Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так - [14]
altogether ["Lltq'geDq], smooth [smHD], breathe [brJD]
THIS is the picture of the Parsee beginning to eat his cake on the Uninhabited Island in the Red Sea on a very hot day; and of the Rhinoceros coming down from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior, which, as you can truthfully see, is all rocky. The Rhinoceros’s skin is quite smooth, and the three buttons that button it up are underneath, so you can’t see them. The squiggly things on the Parsee’s hat are the rays of the sun reflected in more-than-oriental splendour, because if I had drawn real rays they would have filled up all the picture. The cake has currants in it; and the wheel-thing lying on the sand in front belonged to one of Pharaoh’s chariots when he tried to cross the Red Sea. The Parsee found it, and kept it to play with. The Parsee’s name was Pestonjee Bomonjee, and the Rhinoceros was called Strorks, because he breathed through his mouth instead of his nose. I wouldn’t ask anything about the cooking-stove if I were you.
THIS is the Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee (это Парс Пестонджи Бомонджи) sitting in his palm tree (сидящий на своей пальме) and watching the Rhinoceros Strorks (и наблюдающий за Носорогом Строрком) bathing near the beach of the Altogether Uninhabited Island (купающимся возле берега Совершенно Необитаемого Острова) after Strorks had taken off his skin (после того как Строркс снял свою шкуру). The Parsee has put the cake-crumbs into the skin (Парс положил крошки от пирога в шкуру), and he is smiling to think (и он /сейчас/ улыбается при мысли /о том/) how they will tickle Strorks (как они будут щекотать Строркса) when Strorks puts it on again (когда Строркс снова ее наденет[32]). The skin is just under the rocks below the palm-tree in a cool place (шкура как раз под скалами ниже пальмы в прохладном месте); that is why you can’t see it (поэтому вы не видите ее). The Parsee is wearing a new more-than-oriental-splendour hat of the sort that Parsees wear (на Парсе сейчас новая шляпа более-чем-восточного великолепия, такая, как носят Парсы); and he has a knife in his hand to cut his name on palm trees (и у него в /его/ руке нож, чтобы вырезать на пальмах свое имя[33]). The black things on the islands out at sea (черные предметы на островах в открытом море) are bits of ships (это кусочки кораблей) that got wrecked going down the Red Sea (которые потерпели крушение на пути в Красном море); but all the passengers were saved and went home (но все пассажиры были спасены и отправились домой).
watch [wOC], below [bI'lqu], wreck [rek]
THIS is the Parsee Pestonjee Bomonjee sitting in his palm tree and watching the Rhinoceros Strorks bathing near the beach of the Altogether Uninhabited Island after Strorks had taken off his skin. The Parsee has put the cake-crumbs into the skin, and he is smiling to think how they will tickle Strorks when Strorks puts it on again. The skin is just under the rocks below the palm-tree in a cool place; that is why you can’t see it. The Parsee is wearing a new more-than-oriental-splendour hat of the sort that Parsees wear; and he has a knife in his hand to cut his name on palm trees. The black things on the islands out at sea are bits of ships that got wrecked going down the Red Sea; but all the passengers were saved and went home.
The black thing in the water close to the shore is not a wreck at all (черная штука в воде возле берега вовсе не остаток кораблекрушения). It is Strorks the Rhinoceros bathing without his skin (это Носорог Строркс купается без своей шкуры). He was just as black underneath his skin as he was outside (он был в точности таким же черным под шкурой, каким он был снаружи). I wouldn’t ask anything about the cooking-stove if I were you (на твоем месте я бы не спрашивал ничего о кухонной плите).
close [klqus], shore [SL], stove [stquv]
The black thing in the water close to the shore is not a wreck at all. It is Strorks the Rhinoceros bathing without his skin. He was just as black underneath his skin as he was outside. I wouldn’t ask anything about the cooking-stove if I were you.
HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS
Как у Леопарда появились /его/ пятна
IN the days when everybody started fair (в те дни, когда все начали светлыми = были одинакового светлого цвета), Best Beloved (Наилюбимейшие), the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt (Леопард жил в местечке под названием Высокий Вельд). ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt (запомните, это был не Нижний Вельд, или Кустистый Вельд, или Болотистый Вельд; sour — кислый, болотистый /о почве/, суровый /о погоде, климате/), but the ‘sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt (но ‘сключительно голый, жаркий, освещенный солнцем Высокий Вельд;
