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a bit

ə ˈbɪt

немного

It was a bit windy, and some had made a mistake because the wind was behind us.
It was quite cold, and it was raining a bit.
After this we really needed something to make us feel a bit happier, so George sang to us.

a little

ə ˈlɪtl̩

немного; небольшой

You begin to smile a little at the kind people who ask you how you are. On Sunday you start to walk again, and you eat a little.
George spoke for us. He said, ‘Oh, please, could you give us a little water?’
We were a little past Goring then, and we decided to go on to Pangbourne and spend the night there.

a long way

ə ˈlɒŋ ˈweɪ

далеко

Harris said it would be very serious if one of us became ill because we were a long way from a doctor.

a lot of

ə lɒt ɒv

много

It is evening. You are very wet. There is a lot of water in the boat and everything in it is wet, too.
Henley was very busy, and we met quite a lot of people we knew in town. The time passed very quickly.
We got in the way of a lot of other boats; a lot of other boats got in our way – and a lot of bad words were used.

about

əˈbaʊt

кругом; около; приблизительно

They said they wanted to get out. Harris said, ‘Follow me! I’m going out myself in about ten minutes.’
For a few hundred metres he ran as fast as he could. But, suddenly, he noticed that there were not many people about.
And he had more trouble trying to stop them from going up his arms. Finally, he managed to get about six of the eggs into the pan.

absolutely

ˌæbsəˈlu:tli

совершенно; полностью

I did not want to give up the idea absolutely. I decided to go down to the edge of the river, and then splash some water over myself.

accident

ˈæksɪdənt

авария; несчастный случай; случайность

We travelled along the river without any accidents.
So Harris decided to say that it was an accident.
I remember that George and I nearly had an accident in a lock once…

across

əˈkrɒs

через; сквозь

We decided to wake George. We ran across the room, and we pulled the bedclothes off him.
There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth. It seemed to be laughing at us, and this make us very angry.
As we were coming back from the river, a cat ran out from one of the house, and it began to walk across the road.

actually

ˈæktʃuəli

на самом деле; действительно

But that afternoon the wind actually helped us on our way, and the boat moved quite fast.
We stood and waited for the important moment when the man would actually take the photograph.

add

æd

добавить

She said she had a fried who had some rooms. She added that she would take us there.
Harris called out, ‘You ought to be pleased that something so exciting has happened to you!’ He added that he was very unhappy to hear men of their age use those bad words.
We said that it was a nice change. We added that it was good to see the river in all kinds of weather.

address

əˈdres

адрес

George thought for a minute, and then he told the policeman the address.

afraid

əˈfreɪd

боящийся; опасающийся

But I was afraid for George.
But he made a lot of noise, and he was afraid that Mrs Gippings would wake up.
Oh, no. Not at all … certainly … I … I’m afraid I’ve made a mistake. I thought I knew you … I’m sorry.

after all

ˈɑ:ftər ɔ:l

в конечном счете; всё же; пожалуй

It was very cold, and I thought I would not splash water over myself, after all. I would go back into the boat and dress.

after some time

ˈɑ:ftə səm ˈtaɪm

спустя какое-то время; спустя некоторое время

After some time, I turned over the page and I began to read about another illness.
Harris began to think that it was rather strange, but he went on. After some time, they came to a piece of cake on the ground.
After some time, we found the river, and that made us happy. We knew that we were going the right way.

after that

ˈɑ:ftə ðæt

затем; после; после того

After that, every time they tried again, they arrived back in the centre.
And that was where we spent the night – in two very short beds. After that, we were never quite so difficult about hotels…

afternoon

ˌɑ:ftəˈnu:n

послеобеденное время до заката; днем; пополудни

‘Well, it will rain this afternoon, then,’ we told ourselves.
It was a lovely, sunny afternoon, and instead of going to school, he went fishing. That was when he caught the fish.
Before lunch, he put the cover on the boat, and it stayed there all afternoon. We just left a little hole, so that we could see out.

afterwards

ˈɑ:ftəwədz

после этого; позже

Then he gets tired, and he is quiet afterwards.
People who had eaten his eggs never wanted any other food afterwards.
Afterwards we went back to the restaurant, where supper was waiting for us.

again

əˈɡen

вновь; снова; опять

Some of them had thought that they were never going to see their friends and their families again.
At first, he thought he would go to bed again. However, he did not like the idea of having get up again later.
When he woke up the next morning, he was in great pain, and he was never able to walk again.

against

əˈɡenst

на; о; об; по; против

So I was against the sea trip – not for myself, you understand.
George held the tin, and Harris put the sharp end of his stone against the top of it.
Quickly, we pushed hard against the side of the lock, to move the boat.

age

ˈeɪdʒ

возраст

He added that he was very unhappy to hear men of their age use those bad words.

ago

əˈɡəʊ

тому назад

‘Yes,’ the old man continued, ‘it was sixteen years ago. I caught him just by the bridge.’
‘Ah, well,’ the man went on, ‘it was nearly five years ago that I caught that fish.’
He said that he had caught it himself, years ago, when he was a boy.

agree

əˈɡri:

соглашаться

I tried to make him see that it was very funny, but he did not agree with me.
We agreed that we would row, and not tow, the boat.
And Montmorency stood on his back legs in front of the window, looked out into the night, and gave a short bark to show that he agreed.

air

воздух

His legs were in the air.
But then, from the words which rose on the evening air, we understood that we were near people.
We’ll have fresh air on the river.

alive

əˈlaɪv

живой

‘Say something!’ he cried. ‘Are you alive or dead? Where is the rest of you?’

all over

ɔ:l ˈəʊvə

везде; повсюду

Then they looked for the butter all over the room. In the end, George got behind Harris, and he saw it.

all right

ɔ:l raɪt

хорошо; в порядке; ладно

‘Oh, all right. I’ll tell them. Are we doing everything else all right?’
I said I thought it was better than the other hotel. Harris said it would be all right. We would not look at the man with red hair and ugly boots.
‘Is the fish all right?’ I cried. ‘I hope so,’ George said. He stood up carefully and looked round.

all the time

ɔ:l ðə ˈtaɪm

все время; всегда

But I was talking about my heart – nobody understood how ill I really was. I had this bad heart when I was a boy. It was with me all the time.
You decide to fight, and you hit out, left and right, with your arms and your legs. You are shouting all the time.
It continued to rain, not heavily, but all the time. When the sun is shining, the river turns everything into a golden dream.

almost

ˈɔ:lməʊst

почти

In wet weather it is almost impossible.
There was almost no potato left.
‘Yes, I’m almost sorry we’ve decided to stay on the boat,’ Harris said.

alone

əˈləʊn

один; в одиночестве

When we passed the cold meat to Montmorency, he refused our offer. He went and sat at the other end of the boat, alone.

along

əˈlɒŋ

вдоль; по; вперед; дальше; в том же направлении

At Kingston our boat was waiting for us. Harris and I put all our things into it, and we moved off along the River Thames.
Than the cat stood up and continued along the road. Montmorency, with his tail between his legs, walked behind us.

already

ɔ:lˈredi

уже

‘Yes, it must be,’ his friend continued, ‘because we’ve walked about three kilometres already.’
The lady at the desk said she had already sent away fourteen people.
We had already decided that we wanted to make this a good day’s journey.

also

ˈɔ:lsəʊ

так же

We also heard many bad words coming from under the cover.
He also noticed that the shops were not open.
He had a glass of beer in his hand, and he also looked at the fish.

although

ɔ:lˈðəʊ

хотя

I slept well that night, although Harris did wake me up ten times of more.
However, although I love work, I do not want to take other people’s work from them.

always

ˈɔ:lweɪz

всегда; постоянно

George always thinks he is ill, but really, there is never anything the matter with him, you know.
On that holiday, the weather reports in the newspaper were always wrong.
I always think that I am doing too much work. It is not because I do not like work. I do like it. I find it very interesting.

amuse

əˈmju:z

забавлять, веселить, позабавить

That amused Harris. ‘George! Work!’ he laughed. ‘If George worked for half an hour, it would kill him.

amused

əˈmju:zd

приятно удивленный; весёлый

He was very amused and we all laughed about it. And then he told us the real story of the fish.

and things

ənd ˈθɪŋz

и всё остальное; и другое; и тому подобное

After breakfast I was sitting by the river, and thinking, when George said, ‘Perhaps, when you’ve rested enough, you could help to wash the plates and things.’
When we got to Datcher, we took out of the boat the basket of food, the two bags, and the coats and things.
The boats that you can hire on the Thames above Marlow are all right: they do not let too much water in, and they have seats and things.

angrily

anɡrəli

сердито

‘What are you doing, you mean,’ he answers angrily.

angry

ˈæŋɡri

сердитый; раздраженный

Luckily, he was very angry with me, and so he forgot about his church.
In the end, I became really angry with him.
The face was very red and very angry.

animal

ˈænɪml̩

животное

There you dream that a very large animal has suddenly sat down on you.

annoy

əˈnɔɪ

раздражать; досадовать; сердиться

It’s your fault. You made me sit there. You did it to annoy me!
This annoyed them more than anything, and it made them worried and excited. 

annoyed

əˈnɔɪd

раздраженный; недовольный

The young man was a bit annoyed.
He seemed annoyed when he saw that no one had fallen in.

answer

ˈɑ:nsə

отвечать; ответ

‘The Riverside,’ George replied. ‘Why?’ ‘Ah, it isn’t the same hotel, then,’ Harris answered.
When we arrived opposite the first island, we shouted, but there was no answer.
‘It’s “The Queen of the Thames”,’ he answered.

anyway

ˈeniweɪ

так или иначе; как бы то ни было; все равно

Anyway, now they knew where they were on the map, and it looked easy.
I did not understand what was happening anyway.
‘Oh, come on! I’ve done more that old J., anyway,’ Harris replied.

appear

əˈpɪə

появиться; показаться

Then, five minutes later, he appeared again in the same place.
Finally George’s head appeared over the side of the boat.
And from the middle of the grass the food appeared, and then Harris came out, dirty and wet.

argue

ˈɑ:ɡju:

спорить; ругаться

The next day you have no voices because you have all caught colds, and all day you argue with each other in angry whispers…
We began to argue about this, so we agreed that we had done enough for one night.
But that morning, Montmorency wished that he had not argued with a cat.

arm

ɑ:m

рука (от кисти до плеча)

You decide to fight, and you hit out, left and right, with your arms and your legs. You are shouting all the time.
One woman was carrying a baby. She held on to Harris’s arm because she did not want to lose him.
And he had more trouble trying to stop them from going up his arms. Finally, he managed to get about six of the eggs into the pan.

armchair

ˈɑ:mtʃeə

кресло

George lit his pipe and sat back in the armchair.
So he decided to go to sleep in the armchair.
Then he sat in the armchair and he waited for Mrs Gippings.

arrange

əˈreɪndʒ

подготовиться; договориться; привести в порядок

Then I can arrange to go and spend a week with my mother.
I arranged my hair carefully, and I tried to make myself look strong and interesting.

arrest

əˈrest

арестовывать; задерживать

The two policemen would come and arrest George, and take him away. So he stopped trying to prepare breakfast, and he put on his coat.
He would arrest us and take us to a police station, and then we would have somewhere to sleep.
But then we thought, ‘Perhaps he won’t arrest us. Perhaps he’ll just hit us, too!’ We could not fight policemen all night.

arrive

əˈraɪv

прибыть; достичь; приходить

After a very long time, a taxi arrived and stopped for us.
When we arrived opposite the first island, we shouted, but there was no answer.
We had written to ask for a boat, and, when we arrived at the boathouse, we gave our names.

as … as

əz … æz

так … как; такой же … как

For a few hundred metres he ran as fast as he could. But, suddenly, he noticed that there were not many people about.
So Harris ran at it, and picked it up. He threw it, as hard as he could, into the middle of the river.
You don’t see many fish as big as that one now. Well, goodnight, then.’ And he went out.

as a result

əz ə rɪˈzʌlt

таким образом; в результате; в итоге

As a result, I fell in the water, and the tin flew away and broke a cup.

as far as

əz ˈfɑ:r æz

до

George had towed the boat as far as Staines, and we had towed it from there.

ashamed

əˈʃeɪmd

пристыженный

Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

asleep

əˈsli:p

спящий

I don’t like looking at the trees and the flowers, and when I’m asleep you’ll play about with the boat and I’ll fall over the side!’
Then we remembered. We looked at George. He was still asleep. Now, it makes me very angry when I see another man asleep and I am awake.
‘Well, how can you know?’ George answered Harris. ‘You’re always asleep. Have you ever seen Harris awake, except at meal times?’ George asked me.

at all

ət ɔ:l

вообще; совсем; нисколько

We pretended that we were not interesting in the water at all. We wanted it to think we did not care if it got hot or not. We began to get the other things out.
I did not like this idea at all. I said that he and George should row, so that I could rest a little.

at first

ət ˈfɜ:st

сначала

At first I could not answer him, because I was laughing so much.
He thought, at first, that it was the end of the world.
It rained all day, and, at first, we pretended we were enjoying it.

at last

ət lɑ:st

наконец

When, at last, the tent is up, you carry the things out of the boat.
At last, Harris’s friend said to him, ‘This must be a very big maze.’
At last we did wake him up, and we got into the boat.

at night

ət naɪt

ночью

‘Now,’ George said, ‘we don’t want to take a tent. We can put a cover over the boat at night.
On that trip we reached Datchet at ten o’clock at night. All we wanted to do was to eat and go to bed.
He likes to travel early in the morning or late at night, when there are not many people about to look at him.

at once

ət wʌns

сразу

Then I saw the photographer and at once I understood. I wondered if I would be in time.

at that moment

ət ðət ˈməʊmənt

в этот момент

At that moment Mrs Poppets, my housekeeper, knocked on the door. She wanted to know if we were ready to have supper.

at that time

ət ðət ˈtaɪm

в то время

At that time George had rooms in the house of a lady called Mrs Gippings.

at the back of

ət ðə ˈbæk ɒv

в задней части

Harris stood in the middle of the boat to take the cover from George. I stayed at the back of the boat to take the end of the cover from Harris.

at the bottom

ət ðə ˈbɒtəm

на дне; внизу; в самом низу

It was at the bottom, and he had to bend down, lower and lower. At the same time, he was trying to steer the boat, and he pulled the wrong rope.

at the end

ət ði end

в конце чего-либо

At the end of the day, night comes and the world is peaceful and calm.
At the end of George’s story, Harris asked, ‘What was the name of the hotel?’
At the end of that time we had done four potatoes.

at the front of

ət ðə frʌnt ɒv

спереди

Montmorency was at the front of the boat.
We needed some hot water to make tea, so we put the water on the stove at the front of the boat, and we went to the back.
We looked then, and we saw that the nose of our boat was caught in the wooden gate at the front of the lock.

at the same moment

ət ðə seɪm ˈməʊmənt

в тот же момент; в то же время

He is waiting to kill you. You are just going to start fighting him when you see that it is Jim.  At the same moment, he sees that it is you.

at the same time

ət ðə seɪm ˈtaɪm

в то же время; одновременно

Slowly, you start to go round to his side to tell him what you think of him. At the same time, he begins to come round the other way, to tell you what he feels.
You stand and look at each other across the tent. At the same time, you both call out, ‘There you are! What did I tell you?’
It was at the bottom, and he had to bend down, lower and lower. At the same time, he was trying to steer the boat, and he pulled the wrong rope.

at the table

ət ðə ˈteɪbl̩

за столом

So Mrs Poppets brought the supper in. We sat down at the table, and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips – and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made.

at the time

ət ðə ˈtaɪm

в тот момент

George could not get out of the cover either. At the time, I did not know anything about all this.

at the top of

ət ðə tɒp ɒv

в верхней части

One of them got in with his head at the top of the bed. The other one got in on the other side of the bed. He lay with his feet by the first one’s head.

August

ˈɔ:ɡəst

Август

It was one Saturday in August.

aunt

ɑ:nt

тетя

When they bought a picture once, Aunt Podger asked, ‘Now, where shall we put this?’
Aunt Maria was not pleased.
But just then, the young woman cried wildly, ‘Oh, Henry, then where’s Aunt Mary?’…

autumn

ˈɔ:təm

осень

I remember that one autumn I went on holiday…

awake

əˈweɪk

проснувшийся; бодрствующий

Now, it makes me very angry when I see another man asleep and I am awake.
I woke up at six o’clock the next morning, and I found that George was awake, too.
Have you ever seen Harris awake, except at meal times?

awful

ˈɔ:fl̩

ужасный; кошмарный; отвратительный

Montmorency’s idea of a good time is to collect together all the most awful dogs he can find and then go round the town, looking for other awful dogs to fight.
And just as I was going to close the suitcase again, an awful idea came to me.
As it went down into the water, we shouted awful things at it.

baby

ˈbeɪbi

ребенок

One woman was carrying a baby. She held on to Harris’s arm because she did not want to lose him.
The woman with the baby said, ‘No, I took it from the baby, and I threw it there myself.

back

ˈbæk

задняя часть; киль; назад; обратно; спина

After that, every time they tried again, they arrived back in the centre.
Then he and his three fat, heavy friends sat in the back of their boat, and lit their pipes.
The boat did move, and George and I fell over on our backs.

back leg

ˈbæk leɡ

задняя нога

And Montmorency stood on his back legs in front of the window, looked out into the night, and gave a short bark to show that he agreed.

backwards

ˈbækwədz

назад

That was when the boat hit the river bank, and Harris fell over backwards.
Montmorency (who moves backwards down the road): Oh, no. Not at all … certainly … I … I’m afraid I’ve made a mistake. I thought I knew you … I’m sorry.
Then, suddenly, he had fallen backwards into it.

bad (worse, worst)

bæd (wɜ:s, wɜ:st)

плохой; скверный; нездоровый; плохо; скверно (еще хуже, самый худший)

We were sitting in my room, and we were smoking and talking about how bad we were – ill, I mean, of course.
Slowly, I began to turn over more pages. I came to a disease which was worse than the last one.
Before we washed them, they were very, very dirty, but we could just wear them. After we had washed them, they were worse than before.

badly

ˈbædli

очень сильно; плохо; дурно

After that, we went to bed, but I slept very badly.
When he dug it up, he had damaged it very badly.
We looked at each other, and we all felt badly about it.

bag

bæɡ

сумка

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.
We did not wait. We picked up the basket, the bags and the coats, and we ran along the road.
We did not speak, but we got out the bag. We looked up the river, and down the river. There was nobody there.

bang

bæŋ

удар; стук

There was a short fight, and then there were two heavy bangs on the floor.

bank

bæŋk

банк; берег

George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o’clock until four o’clock from Monday to Friday.
The boat turned sharply and bumped into the bank of the river, and Harris fell into the basket.
‘Good heavens!’ George cried. ‘I have to be at the bank by nine o’clock!’ And he threw down the watch and jumped out of bed.

bark

bɑ:k

лаять; лай

Montmorency started to bark madly, I shouted, and Harris called out wildly.
Montmorency barked with horror at the idea.
We waited in silence for a moment, and then (Oh, how happy we were!) we heard Montmorency bark.

basket

ˈbɑ:skɪt

корзина

There were two large baskets with lids, for the food and for the pans and things to cook with.
There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.
So then we got out both the food baskets.

battle

ˈbætl̩

битва; сражение

Harris said he had had quite a hard battle with these two swans.
There was another terrible battle.

be able to

bi ˈeɪbl̩ tu:

быть в состоянии, мочь

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday you wish that you were dead. On Saturday you are able to drink something.
All our work will be finished then. We’ll be able to sit down and enjoy our meal.’
Harris and I sang a song about how good it was to be free and to be able to enjoy the sun and the rain.

be in time

bi ɪn ˈtaɪm

успевать

Then I saw the photographer and at once I understood. I wondered if I would be in time.
We could be in London in time to get something to eat, and afterwards we could go on to the theatre.’

be like

bi ˈlaɪk

быть похожим

They always tell you what the weather was like yesterday, or the day before. It is never today’s weather. It is always wrong. I remember that one autumn I went on holiday…

be up

bi ʌp

встать; подняться

The next morning we were up early, because we wanted to be in Oxford by the afternoon.

be\am\is\are (was\were; been)

bi\æm\ɪz\ɑ: (wəz\wɜ:, bi:n)

быть

Harris said that he thought that would be awful. He added that he had been to a place like that once.
We said, ‘Oh, we’ve been there, and we didn’t like it. There were no roses round the door.’
It was coming towards us slowly. We heard Harris’s sleepy voice. He was asking where we were.

be\am\is\are (was\were; been) back

bi\æm\ɪz\ɑ: (wəz\wɜ:, bi:n) ˈbæk

вернуться

So they all started off again for the third time. And three minutes later, they were back in the centre again.

beat (beat, beaten)

bi:t (bi:t, ˈbi:tn̩)

колотить, бить; ударять

First of all, the pieces of metal would not fit into their holes. We had to jump on them, and kick them, and beat them.
Harris was not hurt too badly. After that, I took the tin away. I beat it until I was exhausted and miserable. Then Harris took it.
We beat it until it was long and thin. We beat it until it was square.

beautiful

ˈbju:təfl̩

прекрасный; красивый

‘How beautiful,’ we said, ‘in the country, by the river, with the birds, the flowers and the trees all around us!’
The music was beautiful, but Uncle Podger’s words were not!
We did not stay long, though, because the river is dirty there. However, after that it becomes very beautiful.

become (became, become) ill

bɪˈkeɪm (bɪˈkeɪm, bɪˈkʌm) ɪl

заболеть

Harris said it would be very serious if one of us became ill because we were a long way from a doctor.

because

bɪˈkɒz

по причине; потому что; оттого что; так как

You get out of the boat, pull out the tent, and two of you try to put it up. Because it is wet, it is very heavy.
It was a bit windy, and some had made a mistake because the wind was behind us. That does not usually happen.
We could not turn round because the man was just going to take the photograph.

because of

bɪˈkɒz ɒv

из-за

However, it seemed very strange that they had closed the shops because of the fog.

become (became, become)

bɪˈkʌm (bɪˈkeɪm, bɪˈkʌm)

стать; становиться

However, after that it becomes very beautiful.
In the end, I became really angry with him.
Harris said it would be very serious if one of us became ill because we were a long way from a doctor.

become (became, become) angry

bɪˈkʌm (bɪˈkeɪm, bɪˈkʌm) ˈæŋɡri

рассердиться

He just went on laughing! In fact, I never saw a man laugh so much. In the end, I became really angry with him.

bed

bed

кровать

Somebody else is in trouble, too. You can hear his cries. They are coming from under your bed.
Anyway, they were going to sleep in the same room, but in different beds.
The people there laughed at us. There were only three beds in the house, and there were seven men there already.

bedclothes

ˈbedkləʊðz

постельное белье

We ran across the room, and we pulled the bedclothes off him.

beer

bɪə

пиво

He had a glass of beer in his hand, and he also looked at the fish.
He drank some of his beer, and then he added, ‘Perhaps you weren’t here when it was caught?’

beg

beɡ

просить; умолять

Now, if you say ‘Cats!’ to Montmorency, he looks up at you, and his eyes beg you, ‘No, please!’

begin (began, begun)

bɪˈɡɪn (bɪˈɡæn, bɪˈɡʌn)

начинать

You have to go away and begin your meal without it.
The water was rising, and our boat was beginning to turn over.
So then, of course, we began to talk about other illnesses.

beginning

bɪˈɡɪnɪŋ

начало

Then I began to get really interested in myself, so I went back to the beginning of the book.

behave

bɪˈheɪv

вести себя; поступить

On the way back, Montmorency behaved very stupidly.

behind

bɪˈhaɪnd

позади; за

What’s the good of a man behind a bit of glass?
It was a bit windy, and some had made a mistake because the wind was behind us. That does not usually happen.
Just then, someone behind me called out, ‘Hi! Look at your nose!’

believe

bɪˈli:v

верить

Then we made a list of all the clothes we needed. George told us that he knew all about this kind of thing – and we believed him.
What’s the good of that? If George was here, we could go to see that church. Anyway, I don’t believe he’s at the bank.
He thought, at first, that it was the end of the world. Harris still believes that George and I planned it.

bend (bent; bent) down

bend (bent; bent) daʊn

нагнуться; наклониться

It was at the bottom, and he had to bend down, lower and lower.
When I meet a cat, I say hello to it. Then I bend down and I stroke it gently, behind the ears and along the side of its head.

between

bɪˈtwi:n

между

‘Aren’t you going to get in out?’ George cried, between his shout of laughter.
He had not fallen in the river, because we were between him and the water.
Between Streatley and Wallingford the river is not very interesting.

beyond

bɪˈjɒnd

за; после

‘Well,’ he said, ‘you’re coming away from them. Go back, and you’ll come to the Black Horse.’ We said, ‘Oh, we’ve been there, and we didn’t like it. There were no roses round the door.’ ‘Well, then,’ he said, ‘there’s the Travellers’ Rest just beyond it. Have you tried that?’

big

bɪɡ

большой

At last, Harris’s friend said to him, ‘This must be a very big maze.’
‘Why does George have to play around all day? Why has he left us with this big, heavy boat to tow up and down the river?
So we stopped before we reached Magna Charta Island. It was quite a pretty place and we tied our boat to a big tree.

bigger

ˈbɪɡə

больше

It was a big, black cat. I have never seen a bigger cat. It had lost half its tail and one of its ears, but it looked calm and happy.

biggest

ˈbɪɡɪst

самый большой

At last, Harris’s friend said to him, ‘This must be a very big maze.’ ‘One of the biggest in Europe,’ Harris answered.

bird

bɜ:d

птица

‘How beautiful,’ we said, ‘in the country, by the river, with the birds, the flowers and the trees all around us!’

bit

bɪt

кусок; небольшое количество; немного

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.
He sits behind a bit of glass all day, and he pretends to do something.
The potatoes were a bit hard, but we had good teeth, so it did not really matter.
He said we could use all kinds of things, and all the bits of food we had left.

black

blæk

черный

So I went and helped them. Harris’s face was nearly black, so I was just in time.
So we went back to the Black Horse.
You, in the red and black caps! If you don’t do something quickly, there’ll be two dead bodies in that photograph!’

blame

bleɪm

винить; обвинять

I do not really blame Montmorency (usually I just hit him, or throw stones at him), because dogs are like that.

blanket

ˈblæŋkɪt

одеяло

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.

blow

bləʊ

удар

And they did not give me medicine for this illness – they hit me on the side of the head. It is very strange, but those blows on my head often made the illness go away for a time.
Sometimes just one blow made the sickness disappear and made me want to start work immediately…

blow (blew, blown) down

bləʊ (blu:, bləʊn) daʊn

сдуть

‘The tent has blown down, I think,’ he says. ‘Where’s Bill?’

blow (blew, blown) up

bləʊ (blu: , bləʊn) ʌp

усиливаться

Half an hour later, it began to rain hard, and a very cold wind blew up. And this went on all day.

blue

blu:

синий

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.

board

bɔ:d

доска

There was no tin-opener. We pulled up the boards at the bottom of the boat.

boat

bəʊt

лодка

Our boat was the only one in the lock that day.
George and I were towing the boat then.
Everything in the boat was wet.

boathouse

ˈbəʊthaʊs

эллинг для лодок

We had written to ask for a boat, and, when we arrived at the boathouse, we gave our names.
Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

boatman

ˈbəʊtmən

лодочник

We had told the boatman a lie.

body

ˈbɒdi

тело

His head and his body hit the piano at the same time.
If you don’t do something quickly, there’ll be two dead bodies in that photograph!

book

bʊk

книга

I took the book off the library shelf, and I began to read.
Then I began to get really interested in myself, so I went back to the beginning of the book.
And we laughed. Then we sat down by the fire and read our books.

boots

bu:ts

ботинки

‘Aren’t you going to put the boots in?’ Harris asked.
Harris said that he did not look like a nice man, and he was wearing ugly boots.
He did not like his boots either.

both

bəʊθ

оба; обе

In fact, he said he would quite like it, but he thought that Harris and I would both be ill. Harris said he was never seasick.
I woke up at six o’clock the next morning, and I found that George was awake, too. We both tried to go to sleep again, but we could not.
But George looked at it, and he said there was not enough. So then we got out both the food baskets.

bottle

ˈbɒtl̩

бутылка

And we can take a bottle of whisky, too – for when we are sick, you know.
I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc.
He climbed onto the seat and he bent down to get the bottle out of the basket.

bottom

ˈbɒtəm

дно

They packed soft things at the bottom of the basket, and then put heavy things on top of them.
It was at the bottom, and he had to bend down, lower and lower.
We had knocked those three old men from their seats, and they were all lying on the bottom of their boat.

boy

ˌbɔɪ

мальчик

He sent one of the girls out to buy some nails, and then he sent one of the boys to tell her how big the nails ought to be.
‘No, I don’t,’ the boy answered, but he added that his mother would give us a room.
He said that he had caught it himself, years ago, when he was a boy.

branch

brɑ:ntʃ

ветка

So I went out on to the river bank, and I began to move carefully along the branch of a tree which was over the water.
I turned – and just then the stupid branch broke.

brave

breɪv

храбрый; смелый

Montmorency is quite a brave dog, but there was something in the way the cat looked at him.
All the girls were smiling prettily, and all the men were trying to look brave and handsome.

bravely

ˈbreɪvli

смело

‘Well, I’m going to throw him out,’ Joe replied. ‘So am I,’ George’s father said, bravely.
But he had fought bravely and, in the end, he defeated them.
But, once again, Harris fought bravely, for four hours, and he had killed them all.

bread

bred

хлеб

Supper is mostly rainwater – rainwater bread, rainwater soup.
We could see ourselves – we were sitting down to supper there; we were passing cold meat and thick pieces of bread to each other.
When you go for a walk by the river, the fish come and stand half out of the water, with their mouths open for bread.

break (broke, broken)

breɪk (brəʊk, ˈbrəʊkən)

ломаться; разбивать

Harris had some trouble when he tried to break the eggs.
I turned – and just then the stupid branch broke.
So we gave him the pan, and all the eggs which had not broken.

breakfast

ˈbrekfəst

завтрак

‘First, breakfast,’ George began. ‘We need eggs, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, of course.
So he stopped trying to prepare breakfast, and he put on his coat.
On Monday morning, we got up quite early and we went to swim before breakfast.

breathe

bri:ð

дышать

No help comes, and all you know is that thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot breathe.
We can’t breathe under here! Why don’t you help us, you great stupid thing!

bridge

brɪdʒ

мост

At Marlow we left the boat near the bridge, and we went to spend the night in a hotel.
We left our boat at the bridge, and we went into the village.
I caught him just by the bridge.

bright

braɪt

яркий; блестящий

But on the morning of our holiday it was bright and sunny, and George could not make us unhappy.

brightly

ˈbraɪtli

ярко

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.
As we came up to the lock at Weybridge, we saw something brightly coloured on one of the lock gates.

bring (brought, brought)

brɪŋ (ˈbrɔ:t, ˈbrɔ:t)

доставить; приводить; влечь за собой; приносить

On a winter evening, when men are telling stories about the dangers they have known, George brings out his hat.
He brought the boat to our side of the river.
And that was how grateful they were to me, after I had brought them and their old boat all the way up from Kingston; after I had organized everything of them; and after I had taken care of them!

bring (brought, brought) back

brɪŋ (ˈbrɔ:t, ˈbrɔ:t) ˈbæk

возвращать; приносить обратно

This brings back your interest in life until it is time to go to bed.
And then they take Mary’s hat for her. Mary does not want it, so they bring it back.

bring (brought, brought) down

brɪŋ (ˈbrɔ:t, ˈbrɔ:t) daʊn

опускать

I took the piece of wood, and held it high in the air. Then I brought it down as hard as I could.

bring (brought, brought) in

brɪŋ (ˈbrɔ:t, ˈbrɔ:t) ɪn

приносить

So Mrs Poppets brought the supper in. We sat down at the table, and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips – and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made.

bring (brought, brought) out

brɪŋ (ˈbrɔ:t, ˈbrɔ:t)

выставить; выносить

We decided to have cold meat for lunch. Then, after that, George brought out a tin of fruit. We love tinned fruit, all three of us.
On a winter evening, when men are telling stories about the dangers they have known, George brings out his hat.

