Jerome K. Jerome «Three men in a boat» — Ch. VI (6/12)
@english_frankДжером К. Джером «Трое в лодке, не считая собаки» — Глава VI
They put him under laughing-gas one year, poor lad (его усыпили веселящим газом: «положили под газ» в каком-то году, беднягу), and drew all his teeth, and gave him a false set (и вырвали все его зубы, и поставили ему искусственные челюсти; to draw a tooth; false — неверный, фальшивый; set — комплект, набор), because he suffered so terribly with toothache (потому что он так ужасно страдал от зубной боли); and then it turned to neuralgia and ear-ache (потом она сменилась невралгией и ушной болью; to turn to — превращаться). He was never without a cold, except once for nine weeks while he had scarlet fever (он никогда не был без простуды, кроме /однажды/ девяти недель, пока болел скарлатиной); and he always had chilblains (и у него всегда были обморожения). During the great cholera scare of 1871 (во время большой холерной эпидемии 1871 года; scare — внезапный испуг; паника), our neighbourhood was singularly free from it (наша местность была необычно свободной от нее = нашу округу болезнь совсем не затронула). There was only one reputed case in the whole parish (был лишь один известный случай во всем приходе): that case was young Stivvings (молодой Стиввингс).
He had to stop in bed when he was ill (ему приходилось оставаться в постели, когда он болел), and eat chicken and custards and hot-house grapes (и есть цыплят, и пудинги, и виноград из оранжереи; custard — жидкий заварной крем /подается к пудингам, пирогам с фруктами и т.д./); and he would lie there and sob, because they wouldn't let him do Latin exercises (а он лежал и рыдал, потому что ему не позволяют делать латинские упражнения), and took his German grammar away from him (и забирали у него немецкую грамматику).
They put him under laughing-gas one year, poor lad, and drew all his teeth, and gave him a false set, because he suffered so terribly with toothache; and then it turned to neuralgia and ear-ache. He was never without a cold, except once for nine weeks while he had scarlet fever; and he always had chilblains. During the great cholera scare of 1871, our neighbourhood was singularly free from it. There was only one reputed case in the whole parish: that case was young Stivvings.
He had to stop in bed when he was ill, and eat chicken and custards and hot-house grapes; and he would lie there and sob, because they wouldn't let him do Latin exercises, and took his German grammar away from him.
And we other boys, who would have sacrificed ten terms of our school-life for the sake of being ill for a day (а мы, другие мальчишки, которые пожертвовали бы десять четвертей нашей школьной жизни ради того, чтобы проболеть один день; term — срок, определенный период; семестр, триместр), and had no desire whatever to give our parents any excuse for being stuck-up about us (и не имели никакого желания давать нашим родителям повод гордиться нами; stuck-up — высокомерный, самодовольный), couldn't catch so much as a stiff neck (не могли даже застудить шею; stiff neck — кривошея; stiff — жесткий, негибкий). We fooled about in draughts (мы играли на сквозняке; to fool about — играть, забавляться; дурачиться), and it did us good, and freshened us up (и это приносило нам пользу, и освежало нас); and we took things to make us sick, and they made us fat, and gave us an appetite (и мы ели /разные/ вещи, чтобы заболеть, и они делали нас жирными и давали аппетит = от них мы жирели и приобретали аппетит). Nothing we could think of seemed to make us ill until the holidays began (ничего /из того, что/ мы могли придумать, казалось, не приводило к болезни, пока не начинались каникулы; to begin).
And we other boys, who would have sacrificed ten terms of our school-life for the sake of being ill for a day, and had no desire whatever to give our parents any excuse for being stuck-up about us, couldn't catch so much as a stiff neck. We fooled about in draughts, and it did us good, and freshened us up; and we took things to make us sick, and they made us fat, and gave us an appetite. Nothing we could think of seemed to make us ill until the holidays began.
Then, on the breaking-up day, we caught colds (тогда, в день окончания занятий, мы схватывали простуду; break-up — распад; роспуск, прекращение занятий в школе; to catch — ловить, поймать), and whooping cough, and all kinds of disorders (и коклюш, и всевозможные болезни; whooping cough: to whoop — выкрикивать, кричать; сильно кашлять; cough — кашель), which lasted till the term recommenced (которые продолжались, пока не возобновлялись занятия); when, in spite of everything we could manoeuvre to the contrary (когда, несмотря на все, что мы предпринимали = несмотря на все ухищрения; to manoeuvre — маневрировать, добиваться ловкостью; to the contrary — наоборот), we would get suddenly well again, and be better than ever (мы внезапно снова выздоравливали и чувствовали себя лучше, чем когда-либо).
Such is life (такова жизнь); and we are but as grass that is cut down (а мы —всего лишь словно трава, которую срезают), and put into the oven and baked (и кладут в печь, и жгут; to bake — печь/ся/, запекать).
Then, on the breaking-up day, we caught colds, and whooping cough, and all kinds of disorders, which lasted till the term recommenced; when, in spite of everything we could manoeuvre to the contrary, we would get suddenly well again, and be better than ever.
Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.