Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Старик и море
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"Dolphin," the old man said aloud. "Big dolphin."
He shipped his oars (он поднял весла на борт; to ship — поднимать /весла/ на борт) and brought a small line from under the bow (и достал небольшую лесу из-под настила на носу лодки). It had a wire leader and a medium-sized hook (на ней была проволока и среднего размера крючок) and he baited it with one of the sardines (и он насадил на него одну из сардин). He let it go over the side and then made it fast to a ring bolt in the stern (он закинул ее /леску/ за борт и затем прикрепил к шурупу с ушком в корме). Then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the bow (затем он насадил наживку на другую лесу и оставил ее свернутой в тени носа лодки). He went back to rowing and to watching the long-winged black bird who was working, now, low over the water (он продолжил грести и наблюдать за длиннокрылой черной птицей, которая работала = передвигалась/охотилась сейчас низко над водой).
As he watched the bird dipped again slanting his wings for the dive (пока
ineffectually ["InI'fektjuqlI], bulge [bAlG], widespread ['waIdspred]
He shipped his oars and brought a small line from under the bow. It had a wire leader and a medium-sized hook and he baited it with one of the sardines. He let it go over the side and then made it fast to a ring bolt in the stern. Then he baited another line and left it coiled in the shade of the bow. He went back to rowing and to watching the long-winged black bird who was working, now, low over the water.
As he watched the bird dipped again slanting his wings for the dive and then swinging them wildly and ineffectually as he followed the flying fish. The old man could see the slight bulge in the water that the big dolphin raised as they followed the escaping fish. The dolphin were cutting through the water below the flight of the fish and would be in the water, driving at speed, when the fish dropped. It is a big school of dolphin, he thought. They are widespread and the flying fish have little chance. The bird has no chance. The flying fish are too big for him and they go too fast.
He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird (он наблюдал, как летучая рыба выпрыгивает снова и снова, и за бесплодными движениями птицы). That school has gotten away from me (эта стая ушла от меня; to get away — убежать), he thought. They are moving out too fast and too far (они движутся слишком быстро и слишком далеко). But perhaps I will pick up a stray (но, возможно, я поймаю отбившегося от стаи; stray — отбившийся от стада; to stray — сбиться с пути, заблудиться; отбиться) and perhaps my big fish is around them (и, может, моя большая рыба среди них = где-нибудь поблизости). My big fish must be somewhere (моя большая рыба должна где-то быть).
The clouds over the land now rose like mountains (облака над землей сейчас возвышались, словно горы; to rise) and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it (и побережье было всего лишь длинной зеленой линией с серо-голубыми холмами позади). The water was a dark blue now (вода была теперь темно-синей), so dark that it was almost purple (настолько темной, что она была почти фиолетовой). As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water (когда он посмотрел вниз в нее, он увидел красные переливы: «пересыпания» планктона в темной воде; to sift — просеивать, сыпать через сито) and the strange light the sun made now (и причудливый: «странный» свет, отбрасываемый сейчас солнцем). He watched his lines to see them go straight down out of sight into the water (он наблюдал за своими лесами, уходящими прямо вниз, скрываясь из виду, в воду) and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish (и он был рад видеть так много планктона, потому что это означало рыбу = сулило рыбу). The strange light the sun made in the water (причудливый отсвет, который делало солнце в воде), now that the sun was higher (сейчас, когда солнце было выше), meant good weather (означал хорошую погоду) and so did the shape of the clouds over the land (об этом же говорила и форма облаков над землей). But the bird was almost out of sight now (но птица уже почти скрылась из виду) and nothing showed on the surface of the water (и ничего не показывалось на поверхности воды) but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed (кроме нескольких клочков желтых выгоревших на солнце саргассовых водорослей; to bleach — белить, отбеливать) and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder (и
purple [pWpl], iridescent [IrI'desqnt], gelatinous [GI'lxtInqs]
He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird. That school has gotten away from me, he thought. They are moving out too fast and too far. But perhaps I will pick up a stray and perhaps my big fish is around them. My big fish must be somewhere.
The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it. The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple. As he looked down into it he saw the red sifting of the plankton in the dark water and the strange light the sun made now. He watched his lines to see them go straight down out of sight into the water and he was happy to see so much plankton because it meant fish. The strange light the sun made in the water, now that the sun was higher, meant good weather and so did the shape of the clouds over the land. But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat. It turned on its side and then righted itself. It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water.
"Agua mala (исп. ядовитая медуза; досл. плохая/злая вода)," the man said. "You whore (ах ты сука; whore — шлюха)."
From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the water (cлегка наклонившись, опираясь на весла, он заглянул в воду; to swing — качать/ся/; махать, размахивать) and saw the tiny fish that were coloured like the trailing filaments (и увидел крошечных рыбешек, которые были окрашены так же, как и волочащиеся щупальца) and swam between them (и плавали между ними; to swim) and under the small shade the bubble made as it drifted (и под маленькой тенью, отбрасываемой плывущим пузырем). They were immune to its poison (они были неуязвимы к ее яду). But men were not (но люди нет) and when same of the filaments would catch on a line (и когда подобная щупальца зацепится за лесу) and rest there slimy and purple while the old man was working a fish (и пристает к ней, липкая и фиолетовая, пока старик вытаскивает рыбу), he would have welts and sores on his arms and hands (у него будут все руки до локтей в рубцах и язвах) of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak can give (наподобие тех, что могут дать ядовитый плющ или сумах: «ядовитый дуб»). But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash (но этот яд ядовитой медузы действовал быстро и бил словно кнутом; whip — кнут; to lash — хлестать, стегать).
The iridescent bubbles were beautiful (переливчатые пузыри были красивы). But they were the falsest thing in the sea (но они были самыми коварными жителями моря; false — фальшивый, обманный, коварный) and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them (и старик любил смотреть, как их поедают большие морские черепахи). The turtles saw them (черепахи замечали их), approached them from the front (приближались к ним спереди), then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced (затем закрывали глаза, чтобы быть полностью защищенными; carapace — панцирь) and ate them filaments and all (и съедали их вместе с щупальцами). The old man loved to see the turtles eat them (старик любил смотреть, как черепахи поедали их) and he loved to walk on them on the beach after a storm (и он любил пройтись по ним на берегу после шторма) and hear them pop when he stepped on them with the horny soles of his feet (и слышать, как они лопаются, когда он наступает на них мозолистой подошвой своих ног; horny — мозолистый, затвердевший; sole — подошва, ступня).
immune [I'mjHn], carapace ['kxrqpeIs], horny ['hLnI]
"Agua mala," the man said. "You whore."
From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the water and saw the tiny fish that were coloured like the trailing filaments and swam between them and under the small shade the bubble made as it drifted. They were immune to its poison. But men were not and when same of the filaments would catch on a line and rest there slimy and purple while the old man was working a fish, he would have welts and sores on his arms and hands of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak can give. But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash.