Английский язык с Ф. Скоттом Фитцджеральдом. Алмаз величиной в отель «Риц» / Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The Diamond As Big As The Ritz
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wealth [welT], tensive ['tensIve], equivalent [I'kwIvqlqnt]
Just before he died he changed his policy, and with all but a few million dollars of his outside wealth bought up rare minerals in bulk, which he deposited in the safety vaults of banks all over the world, marked as bric-`a-brac. His son, Braddock Tarleton Washington, followed this policy on an even more tensive scale. The minerals were converted into the rarest of all elements — radium — so that the equivalent of a billion dollars in gold could be placed in a receptacle no bigger than a cigar box.
When Fitz-Norman had been dead three years (через три года после смерти Фиц-Нормана: «когда Фиц-Норман был мертв /уже/ три года») his son, Braddock, decided that the business had gone far enough (его сын Брэддок решил, что дело пора сворачивать: «дело продвинулось
cipher ['saIfq], radium ['reIdIqm], seal [sJl]
When Fitz-Norman had been dead three years his son, Braddock, decided that the business had gone far enough. The amount of wealth that he and his father had taken out of the mountain was beyond all exact computation. He kept a note-book in cipher in which he set down the approximate quantity of radium in each of the thousand banks he patronized, and recorded the alias under which it was held. Then he did a very simple thing — he sealed up the mine.
He sealed up the mine. What had been taken out of it (/то/ что было извлечено из них) would support all the Washingtons yet to be born in unparalleled luxury for generations (должно было обеспечить всем Вашингтонам, которым еще предстояло родиться, беспримерную роскошь на века: «/многие/ поколения»; to support — поддерживать; содержать /материально/; обеспечивать). His one care must be the protection of his secret (единственной его заботой должно было стать сохранение: «защита/охрана» тайны), lest in the possible panic attendant on its discovery (дабы в той панике, которая могла сопутствовать ее раскрытию: «в возможной панике, сопутствующей ее раскрытию»; lest — чтобы/дабы не) he should be reduced with all the property-holders in the world to utter poverty (он вместе со всеми собственниками: «держателями собственности» мира, не опустился бы до совершенной нищеты; to reduce — ослаблять, понижать; доводить /до какого-л. худшего состояния/).
This was the family among whom John T. Unger was staying (такова была семья, у которой гостил Джон Т. Ангер). This was the story he heard (такова была история, которую он услышал) in his silver-walled living-room the morning after his arrival (в своей гостиной с серебряными стенами на /следующее/ утро после приезда; wall — стена).
support [sq'pLt], unparalleled [An'pxrqleld], heard [hWd]
He sealed up the mine. What had been taken out of it would support all the Washingtons yet to be born in unparalleled luxury for generations. His one care must be the protection of his secret, lest in the possible panic attendant on its discovery he should be reduced with all the property-holders in the world to utter poverty.
This was the family among whom John T. Unger was staying. This was the story he heard in his silver-walled living-room the morning after his arrival.
V
After breakfast, John found his way out the great marble entrance (после завтрака Джон вышел через большой мраморный портал /на улицу/; entrance — вход, входная дверь), and looked curiously at the scene before him (и с любопытством стал осматривать /открывшийся/ перед ним вид). The whole valley, from the diamond mountain to the steep granite cliff five miles away (вся долина — от алмазной горы до крутой/отвесной гранитной скалы в пяти милях /от замка/), still gave off a breath of golden haze (все еще дышала: золотистой дымкой; breath — дыхание) which hovered idly above the fine sweep of lawns and lakes and gardens (которая
breath [breT], hover ['hOvq], awkward ['Lkwqd]
After breakfast, John found his way out the great marble entrance, and looked curiously at the scene before him. The whole valley, from the diamond mountain to the steep granite cliff five miles away, still gave off a breath of golden haze which hovered idly above the fine sweep of lawns and lakes and gardens. Here and there clusters of elms made delicate groves of shade, contrasting strangely with the tough masses of pine forest that held the hills in a grip of dark-blue green. Even as John looked he saw three fawns in single file patter out from one clump about a half mile away and disappear with awkward gayety into the black-ribbed half-light of another. John would not have been surprised to see a goat-foot piping his way among the trees or to catch a glimpse of pink nymph-skin and flying yellow hair between the greenest of the green leaves.
In some such cool hope he descended the marble steps (с подобной дерзкой надеждой /в душе/ он спустился по мраморным ступеням; cool — прохладный; невозмутимый; наглый, нахальный), disturbing faintly the sleep of two silky Russian wolfhounds at the bottom (слегка потревожив сон двух русских борзых с шелковистой шерстью /лежавших/ внизу; silk — шелк), and set off along a walk of white and blue brick (и пошел по дорожке из белого и синего кирпича) that seemed to lead in no particular direction (которая вела неведомо куда: «казалось, не вела ни в каком определенном направлении»).
He was enjoying himself as much as he was able (он наслаждался /окружающим/ так сильно, как только мог). It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency (в том то и счастье и ущербность молодости; sufficiency — достаточность; sufficient — достаточный) that it can never live in the present (что она не умеет жить настоящим), but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future (но всегда должна соизмерять /нынешний/ день со своим лучезарным воображаемым будущем) — flowers and gold (цветы и золото), girls and stars (девушки и звезды), they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream (лишь прообразы и пророчества этой несравненной и недостижимой юношеской мечты).
wolfhound ['wVlfhaVnd], able [eIbl], present /сущ./ [prez(q)nt]
In some such cool hope he descended the marble steps, disturbing faintly the sleep of two silky Russian wolfhounds at the bottom, and set off along a walk of white and blue brick that seemed to lead in no particular direction.
He was enjoying himself as much as he was able. It is youth's felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future — flowers and gold, girls and stars, they are only prefigurations and prophecies of that incomparable, unattainable young dream.