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I don't know why it should be, but everybody is always so exceptionally irritable on the river. Little mishaps, that you would hardly notice on dry land, drive you nearly frantic with rage, when they occur on the water. When Harris or George makes an ass of himself on dry land, I smile indulgently; when they behave in a chuckle-head way on the river, I use the most blood-curdling language to them. When another boat gets in my way, I feel I want to take an oar and kill all the people in it.
The mildest-tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood-thirsty when in a boat. I did a little boating once with a young lady. She was naturally of the sweetest and gentlest disposition imaginable, but on the river it was quite awful to hear her.
"Oh, drat the man (черт бы его побрал)!" she would exclaim, when some unfortunate sculler would get in her way (восклицала она, когда какой-нибудь несчастный гребец вставал у нее на пути); "why don't he look where he's going (чего он не смотрит, куда плывет)?"
And, "Oh, bother the silly old thing (тьфу ты, вот старая дрянь: «глупая старая вещь»; bother — беспокойство, хлопоты; тьфу ты! /выражает досаду, раздражение/)!" she would say indignantly, when the sail would not go up properly (говорила она негодующе, когда парус не поднимался как следует). And she would catch hold of it, and shake it quite brutally (и она хватала его и трясла довольно жестоко).
Yet, as I have said, when on shore she was kind-hearted and amiable enough (однако, как я сказал, на берегу она была достаточно добросердечной и дружелюбной).
The air of the river has a demoralising effect upon one's temper (речной воздух имеет дурное влияние на характер), and this it is, I suppose, which causes even bargemen to be sometimes rude to one another (и именно это, полагаю, заставляет даже барочников быть иногда грубыми друг с другом; to cause — являться причиной, обусловливать; заставлять), and to use language which, no doubt, in their calmer moments they regret (и использовать выражения, о которых, несомненно, в более спокойные минуты они жалеют).
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"Oh, drat the man!" she would exclaim, when some unfortunate sculler would get in her way; "why don't he look where he's going?"
And, "Oh, bother the silly old thing!" she would say indignantly, when the sail would not go up properly. And she would catch hold of it, and shake it quite brutally.
Yet, as I have said, when on shore she was kind-hearted and amiable enough.
The air of the river has a demoralising effect upon one's temper, and this it is, I suppose, which causes even bargemen to be sometimes rude to one another, and to use language which, no doubt, in their calmer moments they regret.
CHAPTER XIX
(глава девятнадцатая)
Oxford. — Montmorency's idea of Heaven (представление Монморенси о небесах). — The hired up-river boat, its beauties and advantages (взятая напрокат лодка, ее прелести и преимущества; to hire — нанимать, брать напрокат). — The "Pride of the Thames (Гордость Темзы)." — The weather changes (погода меняется). — The river under different aspects (река в разных видах; aspect — сторона, подход; /внешний/ вид). — Not a cheerful evening (невеселый вечер). — Yearnings for the unattainable (тоска по недостижимому). — The cheery chat goes round (происходит веселый/оживленный разговор). — George performs upon the banjo (Джордж играет на банджо). — A mournful melody (унылая мелодия). — Another wet day (еще один дождливый день). — Flight (бегство; flight — полет, побег). — A little supper and a toast (легкий: «небольшой» ужин и тост).
Oxford. — Montmorency's idea of Heaven. — The hired up-river boat, its beauties and advantages. — The "Pride of the Thames." — The weather changes. — The river under different aspects. — Not a cheerful evening. — Yearnings for the unattainable. — The cheery chat goes round. — George performs upon the banjo. — A mournful melody. — Another wet day. — Flight. — A little supper and a toast.
WE spent two very pleasant days at Oxford (мы провели два очень приятных дня в Оксфорде). There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford (в городе Оксфорде множество собак). Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day, and fourteen on the second (у Монморенси было одиннадцать драк в первый день и четырнадцать — во второй), and evidently thought he had got to heaven (и он, очевидно, подумал, что попал на небеса).
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WE spent two very pleasant days at Oxford. There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford. Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day, and fourteen on the second, and evidently thought he had got to heaven.
Among folk too constitutionally weak, or too constitutionally lazy, whichever it may be, to relish up-stream work (среди людей, по телосложению слабых или ленивых по характеру, что бы это ни было = неважно, чтобы наслаждаться /греблей/; constitutionally — в соответствии со строением тела, сообразно телосложению; сообразно складу ума, характера; от природы; to relish — получать удовольствие, наслаждаться), it is a common practice to get a boat at Oxford, and row down (обычной практикой является нанять лодку в Оксфорде и грести вниз по течению). For the energetic, however, the up-stream journey is certainly to be preferred (однако для энергичных /людей/ путешествие вверх по реке несомненно предпочтительнее). It does not seem good to be always going with the current (нехорошо всегда плыть по течению). There is more satisfaction in squaring one's back, and fighting against it (больше удовлетворения /получаешь/, распрямляя спину, борясь с ним), and winning one's way forward in spite of it (и пробивая себе дорогу вперед, несмотря на него; to win one's way — пробить себе дорогу; добиться успеха; in spite of — несмотря на, вопреки, наперекор) — at least, so I feel, when Harris and George are sculling and I am steering (по крайней мере, я так считаю, когда Гаррис с Джорджем гребут, а я правлю рулем).
