Английский язык с Э. Хемингуэем. Старик и море

"Unless sharks come (если только не придут акулы)," he said aloud. "If sharks come, God pity him and me (если придут акулы, помилуй Господи ее и меня)."

Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one (ты веришь, что великий Ди Маджо остался бы с рыбой также долго, как я остаюсь с этой)? he thought. I am sure he would (я уверен, что он бы остался) and more since he is young and strong (и больше = дольше, потому как он молод и силен). Also his father was a fisherman (к тому же его отец был рыбаком). But would the bone spur hurt him too much (но не слишком ли сильную боль ему причиняет костная шпора)?

"I do not know," he said aloud. "I never had a bone spur (у меня никогда не было костной шпоры)."

spur [spW], beside [bI'saId], unless [An'les]

This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos, he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel. What is a bone spur? he asked himself. Una espuela de hueso. We do not have them. Can it be as painful as the spur of a fighting cock in one's heel? I do not think I could endure that or the loss of the eye and of both eyes and continue to fight as the fighting cocks do. Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.

"Unless sharks come," he said aloud. "If sharks come, God pity him and me."

Do you believe the great DiMaggio would stay with a fish as long as I will stay with this one? he thought. I am sure he would and more since he is young and strong. Also his father was a fisherman. But would the bone spur hurt him too much?

"I do not know," he said aloud. "I never had a bone spur."

As the sun set he remembered, to give himself more confidence (когда солнце село, он вспомнил, для того, чтобы внушить себе больше уверенности), the time in the tavern at Casablanca (время в таверне Касабланки) when he had played the hand game with the great negro from Cienfuegos (когда он состязался в армреслинг с огромным негром из Сьенфуэгос) who was the strongest man on the docks (который был самым сильным человеком в порту). They had gone one day and one night with their elbows on a chalk line on the table (они провели один день и одну ночь = сутки с локтями на начерченной мелом линии на столе) and their forearms straight up and their hands gripped tight (с их предплечьями, стоящими прямо, и руками, крепко сцепленными). Each one was trying to force the other's hand down onto the table (каждый пытался повалить руку соперника вниз на стол). There was much betting (было много ставок) and people went in and out of the room under the kerosene lights (и люди входили и выходили из комнаты под светом керосиновых ламп) and he had looked at the arm and hand of the negro and at the negro's face (а он смотрел на кисть и руку негра и на его лицо). They changed the referees every four hours after the first eight (они меняли судей каждые четыре часа после первых восьми) so that the referees could sleep (чтобы судьи могли поспать). Blood came out from under the fingernails of both his and the negro's hands (кровь выступила из-под ногтей обеих — его и негра — рук) and they looked each other in the eye and at their hands and forearms (и они смотрели друг другу в глаза и на руки с предплечьями) and the bettors went in and out of the room (а люди, держащие пари, входили и выходили из комнаты) and sat on high chairs against the wall and watched (и садились в высокие кресла у стены, и смотрели). The walls were painted bright blue (стены были покрашены в светло-голубой цвет) and were of wood (и были сделаны из дерева) and the lamps threw their shadows against them (и лампы отбрасывали их тени на них). The negro's shadow was huge (тень негра была огромна) and it moved on the wall as the breeze moved the lamps (и она двигалась на стене, когда ветер раскачивал: «двигал» лампы).

The odds would change back and forth all night (преимущество переменялось = переходило от одного к другому всю ночь) and they fed the negro rum (и они поили негра ромом; to feed — кормить) and lighted cigarettes for him (и зажигали ему сигареты).

 

kerosene ['kerqsJn], odds [Odz], rum [rAm]