William Somerset Maugham «Mr. Know-All» (20/20)
@english_frankУильям Сомерсет Моэм «Мистер Всезнайка»
"No one likes (никому не нравится) being made to look a perfect damned fool (быть выставленным: «быть сделанным выглядеть» полным дураком)," he said.
"Were the pearls real (жемчуг был настоящим)?"
"If I had a pretty little wife (если бы у меня была прелестная юная жена: little — маленький; младший/юный) I shouldn`t let her spend a year in New York (я не позволил бы ей провести год в Нью-Йорке) while I stayed at Kobe," said he (пока я бы оставался в Кобе, — сказал он; to say).
At that moment (в тот момент) I did not entirely dislike Mr Kelada (я не испытывал всецело неприязнь к мистеру Келада). He reached out for his pocket book (он достал свой бумажник) and carefully put in it the hundred-dollar note (и аккуратно положил в него стодолларовую банкноту).
"No one likes being made to look a perfect damned fool," he said.
"Were the pearls real?"
"If I had a pretty little wife I shouldn`t let her spend a year in New York while I stayed at Kobe," said he.
At that moment I did not entirely dislike Mr Kelada. He reached out for his pocket book and carefully put in it the hundred-dollar note.
