Jerome Jerome - Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки (ASCII-IPA)

bargain ['bA:gIn] mountain ['mauntIn] Switzerland ['swIts(@)l@nd]

Harris said he would have given worlds for mustard too. It would have been a good thing for anybody who had come up to that spot with a can of mustard, then: he would have been set up in worlds for the rest of his life.

But there! I daresay both Harris and I would have tried to back out of the bargain after we had got the mustard. One makes these extravagant offers in moments of excitement, but, of course, when one comes to think of it, one sees how absurdly out of proportion they are with the value of the required article. I heard a man, going up a mountain in Switzerland, once say he would give worlds for a glass of beer, and, when he came to a little shanty where they kept it, he kicked up a most fearful row because they charged him five francs for a bottle of Bass. He said it was a scandalous imposition, and he wrote to The Times about it.

It cast a gloom over the boat, there being no mustard (отсутствие горчицы навеяло тоску на лодку) . We ate our beef in silence (мы ели говядину в молчании) . Existence seemed hollow and uninteresting (жизнь казалась пустой и неинтересной; existence — существование, жизнь, бытие) . We thought of the happy days of childhood, and sighed (мы вспомнили счастливые дни детства и вздохнули) . We brightened up a bit, however, over the apple-tart (мы немного повеселели, однако, над яблочным пирогом = перейдя к пирогу) , and, when George drew out a tin of pine-apple from the bottom of the hamper (а когда Джордж вытащил консервную банку ананасов со дна корзины; to draw out; tin — олово; жестяная консервная банка; pine-apple: pine — сосна, apple — яблоко) , and rolled it into the middle of the boat (и выкатил ее на середину лодки) , we felt that life was worth living after all (мы посчитали, что жизнь стоит того, чтобы жить, в конце концов) .

We are very fond of pine-apple, all three of us (мы очень любим ананасы, все трое) . We looked at the picture on the tin (мы смотрели на картинку на банке) ; we thought of the juice (мы подумали о соке) . We smiled at one another, and Harris got a spoon ready (мы улыбались друг другу, а Гаррис приготовил ложку; to get ready) .

Then we looked for the knife to open the tin with (потом мы /стали/ искать нож, чтобы вскрыть им банку) . We turned out everything in the hamper (мы перерыли все в корзине; to turn out — выворачивать /карманы/, выворачивать наружу) . We turned out the bags (мы перерыли чемоданы) . We pulled up the boards at the bottom of the boat (мы подняли доски на дне лодки) . We took everything out on to the bank and shook it (мы вынесли все на берег и перетрясли; to shake) . There was no tin-opener to be found (нигде не было консервного ножа) .

juice [dZu:s] knife [naIf]

It cast a gloom over the boat, there being no mustard. We ate our beef in silence. Existence seemed hollow and uninteresting. We thought of the happy days of childhood, and sighed. We brightened up a bit, however, over the apple-tart, and, when George drew out a tin of pine-apple from the bottom of the hamper, and rolled it into the middle of the boat, we felt that life was worth living after all.

We are very fond of pine-apple, all three of us. We looked at the picture on the tin; we thought of the juice. We smiled at one another, and Harris got a spoon ready.

Then we looked for the knife to open the tin with. We turned out everything in the hamper. We turned out the bags. We pulled up the boards at the bottom of the boat. We took everything out on to the bank and shook it. There was no tin-opener to be found.

Then Harris tried to open the tin with a pocket-knife (тогда Гаррис попытался открыть банку карманным ножом) , and broke the knife and cut himself badly (он сломал нож и сильно порезался; to break) ; and George tried a pair of scissors (а Джордж использовал пару ножниц) , and the scissors flew up, and nearly put his eye out (они взлетели = вылетели из рук и чуть не выкололи ему глаз; to fly) . While they were dressing their wounds, I tried to make a hole in the thing with the spiky end of the hitcher (пока они перевязывали свои раны, я попробовал сделать дырку в банке заостренным концом багра) , and the hitcher slipped and jerked me out between the boat and the bank into two feet of muddy water (и багор соскользнул, и швырнул меня между лодкой и берегом /на глубину/ двух футов грязной/мутной воды) , and the tin rolled over, uninjured, and broke a teacup (а банка покатилась, невредимая, и разбила чайную чашку; to roll over — перекатывать/ся/, переворачивать/ся/) .

