Английский с Редьярдом Киплингом. Рикки-Тикки-Тави

“All mongooses are like that,” said her husband. “If Teddy doesn’t pick him up by the tail, or try to put him in a cage, he’ll run in and out of the house all day long. Let’s give him something to eat.”

They gave him a little piece of raw meat. Rikki-tikki liked it immensely, and when it was finished he went out into the veranda and sat in the sunshine and fluffed up his fur to make it dry to the roots. Then he felt better.

“There are more things to find out about in this house (в этом доме больше вещей, о которых /можно/ разузнать; to find out – узнать, разузнать, выяснить),” he said to himself (сказал он себе), “than all my family could find out in all their lives (чем вся моя семья смогла бы разузнать за всю свою жизнь). I shall certainly stay and find out (конечно, я останусь /здесь/ и /все/ выясню; to stay – останавливаться; задержаться /где-либо/).”

He spent all that day roaming over the house (он провел весь тот день, путешествуя по дому; to spend – тратить, расходовать; проводить /о времени/; to roam – бродить, путешествовать). He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs (он чуть не утонул в ваннах; to drown – тонуть; bath – ванна; купание /в ванне/; tub – бочонок, бочка; ванна), put his nose into the ink on a writing table (засунул нос в чернила на письменном столе; to write – писать), and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar (и обжег его о кончик сигары большого человека; to burn – гореть, жечь), for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done (потому что взобрался к нему на колени, чтобы посмотреть, как делается письмо = как /люди/ пишут; lap – подол; пола, фалда; колени /верхняя часть ног у сидящего человека/). At nightfall he ran into Teddy’s nursery to watch how kerosene lamps were lighted (с наступлением ночи он забежал в детскую Тэдди, чтобы посмотреть, как зажигают керосиновые лампы; to run; light – свет; освещение; to light – зажигать/ся/), and when Teddy went to bed Rikki-tikki climbed up too (когда же Тэдди пошел спать: «в постель», Рикки-Тикки влез тоже = за ним).

“There are more things to find out about in this house,” he said to himself, “than all my family could find out in all their lives. I shall certainly stay and find out.”

He spent all that day roaming over the house. He nearly drowned himself in the bath-tubs, put his nose into the ink on a writing table, and burned it on the end of the big man’s cigar, for he climbed up in the big man’s lap to see how writing was done. At nightfall he ran into Teddy’s nursery to watch how kerosene lamps were lighted, and when Teddy went to bed Rikki-tikki climbed up too.