Илья Франк - Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Снега Килиманджар

Now she came in sight (вот она появилась в поле зрения), walking across the open toward the camp (идет по долине: «через открытое пространство» к палаткам). She was wearing jodphurs (на ней джодпуры [13] Джодпуры — бриджи для верховой езды, широкие вверху и сужающиеся книзу. ; to wear — быть одетым /во что-либо/; носить /одежду/ ) and carrying her rifle (/в руках она/ держит ружье; to carry — нести, носить /с собой/ ). The two boys had a Tommie slung (двое слуг тащат подвешенную /на палке/ газель; sling — праща; рогатка; петля; to sling — перекинуть /ремень и т. п. через что-либо/; поднимать груз с помощью стропа, ремня; подвешивать /что-либо/ ) and they were coming along behind her (они идут сзади).

vitality [vaI'txlItI], value ['vxljH], worth [wWT]

We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies. He had sold vitality, in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money. He had found that out but he would never write that, now, either. No, he would not write that, although it was well worth writing.

Now she came in sight, walking across the open toward the camp. She was wearing jodphurs and carrying her rifle. The two boys had a Tommie slung and they were coming along behind her.

She was still a good-looking woman, he thought (она все еще хорошо выглядит: «хорошо выглядящая женщина», подумал он), and she had a pleasant body (и у нее хорошее тело; pleasant — приятный; симпатичный ). She had a great talent and appreciation for the bed (у нее большой талант и понимание в любовных делах; appreciation — оценка по достоинству; понимание /чего-либо/; умение хорошо разобраться /в чем-либо/; bed — постель ), she was not pretty (она не миловидна), but he liked her face (но ему нравилось ее лицо), she read enormously (она ужасно много читала), liked to ride and shoot (любила ездить верхом и стрелять = охотиться) and, certainly, she drank too much (и, конечно, слишком много пила). Her husband had died when she was still a comparatively young woman (муж у нее умер, когда она была еще сравнительно молодой женщиной; to compare — сравнивать ) and for a while she had devoted herself to her two just-grown children (и на некоторое время она посвятила себя двум своим почти взрослым: «недавно выросшим» детям), who did not need her and were embarrassed at having her about (которые не нуждались в ней и которым ее близость только мешала: «были стеснены тем, что имели ее рядом»), to her stable of horses (своей конюшне), to books, and to bottles (книгам и бутылкам). She liked to read in the evening before dinner (она любила читать по вечерам перед ужином) and she drank Scotch and soda while she read (и, пока читала, пила виски с содовой; Scotch — шотландский; скотч, шотландское виски ). By dinner she was fairly drunk (к ужину она была порядком пьяна) and after a bottle of wine at dinner she was usually drunk enough to sleep (а после бутылки вина /выпитой/ за ужином она обычно тут же засыпала: «была достаточно пьяна, чтобы заснуть»).

appreciation [q"prJSI'eIS(q)n], pretty ['prItI], comparatively [kqm'pxrqtIvlI]

She was still a good-looking woman, he thought, and she had a pleasant body. She had a great talent and appreciation for the bed, she was not pretty, but he liked her face, she read enormously, liked to ride and shoot and, certainly, she drank too much. Her husband had died when she was still a comparatively young woman and for a while she had devoted herself to her two just-grown children, who did not need her and were embarrassed at having her about, to her stable of horses, to books, and to bottles. She liked to read in the evening before dinner and she drank Scotch and soda while she read. By dinner she was fairly drunk and after a bottle of wine at dinner she was usually drunk enough to sleep.

That was before the lovers (/все/ это было до любовников). After she had the lovers she did not drink so much (после того как у нее появились любовники, она /уже/ не пила так много) because she did not have to be drunk to sleep (потому что /теперь/ ей не требовалось быть пьяной, чтобы спать = заснуть). But the lovers bored her (но любовники ей надоедали/с любовниками ей было скучно). She had been married to a man who had never bored her (она была замужем за человеком, с которым никогда не было скучно) and these people bored her very much (а эти люди очень = быстро ей надоедали).

Then one of her two children was killed in a plane crash (потом один из ее детей погиб в авиакатастрофе; plane — самолет ) and after that was over she did not want the lovers (и после этого она не захотела /иметь/ любовников), and drink being no anaesthetic she had to make another life (а так как выпивка не утоляла боли: «не была обезболивающим средством», приходилось начинать /какую-то/ другую жизнь). Suddenly, she had been acutely frightened of being alone (внезапно ей стало очень страшно быть одной; acutely — остро, сильно ). But she wanted some one that she respected with her (но она хотела /иметь/ рядом с собой человека, которого она бы уважала).

It had begun very simply (это = все началось очень просто). She liked what he wrote (ей нравилось то, что он писал) and she had always envied the life he led (и она всегда завидовала жизни, какую он вел; to lead ). She thought he did exactly what he wanted to (ей казалось, что он делает точно/именно то, что ему хочется /делать/). The steps by which she had acquired him (шаги, предпринятые ею, чтобы завладеть им: «при помощи которых она завладела им»; to acquire — получать, приобретать; овладевать ) and the way in which she had finally fallen in love with him (и то, как она в конце концов полюбила его) were all part of a regular progression (все это было частью правильной = возрастающей прогрессии) in which she had built herself a new life (в которой она строила новую жизнь; to build ) and he had traded away what remained of his old life (а он распродавал то, что осталось от его прежней жизни).