Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Старик и море

From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the water (cлегка наклонившись, опираясь на весла, он заглянул в воду; to swing — качать/ся/; махать, размахивать) and saw the tiny fish that were coloured like the trailing filaments (и увидел крошечных рыбешек, которые были окрашены так же, как и волочащиеся щупальца) and swam between them (и плавали между ними; to swim) and under the small shade the bubble made as it drifted (и под маленькой тенью, отбрасываемой плывущим пузырем). They were immune to its poison (они были неуязвимы к ее яду). But men were not (но люди нет) and when same of the filaments would catch on a line (и когда подобная щупальца зацепится за лесу) and rest there slimy and purple while the old man was working a fish (и пристает к ней, липкая и фиолетовая, пока старик вытаскивает рыбу), he would have welts and sores on his arms and hands (у него будут все руки до локтей в рубцах и язвах) of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak can give (наподобие тех, что могут дать ядовитый плющ или сумах: «ядовитый дуб»). But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash (но этот яд ядовитой медузы действовал быстро и бил словно кнутом; whip — кнут; to lash — хлестать, стегать).

The iridescent bubbles were beautiful (переливчатые пузыри были красивы). But they were the falsest thing in the sea (но они были самыми коварными жителями моря; false — фальшивый, обманный, коварный) and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them (и старик любил смотреть, как их поедают большие морские черепахи). The turtles saw them (черепахи замечали их), approached them from the front (приближались к ним спереди), then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced (затем закрывали глаза, чтобы быть полностью защищенными; carapace — панцирь) and ate them filaments and all (и съедали их вместе с щупальцами). The old man loved to see the turtles eat them (старик любил смотреть, как черепахи поедали их) and he loved to walk on them on the beach after a storm (и он любил пройтись по ним на берегу после шторма) and hear them pop when he stepped on them with the horny soles of his feet (и слышать, как они лопаются, когда он наступает на них мозолистой подошвой своих ног; horny — мозолистый, затвердевший; sole — подошва, ступня).

immune [I'mjHn], carapace ['kxrqpeIs], horny ['hLnI]

"Agua mala," the man said. "You whore."

From where he swung lightly against his oars he looked down into the water and saw the tiny fish that were coloured like the trailing filaments and swam between them and under the small shade the bubble made as it drifted. They were immune to its poison. But men were not and when same of the filaments would catch on a line and rest there slimy and purple while the old man was working a fish, he would have welts and sores on his arms and hands of the sort that poison ivy or poison oak can give. But these poisonings from the agua mala came quickly and struck like a whiplash.

The iridescent bubbles were beautiful. But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them. The turtles saw them, approached them from the front, then shut their eyes so they were completely carapaced and ate them filaments and all. The old man loved to see the turtles eat them and he loved to walk on them on the beach after a storm and hear them pop when he stepped on them with the horny soles of his feet.

He loved green turtles and hawk-bills (он любил зеленых черепах и бисс; hawk-bill — бисса /морская черепаха/) with their elegance and speed and their great value (за их изящество, скорость и большую ценность; elegance — изящность, элегантность) and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheads (и он испытывал дружеское = снисходительное презрение к огромным глупым грифовым черепахам; contempt — презрение), yellow in their armour-plating (желтым в своей пластинчатой броне; plating — покрытие из пластин), strange in their love-making (чудным/прихотливым в своих любовных играх), and happily eating the Portuguese men-of-war with their eyes shut (и счастливым, когда поедают португальских физалий с закрытыми глазами).