Английская коллекция. Р. Л. Стивенсон. Бутылочный чертенок / Robert Louis Stevenson. The Bottle Imp
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The streets in that part of the city were as clean as a ship's decks (улицы в той части города были чистыми, словно палубы корабля), and though it was noon, there were no passengers (и, хотя был полдень, там = на них не было /никаких/ прохожих; passenger – пассажир, седок; путник, странник).
Keawe set the bottle in the gutter and walked away (Кэаве бросил: «положил» бутылку в канаву и зашагал прочь). Twice he looked back (дважды он оглянулся: «посмотрел назад»), and there was the milky, round-bellied bottle where he left it (и по-прежнему молочного /цвета/ пузатая бутылка была там, где он ее оставил; to leave).
though [d], gutter ['t], round-bellied ['rand,beld]
The streets in that part of the city were as clean as a ship's decks, and though it was noon, there were no passengers.
Keawe set the bottle in the gutter and walked away. Twice he looked back, and there was the milky, round-bellied bottle where he left it.
A third time he looked back, and turned a corner (в
“And that looks like the truth (и это похоже на правду),” said Keawe.
third [:d], jammed [daemd], pilot coat ['palt,kt]
A third time he looked back, and turned a corner; but he had scarce done so, when something knocked upon his elbow, and behold! it was the long neck sticking up; and as for the round belly, it was jammed into the pocket of his pilot-coat.
“And that looks like the truth,” said Keawe.
The next thing he did was to buy a cork-screw in a shop (следующим делом он купил штопор в магазине: «следующее дело, которое он сделал, это купил штопор в магазине»; cork – кора пробкового дерева; пробка; screw – винт, шуруп; cork-screw – штопор /для открывания бутылок/), and go apart into a secret place in the fields (и ушел в безлюдное поле: «уединенное место в полях»; secret – тайный, секретный; уединенный, удаленный).
And there he tried to draw the cork (и там он попытался вытащить пробку), but as often as he put the screw in, out it came again (но каждый раз, когда он ввинчивал штопор, он снова оказывался снаружи; often – часто, много раз; as often as – всякий раз, как только; to come out – появляться; выпадать, вылезать), and the cork as whole as ever (а пробка /оставалась/ как никогда целехонькой; whole – весь, целый, полный; неповрежденный, целый /о неодушевленных предметах/).
“This is some new sort of cork (это какой-то новый сорт пробки),” said Keawe, and all at once he began to shake and sweat (сказал Кэаве, и неожиданно его затрясло, и он покрылся испариной: «он начал трястись и потеть»; to shake – трясти; дрожать, трястись), for he was afraid of that bottle (потому что он испугался той бутылки).
cork-screw ['k:kskru:], sweat [swet], afraid ['fred]
The next thing he did was to buy a cork-screw in a shop, and go apart into a secret place in the fields.
And there he tried to draw the cork, but as often as he put the screw in, out it came again, and the cork as whole as ever.
“This is some new sort of cork,” said Keawe, and all at once he began to shake and sweat, for he was afraid of that bottle.
On his way back to the port-side, he saw a shop (по
And here he had an idea (и тут ему пришла в голову: «у него появилась» одна идея). So he went in and offered the bottle for a hundred dollars (тогда он вошел /в лавку/ и предложил бутылку за сотню долларов; to go in).
heathen ['hi:dn], deities ['di:tz], Japan [d'paen]
On his way back to the port-side, he saw a shop where a man sold shells and clubs from the wild islands, old heathen deities, old coined money, pictures from China and Japan, and all manner of things that sailors bring in their sea-chests.
And here he had an idea. So he went in and offered the bottle for a hundred dollars.
The man of the shop laughed at him at the first, and offered him five (хозяин лавки посмеялся над ним сперва и предложил ему пять; man – мужчина, человек); but, indeed, it was a curious bottle (но, в самом деле, это была удивительная бутылка; curious – любознательный, пытливый; изящный, изысканный) – such glass was never blown in any human glassworks (такого стекла никогда не выдували ни в одной из человеческих мастерских; to blow – дуть, веять /о ветре/; выдувать /стеклянные изделия и т. п./; glass – стекло; works – завод, фабрика, мастерские; glassworks – стекольное производство, стекольный завод), so prettily the colours shone under the milky white (так изящно сияли цвета /в толще стекла/ под молочной белизной; to shine), and so strangely the shadow hovered in the midst (и настолько необычно трепетала тень внутри: «в середине»; to hover – реять, парить, порхать /о птице и т. п./); so, after he had disputed awhile after the manner of his kind (так что, поторговавшись какое-то время, как это свойственно торговцам: «на манер ему подобных»; to dispute – обсуждать, дискутировать; спорить, пререкаться; manner – метод, способ, образ действий; after the manner of smb. – на манер, наподобие кого-л.; kind – сорт, класс; /арх./ манера, способ /присущий кому-л./), the shop-man gave Keawe sixty silver dollars for the thing (торговец дал Кэаве шестьдесят серебряных долларов за эту вещь; to give), and set it on a shelf in the midst of his window (и поместил ее на полку в середине витрины; to set; window – окно; витрина).
curious ['kjrs], shadow ['aed], dispute [ds'pju:t]
The man of the shop laughed at him at the first, and offered him five; but, indeed, it was a curious bottle – such glass was never blown in any human glassworks, so prettily the colours shone under the milky white, and so strangely the shadow hovered in the midst; so, after he had disputed awhile after the manner of his kind, the shop-man gave Keawe sixty silver dollars for the thing, and set it on a shelf in the midst of his window.