Английская коллекция. Р. Л. Стивенсон. Бутылочный чертенок / Robert Louis Stevenson. The Bottle Imp

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picture ['p?kt??], carpet ['k?:p?t], storey ['st?:r?], balconies ['b?lk?n?z]

“That is not my idea,” said Keawe; “but to have a beautiful house and garden on the Kona Coast, where I was born, the sun shining in at the door, flowers in the garden, glass in the windows, pictures on the walls, and toys and fine carpets on the tables, for all the world like the house I was in this day – only a storey higher, and with balconies all about like the King's palace; and to live there without care and make merry with my friends and relatives.

“Well (что ж),” said Lopaka, “let us carry it back with us to Hawaii (давай увезем ее с собой на Гавайи; back – сзади, позади; обратно, назад); and if all comes true, as you suppose (и если все сбудется: «станет верным», как ты предполагаешь; to come true – сбываться /о мечтах, предсказаниях/), I will buy the bottle, as I said, and ask a schooner (то я куплю бутылку и, как я уже сказал, попрошу шхуну; to ask – спрашивать; просить).

Upon that they were agreed (на том они и сговорились; to agree – соглашаться; уславливаться, договариваться), and it was not long before the ship returned to Honolulu (и вскоре: «и это было незадолго до того, как» корабль возвратился в Гонолулу), carrying Keawe and Lopaka, and the bottle (и привез и Кэаве, и Лопаку, и бутылку; to carry – нести, носить; возить, перевозить).

They were scarce come ashore when they met a friend upon the beach (едва они сошли на берег, как они повстречали одного знакомого на берегу; to come; to meet; friend – друг; знакомый), who began at once to condole with Keawe (который немедленно начал выражать Кэаве соболезнования; to condole – сочувствовать, сострадать, выражать соболезнование, сочувствие).

carry ['k?r?], ashore [?'??:], friend [frend], condole [k?n'd??l]

“Well,” said Lopaka, “let us carry it back with us to Hawaii; and if all comes true, as you suppose, I will buy the bottle, as I said, and ask a schooner.

Upon that they were agreed, and it was not long before the ship returned to Honolulu, carrying Keawe and Lopaka, and the bottle.

They were scarce come ashore when they met a friend upon the beach, who began at once to condole with Keawe.

“I do not know what I am to be condoled about (я понятия не имею, по какому случаю мне выражают соболезнования; to know – знать, иметь понятие, быть в курсе дела),” said Keawe.