Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так - [38]
The Kangaroo hasn’t any real name except Boomer (у Кенгуру нет настоящего имени кроме Бумера[80]; boomer — самец кенгуру). He lost it because he was so proud (он потерял его, потому что он был таким надменным).
wreath [rJT], outcrop ['autkrOp], drawn [drLn]
THIS is a picture of Old Man Kangaroo when he was the Different Animal with four short legs. I have drawn him grey and woolly, and you can see that he is very proud because he has a wreath of flowers in his hair. He is dancing on an outcrop (that means a ledge of rock) in the middle of Australia at six o’clock before breakfast. You can see that it is six o’clock, because the sun is just getting up. The thing with the ears and the open mouth is Little God Nqa. Nqa is very much surprised, because he has never seen a Kangaroo dance like that before. Little God Nqa is just saying, ‘Go away,’ but the Kangaroo is so busy dancing that he has not heard him yet.
The Kangaroo hasn’t any real name except Boomer. He lost it because he was so proud.
THIS is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at five in the afternoon (это изображение Старины Кенгуру в пять часов вечера), when he had got his beautiful hind legs (когда он /уже/ приобрел свои прекрасные задние ноги) just as Big God Nqong had promised (в точности как пообещало Большое Божество Нквонг). You can see that it is five o’clock (вы видите, что сейчас пять часов), because Big God Nqong’s pet tame clock says so (потому что любимые дрессированные/прирученные часы Большого Божества Нквонга говорят так; pet — баловень, любимец; любимое животное; любимая вещь). That is Nqong, in his bath, sticking his feet out (то Нквонг в своей ванне, высунувший свои ступни). Old Man Kangaroo is being rude to Yellow-Dog Dingo (Старина Кенгуру грубит Желтой-Собаке Динго). Yellow-Dog Dingo has been trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia (Желтая-Собака Динго пыталась поймать Кенгуру по всей Австралии). You can see the marks of Kangaroo’s big new feet (ты видишь следы от больших новых ступней Кенгуру) running ever so far back over the bare hills (идущие очень далеко позади через голые холмы). Yellow-Dog Dingo is drawn black (Желтая-Собака Динго нарисована черным), because I am not allowed to paint these pictures with real colours out of the paint-box (потому что мне не разрешают раскрашивать эти картинки настоящими красками из коробки с красками); and besides, Yellow-Dog Dingo got dreadfully black and dusty after running through the Flinders and the Cinders (а кроме того Желтая-Собака Динго ужасно почернела и запылилась после пробежки через Флиндерс и лавовые шлаки).
beautiful ['bjHtIful], rude [rHd], dreadfully ['dredfulI]
THIS is the picture of Old Man Kangaroo at five in the afternoon, when he had got his beautiful hind legs just as Big God Nqong had promised. You can see that it is five o’clock, because Big God Nqong’s pet tame clock says so. That is Nqong, in his bath, sticking his feet out. Old Man Kangaroo is being rude to Yellow-Dog Dingo. Yellow-Dog Dingo has been trying to catch Kangaroo all across Australia. You can see the marks of Kangaroo’s big new feet running ever so far back over the bare hills. Yellow-Dog Dingo is drawn black, because I am not allowed to paint these pictures with real colours out of the paint-box; and besides, Yellow-Dog Dingo got dreadfully black and dusty after running through the Flinders and the Cinders.
I don’t know the names of the flowers growing round Nqong’s bath (я не знаю названия цветов, растущих вокруг ванны Нквонга). The two little squatty things out in the desert are the other two gods (два маленьких низких и толстых существа в пустыне — два остальных божества) that Old Man Kangaroo spoke to early in the morning (с которыми Старина Кенгуру разговаривал рано утром). That thing with the letters on it is Old Man Kangaroo’s pouch (та штуковина с буквами на ней — сумка Старины Кенгуру). He had to have a pouch just as he had to have legs (ему пришлось приобрести сумку точно также, как ему пришлось приобрести /такие/ ноги).
round [raund], squatty ['skwOtI], pouch [pauC]
I don’t know the names of the flowers growing round Nqong’s bath. The two little squatty things out in the desert are the other two gods that Old Man Kangaroo spoke to early in the morning. That thing with the letters on it is Old Man Kangaroo’s pouch. He had to have a pouch just as he had to have legs.
THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS
Как появились Броненосцы
THIS, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times (это, О Самые Любименькие, еще одна история о Высоких и Далеких Временах = о Давным-давно Прошедших Временах). In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog (в самый разгар тех времен жил да был Еж Колючки-Торчком; to stick — торчать; prickly — колючий), and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon (и он жил на берегах мутной Амазонки), eating shelly snails and things (питаясь улитками с раковинами и тому подобным).
And he had a friend (и у него была подруга), a Slow-Solid Tortoise (Медленная-Твердая Черепаха;
