Копи царя Соломона. Английский язык с Г. Р. Хаггардом.
Шрифт:
"Good-bye, old boy (до свидания, старина); I can't say any more (я больше не могу ничего сказать), but I know that you will come (но я знаю, что вы приедете), if it is only to oblige your sincere friend (хотя бы только для того, чтобы сделать одолжение своему искреннему другу; to oblige— обязывать, связывать /обязательством, клятвой/; делать одолжение,
HENRY CURTIS.
bribe [braIb], pellet ['pelIt], advantage [qd'vQ:ntIdZ], medical ['medIk(q)l], oblige [q'blaIdZ], sincere [sIn'sIq]
Good is coming, and George, and so, by the way, is your boy Harry (there's a bribe for you). I have had him down for a week's shooting and like him. He is a cool young hand; he shot me in the leg, cut out the pellets, and then remarked upon the advantage of having a medical student in every shooting-party.
"Good-bye, old boy; I can't say any more, but I know that you will come, if it is only to oblige your sincere friend,
HENRY CURTIS.
"P.S. — The tusks of the great bull that killed poor Khiva have now been put up in the hall here (бивни того огромного слона, который убил беднягу Хиву, теперь уже повешены у меня: «здесь» в холле; bull — бык; самец кита, слона, аллигатора и др. крупных животных), over the pair of buffalo-horns you gave me (над той парой буйволовых рогов, которую вы мне подарили), and look magnificent (и выглядят /они/ великолепно); and the axe with which I chopped off Twala's head is stuck up over my writing-table (а тот боевой топор, которым я отрубил голову Твале, закреплен: «выставлен» над моим письменным столом; to chop — удар/топором и т.п./; рубить/топором/; to stick up — поставить; выставлять). I wish we could have managed to bring away the coats of chain armor (жаль, что нам не удалось забрать: «привезти» с собой кольчуги). H.C. (Г.К.)"
To-day is Tuesday (сегодня вторник). There is a steamer going on Friday (в пятницу отходит пароход), and I really think I must take Curtis at his word, and sail by her for England (и
ALLAN QUATERMAIN
buffalo ['bAfqlqu], axe [xks], writing table ['raItIN"teIbl], chain armour ['CeIn"Q:mq], Tuesday ['tju:zdI], Friday ['fraIdI]
"P.S. — The tusks of the great bull that killed poor Khiva have now been put up in the hall here, over the pair of buffalo-horns you gave me, and look magnificent; and the axe with which I chopped off Twala's head is stuck up over my writing—table. I wish we could have managed to bring away the coats of chain armor. H.C."
To-day is Tuesday. There is a steamer going on Friday, and I really think I must take Curtis at his word, and sail by her for England, if it is only to see my boy Harry and see about the printing of this history, which is a task I do not like to trust to anybody else.
[1] Southampton — Саутгемптон, город и порт на южном побережье Великобритании, на берегу Ла-Манша.