Then we all got mad (тут мы все вышли из себя) . We took that tin out on the bank, and Harris went up into a field and got a big sharp stone (мы вынесли эту банку на берег, Гаррис пошел в поле и принес большой острый камень) , and I went back into the boat and brought out the mast (я вернулся в лодку и вытащил мачту; to bring out) , and George held the tin and Harris held the sharp end of his stone against the top of it (Джордж держал банку, а Гаррис приложил острый конец камня сверху на нее; to hold) , and I took the mast and poised it high up in the air (я взял мачту, поднял ее высоко в воздух; to poise — удерживать в равновесии; висеть в воздухе; поднять) , and gathered up all my strength and brought it down (собрал всю свою силу = собрался с силами и опустил ее) .

scissors ['sIz@z] wound [wu:nd] field [fi:ld]

Then Harris tried to open the tin with a pocket-knife, and broke the knife and cut himself badly; and George tried a pair of scissors, and the scissors flew up, and nearly put his eye out. While they were dressing their wounds, I tried to make a hole in the thing with the spiky end of the hitcher, and the hitcher slipped and jerked me out between the boat and the bank into two feet of muddy water, and the tin rolled over, uninjured, and broke a teacup.

Then we all got mad. We took that tin out on the bank, and Harris went up into a field and got a big sharp stone, and I went back into the boat and brought out the mast, and George held the tin and Harris held the sharp end of his stone against the top of it, and I took the mast and poised it high up in the air, and gathered up all my strength and brought it down.

It was George's straw hat that saved his life that day (именно соломенная шляпа Джорджа спасла ему жизнь в тот день) . He keeps that hat now (what is left of it) (он хранит эту шляпу теперь /то, что от нее осталось/) , and, on a winter's evening, when the pipes are lit and the boys are telling stretchers about the dangers they have passed through (и, в зимний вечер, когда трубки зажжены и ребята рассказывают небылицы об опасностях, что они пережили; stretcher — приспособление для растягивания, носилки; преувеличение) , George brings it down and shows it round (Джордж достает ее и показывает: «приносит ее вниз и показывает по кругу») , and the stirring tale is told anew, with fresh exaggerations every time (и волнующая история рассказывается еще раз, всегда с новыми преувеличениями; tale — рассказ, сказка; to tell) .

Harris got off with merely a flesh wound (Гаррис отделался всего лишь легкой раной; to get off with; flesh wound — поверхностная рана) .

After that, I took the tin off myself, and hammered at it with the mast (после этого я сам взялся за банку и бил ее мачтой) till I was worn out and sick at heart, whereupon Harris took it in hand (пока я не выдохся и не пришел в уныние, после чего Гаррис взял ее в руку; worn out — уставший, измученный; потертый, ветхий; he is sick at heart — его гнетет тоска, у него тяжело на сердце) .

We beat it out flat (мы расплющили ее; to beat out — выбивать, ковать /металл/; flat — плоский) ; we beat it back square (сделали ее квадратной) ; we battered it into every form known to geometry (мы придавали ей все очертания, известные геометрии; to batter — сильно бить, плющить; испортить форму /ударами или небрежным обращением/) — but we could not make a hole in it (но не могли пробить в ней дыру) . Then George went at it, and knocked it into a shape (Джордж набросился на нее и ударами придал ей форму; to knock — ударять, стучать, колотить) , so strange, so weird, so unearthly in its wild hideousness (настолько необычную, причудливую, странную в ее дикой гнусности = такую ужасную; hideous — отвратительный, омерзительный) , that he got frightened and threw away the mast (что он испугался и отбросил мачту; to throw away) . Then we all three sat round it on the grass and looked at it (тогда мы все трое сели вокруг банки на траву и /стали/ смотреть на нее) .

exaggeration [Ig,z&dZ@'reIS(@)n] geometry [dZI'OmItrI] hideousness ['hIdI@snIs]

It was George's straw hat that saved his life that day. He keeps that hat now (what is left of it), and, on a winter's evening, when the pipes are lit and the boys are telling stretchers about the dangers they have passed through, George brings it down and shows it round, and the stirring tale is told anew, with fresh exaggerations every time.

Harris got off with merely a flesh wound.

After that, I took the tin off myself, and hammered at it with the mast till I was worn out and sick at heart, whereupon Harris took it in hand.