Mark Twain - Английский язык с Марком Твеном. Принц и нищий (Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper)

By his own request (по его собственной просьбе), our small friend was now conducted to his private cabinet (нашего маленького друга затем отвели в его личный кабинет), and left there alone to his own devices (и оставили там одного забавляться; device — прибор; затея). Hanging upon hooks (висевшие на крюках) in the oaken wainscoting (на дубовых деревянных панелях) were the several pieces (были несколько элементов) of a suit of shining steel armor (сияющей стальной брони; suit — костюм), covered all over with beautiful designs exquisitely inlaid in gold (покрытые целиком прекрасными узорами, искусно выложенные золотом). This martial panoply (эти военные доспехи) belonged to the true prince (принадлежали настоящему принцу) — a recent present from Madam Parr, the queen (недавний подарок от мадам Парр, королевы). Tom put on the greaves (Том надел наголенники; to put on — надевать), the gauntlets (латные рукавицы), the plumed helmet (шлем с плюмажем; plume — перо, плюмаж), and such other pieces as he could don without assistance (и подобные прочие детали, которые он мог надеть без /посторонней/ помощи; to don — надевать /устар./), and for a while was minded (и некоторое время был настроен) to call for help (попросить о помощи; to call — звать) and complete the matter (и довести дело до конца), but bethought him of the nuts he had brought away from dinner (но напомнил себе = вспомнил об орехах, которые он унес с ужина; to bethink — напоминать, вспоминать; to bring — приносить), and the joy it would be to eat them (и о радости, которая была бы съесть их) with no crowd to eye him (без толпы, (которая бы) глазела на него), and no Grand Hereditaries to pester him with undesired services (и без великих наследников, (которые бы) докучали ему непрошенными услугами); so he restored the pretty things to their several places (так что он поставил эти красивые вещи обратно на их места; to restore — восстанавливать; several — несколько), and soon was cracking nuts (и скоро щелкал орехи), and feeling almost naturally happy for the first time (и чувствовал себя почти естественно = по-настоящему счастливым в первый раз) since God for his sins had made him a prince (с тех пор как Бог за его грехи сделал его принцем). When the nuts were all gone (когда все орехи кончились; to go — идти, уходить, исчезать), he stumbled upon some inviting books (он наткнулся на некоторые книги с привлекательными названиями: «приглашающие книги»; to invite — приглашать) in a closet (в шкафу), among them one about the etiquette of the English court (среди них одна об этикете английского двора). This was a prize (это была удачная находка). He lay down upon a sumptuous divan (он лег на роскошный диван; to lie down — ложиться), and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal (и принялся обучать себя с честным рвением). Let us leave him there for the present (оставим его там пока).

wainscoting [`weınskətıŋ], unusual [An`ju:Zuəl], proceed [prə`si:d]

His meal being ended, a lord came and held before him a broad, shallow, golden dish with fragrant rose-water in it, to cleanse his mouth and fingers with; and my lord the Hereditary Diaperer stood by with a napkin for his use. Tom gazed at the dish a puzzled moment or two, then raised it to his lips, and gravely took a draught. Then he returned it to the waiting lord, and said:

'Nay, it likes me not, my lord; it hath a pretty flavor, but it wanteth strength.'

This new eccentricity of the prince's ruined mind made all the hearts about him ache; but the sad sight moved none to merriment.

Tom's next unconscious blunder was to get up and leave the table just when the chaplain had taken his stand behind his chair and with uplifted hands and closed uplifted eyes, was in the act of beginning the blessing. Still nobody seemed to perceive that the prince had done a thing unusual.

By his own request, our small friend was now conducted to his private cabinet, and left there alone to his own devices. Hanging upon hooks in the oaken wainscoting were the several pieces of a suit of shining steel armor, covered all over with beautiful designs exquisitely inlaid in gold. This martial panoply belonged to the true prince — a recent present from Madam Parr, the queen. Tom put on the greaves, the gauntlets, the plumed helmet, and such other pieces as he could don without assistance, and for a while was minded to call for help and complete the matter, but bethought him of the nuts he had brought away from dinner, and the joy it would be to eat them with no crowd to eye him, and no Grand Hereditaries to pester him with undesired services; so he restored the pretty things to their several places, and soon was cracking nuts, and feeling almost naturally happy for the first time since God for his sins had made him a prince. When the nuts were all gone, he stumbled upon some inviting books in a closet, among them one about the etiquette of the English court. This was a prize. He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal. Let us leave him there for the present.

ABOUT five o'clock Henry VIII awoke out of an unrefreshing nap (около пяти часов Генрих Восьмой очнулся от неосвежающей дремоты; to awake — проснуться, разбудить), and muttered to himself (и пробормотал себе), 'Troublous dreams (тревожные сны), troublous dreams! Mine end is now at hand (моя кончина теперь недалеко: «на руке»; mine вместо my — мой); so say these warnings (так говорят эти предупреждения), and my failing pulses do confirm it (и мой слабеющий пульс действительно подтверждает это).' Presently a wicked light flamed up in his eye, and he muttered (затем нехороший огонек загорелся в его глазу, и он пробормотал), 'Yet will not I die till he go before (все же я не умру пока он не уйдет = умрет прежде).'

His attendants perceiving that he was awake (его слуги, видя, что он был проснувшимся, бодрствующим), one of them asked his pleasure concerning the Lord Chancellor (один из них попросил (о его) дозволении относительно лорд-канцлера), who was waiting without (который ждал снаружи; without — снаружи, устар.).