Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так - Илья Франк

THIS is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in Red and Black (это захватывающая карта Мутной Амазонки, выполненная в Красном и Черном). It hasn’t anything to do with the story except that there are two Armadillos in it — up by the top (у нее нет ничего общего с историей, кроме того, что на ней есть два Броненосца — в самом верху). The inciting part are the adventures (захватывающей частью являются приключения) that happened to the men who went along the road marked in red (которые произошли с людьми, которые пошли по дороге, помеченной красным). I meant to draw Armadillos (я намеревался нарисовать Броненосцев) when I began the map (когда я начал карту), and I meant to draw manatees and spider-tailed monkeys (и я намеревался нарисовать ламантинов и паукообразных обезьян) and big snakes and lots of Jaguars (и больших змей и множество Ягуаров), but it was more inciting to do the map and the venturesome adventures in red (но было более увлекательно сделать карту и опасные приключения в красном цвете). You begin at the bottom left-hand corner (ты начинаешь в левом нижнем углу) and follow the little arrows all about (и следуешь за маленькими красными стрелками повсюду), and then you come quite round again to (и потом ты приходишь полностью по кругу = сделав полный круг, снова к тому месту) where the adventuresome people went home in a ship called the Royal Tiger (где рисковые люди отправились домой на корабле «Королевский Тигр»). This is a most adventuresome picture (это очень приключенческая картинка), and all the adventures are told about in writing (и обо всех приключениях рассказано в письменной форме), so you can be quite sure (поэтому ты можешь быть полностью уверен) which is an adventure and which is a tree or a boat (что приключение, а что дерево или лодка).

adventure [qd'venCq], venturesome ['venCqsqm], arrow ['xrqu]

THIS is an inciting map of the Turbid Amazon done in Red and Black. It hasn’t anything to do with the story except that there are two Armadillos in it — up by the top. The inciting part are the adventures that happened to the men who went along the road marked in red. I meant to draw Armadillos when I began the map, and I meant to draw manatees and spider-tailed monkeys and big snakes and lots of Jaguars, but it was more inciting to do the map and the venturesome adventures in red. You begin at the bottom left-hand corner and follow the little arrows all about, and then you come quite round again to where the adventuresome people went home in a ship called the Royal Tiger. This is a most adventuresome picture, and all the adventures are told about in writing, so you can be quite sure which is an adventure and which is a tree or a boat.

THIS is a picture of the whole story (это изображение всей истории) of the Jaguar and the Hedgehog and the Tortoise and the Armadillo all in a heap (о Ягуаре, и Еже, и Черепахе, и Броненосце, все кучей). It looks rather the same any way you turn it (она выглядит, пожалуй, одинаково, как бы вы ее не вертели). The Tortoise is in the middle (Черепаха в середине), learning how to bend (учится сгибаться), and that is why the shelly plates on his back are so spread apart (и поэтому панцирные пластины на ее спине так разошлись в стороны). He is standing on the Hedgehog (она стоит на Еже), who is waiting to learn how to swim (который ждет, когда он будет учиться /как/ плавать). The Hedgehog is a Japanese Hedgehog (Еж японский /еж/), because I couldn’t find our own Hedgehogs in the garden (потому что я не мог найти наших собственных Ежей в саду) when I wanted to draw them (когда я хотел их нарисовать). (It was daytime (было дневное время), and they had gone to bed under the dahlias (и они ушли спать под георгины).)

spread [spred], Japanese ["Gxp(q)'nJz], dahlia ['deIlIq]

THIS is a picture of the whole story of the Jaguar and the Hedgehog and the Tortoise and the Armadillo all in a heap. It looks rather the same any way you turn it. The Tortoise is in the middle, learning how to bend, and that is why the shelly plates on his back are so spread apart. He is standing on the Hedgehog, who is waiting to learn how to swim. The Hedgehog is a Japanese Hedgehog, because I couldn’t find our own Hedgehogs in the garden when I wanted to draw them. (It was daytime, and they had gone to bed under the dahlias.)

Speckly Jaguar is looking over the edge (Пятнистый Ягуар смотрит за край), with his paddy-paw carefully tied up by his mother (со своей лапой-лапочкой, заботливо перевязанной его мамой), because he pricked himself scooping the Hedgehog (потому что он укололся, выскребая Ежа). He is much surprised to see what the Tortoise is doing (он очень удивлен, видя, чем занимается Черепаха), and his paw is hurting him (и у него болит лапа). The snouty thing with the little eye (носатое существо с маленьким глазом; snout — хобот; рыло; морда /животного/) that Speckly Jaguar is trying to climb over (через которое пытается перелезть Пятнистый Ягуар) is the Armadillo (это Броненосец) that the Tortoise and the Hedgehog are going to turn into (в которого превратятся Черепаха и Еж) when they have finished bending and swimming (когда они закончат изгибаться и плавать). It is all a magic picture (это очень волшебная картинка), and that is one of the reasons (и это одна из причин того) why I haven’t drawn the Jaguar’s whiskers (почему я не нарисовал усы Ягуара). The other reason was that he was so young (другой причиной было то, что он был такой молодой) that his whiskers had not grown (что у него еще не выросли усы). The Jaguar’s pet name with his Mummy was Doffles (любимым именем Ягуара у его Мамочки было Бобрик; duffle — толстая шерстяная ткань с густым ворсом; бобрик).

edge [eG], reason [rJzn], young [jAN]

Speckly Jaguar is looking over the edge, with his paddy-paw carefully tied up by his mother, because he pricked himself scooping the Hedgehog. He is much surprised to see what the Tortoise is doing, and his paw is hurting him. The snouty thing with the little eye that Speckly Jaguar is trying to climb over is the Armadillo that the Tortoise and the Hedgehog are going to turn into when they have finished bending and swimming. It is all a magic picture, and that is one of the reasons why I haven’t drawn the Jaguar’s whiskers. The other reason was that he was so young that his whiskers had not grown. The Jaguar’s pet name with his Mummy was Doffles.

