Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом Трое в лодке, не считая собаки jerome k. Jerome (Джером К. Джером) three men in a boat

Well, that boy used to get ill about twice a week, so that he couldn't go to school. There never was such a boy to get ill as that Sandford and Merton. If there was any known disease going within ten miles of him, he had it, and had it badly. He would take bronchitis in the dog-days, and have hay-fever at Christmas. After a six weeks' period of drought, he would be stricken down with rheumatic fever; and he would go out in a November fog and come home with a sunstroke.

He had to stop in bed when he was ill (ему приходилось оставаться в постели, когда он болел), and eat chicken and custards and hot-house grapes (и есть цыплят, и пудинги, и виноград из оранжереи; custard — жидкий заварной крем /подается к пудингам, пирогам с фруктами и т.д./); and he would lie there and sob, because they wouldn't let him do Latin exercises (а он лежал и рыдал, потому что ему не позволяют делать латинские упражнения), and took his German grammar away from him (и забирали у него немецкую грамматику).

false [fLls] toothache [`tHTeIk] chilblain [`CIlbleIn] cholera [`kOlqrq] reputed [rI`pjHtId]
They put him under laughing-gas one year, poor lad, and drew all his teeth, and gave him a false set, because he suffered so terribly with toothache; and then it turned to neuralgia and ear-ache. He was never without a cold, except once for nine weeks while he had scarlet fever; and he always had chilblains. During the great cholera scare of 1871, our neighbourhood was singularly free from it. There was only one reputed case in the whole parish: that case was young Stivvings.

He had to stop in bed when he was ill, and eat chicken and custards and hot-house grapes; and he would lie there and sob, because they wouldn't let him do Latin exercises, and took his German grammar away from him.

Such is life (такова жизнь); and we are but as grass that is cut down (а мы —всего лишь словно трава, которую срезают), and put into the oven and baked (и кладут в печь, и жгут; to bake — печь/ся/, запекать).

sacrificed [`sxkrIfaIst] cough [kOf] manoeuvre [mq`nHvq]
And we other boys, who would have sacrificed ten terms of our school-life for the sake of being ill for a day, and had no desire whatever to give our parents any excuse for being stuck-up about us, couldn't catch so much as a stiff neck. We fooled about in draughts, and it did us good, and freshened us up; and we took things to make us sick, and they made us fat, and gave us an appetite. Nothing we could think of seemed to make us ill until the holidays began. Then, on the breaking-up day, we caught colds, and whooping cough, and all kinds of disorders, which lasted till the term recommenced; when, in spite of everything we could manoeuvre to the contrary, we would get suddenly well again, and be better than ever.

Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.

beautiful [`bjHtIf(q)l] treasure [`treZq] ornament [`Lnqmqnt] utensil [ju(:)`tensl]

That china dog that ornaments the bedroom of my furnished lodgings (/например/, фарфоровая собачка, которая украшает спальню моей меблированной квартиры; lodgings — съемная квартира /комната/). It is a white dog (это белая собачка). Its eyes are blue (ее глаза голубые). Its nose is a delicate red, with black spots (нос нежно-розовый, с черными крапинками; spot — пятнышко, крапинка). Its head is painfully erect (голова мучительно поднята = задрана как можно выше; erect — прямой, вертикальный; вертикально поднятый), its expression is amiability carried to verge of imbecility (ее выражение = своим видом она выражает дружелюбие, граничащее со слабоумием; to carry — /пере/носить, /пере/возить; доходить, достигать; verge — край, грань). I do not admire it myself (сам я ей не восхищаюсь). Considered as a work of art, I may say it irritates me (если рассматривать ее как произведение искусства, то могу сказать, она раздражает меня; to consider — рассматривать, считать). Thoughtless friends jeer at it (легкомысленные приятели глумятся над ней; thoughtless — беспечный; неразумный; thought — мысль; внимание; to jeer — насмехаться, глумиться, издеваться), and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it (и даже сама хозяйка квартиры не восторгается ею; landlady — домовладелица, сдающая квартиры; хозяйка меблированных комнат, гостиницы и др.), and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her (и оправдывает ее присутствие тем обстоятельством, что ее тетка подарила ей эту собачку; to excuse — извинять/ся/; оправдывать/ся/; to give — давать, дарить).

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Will it be the same in the future? Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before? Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd? Will the white cups with the gold rim and the beautiful gold flower inside species unknown, that our Sarah Janes now break in sheer light-heartedness of spirit, be carefully mended, and stood upon a bracket, and dusted only by the lady of the house?

That china dog that ornaments the bedroom of my furnished lodgings. It is a white dog. Its eyes are blue. Its nose is a delicate red, with black spots. Its head is painfully erect, its expression is amiability carried to verge of imbecility. I do not admire it myself. Considered as a work of art, I may say it irritates me. Thoughtless friends jeer at it, and even my landlady herself has no admiration for it, and excuses its presence by the circumstance that her aunt gave it to her.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog (мы в этот = наш век не видим красоты этой собачки). We are too familiar with it (мы слишком привыкли к ней; to be familiar with — хорошо знать, быть знакомым). It is like the sunset and the stars (это как закат и звезды): we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes (нас не поражает их прелесть/красота, потому что они привычны для наших глаз; to awe — внушать страх, благоговение). So it is with that china dog (так же и с этой фарфоровой собачкой). In 2288 people will gush over it (в 2288 году люди будут восхищаться ею; to gush — изливать чувства; разглагольствовать). The making of such dogs will have become a lost art (производство таких собачек станет утраченным искусством). Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were (наши потомки будут удивляться, как мы это делали, и говорить, какими искусными мы были; clever — сообразительный; искусный, умелый). We shall be referred to lovingly as "those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs (нас будут называть с любовью «те великие древние мастера, которые процветали в девятнадцатом веке и изготавливали тех фарфоровых собачек»; to be referred to as — именовать, называться; to produce — производить, изготовлять; artist — художник; мастер своего дела)."

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But in 200 years' time it is more than probable that that dog will be dug up from somewhere or other, minus its legs, and with its tail broken, and will be sold for old china, and put in a glass cabinet. And people will pass it round, and admire it. They will be struck by the wonderful depth of the colour on the nose, and speculate as to how beautiful the bit of the tail that is lost no doubt was.

We, in this age, do not see the beauty of that dog. We are too familiar with it. It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. So it is with that china dog. In 2288 people will gush over it. The making of such dogs will have become a lost art. Our descendants will wonder how we did it, and say how clever we were. We shall be referred to lovingly as "those grand old artists that flourished in the nineteenth century, and produced those china dogs."

At this point Harris threw away the sculls (в этом месте Гаррис отбросил весла; to throw away), got up and left his seat (поднялся, покинул свое место; to get up; to leave), and sat on his back, and stuck his legs in the air (и очутился на спине, и задрал ноги вверх: «в воздух»; to sit — сидеть; располагаться; to be on one`s back — лежать /больным/ в постели; to stick — втыкать, вкалывать; торчать, высовывать). Montmorency howled, and turned a somersault (Монморенси взвыл и перекувырнулся) and the top hamper jumped up, and all the things came out (и верхняя корзина подскочила, и все вещи выпали /из нее/).

I was somewhat surprised, but I did not lose my temper (я несколько удивился, но не потерял самообладания). I said, pleasantly enough (я сказал довольно весело):
"Hulloa (алло)! what's that for (это почему = в чем дело)?"

daughter [`dLtq] era [`I(q)rq] weight [weIt] ancient [`eInS(q)nt] howled [hauld]

At this point Harris threw away the sculls, got up and left his seat, and sat on his back, and stuck his legs in the air. Montmorency howled, and turned a somersault, and the top hamper jumped up, and all the things came out.

I was somewhat surprised, but I did not lose my temper. I said, pleasantly enough:
"Hulloa! what's that for?"
"What's that for (почему)? Why — (ну…)"

No, on second thoughts, I will not repeat what Harris said (нет, хорошенько подумав, /я решил, что не стану повторять /то/, что сказал Гаррис; on second thoughts — по зрелом размышлении, взвесив все еще раз). I may have been to blame, I admit it (может быть, я был виноват, согласен; to blame — винить, осуждать; to admit — допускать, соглашаться; признавать /вину/); but nothing excuses violence of language and coarseness of expression (но ничто не оправдывает резкости языка и грубости выражений; violence — насилие, буйность; expression — выражение, оборот речи), especially in a man who has been carefully brought up, as I know Harris has been (особенно если человек хорошо: «тщательно» воспитан, как, я знаю, Гаррис /был воспитан/; to bring up). I was thinking of other things, and forgot (я думал о других вещах и забыл; to forget), as any one might easily understand, that I was steering (как любой легко может понять, что я правлю рулем), and the consequence was that we had got mixed up a good deal with the tow-path (и последствием было /то/, что мы слишком сильно смешались с берегом; to get mixed up with — связываться; впутываться; tow-path — бечевник; береговая полоса, затопляемая приливом). It was difficult to say, for the moment (трудно было сказать в ту минуту), which was us and which was the Middlesex bank of the river (что было нами, а что Мидлсекским берегом реки = где мы, а где берег); but we found out after a while, and separated ourselves (но мы поняли/выяснили /это/ через некоторое время, и разделились).