British Museum Library

brɪtɪʃ mju:ˈzɪəm ˈlaɪbrəri

библиотека Британского музея

One day I had a little health problem, and I went to the British Museum Library to read about it. I took the book off the library shelf, and I began to read.

brown

braʊn

бурый; коричневый

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.
But when it rains, the river is brown and miserable.

brush

brʌʃ

очищать; чистить

I did not see the photographer at first, but suddenly George started to brush his trousers, and he fixed his hair and put on his hat.

build (built; built)

bɪld (bɪlt; bɪlt)

строить

He said, ‘You two can ask someone to build you a hotel. I’m going back to the Black Horse!’

bump

bʌmp

ударить

The boat turned sharply and bumped into the bank of the river, and Harris fell into the basket.

burglar

ˈbɜ:ɡlə

ночной грабитель; взломщик

She would hear the noise and think that he was a burglar. Then she would open the window and shout, ‘Help! Police!’

burn (burnt; burnt)

bɜ:n (bɜ:nt; bɜ:nt)

обжечь

Whenever he went near the pan, he burnt himself.
Once Montmorency went and looked into the pan, but he burnt himself.

busy

ˈbɪzi

оживленный; заполненный

Our boat was the only one in the lock that day. Usually it is very busy.
Henley was very busy, and we met quite a lot of people we knew in town.

butter

ˈbʌtə

масло

We need eggs, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, of course.
After George got the butter off his shoe, they tried to put it in the teapot.
Then they looked for the butter all over the room.

buy (bought, bought)

baɪ (ˈbɔ:t, ˈbɔ:t)

купить; покупать

Everyone went to bed at eight o’clock, and he had to walk for an hour to buy cigarettes and a newspaper.
When they bought a picture once, Aunt Podger asked, ‘Now, where shall we put this?’
Nobody bought the photographs. They said they did not want photographs of our feet.

by accident

baɪ ˈæksɪdənt

случайно; нечаянно

I wanted to put on my shirt as quickly as possible. By accident, I dropped it into the water.

by now

baɪ naʊ

к этому времени

But, finally, at half past seven, we reached it and got through it. By now we just wanted to eat and to go to bed.

by the time

baɪ ðə ˈtaɪm

к тому моменту, как

We stopped for tea just before we got to Cookham. By the time we got through the lock it was evening.
However, by the time we had finished our first potato, we were feeling very miserable.

cake

keɪk

торт; кекс

We sat down at the table, and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips – and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made.
I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc.
Harris’s friend said that they had passed the piece of cake earlier.

call

kɔ:l

закричать; окликать; звать; кричать; называть

A woman had brought me a dead cat and had called me a murderer. Then I changed my ideas about Montmorency.
And then another voice called, ‘Push your nose out! You two, with the dog!’
Was it us they were calling to? What was the matter with our noses? Why did they want us to push them out?

call out

kɔ:l aʊt

закричать, крикнуть, выкрикнуть, окликать

‘Here! What do you think you’re doing?’ you call out.
George was going to call out to tell them about it. But, just then, he had an idea.
Harris called out, ‘You ought to be pleased that something so exciting has happened to you!’

called

kɔ:ld

именуемый; называемый; под именем

At that time George had rooms in the house of a lady called Mrs Gippings.

calm

kɑ:m

безмятежный, спокойный

At the end of the day, night comes and the world is peaceful and calm.
It was a big, black cat. I have never seen a bigger cat. It had lost half its tail and one of its ears, but it looked calm and happy.

calm down

ˈkɑ:m ˈdaʊn

успокоиться

We had an excellent meal, and Harris calmed down and began to enjoy himself again.

calmly

ˈkɑ:mli

спокойно

She added calmly, ‘The next time that you are going to put a picture on the wall, please tell me. Then I can arrange to go and spend a week with my mother.’

camp out

kæmp ˈaʊt

ночевать в палатке

Then Harris remembered one of his friends who had camped out on a wet night.

can (could)

kən (kʊd)

мочь; иметь возможность; быть в состоянии

Harris said, ‘Oh, yes.’ He thought that George and I could sleep in one bed very easily.
The Cat: Can I do anything for you? Montmorency: No … no, thanks.
We took out all the bits of things that were left, and we put them in, too. In fact, we put in everything we could find.

cap

kæp

кепка

I saw him looking towards it as we came near, but I moved the boat quickly, and Harris’s cap fell into the water.
George waved his cap and yelled back to us.
You, in the red and black caps!

Captain Cook

ˈkæptɪn kʊk

капитан Кук (Джеймс Кук)

You walk up and down on the ship, like Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake or Christopher Columbus. On Tuesday you wish that you had not come.

card

kɑ:d

карта игральная

We played cards after supper. We played for about an hour and a half, and George won ten pence.

care

keə

беспокоиться; думать; заботиться

When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in the suitcase. I said I did not care about the soap.
They did not seem to care that there was no boat.
We pretended that we were not interesting in the water at all. We wanted it to think we did not care if it got hot or not.

careful

ˈkeəfʊl

внимательный; аккуратный

And I am very careful with my work, too. Why, some of the work in my study has been there for years, and it had not got dirty of anything.

carefully

ˈkeəfəli

внимательно; осторожно; тщательно

So I went out on to the river bank, and I began to move carefully along the branch of a tree which was over the water.
‘Is the fish all right?’ I cried. ‘I hope so,’ George said. He stood up carefully and looked round. But the fish was lying on the floor – in a thousand pieces!
So I turned round quickly and stood in the front of the boat. I arranged my hair carefully, and I tried to make myself look strong and interesting.

carrot

ˈkærət

морковь

We also put in some carrots and other vegetables.

carry

ˈkæri

нести; переносить

When, at last, the tent is up, you carry the things out of the boat.
First the river carries you to the right, then to the left; then it takes you out into the middle and turns you round three times.
One woman was carrying a baby.
Then we carried all our luggage into the road.

case

keɪs

ящик, контейнер

We noticed a glass case on the wall. In it there was a very big fish.

cat

kæt

кошка

A woman had brought me a dead cat and had called me a murderer. Then I changed my ideas about Montmorency.
When I meet a cat, I say hello to it. Then I bend down and I stroke it gently, behind the ears and along the side of its head.
The cat likes this. It puts its tail up and it pushes itself against my legs. And there is love and peace.

catch (caught, caught)

kætʃ (ˈkɔ:t, ˈkɔ:t)

ловить; поймать

He tried to catch the glass… and he cut himself.
I caught him just by the bridge.
We looked then, and we saw that the nose of our boat was caught in the wooden gate at the front of the lock.

catch (caught, caught) cold

kætʃ (ˈkɔ:t, ˈkɔ:t) kəʊld

простудиться

The next day you have no voices because you have all caught colds, and all day you argue with each other in angry whispers…

catch (caught, caught) hold

kætʃ (ˈkɔ:t, ˈkɔ:t) həʊld

схватить

Then he caught hold of his coat, his hat and his umbrella, and ran to the front door.
And then George fell, and he caught hold of the glass case to save himself.

caught

ˈkɔ:t

пойманный

We looked then, and we saw that the nose of our boat was caught in the wooden gate at the front of the lock.

cause

kɔ:z

быть причиной

After supper Harris was rather disagreeable – I think it was the meal which caused this.

centre

ˈsentə

центр

After ten minutes they found themselves in the centre of the maze.
And three minutes later, they were back in the centre again.
After that, every time they tried again, they arrived back in the centre.

certain

ˈsɜ:tn̩

уверенный

However, we were all quite certain of one thing – we had been doing too much work.

certainly

ˈsɜːtnli

непременно; конечно

Montmorency (who moves backwards down the road): Oh, no. Not at all … certainly … I … I’m afraid I’ve made a mistake. I thought I knew you … I’m sorry.
The Cat: Not at all. Are you quite sure you don’t want anything now?

chair

tʃeə

стул

Two people held the chair, a third helped him to get on it, a fourth gave him a nail, and a fifth passed him the hammer.
This time he fell off the chair on to the piano.
And then George fell, and he caught hold of the glass case to save himself. It came down, with George and the chair on top of it.

change

tʃeɪndʒ

менять; меняться; перемена

If you want a rest and a change, then the sea is best.
I have never seen a man’s face change so quickly.
The weather changed, and, when we left Oxford, it was raining.

chapter

ˈtʃæptə

глава

Chapter 1 – We decide to go on holiday

chase away

tʃeɪs əˈweɪ

прогнать

You have to stop, and leave the boat, to chase the cow away
She started to shout at Harris. However, Harris managed to chase her away, and she went to fetch her husband.

cheque

tʃek

чек

They take all your money, and then, when you write out a cheque, they send it back!

chest

tʃest

грудь; грудная клетка

Montmorency had been asleep on Harris’s chest, and he went flying across the boat.

chicken

ˈtʃɪkɪn

куриный; курица

But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for…
And for dinner we can take cold chicken legs, tomatoes, cold meat, fruit, cakes, chocolate…

chicken legs

ˈtʃɪkɪn leɡz

куриные окорочка

And for dinner we can take cold chicken legs, tomatoes, cold meat, fruit, cakes, chocolate… We can drink water.’

child (children)

tʃaɪld (ˈtʃɪldrən)

ребенок (дети)

She said that she did not want the children to listen to those terrible words.

chips

tʃɪps

жареный хрустящий картофель; жареная картошка по-французски

We sat down at the table, and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips – and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made.

chocolate

ˈtʃɒklət

шоколад

And for dinner we can take cold chicken legs, tomatoes, cold meat, fruit, cakes, chocolate… We can drink water.’

Christopher Columbus

ˈkrɪstəfə kəˈlʌmbəs

Кристофер Колумб

You walk up and down on the ship, like Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake or Christopher Columbus. On Tuesday you wish that you had not come.

church

tʃɜ:tʃ

церковь

I have never liked visiting churches, but Harris loves them.
If George was here, we could go to see that church.
Luckily, he was very angry with me, and so he forgot about his church.

cigarette

ˌsɪɡəˈret

сигарета

Everyone went to bed at eight o’clock, and he had to walk for an hour to buy cigarettes and a newspaper.
That was rather strange. George lit his pipe and sat back in the armchair. Harris put his feet on the table and lit a cigarette.
I threw down the lid of the suitcase, and I closed it again. Then I found my cigarettes were inside it.

city

ˈsɪti

город; деловой центр Лондона

Harris and I would go down to Kingston in the morning and take the boat up to Chertsey, but George could not leave the City until the afternoon.

clean

kli:n

очищать, вычищать

So I cleaned the pan with some wood and grass – and George’s wet shirt.

cleaner

ˈkli:nə

чище

However, the river between Reading and Henley was cleaner because we had taken all the dirt from it, and we had washed it into our clothes.

clearly

ˈklɪəli

очевидно; несомненно

Five minutes later, Jim came back with a very old piece of wood. He had clearly just dug it up from a hole in the ground.

clever

ˈklevə

умный

Doctors were not so clever then.
That was when he caught the fish. Everyone thought he was very clever.

climb

klaɪm

подняться; влезть; залезть

He climbed up a ladder, and he called to them, ‘Wait, there! I’ll come and get you.’
He climbed onto the seat and he bent down to get the bottle out of the basket.
Harris said it would be difficult to climb back into the boat again from the water.

climb up

klaɪm ʌp

залезать

George became very excited about it, and he climbed up onto a chair to see it better.

clock

ˈklɒk

часы

Just then George heard a clock … one … two … three. ‘But that’s only three times!’ George said, when it had finished.

close

kləʊs

близкий

When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man. When I left I was a very sick man, close to death…

close

kləʊz

закрывать

I sat on the suitcase and closed it. George and Harris watched me with great interest.
I threw down the lid of the suitcase, and I closed it again. Then I found my cigarettes were inside it.
However, it seemed very strange that they had closed the shops because of the fog.

closer

ˈkləʊsə

ближе

When we closer, we saw that it was George. Montmorency started to bark madly, I shouted, and Harris called out wildly.

clothes

kləʊðz

одежда

Then we made a list of all the clothes we needed.
They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.
Perhaps it was because of our interesting clothes, of because we looked so healthy.

cloud

klaʊd

облако

The sun was shining and there were no clouds in the sky.

coat

ˈkəʊt

пиджак; пальто

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.
So he stopped trying to prepare breakfast, and he put on his coat.
We picked up the basket, the bags and the coats, and we ran along the road.

cold

kəʊld

простуда; холодный; озябший; замерзший; холодная погода; слабый

I sat there for a time, cold with horror.
We came home with colds, and we went to bed…
For ten days we had lived on cold meat and bread, and not much else.

collect

kəˈlekt

собирать; накапливать; собираться

Montmorency’s idea of a good time is to collect together all the most awful dogs he can find and then go round the town, looking for other awful dogs to fight.
The next day, which was Friday, we collected all these things together. In the evening we met to pack.
A crowd of interested people collected to watch us.

colour

ˈkʌlə

цвет

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.
Harris did not like the colour of his hair.

coloured

ˈkʌləd

окрашенный

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.
As we came up to the lock at Weybridge, we saw something brightly coloured on one of the lock gates.

comb

kəʊm

расческа

Then they want a comb.

come (came, come) down

kʌm (keɪm, kʌm) daʊn

спускаться; падать

Usually it is very busy. On Sundays, when the weather is fine, there are boats everywhere. Everybody comes down to the river.
The he sat in the armchair and he waited for Mrs Gippings. She came down at half past seven.
The rain came down without stopping. Everything in the boat was wet. Supper was not a success.

come (came, come) home

kʌm (keɪm, kʌm) həʊm

приходить домой

We came home with colds, and we went to bed…

come (came, come) past

kʌm (keɪm, kʌm) pɑ:st

проходить мимо

Just then, a little boy came past. ‘Do you know any old people that we can frighten, so that they will give us their beds?’ we asked him.

come (came, come) up

kʌm (keɪm, kʌm) ʌp

подниматься

As we came up to the lock at Weybridge, we saw something brightly coloured on one of the lock gates.

come (came; come)

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm)

идти; подходить; прийти; доходить; достигать; наступить; появиться; раздаваться; ехать; приезжать; приближаться

At the end of the day, night comes and the world is peaceful and calm.
Somebody else is in trouble, too. You can hear his cries. They are coming from under your bed.
 But he looks so good, so well-behaved. When old ladies and gentlemen look at him, tears come into their eyes.
Maria, you stay here to hold the light – and Tom, come here! You can give me the picture.’
When we came to Hampton Court Palace, Harris asked me if I had ever been in the maze there. He told me a story about it…
Next we came to Halliford and Shepperton. There is an old church at Shepperton, and I was worried in case Harris wanted to go and visit it.
So we went on until we came to another hotel. That was a very nice one, too, and it did have roses.
We had come to enjoy ourselves for a fortnight on the river, and we were going to finish the trip.

come (came; come) along

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) əˈlɒŋ

приехать на место

Usually taxis come along every three minutes. In fact, there are usually too many taxis. However, that morning we waited twenty minutes for a taxi.

come (came; come) away

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) əˈweɪ

уходить

‘Well,’ he said, ‘you’re coming away from them. Go back, and you’ll come to the Black Horse.’

come (came; come) back

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) bæk

возвращаться; вернуться

He bought a return ticket, but, when he got to Liverpool, he sold it and he came back by train…
As we were coming back from the river, a cat ran out from one of the house, and it began to walk across the road.
We had left the boat near a swan’s nest, and, soon after George and I had left, Mrs Swan came back.

come (came; come) from

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) frɒm

раздаваться из

We also heard many bad words coming from under the cover. Montmorency and I decided that this was because the job was very difficult.

come (came; come) in

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) ɪn

входить; приходить; приезжать; пригнать; принять участие

Then Harris would come in the boat and get us. When we left, we said to him, ‘Don’t go to sleep!’
Five minutes later a third man came in and described how he had caught the fish, early one morning.
When he left, the landlord came in to talk to us. We told him the different stories we had heard about his fish.

come (came; come) on

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) ɒn

начать делать что-то; включаться

He added, ‘I only came on the trip because I thought we were going there!’

come (came; come) out

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) aʊt

вырваться; выниматься; выходить

‘Ah! The stupid fool!’ you hear him say to himself. And then, suddenly, he gives a violent pull – and your side comes out, too.
Harris said to his friend, ‘We’ll just go in and walk around for ten minutes, and then we’ll come out and get some lunch.
And from the middle of the grass the food appeared, and then Harris came out, dirty and wet.

come (came; come) round

kʌm (keɪm; kʌm) ˈraʊnd

обходить кругом; обходить

Slowly, you start to go round to his side to tell him what you think of him. At the same time, he begins to come round the other way, to tell you what he feels.

come on

kʌm ɒn

да ладно!; живее; быстрей; давай

A change is good for you. Come on! Get out of the boat and tow!’
‘Oh, come on! I’ve done more that old J., anyway,’ Harris replied.

comfortable

ˈkʌmftəbl̩

удобный; уютный; комфортабельный

It will be like a little house, lovely and warm and comfortable.
We thought of our nice, warm, comfortable boat.

completed

kəmˈpli:tɪd

законченный; выполненный

The packing was completed at ten to one in the morning, and we all went to bed. George said, ‘What time shall I wake you two?’

continue

kənˈtɪnju:

продолжать

‘Yes, it must be,’ his friend continued, ‘because we’ve walked about three kilometres already.’
Montmorency (who continues to move back): Not at all … thanks … not at all … very kind of you … Good morning.
However, we all agreed that we should continue our trip.

conversation

ˌkɒnvəˈseɪʃn̩

разговор; беседа

They did not speak, of course, but it was easy to imagine their conversation.

cook

kʊk

готовить

There we put up our tent, and we cook and eat our simple supper.
At first we thought it was necessary to do this to cook the eggs.
There were two large baskets with lids, for the food and for the pans and things to cook with.

corner

ˈkɔ:nə

угол; район

Our little boat moves silently into some quiet little corner on the river.
Then, at the next corner, they see a cow.
He started to hide in dark corners whenever he saw a policeman.

cost

kɒst

цена; стоимость

We paid her, and did not say a word about the cost.

count

kaʊnt

считать

‘How many swans did you say there were?’ George asked. ‘Thirty-two,’ Harris replied, sleepily. ‘You said eighteen before,’ George said. ‘No, I didn’t,’ Harris answered. ‘I said twelve. Do you think I can’t count?’

country

ˈkʌntri

деревня

I agree with George, and I said that perhaps we could go to the country.
‘How beautiful,’ we said, ‘in the country, by the river, with the birds, the flowers and the trees all around us!’

cover

ˈkʌvə

чехол; покров; навес

We can put a cover over the boat at night.
We would throw off the cover and we would jump into the water, with shouts of happiness.
Before lunch, he put the cover on the boat, and it stayed there all afternoon.

cow

kaʊ

корова

Then, at the next corner, they see a cow.
You have to stop, and leave the boat, to chase the cow away…

crowd

kraʊd

толпа

The crowd of people waved goodbye to us.
Harris took out his map again, but this made the crowd angry.
Harris felt that the crowd was not very grateful to him.

cruel

krʊəl

жестокий

Harris who is sometimes a little cruel, said, ‘Ah! And now you’re going to have a bad time on the river for a change. A change is good for you. Come on! Get out of the boat and tow!’

cry (cried)

kraɪ (kraɪd)

восклицать; кричать; плакать

‘Don’t pull it! You’ve got it all wrong, you stupid man!’ you cry.
But just then, the young woman cried wildly, ‘Oh, Henry, then where’s Aunt Mary?’…
‘Look at your nose, you stupid fool!’ the voice cried again, more loudly this time.

cry (cries)

kraɪ (kraɪz)

крик; вопль

No help comes, and all you know is that thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot breathe. Somebody else is in trouble, too. You can hear his cries. They are coming from under your bed.

cup

kʌp

чашка

I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc.
They started by breaking a cup.
As a result, I fell in the water, and the tin flew away and broke a cup.

curtain

ˈkɜ:tn̩

занавеска; штора

Then Harris, who was sitting next to the window, pulled back the curtain and looked out into the street.

cut (cut, cut)

kʌt (kʌt, kʌt)

порезать

He tried to catch the glass… and he cut himself.
Then Harris tried to open the tin with a little knife, and he cut himself badly.

damage

ˈdæmɪdʒ

портить; повреждать

Five minutes later, Jim came back with a very old piece of wood. He had clearly just dug it up from a hole in the ground. When he dug it up, he had damaged it very badly.

dance

dɑ:ns

двигаться; кружиться; приплясывать; прыгать

He looked for something to put round his finger, and he could not find anything. So he danced round the house, and he shouted at everybody.
Whenever he went near the pan, he burnt himself. Then he dropped everything, and danced about, and waved his hands, and shouted.
Once Montmorency went and looked into the pan, but he burnt himself. Then he started dancing and shouting, too.

danger

ˈdeɪndʒə

опасность

On a winter evening, when men are telling stories about the dangers they have known, George brings out his hat.
It did not seem to understand that its life was in danger.

dangerous

ˈdeɪndʒərəs

угрожающий; опасный

Harris was going to pretend that he wanted to be in the centre, but the crowd looked dangerous.
We took the pieces of metal, and we began to drop them into the holes. You would not expect this to be dangerous work, but it was.

dark

dɑ:k

темный; темнота

So they had to undress and get into bed in the dark.
It was still raining, and it was dark and very wet.
This happened in the winter, so it was dark in the mornings, anyway.

darkness

ˈdɑ:knəs

темнота

Everything looked strange and different in the darkness.

day

deɪ

день

At the end of the day, night comes and the world is peaceful and calm.
Harris told me about the maze as we were passing through Molesey lock. Our boat was the only one in the lock that day.
‘I’ve had a bad day at the bank,’ he explained.

day before

deɪ bɪˈfɔ:

вчерашний день

They always tell you what the weather was like yesterday, or the day before. It is never today’s weather. It is always wrong. I remember that one autumn I went on holiday…

dead

ded

мертвый; мертв

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday you wish that you were dead. On Saturday you are able to drink something.
He came back a few minutes later with a dead rat in his mouth. He wanted to give it to us for the meal.
You, in the red and black caps! If you don’t do something quickly, there’ll be two dead bodies in that photograph!’

death

deθ

смерть

When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man. When I left I was a very sick man, close to death

decide

dɪˈsaɪd

решить

We therefore decided that we would sleep out in tents on fine nights, and in hotels when it rained.
We had decided to sleep on the boat.
‘I know we’ve decided to stay and die on this boat,’ George said, ‘but there is a train which leaves Pangbourne soon after five o’clock.

deep

di:p

глубокий; низкий (о звуке)

You jump up, and you push the boat off into deep water.
But now everybody in the lock started shouting, and a very loud, deep voice from the back called, ‘Look at your boat!

defeat

dɪˈfi:t

победить; нанести поражение

But he had fought bravely and, in the end, he defeated them.

describe

dɪˈskraɪb

описывать

Anyway, that evening, George and William Harris and I sat there for half an hour, and described our illness to each other.
Five minutes later a third man came in and described how he had caught the fish, early one morning.

desk

desk

стойка; рабочий стол

So we went back to the Black Horse. ‘Good evening,’ the man at the desk said.
The lady at the desk said she had already sent away fourteen people.

destroy

dɪˈstroɪ

уничтожить; сводить к нулю

Just then he pulls the tent from his side, and he destroys all your hard work.

detail

ˈdi:teɪl

деталь

He shows it to his friends. Then he tells the story again – and he adds more details to it each time.

die

daɪ

умереть

We’ll all die of thirst! No pubs!’ (It’s better to let Harris go on shouting when he gets angry. Then he gets tired, and he is quiet afterwards.)
He added that it seemed to be nice and quiet there, and he said that he would like to die there.
‘I know we’ve decided to stay and die on this boat,’ George said, ‘but there is a train which leaves Pangbourne soon after five o’clock.

different

ˈdɪfrənt

не похожий; отличный; другой; разный; различный

And each one of us thought that it was a different place.
It was a very good meal. It was different from other meals. The potatoes were a bit hard, but we had good teeth, so it did not really matter.
We told him the different stories we had heard about his fish.

difficult

ˈdɪfɪkəlt

сложный; трудный; требовательный

It is difficult to put up a tent in good weather. In wet weather it is almost impossible.
We also heard many bad words coming from under the cover. Montmorency and I decided that this was because the job was very difficult.
From there to Oxford is the most difficult part of the river.

dig (dug, dug) up

dɪɡ (dʌɡ, dʌɡ) ʌp

откопать, вырыть

He had clearly just dug it up from a hole in the ground. When he dug it up, he had damaged it very badly.

dining-room

ˈdaɪnɪŋ ru:m

столовая

George took his watch and ran downstairs. The dining-room was dark and silent. There was no fire, no breakfast.

dinner

ˈdɪnə

обед; ужин

And for dinner we can take cold chicken legs, tomatoes, cold meat, fruit, cakes, chocolate… We can drink water.’
We would finish our dinner by half past six. After that we could walk about the village in the rain, or we could sit in a dark little pub.

dirt

dɜ:t

грязь

However, the river between Reading and Henley was cleaner because we had taken all the dirt from it, and we had washed it into our clothes.

dirty

ˈdɜ:ti

грязный

And from the middle of the grass the food appeared, and then Harris came out, dirty and wet.
We did not stay long, though, because the river is dirty there.
Before we washed them, they were very, very dirty, but we could just wear them.

disagree

ˌdɪsəˈɡri:

не соглашаться; разойтись во мнениях

The only thing that Montmorency and I disagree about is cats. I like cats. Montmorency does not.

disagreeable

ˌdɪsəˈɡri:əbl̩

хмурый; неприветливый

After supper Harris was rather disagreeable – I think it was the meal which caused this.

disappear

ˌdɪsəˈpɪə

исчезать

Sometimes just one blow made the sickness disappear and made me want to start work immediately…
After some time, Harris and I began to think that Bell Weir lock had disappeared.
George and I looked round. Then we looked at each other. Harris had gone – disappeared!

discover

dɪˈskʌvə

узнавать; обнаружить

George told us that he knew all about this kind of thing – and we believed him. We discovered later that this was not true.
We never discovered what had really happened.
If you are thinking of taking a trip on the river, and you are going to start from Oxford, take your own boat (unless you can take someone else’s without being discovered).

discovered

dɪˈskʌvəd

узнанный; обнаруженный

If you are thinking of taking a trip on the river, and you are going to start from Oxford, take your own boat (unless you can take someone else’s without being discovered).

discuss

dɪˈskʌs

обсуждать

We pulled out the maps and we discussed plans.
The following evening, we discussed what we wanted to take with us.
At about four o’clock we began to discuss our plans for that evening.

disease

dɪˈzi:z

болезнь

I read about half a page – and then I knew that I had that disease too.
I came to a disease which was worse than the last one.
I found that there was only one disease which I did not have. This made me a little unhappy. Why didn’t I have that disease too?

do\does (did; done)

dʊ\dʌz (dɪd; dʌn)

делать

However, we thought that it was all necessary for the job. We did nothing because they had told us to wait.
We asked Harris what he had done with it, but he did not seem to understand.
They followed him about. He began to feel that he really had done something wrong.

do\does (did; done) well

dʊ\dʌz (dɪd; dʌn) wel

поступать хорошо

Everyone thought he was very clever. Even his teacher thought he had done well and did not punish him.

doctor

ˈdɒktə

врач; доктор

Of course, nobody understood that the problem was my heart. Doctors were not so clever then. They just thought that I was lazy!
Harris said it would be very serious if one of us became ill because we were a long way from a doctor.

dog

dɒɡ

собака

When he first came to live with me, I thought, ‘This dog will not be with me long. He is too good for this world.’
And then another voice called, ‘Push your nose out! You two, with the dog!’
Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

door

dɔ:

дверь

George said that Mrs G. was a lazy old woman. Then he unlocked the door and ran out into the street.
I wanted somewhere with roses round the door. I do not know why.
The hotels were all full, and we could not go round all the houses and knock on doors at midnight! 

downstairs

ˌdaʊnˈsteəz

нижний этаж; вниз

So we had to go downstairs to get them out of the suitcase.
George took his watch and ran downstairs.

dream

dri:m

мечта; сон

It continued to rain, not heavily, but all the time. When the sun is shining, the river turns everything into a golden dream.

dream (dreamt\dreamed; dreamt\dreamed)

dri:m (dremt\dri:md; dremt\dri:md)

видеть во сне

The peaceful sound of the water against the boat sends us to sleep – and we dream. We dream that the world is young again…
There you dream that a very large animal has suddenly sat down on you.
And he seemed to think that George and I had been dreaming. Oh, how wonderful it was to be in the boat again!

dress

dres

одеваться

So we dressed in light clothes, and we went out.
He had a cold bath and he dressed.
I would go back into the boat and dress.

dressed

drest

одетый

At last you find your head in the fresh air. Near you, you see a half-dressed murderer.

drink

ˈdrɪŋk

напиток; питье

I reminded him that we had water in the boat. Then he started shouting about water. He said drinks like that made people ill.

drink (drank, drunk)

drɪŋk (dræŋk, drʌŋk)

пить

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday you wish that you were dead. On Saturday you are able to drink something.
‘Oh!’ George cried. ‘But we can’t drink the river, you know.’
We ate and drank without speaking, and then we sat back and rested. We felt good, and thoughtful, and kind.

drive (drove, driven)

draɪv (drəʊv, ˈdrɪvn̩)

ехать

We reached Paddington station at seven o’clock, and we drove straight to the restaurant.

drop

drɒp

опускать, помещать, ронять, уронить

Then he lifted the picture up… and he dropped it. He tried to catch the glass… and he cut himself.
We took the pieces of metal, and we began to drop them into the holes. You would not expect this to be dangerous work, but it was.
Because I was laughing so much, I dropped the shirt in the water again.

drown

draʊn

топить

Harris said the swans had tried to pull him and Montmorency from the boat and drown them.

during

ˈdjʊərɪŋ

во время; в течение

During the walk, she told us about all the pains she had in her back.

each

i:tʃ

каждый

So each one of us had to get up on the chair and look for the place. And each one of us thought that it was a different place.
In a boat, I have noticed that each person thinks that he is doing all the work.
Harris and I lost five pence each. We decided to stop then, because the game was getting too exciting.

each other

i:tʃ ˈʌðə

друг друга; друг другом; друг другу; друг с другом

We smiled sadly at each other, and then we said that perhaps we should try to eat something.
It is also a good idea to talk very loudly to each other.
We looked at each other, and we all felt badly about it.

each time

i:tʃ ˈtaɪm

каждый раз

He shows it to his friends. Then he tells the story again – and he adds more details to it each time.

ear

ɪə

ухо

We decided to wake George. We ran across the room, and we pulled the bedclothes off him. Harris hit him with a shoe, and I shouted in his ear. He woke up.
When I meet a cat, I say hello to it. Then I bend down and I stroke it gently, behind the ears and along the side of its head.
It was a big, black cat. I have never seen a bigger cat. It had lost half its tail and one of its ears, but it looked calm and happy.

earlier

ˈɜ:liə

раньше; ранее

Harris’s friend said that they had passed the piece of cake earlier.
Earlier, we had decided to go on to Wallingford that day, but the river was lovely at Streatley.

early

ˈɜ:li

ранний; рано

This was because we did not need to get up early.
We left Streatley early the next morning.
He likes to travel early in the morning or late at night, when there are not many people about to look at him.

easier

ˈi:zɪə

легче; проще

We can put a cover over the boat at night. It will be like a little house, lovely and warm and comfortable. It’s much easier than a tent.
Then from Cleeve there is quite a long piece of the river which has no locks. Most people are pleased about this because it makes everything much easier, but I quite like locks, myself.

easily

ˈi:zəli

легко

‘How beautiful,’ we said, ‘in the country, by the river, with the birds, the flowers and the trees all around us!’ I can imagine it easily
He thought that George and I could sleep in one bed very easily.

east

i:st

восточный

Rain, cold, wet to fine, some thunder, and an east wind.

easy

i:zi

легко; просто

I opened the suitcase, and I put the boots in. It was not easy!
He had studied a map of the maze, and so he knew it was very easy to get out of it again.
They did not speak, of course, but it was easy to imagine their conversation.

eat (ate, eaten)

i:t (et, ˈi:tn̩)

есть

George said that Harris never did anything except eat and sleep.
We ate a very good supper, and then we thought we would have some whisky.
People who had eaten his eggs never wanted any other food afterwards.

edge

edʒ

кромка; край

I decided to go down to the edge of the river, and then splash some water over myself.
Harris had not known that he had been sitting on the edge of a hole.

egg

яйцо

‘First, breakfast,’ George began. ‘We need eggs, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, of course.
He said he was very good at doing eggs.
At first we thought it was necessary to do this to cook the eggs.

eight

eɪt

восемь

Everyone went to bed at eight o’clock, and he had to walk for an hour to buy cigarettes and a newspaper.

eighteen

ˌeɪˈti:n

восемнадцать

Half an hour later they returned – with eighteen more swans. There was another terrible battle.
‘You said eighteen before,’ George said. ‘No, I didn’t,’ Harris answered. ‘I said twelve. Do you think I can’t count?’

either

ˈaɪðə\ˈi:ðər

также

And then George said that he felt bad, too, and that he did not know what he was doing either.
But he could not get to sleep. He tried to read, but that was no good either.
Harris did not like the colour of his hair. He did not like his boots either.

eleven

ɪˈlevn̩

11

When we started off on our long walk back, it was eleven o’clock. It was a dark and miserable night.
We reached Reading at about eleven o’clock. We did not stay long, though, because the river is dirty there.
Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day and fourteen on the second. This made him very happy.

else

ˈels

еще

In fact, out feet nearly filled the photograph. You could not see much else.

end

end

заканчиваться; конец

At first, you think that the world had ended. Then you think that this cannot be true. So it must be thieves, or murderers, or fire.
‘What’s the matter, Tom?’ Joe replied, from the other end of the bed.

end of the world

end əv ðə wɜ:ld

конец света

He thought, at first, that it was the end of the world. Harris still believes that George and I planned it.

enemy

ˈenəmi

враг; неприятель

Montmorency ran at that cat as fast as he could, but the cat did not hurry. It did not seem to understand that its life was in danger. It walked on quietly until the enemy was near it.

enjoy

ɪnˈdʒoɪ

получать удовольствие; наслаждаться

When it rains, you do not enjoy living in tents.
It rained all day, and, at first, we pretended we were enjoying it.
We had lunch at a little pub, and Montmorency enjoyed that.

enjoy oneself

ɪnˈdʒoɪ wʌnˈself

веселиться, получать удовольствие

You start out on Monday and you think that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave goodbye happily to your friends.
We had an excellent meal, and Harris calmed down and began to enjoy himself again.
We had come to enjoy ourselves for a fortnight on the river, and we were going to finish the trip.

enough

ɪˈnʌf

достаточно

We began to argue about this, so we agreed that we had done enough for one night.
After breakfast I was sitting by the river, and thinking, when George said, ‘Perhaps, when you’ve rested enough, you could help to wash the plates and things.’
We also put in some carrots and other vegetables. But George looked at it, and he said there was not enough.

entrance

ɪnˈtrɑ:ns

вход

So then Harris said that the best thing was to go back to the entrance and start again.

etc

etˈsetrə

и так далее; и тому подобное

I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc.

