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

"You bitch (сука)," he said. "You rich bitch (богатая сука). That's poetry (это поэзия). I'm full of poetry now (я сейчас полон поэзии). Rot and poetry (гнили и поэзии). Rotten poetry (гнилой поэзии)."

"Stop it (прекрати). Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now (зачем тебе понадобилось становиться сейчас дьяволом; to turn — поворачивать/ся/; превращать/ся/ /во что-либо/ )?"

"I don't like to leave anything (я ничего не хочу оставлять)," the man said. "I don't like to leave things behind (я ничего не хочу оставлять после /себя/)."

amusing [q'mjHzIN], alive [q'laIv], familiar [fq'mIlIq], poetry ['pqVItrI]

"All right then. I'll go on hurting you. It's more amusing. The only thing I ever really liked to do with you I can't do now."

"No, that's not true. You liked to do many things and everything you wanted to do I did."

"Oh, for Christ sake stop bragging, will you?"

He looked at her and saw her crying.

"Listen," he said. "Do you think that it is fun to do this? I don't know why I'm doing it. It's trying to kill to keep yourself alive, I imagine. I was all right when we started talking. I didn't mean to start this, and now I'm crazy as a coot and being as cruel to you as I can be. Don't pay any attention, darling, to what I say. I love you, really. You know I love you. I've never loved any one else the way I love you."

He slipped into the familiar lie he made his bread and butter by.

"You're sweet to me."

"You bitch," he said. "You rich bitch. That's poetry. I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry."

"Stop it. Harry, why do you have to turn into a devil now?"

"I don't like to leave anything," the man said. "I don't like to leave things behind."

It was evening now (теперь был = наступил вечер) and he had been asleep (и он проснулся: «он /только что/ спал»). The sun was gone behind the hill (солнце зашло за холм) and there was a shadow all across the plain (через всю равнину была = легла тень) and the small animals were feeding close to camp (и мелкие животные паслись: «кормились» /теперь/ почти у самых палаток: «около лагеря/места их стоянки»); quick dropping heads and switching tails (они часто и быстро припадали головами к земле, взмахивали хвостами: «быстро падающие головы и щелкающие хвосты»; to switch — ударять, стегать прутом или хлыстом; махать, размахивать; switch — прут; хлыст ), he watched them keeping well out away from the bush now (он видел, что теперь они держались довольно далеко от кустарника). The birds no longer waited on the ground (птицы уже не выжидали = дежурили , /сидя/ на земле). They were all perched heavily in a tree (они грузно уселись на дереве; to perch — садиться /на насест, ветку/; perch — насест, жердочка ). There were many more of them (их стало гораздо больше). His personal boy was sitting by the bed (его личный слуга/бой сидел возле койки).

"Memsahib's gone to shoot (мемсаиб пошла стрелять; memsahib — мемсаиб, госпожа )," the boy said (сказал бой). "Does Bwana want (бвана /что-нибудь/ нужно)?"

"Nothing (ничего)."

She had gone to kill a piece of meat (она пошла добыть мясо = дичь: «убить кусок мяса») and, knowing how he liked to watch the game (и, зная, как он любит смотреть на дичь; game — игра; развлечение; дичь ), she had gone well away (она отошла подальше) so she would not disturb this little pocket of the plain that he could see (чтобы не потревожить тот уголок равнины, который он мог видеть = был ему виден; pocket — карман; кармашек; район, участок ). She was always thoughtful, he thought (она всегда все помнит, — подумал он; thoughtful — думающий, помнящий о /чем-либо/; внимательный; заботливый ). On anything she knew about (все, что узнала), or had read (или прочла), or that she had ever heard (или когда-нибудь слышала).

shadow ['SxdqV], heavily ['hevIlI]

It was evening now and he had been asleep. The sun was gone behind the hill and there was a shadow all across the plain and the small animals were feeding close to camp; quick dropping heads and switching tails, he watched them keeping well out away from the bush now. The birds no longer waited on the ground. They were all perched heavily in a tree. There were many more of them. His personal boy was sitting by the bed.

"Memsahib's gone to shoot," the boy said. "Does Bwana want?"

"Nothing."

She had gone to kill a piece of meat and, knowing how he liked to watch the game, she had gone well away so she would not disturb this little pocket of the plain that he could see. She was always thoughtful, he thought. On anything she knew about, or had read, or that she had ever heard.

It was not her fault that when he went to her he was already over (это не ее вина, что он пришел к ней уже конченым: «когда он пришел к ней, он был уже конченым»; to be over — кончиться, завершиться ). How could a woman know (откуда женщине знать: «как может женщина знать») that you meant nothing that you said (что за словами, которые говорятся ей, ничего нет: «что ты не подразумеваешь /того/, что говоришь»); that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable (что говоришь просто в силу привычки и потому, что так удобнее; to speak )? After he no longer meant what he said (с тех пор как он перестал придавать значение тому: «больше не подразумевал /того/», что он говорит), his lies were more successful with women (его ложь имела больше успеха: «была более успешной» у женщин) than when he had told them the truth (чем правда: «чем /в то время/, когда он говорил им правду»).

It was not so much that he lied (/впрочем/, дело было скорее не в том, что он лгал) as that there was no truth to tell (а в том, что /у него/ просто не было правды, чтобы ее говорить). He had had his life and it was over (у него была жизнь, но она закончилась) and then he went on living it again (а потом он стал проживать ее снова) with different people and more money (среди других людей и имея больше денег), with the best of the same places (/бывая/ в лучших из знакомых: «тех же самых» мест), and some new ones (и в некоторых новых).