To those who do contemplate making Oxford their starting-place, I would say, take your own boat (тем, кто намеревается сделать Оксфорд своим отправным пунктом, я бы посоветовал взять свою собственную лодку; to contemplate — разглядывать; обдумывать; намереваться, полагать) — unless, of course, you can take someone else's without any possible danger of being found out (если, конечно, вы не можете взять чью-нибудь еще без возможного риска, что вас разоблачат; to find out — /раз/узнать, выяснить; понять; раскрыть /обман, тайну/). The boats that, as a rule, are let for hire on the Thames above Marlow, are very good boats (лодки, которые, как правило, сдаются напрокат на Темзе выше Марлоу, — очень хорошие лодки). They are fairly water-tight (они довольно водонепроницаемы); and so long as they are handled with care (и если с ними обращаться осторожно; as long as — поскольку, пока, при условии), they rarely come to pieces, or sink (они редко разваливаются на куски или тонут). There are places in them to sit down on, and they are complete with all the necessary arrangements — or nearly all (в них есть места для сидения/есть на чем сидеть, и они снабжены всеми необходимыми приспособлениями —или почти всеми) — to enable you to row them and steer them (чтобы дать вам возможность грести и править рулем).
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Among folk too constitutionally weak, or too constitutionally lazy, whichever it may be, to relish up-stream work, it is a common practice to get a boat at Oxford, and row down. For the energetic, however, the up-stream journey is certainly to be preferred. It does not seem good to be always going with the current. There is more satisfaction in squaring one's back, and fighting against it, and winning one's way forward in spite of it — at least, so I feel, when Harris and George are sculling and I am steering.
To those who do contemplate making Oxford their starting-place, I would say, take your own boat — unless, of course, you can take someone else's without any possible danger of being found out. The boats that, as a rule, are let for hire on the Thames above Marlow, are very good boats. They are fairly water-tight; and so long as they are handled with care, they rarely come to pieces, or sink. There are places in them to sit down on, and they are complete with all the necessary arrangements — or nearly all — to enable you to row them and steer them.
But they are not ornamental (но они не служат украшением /реки/; ornamental — декоративный, служащий украшением, орнаментальный). The boat you hire up the river above Marlow is not the sort of boat in which you can flash about and give yourself airs (лодка, которую вы нанимаете на реке выше Марлоу, это не тот тип лодки, в которой можно красоваться и важничать). The hired up-river boat very soon puts a stop to any nonsense of that sort on the part of its occupants (взятая напрокат лодка очень быстро прекращает всякую подобную ерунду со стороны своих пассажиров; occupant — житель, обитатель; арендатор). That is its chief — one may say, its only recommendation (это ее главное — можно сказать, единственное достоинство; recommendation — рекомендация; положительный отзыв, сильная сторона).
The man in the hired up-river boat is modest and retiring (человек во взятой напрокат лодке — скромен и застенчив). He likes to keep on the shady side, underneath the trees (он предпочитает держаться на тенистой стороне, под деревьями), and to do most of his travelling early in the morning or late at night (и совершать большую часть своего путешествия рано утром или поздно вечером), when there are not many people about on the river to look at him (когда немного людей на реке могут увидеть его).
When the man in the hired up-river boat sees anyone he knows (когда человек во взятой напрокат лодке видит какого-нибудь знакомого: «кого-нибудь, кого знает»), he gets out on to the bank, and hides behind a tree (он выходит на берег и прячется за дерево).
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But they are not ornamental. The boat you hire up the river above Marlow is not the sort of boat in which you can flash about and give yourself airs. The hired up-river boat very soon puts a stop to any nonsense of that sort on the part of its occupants. That is its chief — one may say, its only recommendation.
The man in the hired up-river boat is modest and retiring. He likes to keep on the shady side, underneath the trees, and to do most of his travelling early in the morning or late at night, when there are not many people about on the river to look at him.
When the man in the hired up-river boat sees anyone he knows, he gets out on to the bank, and hides behind a tree.
I was one of a party who hired an up-river boat one summer, for a few days' trip (я был в одной компании, которая взяла напрокат лодку как-то летом для поездки на несколько дней). We had none of us ever seen the hired up-river boat before (никто из нас никогда прежде не видел наемной лодки); and we did not know what it was when we did see it (и мы не поняли, что это такое, когда увидели ее).
