Английский язык с Мюриэль Спарк (рассказы)
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Raymond telephoned to the hotel in London (Раймонд позвонил /по телефону/ в отель в Лондоне). "Have you a single room (есть ли у вас одноместный номер) for a young gentleman accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Parker (для молодого джентльмена, сопровождающего мистера и миссис Паркер; to accompany — сопровождать, сопутствовать)?" He added (он добавил), "a coloured gentleman (темнокожего: «цветного» джентльмена)." To his pleasure (к его удовольствию) a room was available (номер был свободен: «доступен»), and to his relief (и к его облегчению) there was no objection to Henry's colour (не было никаких возражений против цвета /кожи/ Генри).
They enjoyed their London holiday (им понравился отпуск в Лондоне), but it was somewhat marred by (но
contribution ["kOntrI'bju: S(q)n] cheerful ['CIqf(q)l] faith [feIT]
objection [qb'GekS(q)n] pound [paVnd]
"He'll return to the Church one day" — this was Lou's contribution, whether Henry was present or not. If she said it in front of Henry he would give her an angry look. These were the only occasions when Henry lost his cheerfulness and grew quiet again.
Raymond and Lou prayed for Henry, that he might regain his faith. Lou said her rosary three times a week before the Black Madonna
"He'll miss us when we go on our holidays."
Raymond telephoned to the hotel in London. "Have you a single room for a young gentleman accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Parker?" He added, "acolouredgentleman." To his pleasure a room was available, and to his relief there was no objection to Henry'scolour.
They enjoyed their London holiday, but it was somewhat marred by a visit to that widowed sister of Lou's to whom she allowed a pound a week towards the rearing of her eight children. Lou had not seen her sister Elizabeth for nine years.
They went to her one day (они отправились: «пошли» к ней, в один из дней) towards the end of their holiday (ближе к концу их отпуска). Henry sat at the back of the car (Генри сидел на заднем сидении машины) beside a large suit-case (рядом с большим чемоданом) stuffed with old clothes for Elizabeth (набитом старой одеждой для Элизабет). Raymond at the wheel kept saying (Раймонд за рулем постоянно твердил: «говорил»; wheel — колесо, руль), "Poor Elizabeth-eight kids (бедная Элизабет — восемь детей)," which irritated Lou (что раздражало Лу), though she kept her peace (хотя она сдерживалась: «хранила мир»; to keep peace — сохранятьспокойствие, промолчать).
Outside the Underground station at Victoria Park (у станции метро Виктория Парк), where they stopped to ask the way (где они остановились, чтобы узнать дорогу), Lou felt a strange sense of panic (Лу почувствовала странный приступ: «чувство» паники). Elizabeth lived in a very downward quarter of Bethnal Green (Элизабет жила в очень мрачном квартале Бетнал Грин), and in the past nine years since she had seen her (и за те девять лет, что она не видела ее: «с того момента когда она видела ее») Lou's memory of the shabby ground-floor rooms (память Лу об убогих полуподвальных: «на цокольном этаже» комнатах; shabby — потрепанный, убогий, бедный) with their peeling walls (с облупившимися стенами) and bare boards (голыми досками), had made a kinder nest for itself (/память/ нашла: «сделала» себе более уютное местечко; nest — гнездо, уютныйуголок).
irritate ['IrIteIt] underground ['AndqgraVnd] panic ['pxnIk]
They went to her one day towards the end of their holiday. Henry sat at the back of the car beside a large suit-case stuffed with old clothes for Elizabeth. Raymond at the wheel kept saying, "Poor Elizabeth-eight kids," which irritated Lou, though she kept her peace.
Outside the Underground station at Victoria Park, where they stopped to ask the way, Lou felt a strange sense of panic. Elizabeth lived in a very downward quarter of Bethnal Green, and in the past nine years since she had seen her Lou's memory of the shabby ground-floor rooms with their peeling walls and bare boards, had made a kinder nest for itself.
Sending off the postal order (отправляя почтовый перевод; to send — посылать, передавать) to her sister each week (своей сестре каждую неделю) she had gradually come to picture the habitation at Bethnal Green (она постепенно пришла /к тому, что стала/ изображать проживание в Бетнал Грин; to picture — рисовать, представлятьсебе) in an almost monastic light (в почти что монашеском свете); it would be bare but well-scrubbed (там будет голо, но хорошо вычищено), spotless (чистенько: «без пятен»), and shining with Brasso and holy poverty (и блестящая эмалировка Брассо и святая нищета; holy — святой, священный). The floorboards gleamed (половые доски сверкали). Elizabeth was grey-haired (и Элизабет — седая), lined (морщинистая), but neat (но аккуратная). The children were well behaved (дети вели себя хорошо; to behave — вестисебя, поступать), sitting down betimes to their broth (собирающиеся вовремя за своим мясным бульоном) in two rows along (в два ряда вокруг: «вдоль») an almost refectory table (почти что монастырского стола; refectory — трапезнаявмонастыре). It was not till they had reached Victoria Park (только когда: «не до тех пор» они добрались до Виктория Парк) that Lou felt the full force of the fact (Лу почувствовала со всей силой: «всю силу», тот факт) that everything would be different (что все будет отличаться) from what she had imagined (от того, что она себе напредставляла). "It may have gone down (все могло прийти в упадок) since I was last there (с тех пор, когда я была там в последний раз)," she said to Raymond (сказала она Раймонду) who had never visited Elizabeth before (который никогда не посещал Элизабет раньше).
"What's gone down (что пришло в упадок)?"
"Poor Elizabeth's place (дом бедняжки Элизабет)."
habitation ["hxbI'teIS(q)n] monastic [mq'nxstIk] poverty ['pOvqtI]
Sending off the postal order to her sister each week she had gradually come to picture the habitation at Bethnal Green in an almost monastic light; it would be bare but well-scrubbed, spotless, and shining with Brasso and holy poverty. The floor boards gleamed. Elizabeth was grey-haired, lined, but neat. The children were well behaved, sitting down betimes to their broth in two rows along an almost refectory table. It was not till they had reached Victoria Park that Lou felt the full force of the fact that everything would be different from what she had imagined. "It may have gone down since I was last there," she said to Raymond who had never visited Elizabeth before.
"What's gone down?"
"Poor Elizabeth 's place."
Lou had not taken much notice of (Лу не слишком обращала свое внимание на; to take notice — замечать) Elizabeth's dull little monthly letters (на скучные короткие: «маленькие» ежемесячные письма Элизабет), almost illiterate (почти безграмотные), for Elizabeth, as she herself always said (так как Элизабет, как она сама всегда говорила), was not much of a scholar (была не сильна в грамоте; scholar — ученый, грамотныйчеловек).