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For long she lay awake. She was dismayed. Her heart sank because she knew
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For long she lay awake. She was dismayed. Her heart sank because she knew
she had lost something that was infinitely precious to her, and pitying herself
she was inclined to cry; but at the same time she was filled with a sense of
triumph, it seemed a revenge that she enjoyed for the unhappiness he had
caused her; she was free of the bondage in which her senses had held her to
him and she exulted. Now she could deal with him on equal terms. She
stretched her legs out in bed and sighed with relief.
" By God, it's grand to be one's own mistress. "
They had breakfast in their room (они завтракали в своей комнате), Julia in bed
(Джулия в кровати) and Michael seated at a little table (и Майкл /восседал/ за
маленьким столиком) by her side (рядом с ней: «с ее стороны»). She looked at
him (она смотрела на него) while he read the paper (пока он читал газету). Was
it possible (было ли это возможно) that three months had made so much
difference in him (что три месяца настолько изменили его: «создали столько
много разницы в нем»), or was it merely (или просто потому) that for years (что
многие годы) she had still seen him with the eyes (она все еще видела его теми
глазами) that had seen him when he came on the stage (какими она увидела его,
когда он вышел на сцену) to rehearse at Middlepool (на репетицию:
«репетировать» в Миддлпуле) in the glorious beauty of his youth (в
сверкающей красоте молодости) and she had been stricken (и она была
поражена /им/) as with a mortal sickness (как смертельной болезнью)? He was
wonderfully handsome still (он все еще был удивительно красив), after all he
was only thirty-six (в конце концов, ему было всего тридцать шесть лет), but
he was not a boy any more (но он больше не был юношей: «мальчиком»); with
his close-cropped hair (с его коротко стриженными волосами) and weather-
beaten skin (и обветренной кожей; weather — погода; дождь, гроза, непогода;
beaten — битый, избитый), little lines (маленькие морщинки: «линии»)
beginning to mark the smoothness of his forehead (начинают обозначаться на
его гладком лбу) and to show under his eyes (и проявляются: «показываются»
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под глазами), he was definitely a man (он определенно был /зрелым/
мужчиной).
glorious ['glO: rIqs] weather-beaten ['weDq" bi: tn] forehead ['fOrId, 'fO: hed]
They had breakfast in their room, Julia in bed and Michael seated at a little
table by her side. She looked at him while he read the paper. Was it possible
that three months had made so much difference in him, or was it merely that
for years she had still seen him with the eyes that had seen him when he came
on the stage to rehearse at Middlepool in the glorious beauty of his youth and
she had been stricken as with a mortal sickness? He was wonderfully
handsome still, after all he was only thirty-six, but he was not a boy any more;
with his close-cropped hair and weather-beaten skin, little lines beginning to
mark the smoothness of his forehead and to show under his eyes, he was
definitely a man.
He had lost his coltish grace (он утратил свою юношескую: «жеребячью»
грацию; colt — жеребенок) and his movements were set (в его движениях
чувствовалась скованность; set — неподвижный, застывший, твердый). Each
difference was very small (каждое различие было очень небольшим), but taken
altogether (но, взятые все вместе) they amounted (они были равносильны;
amount — величина, количество; to amount — равняться /чему-л. /;
составлять /какую-л. сумму/; доходить до /какого-л. количества/), in her
shrewd, calculating eyes (в ее проницательных, оценивающих: «расчетливых»
глазах), to all the difference in the world (всем различиям в мире). He was a
middle-aged man (он был мужчиной средних лет; middle — середина, age —
возраст).
They still lived in the small flat (они все еще жили в той маленькой квартире)
that they had taken (которую они сняли) when first they came to London (когда
они приехали в Лондон в первый раз). Though Julia had been for some time
(хотя Джулия в течение определенного времени) earning a good income
(зарабатывала хорошие деньги; income — доход, поступления, прибыль) it had
not seemed worthwhile to move (казалось, что не имеет смысла переезжать;
worthwhile — стоящий, дающий результат) while Michael was on active
service (пока Майкл участвовал в боевых действиях: «был на действующей
военной службе»), but now that a baby was coming (но теперь, когда и ребенок
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был на подходе) the flat was obviously too small (квартира была очевидно
слишком мала). Julia had found a house in Regent's Park (Джулия нашла дом на
Риджент Парк) that she liked very much (который ей очень понравился). She
wanted to be settled down (ей хотелось вселиться /и обжиться/) in good time
(заранее) for her confinement (перед /ее/ родами; confinement — тюремное
заключение, уединение, разг. роды).
coltish ['kqVltIS] calculating ['kxlkjVleItIN] confinement [kqn'faInmqnt]
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