`What WOULD they do at the end of a year (что бы они сделали в конце года)? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came (меня отправили бы в тюрьму, полагаю, когда бы этот день пришел = наступил). Or — let me see — suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner (или — дайте-ка мне подумать — предположим, что каждое наказание заключалось бы в том, /что меня/ оставляли бы без обеда;
prison [prIzn], miserable ['mIzqrqbl], without [wI'DaVt]
`What WOULD they do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came. Or—let me see—suppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldn't mind THAT much! I'd far rather go without them than eat them!
`Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty (ты слышишь, как снег /летит/ в оконное стекло, Китти;
windowpane ['wIndqVpeIn], quilt [kwIlt], perhaps [pq'hxps]
`Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow LOVES the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again."
And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green (а когда они просыпаются летом, Китти, они принаряжаются во все зеленое), and dance about—whenever the wind blows—oh, that's very pretty (и танцуют повсюду — куда бы ни подул ветер — о, это так прекрасно)!' cried Alice, dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands (воскликнула Алиса, выронив клубок шерсти, чтобы захлопать в ладоши;
whenever [we'nevq], true [tru:], autumn ['O:tqm]
And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about—whenever the wind blows—oh, that's very pretty!' cried Alice, dropping the ball of worsted to clap her hands. `And I do so WISH it was true! I'm sure the woods look sleepy in the autumn, when the leaves are getting brown.