Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так

Underneath the truly picture is a picture of the World-so-new-and-all. There are two smoky volcanoes in it, some other mountains and some stones and a lake and a black island and a twisty river and a lot of other things, as well as a Noah’s Ark. I couldn’t draw all the deserts that the Djinn was in charge of, so I only drew one, but it is a most deserty desert.

HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN

Как у Носорога появилась Его = такая шкура

ONCE upon a time (однажды), on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea (на одном необитаемом острове на берегах Красного Моря), there lived a Parsee (жил да был Парс) from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour (от шляпы которого лучи солнца отражались в более-чем-восточном великолепии). And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea (и этот Парс жил у Красного Моря) with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind (с ничем = без ничего кроме /его/ шляпы, и /его/ ножа, и такой кухонной плиты) that you must particularly never touch (которую тебе особенно нельзя никогда трогать). And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things (и однажды он взял муку, и воду, и смородины, и сливы, и сахар, и прочее), and made himself one cake (и испек себе один пирог) which was two feet across and three feet thick (который был два фута[21] в поперечнике и три фута толщиной). It was indeed a Superior Comestible (это был в самом деле Превосходный Съестной Припас (that’s magic (это волшебство = волшебные слова)), and he put it on the stove (и он поставил его на плиту) because he was allowed to cook on that stove (потому что ему разрешали готовить на этой плите), and he baked it (и он стал печь его) and he baked it (и он пек его) till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental (пока он не стал весь коричневый и не стал пахнуть очень чувствительно; to smell — пахнуть). But just as he was going to eat it (но как раз когда он собирался есть его) there came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros (на пляж из Совершенно Необитаемой Внутренней Части = Глубины спустился Носорог; to come down — спускаться) with a horn on his nose (с рогом на /его/ носу), two piggy eyes (двумя свинячьими глазками), and few manners (и очень немногими /хорошими/ манерами = и с плохими манерами).

island ['aIlqnd], whose [hHz], allow [q'lau]

ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. And the Parsee lived by the Red Sea with nothing but his hat and his knife and a cooking-stove of the kind that you must particularly never touch. And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick. It was indeed a Superior Comestible (that’s magic), and he put it on the stove because he was allowed to cook on that stove, and he baked it and he baked it till it was all done brown and smelt most sentimental. But just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners.