Английский язык с Р. Киплингом. Истории просто так

THIS is just a picture of the Elephant’s Child going to pull bananas off a banana-tree after he had got his fine new long trunk. I don’t think it is a very nice picture; but I couldn’t make it any better, because elephants and bananas are hard to draw. The streaky things behind the Elephant’s Child mean squoggy marshy country somewhere in Africa. The Elephant’s Child made most of his mud-caps out of the mud that he found there. I think it would look better if you painted the banana-tree green and the Elephant’s Child red.

THE SING-SONG OF OLD MAN KANGAROO

Сказание о Старине Кенгуру

NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him (НЕ всегда Кенгуру был таким, каким мы видим его сейчас), but a Different Animal with four short legs (а /был он/ Другим Животным с четырьмя короткими ногами). He was grey and he was woolly (он был серый и пушистый; wool — шерсть), and his pride was inordinate (а его гордость была чрезмерна): he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia (он плясал на обнажении горной породы посреди Австралии; outcrop — обнажение горной породы; выход породы наружу), and he went to the Little God Nqa (и он пошел к Маленькому Божеству Нква).

He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying (он пошел к Нква в шесть часов до завтрака и сказал), ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon (сделай меня отличным от всех других животных к пяти часам /сегодняшнего/ вечера).’

Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sand-flat and shouted (Нква вскочил со своего сидения на песчаной равнине и закричал), ‘Go away (убирайся)!’

behold [bI'hquld], inordinate [In'LdInqt], seat [sJt]

NOT always was the Kangaroo as now we do behold him, but a Different Animal with four short legs. He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on an outcrop in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Little God Nqa.

He went to Nqa at six before breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals by five this afternoon.’

Up jumped Nqa from his seat on the sand-flat and shouted, ‘Go away!’

He was grey and he was woolly (он был серый и пушистый), and his pride was inordinate (а его гордость была чрезмерна): he danced on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia (он плясал на скалистой породе посредине Австралии), and he went to the Middle God Nquing (и он пошел к Среднему Божеству Нквингу).

He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast, saying (он пошел к Нквингу в восемь часов после завтрака и сказал), ‘Make me different from all other animals (сделай меня отличным от всех других животных); make me, also, wonderfully popular by five this afternoon (сделай меня также поразительно знаменитым к пяти часам /сегодняшнего/ вечера).’

Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex[69] and shouted (Нквинг выскочил из своей норы в колючей траве и закричал), ‘Go away (убирайся)!’

ledge [leG], popular ['pOpjulq], burrow ['bArqu]

He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on a rock-ledge in the middle of Australia, and he went to the Middle God Nquing.

He went to Nquing at eight after breakfast, saying, ‘Make me different from all other animals; make me, also, wonderfully popular by five this afternoon.’

Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted, ‘Go away!’