Английский язык с Робинзоном Крузо (в пересказе для детей)
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I did the same way with the rice (то же самое я проделал с рисом).
There was so little to begin with that it took a long time to grow a big crop (/его/ было так мало для того, чтобы начать /выращивать/ = пришлось начать со столь малого количества, что заняло долгое время вырастить большой урожай). It was not until the fourth harvest that I could keep some of the barley for bread (только с четвертым урожаем я смог сберечь/оставить немного ячменя для хлеба; until — до /какого-л. времени/).
I found that the best place to plant the grain was not on the hillside (я
One day, as soon as the wet season was at an end (однажды, как только влажный сезон закончился: «был при конце»), I made a visit to the country to see how my crops were growing (я совершил визит = поход вглубь острова, чтобы посмотреть, как растет мой урожай).
There I saw something that surprised me (там я увидел что-то, что поразило меня).
You will remember the fence that I built around my summer house (вы помните забор, который я построил вокруг моего летнего дома), or bower as I called it (или беседки, как я называл его). It was made of two rows of tall stakes, with brush between (он был сделан из двух рядов длинных кольев с ветками между /ними/).
Well, I now found that the stakes were still green (так вот теперь я обнаружил, что колья были все еще зелеными), and that long shoots or twigs were growing from them (и что длинные побеги, или ветки, росли на них). Some of these branches were already two or three feet long (некоторые из веток были уже два-три фута длиной).
This pleased me very much (это меня очень порадовало; to please — нравиться). I cut and trained the growing branches into just such shapes as I wished (я подрезал и согнул растущие ветки как раз в такую форму, как я хотел).
They grew very fast (они росли очень быстро; to grow — расти), and soon the whole fence was covered with green leaves (и вскоре весь забор был покрыт зелеными листьями). Then I trained the long branches toward the top of a pole which I set up in the center of my bower (затем я загнул длинные ветки к верхушке шеста, который я установил в центре беседки).
In a few months the whole inclosure was covered with a green roof (через несколько месяцев все огороженное пространство было покрыто зеленой крышей).
You cannot think how beautiful it was (вы не можете себе представить, насколько это было красиво). The place was shady and cool (место было тенистым и прохладным; shade — тень), the pleasantest spot one could wish to have (самое приятное место, /которое/ кто-либо мог желать иметь).
I did not know what kind of tree it was that grew in this wonderful way (я
I set these stakes in a double row (я воткнул эти колья в двойной ряд), about twenty inches outside of my first wall (примерно в двадцати дюймах снаружи от моей первой стены). In a few weeks they began to grow (через несколько недель они начали расти). They grew so fast that in two years they covered the whole space in front of my castle (они росли столь быстро, что через два года они покрыли все пространство перед моим замком).
They were not only handsome to look at (на них не только было приятно смотреть; handsome — красивый), but they helped to protect my castle (но они /к тому же/ помогали защищать мой замок).
February ['februr], April ['eprl], August [': st], October [k'tub], dust [dst], chaff [t:f], stalk [st:k], surprised [s'prazd], notice ['nuts], several ['sevrl], cover ['kv], handsome ['haen(d)sm], protect [pr'tekt]
THE first wet season began about the middle of February and lasted till the middle April. The first dry season began about the middle of April and lasted till the middle of August.
The second wet season began about the middle of August and lasted till the middle October.
The second dry season began about the middle of October and lasted till the middle of February.
I could not have kept track of these thing easily if it had not been for my calendar.
Just before the first rainy season began I was one day rummaging among the shelves in my cave.
There I found the little bag that I had brought from the ship with some barley in it, as I have already told you.
I lifted it; it was almost empty.
I looked inside. I saw nothing there but some dust and chaff. The rats had been there, and had eaten the grains of barley.
The bag would be useful for something else. I took it outside and shook the dust and chaff upon the ground. It was a sunny place, close by the great rock.
About a month after this, I saw that something green was starting to grow at that place. I wondered what it was. It could not be grass, for the stalks were larger and stronger.
I had forgotten about the barley. But I took care that nothing should break the stalks down.
They grew fast, and were soon as high as my waist. Then I was surprised to see ten or twelve heads of green barley come out.
You cannot think how glad I was. I remembered, then, how I had shaken the bag of dust and chaff over that very spot.
But there was another surprise for me. I noticed in the wet ground a little nearer the rock some other green plants. These were not so tall as the barley stalks, and they did not seem to be the same.