting looking river residence of my newsagent — a quiet unassuming old gentleman, who may often be met with about these regions, during the summer months, sculling himself along in easy vigorous style, or chatting genially to some old lock-keeper, as he passes through — until well the other side of Henley, it is somewhat bare and dull.
We got up tolerably early on the Monday morning at Marlow (мы встали довольно рано утром в понедельник в Марлоу; to get up; tolerably — терпимо, удовлетворительно; довольно, сносно), and went for a bathe before breakfast (и пошли искупаться перед завтраком); and, coming back, Montmorency made an awful ass of himself (и, возвращаясь, Монморенси сделал страшного осла/дурака из себя = свалял страшного дурака). The only subject on which Montmorency and I have any serious difference of opinion is cats (единственный вопрос, по которому у меня с Монморенси есть серьезные расхождения во мнениях, — это кошки). I like cats (я люблю кошек); Montmorency does not (Монморенси нет).
When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stop down and tickle the side of its head (когда я встречаю кошку, я говорю: «Бедная киса!», останавливаюсь и щекочу ее за ухом: «сбоку головы»); and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner (и кошка поднимает хвост, твердый, как железо; to stick up — выдаваться, торчать; ставить торчком; rigid — жесткий;
tolerably ['tlrbl] rigid ['rd] cast-iron [,k:st'an]
We got up tolerably early on the Monday morning at Marlow, and went for a bathe before breakfast; and, coming back, Montmorency made an awful ass of himself. The only subject on which Montmorency and I have any serious difference of opinion is cats. I like cats; Montmorency does not.
When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace. When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to last an ordinarily respectable man all his life, with care.
I do not blame the dog (contenting myself, as a rule (я не осуждаю пса, довольствуясь, как правило), with merely clouting his head or throwing stones at him) (/тем/, что просто даю ему затрещину или бросаю в него камни; to clout — бить, давать затрещину; сильно ударять), because I take it that it is his nature (потому что считаю, что такова его природа). Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are (у фокстерьеров примерно в четыре раза больше врожденной греховности, чем у других собак; to be born — рождаться; original — /перво/начальный, исходный; прирожденный; original sin — первородный грех), and it will take years and years of patient effort on the part of us Christians (и это потребует многих и многих лет упорного труда со стороны нас, христиан) to bring about any appreciable reformation in the rowdiness of the fox-terrier nature (чтобы внести сколько-нибудь заметное изменение в хулиганский характер фокстерьера; to bring about — осуществлять, вызывать; appreciable — ощутимый, заметный; значительный; rowdiness — хулиганство, бесчинство; rowdy — шумный; буйный).
I remember being in the lobby of the Haymarket Stores one day (помню, как я однажды находился в вестибюле хэймаркетского универсального магазина), and all round about me were dogs, waiting for the return of their owners, who were shopping inside (и вокруг меня были собаки, ожидавшие возвращения своих хозяев, которые делали покупки внутри = в магазине). There were a mastiff (мастифф), and one or two collies (пара колли), and a St. Bernard (сенбернар), a few retrievers and Newfoundlands (несколько ретриверов и ньюфаундлендов; retriever — ретривер, охотничья /поисковая/ собака; to retrieve — находить и приносить охотнику дичь /о собаке/), a boar-hound (гончая; boar — хряк, кабан; hound — гончая; охотничья собака), a French poodle (французский пудель), with plenty of hair round its head, but mangy about the middle (с множеством волос вокруг головы, но облезлый в середине; mangy — паршивый, шелудивый; облезлый, поношенный); a bull-dog (бульдог; bull — бык; dog — собака, пес), a few Lowther Arcade sort of animals, about the size of rats (несколько животных вроде папильонов, размером примерно с крыс; папильон — порода декоративных миниатюрных собак /прекрасные крысоловы/; arcade — пассаж /с магазинами/; аркада, сводчатая галерея), and a couple of Yorkshire tykes (и пара йоркширских дворняжек).
clouting ['klaut] hound [haund] mangy ['men]
I do not blame the dog (contenting myself, as a rule, with merely clouting his head or throwing stones at him), because I take it that it is his nature. Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are, and it will take years and years of patient effort on the part of us Christians to bring about any appreciable reformation in the rowdiness of the fox-terrier nature.
I remember being in the lobby of the Haymarket Stores one day, and all round about me were dogs, waiting for the return of their owners, who were shopping inside. There were a mastiff, and one or two collies, and a St. Bernard, a few retrievers and Newfoundlands, a boar-hound, a French poodle, with plenty of hair round its head, but mangy about the middle; a bull-dog, a few Lowther Arcade sort of animals, about the size of rats, and a couple of Yorkshire tykes.