Английский язык с Мюриэль Спарк (рассказы)
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vicious ['vISqs] elbow ['elbqV] heave [hi: v]
I noted her correct phrase, "Are these they?" and it seemed just over the border of correctness. Perhaps, after all, this brother and sister were strange, vicious, in the wrong.
She had raised the bottle and was reading the label with her one good eye. "Yes, this is mine. It has my name on it," she said.
Dark Basil, dark Dorothy. There was something wrong after all. She walked upstairs with her bottle of eye-drops. The brother put his hand on my elbow and heaved me to my feet, forgetting his coloured slides.
"There's nothing wrong with your eyes (с
From upstairs came a long scream (с верхнего этажа раздался протяжный крик; long— длинный, долгий, продолжительный). Basil jerked open the door for me (Бэзил рывком открыл дверь передо мной), but I did not move (но я не двинулась /с места/). Then Dorothy, upstairs, screamed and screamed and screamed (тогда Дороти, /которая была/ на верхнем этаже, кричала и кричала и кричала). Basil put his hands to his head (Бэзил поднял руки к голове), covering his eyes (закрыв глаза). Dorothy appeared on the bend of the stairs (Дороти появилась на лестничной площадке: «повороте лестницы»), screaming (крича), doubled-up (скорчившись: «согнувшаяся пополам»; to double up — сгибаться, складыватьсявдвое), with both hands covering her good eye (обеими руками она закрывала свой здоровый глаз).
I started screaming (я начала неудержимо кричать) when I got home (когда я вернулась домой), and was given a sedative (и мне дали успокоительное). By evening (к вечеру) everyone knew that Miss Simmonds had put the wrong drops in her eyes (уже все знали, что мисс Симмондс закапала: «положила» в глаза не те: «неправильные» капли).
scream [skri: m] sedative ['sedqtIv] wrong [rON]
"There's nothing wrong with your eyes. Off you go. He pushed me into the front shop. His flat eyes were wide open as he handed me my glasses. He pointed to the door "I'm a busy man," he said.
From upstairs came a long scream. Basil jerked open the door for me, but I did not move. Then Dorothy, upstairs, screamed and screamed and screamed. Basil put his hands to his head, covering his eyes. Dorothy appeared on the bend of the stairs, screaming, doubled-up, with both hands covering her good eye.
I started screaming when I got home, and was given a sedative. By evening everyone knew that Miss Simmonds had put the wrong drops in her eyes.
"Will she go blind in that eye, too (она
"The doctor says there's hope (врач говорит, что есть надежда)."
"There will be an inquiry (будет расследование)."
"She was going blind in that eye in any case (она все равно слепла и на этот глаз; inanycase— в любом случае, при любых обстоятельствах)," they said (говорили /люди/).
"Ah, but the pain (о, но боль)…"
"Whose mistake, hers or his (чья ошибка, ее или его)?"
"Joan was there at the time (Джоан была там, в то самое время). Joan heard the screams (Джоан слышала крики). We had to give her a sedative to calm (мы даже дали ей: «мы вынуждены были дать ей» седативное, чтобы успокоить; tocalm— успокаивать, утихомиривать) —
— calm her down (успокоить ее)."
"But who made the mistake (но кто же совершил ошибку)?"
"She usually makes up the eye-drops herself (она обычно сама делает глазные капли). She's got a dispenser's (у нее есть свидетельство —
— dispenser's certificate (свидетельство фармацевта), you know (ну вы знаете)."
"Her name was on the bottle (ее имя было на бутылочке). Joan says (Джоан /так/ говорит),"
hope [hqVp] mistake [mI'steIk] dispenser [dIs'pensq]
"Will she go blind in that eye, too?" people said.
"The doctor says there's hope."
"There will be an inquiry."
"She was going blind in that eye in any case," they said.
"Ah, but the pain…"
"Whose mistake, hers or his?"
"Joan was there at the time. Joan heard the screams. We had to give her a sedative to calm—
— calm her down."
"But who made the mistake?" "She usually makes up the eye-drops herself She's got a dispenser's—
— dispenser's certificate, you know."
"Her name was on the bottle. Joan says."
"Who wrote the name on the bottle (кто написал имя на бутылочке)? That's the question (в этом то и вопрос). They'll find out from the handwriting (они определят: «обнаружат» по почерку). If it was Mr. Simmonds he'll be disqualified (если это был /почерк/ господина Симмондса, его дисквалифицируют; to disqualify — лишатьправа).''
"She always wrote the names on the bottles (она всегда писала имена на бутылочках). She'll be put off the dispensers' roll (ее вычеркнут из списка фармацевтов /т. е. лишат практики/; to put off — отделять, откладывать, отбрасывать), poor thing (бедняжка)."