And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little brown hand (и девочка-дочка подняла его на ладонь своей маленькой коричневой ручки), and sat him in the bottom of the canoe and gave him her scissors (и посадила его на дно каноэ, и дала ему свои ножнички), and he waved them in his little arms (и он замахал ими в своих маленьких ручках), and opened them and shut them and snapped them (и раскрыл их, и закрыл их, и защелкал ими), and said (и сказал), ‘I can eat nuts (я могу есть орехи). I can crack shells (я могу расщеплять раковины). I can dig holes (я могу копать норки). I can climb trees (я могу лазать по деревьям). I can breathe in the dry air (я могу вдыхать сухой воздух), and I can find a safe Pusat Tasek under every stone (и я могу найти безопасный Пусат Тасек под каждым камнем). I did not know I was so important (я не знал, что я такой важный).
palm [pRm], bottom ['bOtqm], climb [klaIm]
And the girl-daughter picked him up on the palm of her little brown hand, and sat him in the bottom of the canoe and gave him her scissors, and he waved them in his little arms, and opened them and shut them and snapped them, and said, ‘I can eat nuts. I can crack shells. I can dig holes. I can climb trees. I can breathe in the dry air, and I can find a safe Pusat Tasek under every stone. I did not know I was so important.
‘Was that well done (это было хорошо сделано =
‘Yes,’ said the Man (да, — сказал Человек). ‘But now we must go back to Perak (но сейчас мы должны вернуться к Пераку), and that is a weary way to paddle (а это утомительный путь, чтобы грести =
shadow ['Sxdqu], dead [ded], done [dAn]
‘Was that well done?’ said the Eldest Magician.
‘Yes,’ said the Man. ‘But now we must go back to Perak, and that is a weary way to paddle. If we had waited till Pau Amma had gone out of Pusat Tasek and come home, the water would have carried us there by itself.’
‘You are lazy,’ said the Eldest Magician (ты ленив, — сказал Старейший Волшебник). ‘So your children shall be lazy (и дети твои будут ленивы). They shall be the laziest people in the world (они будут самыми ленивыми людьми в мире). They shall be called the Malazy — the lazy people (их назовут Малазийцы — ленивый народ[134]);’ and he held up his finger to the Moon and said (и он поднял свой палец к Луне и сказал), ‘O Fisherman, here is the Man too lazy to row home (О Рыбак, вот Человек слишком ленивый, чтобы догрести домой). Pull his canoe home with your line, Fisherman (оттащи его каноэ домой своей леской, Рыбак).’