Английский язык с У. С. Моэмом. На окраине империи. Рассказы / W. S. Maugham: Stories

I shall have my books and Eva, children, I hope, and above all, the infinite variety of the sea and the sky, the freshness of the dawn and the beauty of the sunset, and the rich magnificence of the night. I shall make a garden out of what so short a while ago was a wilderness. I shall have created something. The years will pass insensibly, and when I am an old man I hope that I shall be able to look back on a happy, simple, peaceful life. In my small way I too shall have lived in beauty. Do you think it is so little to have enjoyed contentment? We know that it will profit a man little if he gain the whole world and lose his soul. I think I have won mine."

Edward led him to a room in which there were two beds (Эдвард проводил его в комнату, в которой стояли две кровати) and he threw himself on one of them (и бросился на одну из них; to throw — бросать). In ten minutes Bateman knew by his regular breathing, peaceful as a child's (через десять минут по его ровному дыханию, спокойному как у ребенка, Бейтман понял), that Edward was asleep (что Эдвард спит). But for his part he had no rest (но, со своей стороны, он = но сам он не мог заснуть), he was disturbed in mind (мысли его были встревожены), and it was not till the dawn crept into the room (и только когда в комнату проник рассвет; to creep — ползать; красться, подкрадываться), ghostlike and silent, that he fell asleep (призрачный и тихий, он заснул; ghost — привидение, призрак).

regular ['regjulq], disturbed [dIs'tWbd], ghostlike ['gqustlaIk]

Edward led him to a room in which there were two beds and he threw himself on one of them. In ten minutes Bateman knew by his regular breathing, peaceful as a child's, that Edward was asleep. But for his part he had no rest, he was disturbed in mind, and it was not till the dawn crept into the room, ghostlike and silent, that he fell asleep.

Bateman finished telling Isabel his long story (Бейтман закончил рассказывать Изабелле свою длинную историю). He had hidden nothing from her (он не утаил от нее ничего; to hide — прятать; скрывать) except what he thought would wound her (за исключением того, что, как он думал, причинило бы ей боль; to wound — ранить; причинить боль) or what made himself ridiculous (или что выставляло его самого на посмешище). He did not tell her that he had been forced to sit at dinner with a wreath of flowers round his head (он не сказал ей, что его заставили сидеть за ужином в венке из цветов на голове) and he did not tell her that Edward was prepared to marry her uncle's half-caste daughter (и он не сказал ей, что Эдвард был готов жениться на дочери-полукровке ее дяди) the moment she set him free (в тот самый момент, когда она освободит его /от обязательства жениться/).

ridiculous [rI'dIkjulqs], forced [fO: st], prepared [prI'peqd]

Bateman finished telling Isabel his long story. He had hidden nothing from her except what he thought would wound her or what made himself ridiculous. He did not tell her that he had been forced to sit at dinner with a wreath of flowers round his head and he did not tell her that Edward was prepared to marry her uncle's half-caste daughter the moment she set him free.