Английский язык с Винни-Пухом - [22]
worn [], dowdy [], prettily []
It was a fine spring morning in the forest as he started out. Little soft clouds played happily in a blue sky, skipping from time to time in front of the sun as if they had come to put it out, and then sliding away suddenly so that the next might have his turn. Through them and between them the sun shone bravely, and a copse which had worn its firs all the year round seemed old and dowdy now beside the new green lace which the beeches had put on so prettily. Through copse and spinney marched Bear; down open slopes of gorse and heather, over rocky beds of streams, up steep banks of sandstone into the heather again; and so at last, tired and hungry, to the Hundred Acre Wood. For it was in the Hundred Acre Wood that Owl lived.
“And if anyone knows anything about anything (и если кто-нибудь знает что-нибудь о чем-нибудь),” said Bear to himself (сказал Мишка себе), “it's Owl who knows something about something,” he said (так это Филин, который знает кое-что о кое-чем, — сказал он), “or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh,” he said (или мое имя не Винни-Пух = или меня зовут не Винни-Пух). “Which it is,” he added (которое этим является = а меня так зовут). “So there you are (так-то вот).”
Owl lived at The Chestnuts, and old-world residence of great charm (Филин жил в «Каштанах», старинной резиденции огромного обаяния), which was grander than anybody else's, or seemed so to Bear (которая была больше, чем чья либо другая, или казалась таковой Медведю), because it had both a knocker and a bell-pull (потому что она имела = на ней был и дверной молоток, и шнурок колокольчика). Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said (под дверным молотком было объявление, которое гласило):
anyone [], who [], knocker []
“And if anyone knows anything about anything,” said Bear to himself, “it's Owl who knows something about something,” he said, “or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh,” he said. “Which it is,” he added. “So there you are.”
Owl lived at The Chestnuts, and old-world residence of great charm, which was grander than anybody else's, or seemed so to Bear, because it had both a knocker and a bell-pull. Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said:
PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD (пАжалуста звАните, если требуИЦа Атвет = требуИЦа Аткрыть дверь).
Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said (под шнурком колокольчика было объявление, которое гласило):
PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID (пАжалуста стучитИ, если Атвет не требуИЦа = не требуИЦа Аткрыть дверь).
These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell (эти объявления были написаны Кристофером Робином, который был единственным в лесу, кто умел писать /буквы/); for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL (так как Филин, несмотря на то, что был мудр во многом, умел читать и писать и сказать по буквам свое собственное имя ХВИЛЕН), yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST (тем не менее как-то полностью ломался над / совершенно столбенел перед /такими/ щекотливыми словами, как КРАСНУХА и ТОСТСМАСЛОМ; to go to pieces — обанкротиться, пропасть: «развалиться на кусочки»).
owl [], piece [], delicate []
PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD.
Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said:
PLEZ CNOKE IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID.
These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces over words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.