Europe

ˈjʊərəp

Европа

At last, Harris’s friend said to him, ‘This must be a very big maze.’ ‘One of the biggest in Europe,’ Harris answered.

even

ˈi:vn̩

даже

Everyone thought he was very clever. Even his teacher thought he had done well and did not punish him.

evening

ˈi:vn̩ɪŋ

вечер; вечерний

Anyway, that evening, George and William Harris and I sat there for half an hour, and described our illness to each other.
At first, we did not know what had happened. But then, from the words which rose on the evening air, we understood that we were near people.
At about four o’clock we began to discuss our plans for that evening.

ever since

ˈevə sɪns

с тех пор как; с того времени как

He said, ‘I’ve looked forward to visiting Hampton Church ever since we decided to make this trip.’

every time

ˈevri ˈtaɪm

каждый раз

It is a most extraordinary thing, but every time I read about an illness, I realize that I have it too – and that my symptoms are very bad!
After that, every time they tried again, they arrived back in the centre.
In fact, every time George and I looked at him, he was doing this. At first we thought it was necessary to do this to cook the eggs.

everybody

ˈevrɪˌbɒdi

каждый; все

Usually it is very busy. On Sundays, when the weather is fine, there are boats everywhere. Everybody comes down to the river.
When Montmorency meets a cat, everybody knows about it, and a lot of bad words are used.

everything else

ˈevriθɪŋ ˈels

всё остальное

‘Oh, all right. I’ll tell them. Are we doing everything else all right?’

everywhere

ˈevrɪweə

всюду; везде

Usually it is very busy. On Sundays, when the weather is fine, there are boats everywhere. Everybody comes down to the river.
Julius Caesar stayed there with his soldiers. Queen Elizabeth I, she was there too. You can never get away from that woman. She was everywhere.

excellent

ˈeksələnt

превосходный; отличный

We had an excellent meal, and Harris calmed down and began to enjoy himself again.
George said it would be a good idea to have a really excellent supper.
The river near Streatley and Goring is excellent for fishing.

except

ɪkˈsept

кроме; помимо

There were no other people on the river, except for three old men.
George said that Harris never did anything except eat and sleep.
‘You’re always asleep. Have you ever seen Harris awake, except at meal times?’ George asked me.

excited

ɪkˈsaɪtɪd

взволнованный; возбужденный

This annoyed them more than anything, and it made them worried and excited.
George became very excited about it, and he climbed up onto a chair to see it better.

exciting

ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ

захватывающий; увлекательный

But the most exciting thing of all is to let girls tow your boat.
On our present trip, though, nothing exciting happened.
We decided to stop then, because the game was getting too exciting.

excuse me

ɪkˈskju:z mi:

извините

Excuse me, do you know any nice little hotels near here?’ we said.
Then George turned to the man and said, ‘Excuse me, I hope you don’t mind, but my friend and I, who are only on holiday here, would like to ask you a question. Could you tell us how you caught that fish?’

exhausted

ɪɡˈzɔ:stɪd

измученный; изможденный

After that, I took the tin away. I beat it until I was exhausted and miserable.

expect

ɪkˈspekt

ожидать

I began to read about it and, as I expected, I had that disease too.
However, I said nothing, and I started to pack the clothes. It took much longer than I had expected, but in the end it was finished.
In fact, he thinks that perhaps I should have more work. However, I expect he only says that to make me feel better.

explain

ɪkˈspleɪn

объяснять

I explained to George and William Harris how I felt when I got up in the morning.
I do not know how he did it, and Harris himself could not explain it later.
‘No,’ we said, and we explained that we did not live there. We said that we were only there on holiday.

expression

ɪkˈspreʃn̩

выражение

The expression on Montmorency’s face told us that he knew something, but he said nothing.
Then he sat down with a kind, but sad, expression on his face, and he tried to hide his feet.
We did not come out well in that photograph because the man took it just as we fell over. We had expressions of ‘Where am I?’ and ‘What’s happened?’ on our faces, and we were waving our feet about wildly.

extraordinary

ɪkˈstrɔ:dn̩ri

удивительный; странный; экстраординарный

It is a most extraordinary thing, but every time I read about an illness, I realize that I have it too – and that my symptoms are very bad!

eye

глаз

The scissors flew up, and nearly hit him in the eye. I tried to make a hole in the tin with the sharp end of a piece of metal.

eyes

aɪz

глаза

But he looks so good, so well-behaved. When old ladies and gentlemen look at him, tears come into their eyes.
He hoped that nobody would notice him. Now, if you say ‘Cats!’ to Montmorency, he looks up at you, and his eyes beg you, ‘No, please!’
‘Why? Where are your eyes?’ the man said, and he turned George towards the river.

face

feɪs

морда; лицо

‘It’s different for me,’ his face said. ‘You like it, but I don’t! There’s nothing for me to do. I don’t smoke.
And then, to our horror, we saw Harris’s head – and only his head – in the grass. The face was very red and very angry.
Everybody in the lock had stopped moving and they all had fixed expressions on their faces.

fall (fell, fallen)

fɔ:l (fel, ˈfɔ:lən)

падать

Because it is wet, it is very heavy. And then it falls on top of you.
As a result, I fell in the water, and the tin flew away and broke a cup.
He had not fallen in the river, because we were between him and the water.

fall (fell, fallen) asleep

fɔ:l (fel, ˈfɔ:lən) əˈsli:p

уснуть

He stopped, at a place where we could not get into the boat, and then immediately he fell asleep.

fall (fell, fallen) down

fɔ:l (fel, ˈfɔ:lən) daʊn

свалиться; упасть

And you follow each other round and round, and you shout at each other – until the tent falls down. And there you are!

fall (fell, fallen) off

fɔ:l (fel, ˈfɔ:lən) ɒf

свалиться; падать

Then Uncle Podger tried again himself. This time he fell off the chair on to the piano. His head and his body hit the piano at the same time.

fall (fell, fallen) over

fɔ:l (fel, ˈfɔ:lən) ˈəʊvə

падать; опрокидываться

I don’t like looking at the trees and the flowers, and when I’m asleep you’ll play about with the boat and I’ll fall over the side!’
That was when the boat hit the river bank, and Harris fell over backwards.
We did not come out well in that photograph because the man took it just as we fell over.

family

ˈfæməli

семья

There were about twenty of them. Some of them had thought that they were never going to see their friends and their families again.
As they worked, they shouted unkind things about us – not just the usual things, but special things about us, and about our families.
If it killed us – well, that would be a sad thing for our friends and families, but we would not give in to the weather.

far away

fɑ:r əˈweɪ

далеко

We could find a nice, quiet place and we could sit in the warm summer sun. We could go somewhere peaceful, far away from other people.

fast

fɑ:st

быстро

They pull the boat much too fast.
But that afternoon the wind actually helped us on our way, and the boat moved quite fast.
This makes the water very angry, and it gets hot very fast.

fasten

ˈfɑ:sn̩

прикреплять

George took one end, and he fastened it over the front of the boat.

fat

fæt

толстый

‘Get up, you fat, lazy thing!’ Harris shouted.
Then he and his three fat, heavy friends sat in the back of their boat, and lit their pipes.

father

ˈfɑ:ðə

отец

When he was young, George’s father was travelling with a friend.
‘Well, it’s strange,’ Harris said, ‘but the same thing happened to my father once. I’ve often heard him tell the story.’
‘Well,’ he said, ‘we’ve had a good trip, and I’m very grateful to Old Father Thames.

fault

fɔ:lt

вина; ошибка; проступок

‘Oh, don’t be so stupid!’ Harris’s hear said. ‘It’s your fault. You made me sit there.

favourite

ˈfeɪvərɪt

любимый

We were all tired of cold meat, and we talked about our favourite foods.

feel (felt, felt)

fi:l (felt, felt)

чувствовать, ощущать; ощупать, трогать

I only waited. I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc. I felt that it was soon going to get exciting.
He felt his wrist, and bent down and felt his legs. Then, with his watch in his hand, he went up to the policeman.
Nobody said a word. We looked at each other, and we all felt badly about it.

feeling

ˈfi:lɪŋ

чувство

Then George stood in front of the fire, and, with great feeling, he showed us how he felt in the night.

fetch

fetʃ

сходить за

However, Harris managed to chase her away, and she went to fetch her husband.
And then he called out to another man, ‘Jim, fetch “The Queen of the Thames”.’
We laughed at this, and then one of us said, ‘All right. Now go and fetch the real boat.’

few

ˈfju:

несколько

He came back a few minutes later with a dead rat in his mouth. He wanted to give it to us for the meal.
Then we stopped talking for a few minutes, and we began to look round the room.

field

fi:ld

поле

Harris went into a field and got a big, sharp stone.
It was an open field, and there were no trees.
We walked through the dark, silent fields, and we talked quietly to each other.

fifteen

ˌfɪfˈti:n

15

‘That’s what I’ve drunk for fifteen years.’ We got some water from another house.

fifth

fɪfθ

пятый

Two people held the chair, a third helped him to get on it, a fourth gave him a nail, and a fifth passed him the hammer.

fight

faɪt

драка

But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for… I had pulled him out of a hundred and fourteen street fights
There was a short fight, and then there were two heavy bangs on the floor.
Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day and fourteen on the second.

fight (fought, fought)

faɪt (ˈfɔ:t, ˈfɔːt)

бороться; драться

Montmorency’s idea of a good time is to collect together all the most awful dogs he can find and then go round the town, looking for other awful dogs to fight.
He fought the cover hard – and knocked George over.
But he had fought bravely and, in the end, he defeated them.

figure

fɪɡə

фигура

Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

fill

fɪl

заполнять; наполнять

When we had made ourselves eat something, we filled our glasses, and we lit our pipes.
Then we fill our pipes and we sit and talk quietly.
In fact, our feet nearly filled the photograph.

finally

ˈfaɪnəli

наконец-то; в конце концов

Finally, we were ready and Harris said, ‘We need a good breakfast inside us today.’
Finally, he put on his coat again, and he went out for a walk. He felt very lonely and miserable.
And he had more trouble trying to stop them from going up his arms. Finally, he managed to get about six of the eggs into the pan.

find (found, found)

faɪnd (faʊnd, faʊnd)

найти, обнаружить; находить; считать

You find a place on the river bank which is not as wet as other places.
So everybody got down on the ground to look for it. At last we found the nail, but then he lost the hammer.
And when we got one in, we found that it was the wrong piece of metal for those holes. So we had to take it out again.

find (found, found) oneself

faɪnd (faʊnd, faʊnd) wʌnˈself

очутиться

After ten minutes they found themselves in the centre of the maze.

fine

faɪn

в норме; прекрасный; хороший; ясный

A sea trip is fine if you are going for a month or two – but not for a week. I know what it is like…
I am never seasick. But I was afraid for George. George said he would be fine.
He told us that it had been a fine day today, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday.

finger

ˈfɪŋɡə

палец

He looked for something to put round his finger, and he could not find anything.
Half an hour later, the finger had been tied up, they had bought new glass, and everything was ready.

finish

ˈfɪnɪʃ

закончить; завершить

Harris and I finished the rest of the breakfast. Then we carried all our luggage into the road. We tried to get a taxi.
However, by the time we had finished our first potato, we were feeling very miserable.
We had come to enjoy ourselves for a fortnight on the river, and we were going to finish the trip.

finished

ˈfɪnɪʃt

законченный

However, I said nothing, and I started to pack the clothes. It took much longer than I had expected, but in the end it was finished.
All our work will be finished then. We’ll be able to sit down and enjoy our meal.’
At last we got them finished. Then we only had to put the cover on. George took one end, and he fastened it over the front of the boat.

fire

ˈfaɪə

огонь; пожар

Then George stood in front of the fire, and, with great feeling, he showed us how he felt in the night.
At first, you think that the world had ended. Then you think that this cannot be true. So it must be thieves, or murderers, or fire.
And we laughed. Then we sat down by the fire and read our books.

first

ˈfɜ:st

впервые; первый; сначала

When he first came to live with me, I thought, ‘This dog will not be with me long. He is too good for this world.’
Chapter 9 – Our first night on the boat
First the river carries you to the right, then to the left; then it takes you out into the middle and turns you round three times.

first of all

ˈfɜ:st əv ɔ:l

прежде всего

First of all, you need three girls. You always need three girls to tow a boat.
First of all, the pieces of metal would not fit into their holes. We had to jump on them, and kick them, and beat them.

fish

fɪʃ

ловить рыбу; рыба

They were trying to stand up and they were picking fish off themselves.
Some people do sit and fish all day. They never catch any fish, of course.
The river near Streatley and Goring is excellent for fishing. You can sit and fish there all day.

fishing

ˈfɪʃɪŋ

рыбалка

Chapter 14 – Work, washing, and fishing
The river near Streatley and Goring is excellent for fishing. You can sit and fish there all day.
It was a lovely, sunny afternoon, and instead of going to school, he went fishing. That was when he caught the fish.

fishing-line

ˈfɪʃɪŋ laɪn

леска

They were also quite serious, because they were watching their fishing-lines very carefully.

fit

fɪt

подходить; соответствовать

First of all, the pieces of metal would not fit into their holes.

five past ten

faɪv pɑ:st ten

пять минут одиннадцатого

I finished the suitcase at five past ten, and the food was still not packed! Harris said, ‘We have to start the holiday in twelve hours.

five to nine

faɪv tə naɪn

без пяти минут девять

George looked at his watch. It was five to nine. For a moment, he stood there without moving. He wondered if he was dreaming.

fix

fɪks

установить, укрепить

None of us had realized that it would be so difficult to fix the cover.
It took another half an hour after that to fix the cover. And then we started to prepare supper.

fix hair

fɪks heə

укладывать волосы; причесывать волосы

I did not see the photographer at first, but suddenly George started to brush his trousers, and he fixed his hair and put on his hat.

fixed

fɪkst

неподвижный

Everybody in the lock had stopped moving and they all had fixed expressions on their faces.

floor

flɔ:

пол

Then we put everything in the middle of the floor.
There was a short fight, and then there were two heavy bangs on the floor.
But the fish was lying on the floor – in a thousand pieces!

flower

ˈflaʊə

цветок

I don’t like looking at the trees and the flowers, and when I’m asleep you’ll play about with the boat and I’ll fall over the side!’
‘How beautiful,’ we said, ‘in the country, by the river, with the birds, the flowers and the trees all around us!’ I can imagine it easily…

fly (flew; flown)

flaɪ (flu:, fləʊn)

летать

Montmorency had been asleep on Harris’s chest, and he went flying across the boat.

fly (flew; flown) away

flaɪ (flu:, fləʊn) əˈweɪ

улететь

As a result, I fell in the water, and the tin flew away and broke a cup.

fly (flew; flown) up

flaɪ (flu:, fləʊn) ʌp

взлететь

The scissors flew up, and nearly hit him in the eye.

fog

fɒɡ

туман

However, it seemed very strange that they had closed the shops because of the fog.

foggy

ˈfɒɡi

туманный

It was a very dark and foggy morning.

follow

ˈfɒləʊ

идти за; следовать

And you follow each other round and round, and you shout at each other – until the tent falls down.
Harris said, ‘Follow me! I’m going out myself in about ten minutes.’
Everybody agreed, and they all turned and followed Harris the other way.

follow about

ˈfɒləʊ əˈbaʊt

неотступно следовать за

He met policemen who looked at him strangely. They followed him about. He began to feel that he really had done something wrong.

following

ˈfɒləʊɪŋ

следующий

We decided to start on the following Saturday.
The following evening, we discussed what we wanted to take with us.

food

ˈfu:d

еда; продовольственный; продуктовая

Harris said that a little food helped to prevent illness.
He pretended that the oranges were rats, and he got into the food basket and killed three of them.
Sadly, we looked again at the place where Harris and the food had been.

fool

fu:l

дурак; идиот

‘Ah! The stupid fool!’ you hear him say to himself. And then, suddenly, he gives a violent pull – and your side comes out, too.
‘Look at your nose, you stupid fool!’ the voice cried again, more loudly this time.

foot (feet)

fʊt (fi:t)

нога (ноги)

Harris put his feet on the table and lit a cigarette.
Then he sat down with a kind, but sad, expression on his face, and he tried to hide his feet.
They said they did not want photographs of our feet.

for a change

fər ə tʃeɪndʒ

для разнообразия

Harris who is sometimes a little cruel, said, ‘Ah! And now you’re going to have a bad time on the river for a change. A change is good for you. Come on! Get out of the boat and tow!’

for a minute

fər eɪ ˈmɪnət

на мгновение; на минуту

George thought for a minute, and then he told the policeman the address.

for a moment

fər ə ˈməʊmənt

на мгновение; на минуту

Sometimes we stop for a moment or two and we listen to the water as it plays gently against the boat.
Nobody spoke for a moment. Then George’s father said, ‘Joe!’
We waited in silence for a moment, and then (Oh, how happy we were!) we heard Montmorency bark.

for a time

fər ə ˈtaɪm

на время; некоторое время

It is very strange, but those blows on my head often made the illness go away for a time.
The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts. We sit in silence for a time.
After this, they pull you along quite well for a time. Then one of them decides to stop for something else.

for a walk

fər ə wɔ:k

на прогулку

Finally, he put on his coat again, and he went out for a walk. He felt very lonely and miserable.

for once

fə wʌns

в кои то веки

‘Why, you lazy boy, you,’ they used to say. ‘Get up and do some work for once in your life!’ They did not understand that I was ill.

for some time

fə səm ˈtaɪm

в течение некоторого времени

We waited for some time, but everything seemed to get worse. Finally George’s head appeared over the side of the boat.
So we went on. We walked for some time, but we did not see any more hotels. Then we met a man and we decided to ask him.
He left, and another man came in and sat down by the window. Nobody spoke for some time.

for the night

fə ðə naɪt

на ночь

We stopped for the night, just before Day’s lock, and I cannot say that we spent a happy evening.

forget (forgot; forgotten)

fəˈɡet (fəˈɡɒt; fəˈɡɒtn̩)

забыть

Sometimes people forget that they are towing a boat, and later, George told us a story about this…
In fact, it will be some time before I forget it…
Luckily, he was very angry with me, and so he forgot about his church.

fortnight

ˈfɔ:tnaɪt

две недели

We had come to enjoy ourselves for a fortnight on the river, and we were going to finish the trip.

four

fɔ:

четыре

George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o’clock until four o’clock from Monday to Friday.
‘Only four,’ George answered. ‘It’ll be all right, if Harris as awake.’

fourteen

ˌfɔ:ˈti:n

14

But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for… I had pulled him out of a hundred and fourteen street fights…
The lady at the desk said she had already sent away fourteen people.
Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day and fourteen on the second. This made him very happy. 

fourth

fɔ:θ

четвертый

Two people held the chair, a third helped him to get on it, a fourth gave him a nail, and a fifth passed him the hammer.
We tried the fourth island, but there was still no reply. It was raining hard now, and it was not going to stop.

Francis Drake

ˈfrɑ:nsɪs dreɪk

Фрэнсис Дрейк

You walk up and down on the ship, like Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake or Christopher Columbus. On Tuesday you wish that you had not come.

free

fri:

свободный

Harris and I sang a song about how good it was to be free and to be able to enjoy the sun and the rain.

French

frentʃ

французский

‘With supper afterwards at that little French restaurant,’ I added.

fresh

freʃ

свежий; чистый

He added, ‘We’ll have fresh air on the river. The hard work on the boat will make us hungry, so we’ll enjoy our food. We’ll sleep well, too.’
At last you find your head in the fresh air.

Friday

ˈfraɪdeɪ

Пятница

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday you wish that you were dead.
George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o’clock until four o’clock from Monday to Friday.
The next day, which was Friday, we collected all these things together.

friend

ˈfrend

друг

You start out on Monday and you think that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave goodbye happily to your friends.
‘Yes, it must be,’ his friend continued, ‘because we’ve walked about three kilometres already.’
She said she had a friend who had some rooms. She added that she would take us there.

frighten

ˈfraɪtn̩

напугать

‘Do you know any old people that we can frighten, so that they will give us their beds?’ we asked him.
Then George tried, and he knocked it into a shape which was strange, and terrible, and ugly. It frightened him, and he threw away the piece of wood.
Montmorency is quite a brave dog, but there was something in the way the cat looked at him. It frightened him.

from the back

frəm ðə ˈbæk

сзади

But now everybody in the lock started shouting, and a very loud, deep voice from the back called, ‘Look at your boat!

from time to time

frəm ˈtaɪm tə ˈtaɪm

периодически; время от времени

From time to time, they saw him as he ran past, on the other side of the hedge. He shouted, ‘Wait there! I’m coming!’

from under

frəm ˈʌndə

из-под

Somebody else is in trouble, too. You can hear his cries. They are coming from under your bed.

front

frʌnt

передняя часть

At last we got them finished. Then we only had to put the cover on. George took one end, and he fastened it over the front of the boat.

front door

frʌnt dɔ:

парадная дверь

Then he caught hold of his coat, his hat and his umbrella, and ran to the front door.
But Harris did not like the man who was standing by the front door.

fruit

fru:t

фрукт (фрукты)

And for dinner we can take cold chicken legs, tomatoes, cold meat, fruit, cakes, chocolate… We can drink water.’
There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.
We looked at the picture on the tin. We thought about the fruit. We imagined the taste of it. We smiled at each other, and Harris got out a spoon.

full

fʊl

заполненный; полный

The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts.
When we got there, there were already some people in her friend’s rooms. From there we went to number 27. Number 27 was full. They sent us to number 32, and number 32 was full.
You cannot give me too much work. I like to collect it. My study is full of it.

funny

ˈfʌni

забавный; смешной

George told us about something very funny that happened to his father once…
I have never seen a man’s face change so quickly. I tried to make him see that it was very funny, but he did not agree with me.

game

ɡeɪm

игра

Harris and I lost five pence each. We decided to stop then, because the game was getting too exciting.

gate

ɡeɪt

ворота

As we came up to the lock at Weybridge, we saw something brightly coloured on one of the lock gates.
We looked then, and we saw that the nose of our boat was caught in the wooden gate at the front of the lock.

gentleman (gentlemen)

ˈdʒentlmən (ˈdʒentlmən)

джентльмен; хорошо воспитанный человек

But he looks so good, so well-behaved. When old ladies and gentlemen look at him, tears come into their eyes.

gently

ˈdʒentli

нежно; мягко

Sometimes we stop for a moment of two and we listen to the water as it plays gently against the boat.
When I meet a cat, I say hello to it. Then I bend down and I stroke it gently, behind the ears and along the side of its head.

get (got; got)

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt)

взять; доставать; получать; добраться; приносить; доставить; забирать; отвозить; иметь; очутиться; попасть; прийти; покупать; приносить; становиться; угодить

Then we all got angry. We took that tin, and we put it on the grass by the river. Harris went into a field and got a big, sharp stone.
We could be in London in time to get something to eat, and afterwards we could go on to the theatre.’
Harris said, ‘Now get me a piece of paper, J., and write everything down. George, you get a pencil, and I’ll make the list.’
We got a big suitcase for the clothes.
I felt that it was soon going to get exciting.
Harris said to his friend, ‘We’ll just go in and walk around for ten minutes, and then we’ll come out and get some lunch.
He climbed up a ladder, and he called to them, ‘Wait, there! I’ll come and get you.’
I reminded him about George. I said, ‘We’ve got to get the boat up to Shepperton by five o’clock to meet him.’
Harris had some trouble when he tried to break the eggs. He had trouble stopping them from getting onto his trousers.
Then Harris would come in the boat and get us. When we left, we said to him, ‘Don’t go to sleep!’

get (got; got) angry

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈæŋɡri

рассердиться

Because it is wet, it is very heavy. And then it falls on top of you. You cannot get it off your head, and you get angry.
Harris got angry then, and he took out his map.
It’s better to let Harris go on shouting when he gets angry.

get (got; got) away

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) əˈweɪ

уйти; ускользнуть; уезжать; ускользнуть

Julius Caesar stayed there with his soldiers. Queen Elizabeth I, she was there too. You can never get away from that woman. She was everywhere.

get (got; got) back

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈbæk

возвращаться; возвращать

We had to get it back, of course. Luckily, he was very angry with me, and so he forgot about his church.
‘Did they ever get the old lady back?’ Harris asked. George replied that he did not know.
When I got back to the boat, I was very cold. I wanted to put on my shirt as quickly as possible. By accident, I dropped it into the water.

get (got; got) behind

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt)  bɪˈhaɪnd

оказаться позади; встать позади

Then they looked for the butter all over the room. In the end, George got behind Harris, and he saw it.

get (got; got) dark

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) dɑ:k

темнеть

We were looking forward to having something to eat then, but George said, ‘No! It’s better to put the cover on the boat first, before it gets too dark.

get (got; got) dirty

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈdɜ:ti

пачкаться

And I am very careful with my work, too. Why, some of the work in my study has been there for years, and it had not got dirty or anything.

get (got; got) down

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) daʊn

наклониться

So everybody got down on the ground to look for it. At last we found the nail, but then he lost the hammer.

get (got; got) finished

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈfɪnɪʃt

закончить, завершить

At last we got them finished. Then we only had to put the cover on. George took one end, and he fastened it over the front of the boat.

get (got; got) hot

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) hɒt

нагреваться; становиться горячим (дословно)

We wanted it to think we did not care if it got hot or not. We began to get the other things out.
That is the only way to get hot water on the river. If the water knows that you are waiting for it, it will never get hot.
This makes the water very angry, and it gets hot very fast.

get (got; got) in

ˈɡet  (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ɪn

положить; вложить; влезть; сесть; лечь; вставить; входить

Then, when they did get it in, they decided that the teapot was the wrong place. But they could not get the butter out again.
And when we got one in, we found that it was the wrong piece of metal for those holes. So we had to take it out again.
When he got in, he thought, ‘I’ll light the fire, and then I’ll make some breakfast.’ But he made a lot of noise, and he was afraid that Mrs Gippings would wake up.

get (got; got) in the way

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ɪn ðə ˈweɪ

стоять на пути; загораживать дорогу; мешать

And if you go swimming, they all come and stare at you and get in your way. But you cannot catch them.
We got in the way of a lot of other boats; a lot of other boats got in our way – and a lot of bad words were used.

get (got; got) interested

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈɪntrəstɪd

интересоваться; заинтересоваться; стать заинтересованным; заинтересовать

Then I began to get really interested in myself, so I went back to the beginning of the book.
It did. They started by breaking a cup. That was just to show you what they could do and to get you interested.

get (got; got) into

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈɪntə

влезть в; входить; садиться (в лодку)

He pretended that the oranges were rats, and he got into the food basket and killed three of them.
When they got into the room, they dropped their light, which went out. So they had to undress and get into bed in the dark.
We had to scream and yell to wake him up again. At last we did wake him up, and we got into the boat.

get (got; got) into bed

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈɪntə bed

ложиться в постель

When they got into the room, they dropped their light, which went out. So they had to undress and get into bed in the dark.
They thought they were getting into separate beds. However, because they could not see, they both got into the same one.

get (got; got) lost

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) lɒst

пропасть, заблудиться

But he was a young keeper, and he was new to the job, so when he got into the maze, he could not find them. Then he got lost.

get (got; got) near

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) nɪə

приближаться; близко подходить

You get very near the water and you shout,

get (got; got) nearer

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈnɪərə

становиться ближе; приблизиться

As we got nearer, we could see that they were old. They were also quite serious, because they were watching their fishing-lines very carefully.

get (got; got) off

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ɒf

слезать; уходить; снимать; сходить; убрать

And on Monday morning, as you stand and wait to get off the ship – you begin to enjoy yourself.
And then it falls on top of you. You cannot get it off your head, and you get angry.
Then you both shout for Bill. The ground underneath you moves, and a voice says, ‘Get off my head!’
When they got the butter off Harris, they packed it in the teapot again.

get (got; got) on

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ɒn

забраться; справляться

Two people held the chair, a third helped him to get on it, a fourth gave him a nail, and a fifth passed him the hammer.
‘How have you got on?’ ‘Well, to tell the truth, my man’s thrown me out.’

get (got; got) out

ˈɡet  (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) aʊt

выбраться; вылезти; уйти; вынимать; высадиться; вытаскивать; избавиться от

Then, when they did get it in, they decided that the teapot was the wrong place. But they could not get the butter out again.
He’s playing about somewhere, that’s what he’s doing. And we’ve got to do all the work! … I’m going to get out and have a drink!’
We looked at the picture on the tin. We thought about the fruit. We imagined the taste of it. We smiled at each other, and Harris got out a spoon.

get (got; got) out of

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) aʊt ɒv

вылезти из

When he sees someone he knows, he gets out of the boat and hides behind a tree.
You get out of the boat, pull out the tent, and two of you try to put it up. Because it is wet, it is very heavy.
We got out of the boat there, and we walked about for an hour or more.

get (got; got) ready

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈredi

готовиться; собираться; подготавливать

Then we began to get ready, and we remembered that we had packed the toothbrushes.
He said he was going to have a glass of whisky, smoke his pipe, and then get the boat ready for the night.

get (got; got) right

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) raɪt

правильно

Next, they get it round their necks. When they finally get it right, they always start by running. They pull the boat much too fast.

get (got; got) through

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) θru:

проходить через

But, finally, at half past seven, we reached it and got through it. By now we just wanted to eat and to go to bed.
We stopped for tea just before we got to Cookham. By the time we got through the lock it was evening.

get (got; got) tired

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈtaɪəd

уставать

We’ll all die of thirst! No pubs!’ (It’s better to let Harris go on shouting when he gets angry. Then he gets tired, and he is quiet afterwards.)

get (got; got) to

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) tu:

добираться до

He bought a return ticket, but, when he got to Liverpool, he sold it and he came back by train…
After that, the river is not very interesting until you get to Boveney. George and I were towing the boat then.
The old woman walked very slowly, and it took us twenty minutes to get to her friend’s house.

get (got; got) to sleep

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) tə sli:p

уснуть; заснуть

So he decided to go to sleep in the armchair. But he could not get to sleep. He tried to read, but that was no good either.

get (got; got) up

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ʌp

вставать; подниматься

Get up and do some work for once in your life!
Twice he made George and me get up, because he wanted to see if we were lying on his trousers.
George said that, since then, he had never got up too early again…

get (got; got) worried

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) ˈwʌrɪd

обеспокоиться; разволноваться

We were all feeling in poor health, and we were getting quite worried about it. Harris said that he felt really bad sometimes, and he did not know what he was doing.

get (got; got) worse

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) wɜ:s

становиться хуже

We waited for some time, but everything seemed to get worse. Finally George’s head appeared over the side of the boat.

get (got; got) wrong

ˈɡet (ˈɡɒt; ˈɡɒt) rɒŋ

перепутать; испортить; делать неправильно

‘Don’t pull it! You’ve got it all wrong, you stupid man!’ you cry.

girl

ɡɜ:l

девочка; девушка

He sent one of the girls out to buy some nails, and then he sent one of the boys to tell her how big the nails ought to be.
You find her hat, and you give it to her. But then another girl comes. She thinks she will have her hat, too.
My first idea was that he had seen a girl that he knew, and I looked round to see who it was.

give (gave; given)

ɡɪv (ɡeɪv; ɡɪvn̩)

давать; подавать; издавать; отдавать; предоставить; сделать

‘Ah! The stupid fool!’ you hear him say to himself. And then, suddenly, he gives a violent pull – and your side comes out, too.
Maria, you stay here to hold the light – and Tom, come here! You can give me the picture.’
Just then, a little boy came past. ‘Do you know any old people that we can frighten, so that they will give us their beds?’ we asked him.
Montmorency saw the cat, gave a shout of real happiness, and ran after it.

give (gave; given) a pull

ɡɪv (ɡeɪv; ɡɪvn̩) ə pʊl

потянуть

‘Ah! The stupid fool!’ you hear him say to himself. And then, suddenly, he gives a violent pull – and your side comes out, too.

give (gave; given) a shout

ɡɪv (ɡeɪv; ɡɪvn̩) ə ʃaʊt

вскрикнуть; закричать

Montmorency saw the cat, gave a shout of real happiness, and ran after it.

give (gave; given) in

ɡɪv (ɡeɪv; ɡɪvn̩) ɪn

сдаться, уступить

If it killed us – well, that would be a sad thing for our friends and families, but we would not give in to the weather.

give (gave; given) name

ɡɪv (ɡeɪv; ɡɪvn̩) ˈneɪm

называть имя; сообщить имя

We had written to ask for a boat, and, when we arrived at the boathouse, we gave our names.

give (gave; given) up

ɡɪv (ɡeɪv; ɡɪvn̩) ʌp

отступать; оставлять; отказываться

I did not want to give up the idea absolutely. I decided to go down to the edge of the river, and then splash some water over myself.
‘Well,’ he said, ‘we’ve had a good trip, and I’m very grateful to Old Father Thames. But I think we were right to give up and come back. Here’s to Three Man well out of a Boat!’

glad

ɡlæd

довольный

But later, we were glad we had taken the whisky.

glass

ɡlɑ:s

бокал; стакан; стекло; стеклянный

Half an hour later, the finger had been tied up, they had bought new glass, and everything was ready.
He sits behind a bit of glass all day, and he pretends to do something.
He said he was going to have a glass of whisky, smoke his pipe, and then get the boat ready for the night.

glass case

ɡlɑ:s keɪs

витрина

We noticed a glass case on the wall. In it there was a very big fish.
And then George fell, and he caught hold of the glass case to save himself.

go (went, gone)

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn)

идти, отправляться, пойти; проходить; уходить; направляться; передвигаться каким-либо способом; исчезать; уехать

But we were three to one, so we decided to go anyway.
‘There,’ he said sadly. ‘Now the nail’s gone.’
There is an old church at Shepperton, and I was worried in case Harris wanted to go and visit it.
Anyway, I said, ‘Oh, we don’t want to go there. Let’s look for a little hotel with roses round the door.’
Montmorency had been asleep on Harris’s chest, and he went flying across the boat.

go (went, gone) away

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) əˈweɪ

исчезать; прекращаться; уходить

And they did not give me medicine for this illness – they hit me on the side of the head. It is very strange, but those blows on my head often made the illness go away for a time.
You have to go away and begin your meal without it. You must not look at it.

go (went, gone) back

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) ˈbæk

возвращаться

Then I began to get really interested in myself, so I went back to the beginning of the book.
Then George spoke. He said, ‘You two can ask someone to build you a hotel. I’m going back to the Black Horse!’
George said that perhaps we could go back to Henley, find a policeman and hit him.

go (went, gone) down

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) daʊn

спуститься; садиться (о солнце); опуститься

Harris and I would go down to Kingston in the morning and take the boat up to Chertsey, but George could not leave the City until the afternoon.
As it went down into the water, we shouted awful things at it.
The sun was going down, and it threw a red light across the water.

