Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так
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uncle [ANkl], broad [brLd], hoof [hHf]
He asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! He asked his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, why her eyes were red, and his broad aunt, the Hippopotamus, spanked him with her broad, broad hoof; and he asked his hairy uncle, the Baboon, why melons tasted just so, and his hairy uncle, the Baboon, spanked him with his hairy, hairy paw. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity! He asked questions about everything that he saw, or heard, or felt, or smelt, or touched, and all his uncles and his aunts spanked him. And still he was full of ‘satiable curtiosity!
One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes (одним
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Образовано, по-видимому, от dreadful — страшный, ужасный, внушающий ужас и fretful — капризный, раздражительный, нетерпеливый.
By and by, when that was finished (вскоре, когда это закончилось), he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush (он случайно встретил Птичку Колоколо, сидевшую в середине сассапарили круглолистной [61] ), and he said (и он сказал), ‘My father has spanked me (мой отец шлепал меня), and my mother has spanked me (и моя мать шлепала меня); all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my ‘satiable curtiosity (все мои тетушки и дядюшки шлепали меня за мою ненасытное вежливое любопытство); and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner (а я все равно хочу знать, что ест Крокодил на обед)!’
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Колючий кустарник с цепкими плодами.
equinox ['JkwInOks], crocodile ['krOkqdaIl], immediately [I'mJdIqtlI]
One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child asked a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, ‘What does the Crocodile have for dinner?’ Then everybody said, ‘Hush!’ in a loud and dretful tone, and they spanked him immediately and directly, without stopping, for a long time.
By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, ‘My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my ‘satiable curtiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!’
Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry (тогда Птичка Колоколо сказала с печальным криком), ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (иди на берега великой серо-зеленой жирной реки Лимпопо), all set about with fever-trees, and find out (полностью усаженной = заросшей /по берегам/ хинными деревьями, и узнаешь).’
That very next morning (прямо на следующее утро), when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes (когда от равноденствий ничего не осталось), because the Precession had preceded according to precedent (потому что Прецессия случилась предварительно в соответствии с прецедентом), this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (этот ненасытный Слоненок взял сотню фунтов бананов [62] ) (the little short red kind (маленького коротенького красненького сорта)), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (и сотню фунтов сахарного тростника) (the long purple kind (длинного пурпурного сорта)), and seventeen melons (и семнадцать дынь) (the greeny-crackly kind (зеленовато-хрустящего сорта)), and said to all his dear families (и сказал всем своим дорогим семействам), ‘Goodbye (до свидания). I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (я
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Килограммов пятьдесят примерно. Он же еще маленький.
greasy ['grJsI], fever ['fJvq], politely [pq'laItlI]
Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, ‘Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.’
That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, ‘Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.’ And they all spanked him once more for luck, though he asked them most politely to stop.
Then he went away (тогда он ушел), a little warm (немного разгоряченный), but not at all astonished (но совсем не удивленный), eating melons (/он/ ел дыни), and throwing the rind about (и разбрасывал кожуру), because he could not pick it up (потому что он не мог ее подбирать).
He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley (он пошел от Города Грэма в Кимберли), and from Kimberley to Khama’s Country (а из Кимберли в Страну Хамы), and from Khama’s Country he went east by north (а из Страны Хамы он пошел на восток к северу), eating melons all the time (и все время ел дыни), till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River (пока наконец он /не/ пришел к берегам великой серо-зеленой жирной реки Лимпопо), all set about with fever-trees (полностью заросшей /по берегам/ хинными деревьями), precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said (в точности такой, как говорила Птичка Колоколо).
warm [wLm], throw [Trqu], north [nLT]
Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up.
He went from Graham’s Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama’s Country, and from Khama’s Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said.
Now you must know and understand (а сейчас вам надобно узнать и понять), O Best Beloved (О Самые Любименькие), that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute (что до той самой недели, и дня, и часа, и минуты), this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile (этот ненасытный Слоненок никогда не видел Крокодила), and did not know what one was like (и не знал, какой он из себя). It was all his ‘satiable curtiosity (это было все его ненасытное любопытство).
The first thing that he found (первым, кого он нашел) was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock (был Двухцветный-Питон-Скалистый-Змей, свернувшийся кольцами вокруг скалы).
‘‘Scuse me (извините /меня/),’ said the Elephant’s Child most politely (сказал очень вежливо Слоненок), ‘but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts (но /не/ видели ли вы в этих неоднородных = сомнительных краях такое существо, как Крокодил; promiscuous — разнородный, разношерстный, неодинаковый, разный, смешанный; беспорядочный, неразборчивый)?’
python ['paITqn], curl [kWl], promiscuous [prq'mIskjuqs]
Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant’s Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. It was all his ‘satiable curtiosity.