Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так - [15]
leopard ['lepqd], eland ['Jlqnd], beast [bJst]
IN the days when everybody started fair, Best Beloved, the Leopard lived in a place called the High Veldt. ‘Member it wasn’t the Low Veldt, or the Bush Veldt, or the Sour Veldt, but the ‘sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy — yellowish grass. The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there; and they were ‘sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over; but the Leopard, he was the ‘sclusivest sandiest-yellowest-brownest of them all — a greyish-yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast, and he matched the ‘sclusively greyish-brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair.
This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of them (это было очень плохо для Жирафа, и Зебры, и остальных /их/); for he would lie down by a ‘sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish stone or clump of grass (ибо он ложился у ‘сключительно желтовато-серовато-коричневатого камня или зарослей травы), and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by (и когда Жираф, или Зебра, или Канна[34], или Куду[35], или Бушбок[36], или Бонтбок[37] проходили мимо) he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives (он удивлял их из их прыгучих жизней = он нападал на них так неожиданно, что из них от удивления выскакивали их прыгучие жизни[38]; to surprise — изумлять, поражать, удивлять, нагрянуть неожиданно, нападать или заставать врасплох). He would indeed (в самом деле /он делал так/)! And, also, there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows (а еще был один Эфиоп с луками и стрелами) (a ‘sclusively greyish-brownish-yellowish man he was then (тогда он был ‘сключительно серовато-коричневато-желтоватым человеком), who lived on the High Veldt with the Leopard (который жил в Высоком Вельде с Леопардом); and the two used to hunt together (и оба прежде охотились вместе) — the Ethiopian with his bows and arrows (Эфиоп со своими луками и стрелами), and the Leopard ‘sclusively with his teeth and claws (а Леопард ‘сключительно со своими зубами и когтями) — till the Giraffe and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga and all the rest of them didn’t know which way to jump (пока Жираф, и Канна, и Куду, и Квагга, и все остальные из них не знали куда прыгнуть = податься), Best Beloved (Наилюбимейшие). They didn’t indeed (они в самом деле не знали)!
exclusively [Iks'klHsIvlI], bow [bqu], Ethiopian ["JTI'qupIqn]
This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of them; for he would lie down by a ‘sclusively yellowish-greyish-brownish stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Zebra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush-Buck or the Bonte-Buck came by he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives. He would indeed! And, also, there was an Ethiopian with bows and arrows (a ‘sclusively greyish-brownish-yellowish man he was then), who lived on the High Veldt with the Leopard; and the two used to hunt together — the Ethiopian with his bows and arrows, and the Leopard ‘sclusively with his teeth and claws — till the Giraffe and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga and all the rest of them didn’t know which way to jump, Best Beloved. They didn’t indeed!
After a long time (долгое время спустя) — things lived for ever so long in those days (в те дни существа жили всегда так долго) — they learned to avoid anything that looked like a Leopard or an Ethiopian (они научились избегать всего, что походило на Леопарда или Эфиопа); and bit by bit (и мало-помалу; bit — кусочек) — the Giraffe began it (это начал Жираф), because his legs were the longest (потому что его ноги были самые длинные) — they went away from the High Veldt (они ушли из Высокого Вельда). They scuttled for days and days and days till they came to a great forest (они поспешно удирали дни и дни = много дней, пока не пришли в огромный лес), ‘sclusively full of trees and bushes (‘сключительно полный деревьев и кустов; full — полный) and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows (и полосатых, пятнистых, крапчатых теней;