go (went, gone) in

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) ɪn

входить; заходить

Harris said to his friend, ‘We’ll just go in and walk around for ten minutes, and then we’ll come out and get some lunch.
They watched him go in with his key. Then they stood on the opposite side of the road, and they watched the house.
On the way back to the boat, we stopped at a little pub, by the river. We went in and sat down.

go (went, gone) into

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) ˈɪntə

входить; посещать

He went into the maze once, to show a friend the way. He had studied a map of the maze, and so he knew it was very easy to get out of it again.

go (went, gone) on

ɡəʊ ˈ(went, ɡɒn) ɒn

продолжать; продолжаться; идти вперед; идти дальше

Half an hour later, it began to rain hard, and a very cold wind blew up. And this went on all day.
So we went on. We walked for some time, but we did not see any more hotels. Then we met a man and we decided to ask him.
And he went on to tell us how he had done it, and that it had taken him half an hour to land it.

go (went, gone) out

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) aʊt

выходить; гаснуть; гулять; выходить из помещения

On Monday it said, ‘Heavy rain, with thunder.’ So we did not go out that day.
Meanwhile, your boat goes out into the middle of the river, and it starts to turn round. Then they stand up and are surprised.
Finally, he put on his coat again, and he went out for a walk. He felt very lonely and miserable.

go (went, gone) round

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) raʊnd

обходить кругом; обходить всех по очереди

Montmorency’s idea of a good time is to collect together all the most awful dogs he can find and then go round the town, looking for other awful dogs to fight.
Slowly, you start to go round to his side to tell him what you think of him.
The hotels were all full, and we could not go round all the houses and knock on doors at midnight!

go (went, gone) to bed

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) tə bed

ложиться спать

I explained to George and William Harris how I felt when I got up in the morning. William Harris told us how he felt when he went to bed.
But, finally, at half past seven, we reached it and got through it. By now we just wanted to eat and to go to bed.
At first, he thought he would go to bed again. However, he did not like the idea of having get up again later.

go (went, gone) to sleep

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) tə sli:p

засыпать

Harris replied, ‘Well, you never have any trouble sleeping, anyway. In fact, you’re always going to sleep!’
So he decided to go to sleep in the armchair. But he could not get to sleep. He tried to read, but that was no good either.
We tried to go to sleep but it was four hours before we did so. At five o’clock we all woke up again, so we got up and had breakfast.

go (went, gone) up

ɡəʊ (ˈwent, ɡɒn) ʌp

подниматься; подходить

By half past three, we had reached Sunbury lock. Then we went up to Walton, which is quite an interesting place.
He felt his wrist, and bent down and felt his legs. Then, with his watch in his hand, he went up to the policeman.

go (went; gone) along

ɡəʊ (ˈwent; ɡɒn) əˈlɒŋ

двигаться вперед; двигаться дальше

As they were going along, they collected other people who wanted to get out. In the end, all the people in the maze were following Harris.

go (went; gone) for a walk

ɡəʊ (ˈwent; ɡɒn) fər ə wɔ:k

пойти прогуляться; идти на прогулку

He is not used to such rich food. George and I decided to go for a walk in Henley, but we left Harris in the boat.
When you go for a walk by the river, the fish come and stand half out of the water, with their mouths open for bread.
On the second evening, George and I and Montmorency (I do not know where Harris was) went for a walk to Wallingford.

go (went; gone) in for

ɡəʊ (ˈwent; ɡɒn) ɪn fɔ:

решиться на; заняться; принять участие

The wind felt cold, too. ‘Well, who’s going to go in for a swim first?’ Harris said finally.

go (went; gone) on holiday

ɡəʊ (ˈwent; ɡɒn) ɒn ˈhɒlədeɪ

отправиться в отпуск

Chapter 1 – We decide to go on holiday
They always tell you what the weather was like yesterday, or the day before. It is never today’s weather. It is always wrong. I remember that one autumn I went on holiday…

go (went; gone) over

ɡəʊ (ˈwent; ɡɒn) ˈəʊvə

пойти

And then it was George’s turn, and he stepped on the butter. I did not say anything, but I got up and went over to the table and watched them.

going to

ɡəʊɪŋ tu:

собираться

You start out on Monday and you think that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave goodbye happily to your friends.
You must say that you do not want any tea, that you do not need any tea, and that you are not going to have any tea.
We were sitting in a field near the river, and we were just going to start eating.

golden

ˈɡəʊldən

золотой; золотистый

When the sun is shining, the river turns everything into a golden dream.

gone

ɡɒn

потерянный, пропавший

He took the nail… and he dropped it! ‘There,’ he said sadly. ‘Now the nail’s gone.

good

ɡʊd

прок; польза

What’s the good of that? If George was here, we could go to see that church. Anyway, I don’t believe he’s at the bank.

good (better; best)

ɡʊd (ˈbetə; best)

хороший; полезный (лучше; самый лучший)

A change is good for you. Come on! Get out of the boat and tow!’
I said I thought it was better than the other hotel. Harris said it would be all right. We would not look at the man with red hair and ugly boots.
‘No,’ Harris said. ‘If you want a rest and a change, then the sea is best.’

good evening

ɡʊd ˈi:vn̩ɪŋ

добрый вечер

Good evening,’ the man at the desk said.
‘Oh, good evening,’ George answered. ‘We want three beds, please.’

Good heavens

ɡʊd ˈhevn̩z

О, Боже; Боже мой!

Good heavens!’ George cried. ‘I have to be at the bank by nine o’clock!’
Good heavens! Old J.’s gone in!’ Harris said.

Good morning

ɡʊd ˈmɔ:nɪŋ

доброе утро

Montmorency (who continues to move back): Not at all … thanks … not at all … very kind of you … Good morning. The Cat: Good morning.

Goodnight

ˌɡʊdˈnaɪt

доброй ночи

We do not want to speak. Then we laugh quietly, put away our pipes, say ‘Goodnight’ and go to bed.
You don’t see many fish as big as that one now. Well, goodnight, then.’ And he went out.
‘Yes,’ he replied. ‘I caught him by the lock … Well, goodnight to you.’

grass

ɡrɑ:s

трава

It is very pretty there, on the grass by the river, under the trees.
We took  that tin, and we put it on the grass by the river.
Harris had not known that he had been sitting on the edge of a hole. The grass had hidden it.

grateful

ˈɡreɪtfəl

приятный; благодарный

Harris felt that the crowd was not very grateful to him.
And that was how grateful they were to me, after I had brought them and their old boat all the way up from Kingston; after I had organized everything of them; and after I had taken care of them!
‘Well,’ he said, ‘we’ve had a good trip, and I’m very grateful to Old Father Thames.

grave

ɡreɪv

могила

After we had got our water, we went on towards Wargrave, but before we got there, we stopped for lunch.

great

ˈɡreɪt

большой; огромный; сильный

Then George stood in front of the fire, and, with great feeling, he showed us how he felt in the night.
It said, ‘We can’t breathe under here! Why don’t you help us, you great stupid thing!’
When he woke up the next morning, he was in great pain, and he was never able to walk again.

green

ɡri:n

зеленый

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.

ground

ɡraʊnd

почва, земля

You get your side of the tent up and begin to tie the ropes to the ground.
Harris began to think that it was rather strange, but he went on. After some time, they came to a piece of cake on the ground.
He had clearly just dug it up from a hole in the ground. When he dug it up, he had damaged it very badly.

hair

heə

волосы

Harris did not like the colour of his hair. He did not like his boots either.
We would not look at the man with red hair and ugly boots.
I arranged my hair carefully, and I tried to make myself look strong and interesting.

half

hɑ:f

половина; наполовину

I read about half a page – and then I knew that I had that disease too.
Near you, you see a half-dressed murderer.
The next minute, I was in the middle of the river, with half a litre of the Thames inside me.

half an hour

hɑ:f ən ˈaʊə

полчаса

Half an hour later, the finger had been tied up, they had bought new glass, and everything was ready.
It took another half an hour after that to fix the cover.
And he went on to tell us how he had done it, and that it had taken him half an hour to land it.

half circle

hɑ:f ˈsɜ:kl̩

полукруговой

The pieces of metal were half circles, and when you had put them into the holes, you just had to pull the cover over them.

half past eight

hɑ:f pɑ:st eɪt

половина девятого; половина после восьми (дословно)

By half past eight we had finished breakfast and we were through Clifton lock. At half past twelve we went through Iffley lock.

half past seven

hɑ:f pɑ:st ˈsevn̩

полвина после семи (дословно); полвосьмого

But, finally, at half past seven, we reached it and got through it. By now we just wanted to eat and to go to bed.
The he sat in the armchair and he waited for Mrs Gippings. She came down at half past seven.

half past six

hɑ:f pɑ:st sɪks

половина седьмого; половина после шести (дословно)

In the end we said, ‘Wake us at half past six, George.’
We would finish our dinner by half past six. After that we could walk about the village in the rain, or we could sit in a dark little pub.

half past three

hɑ:f pɑ:st θri:

половина после трех (дословно); полчетвертого

By half past three, we had reached Sunbury lock. Then we went up to Walton, which is quite an interesting place.

half past twelve

hɑ:f pɑ:st twelv

половина первого; половина после двенадцати

By half past eight we had finished breakfast and we were through Clifton lock. At half past twelve we went through Iffley lock.

hammer

ˈhæmə

молоток

‘Now, Bill, you go and get my hammer,’ he shouted.
Two people held the chair, a third helped him to get on it, a fourth gave him a nail, and a fifth passed him the hammer.
At last we found the nail, but then he lost the hammer.

Hampton Court

ˈhæmptən kɔ:t

Хэмптон-Корт; (королевская резиденция)

When we came to Hampton Court Palace, Harris asked me if I had ever been in the maze there.

hand

hænd

рука (кисть)

He felt his wrist, and bent down and felt his legs. Then, with his watch in his hand, he went up to the policeman.
Whenever he went near the pan, he burnt himself. Then he dropped everything, and danced about, and waved his hands, and shouted.
We were still looking at it when another man came in. He had a glass of beer in his hand, and he also looked at the fish.

handsome

ˈhænsəm

красивый

All the girls were smiling prettily, and all the men were trying to look brave and handsome.

happen

ˈhæpən

происходить; случаться

It was a bit windy, and some had made a mistake because the wind was behind us. That does not usually happen.
He said he had not known what was happening to him.
However, if (only ‘if’) something happened to stop us from coming back, then we would write to him.

happier

ˈhæpiə

счастливее

After this we really needed something to make us feel a bit happier, so George sang to us. That really made us cry.

happily

ˈhæpɪli

весело; счастливо; к счастью

You wave goodbye happily to your friends.
They began quite happily. I said nothing. I only waited. I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc. I felt that it was soon going to get exciting.
Happily, you have something strong to drink.

happiness

ˈhæpinəs

счастье

We would throw off the cover and we would jump into the water, with shouts of happiness.
Montmorency saw the cat, gave a shout of real happiness, and ran after it.

happy

ˈhæpi

счастливый; довольный

All day people passed our house. They were all going out, happy and smiling. The sun was shining and there were no clouds in the sky.
We could hear the happy sounds of our knives and our laughing voices. We hurried to make it real.
Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day and fourteen on the second. This made him very happy.

hard

hɑ:d

сильно; сильный; твердый; жесткий; усердный; тяжелый; усиленно; интенсивно

The hard work on the boat will make us hungry, so we’ll enjoy our food.
Half an hour later, it began to rain hard, and a very cold wind blew up.
The potatoes were a bit hard, but we had good teeth, so it did not really matter.

hat

hæt

шляпа

Then he caught hold of his coat, his hat and his umbrella, and ran to the front door.
It was George’s hat that saved his life that day. He keeps that hat now.

hate

heɪt

ненавидеть

I do not really blame Montmorency (usually I just hit him, or throw stones at him), because dogs are like that. They hate cats.

have\has (had; had)

həv\hæz (həd; hæd)

иметь; есть; держать; пить

Harris who is sometimes a little cruel, said, ‘Ah! And now you’re going to have a bad time on the river for a change.
You must say that you do not want any tea, that you do not need any tea, and that you are not going to have any tea.
After that, it was time for breakfast, and we decided to have eggs. Harris said he would cook them. He said he was very good at doing eggs.
We were still looking at it when another man came in. He had a glass of beer in his hand, and he also looked at the fish.

have\has (had; had) a bath

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) ə bɑ:θ

принять ванну

He had a cold bath and he dressed. Then he ran and looked at his watch. It had started to go again, and it was twenty to nine.

have\has (had; had) a drink

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) ə drɪŋk

выпить

He’s playing about somewhere, that’s what he’s doing. And we’ve got to do all the work! … I’m going to get out and have a drink!’

have\has (had; had) a look at

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) ə lʊk æt

посмотреть на; взглянуть на

At Hampton Harris wanted to get out and have a look at the church there, but I refused to stop. I have never liked visiting churches, but Harris loves them.

have\has (had; had) breakfast

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) ˈbrekfəst

завтракать

We tried to go to sleep but it was four hours before we did so. At five o’clock we all woke up again, so we got up and had breakfast.

have\has (had; had) got

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) ˈɡɒt

быть должным (что-то сделать); иметь

I reminded him about George. I said, ‘We’ve got to get the boat up to Shepperton by five o’clock to meet him.’

have\has (had; had) lunch

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) lʌntʃ

обедать

We stopped under the trees by Kempton Park, and we had lunch. It is very pretty there, on the grass by the river, under the trees.
We left our boat at the bridge, and we went into the village. We had lunch at a little pub, and Montmorency enjoyed that.

have\has (had; had) rooms

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) ru:mz

снимать помещение

At that time George had rooms in the house of a lady called Mrs Gippings.

have\has (had; had) supper

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) ˈsʌpə

ужинать

At that moment Mrs Poppets, my housekeeper, knocked on the door. She wanted to know if we were ready to have supper.
We did this, and, when everything else was ready, the tea was ready, too. Then we sat down to have supper.

have\has (had; had) to

həv\hæz (həd; hæd) tu:

быть должным; должен; приходиться

Everyone went to bed at eight o’clock, and he had to walk for an hour to buy cigarettes and a newspaper.
It was at the bottom, and he had to bend down, lower and lower.
We had to scream and yell to wake him up again. At last we did wake him up, and we got into the boat.

head

ˈhed

голова

The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts. We sit in silence for a time.
We waited for some time, but everything seemed to get worse. Finally George’s head appeared over the side of the boat.
And then, to our horror, we saw Harris’s head – and only his head – in the grass. The face was very red and very angry.

health

helθ

здоровье

We were all feeling in poor health, and we were getting quite worried about it.
One day I had a little health problem, and I went to the British Museum Library to read about it.
I remember that a friend of mine once took a short sea trip from London to Liverpool for his health.

healthy

ˈhelθi

здоровый

When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man.
Perhaps it was because of our interesting clothes, of because we looked so healthy.

hear (heard, heard)

hɪə (hɜ:d, hɜ:d)

слышать

You can hear his cries.
We also heard many bad words coming from under the cover.
We told him the different stories we had heard about his fish.

heart

hɑ:t

сердце

I knew it was my heart because I had read something in a magazine about the symptoms of a bad heart.
But I was talking about my heart – nobody understood how ill I really was.
Of course, nobody understood that the problem was my heart.

heavier

ˈhevɪə

тяжелее

George had towed the boat as far as Staines, and we had towed it from there. It seemed to get heavier and heavier.

heavily

ˈhevɪli

сильно

All the time it is raining heavily.
It continued to rain, not heavily, but all the time.

heavy

ˈhevi

сильный; тяжелый

You get out of the boat, pull out the tent, and two of you try to put it up. Because it is wet, it is very heavy.
On Monday it said, ‘Heavy rain, with thunder.’ So we did not go out that day.
There was a short fight, and then there were two heavy bangs on the floor. After a moment or two, a rather sad voice said, ‘I say, Tom!’

hedge

hedʒ

ограда; изгородь

From time to time, they saw him as he ran past, on the other side of the hedge.

help

ˈhelp

помогать; помогите!; на помощь!; помощь

The other man does not help you. He starts to play about. You get your side of the tent up and begin to tie the ropes to the ground.
No help comes, and all you know is that thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot breathe.
She would hear the noise and think that he was a burglar. Then she would open the window and shout, ‘Help! Police!’

here and there

hɪər ənd ðeə

туда и сюда

Two of them hold the rope, and the other one runs here and there and laughs all the time.

hide (hid, hidden)

haɪd (hɪd, ˈhɪdn̩)

скрывать; прятать; прятаться

Then he sat down with a kind, but sad, expression on his face, and he tried to hide his feet.
When he sees someone he knows, he gets out of the boat and hides behind a tree.
Harris had not known that he had been sitting on the edge of a hole. The grass had hidden it.

high

haɪ

высоко

I took the piece of wood, and held it high in the air. Then I brought it down as hard as I could.

hire

ˈhaɪə

нанять; взять напрокат

The boats that you can hire on the Thames above Marlow are all right: they do not let too much water in, and they have seats and things.
The person who hired one of these boats is the kind of person who likes to stay under the trees.
I remember that some friends and I hires one of these boats one summer…

hit (hit, hit)

hɪt (hɪt, hɪt)

ударить; бить

And they did not give me medicine for this illness – they hit me on the side of the head.
Harris hit him with a shoe, and I shouted in his ear. He woke up.
But then we thought, ‘Perhaps he won’t arrest us. Perhaps he’ll just hit us, too!’ We could not fight policemen all night.

hit (hit, hit) out

hɪt (hɪt, hɪt) aʊt

лупить без разборы; наносить беспорядочные удары

You decide to fight, and you hit out, left and right, with your arms and your legs.

hold (held, held)

həʊld (held, held)

держать

Maria, you stay here to hold the light – and Tom, come here!
Two people held the chair, a third helped him to get on it, a fourth gave him a nail, and a fifth passed him the hammer.
George held the tin, and Harris put the sharp end of his stone against the top of it.

hold (held, held) on

həʊld (held, held) ɒn

держаться за; вцепиться

She held on to Harris’s arm because she did not want to lose him.
He stood there on his head, and he held on to the side of the boat.

hold (held, held) out

həʊld (held, held) ˈaʊt

протянуть

‘Why, nine, of course,’ George said, and he held out his watch to the policeman.

hold (held, held) up

həʊld (held, held) ʌp

поднимать

The rain was running from their umbrellas, and the women were holding up their long skirts.

hole

həʊl

отверстие; дыра; яма

There were five pieces of metal and you put these into special holes on the side of the boat.
I tried to make a hole in the tin with the sharp end of a piece of metal.
Before lunch, he put the cover on the boat, and it stayed there all afternoon. We just left a little hole, so that we could see out.

holiday

ˈhɒlədeɪ

отпуск

On that holiday, the weather reports in the newspaper were always wrong.
But on the morning of our holiday it was bright and sunny, and George could not make us unhappy.
Excuse me, I hope you don’t mind, but my friend and I, who are only on holiday here, would like to ask you a question. Could you tell us how you caught that fish?

home

həʊm

дом

Chapter 16 – The journey home
We left Oxford on the third day, to go back home. The weather changed, and, when we left Oxford, it was raining.

hope

həʊp

надежда; надеяться

He hoped that nobody would notice him. Now, if you say ‘Cats!’ to Montmorency, he looks up at you, and his eyes beg you, ‘No, please!’
Everything looked strange and different in the darkness. Just when we had lost all hope, I suddenly saw a strange light.
‘Is the fish all right?’ I cried. ‘I hope so,’ George said. He stood up carefully and looked round.

horror

ˈhɒrə

ужас

I sat there for a time, cold with horror.
Montmorency barked with horror at the idea.
And then, to our horror, we saw Harris’s head – and only his head – in the grass.

Horse

hɔ:s

конь; лошадь

Go back, and you’ll come to the Black Horse.
So we went back to the Black Horse.

hot

hɒt

горячий; жаркий

At twelve o’clock the room was too hot, and the sun was still shining.
This makes the water very angry, and it gets hot very fast.
If the water knows that you are waiting for it, it will never get hot.

hotel

ˌhəʊˈtel

отель; гостиница

The next question was where to sleep at night. George and I did not want to sleep in hotels at night. We wanted to sleep outside.
So we went on until we came to another hotel. That was a very nice one, too, and it did have roses.
Then George spoke. He said, ‘You two can ask someone to build you a hotel. I’m going back to the Black Horse!’

hour

ˈaʊə

час

Everyone went to bed at eight o’clock, and he had to walk for an hour to buy cigarettes and a newspaper.
Harris said, ‘We have to start the holiday in twelve hours.
We tried to go to sleep but it was four hours before we did so.

house

ˈhaʊs

дом

Everybody in the house had to help when Uncle Podger did a job.
Then they stood on the opposite side of the road, and they watched the house.
The hotels were all full, and we could not go round all the houses and knock on doors at midnight!

housekeeper

ˈhaʊsˌki:pə

экономка; домашняя хозяйка; домработница; домоправительница

At that moment Mrs Poppets, my housekeeper, knocked on the door.

how many

ˈhaʊ məni

сколько

‘Well, how many times do you want?’ the policeman replied.
‘No, I don’t,’ I replied, and I began to think carefully. ‘How many are there?’
How many swans did you say there were?’ George asked.

however

haʊˈevə

тем не менее; однако

However, in the end they did manage to get it out and they put it down on a chair.
However, by the time we had finished our first potato, we were feeling very miserable.
However, if (only ‘if’) something happened to stop us from coming back, then we would write to him.

hundred

ˈhʌndrəd

сотня; сто

But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for… I had pulled him out of a hundred and fourteen street fights…
For a few hundred metres he ran as fast as he could. But, suddenly, he noticed that there were not many people about. 

hungry

ˈhʌŋɡri

голодный

The hard work on the boat will make us hungry, so we’ll enjoy our food.
It was one Saturday in August. There was George, and Harris, and me. We were tired and hungry.
We imagined that we were inside our warm little boat, tired and a little hungry, with the dark, miserable river outside.

hurry

ˈhʌri

торопиться; спешить

Montmorency ran at that cat as fast as he could, but the cat did not hurry.
We could hear the happy sounds of our knives and our laughing voices. We hurried to make it real.
It was still raining, and it was dark and very wet. One or two people hurried past.

hurt

hɜ:t

пострадавший; травмированный

Harris was not hurt too badly.

husband

ˈhʌzbənd

муж

We had left the boat near a swan’s nest, and, soon after George and I had left, Mrs Swan came back. She started to shout at Harris. However, Harris managed to chase her away, and she went to fetch her husband.

I see

ˈaɪ ˈsi:

понимаю; понятно

‘Oh, yes, very nicely – but don’t stop!’ ‘I see. Oh, give me my hat, please. It’s over there.’

I’m afraid

aɪm əˈfreɪd

к сожалению; я боюсь

Montmorency (who moves backwards down the road): Oh, no. Not at all … certainly … I … I’m afraid I’ve made a mistake. I thought I knew you … I’m sorry.

I’m sorry

aɪm ˈsɒri

мне жаль; увы; простите

I’m sorry, sir,’ the man replied, ‘but we haven’t got three beds.’
I’m very sorry, sir,’ the man repeated. ‘We haven’t got any beds. We’ve already got three men in one bed.’
Montmorency (who moves backwards down the road): Oh, no. Not at all … certainly … I … I’m afraid I’ve made a mistake. I thought I knew you … I’m sorry.

idea

aɪˈdɪə

идея; мысль

‘No,’ Harris said. ‘If you want a rest and a change, then the sea is best.’ I said that this was a terrible idea.
And just as I was going to close the suitcase again, an awful idea came to me. Had I packed my toothbrush?
I did not want to give up the idea absolutely. I decided to go down to the edge of the river, and then splash some water over myself.

ill

ɪl

больной, нездоровый

But I was talking about my heart – nobody understood how ill I really was.
I reminded him that we had water in the boat. Then he started shouting about water. He said drinks like that made people ill.
Harris said it would be very serious if one of us became ill because we were a long way from a doctor.

illness

ˈɪlnəs

болезнь; болезни

It is a most extraordinary thing, but every time I read about an illness, I realize that I have it too – and that my symptoms are very bad!
And they did not give me medicine for this illness – they hit me on the side of the head. So then, of course, we began to talk about other illnesses.

imagine

ɪˈmædʒɪn

вообразить; представить

We thought about the fruit. We imagined the taste of it.
They did not speak, of course, but it was easy to imagine their conversation.
We imagined that we were inside our warm little boat, tired and a little hungry, with the dark, miserable river outside.

immediately

ɪˈmi:dɪətli

немедленно

Sometimes just one blow made the sickness disappear and made me want to start work immediately
He stopped, at a place where we could not get into the boat, and then immediately he fell asleep.

important

ɪmˈpɔ:tnt

важный; знаменательный

There we discussed the important question of where to spend the night. We had decided to sleep on the boat.
We stood and waited for the important moment when the man would actually take the photograph.

impossible

ɪmˈpɒsəbl̩

невозможный

It is difficult to put up a tent in good weather. In wet weather it is almost impossible.
Harris’s friend said that they had passed the piece of cake earlier. Harris replied, ‘No! Impossible!’

in case

ɪn keɪs

в случае; из страха что; из-за боязни что

He stood there on his head, and he held on to the side of the boat. His legs were in the air. He could not move in case he fell over.
There is an old church at Shepperton, and I was worried in case Harris wanted to go and visit it.

in fact

ɪn fækt

более того; к тому же; в действительности

In fact, there are usually too many taxis.
In fact, he was probably going to say something angry to George and his friends.
In fact, our feet nearly filled the photograph. You could not see much else.

in front of

ɪn ðə frʌnt ɒv

впереди; перед

Then George stood in front of the fire, and, with great feeling, he showed us how he felt in the night.
And Montmorency stood on his back legs in front of the window, looked out into the night, and gave a short bark to show that he agreed.

in the end

ɪn ði end

в итоге; в конце концов

But, in the end, Harris agreed that it was a good idea.
In the end, we decided to continue to Runnymede.
Harris said he had had quite a hard battle with these two swans. But he had fought bravely and, in the end, he defeated them.

in the evening

ɪn ði ˈi:vn̩ɪŋ

вечером

The next day, which was Friday, we collected all these things together. In the evening we met to pack.
George was very angry with Mrs G. He decided to tell her this later, in the evening.

in the middle of

ɪn ðə ˈmɪdl̩ ɒv

посреди; посредине

Harris stood in the middle of the boat to take the cover from George.
The next minute, I was in the middle of the river, with half a litre of the Thames inside me.
Then it turned and sat down in the middle of the road.

in the morning

ɪn ðə ˈmɔ:nɪŋ

утра; утром

Harris and I would go down to Kingston in the morning and take the boat up to Chertsey, but George could not leave the City until the afternoon.
The packing was completed at ten to one in the morning, and we all went to bed. George said, ‘What time shall I wake you two?’
He likes to travel early in the morning or late at night, when there are not many people about to look at him.

in the night

ɪn ðə naɪt

ночью

Then George stood in front of the fire, and, with great feeling, he showed us how he felt in the night.

in trouble

ɪn ˈtrʌbl̩

в беде

Somebody else is in trouble, too. You can hear his cries. They are coming from under your bed.

in twelve hours

ɪn twelv ˈaʊəz

через 12 часов

I finished the suitcase at five past ten, and the food was still not packed! Harris said, ‘We have to start the holiday in twelve hours.

inside

ɪnˈsaɪd

внутри; внутрь

I found Harris’s toothbrush, but I could not find mine. In the end, I found it inside a boot.
I do not know how he did it, and Harris himself could not explain it later. After ten minutes of really hard work, he was inside the cover.
We imagined that we were inside our warm little boat, tired and a little hungry, with the dark, miserable river outside.

instead

ɪnˈsted

вместо

It was a lovely, sunny afternoon, and instead of going to school, he went fishing.

interest

ˈɪntrəst

интерес

Happily, you have something strong to drink. This brings back your interest in life until it is time to go to bed.
I sat on the suitcase and closed it. George and Harris watched me with great interest.

interested

ˈɪntrəstɪd

заинтересованный; интересующийся

A crowd of interested people collected to watch us. I think it was because we had so much luggage.

interesting

ˈɪntrəstɪŋ

интересный; любопытный

While we were eating, George got the newspaper and read us interesting pieces from it – pieces about people who had been killed on the river, and interesting reports about the weather.
After that, the river is not very interesting until you get to Boveney. George and I were towing the boat then.
I arranged my hair carefully, and I tried to make myself look strong and interesting.

island

ˈaɪlənd

остров

We continued slowly on our way, and we stopped for lunch near Monkey Island.
We passed Shiplake at a quarter to twelve, and then George said, quite slowly, ‘You don’t remember which island it was, do you?’
We began to wonder if there were only four islands, of if we were on the wrong bit of the river.

It’s all right

ɪts ɔ:l raɪt

всё в порядке

‘No!’ you shout. ‘It’s all right! But go on! Don’t stop!’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Because we can’t steer the boat if you stop.’

job

dʒɒb

работа

Everybody in the house had to help when Uncle Podger did a job.
George did his job all right, but it was new work to Harris, and he did everything wrong.
Harris and I started to prepare the potatoes. This became a very big job.

journey

ˈdʒɜ:ni

путешествие; поездка

We had already decided that we wanted to make this a good day’s journey.
The journey home

Julius Caesar

ˈdʒu:ljəs ˈsi:zə

Юлий Цезарь

Then we went up to Walton, which is quite an interesting place. Julius Caesar stayed there with his soldiers.

jump

dʒʌmp

прыгать

First of all, the pieces of metal would not fit into their holes. We had to jump on them, and kick them, and beat them.
We would throw off the cover and we would jump into the water, with shouts of happiness. Then we would enjoy a long swim.

jump out

dʒʌmp aʊt

выпрыгнуть

‘What?’ I cried, and I jumped out of bed. I woke Harris and told him.
‘Good heavens!’ George cried. ‘I have to be at the bank by nine o’clock!’ And he threw down the watch and jumped out of bed.

jump up

dʒʌmp ʌp

вскакивать

So the boat runs aground in shallow water near the river bank. You jump up, and you push the boat off into deep water.

just before

dʒəst bɪˈfɔ:

непосредственно перед тем как; перед

It was just before we met you. In fact, I wish I never had met you,’ she added.
We stopped for tea just before we got to Cookham. By the time we got through the lock it was evening.
We stopped for the night, just before Day’s lock, and I cannot say that we spent a happy evening.

just in time

dʒəst ɪn ˈtaɪm

как раз вовремя

So I went and helped them. Harris’s face was nearly black, so I was just in time.

just then

dʒəst ðen

в этот момент

Just then he pulls the tent from his side, and he destroys all your hard work.
Just then George heard a clock … one … two … three. ‘But that’s only three times!’ George said, when it had finished.
He had to go out of the room just then, and we turned to look at the fish again.

keep (kept; kept)

ki:p (kept; kept)

продолжать; удерживать; хранить

It’s easy, you see. You just keep taking the first turning to the right.’
‘You must keep the boat moving!’
It was George’s hat that saved his life that day. He keeps that hat now.

keeper

ˈki:pə

смотритель; сторож

Then they all started to shout, and in the end the keeper came.
They had to wait for one of the old keepers to come back from lunch and let them out…
‘It’s where it always is, my boy,’ the lock-keeper answered. ‘It’s behind you.’

key

ki:

ключ

They wanted to know if he really did live there. They watched him go in with his key.

kick

kɪk

пинать ногами

No help comes, and all you know is that thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot breathe.
We packed our things into it, kicked two of Montmorency’s friends out of the taxi, and started on our holiday.
We had to jump on them, and kick them, and beat them.

kick out

kɪk aʊt

выгнать

After a very long time, a taxi arrived and stopped for us. We packed our things into it, kicked two of Montmorency’s friends out of the taxi, and started on our holiday.

kill

kɪl

убить

If George worked for half an hour, it would kill him.
If it killed us – well, that would be a sad thing for our friends and families, but we would not give in to the weather.
But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for…

killed

kɪld

убитый

While we were eating, George got the newspaper and read us interesting pieces from it – pieces about people who had been killed on the river, and interesting reports about the weather.

kilometre

kɪˈlɒmɪtə

километр

‘Yes, it must be,’ his friend continued, ‘because we’ve walked about three kilometres already.’

kind

kaɪnd

добрый; любезный; доброжелательный; род; вид; сорт

He said we could use all kinds of things, and all the bits of food we had left.
Then he sat down with a kind, but sad, expression on his face, and he tried to hide his feet.
We felt good, and thoughtful, and kind.

Kingston

ˈkɪŋstən

Кингстон на Темзе; (Kingston upon Thames) — город в английском графстве Суррей, в 25 км от Лондона.

