Английский язык с У. С. Моэмом. На окраине империи. Рассказы
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She talked it over with Bateman Hunter, always the most generous of friends (она обговорила это с Бейтманом Хантером, самым великодушным из друзей при любых обстоятельствах: «всегда») (during those first few days after Edward went she did not know what she would have done without him (во время тех первых дней, когда Эдвард уехал, она не знала, чтобы она без него делала)), and they decided that Edward's future must stand before everything (и они решили, что будущее Эдварда превыше всего: «должно стоять впереди всего»). It was with relief that she found as the time passed (когда прошло время, она с облегчением обнаружила) that he made no suggestion of returning (что он не собирался возвращаться: «не делал предложения о возвращении»).
"He's splendid, isn't he (он
"He's white, through and through (он чрезвычайно порядочный; white— белый; честный, порядочный, благородный; through and through — совершенно, до конца)."
generous ['dZen(q)rqs], relief [rI'li: f], suggestion [sq'dZestS(q)n]
She talked it over with Bateman Hunter, always the most generous of friends (during those first few days after Edward went she did not know what she would have done without him), and they decided that Edward's future must stand before everything. It was with relief that she found as the time passed that he made no suggestion of returning.
"He's splendid, isn't he?" she exclaimed to Bateman.
"He's white, through and through."
"Reading between the lines of his letter I know he hates it over there (читая между строк его писем, я знаю, что ему там очень не нравится; to hate — ненавидеть;не выносить, испытывать отвращение), but he's sticking it out because (но он терпит, потому)…"
She blushed a little (она слегка покраснела) and Bateman, with the grave smile which was so attractive in him (и Бейтман, с мрачной улыбкой, которая была настолько привлекательной в нем), finished the sentence for her (закончил за нее фразу; sentence — грам. предложение).
"Because he loves you (потому что он тебя любит)."
"It makes me feel so humble (от этого я себя чувствую столь смиренной/робкой)," she said.
"You're wonderful, Isabel, you're perfectly wonderful (ты удивительна, Изабелла, ты просто чудо)."
attractive [q'trxktIv], sentence ['sentqns], humble ['hAmb(q)l]
" Reading between the lines of his letter I know he hates it over there, but he's sticking it out because…"
She blushed a little and Bateman, with the grave smile which was so attractive in him, finished the sentence for her.
"Because he loves you."
"It makes me feel so humble," she said.
"You're wonderful, Isabel, you're perfectly wonderful."
But the second year passed and every month Isabel continued to receive a letter from Edward (но вот прошел второй год, и каждый месяц Изабелла продолжала получить письма от Эдварда), and presently it began to seem a little strange that he did not speak of coming back (и теперь уже начинало казаться немного странным то, что он не говорил о возвращении). He wrote as though he were settled definitely in Tahiti (он писал так, словно он определенно = окончательно поселился на Таити), and what was more, comfortably settled (и, более того, поселился с комфортом). She was surprised (она была удивлена). Then she read his letters again, all of them, several times (затем она перечитала его письма, все письма, несколько раз); and now, reading between the lines indeed (и теперь, действительно читая между строк), she was puzzled to notice a change which had escaped her (она озадаченно обнаружила перемену, которая прежде ускользала от нее; to escape — бежать/из заключения/;ускользать/о смысле и т. п./).
continue [kqn'tInju: ], definitely ['defInItlI], surprise [sq'praIz]
But the second year passed and every month Isabel continued to receive a letter from Edward, and presently it began to seem a little strange that he did not speak of coming back. He wrote as though he were settled definitely in Tahiti, and what was more, comfortably settled. She was surprised. Then she read his letters again, all of them, several times; and now, reading between the lines indeed, she was puzzled to notice a change which had escaped her.
The later letters were as tender and as delightful as the first (последние
"Did Edward tell you when he was sailing (Эдвард сообщил тебе, когда он отплывает)?"
"No, he didn't mention it (нет, он не упомянул об этом). I thought he might have said something to you about it (я подумала, что он, возможно, мог бы сказать тебе об этом)."
"Not a word (ни слова)."
delightful [dI'laItf(q)l], vaguely ['veIglI], suspicious [sq'spISqs], unaccountable ["Anq'kauntqb(q)l], discern [dI'sWn], perplexed [pq'plekst]
The later letters were as tender and as delightful as the first, but the tone was different. She was vaguely suspicious of their humour, she had the instinctive mistrust of her sex for that unaccountable quality, and she discerned in them now a flippancy which perplexed her. She was not quite certain that the Edward who wrote to her now was the same Edward that she had known. One afternoon, the day after a mail had arrived from Tahiti, when she was driving with Bateman he said to her:
"Did Edward tell you when he was sailing?"
"No, he didn't mention it. I thought he might have said something to you about it."
"Not a word."
"You know what Edward is (ты же знаешь, какой Эдвард)," she laughed in reply (рассмеялась она в ответ), "he has no sense of time (у него нет чувства времени). If it occurs to you next time you write (если вспомнишь об этом в следующий раз, когда будешь ему писать; to occur— случаться, происходить; приходить на ум, в голову) you might ask him when he's thinking of coming (ты мог бы спросить его, когда он думает возвращаться)."
Her manner was so unconcerned that only Bateman's acute sensitiveness (ее манера была настолько беззаботной, что только острая восприимчивость Бейтмана) could have discerned in her request a very urgent desire (смогла разглядеть в ее просьбе настойчивое пожелание; urgent— срочный, неотложный; настойчивый, упорный;desire— сильное желание; просьба, пожелание). He laughed lightly (он беспечно рассмеялся; lightly— слегка, едва; с легким сердцем, беспечно).