Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Старик и море - [14]
phosphorescence [fOsfq'resqns], congregate ['kONgrIgeIt], swirl [swWl]
Sometimes someone would speak in a boat. But most of the boats were silent except for the dip of the oars. They spread apart after they were out of the mouth of the harbour and each one headed for the part of the ocean where he hoped to find fish. The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. He saw the phosphorescence of the Gulf weed in the water as he rowed over the part of the ocean that the fishermen called the great well because there was a sudden deep of seven hundred fathoms where all sorts of fish congregated because of the swirl the current made against the steep walls of the floor of the ocean. Here there were concentrations of shrimp and bait fish and sometimes schools of squid in the deepest holes and these rose close to the surface at night where all the wandering fish fed on them.
In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming (в темноте старик чувствовал, как наступает утро) and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water (и пока он греб, он слышал дребезжащий звук, с которым летучая рыба покидала воду; to leave) and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness (и свист, с которым их жесткие крылья рассекали воздух: «парили» в темноте; hiss — шипение, свист; stiff — жесткий, неэластичный; to soar — парить). He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean (он очень любил летучих рыб, потому как они были его главными друзьями в океане; to be fond of — любить, относиться с душевной теплотой; principal — главный, основной). He was sorry for the birds (ему было жалко птиц), especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding (особенно утонченных темных крачек, которые всегда летали и искали, и почти никогда не находили; delicate — изысканный, тонкий; tern — крачка /птица/), and he thought, the birds have a harder life than we do (у птиц жизнь труднее, чем у нас) except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones (если не считать стервятников и больших сильных птиц; robber — грабитель; to rob — грабить). Why did they make birds so delicate and fine (зачем птиц создали настолько утонченными и прекрасными) as those sea swallows (как те морские ласточки) when the ocean can be so cruel (если океан бывает так жесток)? She is kind and very beautiful (он /океан/: «она» — добрый и очень красивый). But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly (но он может быть таким жестоким, и это происходит так неожиданно) and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea (а такие птицы, которые летают, ныряя и охотясь, с их слабыми грустными голосами, слишком хрупки для моря).
principal ['prInsqpl], delicate ['delIkIt], tern [tWn]
In the dark the old man could feel the morning coming and as he rowed he heard the trembling sound as flying fish left the water and the hissing that their stiff set wings made as they soared away in the darkness. He was very fond of flying fish as they were his principal friends on the ocean. He was sorry for the birds, especially the small delicate dark terns that were always flying and looking and almost never finding, and he thought, the birds have a harder life than we do except for the robber birds and the heavy strong ones. Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.
He always thought of the sea as la mar (он всегда думал о море, как о la mar) which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her (так люди называли его на испанском, когда любили его). Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her (иногда те, кто любил его, говорили о нем плохие вещи = плохо) but they are always said as though she were a woman (но они всегда говорили так, как будто оно было женщиной). Some of the younger fishermen (некоторые из молодых рыбаков), those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats (те, кто использовали буйки как поплавки на своих лесах, и у которых были моторные лодки), bought when the shark livers had brought much money (купленные, когда печень акулы стоила больших денег = была в цене), spoke of her as el mar which is masculine (говорили о нем, как об el mar, что имеет мужской род). They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy (они говорили о нем как о сопернике, или как о месте, или даже как о враге; contest — соревнование, состязание; contestant — соперник, противник, конкурент
