"There (ну вот)!" cried the milkmaid angrily (рассерженно воскликнула доярка). "See what you have done (смотрите, что вы наделали)! My cow has broken her leg (моя корова сломала ногу;
"I'm very sorry (мне очень жаль)," returned Dorothy. "Please forgive us (пожалуйста, простите нас)." But the pretty milkmaid was much too vexed to make any answer (но прелестная молочница была слишком раздосадована, чтобы ответить что-нибудь).
She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away (она сердито подобрала ногу и увела свою корову;
Dorothy was quite grieved at this mishap (Дороти была очень огорчена этим происшествием).
angrily ['xNgrIlI], mender ['mendq], glue [glu:], sulkily ['sAlkIlI], limping ['lImpIN], reproachful [rI'prqutSful]
"There!" cried the milkmaid angrily. "See what you have done!
My cow has broken her leg, and I must take her to the mender's shop and have it glued on again. What do you mean by coming here and frightening my cow?"
"I'm very sorry," returned Dorothy. "Please forgive us." But the pretty milkmaid was much too vexed to make any answer.
She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs. As she left them the milkmaid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side.
Dorothy was quite grieved at this mishap.
"We must be very careful here (мы должны быть здесь очень осторожными)," said the kind-hearted Woodman (сказал добросердечный Дровосек), "or we may hurt these pretty little people (а то мы можем нанести повреждения этому прекрасному маленькому народцу) so they will never get over it (так что они никогда от них не оправятся;
Dorothy wanted to see more of the Princess (Дороти хотелось взглянуть на принцессу поближе: «подольше»;
But the china girl cried out (но фарфоровая девушка вскрикнула): "Don't chase me (не гонись за мной)! Don't chase me!" She had such a frightened little voice that Dorothy stopped and said (у нее был такой испуганный тонкий голосок, что Дороти остановилась и спросила), "Why not (почему нет)?"
"Because (потому что)," answered the Princess, also stopping, a safe distance away (ответила Принцесса, также остановившись на безопасном расстоянии /от Дороти/), "if I run I may fall down and break myself (если я буду бежать, я могу упасть и разбиться)."
kind-hearted ["kaInd'hQ:tId], stranger ['streIndZq], distance ['dIst(q)ns]
"We must be very careful here," said the kind-hearted Woodman, "or we may hurt these pretty little people so they will never get over it." A little farther on Dorothy met a most beautifully dressed young Princess, who stopped short as she saw the strangers and started to run away.