Дом на Пуховом углу - [57]

Piglet said that Tigger was very Bouncy, and that if they could think of a way of unbouncing him it would be a Very Good Idea.

"Just what I feel," said Rabbit. "What do you say, Pooh?"

Pooh opened his eyes with a jerk and said, "Extremely."

"Extremely what (чрезвычайно что)?" asked Rabbit (спросил Кролик).

"What you were saying," said Pooh (то, что ты говорил, — сказал Пух). "Undoubtably[51] (несумлевательно)."

Piglet gave Pooh a stiffening sort of nudge (Пятачок ободряюще пихнул Пуха локтем; nudge — легкий толчок локтем), and Pooh, who felt more and more that he was somewhere else (и Пух, который ощущал все больше и больше, что он где-то там в другом месте), got up slowly and began to look for himself (медленно поднялся и начал искать себя).

"But how shall we do it?" asked Piglet (но как мы это сделаем? — спросил Пятачок). "What sort of a lesson, Rabbit (какой урок /преподадим/, Кролик)?"

"That's the point," said Rabbit (вот в чем вопрос, — сказал Кролик).

stiffen [stIfn], nudge [nAG], point [pOInt]

"Extremely what?" asked Rabbit.

"What you were saying," said Pooh. "Undoubtably."

Piglet gave Pooh a stiffening sort of nudge, and Pooh, who felt more and more that he was somewhere else, got up slowly and began to look for himself.

"But how shall we do it?" asked Piglet. "What sort of a lesson, Rabbit?"

"That's the point," said Rabbit.

The word "lesson" came back to Pooh as one (слово «урок» вспомнилось Пуху, как слово; to come back — вспоминаться, приходитьнапамять) he had heard before somewhere (которое он слышал где-то раньше).

"There's a thing called Twy-stymes[52]," he said (есть штука, которая называется «ваш-дыдва», — сказал он). Christopher Robin tried to teach it to me once (Кристофер Робин попытался однажды научить меня этому), but it didn't (но не получилось)."

"What didn't?" said Rabbit (что не получилось? — спросил Кролик).

"Didn't what?" said Piglet (не получилось что? — спросил Пятачок).

Pooh shook his head (Пух покачал головой /отрицательно/; toshake — качать, трясти).

"I don't know," he said (я не знаю, — сказал он). "It just didn't (просто не получилось). What are we talking about (о чем мы говорим)?"

called [kLld], teach [tJC], talk [tLk]

The word "lesson" came back to Pooh as one he had heard before somewhere.

"There's a thing called Twy-stymes," he said. Christopher Robin tried to teach it to me once, but it didn't."

"What didn't?" said Rabbit.

"Didn't what?" said Piglet.

Pooh shook his head.

"I don't know," he said. "It just didn't. What are we talking about?"

"Pooh," said Piglet reproachfully (Пух, — сказал Пятачок укоризненно; reproach — упрек), "haven't you been listening to what Rabbit was saying (разве ты не слушал, что говорил Кролик)?"

"I listened (я слушал), but I had a small piece of fluff in my ear (но мне в ухо попал маленький кусочек пуха = пушинка). Could you say it again, please, Rabbit (Кролик, ты не мог бы повторить /пожалуйста/)?"

Rabbit never minded saying things again (Кролик всегда был не прочь что-то повторить: «никогда возражал говорение вещей опять»), so he asked where he should begin from (поэтому он спросил, откуда ему начать); and when Pooh had said from the moment (и когда Пух сказал, что с того момента) when the fluff got in his ear (когда пух попал ему в ухо[53]), and Rabbit had asked when that was (а Кролик спросил, когда это случилось), and Pooh had said he didn't know (и Пух сказал, что не знает) because he hadn't heard properly (потому что он не слышал должным образом). Piglet settled it all by saying (Пятачок уладил все это, сказав) that what they were trying to do was (что то, что они пытаются сделать), they were just trying to think of a way to get the bounces out of Tigger (так это просто пытаются придумать способ вытащить прыжки из Тигера = отучить Тигера от Наскоков), because however much you liked him (потому что, как бы он тебе ни нравился), you couldn't deny it (ты не можешь отрицать), he did bounce (он все-таки наскакивает).

reproachfully [rI'prquCfulI], properly ['prOpqlI], however [hau'evq]

"Pooh," said Piglet reproachfully, "haven't you been listening to what Rabbit was saying?"

"I listened, but I had a small piece of fluff in my ear. Could you say it again, please, Rabbit?"

Rabbit never minded saying things again, so he asked where he should begin from; and when Pooh had said from the moment when the fluff got in his ear, and Rabbit had asked when that was, and Pooh had said he didn't know because he hadn't heard properly. Piglet settled it all by saying that what they were trying to do was, they were just trying to think of a way to get the bounces out of Tigger, because however much you liked him, you couldn't deny it, he did bounce.

"Oh, I see," said Pooh (а, понятно, — сказал Пух).

"There's too much of him (его слишком много)," said Rabbit (сказал Кролик), "that's what it comes to (вот к чему это идет = вот в чем дело)."

Pooh tried to think (Пух попробовал подумать), and all he could think of was something which didn't help at all (и все, что он смог придумать, оказалось чем-то, что совсем не помогло). So he hummed it very quietly to himself (поэтому он очень тихо напел это себе).