Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Старик и море - [67]

scent [sent], trace [treIs], crisp [krIsp]

Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would pick it up again, or have just a trace of it, and he swam fast and hard on the course. He was a very big mako shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. His back was as blue as a sword fish's and his belly was silver and his hide was smooth and handsome. He was built as a sword fish except for his huge jaws which were tight shut now as he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing through the water without wavering. Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man's fingers when they are crisped like claws. They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. This was a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy. Now he speeded up as he smelled the fresher scent and his blue dorsal fin cut the water.

When the old man saw him coming (когда старик увидел, что она приближается) he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all (он знал, что это была та акула, в которой совсем нет страха) and would do exactly what he wished (и которая сделает в точности то, что желает). He prepared the harpoon (он подготовил гарпун) and made the rope fast (и привязал веревку) while he watched the shark come on (пока наблюдал, как приближается акула). The rope was short as it lacked what he had cut away to lash the fish (веревка была короткой, потому что ей не хватало той части, что он отрезал, чтобы связать рыбу; to lack — не хватать, недоставать).

The old man's head was clear and good now (сейчас голова у старика работала хорошо: «была ясна и хороша») and he was full of resolution (и он был полон решимости; resolution — решительность, решимость) but he had little hope (но не тешил себя надеждой: «у него было мало надежды»). It was too good to last (это было слишком хорошо, чтобы продолжаться = уж больно все было хорошо, так не может продолжаться), he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in (наблюдая, как акула приближается, он бросил взгляд на большую рыбу). It might as well have been a dream (это могло бы быть и сном), he thought. I cannot keep him from hitting me (я не могу помешать ей напасть на меня) but maybe I can get him (но, возможно, я смогу убить ее). Dentuso (зубастая; dentuso — /исп./ мако-акула; зубастый), he thought. Bad luck to your mother (чума: «несчастье» на твою мать).

The shark closed fast astern (акула подплыла к самой корме; fast — тесно, крепко; близко, рядом) and when he hit the fish the old man saw his mouth open (и когда она набросилась на рыбу, старик увидел ее открытый рот) and his strange eyes (и ее необыкновенные глаза) and the clicking chop of the teeth (и щелкание: «щелкающий удар» челюстей; chop — сильный удар) as he drove forward in the meat just above the tail (когда она впилась в мясо прямо над хвостом). The shark's head was out of water (голова акулы была над водой) and his back was coming out (и спина выходила /на поверхность/) and the old man could hear the noise of skin and flesh ripping on the big fish (старик слышал шум разрываемой кожи и плоти большой рыбы) when he rammed the harpoon down onto the shark's head (когда он вогнал гарпун в голову акулы; to ram — вгонять, вбивать, вколачивать) at a spot where the line between his eyes intersected with the line that ran straight back from his nose (в место, где линия между глазами пересекалась с линией, уходящей прямо назад от ее носа; to intersect — пересекаться). There were no such lines (таких линий не было). There was only the heavy sharp blue head (была только тяжелая острая голубая голова) and the big eyes (и большие глаза) and the clicking, thrusting all-swallowing jaws (и лязгающие, выпяченные, всепоглощающие челюсти). But that was the location of the brain (но это было место, где у акулы был мозг; location — размещение, расположение) and the old man hit it (и старик ударил в него). He hit it with his blood mushed hands driving a good harpoon with all his strength (он ударил иссеченными до крови руками, вгоняя гарпун со всех сил). He hit it without hope (он ударил без надежды) but with resolution and complete malignancy (но с решимостью и яростной злобой; malignancy — злоба; malignant — злобный; complete — полный).

resolution ["rezq'lHS(q)n], chop [COp], intersect ["Intq'sekt], malignancy [mq'lIgnqnsI]

When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished. He prepared the harpoon and made the rope fast while he watched the shark come on. The rope was short as it lacked what he had cut away to lash the fish.

The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. It might as well have been a dream, he thought. I cannot keep him from hitting me but maybe I can get him.