Илья Франк - Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Старик и море

I worked the deep wells for a week and did nothing (я работал в глубоких местах: «колодцах» неделю и ничего не сделал), he thought. Today I'll work out where the schools of bonito and albacore are (сегодня я поработаю, где ходят стаи пеламиды и альбакора; albacore — альбакор, длиннопёрый тунец ) and maybe there will be a big one with them (и, возможно, там будет крупная рыба вместе с ними).

steadily ['stedIlI], occasional [q'keIZqnql], further ['fWDq]

He was rowing steadily and it was no effort for him since he kept well within his speed and the surface of the ocean was flat except for the occasional swirls of the current. He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour.

I worked the deep wells for a week and did nothing, he thought. Today I'll work out where the schools of bonito and albacore are and maybe there will be a big one with them.

Before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current (перед тем, как стало по-настоящему светло = когда еще не рассвело , он закинул наживки и плыл по течению; to drift — дрейфовать, передвигаться по течению ). One bait was down forty fathoms (одна наживка ушла вниз на сорок морских саженей). The second was at seventy-five (вторая на семьдесят пять) and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms (и третья с четвертой ушли глубоко в голубую воду на сто и сто двадцать пять саженей). Each bait hung head down with the shank of the hook inside the bait fish (каждая наживка висела головой вниз со стержнем крючка внутри рыбешки; shank — стержень ), tied and sewed solid (крепко завязанная и зашитая; solid — цельный, сплошной; прочный крепкий ) and all the projecting part of the hook, the curve and the point, was covered with fresh sardines (а вся выступающая часть крючка, изгиб и острие, были унизаны: «покрыты» свежими сардинами; project — выдаваться, выступать ). Each sardine was hooked through both eyes so that they made a half-garland on the projecting steel (каждая сардина была надета на крючок через оба глаза, образуя полугирлянду на выступающей стали). There was no part of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling and good tasting (не было ни одной части крючка, который бы не имел приятный запах и хороший вкус для большой рыбы).

solid ['sOlId], project [prq'Gekt], curve [kWv]

Before it was really light he had his baits out and was drifting with the current. One bait was down forty fathoms. The second was at seventy-five and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms. Each bait hung head down with the shank of the hook inside the bait fish, tied and sewed solid and all the projecting part of the hook, the curve and the point, was covered with fresh sardines. Each sardine was hooked through both eyes so that they made a half-garland on the projecting steel. There was no part of the hook that a great fish could feel which was not sweet smelling and good tasting.

The boy had given him two fresh small tunas (мальчик дал ему два свежих тунца), or albacores (или альбакора), which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets (которые висели на двух самых глубоких лесах, как грузила; plummet — грузило /на удочке/ ) and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before (а на других у него были большая голубая макрель и желтая умбрица, которыми он уже пользовался раньше); but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and attractiveness (но они все еще были в хорошем состоянии, а отличные сардины придавали им аромат и заманчивость; attractive — привлекательный ). Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick (каждая леса, в диаметре такая же толстая, как большой карандаш, была закреплена петлей на гибкую: «зеленую высушенную» палку; to loop — скреплять, связывать петлей; to sap — лишать сока, сушить ) so that any pull or touch on the bait would make the stick dip (так, что любой рывок или касание наживки заставят палку окунуться в воду; to dip — макать, окунать ) and each line had two forty-fathom coils (и у каждой лесы было два сорокасаженных мотка) which could be made fast to the other spare coils (которые могли быть прикреплены к другим запасным моткам; fast — крепко, прочно; to make fast — закреплять ) so that, if it were necessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line (так что, если будет необходимо, рыба могла утащить более трех сотен саженей лесы = рыбу можно было опустить на триста саженей; so that — так что ).

Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff (теперь старик наблюдал, не пригибаются ли за борт лодки зеленые прутья) and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths (и греб тихонько, следя, чтобы лески оставались прямыми и на нужной глубине). It was quite light and any moment now the sun would rise (было уже довольно светло, и в любой момент сейчас могло взойти солнце).

plummet ['plAmIt], scent [sent], quite [kwaIt]

The boy had given him two fresh small tunas, or albacores, which hung on the two deepest lines like plummets and, on the others, he had a big blue runner and a yellow jack that had been used before; but they were in good condition still and had the excellent sardines to give them scent and attractiveness. Each line, as thick around as a big pencil, was looped onto a green-sapped stick so that any pull or touch on the bait would make the stick dip and each line had two forty-fathom coils which could be made fast to the other spare coils so that, if it were necessary, a fish could take out over three hundred fathoms of line.

Now the man watched the dip of the three sticks over the side of the skiff and rowed gently to keep the lines straight up and down and at their proper depths. It was quite light and any moment now the sun would rise.

The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats (солнце немного поднялось над морем, и старик видел другие лодки; thinly — тонко; экономно, понемногу ), low on the water and well in toward the shore (низко в воде и ближе к берегу; toward — к, по направлению ), spread out across the current (распространившиеся по всей ширине течения). Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water (затем солнце стало ярче, и на море появился блеск; glare — ослепительно яркий свет, сияние, блеск ) and then, as it rose clear, the flat sea sent it back at his eyes (а затем, когда оно полностью взошло, гладкое море отражало: «посылало обратно» его лучи прямо в глаза) so that it hurt sharply and he rowed without looking into it (так, что это причиняло резкую боль, и он стал грести, не глядя на него). He looked down into the water and watched the lines that went straight down into the dark of the water (он смотрел вниз в воду и смотрел за лесами, уходящими вниз в тьму воды). He kept them straighter than anyone did (у него они уходили ровнее, чем у кого-либо: «он держал их прямее, чем кто-либо другой»), so that at each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there (так что на каждом уровне = на разных глубинах темноты потока будет ждать приманка точно там, где он хотел бы, чтобы она была, для любой рыбы, которая там проплывет). Others let them drift with the current (другие позволяли им плыть с течением) and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred (и иногда они были на глубине шестьдесят саженей, когда рыбаки думали, что они были на сотне).

But, he thought, I keep them with precision (но, подумал он, я держу их точно = закидываю приманку точно; precision — точность, правильность ). Only I have no luck any more (только мне больше не везет). But who knows (но кто знает)? Maybe today (может, сегодня). Every day is a new day (каждый день — новый день). It is better to be lucky (лучше быть удачливым = хорошо, когда везет). But I would rather be exact (но я лучше буду точным; exact — точный, правильный ). Then when luck comes you are ready (тогда, когда приходит удача, ты готов к ней).

toward [tq'wLd], precision [prI'sIZ(q)n], exact [Ig'zxkt]

The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current. Then the sun was brighter and the glare came on the water and then, as it rose clear, the flat sea sent it back at his eyes so that it hurt sharply and he rowed without looking into it. He looked down into the water and watched the lines that went straight down into the dark of the water. He kept them straighter than anyone did, so that at each level in the darkness of the stream there would be a bait waiting exactly where he wished it to be for any fish that swam there. Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred.