Английский язык с Дж. Уэбстер. Длинноногий Папочка - [63]
pour [pO:], innocent ['Inqs(q)nt], prattle [prxtl], notary public ["nqVtqrI'pAblIk], clerk [klQ:k], certificate [sq'tIfIkqt]
Dear Daddy,
We started to walk to town today, but mercy! how it poured. I like winter to be winter with snow instead of rain.
Julia's desirable uncle called again this afternoon — and brought a five-pound box of chocolates. There are advantages, you see, about rooming with Julia.
Our innocent prattle appeared to amuse him and he waited for a later train in order to take tea in the study. We had an awful lot of trouble getting permission. It's hard enough entertaining fathers and grandfathers, but uncles are a step worse; and as for brothers and cousins, they are next to impossible. Julia had to swear that he was her uncle before a notary public and then have the county clerk's certificate attached. (Don't I know a lot of law?)
And even then I doubt if we could have had our tea (и даже тогда, я сомневаюсь, что мы смогли бы выпить чай) if the Dean had chanced to see (если бы декан случайно увидел; to chance — рискнуть; случиться, случайно произойти) how youngish and good-looking Uncle Jervis is (какой моложавый и красивый дядя Джервис; youngish — довольно молодой, нестарый).
Anyway, we had it (как бы то ни было, мы его выпили), with brown bread Swiss cheese sandwiches (с сэндвичами из темного хлеба и швейцарского сыра; brown bread — серый хлеб из непросеянной муки /в Англии/; темный хлеб из пшеницы или ржи, смешанной с кукурузой). He helped make them (он помогал их приготовить) and then ate four (и затем съел четыре /штуки/). I told him that I had spent last summer at Lock Willow (я рассказала ему, что прошлое лето провела в Лок-Уиллоу), and we had a beautiful gossipy time about the Semples (и мы прекрасно провели время, болтая о Семплах: «имели прекрасное болтливое время…»; gossip — болтовня, разговоры; сплетня, слухи), and the horses and cows and chickens (и лошадях, коровах и цыплятах). All the horses that he used to know are dead (все лошади, которых он знал, издохли; to be used to do smth. — иметь в прошлом обыкновение делать что-либо; dead — мертвый, умерший, дохлый), except Grover (за исключением Гровера), who was a baby colt at the time of his last visit (который был еще жеребчиком во время его последнего визита; baby — детский, младенческий; маленький; colt — жеребчик, жеребенок /до 4 лет/) — and poor Grove now is so old (а бедняжка Гров сейчас настолько стар) he can just limp about the pasture (что может только ковылять по пастбищу; to limp — хромать; тащиться, плестись).
He asked if they still kept doughnuts (он спросил, держат ли они пончики до сих пор) in a yellow crock with a blue plate over it (в желтом глиняном горшке, накрытом синей тарелкой) on the bottom shelf of the pantry (на нижней полке в кладовой) — and they do (и /оказалось, что/ они действительно держат)!
youngish ['jANgIS], gossipy ['gOsIpI], colt [kqVlt], pasture ['pQ:stSq]
And even then I doubt if we could have had our tea if the Dean had chanced to see how youngish and good-looking Uncle Jervis is.
Anyway, we had it, with brown bread Swiss cheese sandwiches. He helped make them and then ate four. I told him that I had spent last summer at Lock Willow, and we had a beautiful gossipy time about the Semples, and the horses and cows and chickens. All the horses that he used to know are dead, except Grover, who was a baby colt at the time of his last visit — and poor Grove now is so old he can just limp about the pasture.
He asked if they still kept doughnuts in a yellow crock with a blue plate over it on the bottom shelf of the pantry — and they do!
He wanted to know (ему хотелось знать) if there was still a woodchuck's hole (есть ли все еще нора сурка; hole — дыра, отверстие; нора, берлога) under the pile of rocks in the night pasture (под кучей камней на ночном пастбище; rock — скала, утес; камень, булыжник) — and there is (и она есть)! Amasai caught a big, fat, grey one there this summer (Амасей поймал большого, толстого серого сурка там этим летом;