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ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man (жил да был в очень ранние времена Неолитический человек). He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian (он был ни ют, ни англ, даже не дравид), which he might well have been (которым он действительно мог бы быть), Best Beloved, but never mind why (Самые Любименькие, но неважно почему /так получилось/). He was a Primitive (он был первобытным), and he lived cavily in a Cave (и он жил пещерно в Пещере), and he wore very few clothes (и он носил очень мало одежды), and he couldn’t read and he couldn’t write and he didn’t want to (и он не умел читать, и он не умел писать, да он /и/ не хотел), and except when he was hungry he was quite happy (и он был очень счастлив, за исключением того времени, когда он был голодным). His name was Tegumai Bopsulai (его звали Тегумай Бопсулай), and that means (а это значит), ‘Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry (Человек, который не ставит ногу вперед впопыхах)’; but we, O Best Beloved (но мы, О Самые Любименькие), will call him Tegumai, for short (будем называть его кратко Тегумай). And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow (а его жену звали Тешумай Тевиндроу), and that means (а это значит), ‘Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions (Дама, которая задает очень много вопросов)’; but we, O Best Beloved (но мы, О Самые Любименькие), will call her Teshumai, for short (будем называть ее кратко Тешумай).

Neolithic ["nJq'lITIk], clothes [klquDz], forward ['fLwqd]

ONCE upon a most early time was a Neolithic man. He was not a Jute or an Angle, or even a Dravidian, which he might well have been, Best Beloved, but never mind why. He was a Primitive, and he lived cavily in a Cave, and he wore very few clothes, and he couldn’t read and he couldn’t write and he didn’t want to, and except when he was hungry he was quite happy. His name was Tegumai Bopsulai, and that means, ‘Man-who-does-not-put-his-foot-forward-in-a-hurry’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call him Tegumai, for short. And his wife’s name was Teshumai Tewindrow, and that means, ‘Lady-who-asks-a-very-many-questions’; but we, O Best Beloved, will call her Teshumai, for short.

And his little girl-daughter’s name was Taffimai Metallumai (а его маленькую девочку-дочку звали Тэффимай Металлумай), and that means (а это значит), ‘Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked (Маленькая особа без хороших манер = Маленькая невоспитанная особа, которую следует отшлепать)’; but I’m going to call her Taffy (но я буду называть ее Тэффи). And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved (и она была Самой Любименькой Тегумая Бопсулая и Самой Любименькой ее собственной Мамочки[90]), and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her (и ее не секли и вполовину того, что было полезно для нее); and they were all three very happy (и они все втроем были очень счастливы). As soon as Taffy could run about (как только Тэффи научилась бегать; to run about — играть, резвиться, бегать туда-сюда) she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai (она ходила = стала ходить всюду со своим Папочкой Тегумаем), and sometimes they would not come home to the Cave (и иногда они не приходили домой в Пещеру) till they were hungry (пока не проголодаются), and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say (и тогда Тешумай Тевиндроу говорила), ‘Where in the world have you two been to (где вы только[91] были), to get so shocking dirty (чтобы так потрясающе испачкаться)? Really, my Tegumai, you’re no better than my Taffy (действительно, мой Тегумай, ты не лучше моей Тэффи).’

daughter ['dLtq], ought [Lt], half [hRf]

And his little girl-daughter’s name was Taffimai Metallumai, and that means, ‘Small-person-without-any-manners-who-ought-to-be-spanked’; but I’m going to call her Taffy. And she was Tegumai Bopsulai’s Best Beloved and her own Mummy’s Best Beloved, and she was not spanked half as much as was good for her; and they were all three very happy. As soon as Taffy could run about she went everywhere with her Daddy Tegumai, and sometimes they would not come home to the Cave till they were hungry, and then Teshumai Tewindrow would say, ‘Where in the world have you two been to, to get so shocking dirty? Really, my Tegumai, you’re no better than my Taffy.’

Now attend and listen (а теперь слушайте и внимайте)!

One day Tegumai Bopsulai went down through the beaver-swamp to the Wagai river (однажды Тегумай Бопсулай спустился через болото с бобрами к реке Вагай; to go down — идти вниз, спускаться) to spear carp-fish for dinner (набить острогой карпов на ужин[92]), and Taffy went too (и Тэффи пошла тоже). Tegumai’s spear was made of wood with shark’s teeth at the end (копье Тегумая было сделано из дерева с акульими зубами на конце), and before he had caught any fish at all (и не успел он поймать совершенно ни одной рыбы) he accidentally broke it clean across by jabbing it down too hard on the bottom of the river (/как/ случайно он начисто сломал его посредине из-за того, что слишком сильно ткнул им в дно реки). They were miles and miles from home (до дому было много миль пути: «мили и мили») (of course they had their lunch with them in a little bag (конечно, у них с собой был обед в маленькой сумке), and Tegumai had forgotten to bring any extra spears (а Тегумай забыл принести = взять с собой запасные остроги; to bring — приносить, приводить, привозить).