Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Старик и море - [62]
The old man felt faint and sick (старик почувствовал слабость и тошноту) and he could not see well (он не мог хорошо видеть). But he cleared the harpoon line (но он отпустил лесу гарпуна) and let it run slowly through his raw hands (и позволил ей медленно бежать = скользить через его ободранные руки; raw — ободранный, лишенный кожи) and, when he could see (и когда он мог снова видеть), he saw the fish was on his back with his silver belly up (он увидел, что рыба была на спине серебристым брюхом кверху). The shaft of the harpoon was projecting at an angle from the fish's shoulder (древко гарпуна выходило под углом из лопатки рыбы) and the sea was discolouring with the red of the blood from his heart (и море окрасилось в красный цвет от крови из ее сердца). First it was dark as a shoal in the blue water that was more than a mile deep (сначала она была темной, словно стая рыб заполнила голубую воду на милю вглубь; shoal — стая, косяк /рыб/). Then it spread like a cloud (затем оно расплылось, как облако). The fish was silvery and still (рыба была серебристой и неподвижной) and floated with the waves (и покачивалась на волнах; to float — держаться на поверхности воды).
spray [spreI], raw [rL], shoal [Squl]
Then the fish came alive, with his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power and his beauty. He seemed to hang in the air above the old man in the skiff. Then he fell into the water with a crash that sent spray over the old man and over all of the skiff.
The old man felt faint and sick and he could not see well. But he cleared the harpoon line and let it run slowly through his raw hands and, when he could see, he saw the fish was on his back with his silver belly up. The shaft of the harpoon was projecting at an angle from the fish's shoulder and the sea was discolouring with the red of the blood from his heart. First it was dark as a shoal in the blue water that was more than a mile deep. Then it spread like a cloud. The fish was silvery and still and floated with the waves.
The old man looked carefully in the glimpse of vision that he had (старик смотрел внимательно, насколько позволяло ему зрение: «в проблеске зрения, которое у него было»; glimpse — проблеск, беглый взгляд; vision — зрение). Then he took two turns of the harpoon line around the bitt in the bow (затем он дважды обмотал лесу гарпуна вокруг кнехта на носу) and hid his head on his hands (и опустил: «спрятал» голову на руки; to hide — прятать, скрывать).
"Keep my head clear (держать голову ясной)," he said against the wood of the bow (сказал он, прижавшись к обшивке носа лодки). "I am a tired old man (я уставший старик). But I have killed this fish which is my brother (но я убил эту рыбу, которая мне брат) and now I must do the slave work (и теперь я должен сделать черную: «рабскую» работу)."
Now I must prepare the nooses (сейчас я должен подготовить петли; noose — приспособление для поимки кого-либо: петля; аркан; лассо) and the rope to lash him alongside (и веревку, чтобы привязать ее к борту), he thought. Even if we were two (даже если бы нас было двое) and swamped her to load him (и мы затопили бы лодку, чтобы погрузить ее; to swamp — заливать, затоплять) and bailed her out (и вычерпали бы воду; to bail out — вычерпывать воду), this skiff would never hold him (эта лодка ни за что не выдержала бы ее /веса/). I must prepare everything (я должен все подготовить), then bring him in and lash him well (затем подтянуть ее и привязать хорошенько) and step the mast (поставить мачту) and set sail for home (поставить парус и отправиться домой).
glimpse [glIm(p)s], vision ['vIZ(q)n], noose [nHs]
The old man looked carefully in the glimpse of vision that he had. Then he took two turns of the harpoon line around the bitt in the bow and hid his head on his hands.
"Keep my head clear," he said against the wood of the bow. "I am a tired old man. But I have killed this fish which is my brother and now I must do the slave work."
Now I must prepare the nooses and the rope to lash him alongside, he thought. Even if we were two and swamped her to load him and bailed her out, this skiff would never hold him. I must prepare everything, then bring him in and lash him well and step the mast and set sail for home.
He started to pull the fish in to have him alongside so that he could pass a line through his gills and out his mouth (он начал подтягивать рыбу поближе так, чтобы он мог продеть лесу через жабры и рот) and make his head fast alongside the bow (и привязать ее голову к носу). I want to see him (я хочу увидеть ее), he thought, and to touch and to feel him (и дотронуться, и почувствовать ее; to feel — щупать; чувствовать). He is my fortune (она — мое богатство), he thought. But that is not why I wish to feel him (но не поэтому я хочу почувствовать ее). I think I felt his heart (я думаю, я ощутил ее сердце), he thought. When I pushed on the harpoon shaft the second time (когда надавил на древко гарпуна во второй раз). Bring him in now (подтащи ее сюда) and make him fast (и привяжи) and get the noose around his tail (и накинь петлю ей на хвост) and another around his middle to bind him to the skiff (а другую — посередине ее туловища, чтобы привязать ее к лодке).
