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

Франк Илья Михайлович

coal-cellar ['k@ul,sel@] roughing ['rVfIN] Eton [i:tn]

The people at the Manor House did not wait to hear us talk. The landlady met us on the doorstep with the greeting that we were the fourteenth party she had turned away within the last hour and a half. As for our meek suggestions of stables, billiard-room, or coal-cellars, she laughed them all to scorn: all these nooks had been snatched up long ago.

Did she know of any place in the whole village where we could get shelter for the night?

"Well, if we didn't mind roughing it — she did not recommend it, mind — but there was a little beershop half a mile down the Eton road — "

We waited to hear no more (мы больше не ждали = не

стали слушать); we caught up the hamper and the bags, and the coats and rugs, and parcels, and ran (мы подхватили корзину, саквояжи, пальто, пледы, свертки и побежали; to catch up). The distance seemed more like a mile than half a mile (расстояние казалось больше похожим на милю, чем на полмили), but we reached the place at last, and rushed, panting, into the bar (но мы достигли места, наконец, и влетели, тяжело дыша, в пивную).

The people at the beershop were rude (хозяева пивной были грубы). They merely laughed at us (они попросту посмеялись над нами). There were only three beds in the whole house (во всем доме было лишь три кровати), and they had seven single gentlemen and two married couples sleeping there already (и в них семь холостых джентльменов и две женатые пары уже спали). A kind-hearted bargeman, however, who happened to be in the tap-room (однако добросердечный/отзывчивый лодочник, который случайно оказался в пивной), thought we might try the grocer's, next door to the Stag, and we went back (предположил, что мы можем попробовать /пойти/ в бакалейную лавку рядом с «Оленем», и мы вернулись назад; next door to — по соседству, рядом).

The grocer's was full (бакалейная лавка была полна). An old woman we met in the shop then kindly took us along with her for a quarter of a mile (старушка, которую мы встретили в лавке, любезно предложила пройти с ней четверть мили; to take along — брать с собой), to a lady friend of hers, who occasionally let rooms to gentlemen (к одной даме, ее знакомой, которая иногда сдает комнаты джентльменам; occasionally — иногда, изредка, время от времени).

parcel ['pA:s(@)l] occasionally [@'keIZ(@)n@lI]

We waited to hear no more; we caught up the hamper and the bags, and the coats and rugs, and parcels, and ran. The distance seemed more like a mile than half a mile, but we reached the place at last, and rushed, panting, into the bar.

The people at the beershop were rude. They merely laughed at us. There were only three beds in the whole house, and they had seven single gentlemen and two married couples sleeping there already. A kind-hearted bargeman, however, who happened to be in the tap-room, thought we might try the grocer's, next door to the Stag, and we went back.

The grocer's was full. An old woman we met in the shop then kindly took us along with her for a quarter of a mile, to a lady friend of hers, who occasionally let rooms to gentlemen.

This old woman walked very slowly (эта старушка шла очень медленно), and we were twenty minutes getting to her lady friend's (и мы двадцать минут добирались до ее знакомой). She enlivened the journey by describing to us, as we trailed along (она оживляла прогулку, описывая нам, пока мы тащились), the various pains she had in her back (различные боли, которые она испытывает в спине).

Her lady friend's rooms were let (комнаты ее знакомой были сданы). From there we were recommended to No. 27. (оттуда нам посоветовали /отправиться/ в дом № 27). No. 27 was full, and sent us to No. 32, and 32 was full (№ 27 был полон, и нас послали в дом № 32, и он /тоже/ был полон; to send).

Then we went back into the high road (потом мы вернулись на

большую дорогу; high road — главная дорога, шоссе), and Harris sat down on the hamper and said he would go no further (Гаррис сел на корзину и сказал, что дальше не пойдет). He said it seemed a quiet spot, and he would like to die there (он сказал, это, кажется, тихое место, и ему хотелось бы умереть здесь). He requested George and me to kiss his mother for him (он попросил нас с Джорджем поцеловать его маму за него; to request — просить, обращаться с просьбой), and to tell all his relations that he forgave them and died happy (и сказать всем его родственникам, что он простил их и умер счастливым; to forgive).

enlivened [In'laIv(@)n] requested [rI'kwestId]

This old woman walked very slowly, and we were twenty minutes getting to her lady friend's. She enlivened the journey by describing to us, as we trailed along, the various pains she had in her back.

Her lady friend's rooms were let. From there we were recommended to No. 27. No. 27 was full, and sent us to No. 32, and 32 was full.

Then we went back into the high road, and Harris sat down on the hamper and said he would go no further. He said it seemed a quiet spot, and he would like to die there. He requested George and me to kiss his mother for him, and to tell all his relations that he forgave them and died happy.

At that moment an angel came by in the disguise of a small boy (в этот момент ангел появился в образе маленького мальчика; to come by — проходить мимо; disguise — маскировка, переодевание; обманчивая внешность, личина) (and I cannot think of any more effective disguise an angel could have assumed) ( и я не могу представить себе более удачного обличья, которое ангел мог бы принять), with a can of beer in one hand, and in the other something at the end of a string (с бидоном пива в одной руке, а в другой — что-то на конце веревки = какой-то предмет, привязанный к веревке), which he let down on to every flat stone he came across (который он опускал на каждый плоский камень, который встречал), and then pulled up again, this producing a peculiarly unattractive sound, suggestive of suffering (и затем поднимал снова вверх, производя этим необычайно непривлекательный звук, наводящий на мысль о страдании = неприятный жалобный звук).

We asked this heavenly messenger (as we discovered him afterwards to be) if he knew of any lonely house (мы спросили этого небесного посланника /каким он впоследствии и оказался: «как мы обнаружили позже, что он им и является»/, не знает ли он уединенного дома), whose occupants were few and feeble (чьи обитатели малочисленны и слабы) (old ladies or paralysed gentlemen preferred) (предпочтительно старые дамы или парализованные джентльмены), who could be easily frightened into giving up their beds for the night to three desperate men (которых можно было бы легко заставить отдать свои постели на ночь троим отчаявшимся мужчинам; to frighten into — страхом, запугиванием заставить сделать что-либо); or, if not this, could he recommend us to an empty pigstye (или, если не это = если этого нет, не мог ли бы он посоветовать нам какой-нибудь пустой свинарник/хлев), or a disused limekiln, or anything of that sort (или заброшенную печь для обжига извести, или что-нибудь в этом роде; limekiln: lime — известь; kiln — печь для обжига и сушки). He did not know of any such place — at least, not one handy (он не знал ни одного подобного места — по крайней мере, ни одного под рукой/поблизости); but he said that, if we liked to come with him (но он сказал, что, если мы хотим, то можем пойти с ним), his mother had a room to spare, and could put us up for the night (у его мамы есть свободная комната, и /она/ может приютить нас на ночь).