Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки

"There you are (вот видите)," he would say, stepping heavily off the chair on to the charwoman's corns (говорит он, слезая тяжело со стула /и наступая/ на мозоли поденщице; corn — зерно, крупинка; мозоль), and surveying the mess he had made with evident pride (и обозревая беспорядок = любуясь беспорядком, /который/ он произвел, с явной гордостью). "Why, some people would have had a man in to do a little thing like that (а некоторые бы вызвали /специального/ человека, чтобы сделать такую мелочь; to have in — иметь в доме /про запас/; вызывать специалиста)!"

Harris will be just that sort of man when he grows up, I know, and I told him so (Гаррис будет именно таким /человеком/, когда вырастет, я знаю, и я сказал ему это). I said I could not permit him to take so much labour upon himself (я сказал, я не могу позволить ему взять на себя столько работы; labour — труд, работа). I said:

"No; you get the paper, and the pencil, and the catalogue (нет, — ты принесешь бумагу, карандаш и прейскурант), and George write down, and I'll do the work (Джордж будет записывать, а я сделаю работу = все сделаю /сам/)."

insecure [,ɪnsɪˈkjuǝ] smoothed [smu:ðd] evident [ˈevɪd(ǝ)nt] labour [ˈleɪbǝ]

Then we had to find the rule and the string again, and a new hole was made; and, about midnight, the picture would be up — very crooked and insecure, the wall for yards round looking as if it had been smoothed down with a rake, and everybody dead beat and wretched — except Uncle Podger.

"There you are," he would say, stepping heavily off the chair on to the charwoman's corns, and surveying the mess he had made with evident pride. "Why, some people would have had a man in to do a little thing like that!"

Harris will be just that sort of man when he grows up, I know, and I told him so. I said I could not permit him to take so much labour upon himself. I said:

"No; you get the paper, and the pencil, and the catalogue, and George write down, and I'll do the work."

The first list we made out had to be discarded (первый список, /который/ мы составили, пришлось отвергнуть; to discard — отбрасывать, отвергать). It was clear that the upper reaches of the Thames would not allow of the navigation of a boat (было ясно, что верховье Темзы не позволит навигацию лодки = там не проплыть на лодке; navigation — мореходство, плавание; навигация) sufficiently large to take the things we had set down as indispensable (достаточно большой, чтобы взять вещи, /которые/ мы сочли необходимыми); so we tore the list up, and looked at one another (поэтому мы разорвали список и посмотрели друг на друга; to tear up)!

George said:

"You know we are on a wrong track altogether (видите ли, мы на совершенно ложном пути). We must not think of the things we could do with (мы не должны думать о вещах, которые нам могут пригодиться), but only of the things that we can't do without (а только о вещах, без которых не сможем обойтись)."