Harris and I would go down to Kingston in the morning and take the boat up to Chertsey, but George could not leave the City until the afternoon.

kitchen

ˈkɪtʃɪn

кухонный

And Jim, I need a ladder – and a kitchen chair, too.

knife (knives)

naɪf (naɪvz)

нож (ножи)

We could hear the happy sounds of our knives and our laughing voices.
Then Harris tried to open the tin with a little knife, and he cut himself badly.

knock

nɒk

бить, стучать, колотить, сбить

At that moment Mrs Poppets, my housekeeper, knocked on the door. She wanted to know if we were ready to have supper.
Then George tried, and he knocked it into a shape which was strange, and terrible, and ugly.
We had knocked those three old men from their seats, and they were all lying on the bottom of their boat.
The hotels were all full, and we could not go round all the houses and knock on doors at midnight!

knock over

nɒk ˈəʊvə

сбить с ног

He could not get out. He fought the cover hard – and knocked George over. Then George got angry and he began to fight, too.

know (knew, known)

nəʊ (nju:, nəʊn)

знать

When Montmorency meets a cat, everybody knows about it, and a lot of bad words are used.
Henley was very busy, and we met quite a lot of people we knew in town.
On a winter evening, when men are telling stories about the dangers they have known, George brings out his hat.

ladder

ˈlædə

лестница

And Jim, I need a ladder – and a kitchen chair, too.
He climbed up a ladder, and he called to them, ‘Wait, there! I’ll come and get you.’

lady

ˈleɪdi

леди

‘Did they ever get the old lady back?’ Harris asked. George replied that he did not know.
The lady at the desk said she had already sent away fourteen people.
So we went back along the road, but there were no beds at the little shop. However, there was an old lady in the shop.

lake

leɪk

озеро

After lunch, we moved on to Wargrave and Shiplake, and then to Sonning.

land

lænd

вытащить на берег; земля

It is very strange, but, when you are on land, you never meet anybody who has ever been seasick!
We did not sail into some strange land.
And he went on to tell us how he had done it, and that it had taken him half an hour to land it.

landlord

ˈlændlɔ:d

хозяин

When he left, the landlord came in to talk to us. We told him the different stories we had heard about his fish.

large

lɑ:dʒ

большой

We sat down at the table, and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips – and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made.
There you dream that a very large animal has suddenly sat down on you.
There were two large baskets with lids, for the food and for the pans and things to cook with.

last

lɑ:st

последний

I came to a disease which was worse than the last one. I began to read about it and, as I expected, I had that disease too.

late

leɪt

поздно

It was late, and, by that time, they (George’s father and George’s father’s friend) were feeling quite happy themselves.
It was too late then to go on past Reading, so we decided to go back to one of the Shiplake islands.
He likes to travel early in the morning or late at night, when there are not many people about to look at him.

later

ˈleɪtə

позже; спустя

George told us that he knew all about this kind of thing – and we believed him. We discovered later that this was not true.
I do not know how he did it, and Harris himself could not explain it later.
Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

laugh

lɑ:f

смех; смеяться

He just went on laughing! In fact, I never saw a man laugh so much. In the end, I became really angry with him.
‘Well, that’s very strange,’ he answered, with a little laugh. ‘You’re right. I did catch it.’
We laughed at this, and then one of us said, ‘All right. Now go and fetch the real boat.’ They said that this was the real boat…

laugh at

lɑ:f æt

смеяться над

This made me very angry, but George started to laugh. ‘I can’t see anything to laugh at,’ I told George.
The people there laughed at us. There were only three beds in the house, and there were seven men there already.
There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth. It seemed to be laughing at us, and this make us very angry.

laughing

ˈlɑ:fɪŋ

смеющийся

We could hear the happy sounds of our knives and our laughing voices. We hurried to make it real.

laughter

ˈlɑ:ftə

смех

‘Aren’t you going to get in out?’ George cried, between his shout of laughter.

lay (laid; laid)

leɪ (leɪd; leɪd)

лежать

One of them got in with his head at the top of the bed. The other one got in on the other side of the bed. He lay with his feet by the first one’s head.

lay (laid; laid) down

leɪ (leɪd; leɪd)daʊn

лежать

After that we could think of nothing else to do, so we went to bed. Well … we undressed and we lay down in the boat.

lazy

ˈleɪzi

ленивый

‘Why, you lazy boy, you,’ they used to say. ‘Get up and do some work for once in your life!’
George said that Mrs G. was a lazy old woman.
He said that he had never met such lazy people as Harris and me.

leave (left, left)

li:v (left, left)

оставлять, уходить, покидать, оставаться

When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man. When I left I was a very sick man, close to death…
There was almost no potato left. George came and looked at it.
Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

left and right

left ənd raɪt

повсюду; налево и направо

You decide to fight, and you hit out, left and right, with your arms and your legs. You are shouting all the time.

leg

leɡ

нога (от бедра до ступни)

You decide to fight, and you hit out, left and right, with your arms and your legs. You are shouting all the time.
He had to stay there until I could catch his legs and pull him back. And that made him more angry.
Than the cat stood up and continued along the road. Montmorency, with his tail between his legs, walked behind us.

less

les

меньше

‘Oh, come on! I’ve done more that old J., anyway,’ Harris replied. ‘Well, it would be difficult to do less,’ George added.

let (let; let)

let (let; let)

позволять; разрешать

We’ll all die of thirst! No pubs!’ (It’s better to let Harris go on shouting when he gets angry. Then he gets tired, and he is quiet afterwards.)
But the most exciting thing of all is to let girls tow your boat. Let me tell you about it…
Harris’s idea was that both George and I had let him do all the work. George said that Harris never did anything except eat and sleep.

let (let; let) go

let (let; let) ɡəʊ

отпустить

‘Don’t pull it! You’ve got it all wrong, you stupid man!’ you cry. ‘No, I haven’t!’ he shouts. ‘Let your side go!’

let (let; let) in

let (let; let) ɪn

впустить

The boats that you can hire on the Thames above Marlow are all right: they do not let too much water in, and they have seats and things.

let (let; let) out

let (let; let) aʊt

выпускать

They had to wait for one of the old keepers to come back from lunch and let them out

let’s

lets

давайте

So George said, ‘Well, let’s go up the river, then.’ He added, ‘We’ll have fresh air on the river.
Anyway, I said, ‘Oh, we don’t want to go there. Let’s look for a little hotel with roses round the door.’

letter

ˈletə

буква

Then I began to get really interested in myself, so I went back to the beginning of the book. I started with the letter ‘a’ and I read from ‘a’ to ‘z’.

library

ˈlaɪbrəri

библиотека

One day I had a little health problem, and I went to the British Museum Library to read about it.
I took the book off the library shelf, and I began to read.

lid

lɪd

крышка

There were two large baskets with lids, for the food and for the pans and things to cook with.
I threw down the lid of the suitcase, and I closed it again.

lie

laɪ

вранье

We had told the boatman a lie. We had asked him to take care of the boat for us until nine o’clock the next morning.

lie (lying)

laɪ (ˈlaɪɪŋ)

лежать

We had knocked those three old men from their seats, and they were all lying on the bottom of their boat.
Twice he made George and me get up, because he wanted to see if we were lying on his trousers.
But the fish was lying on the floor – in a thousand pieces! It was not a real fish.

lie down

laɪ daʊn

лечь

‘Whatever do you want your trousers for? It’s the middle of the night!’ he cried. ‘Why don’t you lie down and go to sleep?’

life (lives)

laɪf (laɪvz)

жизнь (жизни)

Happily, you have something strong to drink. This brings back your interest in life until it is time to go to bed.
It was George’s hat that saved his life that day. He keeps that hat now.
It did not seem to understand that its life was in danger. It walked on quietly until the enemy was near it.

lift

lɪft

поднимать

Then he lifted the picture up… and he dropped it.

light

laɪt

зажигать; легкий; светлый; свет; лампа

Maria, you stay here to hold the light – and Tom, come here!
So we dressed in light clothes, and we went out.
When he got in, he thought, ‘I’ll light the fire, and then I’ll make some breakfast.’

like

ˈlaɪk

как; нравиться; подобный кому-то; похожий

A sea trip is fine if you are going for a month or two – but not for a week. I know what it is like
It will be like a little house, lovely and warm and comfortable. It’s much easier than a tent.’
We said, ‘Oh, we’ve been there, and we didn’t like it. There were no roses round the door.’

like that

ˈlaɪk ðæt

такой

I do not really blame Montmorency (usually I just hit him, or throw stones at him), because dogs are like that.

like this

ˈlaɪk ðɪs

таким образом; так

‘Oh, that’s no good. You’ve done it wrong! Do it like this!’ he said.

line

ˈlaɪn

линия

There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth. It seemed to be laughing at us, and this make us very angry.

list

lɪst

список

George, you get a pencil, and I’ll make the list.
The first list was too long. So we started again.
So we made our list, and it was a long one.

listen

ˈlɪsn̩

слушать

Sometimes we stop for a moment or two and we listen to the water as it plays gently against the boat.
She said that she did not want the children to listen to those terrible words.
‘What’s the time?’ the policeman repeated. ‘Well, listen.’

lit

lɪt

зажечь

We sat back, we lit our pipes, and we began to talk.
Then he and his three fat, heavy friends sat in the back of their boat, and lit their pipes.
Harris put his feet on the table and lit a cigarette.

litre

ˈli:tə

литр

The next minute, I was in the middle of the river, with half a litre of the Thames inside me.

little (less; least)

ˈlɪtl̩ (les; li:st)

маленький; небольшой (меньше; самое малое)

Our little boat moves silently into some quiet little corner on the river.
‘Excuse me, do you know any nice little hotels near here?’ we said.
Then Harris tried to open the tin with a little knife, and he cut himself badly. George tried with some scissors.

little boy

ˈlɪtl̩ ˌbɔɪ

паренек; мальчишка

Just then, a little boy came past. ‘Do you know any old people that we can frighten, so that they will give us their beds?’ we asked him.

live

lɪv

жить

When he first came to live with me, I thought, ‘This dog will not be with me long. He is too good for this world.’
They wanted to know if he really did live there.
We really did enjoy that supper. For ten days we had lived on cold meat and bread, and not much else.

Liverpool

ˈlɪvəpu:l

Ливерпуль

I remember that a friend of mine once took a short sea trip from London to Liverpool for his health.
He bought a return ticket, but, when he got to Liverpool, he sold it and he came back by train…

lock

lɒk

шлюз

Harris told me about the maze as we were passing through Molesey lock. Our boat was the only one in the lock that day.
Then from Cleeve there is quite a long piece of the river which has no locks.
It was a lovely day, and there were a lot of boats in the lock.

locked

lɒkt

закрытый

Then he caught hold of his coat, his hat and his umbrella, and ran to the front door. It was locked!

London

ˈlʌndən

Лондон

I remember that a friend of mine once took a short sea trip from London to Liverpool for his health.

lonely

ˈləʊnli

одинокий

He felt very lonely and miserable. He met policemen who looked at him strangely.

long

ˈlɒŋ

длинный, долгий

When he first came to live with me, I thought, ‘This dog will not be with me long. He is too good for this world.’
After a very long time, a taxi arrived and stopped for us.
When we started off on our long walk back, it was eleven o’clock. It was a dark and miserable night.

longer

ˈlɒŋɡə

дольше

However, I said nothing, and I started to pack the clothes. It took much longer than I had expected, but in the end it was finished.

look

ˈlʊk

взгляд; выглядеть; смотреть

Harris was going to pretend that he wanted to be in the centre, but the crowd looked dangerous.
‘Oh, look!’ they say. ‘The boat’s gone into the middle of the river!’
I could not turn round to see whose nose it was, but I had a quick look at George’s nose.

look at

ˈlʊk ət

смотреть на

I don’t like looking at the trees and the flowers, and when I’m asleep you’ll play about with the boat and I’ll fall over the side!’
We looked at the picture on the tin. We thought about the fruit.
Just then, someone behind me called out, ‘Hi! Look at your nose!’

look back

lʊk ˈbæk

оглядываться

And that young man and young woman towed George and his friends up to Mariow. It was when they reached the lock that they looked back.
When we looked back again, Harris and the food had gone. It was an open field, and there were no trees. 

look down

lʊk daʊn

смотреть вниз

We did not speak, but we got out the bag. We looked up the river, and down the river. There was nobody there.

look for

lʊk fɔ:

искать

I slept well that night, although Harris did wake me up ten times of more. He was looking for his clothes.
Then we looked for the tin-opener.
Let’s look for a little hotel with roses round the door.

look forward

lʊk ˈfɔ:wəd

предвкушать; ожидать с удовольствием

He said, ‘I’ve looked forward to visiting Hampton Church ever since we decided to make this trip.’
We were looking forward to having something to eat then, but George said, ‘No! It’s better to put the cover on the boat first, before it gets too dark.

look into

lʊk ˈɪntə

заглядывать

Once Montmorency went and looked into the pan, but he burnt himself. Then he started dancing and shouting, too.

look like

lʊk ˈlaɪk

выглядеть как; быть похожим

Harris said that he did not look like a nice man, and he was wearing ugly boots.
There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth.
Harris looked very sad. In fact, he looked like a man who had had a lot of trouble.

look out

lʊk ˈaʊt

выглядывать

‘It would be more interesting to go to the Alhambra Theatre in London,’ Harris said, and he looked out at the sky.
Then Harris, who was sitting next to the window, pulled back the curtain and looked out into the street.
And Montmorency stood on his back legs in front of the window, looked out into the night, and gave a short bark to show that he agreed.

look round

lʊk ˈraʊnd

осмотреться; оглядеться

I looked round, and saw the boots. Why did Harris wait until I had closed the suitcase?
George and I looked round. Then we looked at each other. Harris had gone – disappeared!
‘I hope so,’ George said. He stood up carefully and looked round.

look up

lʊk ʌp

посмотреть вверх

We did not speak, but we got out the bag. We looked up the river, and down the river. There was nobody there.

lose (lost, lost)

lu:z (lɒst, lɒst)

терять; лишаться; проигрывать

She held on to Harris’s arm because she did not want to lose him.
We found the hammer for him, but then he lost the place on the wall where he was going to put the picture.
We played for about an hour and a half, and George won ten pence. Harris and I lost five pence each.

loud

laʊd

громкий

But now everybody in the lock started shouting, and a very loud, deep voice from the back called, ‘Look at your boat! You, in the red and black caps! If you don’t do something quickly, there’ll be two dead bodies in that photograph!’

loudly

ˈlaʊdli

громко

It is also a good idea to talk very loudly to each other.
It was over by the trees, on the opposite side of the river. I shouted as loudly as I could.
‘Look at your nose, you stupid fool!’ the voice cried again, more loudly this time.

love

lʌv

любить; любовь

I have never liked visiting churches, but Harris loves them.
After supper, we sat and smiled at each other. We smiled at Montmorency, too. We loved everybody.
The cat likes this. It puts its tail up and it pushes itself against my legs. And there is love and peace.

lovely

ˈlʌvli

славно; чудесно; славный, чудесный

It will be like a little house, lovely and warm and comfortable. It’s much easier than a tent.’
Earlier, we had decided to go on to Wallingford that day, but the river was lovely at Streatley.
It was a lovely day, and there were a lot of boats in the lock.

lower

ˈləʊə

ниже

He climbed onto the seat and he bent down to get the bottle out of the basket. It was at the bottom, and he had to bend down, lower and lower.

luckily

ˈlʌkɪli

к счастью; по счастью

Luckily, he was very angry with me, and so he forgot about his church.

luggage

ˈlʌɡɪdʒ

багаж

Then we carried all our luggage into the road.
I think it was because we had so much luggage. There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.

lunch

lʌntʃ

ланч; обычный обед

Harris said to his friend, ‘We’ll just go in and walk around for ten minutes, and then we’ll come out and get some lunch.
After we had got our water, we went on towards Wargrave, but before we got there, we stopped for lunch.
Before lunch, he put the cover on the boat, and it stayed there all afternoon.

made

ˈmeɪd

сделанный, приготовленный

Then you will soon hear it making a lot of noise, because it wants to be made into tea.

madly

ˈmædli

бешено; безумно

Montmorency started to bark madly, I shouted, and Harris called out wildly.

magazine

ˌmæɡəˈzi:n

журнал

I knew it was my heart because I had read something in a magazine about the symptoms of a bad heart.

maidenhead

ˈmeɪdnhed

непорочность; девственность; чистота

Then we got into the boat, and we left that place, and did not stop until we reached Maidenhead.

main

meɪn

главный; основной

The main symptom was that I did not want to work.

make (made, made)

ˈmeɪk (ˈmeɪd, ˈmeɪd)

делать, сделать, являться причиной чего-либо; создать, составить; заставить; вынуждать; побуждать; приготовить; развести (костер)

But he made a lot of noise, and he was afraid that Mrs Gippings would wake up.
It is very strange, but those blows on my head often made the illness go away for a time.
Sometimes just one blow made the sickness disappear and made me want to start work immediately…
We sat down at the table, and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips – and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made.
George, you get a pencil, and I’ll make the list.’
I have never seen a man’s face change so quickly. I tried to make him see that it was very funny, but he did not agree with me.
George said he would show us how to do it. We liked this idea, so George collected wood to make a fire.

make (made, made) angry

ˈmeɪk (ˈmeɪd, ˈmeɪd) ˈæŋɡri

злить; рассердить; разгневать

Harris took out his map again, but this made the crowd angry.
And George shouts back, ‘Oh, no. I don’t like tea. We’ll have milk.’ This makes the water very angry, and it gets hot very fast.
There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth. It seemed to be laughing at us, and this make us very angry.

make (made, made) happy

ˈmeɪk (ˈmeɪd, ˈmeɪd) ˈhæpi

осчастливить; поднять настроение

Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day and fourteen on the second. This made him very happy.

make (made, made) mistake

ˈmeɪk (ˈmeɪd, ˈmeɪd) mɪˈsteɪk

ошибаться; совершать ошибку; допустить ошибку

It was a bit windy, and some had made a mistake because the wind was behind us. That does not usually happen.
Montmorency (who moves backwards down the road): Oh, no. Not at all … certainly … I … I’m afraid I’ve made a mistake. I thought I knew you … I’m sorry.

make (made, made) plans

ˈmeɪk (ˈmeɪd, ˈmeɪd) plænz

строить планы

We start to make plans

make (made; made) a trip

ˈmeɪk (ˈmeɪd; ˈmeɪd) ə trɪp

совершать путешествие; отправляться в путешествие

He said, ‘I’ve looked forward to visiting Hampton Church ever since we decided to make this trip.’

man (men)

mæn (men)

мужчина; человек (мужчины; люди)

George had once seen a man and a young lady who were walking by the side of the river.
The people there laughed at us. There were only three beds in the house, and there were seven men there already.
All the girls were smiling prettily, and all the men were trying to look brave and handsome.

manage

ˈmænɪdʒ

ухитриться; справляться с

But they could not get the butter out again. However, in the end they did manage to get it out and they put it down on a chair.
At first I could not answer him, because I was laughing so much. In the end, I managed to say, ‘It isn’t my shirt. It’s yours!’
We had left the boat near a swan’s nest, and, soon after George and I had left, Mrs Swan came back. She started to shout at Harris. However, Harris managed to chase her away, and she went to fetch her husband.

map

mæp

карта

Harris took out his map again, but this made the crowd angry. They told him what to do with his map.
He showed it to the people, but one man said, ‘A map’s no good when you don’t know where you are.’
He had studied a map of the maze, and so he knew it was very easy to get out of it again.

market

ˈmɑ:kɪt

рынок; базар

One of them was a policeman, one was a man who was taking vegetables to the market, and one was a taxi-driver.

matter

ˈmætə

иметь значение; неприятность, причина; повод

George always thinks he is ill, but really, there is never anything the matter with him, you know.
‘Oh, well, it doesn’t matter – two beds, then. Two of us can sleep in one bed, can’t we?’ George continued. He looked at Harris and me.
Was it us they were calling to? What was the matter with our noses? Why did they want us to push them out?

maze

meɪz

лабиринт

When we came to Hampton Court Palace, Harris asked me if I had ever been in the maze there.
After ten minutes they found themselves in the centre of the maze.
Harris said that it was a fine maze, and we agreed that we would try to get George into it on the way back.

meal

mi:l

еда; кушанье

We had an excellent meal, and Harris calmed down and began to enjoy himself again.
It was a very good meal. It was different from other meals.
‘You’re always asleep. Have you ever seen Harris awake, except at meal times?’ George asked me.

mean (meant, meant)

mi:n (ment, ment)

иметь в виду, подразумевать

We were sitting in my room, and we were smoking and talking about how bad we were – ill, I mean, of course.
‘What are you doing, you mean,’ he answers angrily.
When I said that I would organize it, I meant that I would tell them what to do. Then I would sit and watch them do it.
‘Ah, it isn’t the same hotel, then,’ Harris answered. ‘What do you mean?’ George asked.

meanwhile

ˈmi:nwaɪl

тем временем

Meanwhile, the third man has been trying to get the water out of the boat.
Meanwhile, your boat goes out into the middle of the river, and it starts to turn round.

meat

mi:t

мясо

We need eggs, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, of course.
We decided to have cold meat for lunch.
We were all tired of cold meat, and we talked about our favourite foods.

medicine

ˈmedsn̩

лекарство

And they did not give me medicine for this illness – they hit me on the side of the head.

meet (met, met)

mi:t (met, met)

встречать

I reminded him about George. I said, ‘We’ve got to get the boat up to Shepperton by five o’clock to meet him.’
In the evening we met to pack.
Then we met a man and we decided to ask him.

metal

ˈmetl̩

металл

The pieces of metal were half circles, and when you had put them into the holes, you just had to pull the cover over them.
First of all, the pieces of metal would not fit into their holes.
I tried to make a hole in the tin with the sharp end of a piece of metal.

metre

ˈmi:tə

метр

For a few hundred metres he ran as fast as he could. But, suddenly, he noticed that there were not many people about.

middle

ˈmɪdl̩

середина, посреди

‘Oh, look!’ they say. ‘The boat’s gone into the middle of the river!’
And from the middle of the grass the food appeared, and then Harris came out, dirty and wet.
First the river carries you to the right, then to the left; then it takes you out into the middle and turns you round three times.

midnight

ˈmɪdnaɪt

полночь

Uncle Podger got up and tried again, and at midnight the picture was on the wall.
It was now becoming serious. It was after midnight. The hotels were all full, and we could not go round all the houses and knock on doors at midnight!

milk

mɪlk

молоко

And George shouts back, ‘Oh, no. I don’t like tea. We’ll have milk.’

mind

maɪnd

возражать

Then George turned to the man and said, ‘Excuse me, I hope you don’t mind, but my friend and I, who are only on holiday here, would like to ask you a question. Could you tell us how you caught that fish?’

minute

ˈmɪnɪt

минута

They said they wanted to get out. Harris said, ‘Follow me! I’m going out myself in about ten minutes.’
The next minute, I was in the middle of the river, with half a litre of the Thames inside me.
Then we stopped talking for a few minutes, and we began to look round the room.

miserable

ˈmɪzrəbl̩

печальный, скверный, нанастный, несчастный, убогий

However, by the time we had finished our first potato, we were feeling very miserable.
When we started off on our long walk back, it was eleven o’clock. It was a dark and miserable night.
But when it rains, the river is brown and miserable. It rained all day, and, at first, we pretended we were enjoying it.

miss

mɪs

не попасть; промазать

I tried to make a hole in the tin with the sharp end of a piece of metal. But I missed.

moment

ˈməʊmənt

миг; мгновение; момент

There was a short fight, and then there were two heavy bangs on the floor. After a moment or two, a rather sad voice said, ‘I say, Tom!’
We stood and waited for the important moment when the man would actually take the photograph.

Monday

ˈmʌndeɪ

Понедельник

You start out on Monday and you think that you are going to enjoy yourself.
George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o’clock until four o’clock from Monday to Friday.
On Monday morning, we got up quite early and we went to swim before breakfast.

money

ˈmʌni

деньги

They take all your money, and then, when you write out a cheque, they send it back! They say you’ve spent all your money!

monkey

ˈmʌŋki

обезьяна; обезьянний

We continued slowly on our way, and we stopped for lunch near Monkey Island.

month

mʌnθ

месяц

A sea trip is fine if you are going for a month or two – but not for a week. I know what it is like…
George said that the same thing had happened to him a few months before. He told me a story about it…

moon

mu:n

луна

The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts.

more and more

mɔ: ənd mɔ:

всё больше и больше

So I began to laugh, too. I looked at George, who was laughing so much. Then I looked at the wet shirt – and I laughed more and more.

morning

ˈmɔ:nɪŋ

утро

And on Monday morning, as you stand and wait to get off the ship – you begin to enjoy yourself.
But now that morning had come, it did not seem to be a very good idea. The water looked wet and cold.
Five minutes later a third man came in and described how he had caught the fish, early one morning.

mostly

ˈməʊstli

по большей части

Supper is mostly rainwater – rainwater bread, rainwater soup.

mother

ˈmʌðə

мать

She added calmly, ‘The next time that you are going to put a picture on the wall, please tell me. Then I can arrange to go and spend a week with my mother.’
‘No, I don’t,’ the boy answered, but he added that his mother would give us a room.

mouth

maʊθ

рот

There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth.
He came back a few minutes later with a dead rat in his mouth.
When you go for a walk by the river, the fish come and stand half out of the water, with their mouths open for bread.

move

mu:v

двигать, передвигать, двигаться, передвигаться

Then, five minutes later, he appeared again in the same place. He asked them why they had moved.
We began to think that we were right and that someone had moved the lock.
Then we went back along the road. Suddenly Harris sat down on the basket. He said he was not going to move.

move back

mu:v ˈbæk

пятиться; двигаться назад

Montmorency (who continues to move back): Not at all … thanks … not at all … very kind of you … Good morning.

move off

mu:v ɒf

отъезжать; отплывать

We woke up late the next morning, and it was about ten o’clock when we moved off.
After this we did our shopping, went back to the boat, and moved off along the river again.
Harris and I put all our things into it, and we moved off along the River Thames.

move on

mu:v ɒn

двигаться вперед; идти дальше

After lunch, we moved on to Wargrave and Shiplake, and then to Sonning.

murderer

ˈmɜ:dərə

убийца

So it must be thieves, or murderers, or fire.
Near you, you see a half-dressed murderer.
A woman had brought m a dead cat and had called me a murderer.

music

ˈmju:zɪk

музыка

The music was beautiful, but Uncle Podger’s words were not! Aunt Maria was not pleased.

must

mʌst

должен

However, he said that he must drink something. He climbed onto the seat and he bent down to get the bottle out of the basket.
You must say that you do not want any tea, that you do not need any tea, and that you are not going to have any tea.
Our boat was the first one in the lock, so I must look nice for the man’s photograph.

must be

mʌst bi

должно быть

Harris continued to turn to the right, but it seemed to be a long way. At last, Harris’s friend said to him, ‘This must be a very big maze.’
‘Yes, it must be,’ his friend continued, ‘because we’ve walked about three kilometres already.’

must not

mʌst nɒt

нельзя

You have to go away and begin your meal without it. You must not look at it.

nail

neɪl

гвоздь

He sent one of the girls out to buy some nails, and then he sent on of the boys to tell her how big the nails ought to be.
Two people held the chair, a third helped him to get on it, a fourth gave him a nail, and a fifth passed him the hammer.
At last we found the nail, but then he lost the hammer.

name

ˈneɪm

название

I don’t remember the name of the illness, but I know it was something really terrible.
At the end of George’s story, Harris asked, ‘What was the name of the hotel?’

near

nɪə

близко; возле; рядом

At last you find your head in the fresh air. Near you, you see a half-dressed murderer.
But then, from the words which rose on the evening air, we understood that we were near people.
We were sitting in a field near the river, and we were just going to start eating.

near here

nɪə hɪə

поблизости

‘Excuse me, do you know any nice little hotels near here?’ we said.

nearby

ˈnɪəbaɪ

рядом; неподалеку

I told him that there were no pubs nearby, and then he started shouting about the river.

nearer

ˈnɪərə

ближе

They were sitting in a boat, and they were fishing. As we got nearer, we could see that they were old.

nearest

ˈnɪərɪst

самый близкий

Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

nearly

ˈnɪəli

почти

Harris’s face was nearly black, so I was just in time.
‘Ah, well,’ the man went on, ‘it was nearly five years ago that I caught that fish.’
In fact, our feet nearly filled the photograph.

necessary

ˈnesəsəri

необходимо

However, we thought that it was all necessary for the job.
At first we thought it was necessary to do this to cook the eggs.

neck

nek

шея

They usually begin by tying themselves up in the rope. They get it round their legs, and then they have to sit down to untie it. Next, they get it round their necks.

need

ni:d

нуждаться; иметь надобность; требоваться; понадобиться

Then we made a list of all the clothes we needed.
‘First, breakfast,’ George began. ‘We need eggs, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, of course.
We needed some hot water to make tea, so we put the water on the stove at the front of the boat, and we went to the back.

nest

nest

гнездо

We had left the boat near a swan’s nest, and, soon after George and I had left, Mrs Swan came back.

never

ˈnevə

никогда

Julius Caesar stayed there with his soldiers. Queen Elizabeth I, she was there too. You can never get away from that woman.
George said that, since then, he had never got up too early again…
George said that Harris never did anything except eat and sleep.

newspaper

ˈnju:speɪpə

газета

Everyone went to bed at eight o’clock, and he had to walk for an hour to buy cigarettes and a newspaper.
While we were eating, George got the newspaper and read us interesting pieces from it – pieces about people who had been killed on the river, and interesting reports about the weather.
On that holiday, the weather reports in the newspaper were always wrong.

next

nekst

затем; далее; следующий

The next question was where to sleep at night.
Next we came to Halliford and Shepperton. There is an old church at Shepperton, and I was worried in case Harris wanted to go and visit it.
We asked Harris about it the next morning, but he said, ‘What swans?’

next day

nekst deɪ

на следующий день

The next day you have no voices because you have all caught colds, and all day you argue with each other in angry whispers…

next time

nekst ˈtaɪm

следующий раз

She added calmly, ‘The next time that you are going to put a picture on the wall, please tell me.
The next time I woke up Harris said he could not find his shoes.

next to

nekst tu:

рядом с

‘Why, there’s a man in my bed,’ George’s father said. ‘His feet are here, next to me.’
Someone said, ‘Why don’t you try the little shop next to the Black Horse?’
Then Harris, who was sitting next to the window, pulled back the curtain and looked out into the street.

nice

naɪs

приятный; милый; хороший; славный

Harris said that he did not look like a nice man, and he was wearing ugly boots.
He added that it seemed to be nice and quiet there, and he said that he would like to die there.
Our boat was the first one in the lock, so I must look nice for the man’s photograph.

nicely

ˈnaɪsli

хорошо; отлично

‘You must keep the boat moving!’ ‘Oh, all right. I’ll tell them. Are we doing everything else all right?’ ‘Oh, yes, very nicely – but don’t stop!’

night

ˈnaɪt

ночь

At the end of the day, night comes and the world is peaceful and calm.
But then we thought, ‘Perhaps he won’t arrest us. Perhaps he’ll just hit us, too!’ We could not fight policemen all night.
We left Streatley early the next morning. We were going to Culham, and we wanted to spend the night there.

no good

nəʊ ɡʊd

бесполезный; не годится; никуда негодный

He showed it to the people, but one man said, ‘A map’s no good when you don’t know where you are.’
But he could not get to sleep. He tried to read, but that was no good either.
‘Oh, that’s no good. You’ve done it wrong! Do it like this!’ he said.

no other

nəʊ ˈʌðə

никакой другой

No other hotels!’ Harris cried. ‘None,’ the man replied.

noise

nɔɪz

шум; гам

Montmorency was very pleased about this. He does not like peace and quiet. He prefers noise.
But he made a lot of noise, and he was afraid that Mrs Gippings would wake up.
She would hear the noise and think that he was a burglar.

none

nʌn

ни одного

‘No other hotels!’ Harris cried. ‘None,’ the man replied.

none of

nʌn ɒv

никто из

None of us had realized that it would be so difficult to fix the cover.

nose

nəʊz

нос

Just then, someone behind me called out, ‘Hi! Look at your nose!’
It seemed to be all right. I tried to look at my own nose, and that seemed to be all right, too.
And then another voice called, ‘Push your nose out! You two, with the dog!’

not at all

nɒt ət ɔ:l

ничего страшного; не беспокойтесь; совсем нет; вовсе нет; ничего

Montmorency (who moves backwards down the road): Oh, no. Not at all … certainly … I … I’m afraid I’ve made a mistake. I thought I knew you … I’m sorry.
The Cat: Not at all. Are you quite sure you don’t want anything now?
Montmorency (who continues to move back): Not at all … thanks … not at all … very kind of you … Good morning.

notice

ˈnəʊtɪs

заметить

They did not notice that there was no boat on the end of the rope.
And then, just as I was getting the shirt back out of the water, I noticed that it was not my shirt.
We noticed a glass case on the wall. In it there was a very big fish.

nowhere

ˈnəʊweə

никуда

There was nowhere to hide. He had not fallen in the river, because we were between him and the water.

number

ˈnʌmbə

номер

When we got there, there were already some people in her friend’s rooms.  From there we went to number 27. Number 27 was full. They sent us to number 32, and number 32 was full.

o’clock (сокращение от ‘of the clock’)

əˈklɒk

на часах; часов

George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o’clock until four o’clock from Monday to Friday.
I woke up at six o’clock the next morning, and I found that George was awake, too.
At five o’clock we all woke up again, so we got up and had breakfast.

of course

əv kɔ:s

разумеется; конечно; обязательно

This was not, of course, what I had expected. When I said that I would organize it, I meant that I would tell them what to do.
He did not want to work, of course.
So then, of course, we began to talk about other illnesses.

offer

ˈɒfə

предложение

When we passed the cold meat to Montmorency, he refused our offer.

often

[ˈɒfn̩

часто

It is very strange, but those blows on my head often made the illness go away for a time.
In fact, he had often tried to be ill, but he had not succeeded.
I’ve often heard him tell the story.

old

əʊld

старый

When old ladies and gentlemen look at him, tears come into their eyes.
There is an old church at Shepperton, and I was worried in case Harris wanted to go and visit it.
Five minutes later, Jim came back with a very old piece of wood.

old man (men)

əʊld mæn (men)

дудушка; старик

There were no other people on the river, except for three old men. They were sitting in a boat, and they were fishing.
‘No, but you can drink some of it,’ the old man replied.
‘Yes,’ the old man continued, ‘it was sixteen years ago. I caught him just by the bridge.’

old people

əʊld ˈpi:pl̩

старики; старые люди

Just then, a little boy came past. ‘Do you know any old people that we can frighten, so that they will give us their beds?’ we asked him.

old woman

əʊld ˈwʊmən

старуха; старая женщина

George said that Mrs G. was a lazy old woman. Then he unlocked the door and ran out into the street.
The old woman walked very slowly, and it took us twenty minutes to get to her friend’s house.

on the end

ɒn ði end

на конце чего-либо

They were pulling a rope behind them and they were talking to each other. They did not notice that there was no boat on the end of the rope.
Of course, they probably had a boat on the end of the rope when they started out. But it had disappeared.

on the ground

ɒn ðə ɡraʊnd

на месте; на местах

So everybody got down on the ground to look for it. At last we found the nail, but then he lost the hammer.

on the left

ɒn ðə left

слева

Goring, on the left, and Streatley, on the right, are both very pretty places.

on the other side of

ɒn ði ˈʌðə saɪd ɒv

на другой стороне; с другой стороны

From time to time, they saw him as he ran past, on the other side of the hedge. He shouted, ‘Wait there! I’m coming!’
One of them got in with his head at the top of the bed. The other one got in on the other side of the bed. He lay with his feet by the first one’s head.

on the right

ɒn ðə raɪt

справа

Goring, on the left, and Streatley, on the right, are both very pretty places.

on the way back

ɒn ðə ˈweɪ ˈbæk

на обратном пути

Harris said that it was a fine maze, and we agreed that we would try to get George into it on the way back.
On Monday morning, we got up quite early and we went to swim before breakfast. On the way back, Montmorency behaved very stupidly.
On the way back to the boat, we stopped at a little pub, by the river. We went in and sat down.

on top of

ɒn tɒp ɒv

поверх

And then it falls on top of you. You cannot get it off your head, and you get angry.
They packed soft things at the bottom of the basket, and then put heavy things on top of them.
And then George fell, and he caught hold of the glass case to save himself. It came down, with George and the chair on top of it.

once again

wʌns əˈɡen

в очередной раз; ещё раз

But, once again, Harris fought bravely, for four hours, and he had killed them all. Then they had all swum away to die.

one day

wʌn deɪ

однажды

One day I had a little health problem, and I went to the British Museum Library to read about it.

only

ˈəʊnli

единственный; только; лишь

Our only reply was to give him the rope. So he started walking, and he pulled the boat behind him.
Only four,’ George answered. ‘It’ll be all right, if Harris as awake.’
‘It’s only two more days,’ Harris said, ‘and we are young and strong. Perhaps we’ll be all right.’

onto

ˈɒntu

на

Harris had some trouble when he tried to break the eggs. He had trouble stopping them from getting onto his trousers.

open

ˈəʊpən

открывать; открытый

I opened the suitcase, and I put the boots in.
Then Harris tried to open the tin with a little knife, and he cut himself badly.
When we looked back again, Harris and the food had gone. It was an open field, and there were no trees.

opposite

ˈɒpəzɪt

расположенный напротив

Then they stood on the opposite side of the road, and they watched the house.
When we arrived opposite the first island, we shouted, but there was no answer.
It was over by the trees, on the opposite side of the river.

orange

ˈɒrɪndʒ

апельсин; оранжевый

He pretended that the oranges were rats, and he got into the food basket and killed three of them.
They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.

organize

ˈɔ:ɡənaɪz

устроить; организовать

So I told the others that I would organize it.
When I said that I would organize it, I meant that I would tell them what to do.
And that was how grateful they were to me, after I had brought them and their old boat all the way up from Kingston; after I had organized everything of them; and after I had taken care of them!

ought

ˈɔ:t

быть должным; следует

He sent one of the girls out to buy some nails, and then he sent on of the boys to tell her how big the nails ought to be.
Harris called out, ‘You ought to be pleased that something so exciting has happened to you!’

ought to

ɔ:t tu:

следует

Harris called out, ‘You ought to be pleased that something so exciting has happened to you!’

out of

aʊt ɒv

из

When, at last, the tent is up, you carry the things out of the boat. Supper is mostly rainwater – rainwater bread, rainwater soup.
And then, just as I was getting the shirt back out of the water, I noticed that it was not my shirt.
When you go for a walk by the river, the fish come and stand half out of the water, with their mouths open for bread.

outside

aʊtˈsaɪd]

на улице; на открытом воздухе

The next question was where to sleep at night. George and I did not want to sleep in hotels at night. We wanted to sleep outside.

over

ˈəʊvə

над

So I went out on to the river bank, and I began to move carefully along the branch of a tree which was over the water.

over the side

ˈəʊvə ðə saɪd

за борт

I don’t like looking at the trees and the flowers, and when I’m asleep you’ll play about with the boat and I’ll fall over the side!’

over there

ˈəʊvə ðeə

вон там

‘Oh, yes, very nicely – but don’t stop!’ ‘I see. Oh, give me my hat, please. It’s over there.’

pack

pæk

укладывать вещи; паковать

However, I said nothing, and I started to pack the clothes.
I finished the suitcase at five past ten, and the food was still not packed!
Then we began to get ready, and we remembered that we had packed the toothbrushes.

packing

ˈpækɪŋ

упаковывание

I think that I am very good at packing. It is one of the things that I do best.
Perhaps George and I had better do the rest of the packing.
The packing was completed at ten to one in the morning, and we all went to bed.

page

peɪdʒ

страница

After some time, I turned over the page and I began to read about another illness.
I read about half a page – and then I knew that I had that disease too.
Slowly, I began to turn over more pages.

pain

peɪn

боль

During the walk, she told us about all the pains she had in her back.
Ten days later, the poor man died, in great pain.
When he woke up the next morning, he was in great pain, and he was never able to walk again.

Palace

ˈpælɪs

дворец

When we came to Hampton Court Palace, Harris asked me if I had ever been in the maze there.

pan

pæn

сковородка

There were two large baskets with lids, for the food and for the pans and things to cook with.
So we gave him the pan, and all the eggs which had not broken.
George said it was stupid to have only four potatoes, so we washed about six more. Then we put them in the pan without doing anything else to them.

paper

ˈpeɪpə

бумага; бумажный

Harris said, ‘Now get me a piece of paper, J., and write everything down.
He could get the pencil and the paper.
There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.

park

pɑ:k

парк

We stopped under the trees by Kempton Park, and we had lunch. It is very pretty there, on the grass by the river, under the trees.

part

pɑ:t

часть

From there to Oxford is the most difficult part of the river.

pass

pɑ:s

дать; передать; проходить мимо; проходить

We passed a very pretty little hotel, but there were no roses round the door.
We could see ourselves – we were sitting down to supper there; we were passing cold meat and thick pieces of bread to each other.
Harris told me about the maze as we were passing through Molesey lock.

passenger

ˈpæsɪndʒə

пассажир

‘Oh, him, he thinks he’s a passenger and doesn’t need to work!’ Harris said.

past

pɑ:st

за; после; мимо

From time to time, they saw him as he ran past, on the other side of the hedge.
Then we started to move up the river again, past Old Windsor, which is very pretty.
One or two people hurried past.

pay (paid; paid)

peɪ (peɪd; peɪd)

платить

But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for…
The woman who washed them at Streatley made us pay three times the usual price.
We paid her, and did not say a word about the cost.

peace

pi:s

мир; покой; тишина

Montmorency was very pleased about this. He does not like peace and quiet. He prefers noise.
The cat likes this. It puts its tail up and it pushes itself against my legs. And there is love and peace.

peaceful

ˈpi:sfəl

спокойный; безмятежный

We could go somewhere peaceful, far away from other people.
At the end of the day, night comes and the world is peaceful and calm.
The peaceful sound of the water against the boat sends us to sleep – and we dream.

pence

pens

пенсы

We played for about an hour and a half, and George won ten pence.
Harris and I lost five pence each.

pencil

ˈpensl̩

карандаш

George, you get a pencil, and I’ll make the list.
He could get the pencil and the paper.

people

ˈpi:pl̩

люди

No help comes, and all you know is that thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot breathe.
Sometimes people forget that they are towing a boat, and later, George told us a story about this…
There were no other people on the river, except for three old men. They were sitting in a boat, and they were fishing.

perhaps

pəˈhæps

может быть; возможно

I agree with George, and I said that perhaps we could go to the country.
After some time, Harris and I began to think that Bell Weir lock had disappeared. ‘Perhaps someone has taken it away,’ we said.
In fact, he thinks that perhaps I should have more work.

person

ˈpɜ:sn̩

человек

In a boat, I have noticed that each person thinks that he is doing all the work.
The person who hired one of these boats is the kind of person who likes to stay under the trees.

photograph

ˈfəʊtəɡrɑ:f

фотография

Our boat was the first one in the lock, so I must look nice for the man’s photograph.
You, in the red and black caps! If you don’t do something quickly, there’ll be two dead bodies in that photograph!’
In fact, out feet nearly filled the photograph. You could not see much else.

photographer

fəˈtɒɡrəfə

фотограф

Someone was taking a photograph of us all, and the photographer was hoping to sell the picture to the people in the lock.
Then I saw the photographer and at once I understood.
They said they did not want photographs of our feet. The photographer was not very pleased…

piano

pɪˈænəʊ

рояль; фортепьяно

Then Uncle Podger tried again himself. This time he fell off the chair on to the piano. His head and his body hit the piano at the same time.

pick off

pɪk ɒf

снимать

They were trying to stand up and they were picking fish off themselves.

pick out

pɪk aʊt

вытаскивать; вынимать

Then Harris packed a pan on top of a tomato and… well, they had to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon.

pick up

pɪk ʌp

подобрать; собрать; поднимать

We picked up our things, and we went over to the Travellers’ Rest.
We picked up the basket, the bags and the coats, and we ran along the road.
Harris picked up his glass.

picture

ˈpɪktʃə

картина; фотография

When they bought a picture once, Aunt Podger asked, ‘Now, where shall we put this?’
She added calmly, ‘The next time that you are going to put a picture on the wall, please tell me. Then I can arrange to go and spend a week with my mother.’
We love tinned fruit, all three of us. We looked at the picture on the tin.

piece

pi:s

часть; кусок

While we were eating, George got the newspaper and read us interesting pieces from it – pieces about people who had been killed on the river, and interesting reports about the weather.
We took the pieces of metal, and we began to drop them into the holes.
Then from Cleeve there is quite a long piece of the river which has no locks.

pink

pɪŋk

розовый

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.

pipe

paɪp

трубка

Then we fill our pipes and we sit and talk quietly.
He said he was going to have a glass of whisky, smoke his pipe, and then get the boat ready for the night.
Then we laugh quietly, put away our pipes, say ‘Goodnight’ and go to bed.

place

ˈpleɪs

место

You find a place on the river bank which is not as wet as other places.
Then, five minutes later, he appeared again in the same place.
He stopped, at a place where we could not get into the boat, and then immediately he fell asleep.

plan

plæn

план; планировать

He thought, at first, that it was the end of the world. Harris still believes that George and I planned it.
At about four o’clock we began to discuss our plans for that evening.

plate

pleɪt

тарелка

I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc.
After breakfast I was sitting by the river, and thinking, when George said, ‘Perhaps, when you’ve rested enough, you could help to wash the plates and things.’
Harris was preparing the food, and George and I were waiting with our plates.

play

pleɪ

играть; переливаться; плескаться

Sometimes we stop for a moment or two and we listen to the water as it plays gently against the boat.
We played cards after supper. We played for about an hour and a half, and George won ten pence.

play about

pleɪ əˈbaʊt

забавляться

I don’t like looking at the trees and the flowers, and when I’m asleep you’ll play about with the boat and I’ll fall over the side!
The other man does not help you. He starts to play about.
Anyway, I don’t believe he’s at the bank. He’s playing about somewhere, that’s what he’s doing.

play around

pleɪ əˈraʊnd

валять дурака; забавляться

Why does George have to play around all day? Why has he left us with this big, heavy boat to tow up and down the river?

please

pli:z

пожалуйста

She added calmly, ‘The next time that you are going to put a picture on the wall, please tell me.
The Cat: Do please tell me if there is something you want, won’t you?
He hoped that nobody would notice him. Now, if you say ‘Cats!’ to Montmorency, he looks up at you, and his eyes beg you, ‘No, please!’

pleased

pli:zd

довольный

The music was beautiful, but Uncle Podger’s words were not! Aunt Maria was not pleased.
Then from Cleeve there is quite a long piece of the river which has no locks. Most people are pleased about this because it makes everything much easier, but I quite like locks, myself.
They said they did not want photographs of our feet. The photographer was not very pleased

podge

ˈpɑ:dʒ

толстяк-коротышка

That’s Harris – he tells everybody what to do, and they do all the work, I remember that my Uncle Podger was like Harris…

police

pəˈli:s

полиция

She would hear the noise and think that he was a burglar. Then she would open the window and shout, ‘Help! Police!’

police station

pəˈli:s ˈsteɪʃn̩

полицейский участок

He would arrest us and take us to a police station, and then we would have somewhere to sleep.

policeman (policemen)

pəˈli:smən (pəˈli:smən)

полицейский (полицейские)

He started to hide in dark corners whenever he saw a policeman.
He met policemen who looked at him strangely.
We could not fight policemen all night.

poor

pʊə

бедный

Ten days later, the poor man died, in great pain.

poor health

pʊə helθ

неважное здоровье; слабое здоровье

We were all feeling in poor health, and we were getting quite worried about it.

poppet

ˈpɒpɪt

милашка; малышка; кукла; марионетка

At that moment Mrs Poppets, my housekeeper, knocked on the door.

possible

ˈpɒsəbl̩

возможно

I wanted to put on my shirt as quickly as possible.

potato

pəˈteɪtəʊ

картошка

Harris and I started to prepare the potatoes.
We worked very hard for twenty-five minutes. At the end of that time we had done four potatoes.
The potatoes were a bit hard, but we had good teeth, so it did not really matter.

prefer

prɪˈfɜ:

предпочитать

Montmorency was very pleased about this. He does not like peace and quiet. He prefers noise.

prepare

prɪˈpeə

готовить; приготовить

George could not refuse, really, but he did say, ‘Perhaps it would be better if I stayed in the boat and prepared the meal. You two can tow the boat.’
And then we started to prepare supper.
So he stopped trying to prepare breakfast, and he put on his coat.

present

prezent

текущий; настоящий

On our present trip, though, nothing exciting happened.

pretend

prɪˈtend

делать вид; притворяться

Harris was going to pretend that he wanted to be in the centre, but the crowd looked dangerous.
He sits behind a bit of glass all day, and he pretends to do something.
It rained all day, and, at first, we pretended we were enjoying it.

prettily

ˈprɪtɪli

мило; изящно

All the girls were smiling prettily, and all the men were trying to look brave and handsome.

pretty

ˈprɪti

красивый; прелестный; приятный; замечательный; приятно; прелестно

It is very pretty there, on the grass by the river, under the trees.
Then we started to move up the river again, past Old Windsor, which is very pretty.
However, after that it becomes very beautiful. Goring, on the left, and Streatley, on the right, are both very pretty places.

prevent

prɪˈvent

предотвращать

Harris said that a little food helped to prevent illness.

price

praɪs

цена

The woman who washed them at Streatley made us pay three times the usual price.

probably

ˈprɒbəbli

должно быть; наверное; надо полагать

Of course, they probably had a boat on the end of the rope when they started out.
In fact, he was probably going to say something angry to George and his friends.
We thought it would probably take about ten minutes.

problem

ˈprɒbləm

проблема

One day I had a little health problem, and I went to the British Museum Library to read about it.
Of course, nobody understood that the problem was my heart. Doctors were not so clever then. They just thought that I was lazy!

proudly

ˈpraʊdli

с гордостью

Uncle Podger looked at the picture proudly and said, ‘You see, it was only a little job!’…

pub

pʌb

паб; бар; кабачок

I told him that there were no pubs nearby, and then he started shouting about the river.
We had lunch at a little pub, and Montmorency enjoyed that.
After that we could walk about the village in the rain, or we could sit in a dark little pub.

pull

pʊl

вытащить; натянуть; тянуть; усилие, дерганье, рывок

Just then he pulls the tent from his side, and he destroys all your hard work.
‘Ah! The stupid fool!’ you hear him say to himself. And then, suddenly, he gives a violent pull – and your side comes out, too.
The pieces of metal were half circles, and when you had put them into the holes, you just had to pull the cover over them.
Harris said the swans had tried to pull him and Montmorency from the boat and drown them.

pull back

pʊl ˈbæk

отодвигать назад

Then Harris, who was sitting next to the window, pulled back the curtain and looked out into the street.

pull off

pʊl ɒf

стаскивать

We decided to wake George. We ran across the room, and we pulled the bedclothes off him. Harris hit him with a shoe, and I shouted in his ear. He woke up.

pull out

pʊl aʊt

вытащить

I had pulled him out of a hundred and fourteen street fights…
You pull your side of the tent hard – and pull out all the ropes on his side.
We pulled out the maps and we discussed plans.

pull up

pʊl ʌp

поднимать

We pulled up the boards at the bottom of the boat.
After that, we pulled up the cover and we put our heads over the side of the boat.

punish

ˈpʌnɪʃ

наказать

Even his teacher thought he had done well and did not punish him.

push

pʊʃ]

толкать; толкаться

The cat likes this. It puts its tail up and it pushes itself against my legs. And there is love and peace.
And I can remember that once he pushed me over onto my side. ‘Wherever can that umbrella be?’ he was saying.
The water was rising, and our boat was beginning to turn over. Quickly, we pushed hard against the side of the lock, to move the boat.

push off

pʊʃ ɒf

отталкивать; выталкивать

So the boat runs aground in shallow water near the river bank. You jump up, and you push the boat off into deep water.

push out

pʊʃ aʊt

вытолкнуть

And then another voice called, ‘Push your nose out! You two, with the dog!’
Was it us they were calling to? What was the matter with our noses? Why did they want us to push them out?

put (put; put)

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt)

класть; положить; поместить; приложить; ставить

He looked for something to put round his finger, and he could not find anything.
‘Now,’ George said, ‘we don’t want to take a tent. We can put a cover over the boat at night.
At Kingston our boat was waiting for us. Harris and I put all our things into it, and we moved off along the River Thames.

put (put; put) away

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt) əˈweɪ

убирать; откладывать

We do not want to speak. Then we laugh quietly, put away our pipes, say ‘Goodnight’ and go to bed.

put (put; put) back

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt) ˈbæk

возвращать обратно

Nobody hurried to be the first one. George put his head back inside the boat. Montmorency barked with horror at the idea.

put (put; put) behind

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt) bɪˈhaɪnd

забыть

They stepped on things, and they put things behind them.

put (put; put) into

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt) ˈɪntə

вставлять; вступать

He sat down on things just when George and Harris were going to pack them; he put his leg into the sugar; he ran away with the teaspoons.
There were five pieces of metal and you put these into special holes on the side of the boat.
The pieces of metal were half circles, and when you had put them into the holes, you just had to pull the cover over them.

put (put; put) on

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt) ɒn

надевать; поставить

We were looking forward to having something to eat then, but George said, ‘No! It’s better to put the cover on the boat first, before it gets too dark.
Finally, he put on his coat again, and he went out for a walk. He felt very lonely and miserable.
I did not see the photographer at first, but suddenly George started to brush his trousers, and he fixed his hair and put on his hat.

put (put; put) out

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt) aʊt

выгонять; выложить

On Saturday they wake him up and put him out onto the street at two o’clock.) So George was going to meet us at Chertsey.
We put everything out on the grass by the river, and we shook everything. There was no tin-opener!

put (put; put) up

ˈpʊt (ˈpʊt; ˈpʊt) ʌp

поднять; поставить; раскрывать (зонтик)

There we put up our tent, and we cook and eat our simple supper.
All the time it is raining heavily. It is difficult to put up a tent in good weather. In wet weather it is almost impossible.
The cat likes this. It puts its tail up and it pushes itself against my legs. And there is love and peace.

quarter

ˈkwɔ:tə

четверть часа

These people said that they had been there for three quarters of an hour.
We passed Shiplake at a quarter to twelve, and then George said, quite slowly, ‘You don’t remember which island it was, do you?’

quarter past eight

ˈkwɔ:tə pɑ:st eɪt

8:15; четверть после восьми

One evening his watch stopped at a quarter past eight. He did not realize this then.
When George woke up, he looked at his watch. It was quarter past eight.

quarter to ten

ˈkwɔ:tə tə ten

без пятнадцати десять

‘Get up, you fat, lazy thing!’ Harris shouted. ‘It’s a quarter to ten!’

quarter to twelve

ˈkwɔ:tə tə twelv

без пятнадцати двенадцать

We passed Shiplake at a quarter to twelve, and then George said, quite slowly, ‘You don’t remember which island it was, do you?’

Queen

kwi:n

королева

Queen Elizabeth I, she was there too.
And then he called out to another man, ‘Jim, fetch “The Queen of the Thames”.’

question

ˈkwestʃən

вопрос

The next question was where to sleep at night.
There we discussed the important question of where to spend the night.
Then George turned to the man and said, ‘Excuse me, I hope you don’t mind, but my friend and I, who are only on holiday here, would like to ask you a question. Could you tell us how you caught that fish?’

quick

kwɪk

быстрый

I could not turn round to see whose nose it was, but I had a quick look at George’s nose.

quickly

ˈkwɪkli

быстро

I saw him looking towards it as we came near, but I moved the boat quickly, and Harris’s cap fell into the water.
We went through Maidenhead quickly, but, after that, we travelled along more slowly.
If you don’t do something quickly, there’ll be two dead bodies in that photograph!

quiet

ˈkwaɪət

спокойный; мирный; тихий; тишина; спокойствие

Montmorency was very pleased about this. He does not like peace and quiet.
It’s better to let Harris go on shouting when he gets angry. Then he gets tired, and he is quiet afterwards.
He added that it seemed to be nice and quiet there, and he said that he would like to die there.

quietly

ˈkwaɪətli

мирно; спокойно; тихо; молча

Then we fill our pipes and we sit and talk quietly.
‘Well, I think you should go back there quietly,’ the policeman continued.
Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

quite

kwaɪt

действительно; весьма; в самом деле; очень

We could see that the cover was moving about quite violently.
Montmorency is quite a brave dog, but there was something in the way the cat looked at him.
George said he was quite a young man, so it was very sad.

rain

reɪn

дождь; идет дождь

‘And what about when it rains?’ Harris said.
All the time it is raining heavily.
The rain never came.

raincoat

ˈreɪnkəʊt

плащ; дождевик

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.
We sat in our raincoats under the cover, and we travelled slowly along the river.

rainwater

ˈreɪnwɔ:tə

дождевая вода

Supper is mostly rainwater rainwater bread, rainwater soup.

rat

ræt

крыса

He pretended that the oranges were rats, and he got into the food basket and killed three of them.
He came back a few minutes later with a dead rat in his mouth.
Harris said he thought it would be all right to put the rat in.

rather

ˈrɑ:ðə

скорее; слегка

Harris began to think that it was rather strange, but he went on.
There was a short fight, and then there were two heavy bangs on the floor. After a moment of two, a rather sad voice said, ‘I say, Tom!’
After supper Harris was rather disagreeable – I think it was the meal which caused this.

reach

ri:tʃ

достичь; добраться

It was when they reached the lock that they looked back.
On that trip we reached Datchet at ten o’clock at night.
We reached Paddington station at seven o’clock, and we drove straight to the restaurant.

read (read, read)

ri:d (red; red)

читать

I knew it was my heart because I had read something in a magazine about the symptoms of a bad heart.
While we were eating, George got the newspaper and read us interesting pieces from it – pieces about people who had been killed on the river, and interesting reports about the weather.
He tried to read, but that was no good either.

reading-room

ˈri:dɪŋ ru:m

читальный зал

When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man.

ready

ˈredi

готовый

Half an hour later, the finger had been tied up, they had bought new glass, and everything was ready.
We did this, and, when everything else was ready, the tea was ready, too. Then we sat down to have supper.
Finally, we were ready and Harris said, ‘We need a good breakfast inside us today.’

real

rɪəl

настоящий; подлинный, реальный

We could hear the happy sounds of our knives and our laughing voices. We hurried to make it real.
He was very amused and we all laughed about it. And then he told us the real story of the fish.
But the fish was lying on the floor – in a thousand pieces! It was not a real fish.

realize

ˈrɪəlaɪz

осознать; понять

It is a most extraordinary thing, but every time I read about an illness, I realize that I have it too – and that my symptoms are very bad!
None of us had realized that it would be so difficult to fix the cover.
One evening his watch stopped at a quarter past eight. He did not realize this then.

really

ˈrɪəli

действительно; на самом деле

We really wanted that supper. We needed that supper. And for thirty-five minutes nobody on the boat spoke.
George said it would be a good idea to have a really excellent supper.
We really did enjoy that supper. For ten days we had lived on cold meat and bread, and not much else. 

reason

ˈri:zən

причина; повод

For some reason everybody stared at us, and this made us very happy.

red

red

красный; пунцовый; рыжий

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.
Harris said it would be all right. We would not look at the man with red hair and ugly boots.
And then, to our horror, we saw Harris’s head – and only his head – in the grass. The face was very red and very angry.

refuse

rɪˈfju:z

отказать; отказываться

At Hampton Harris wanted to get out and have a look at the church there, but I refused to stop.
At the end of that time we had done four potatoes. We refused to continue.
When we passed the cold meat to Montmorency, he refused our offer.

remember

rɪˈmembə

помнить; вспоминать

That’s Harris – he tells everybody what to do, and they do all the work, I remember that my Uncle Podger was like Harris…
We passed Shiplake at a quarter to twelve, and then George said, quite slowly, ‘You don’t remember which island it was, do you?’
I remember that George and I nearly had an accident in a lock once…

remind

rɪˈmaɪnd

напомнить

I reminded him about George. I said, ‘We’ve got to get the boat up to Shepperton by five o’clock to meet him.’
I reminded him that we had water in the boat.

repeat

rɪˈpi:t

повторить

‘What time is it, please?’ he asked the policeman. ‘What’s the time?’ the policeman repeated. ‘Well, listen.’
‘I’m very sorry, sir,’ the man repeated. ‘We haven’t got any beds. We’ve already got three men in one bed.’

reply

rɪˈplaɪ

отвечать; ответ

Our only reply was to give him the rope.
Nobody spoke for a moment. Then George’s father said, ‘Joe!’ ‘What’s the matter, Tom?’ Joe replied, from the other end of the bed.
We tried the fourth island, but there was still no reply.

report

rɪˈpɔ:t

метео сводка; отчет

While we were eating, George got the newspaper and read us interesting pieces from it – pieces about people who had been killed on the river, and interesting reports about the weather.
The weather report for that day said, ‘Rain, cold, wet to fine, some thunder, and an east wind.’
On that holiday, the weather reports in the newspaper were always wrong.

rest

rest

остальное; остаток; отдых; отдыхать; привал; покой

‘We need a rest,’ Harris said. ‘A rest and a change,’ George added.
Perhaps George and I had better do the rest of the packing.
Harris and I finished the rest of the breakfast.
‘Well, then,’ he said, ‘there’s the Travellers’ Rest just beyond it. Have you tried that?’

restaurant

ˈrestrɒnt

ресторан

‘With supper afterwards at that little French restaurant,’ I added.
We reached Paddington station at seven o’clock, and we drove straight to the restaurant.
Afterwards we went back to the restaurant, where supper was waiting for us.

result

rɪˈzʌlt

результат

So we went to the second island, and we tried there. The result was the same.

return

rɪˈtɜ:n

возвращаться; обратный

He bought a return ticket, but, when he got to Liverpool, he sold it and he came back by train…
Half an hour later they returned – with eighteen more swans.

rich

rɪtʃ

роскошный; обильный; жирный

He is not used to such rich food.

right

raɪt

верный; правильный; прав; правый

We began to think that we were right and that someone had moved the lock.
After some time, we found the river, and that made us happy. We knew that we were going the right way.
But I think we were right to give up and come back. Here’s to Three Men well out of a Boat!’

rise (rose, risen)

raɪz (rəʊz, ˈrɪzn̩)

взвиваться, усилиться, возвышаться, возникать, подниматься; прибывать

At first, we did not know what had happened. But then, from the words which rose on the evening air, we understood that we were near people.
The water was rising, and our boat was beginning to turn over. Quickly, we pushed hard against the side of the lock, to move the boat.

river

ˈrɪvə

река

There were no other people on the river, except for three old men.
We travelled along the river without any accidents.
We had come to enjoy ourselves for a fortnight on the river, and we were going to finish the trip.

river bank

ˈrɪvə bæŋk

речной берег

You find a place on the river bank which is not as wet as other places.
So the boat runs aground in shallow water near the river bank.
We were on an island, so when we came back we would shout from the river bank.

riverside

ˈrɪvəsaɪd

прибрежный

At the end of George’s story, Harris asked, ‘What was the name of the hotel?’ ‘The Riverside,’ George replied. ‘Why?’

road

rəʊd

дорога

Then they stood on the opposite side of the road, and they watched the house.
Then we went back along the road. Suddenly Harris sat down on the basket. He said he was not going to move.
As we were coming back from the river, a cat ran out from one of the house, and it began to walk across the road.

room

ru:m

комната; номер

Anyway, they were going to sleep in the same room, but in different beds.
She said she had a friend who had some rooms. She added that she would take us there.
‘No, I don’t,’ the boy answered, but he added that his mother would give us a room.

rope

rəʊp

веревка; трос; канат

At the same time, he was trying to steer the boat, and he pulled the wrong rope.
Of course, they probably had a boat on the end of the rope when they started out.
They usually begin by tying themselves up in the rope.

rose

rəʊz

роза

We passed a very pretty little hotel, but there were no roses round the door.
Anyway, I said, ‘Oh, we don’t want to go there. Let’s look for a little hotel with roses round the door.’
We said, ‘Oh, we’ve been there, and we didn’t like it. There were no roses round the door.’

round

ˈraʊnd

вокруг; около; кругом

Uncle Podger tried again. Everybody stood round him. They were all ready to help.
We said, ‘Oh, we’ve been there, and we didn’t like it. There were no roses round the door.’
Then the three of us sat round that tin on the grass, and we looked at it.

round and round

raʊnd ənd raʊnd

кругом; снова и снова

And you follow each other round and round, and you shout at each other – until the tent falls down. And there you are!

row

raʊ

грести

We agreed that we would row, and not tow, the boat.
I said that he and George should row, so that I could rest a little.
Finally, we decided that Harris and George would row until we got past Reading, and then I would tow the boat from there.

ruler

ˈru:lə

линейка

And bring me a ruler, Tom. And Jim, I need a ladder – and a kitchen chair, too.

run (ran, run)

rʌn (ræn, rʌn)

бежать

Two of them hold the rope, and the other one runs here and there and laughs all the time.
Then he caught hold of his coat, his hat and his umbrella, and ran to the front door. It was locked!
Montmorency ran at that cat as fast as he could, but the cat did not hurry.

run (ran, run) out

rʌn (ræn, rʌn) aʊt

выбегать

The lock-keeper ran out because he thought someone had fallen in the water.
George said that Mrs G. was a lazy old woman. Then he unlocked the door and ran out into the street.
As we were coming back from the river, a cat ran out from one of the house, and it began to walk across the road.

run (ran; run) after

rʌn (ræn; rʌn) ˈɑ:ftə

бежать за

Montmorency saw the cat, gave a shout of real happiness, and ran after it.

run (ran; run) aground

rʌn (ræn; rʌn) əˈɡraʊnd

сесть на мель

So the boat runs aground in shallow water near the river bank. You jump up, and you push the boat off into deep water.

run (ran; run) away

rʌn (ræn; rʌn) əˈweɪ

сбежать, убежать

He sat down on things just when George and Harris were going to pack them; he put his leg into the sugar; he ran away with the teaspoons.

running

ˈrʌnɪŋ

бег, бежание

Next, they get it round their necks. When they finally get it right, they always start by running. They pull the boat much too fast.

sad

sæd

грустный; печальный

George said, ‘I’ve never seen anyone look as sad as those two young people then!’
Harris looked very sad. In fact, he looked like a man who had had a lot of trouble.
Ten days later, the poor man died, in great pain. George said he was quite a young man, so it was very sad.

sadly

ˈsædli

грустно; печально

We smiled sadly at each other, and then we said that perhaps we should try to eat something.
‘There,’ he said sadly. ‘Now the nail’s gone.’
Sadly, we looked again at the place where Harris and the food had been.

sail

seɪl

плыть; идти под парусом

It was very beautiful, and we felt that we were sailing into some strange land.
We did not sail into some strange land.

Saturday

ˈsætədeɪ

Суббота

On Saturday you are able to drink something.
On Saturday they wake him up and put him out onto the street at two o’clock.
It was one Saturday in August. There was George, and Harris, and me.

save

seɪv

спасать

It was George’s hat that saved his life that day. He keeps that hat now.
And then George fell, and he caught hold of the glass case to save himself.

say (said, said)

ˈseɪ (ˈsed, ˈsed)

сказать; говорить

My man’s thrown me out, too… I say, this isn’t a very good hotel, is it?
George said that, since then, he had never got up too early again…
‘Who told you that I caught that fish?’ he asked. We said that nobody had told us.

say (said; said) hello

ˈseɪ (ˈsed; ˈsed) həˈləʊ

поздороваться

When I meet a cat, I say hello to it. Then I bend down and I stroke it gently, behind the ears and along the side of its head.

say (said; said) nothing

ˈseɪ (ˈsed; ˈsed) ˈnʌθɪŋ

молчать; ничего не сказать

The expression on Montmorency’s face told us that he knew something, but he said nothing.

school

sku:l

школа

It was a lovely, sunny afternoon, and instead of going to school, he went fishing. That was when he caught the fish.

scissors

ˈsɪzəz

ножницы

George tried with some scissors.
The scissors flew up, and nearly hit him in the eye.

scream

skri:m

вопить; кричать

‘I tell you, you’re wrong!’ you scream, and you wish you could get to him to hit him.
We had to scream and yell to wake him up again.

sea

si:

море; морской

‘No,’ Harris said. ‘If you want a rest and a change, then the sea is best.’
I remember that a friend of mine once took a short sea trip from London to Liverpool for his health.
So I was against the sea trip – not for myself, you understand. I am never seasick.

seasick

ˈsi:sɪk

страдающий морской болезнью

So I was against the sea trip – not for myself, you understand. I am never seasick.
Harris said he was never seasick.
It is very strange, but, when you are on land, you never meet anybody who has ever been seasick!

seat

si:t

сиденье

He climbed onto the seat and he bent down to get the bottle out of the basket.
We had knocked those three old men from their seats, and they were all lying on the bottom of their boat.
The boats that you can hire on the Thames above Marlow are all right: they do not let too much water in, and they have seats and things.

second

ˈsekənd

второй; секунда

The basket was behind us, and George and I both turned to get a spoon. It took about five seconds.
On the second evening, George and I and Montmorency (I do not know where Harris was) went for a walk to Wallingford.

see (saw; seen)

ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n)

видеть; осмотреть; узнавать

I could not turn round to see whose nose it was, but I had a quick look at George’s nose.
And then, to our horror, we saw Harris’s head – and only his head – in the grass. The face was very red and very angry.
Have you ever seen George work?’ he added, and he turned to me. I agreed with Harris that I had never seen George work.

see (saw; seen) out

ˈsi: (ˈsɔ:, ˈsi:n) aʊt

видеть что-либо снаружи

Before lunch, he put the cover on the boat, and it stayed there all afternoon. We just left a little hole, so that we could see out.

seem

si:m

казаться; выглядеть; думаться

They did not seem to care that there was no boat.
There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth. It seemed to be laughing at us, and this make us very angry.
We asked Harris what he had done with it, but he did not seem to understand.

sell (sold, sold)

sel (səʊld, səʊld)

продавать

Someone was taking a photograph of us all, and the photographer was hoping to sell the picture to the people in the lock.
He bought a return ticket, but, when he got to Liverpool, he sold it and he came back by train…

send (sent, sent)

send (sent, sent)

отправить, привести в какое-либо состояние, посылать

The peaceful sound of the water against the boat sends us to sleep – and we dream. We dream that the world is young again…
From there we went to number 27. Number 27 was full. They sent us to number 32, and number 32 was full.

send (sent, sent) away

send (sent, sent) əˈweɪ

отослать

The lady at the desk said she had already sent away fourteen people.

send (sent, sent) out

send (sent, sent) ˈaʊt

отправлять

He sent one of the girls out to buy some nails, and then he sent one of the boys to tell her how big the nails ought to be.

send (sent; sent) back

send (sent; sent) ˈbæk

отправлять обратно

They take all your money, and then, when you write out a cheque, they send it back! They say you’ve spent all your money!

separate

ˈseprət

различный

They thought they were getting into separate beds.

serious

ˈsɪərɪəs

серьезный

They were also quite serious, because they were watching their fishing-lines very carefully.
George thought it was much more serious, and he put up the umbrella.
Harris said it would be very serious if one of us became ill because we were a long way from a doctor.

seven

ˈsevn̩

семь

‘Where’s the hammer? What did I do with the hammer? There are seven of you there, and you don’t know where the hammer is!’
There were only three beds in the house, and there were seven men there already.

several

ˈsevrəl

несколько

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.

shake (shook, shaken)

ʃeɪk (ʃʊk, ˈʃeɪkən)

трясти; перетрясти

We put everything out on the grass by the river, and we shook everything.

shallow water

ˈʃæləʊ ˈwɔ:tə

отмель; мелкая вода; мелководье

So the boat runs aground in shallow water near the river bank.

shape

ʃeɪp

форма; вид

We hit it with the wood until it was every shape there is - but we could not make a hole in it.
Then George tried, and he knocked it into a shape which was strange, and terrible, and ugly.

sharp

ʃɑ:p

острый

I tried to make a hole in the tin with the sharp end of a piece of metal.
Harris went into a field and got a big, sharp stone.
George held the tin, and Harris put the sharp end of his stone against the top of it.

sharply

ˈʃɑ:pli

резко

The boat turned sharply and bumped into the bank of the river, and Harris fell into the basket.

shelf

ʃelf

полка

I took the book off the library shelf, and I began to read.

shine (shone; shone)

ʃaɪn (ʃɒn; ʃɒn)

светить; сиять

The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts.
At twelve o’clock the room was too hot, and the sun was still shining.
When the sun is shining, the river turns everything into a golden dream.

ship

ʃɪp

корабль; лодка

You walk up and down on the ship, like Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake of Christopher Columbus.
And on Monday morning, as you stand and wait to get off the ship – you begin to enjoy yourself.

shirt

ʃɜ:t

рубашка

I wanted to put on my shirt as quickly as possible.
Because I was laughing so much, I dropped the shirt in the water again.
So I cleaned the pan with some wood and grass – and George’s wet shirt.

shoe

ʃu:

туфля; полуботинок

After George got the butter off his shoe, they tried to put it in the teapot.
Harris hit him with a shoe, and I shouted in his ear.
The next time I woke up Harris said he could not find his shoes.

shop

ʃɒp

магазин

He also noticed that the shops were not open. It was a very dark and foggy morning.
Someone said, ‘Why don’t you try the little shop next to the Black Horse?’
So we went back along the road, but there were no beds at the little shop. However, there was an old lady in the shop.

shopping

ˈʃɑ:pɪŋ

посещение магазинов с целью покупки

After this we did our shopping, went back to the boat, and moved off along the river again.

short

ʃɔ:t

краткий, короткий

I remember that a friend of mine once took a short sea trip from London to Liverpool for his health.
There was a short fight, and then there were two heavy bangs on the floor.
And that was where we spent the night – in two very short beds.

shout

ʃaʊt

крик, возглас, вопль, кричать, выкрикнуть

Montmorency saw the cat, gave a shout of real happiness, and ran after it.
She would hear the noise and think that he was a burglar. Then she would open the window and shout, ‘Help! Police!’
We were on an island, so when we came back we would shout from the river bank.

shout for

ʃaʊt fɔ:

громко звать

Then you both shout for Bill. The ground underneath you moves, and a voice says, ‘Get off my head!’

show (showed; shown)

ˈʃoʊ (ʃoʊd; ˈʃoʊn)

показать

They started by breaking a cup. That was just to show you what they could do and to get you interested.
He showed it to the people, but one man said, ‘A map’s no good when you don’t know where you are.’
He shows it to his friends. Then he tells the story again – and he adds more details to it each time.

sick

sɪk

больной; болезненный

When I left I was a very sick man, close to death…
Then he added, ‘And we can take a bottle of whisky, too – for when we are sick, you know.’
We did not wish to talk about being sick. But later, we were glad we had taken the whisky.

sickness

ˈsɪknəs

болезнь

Sometimes just one blow made the sickness disappear and made me want to start work immediately…

side

saɪd

берег; бок; край; сторона; борт

He stood there on his head, and he held on to the side of the boat.
The other one got in on the other side of the bed.
It was over by the trees, on the opposite side of the river.

silence

ˈsaɪləns

тишина; молчание

The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts. We sit in silence for a time.
We waited in silence for a moment, and then (Oh, how happy we were!) we heard Montmorency bark.

silent

ˈsaɪlənt

тихий; тишина; молчание

The dining-room was dark and silent.
We walked through the dark, silent fields, and we talked quietly to each other.
‘Yes, I’m almost sorry we’ve decided to stay on the boat,’ Harris said. Then we were silent for a time.

silently

ˈsaɪləntli

потихоньку; в тишине

Our little boat moves silently into some quiet little corner on the river.

silver

ˈsɪlvə

серебряный

The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts. We sit in silence for a time.

simple

ˈsɪmpl̩

простой; скромный

There we put up our tent, and we cook and eat our simple supper.

since then

sɪns ðen

с того времени

George said that, since then, he had never got up too early again…

sing (sang, sung)

sɪŋ (sæŋ, sʌŋ)

петь

I did try to sing again, but it was not a success.
Harris and I sang a song about how good it was to be free and to be able to enjoy the sun and the rain.
After this we really needed something to make us feel a bit happier, so George sang to us.

sir

sɜ:

сэр

You walk up and down on the ship, like Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake or Christopher Columbus. On Tuesday you wish that you had not come.
‘I’m very sorry, sir,’ the man repeated. ‘We haven’t got any beds. We’ve already got three men in one bed.’

sit (sat; sat)

sɪt (sæt; sæt)

сидеть

I sat there for a time, cold with horror. Slowly, I began to turn over more pages.
After breakfast I was sitting by the river, and thinking, when George said, ‘Perhaps, when you’ve rested enough, you could help to wash the plates and things.’
When we passed the cold meat to Montmorency, he refused our offer. He went and sat at the other end of the boat, alone.

sit (sat; sat) back

sɪt (sæt; sæt) ˈbæk

откинуться на спинку (кресла)

That was rather strange. George lit his pipe and sat back in the armchair. Harris put his feet on the table and lit a cigarette.
We sat back, we lit our pipes, and we began to talk.
We ate and drank without speaking, and then we sat back and rested. We felt good, and thoughtful, and kind.

sit (sat; sat) down

sɪt (sæt; sæt) daʊn

сесть

And we laughed. Then we sat down by the fire and read our books.
We did this, and, when everything else was ready, the tea was ready, too. Then we sat down to have supper.
Then it turned and sat down in the middle of the road. It looked at Montmorency in a quiet way, and it seemed to say, ‘Yes? You want me?’

sit (sat; sat) up

sɪt (sæt; sæt) ʌp

сесть прямо, выпрямиться

In the end we had to use quite a sharp piece of metal. Harris sat up suddenly then.

sixteen

sɪkˈsti:n

16

‘Yes,’ the old man continued, ‘it was sixteen years ago. I caught him just by the bridge.’

skirt

skɜ:t

юбка; подол

The rain was running from their umbrellas, and the women were holding up their long skirts.

sky

skaɪ

небо

The sun was shining and there were no clouds in the sky.
‘It would be more interesting to go to the Alhambra Theatre in London,’ Harris said, and he looked out at the sky.

sleep (slept, slept)

sli:p (slept, slept)

спать

But we both felt we would die if we tried to sleep for another five minutes.
After that, we went to bed, but I slept very badly.
This man had slept on the river, in a wet boat, like ours, and it had made him very ill.

sleep (slept; slept) out

sli:p (slept; slept) aʊt

спать на открытом воздухе

We therefore decided that we would sleep out in tents on fine nights, and in hotels when it rained.

sleepily

ˈsli:pɪli

сонно

‘How many swans did you say there were?’ George asked. ‘Thirty-two,’ Harris replied, sleepily.

sleepy

ˈsli:pi

сонный

It was coming towards us slowly. We heard Harris’s sleepy voice. He was asking where we were.

slowly

ˈsləʊli

медленно; потихоньку

The old woman walked very slowly, and it took us twenty minutes to get to her friend’s house.
We went through Maidenhead quickly, but, after that, we travelled along more slowly.
We sat in our raincoats under the cover, and we travelled slowly along the river.

small

smɔ:l

маленький; небольшой

There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.

smile

smaɪl

улыбаться

We smiled sadly at each other, and then we said that perhaps we should try to eat something.
You begin to smile a little at the kind people who ask you how you are.
All the girls were smiling prettily, and all the men were trying to look brave and handsome.

smile at

smaɪl æt

улыбаться кому-либо

We looked at the picture on the tin. We thought about the fruit. We imagined the taste of it. We smiled at each other, and Harris got out a spoon.

smiling

ˈsmaɪlɪŋ

улыбающийся

All day people passed our house. They were all going out, happy and smiling. The sun was shining and there were no clouds in the sky.

smoke

sməʊk

курить

We were sitting in my room, and we were smoking and talking about how bad we were – ill, I mean, of course.
He said he was going to have a glass of whisky, smoke his pipe, and then get the boat ready for the night.
There was an old man there. He was smoking a pipe, and we began to talk to him.

soap

səʊp

мыло

When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in the suitcase.
I said I did not care about the soap.

soft

sɒft

мягкий; нежный

They packed soft things at the bottom of the basket, and then put heavy things on top of them.

soldier

ˈsəʊldʒə

солдат

Julius Caesar stayed there with his soldiers. Queen Elizabeth I, she was there too.

somebody else

ˈsʌmbədi els

кто-то другой; кто-то ещё

Somebody else is in trouble, too. You can hear his cries. They are coming from under your bed.

somewhere

ˈsʌmweə

где-то

He would arrest us and take us to a police station, and then we would have somewhere to sleep.

song

sɒŋ

песня

Harris and I sang a song about how good it was to be free and to be able to enjoy the sun and the rain.

soon

su:n

скоро; вскоре

Soon after they had gone in, they met some people.
We had left the boat near a swan’s nest, and, soon after George and I had left, Mrs Swan came back.
‘I know we’ve decided to stay and die on this boat,’ George said, ‘but there is a train which leaves Pangbourne soon after five o’clock.

sorry

ˈsɒri

полный сожаления; сожалеющий

It was all very exciting, and George and I were quite sorry when it finished.
‘Yes, I’m almost sorry we’ve decided to stay on the boat,’ Harris said. Then we were silent for a time.

sound

ˈsaʊnd

звук

The peaceful sound of the water against the boat sends us to sleep – and we dream.
We could hear the happy sounds of our knives and our laughing voices.

soup

su:p

суп

Supper is mostly rainwater – rainwater bread, rainwater soup.

speak (spoke, spoken)

spi:k (spəʊk, ˈspəʊkən)

говорить; разговаривать

We sit in silence for a time. We do not want to speak.
We ate and drank without speaking, and then we sat back and rested.
And for thirty-five minutes nobody on the boat spoke.

special

ˈspeʃl

особый; специальный

There were five pieces of metal and you put these into special holes on the side of the boat.
As they worked, they shouted unkind things about us – not just the usual things, but special things about us, and about our families.

spend (spent, spent)

spend (spent, spent)

проводить; тратить

At Marlow we left the boat near the bridge, and we went to spend the night in a hotel.
They spent the evening there with some other young men.
We stopped for the night, just before Day’s lock, and I cannot say that we spent a happy evening.

splash

splæʃ

плескать

I decided to go down to the edge of the river, and then splash some water over myself.
It was very cold, and I thought I would not splash water over myself, after all.

spoon

spu:n

ложка

We smiled at each other, and Harris got out a spoon.
‘Have you got a spoon?’ Harris asked. ‘I need a spoon.’
The basket was behind us, and George and I both turned to get a spoon.

square

skweə

прямоугольный; квадратный

We beat it until it was long and thin. We beat it until it was square.

stand (stood, stood)

stænd (stʊd, stʊd)

стоять; находиться

Then George stood in front of the fire, and, with great feeling, he showed us how he felt in the night.
Harris stood in the middle of the boat to take the cover from George.
We stood and waited for the important moment when the man would actually take the photograph.

stand (stood, stood) still

stænd (stʊd, stʊd) stɪl

не шевелись; не двигайся

‘Where?’ Harris asked, and he turned round quickly. ‘Stand still!’ George shouted. When they got the butter off Harris, they packed it in the teapot again.

stand (stood, stood) up

stænd (stʊd, stʊd) ʌp

вставать

Harris sat on it, and when he stood up, the butter stuck to his trousers.
They were trying to stand up and they were picking fish off themselves.
‘I hope so,’ George said. He stood up carefully and looked round.

stare

steə

пристально смотреть; уставиться; глазеть

And if you go swimming, they all come and stare at you and get in your way.
For some reason everybody stared at us, and this made us very happy.

start

stɑ:t

начать; начинать; отправляться

Chapter 2 – We start to make plans
We pulled out the maps and we discussed plans. We decided to start on the following Saturday.
Then we started to move up the river again, past Old Windsor, which is very pretty.

start off

stɑ:t ɒf

трогаться; начать двигаться

So they all started off again for the third time. And three minutes later, they were back in the centre again.
When we started off on our long walk back, it was eleven o’clock. It was a dark and miserable night.

start out

stɑ:t aʊt

отправиться в путь

You start out on Monday and you think that you are going to enjoy yourself.
Of course, they probably had a boat on the end of the rope when they started out. But it had disappeared.

station

ˈsteɪʃn̩

станция; вокзал

Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.
We reached Paddington station at seven o’clock, and we drove straight to the restaurant.

stay

steɪ

оставаться, останавливаться

Julius Caesar stayed there with his soldiers. Queen Elizabeth I, she was there too.
Harris replied that we did not want to go there. We did not like the man who was staying there.
‘Yes, I’m almost sorry we’ve decided to stay on the boat,’ Harris said. Then we were silent for a time.

steak

steɪk

стейк; кусок мяса

We sat down at the table, and for half an hour we managed to play with some steak and chips – and with a large cake that Mrs Poppets had made.

steer

stɪə

управлять; вести судно

At the same time, he was trying to steer the boat, and he pulled the wrong rope.
‘Because we can’t steer the boat if you stop.’
Harris said that George and I should row, and he would steer.

step

step

шагнуть; ступить

And then it was George’s turn, and he stepped on the butter.
They stepped on things, and they put things behind them.

stick (stuck, stuck)

stɪk (stʌk, stʌk)

прилипнуть

Harris sat on it, and when he stood up, the butter stuck to his trousers.

still

stɪl

всё ещё; по-прежнему

Harris still believes that George and I planned it.
We tried the fourth island, but there was still no reply.
It was still raining, and it was dark and very wet.

stone

stəʊn

камень

Harris went into a field and got a big, sharp stone.
George held the tin, and Harris put the sharp end of his stone against the top of it.
I do not really blame Montmorency (usually I just hit him, or throw stones at him), because dogs are like that.

stop

stɒp

останавливать; останавливаться; перестать

We stopped under the trees by Kempton Park, and we had lunch.
So he stopped trying to prepare breakfast, and he put on his coat.
And he had more trouble trying to stop them from going up his arms.

stopping

ˈstɒpɪŋ

остановка

The rain came down without stopping. Everything in the boat was wet. Supper was not a success.

story

ˈstɔ:ri

рассказ; история

Sometimes people forget that they are towing a boat, and later, George told us a story about this…
On a winter evening, when men are telling stories about the dangers they have known, George brings out his hat.
He was very amused and we all laughed about it. And then he told us the real story of the fish.

stove

stəʊv

плита

We needed some hot water to make tea, so we put the water on the stove at the front of the boat, and we went to the back.

straight

streɪt

прямо; ровный; прямой

It was not very straight, and everyone was very tired and unhappy.
We went straight into that boat with the three old men in it.
We reached Paddington station at seven o’clock, and we drove straight to the restaurant.

strange

streɪndʒ

странный; неизвестный; чужой

‘Well, that’s very strange, Tom,’ Joe answered, ‘but there’s a man in my bed, too.’
It was very beautiful, and we felt that we were sailing into some strange land.
We did not sail into some strange land. We went straight into that boat with the three old men in it.

strangely

ˈstreɪndʒli

странно

He met policemen who looked at him strangely.

street

stri:t

улица; уличный

On Saturday they wake him up and put him out onto the street at two o’clock.
I had pulled him out of a hundred and fourteen street fights…
George said that Mrs G. was a lazy old woman. Then he unlocked the door and ran out into the street.

stroke

strəʊk

поглаживание рукой

When I meet a cat, I say hello to it. Then I bend down and I stroke it gently, behind the ears and along the side of its head.

strong

strɒŋ

крепкий; сильный

Happily, you have something strong to drink.
I arranged my hair carefully, and I tried to make myself look strong and interesting.
‘It’s only two more days,’ Harris said, ‘and we are young and strong. Perhaps we’ll be all right.’

strongly

ˈstrɒŋli

крепко; сильно

I thought that I was doing too much of the work on this trip. I was beginning to feel strongly about it.

study

ˈstʌdi

изучать; рабочий кабинет

You cannot give me too much work. I like to collect it. My study is full of it.
And I am very careful with my work, too. Why, some of the work in my study has been there for years, and it had not got dirty of anything.
He had studied a map of the maze, and so he knew it was very easy to get out of it again.

stupid

ˈstju:pɪd

глупый; тупой

‘Ah! The stupid fool!’ you hear him say to himself.
‘Oh, don’t be so stupid!’ Harris’s hear said. ‘It’s your fault.
‘Look at your nose, you stupid fool!’ the voice cried again, more loudly this time.

stupid thing

ˈstju:pɪd ˈθɪŋ

тупица

It said, ‘We can’t breathe under here! Why don’t you help us, you great stupid thing!’

stupidly

ˈstju:pɪdli

глупо

On the way back, Montmorency behaved very stupidly.

succeed

səkˈsi:d

достичь цели; суметь сделать; преуспевать

In fact, he had often tried to be ill, but he had not succeeded.

success

səkˈses

успех; удача

We had tried to wash them ourselves, in the river, and George had told us what to do. This was not a success!
Everything in the boat was wet. Supper was not a success.
I did try to sing again, but it was not a success.

such

sʌtʃ

такой

He is not used to such rich food. George and I decided to go for a walk in Henley, but we left Harris in the boat.
He, George, had done all the work. He said that he had never met such lazy people as Harris and me.

suddenly

sʌdn̩li

вдруг; неожиданно

There you dream that a very large animal has suddenly sat down on you.
After a few minutes, they are tired, and so they stop suddenly.
Just when we had lost all hope, I suddenly saw a strange light.

sugar

ˈʃʊɡə

сахар

Montmorency was in all this, of course. He sat down on things just when George and Harris were going to pack them; he put his leg into the sugar; he ran away with the teaspoons.

suitcase

ˈsu:tkeɪs

чемодан; небольшой плоский чемодан

We got a big suitcase for the clothes.
When I had finished, George asked if the soap was in the suitcase.
There was a bit suitcase, a small bag, two baskets, several blankets, some fruit in a brown paper bag, some pans, some umbrellas and four or five coats and raincoats.

summer

ˈsʌmə

лето; летний

We could find a nice, quiet place and we could sit in the warm summer sun.
I remember that some friends and I hires one of these boats one summer

sun

sʌn

солнце

The sun was shining and there were no clouds in the sky.
The sun was going down, and it threw a red light across the water.
When the sun is shining, the river turns everything into a golden dream.

Sunday

ˈsʌndeɪ

Воскресенье

On Sunday you start to walk again, and you eat a little.
On Sundays, when the weather is fine, there are boats everywhere.

sunny

ˈsʌni

солнечный

The next morning, we read that it was going to be sunny and very hot.
But on the morning of our holiday it was bright and sunny, and George could not make us unhappy.
It was a lovely, sunny afternoon, and instead of going to school, he went fishing.

supper

ˈsʌpə

ужин

And then we started to prepare supper.
After supper, we sat and smiled at each other.
‘With supper afterwards at that little French restaurant,’ I added.

sure

ʃʊə

уверенный

We were not quite sure what was the matter with us.
The Cat: Not at all. Are you quite sure you don’t want anything now?

surprised

səˈpraɪzd

удивленный

Meanwhile, your boat goes out into the middle of the river, and it starts to turn round. Then they stand up and are surprised.

swan

swɒn

лебедь

We had left the boat near a swan’s nest, and, soon after George and I had left, Mrs Swan came back.
‘How many swans did you say there were?’ George asked.
We asked Harris about it the next morning, but he said, ‘What swans?’ And he seemed to think that George and I had been dreaming.

swim

swɪm

купание

We would throw off the cover and we would jump into the water, with shouts of happiness. Then we would enjoy a long swim.
The wind felt cold, too. ‘Well, who’s going to go in for a swim first?’ Harris said finally.

swim (swam, swum) away

swɪm (swæm, swʌm) əˈweɪ

уплывать

But, once again, Harris fought bravely, for four hours, and he had killed them all. Then they had all swum away to die.

swim (swam; swum)

swɪm (swæm; swʌm)

плавать

And if you go swimming, they all come and stare at you and get in your way. But you cannot catch them.
On Monday morning, we got up quite early and we went to swim before breakfast.

symptom

ˈsɪmptəm

признак; симптом

It is a most extraordinary thing, but every time I read about an illness, I realize that I have it too – and that my symptoms are very bad!
I knew that it was my heart because I had all the symptoms of a bad heart.
The main symptom was that I did not want to work.

table

ˈteɪbl̩

стол

We moved the table over to the window. Then we put everything in the middle of the floor.
Harris put his feet on the table and lit a cigarette.
I did not say anything, but I got up and went over to the table and watched them.

tail

teɪl

хвост

The cat likes this. It puts its tail up and it pushes itself against my legs.
I have never seen a bigger cat. It had lost half its tail and one of its ears, but it looked calm and happy.
Montmorency, with his tail between his legs, walked behind us.

take (took, taken)

teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən)

брать, взять, брать с собой, занимать (время); отнимать; использовать транспорт, снимать, фотографировать; забрать, выбрать; доставлять; отводить; доставать

George took his watch and ran downstairs. The dining-room was dark and silent.
The old woman walked very slowly, and it took us twenty minutes to get to her friend’s house.
If you are thinking of taking a trip on the river, and you are going to start from Oxford, take your own boat (unless you can take someone else’s without being discovered).
We did not come out well in that photograph because the man took it just as we fell over.
He would arrest us and take us to a police station, and then we would have somewhere to sleep.
She said she had a friend who had some rooms. She added that she would take us there.
It’s easy, you see. You just keep taking the first turning to the right.’

take (took, taken) a photograph

teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən) ə ˈfəʊtəɡrɑ:f

фотографировать

Someone was taking a photograph of us all, and the photographer was hoping to sell the picture to the people in the lock.
We stood and waited for the important moment when the man would actually take the photograph.
We could not turn round because the man was just going to take the photograph.

take (took, taken) away

teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən) əˈweɪ

забирать; убрать; уводить

After some time, Harris and I began to think that Bell Weir lock had disappeared. ‘Perhaps someone has taken it away,’ we said.
The two policemen would come and arrest George, and take him away.
Harris was not hurt too badly. After that, I took the tin away

take (took, taken) care

teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən) keə

заботиться; следить; беречь

And I am very careful with my work, too. Why, some of the work in my study has been there for years, and it had not got dirty of anything. That is because I take care of it.
We had told the boatman a lie. We had asked him to take care of the boat for us until nine o’clock the next morning.
And that was how grateful they were to me, after I had brought them and their old boat all the way up from Kingston; after I had organized everything of them; and after I had taken care of them!

take (took, taken) hold

teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən) həʊld

ухватиться

He took hold of the rope, and he tied it to his own boat.

take (took, taken) off

teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən) ɒf

снимать

And then he took off his coat to begin.
When he went to bed, he took off his watch, and he did not look at it.

take (took; taken) a trip

teɪk (tʊk; ˈteɪkən) ə trɪp

предпринять поездку; проехаться

If you are thinking of taking a trip on the river, and you are going to start from Oxford, take your own boat (unless you can take someone else’s without being discovered).

take (took; taken) eyes off

teɪk (tʊk; ˈteɪkən) aɪz ɒf

отрывать взгляд от; отвести взгляд от

After that, we could not take our eyes off the fish. It really was a fine fish.

take (took; taken) out

teɪk (tʊk; ˈteɪkən) aʊt

вынимать; выносить

Of course, I had to look for it, and, of course, I could not find it. I had to take everything out again. I found George’s toothbrush.
When we got to Datcher, we took out of the boat the basket of food, the two bags, and the coats and things.
First the river carries you to the right, then to the left; then it takes you out into the middle and turns you round three times.

take (took; taken) out of

teɪk (tʊk, ˈteɪkən) aʊt əv

вынимать из

Then we looked for the tin-opener. We took everything out of the big basket. We took everything out of the bags.

take (took; taken) up

teɪk (tʊk; ˈteɪkən) ʌp

перемещать

Harris and I would go down to Kingston in the morning and take the boat up to Chertsey, but George could not leave the City until the afternoon.

talk

ˈtɔ:k

говорить; разговаривать

We were sitting in my room, and we were smoking and talking about how bad we were – ill, I mean, of course.
It is also a good idea to talk very loudly to each other.
When he left, the landlord came in to talk to us. We told him the different stories we had heard about his fish.

taste

teɪst

вкус

We looked at the picture on the tin. We thought about the fruit. We imagined the taste of it.

taxi

ˈtæksi

такси

Harris and I finished the rest of the breakfast. Then we carried all our luggage into the road. We tried to get a taxi.
Usually taxis come along every three minutes. In fact, there are usually too many taxis. However, that morning we waited twenty minutes for a taxi.

taxi-driver

ˈtæksɪˌdraɪvə

водитель такси

One of them was a policeman, one was a man who was taking vegetables to the market, and one was a taxi-driver.

tea

ti:

чай

We need eggs, cold meat, tea, bread and butter, of course.
Then you will soon hear it making a lot of noise, because it wants to be made into tea.
We stopped for tea just before we got to Cookham.

teacher

ˈti:tʃə

учитель

Everyone thought he was very clever. Even his teacher thought he had done well and did not punish him.

teapot

ˈti:pɒt

чайник

After George got the butter off his shoe, they tried to put it in the teapot.
Then, when they did get it in, they decided that the teapot was the wrong place.
When they got the butter off Harris, they packed it in the teapot again.

tears

ˈtɪəz

слезы

When old ladies and gentleman look at him, tears come into their eyes.

teaspoon

ˈti:spu:n

чайная ложка

Then Harris packed a pan on top of a tomato and… well, they had to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon.
He sat down on things just when George and Harris were going to pack them; he put his leg into the sugar; he ran away with the teaspoons.

tell (told, told)

tel (təʊld, təʊld)

рассказать; сказать; говорить

I’ve often heard him tell the story.
Sometimes people forget that they are towing a boat, and later, George told us a story about this…
We had told the boatman a lie.

tell the truth

tel ðə tru:θ

по правде сказать; честно говоря

‘How have you got on?’ ‘Well, to tell the truth, my man’s thrown me out.’

ten

ten

десять

George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o’clock until four o’clock from Monday to Friday.

ten to one

ten tə wʌn

без десяти час

The packing was completed at ten to one in the morning, and we all went to bed. George said, ‘What time shall I wake you two?’

tent

tent

палатка

When it rains, you do not enjoy living in tents.
And you follow each other round and round, and you shout at each other – until the tent falls down.
We can put a cover over the boat at night. It will be like a little house, lovely and warm and comfortable. It’s much easier than a tent.

terrible

ˈterəbl̩

жуткий; страшный; ужасный

I said that this was a terrible idea.
She said that she did not want the children to listen to those terrible words.
Half an hour later they returned – with eighteen more swans. There was another terrible battle.

Thames

ˈtemz

Темза

Harris and I put all our things into it, and we moved off along the River Thames.
And then he called out to another man, ‘Jim, fetch “The Queen of the Thames”.’
‘Well,’ he said, ‘we’ve had a good trip, and I’m very grateful to Old Father Thames.

thank you very much

θæŋk ju ˈveri ˈmʌtʃ

большое спасибо

‘Of course,’ the old man replied. ‘Just take what you want and leave the rest.’ ‘Thank you very much,’ George said, and he looked round. ‘But where is it?’

thanks

θæŋks

спасибо

The Cat: Can I do anything for you? Montmorency: No … no, thanks.
Montmorency (who continues to move back): Not at all … thanks … not at all … very kind of you … Good morning.

the night before

ðə naɪt bɪˈfɔ:

накануне вечером

After that, we pulled up the cover and we put our heads over the side of the boat. We looked down at the water. The night before, we had decided to get up early.

the only one

ði ˈəʊnli wʌn

единственный; один-единственный

But, in the end, Harris agreed that it was a good idea. I thought that it was a good idea, too. The only one who did not like the idea was Montmorency.
Harris told me about the maze as we were passing through Molesey lock. Our boat was the only one in the lock that day.

the other way

ði ˈʌðə ˈweɪ

в другую сторону

Everybody agreed, and they all turned and followed Harris the other way.

the same

ðə seɪm

один и тот же; та же; такой же

Then, five minutes later, he appeared again in the same place. He asked them why they had moved.
Anyway, they were going to sleep in the same room, but in different beds.
The second day was the same as the first. It rained all day.

theatre

ˈθɪətə

театр

‘It would be more interesting to go to the Alhambra Theatre in London,’ Harris said, and he looked out at the sky.
We could be in London in time to get something to eat, and afterwards we could go on to the theatre.
We had a light meal and left Montmorency there. Then we went to the theatre.

therefore

ˈðeəfɔ:

поэтому; следовательно

We therefore decided that we would sleep out in tents on fine nights, and in hotels when it rained.
We had decided to sleep on the boat. Therefore we could stay there, or we could go on past Staines.

thick

θɪk

толстый

I got a long, thick piece of wood. George held the tin, and Harris put the sharp end of his stone against the top of it.
We could see ourselves – we were sitting down to supper there; we were passing cold meat and thick pieces of bread to each other.

thief (thieves)

θi:f (θi:vz)

вор (воры)

So it must be thieves, or murders, or fire.

thin

θɪn

тонкий

After that, I took the tin away. I beat it until I was exhausted and miserable. Then Harris took it. We beat it until it was long and thin. We beat it until it was square.

thing

ˈθɪŋ

вещь

It is a most extraordinary thing, but every time I read about an illness, I realize that I have it too – and that my symptoms are very bad!
But the most exciting thing of all is to let girls tow your boat. Let me tell you about it…
We took out all the bits of things that were left, and we put them in, too. In fact, we put in everything we could find.

think (thought; thought)

ˈθɪŋkθɔ:t; ˈθɔ:t)

думать; полагать; подумать

Harris said that he thought that would be awful. He added that he had been to a place like that once.
We began to think that we were right and that someone had moved the lock.
‘The tent has blown down, I think,’ he says. ‘Where’s Bill?’

third

ˈθɜ:d

третий

Meanwhile, the third man has been trying to get the water out of the boat.
So they all started off again for the third time. And three minutes later, they were back in the centre again.
Five minutes later a third man came in and described how he had caught the fish, early one morning.

thirst

θɜ:st

жажда

What good is the river? We’ll all die of thirst! No pubs!

thirty-five

ˈθɜ:ti faɪv

35

We really wanted that supper. We needed that supper. And for thirty-five minutes nobody on the boat spoke.

thirty-two

ˈθɜ:ti tu:

32

‘How many swans did you say there were?’ George asked. ‘Thirty-two,’ Harris replied, sleepily.

this time

ðɪs ˈtaɪm

в этот раз

Anyway, this time it was George who towed us on to Penton Hook.

though

ðəʊ

тем не менее; однако; все же

On our present trip, though, nothing exciting happened.
We did not stay long, though, because the river is dirty there.
‘Ah,’ we said, as we watched them, ‘they’ll be very wet when they come back, though.’

thought

ˈθɔ:t

мысль

The silver moon shines down on us and our heads are full of beautiful thoughts.

thoughtful

ˈθɔ:tfəl

задумчивый

I remember that Montmorency watched all this, and he looked very thoughtful.
We felt good, and thoughtful, and kind.

thousand

ˈθaʊzn̩d

тысяча; множество

No help comes, and all you know is that thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot breathe.
But the fish was lying on the floor – in a thousand pieces!

thousands

ˈθaʊzn̩dz

множество, тысячи

No help comes, and all you know is that thousands of people are kicking you, and you cannot breathe.

three

θri:

три

Usually taxis come along every three minutes.
He had to go to work, so why should other people stay in bed? George could see only three people.
But I think we were right to give up and come back. Here’s to Three Men well out of a Boat!’

through

θru:

через; сквозь

We began to think that we were right and that someone had moved the lock. But, finally, at half past seven, we reached it and got through it.
We went through Maidenhead quickly, but, after that, we travelled along more slowly.
We walked through the dark, silent fields, and we talked quietly to each other.

throw (threw, thrown)

ˈθrəʊ (θru:, ˈθrəʊn)

бросать

The woman with the baby said, ‘No, I took it from the baby, and I threw it there myself.
So Harris ran at it, and picked it up. He threw it, as hard as he could, into the middle of the river.
I do not really blame Montmorency (usually I just hit him, or throw stones at him), because dogs are like that.

throw (threw, thrown) away

ˈθrəʊ (θru:, ˈθrəʊn) əˈweɪ

отбросить; выбросить

It frightened him, and he threw away the piece of wood. Then the three of us sat round that tin on the grass, and we looked at it.

throw (threw, thrown) down

ˈθrəʊ (θru:, ˈθrəʊn) daʊn

бросать; захлопнуть

I threw down the lid of the suitcase, and I closed it again. Then I found my cigarettes were inside it.
‘Good heavens!’ George cried. ‘I have to be at the bank by nine o’clock!’ And he threw down the watch and jumped out of bed.

throw (threw, thrown) off

ˈθrəʊ (θru: , ˈθrəʊn) ɒf

снимать, сбрасывать

We would throw off the cover and we would jump into the water, with shouts of happiness. Then we would enjoy a long swim.

throw (threw, thrown) out

ˈθrəʊ (θru: ˈθrəʊn) ˈaʊt

выгонять, вышвыривать, сбрасывать

‘What are you going to do?’ George’s father asked. ‘Well, I’m going to throw him out,’ Joe replied.
‘Well, to tell the truth, my man’s thrown me out.’
‘My man’s thrown me out, too… I say, this isn’t a very good hotel, is it?’…

thunder

ˈθʌndə

гром

The weather report for that day said, ‘Rain, cold, wet to fine, some thunder, and an east wind.’
On Monday it said, ‘Heavy rain, with thunder.’

Thursday

ˈθɜ:zdeɪ

Четверг

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday you wish that you were dead. On Saturday you are able to drink something.

ticket

ˈtɪkɪt

билет

He bought a return ticket, but, when he got to Liverpool, he sold it and he came back by train…

tie

taɪ

привязывать

You get your side of the tent up and begin to tie the ropes to the ground.
He took hold of the rope, and he tied it to his own boat.
It was quite a pretty place and we tied our boat to a big tree.

tie up

taɪ ʌp

связать; перевязать; привязать

Half an hour later, the finger had been tied up, they had bought new glass, and everything was ready.
When we had tied the boat up by one of the islands, it was still early.
They usually begin by tying themselves up in the rope.

time

ˈtaɪm

время; раз

Then Uncle Podger tried again himself. This time he fell off the chair on to the piano.
Harris who is sometimes a little cruel, said, ‘Ah! And now you’re going to have a bad time on the river for a change.
Just then George heard a clock … one … two … three. ‘But that’s only three times!’ George said, when it had finished. ‘Well, how many times do you want?’ the policeman replied.

tin

ˈtɪn

консервная банка

Then, after that, George brought out a tin of fruit.
Then Harris tried to open the tin with a little knife, and he cut himself badly.
There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth.

tinned fruit

ˈtɪnd fru:t

консервированные фрукты

Then, after that, George brought out a tin of fruit. We love tinned fruit, all three of us.

tin-opener

ˈtɪn əʊpənə

консервный нож

Then we looked for the tin-opener.
We took everything out of the big basket. We took everything out of the bags. There was no tin-opener.
We pulled up the boards at the bottom of the boat. We put everything out on the grass by the river, and we shook everything. There was no tin-opener!

tired

ˈtaɪəd

уставший; пресытившийся

It’s better to let Harris go on shouting when he gets angry. Then he gets tired, and he is quiet afterwards.)
There was George, and Harris, and me. We were tired and hungry.
We were all tired of cold meat, and we talked about our favourite foods.

tiredness

ˈtaɪədnəs

усталость

Harris seemed very strange. It was more than tiredness. He brought the boat to our side of the river. He stopped, at a place where we could not get into the boat, and then immediately he fell asleep.

to the left

tə ðə left

налево

First the river carries you to the right, then to the left; then it takes you out into the middle and turns you round three times.

to the right

tə ðə raɪt

направо

It’s easy, you see. You just keep taking the first turning to the right.
Harris continued to turn to the right, but it seemed to be a long way.
First the river carries you to the right, then to the left; then it takes you out into the middle and turns you round three times.

today

təˈdeɪ

сегодня

Finally, we were ready and Harris said, ‘We need a good breakfast inside us today.’
They always tell you what the weather was like yesterday, or the day before. It is never today’s weather.
He told us that it had been a fine day today, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday.

together

təˈɡeðə

вместе

The next day, which was Friday, we collected all these things together. In the evening we met to pack.

tomato

təˈmɑ:təʊ

помидор; томат

And for dinner we can take cold chicken legs, tomatoes, cold meat, fruit, cakes, chocolate…
I only waited. I looked at all the plates and cups, and bottles, and tomatoes, and cakes, etc.
Then Harris packed a pan on top of a tomato and… well, they had to pick out the tomato with a teaspoon.

tomorrow

təˈmɒrəʊ

завтра

Then we all told each other that we thought it would be a fine day tomorrow.

too many

tu: ˈmeni

слишком много

Usually taxis come along every three minutes. In fact, there are usually too many taxis. However, that morning we waited twenty minutes for a taxi.

tooth (teeth)

tu:θ (ti:θ)

зуб (зубы)

The potatoes were a bit hard, but we had good teeth, so it did not really matter.

toothbrush

ˈtu:θbrʌʃ

зубная щетка

Had I packed my toothbrush?
I found George’s toothbrush. I found Harris’s toothbrush, but I could not find mine.
Then we began to get ready, and we remembered that we had packed the toothbrushes.

top

tɒp

верхушка; верх

I got a long, thick piece of wood. George held the tin, and Harris put the sharp end of his stone against the top of it.
There was one big line across the top of the tin that looked like a mouth.

tow

təʊ

тащить; тянуть; буксировать

Why has he left us with this big, heavy boat to tow up and down the river?
Sometimes people forget that they are towing a boat, and later, George told us a story about this…
Finally, we decided that Harris and George would row until we got past Reading, and then I would tow the boat from there.

towards

təˈwɔ:dz

по направлению к

‘Why? Where are your eyes?’ the man said, and he turned George towards the river.
We continued to shout for about five minutes, and ten we saw the lights of the boat. It was coming towards us slowly.
Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

town

taʊn

город

Montmorency’s idea of a good time is to collect together all the most awful dogs he can find and then go round the town, looking for other awful dogs to fight.
Henley was very busy, and we met quite a lot of people we knew in town. The time passed very quickly.
However, at Oxford we had two good days. There are a lot of dogs in the town.

train

treɪn

поезд

He bought a return ticket, but, when he got to Liverpool, he sold it and he came back by train
‘I know we’ve decided to stay and die on this boat,’ George said, ‘but there is a train which leaves Pangbourne soon after five o’clock.

travel

ˈtrævl̩

путешествовать; двигаться

He likes to travel early in the morning or late at night, when there are not many people about to look at him.
When he was young, George’s father was travelling with a friend.
We sat in our raincoats under the cover, and we travelled slowly along the river.

traveller

ˈtrævlə

путешественник; путник

‘Well, then,’ he said, ‘there’s the Travellers’ Rest just beyond it. Have you tried that?’

tree

tri:

дерево

I don’t like looking at the trees and the flowers, and when I’m asleep you’ll play about with the boat and I’ll fall over the side!
So I went out on to the river bank, and I began to move carefully along the branch of a tree which was over the water.
It was over by the trees, on the opposite side of the river. I shouted as loudly as I could.

trip

trɪp

путешествие; поездка

A sea trip is fine if you are going for a month of two – but not for a week.
He said, ‘I’ve looked forward to visiting Hampton Church ever since we decided to make this trip.’
However, we all agreed that we should continue our trip.

trouble

ˈtrʌbl̩

проблема

Harris replied, ‘Well, you never have any trouble sleeping, anyway. In fact, you’re always going to sleep!’
Harris had some trouble when he tried to break the eggs. He had trouble stopping them from getting onto his trousers.
Harris looked very sad. In fact, he looked like a man who had had a lot of trouble.

trousers

ˈtraʊzəz

брюки

Then he went back into the boat to look for his trousers.
Twice he made George and me get up, because he wanted to see if we were lying on his trousers.
I did not see the photographer at first, but suddenly George started to brush his trousers, and he fixed his hair and put on his hat.

true

tru:

настоящий; подлинный; правдивый; верный

At first, you think that the world had ended. Then you think that this cannot be true. So it must be thieves, or murderers, or fire.
We discovered later that this was not true. Next we talked about the food.

truth

tru:θ

правда

I had to tell the truth and agree with George. Harris had done very little work in the boat.

try (tried)

traɪ (traɪd)

пытаться; стараться; пробовать

Someone said, ‘Why don’t you try the little shop next to the Black Horse?’
All the girls were smiling prettily, and all the men were trying to look brave and handsome.
Then Harris tried to open the tin with a little knife, and he cut himself badly. George tried with some scissors.

Tuesday

ˈtju:zdi

вторник

You walk up and down on the ship, like Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake or Christopher Columbus. On Tuesday you wish that you had not come.

turn

tɜ:n

очередь; поворачивать; превращать; изменять

And then it was George’s turn, and he stepped on the butter.
Then George turned to the man and said, ‘Excuse me, I hope you don’t mind, but my friend and I, who are only on holiday here, would like to ask you a question. Could you tell us how you caught that fish?’
When the sun is shining, the river turns everything into a golden dream.

turn over

tɜ:n ˈəʊvə

опрокидываться; переворачиваться; перелистывать

After some time, I turned over the page and I began to read about another illness.
Slowly, I began to turn over more pages.
The water was rising, and our boat was beginning to turn over.

turn round

tɜ:n ˈraʊnd

обернуться, повернуться на 180 градусов, поворачиваться кругом

Meanwhile, your boat goes out into the middle of the river, and it starts to turn round.
I could not turn round to see whose nose it was, but I had a quick look at George’s nose.
First the river carries you to the right, then to the left; then it takes you out into the middle and turns you round three times.

turning

ˈtɜ:nɪŋ

поворот

You just keep taking the first turning to the right.

twelve

twelv

12

But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for…
At twelve o’clock the room was too hot, and the sun was still shining.
‘No, I didn’t,’ Harris answered. ‘I said twelve. Do you think I can’t count?’

twenty

ˈtwenti

двадцать

However, that morning we waited twenty minutes for a taxi.
It is about twenty minutes before they start again. Then, at the next corner, they see a cow.
Twenty minutes later, three figures and an ashamed dog quietly left the nearest boathouse, and went towards the station.

twenty to nine

ˈtwenti tə naɪn

без двадцати девять; 8:40

He had a cold bath and he dressed. Then he ran and looked at his watch. It had started to go again, and it was twenty to nine.

twenty-five

ˈtwenti faɪv

25

We worked very hard for twenty-five minutes. At the end of that time we had done four potatoes. We refused to continue.

twice

twaɪs

дважды

Twice he made George and me get up, because he wanted to see if we were lying on his trousers.

two more

tu: mɔ:

ещё два

‘It’s only two more days,’ Harris said, ‘and we are young and strong. Perhaps we’ll be all right.’

ugly

ˈʌɡli

уродливый; безобразный

Harris said that he did not look like a nice man, and he was wearing ugly boots.
We would not look at the man with red hair and ugly boots.
Then George tried, and he knocked it into a shape which was strange, and terrible, and ugly.

umbrella

ʌmˈbrelə

зонтик

Then he caught hold of his coat, his hat and his umbrella, and ran to the front door.
‘Wherever can that umbrella be?’ he was saying.
The rain was running from their umbrellas, and the women were holding up their long skirts.

uncle

ˈʌŋkl̩

дядя

That’s Harris – he tells everybody what to do, and they do all the work, I remember that my Uncle Podger was like Harris…
The music was beautiful, but Uncle Podger’s words were not!

under

ˈʌndər

под

We stopped under the trees by Kempton Park, and we had lunch.
The person who hired one of these boats is the kind of person who likes to stay under the trees.

underneath

ˌʌndəˈni:θ

под; внизу

The ground underneath you moves, and a voice says, ‘Get off my head!’

understand (understood, understood)

ˌʌndəˈstænd (ˌʌndəˈstʊd, ˌʌndəˈstʊd)

понимать

You wake up and you understand that something terrible has happened.
Suddenly they understood that they had been towing the wrong boat.
Then I saw the photographer and at once I understood.

undress

ʌnˈdres

раздеваться

So they had to undress and get into bed in the dark.
Well … we undressed and we lay down in the boat.

unhappy

ʌnˈhæpi

несчастный

I started with the letter ‘a’ and I read from ‘a’ to ‘z’. I found that there was only one disease which I did not have. This made me a little unhappy.
But on the morning of our holiday it was bright and sunny, and George could not make us unhappy.
He added that he was very unhappy to hear men of their age use those bad words.

unkind

ʌnˈkaɪnd

злой; неприязненный

As they worked, they shouted unkind things about us – not just the usual things, but special things about us, and about our families.

unless

ənˈles

за исключением

If you are thinking of taking a trip on the river, and you are going to start from Oxford, take your own boat (unless you can take someone else’s without being discovered).

unlock

ʌnˈlɒk

отпирать; открывать

It was locked! George said that Mrs G. was a lazy old woman. Then he unlocked the door and ran out into the street.

untie

ʌnˈtaɪ

развязать; распутать

They usually begin by tying themselves up in the rope. They get it round their legs, and then they have to sit down to untie it.

until

ʌnˈtɪl

до; пока; до тех пор пока

Now we won’t be on the water until after twelve o’clock.
We beat it until it was long and thin. We beat it until it was square. We hit it with the wood until it was every shape there is - but we could not make a hole in it.

up and down

ʌp ənd daʊn

вверх и вниз

‘Why does George have to play around all day? Why has he left us with this big, heavy boat to tow up and down the river?

up to

ʌp tu:

до; вплоть до

And that young man and young woman towed George and his friends up to Mariow.

use

ˈju:z

использовать

He added that he was very unhappy to hear men of their age use those bad words.
He said we could use all kinds of things, and all the bits of food we had left.
We got in the way of a lot of other boats; a lot of other boats got in our way – and a lot of bad words were used.

used

ˈju:sd

использованный

We got in the way of a lot of other boats; a lot of other boats got in our way – and a lot of bad words were used.

used to

ˈju:st tu:

привыкший к; что-то часто делать раньше

‘Why, you lazy boy, you,’ they used to say. ‘Get up and do some work for once in your life!’ They did not understand that I was ill.
He is not used to such rich food. George and I decided to go for a walk in Henley, but we left Harris in the boat.

usual

ˈju:ʒʊəl

обычный

As they worked, they shouted unkind things about us – not just the usual things, but special things about us, and about our families.
The woman who washed them at Streatley made us pay three times the usual price.

usually

ˈju:ʒəli

обычно

Usually taxis come along every three minutes. In fact, there are usually too many taxis.
It was a bit windy, and some had made a mistake because the wind was behind us. That does not usually happen.
I do not really blame Montmorency (usually I just hit him, or throw stones at him), because dogs are like that.

vegetables

ˈvedʒɪtəbl̩z

овощи

One of them was a policeman, one was a man who was taking vegetables to the market, and one was a taxi-driver.
We also put in some carrots and other vegetables.

village

ˈvɪlɪdʒ

деревня; поселение

We left our boat at the bridge, and we went into the village.
We passed Wallingford and Dorchester, and we spent the night at Clifton Hampden, which is a very pretty little village.
After that we could walk about the village in the rain, or we could sit in a dark little pub.

violent

ˈvaɪələnt

сильный; яростный

And then, suddenly, he gives a violent pull – and your side comes out, too.

violently

ˈvaɪələntli

резко; бурно

We could see that the cover was moving about quite violently.

visit

ˈvɪzɪt

посещать

I have never liked visiting churches, but Harris loves them.
He said, ‘I’ve looked forward to visiting Hampton Church ever since we decided to make this trip.’
There is an old church at Shepperton, and I was worried in case Harris wanted to go and visit it.

voice

vɔɪs

голос

The next day you have no voices because you have all caught colds, and all day you argue with each other in angry whispers…
We heard Harris’s sleepy voice.
And then another voice called, ‘Push your nose out! You two, with the dog!’

wait

weɪt

ждать

They had told Montmorency and me to stand and wait.
If the water knows that you are waiting for it, it will never get hot.
We stood and waited for the important moment when the man would actually take the photograph.

wake (woke, waken)

weɪk (wəʊk, ˈweɪkən)

будить

The packing was completed at ten to one in the morning, and we all went to bed. George said, ‘What time shall I wake you two?’
‘What?’ I cried, and I jumped out of bed. I woke Harris and told him.
We decided to wake George. We ran across the room, and we pulled the bedclothes off him.

wake (woke, waken) up

weɪk (wəʊk, ˈweɪkən) ʌp

будить; проснуться

On Saturday they wake him up and put him out onto the street at two o’clock.
Harris hit him with a shoe, and I shouted in his ear. He woke up.
The next time I woke up Harris said he could not find his shoes.

walk

wɔ:k

идти пешком, ходить, прогулка

Everyone went to bed at eight o’clock, and he had to walk for an hour to buy cigarettes and a newspaper.
When we started off on our long walk back, it was eleven o’clock. It was a dark and miserable night.
When he woke up the next morning, he was in great pain, and he was never able to walk again.

walk around

wɔ:k əˈraʊnd

бродить

Harris said to his friend, ‘We’ll just go in and walk around for ten minutes, and then we’ll come out and get some lunch.

walk away

wɔ:k əˈweɪ

уходить

I remember that Montmorency watched all this, and he looked very thoughtful. Then he walked away.

walk into

wɔ:k ˈɪntə

входить

When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man. When I left I was a very sick man, close to death…

walk on

wɔ:k ɒn

продолжать идти

It did not seem to understand that its life was in danger. It walked on quietly until the enemy was near it.

walk up and down

wɔ:k ʌp ənd daʊn

ходить взад и вперед; ходить туда и сюда

You walk up and down on the ship, like Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake or Christopher Columbus. On Tuesday you wish that you had not come.

wall

wɔ:l

стена

We found the hammer for him, but then he lost the place on the wall where he was going to put the picture.
She added calmly, ‘The next time that you are going to put a picture on the wall, please tell me. Then I can arrange to go and spend a week with my mother.’
We noticed a glass case on the wall. In it there was a very big fish.

want

ˈwɒnt

хотеть; желать; требоваться; быть нужным; понадобиться

And then they take Mary’s hat for her. Mary does not want it, so they bring it back. Then they want a comb.
‘Oh, good evening,’ George answered. ‘We want three beds, please.’
Then it turned and sat down in the middle of the road. It looked at Montmorency in a quiet way, and it seemed to say, ‘Yes? You want me?’

war

wɔ:

военный

After we had got our water, we went on towards Wargrave, but before we got there, we stopped for lunch.

warm

wɔ:m

теплый

It will be like a little house, lovely and warm and comfortable.
We thought of our nice, warm, comfortable boat.
We imagined that we were inside our warm little boat, tired and a little hungry, with the dark, miserable river outside.

wash

wɒʃ

мыть; стирать

We stayed at Streatley for two days, and we took our clothes to be washed.
We had tried to wash them ourselves, in the river, and George had told us what to do.
After breakfast I was sitting by the river, and thinking, when George said, ‘Perhaps, when you’ve rested enough, you could help to wash the plates and things.’

washed

wɒʃt

постиранный

We stayed at Streatley for two days, and we took our clothes to be washed.

washing

ˈwɒʃɪŋ

стирка

Work, washing, and fishing

watch

wɒtʃ

ручные часы; смотреть; следить; наблюдать

One evening his watch stopped at a quarter past eight.
When George woke up, he looked at his watch.
They were also quite serious, because they were watching their fishing-lines very carefully.

watch

wɒtʃ

наблюдать, следить, смотреть, наручные часы

A crowd of interested people collected to watch us. I think it was because we had so much luggage.
One evening his watch stopped at a quarter past eight. He did not realize this then.
They watched him go in with his key. Then they stood on the opposite side of the road, and they watched the house.

water

ˈwɔ:tə

вода

Sometimes we stop for a moment or two and we listen to the water as it plays gently against the boat.
And for dinner we can take cold chicken legs, tomatoes, cold meat, fruit, cakes, chocolate… We can drink water.
But now that morning had come, it did not seem to be a very good idea. The water looked wet and cold.

wave

weɪv

махать

You wave goodbye happily to your friends.
The crowd of people waved goodbye to us.
Then he dropped everything, and danced about, and waved his hands, and shouted.

wave goodbye

weɪv ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ

махать рукой на прощанье

You start out on Monday and you think that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave goodbye happily to your friends.
The crowd of people waved goodbye to us.

way

ˈweɪ

манера, образ действия; путь; дорога; способ

He went into the maze once, to show a friend the way.
That is the only way to get hot water on the river.
It looked at Montmorency in a quiet way, and it seemed to say, ‘Yes? You want me?’

wear (wore; worn)

weə (wɔ:, wɔ:n)

носить; быть одетым; одевать

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.
Harris said that he did not look like a nice man, and he was wearing ugly boots.
Before we washed them, they were very, very dirty, but we could just wear them.

weather

ˈweðə

погода

It is difficult to put up a tent in good weather. In wet weather it is almost impossible.
But weather reports make me angry anyway. They always tell you what the weather was like yesterday, or the day before. It is never today’s weather.

weather report

ˈweðə rɪˈpɔ:t

метеосводка; прогноз погоды

The weather report for that day said, ‘Rain, cold, wet to fine, some thunder, and an east wind.’ But weather reports make me angry anyway.
On that holiday, the weather reports in the newspaper were always wrong.

Wednesday

ˈwenzdeɪ

Среда

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday you wish that you were dead. On Saturday you are able to drink something.

week

wi:k

неделя

A sea trip is fine if you are going for a month or two – but not for a week. I know what it is like…
Then I can arrange to go and spend a week with my mother.

well (better; best)

wel (ˈbetə; best)

благополучно; хорошо (лучше; самое лучшее)

The hard work on the boat will make us hungry, so we’ll enjoy our food. We’ll sleep well, too.’
I slept well that night, although Harris did wake me up ten times or more.
But I think we were right to give up and come back. Here’s to Three Men well out of a Boat!’

well-behaved

ˌwel bɪˈheɪvd

выдрессированный; хорошо ведущий себя

Montmorency was very pleased about this. He does not like peace and quiet. He prefers noise. But he looks so good, so well-behaved.

wet

wet

влажность; сырость; мокрый

Then I looked at the wet shirt – and I laughed more and more.
And from the middle of the grass the food appeared, and then Harris came out, dirty and wet.
In wet weather it is almost impossible.

wet weather

wet ˈweðə

сырая погода

All the time it is raining heavily. It is difficult to put up a tent in good weather. In wet weather it is almost impossible.

What time is it?

ˈwɒt ˈtaɪm z ɪt

Сколько времени?; Который час?

What time is it, please?’ he asked the policeman.

What time…

ˈwɒt ˈtaɪm

Когда …? В котором часу …?

The packing was completed at ten to one in the morning, and we all went to bed. George said, ‘What time shall I wake you two?’

what’s the matter?

ˈwɒts ðə ˈmætə

что случилось?; в чем дело?

You shout to them, ‘Don’t stop!’ ‘Yes, what’s the matter?’ they shout back.
Nobody spoke for a moment. Then George’s father said, ‘Joe!’ ‘What’s the matter, Tom?’ Joe replied, from the other end of the bed.

whatever

wɒtˈevə

какого черта; за каким чертом

Whatever do you want your trousers for? It’s the middle of the night!’ he cried. ‘Why don’t you lie down and go to sleep?’

whenever

wenˈevə

всякий раз когда

He started to hide in dark corners whenever he saw a policeman.
Whenever he went near the pan, he burnt himself. Then he dropped everything, and danced about, and waved his hands, and shouted.

wherever

ˌweəˈrevə

где

And I can remember that once he pushed me over onto my side. ‘Wherever can that umbrella be?’ he was saying.

which

wɪtʃ

который; каковой

So I went out on to the river bank, and I began to move carefully along the branch of a tree which was over the water.
After supper Harris was rather disagreeable – I think it was the meal which caused this.
‘I know we’ve decided to stay and die on this boat,’ George said, ‘but there is a train which leaves Pangbourne soon after five o’clock.

while

waɪl

пока; в то время как

While we were eating, George got the newspaper and read us interesting pieces from it – pieces about people who had been killed on the river, and interesting reports about the weather.

whisky

ˈwɪski

виски

Then he added, ‘And we can take a bottle of whisky, too – for when we are sick, you know.’
He said he was going to have a glass of whisky, smoke his pipe, and then get the boat ready for the night.
After that we had some whisky, and we sat and talked.

whisper

ˈwɪspə

шепот

The next day you have no voices because you have all caught colds, and all day you argue with each other in angry whispers

white

waɪt

белый

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.

why

ˈwaɪ

да ведь; да (с возражением); ведь

Why, you lazy boy, you,’ they used to say. ‘Get up and do some work for once in your life!’ They did not understand that I was ill.
‘Well, how many times do you want?’ the policeman replied. ‘Why, nine, of course,’ George said, and he held out his watch to the policeman.

wildly

ˈwaɪldli

дико; бесконтрольно

Montmorency started to bark madly, I shouted, and Harris called out wildly.
But just then, the young woman cried wildly, ‘Oh, Henry, then where’s Aunt Mary?’…
We had expressions of ‘Where am I?’ and ‘What’s happened?’ on our faces, and we were waving our feet about wildly.

win (won, won)

wɪn (wʌn, wʌn)

выиграть

We played cards after supper. We played for about an hour and a half, and George won ten pence. Harris and I lost five pence each.

wind

wɪnd

ветер

Half an hour later, it began to rain hard, and a very cold wind blew up.
But that afternoon the wind actually helped us on our way, and the boat moved quite fast.
The weather report for that day said, ‘Rain, cold, wet to fine, some thunder, and an east wind.’

window

ˈwɪndəʊ

окно

We moved the table over to the window. Then we put everything in the middle of the floor.
He left, and another man came in and sat down by the window. Nobody spoke for some time.
Then Harris, who was sitting next to the window, pulled back the curtain and looked out into the street.

windy

ˈwindi

ветрено

It was a bit windy, and some had made a mistake because the wind was behind us.

winter

ˈwɪntə

зима; зимний

This happened in the winter, so it was dark in the mornings, anyway.
On a winter evening, when men are telling stories about the dangers they have known, George brings out his hat.

wish

wɪʃ

желать; хотеть

‘I tell you, you’re wrong!’ you scream, and you wish you could get to him to hit him.
It was just before we met you. In fact, I wish I never had met you,’ she added.
We thought of Harris, and Montmorency, and the whisky – and we wished that we were there.

woman (women)

ˈwʊmən (ˈwɪmɪn)

женщина (женщины)

A woman had brought me a dead cat and had called me a murderer.
Julius Caesar stayed there with his soldiers. Queen Elizabeth I, she was there too. You can never get away from that woman.
The rain was running from their umbrellas, and the women were holding up their long skirts.

wonder

ˈwʌndə

задаваться вопросом; хотеть знать

We began to wonder if there were only four islands, of if we were on the wrong bit of the river.
Then I saw the photographer and at once I understood. I wondered if I would be in time.
He wondered if he was dreaming.

wonderful

ˈwʌndəfəl

замечательный

Oh, how wonderful it was to be in the boat again!

wood

wʊd

дерево; древесина

So I cleaned the pan with some wood and grass – and George’s wet shirt.
We liked this idea, so George collected wood to make a fire.
Five minutes later, Jim came back with a very old piece of wood.

wooden

ˈwʊdn̩

деревянный

We looked then, and we saw that the nose of our boat was caught in the wooden gate at the front of the lock.

word

ˈwɜ:d

слово

We also heard many bad words coming from under the cover.
He added that he was very unhappy to hear men of their age use those bad words.
Nobody said a word.

work

ˈwɜ:k

работа, труд

‘Get up and do some work for once in your life!’ They did not understand that I was ill.
You would not expect this to be dangerous work, but it was.
And I am very careful with my work, too. Why, some of the work in my study has been there for years, and it had not got dirty or anything.

work (worked/wrought; worked/wrought)

ˈwɜ:k (wɜ:kt/ˈrɔ:t; wɜ:kt/ˈrɔ:t)

работать; заниматься; действовать

The main symptom was that I did not want to work.
As they worked, they shouted unkind things about us – not just the usual things, but special things about us, and about our families.
Have you ever seen George work?’ he added, and he turned to me.

world

wɜ:ld

мир

At the end of the day, night comes and the world is peaceful and calm.
At first, you think that the world had ended. Then you think that this cannot be true. 
He thought, at first, that it was the end of the world. Harris still believes that George and I planned it.

worried

ˈwʌrɪd

обеспокоенный; встревоженный

We were all feeling in poor health, and we were getting quite worried about it.
There is an old church at Shepperton, and I was worried in case Harris wanted to go and visit it.
Of course, they probably had a boat on the end of the rope when they started out. But it had disappeared. The two young people were not worried about this.

worry

ˈwʌri

беспокоить; волновать; волноваться; беспокоиться; тревога; беспокойство

In fact, my health has always been a worry, I remember…
George says that I should not worry about it.
He seemed to be worrying about his clothes all night.

worry

ˈwʌri

беспокоить, волновать, тревога, беспокойство

In fact, my health has always been a worry, I remember…
He was looking for his clothes. He seemed to be worrying about his clothes all night.
But I get it without asking for it, and this worries me. George says that I should not worry about it.

would like

wʊd ˈlaɪk

хотел бы

He added that it seemed to be nice and quiet there, and he said that he would like to die there.
Excuse me, I hope you don’t mind, but my friend and I, who are only on holiday here, would like to ask you a question.

wrist

rɪst

запястье

He felt his wrist, and bent down and felt his legs.

write (wrote, written)

ˈraɪt (rəʊt, ˈrɪtn̩)

писать

We had written to ask for a boat, and, when we arrived at the boathouse, we gave our names.

write (wrote, written) out

ˈraɪt (rəʊt, ˈrɪtn̩) aʊt

выписывать

They take all your money, and then, when you write out a cheque, they send it back!

write (wrote; written) down

ˈraɪt (rəʊt; ˈrɪtn̩) daʊn

записывать

Harris said, ‘Now get me a piece of paper, J., and write everything down.
Harris is like that. So I told him that George would write down the list, and I would do the work.

wrong

rɒŋ

неверный; ошибочный; неправильный

It is never today’s weather. It is always wrong. I remember that one autumn I went on holiday…
We thought it would probably take about ten minutes. We were wrong.
‘Oh, that’s no good. You’ve done it wrong! Do it like this!’ he said.

year

ˈjiə

год

But by the end of the year, he had killed twelve chickens, which I had to pay for…
‘Yes,’ the old man continued, ‘it was sixteen years ago. I caught him just by the bridge.’
‘Ah, well,’ the man went on, ‘it was nearly five years ago that I caught that fish.’

yell

jel

вопить; орать; кричать

We had to scream and yell to wake him up again.
George waved his cap and yelled back to us.

yellow

ˈjeləʊ

желтый

They wear brightly coloured clothes, and the river is full of colour – yellow, and blue, and orange, and green, and white, and red and pink.

yesterday

ˈjestədi

вчера

They always tell you what the weather was like yesterday, or the day before.
He told us that it had been a fine day today, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday.

yet

jet

ещё

Suddenly, he wants to know what you are doing, and why the tent is not up yet.

you know

ju nəʊ

знаете; понимаете

George always thinks he is ill, but really, there is never anything the matter with him, you know.
Then he added, ‘And we can take a bottle of whisky, too – for when we are sick, you know.’
‘Oh!’ George cried. ‘But we can’t drink the river, you know.’

you see

ju ˈsi:

понимаешь; видишь

It’s easy, you see. You just keep taking the first turning to the right.’

young

jʌŋ

молодой; юный

The peaceful sound of the water against the boat sends us to sleep – and we dream. We dream that the world is young again…
When he was young, George’s father was travelling with a friend.
‘It’s only two more days,’ Harris said, ‘and we are young and strong. Perhaps we’ll be all right.’

young lady

jʌŋ ˈleɪdi

юная леди

George had once seen a man and a young lady who were walking by the side of the river.

young man

jʌŋ mæn

молодой человек; юноша

When I walked into that reading-room, I was a happy, healthy young man.
The young man was a bit annoyed. In fact, he was probably going to say something angry to George and his friends.
Ten days later, the poor man died, in great pain. George said he was quite a young man, so it was very sad.

young people

jʌŋ ˈpi:pl̩

молодые люди

The two young people were not worried about this. They had their rope.
George said, ‘I’ve never seen anyone look as sad as those two young people then!’

young woman

jʌŋ ˈwʊmən

молодая женщина; девушка

And that young man and young woman towed George and his friends up to Mariow.
But just then, the young woman cried wildly, ‘Oh, Henry, then where’s Aunt Mary?’…

 

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