Английский язык с Робинзоном Крузо (в пересказе для детей)

My cave looked like some stores you have seen where a little of everything is kept for sale (моя пещера выглядела подобно некоторым магазинам/складам, которые вы видели, где всего понемногу хранится на продажу).

From time to time I made many useful things (время от времени я делал много полезных вещей).

From a piece of hard wood (из куска крепкой древесины) that I cut in the forest (которую я срезал в лесу) I made a spade to dig with (я сделал лопату, чтобы копать = которой можно копать). The handle I shaped (ручке я придал форму) just like the handles you buy at the stores (совсем как ручки, /которые/ вы покупаете в магазинах). But the shovel part was of wood (но лопатная часть была из дерева) and would not last long (и не продержалась долго; to last — продолжаться, тянуться, длиться; сохраняться; выдерживать).

While I was digging my cave (пока я копал пещеру), I found it very hard work to carry the earth and small stones away (я обнаружил, что очень тяжело оттаскивать землю и маленькие камни; to carry away — уносить прочь). I needed a wheelbarrow very much (мне очень нужна была тачка; to need smth. — нуждаться в чем-л.).

I could make the frame part of this (я мог сделать каркас этого = каркас тачки), but I did not know how to make the wheel (но я не знал, как сделать колесо). I worked four days at it (я трудился над этим четыре дня), and then had to give it up (и затем должен был бросить это/отказаться от этого).

At last I made me a kind of hod (в конце концов я сделал себе подобие лотка /для подноса кирпичей/), like that which masons use (подобно таким, как используют каменщики). It was better than a basket (это было лучше, чем ведро) and almost as good as a wheelbarrow (и почти так же хорошо, как тачка).

comfort ['kmft], learn [l:n], navigation [naev'en], jump [mp], everywhere ['evrwe], comfortable ['kmftbl], cut [kt], hew [hju:], table ['tebl], chair ['te], forest ['frst], shovel [vl], wood [wud], wheelbarrow ['wi:lbaeru], mason ['mesn], basket ['b:skt]

I KEEP MYSELF BUSY

AMONG the things that I brought from the ship there were several which I have not told you about. I will name them now. First I got from the captain's desk some pens, ink, and paper. These were afterward a great comfort to me, as you shall learn.

There were some charts and compasses, and three or four books on navigation. These I threw in a corner, for I did not think I should ever need them.

Among my own things there were three very old Bibles, which I had bought in England and had packed with my clothing.

And I must not forget the dog and two cats that came to shore with me. I carried both the cats on my raft with my first cargo.

As for the dog, he jumped off the wreck and swam to the shore. He was my best friend for a long time. He followed me everywhere. He would run and fetch things to me as I bade him. I wanted him to talk to me, but this he could not do.

As for my pens, ink, and paper, I took the greatest care of them. As long as my ink lasted, I wrote down everything that happened to me.

But when that was gone, I could write no more for I did not know how to make ink.

I soon found that I needed many things to make me comfortable.

First, I wanted a chair and a table; for without them I must live like a savage.

So I set to work. I had never handled a tool in my life. But I had a saw, an ax, and several, hatchets; and I soon learned to use them all.

If I wanted a board, I had to chop down a tree. From the trunk of the tree I cut a log of the length that my board was to be. Then I split the log and hewed it flat till it was as thin as a board.

All this took time and much hard work. But I had nothing else to do.

I made the table and chair out of short pieces of board I had brought from the ship.

Of the large boards which I hewed from trees, I made some wide shelves along the side of my cave or kitchen.

On these shelves I laid my tools, nails, and other things.

I had a place for everything, and kept everything in its place.