10 shorts stories by O. Henry. Книга для чтения на английском языке

For Stuffy Pete was overheated with the warmth of all he had had to eat |от всего того, что емупришлосьсъесть|. The dinner had been much too big. It seemed to him that his dinner had included all the turkey and all the other food in the whole world.

So he sat, very, very full. He looked out at the world without interest, as if it could never offer him anything more.

The dinner had not been expected |такой ужин был неожиданным. О. Генри часто использует пассивы – вместо фразы “Пит не ожидал такого ужина”, автор пишет “такой ужин не был ожидаем” В первом примере сам Пит совершает действие – это актив, а во второмнад ужином совершается действие – его ожидают или не ожидают в данном случае|.

He had been passing a large house near the beginning of that great broad street called Fifth Avenue. It was the home of two old ladies of an old family. These two old ladies had a deep love of traditions |они были влюблены втрадиции|. There were certain things they always did. On Thanksgiving Day at noon they always sent a servant to stand at the door.

There he waited for the first hungry person who walked by |проходилмимо|. The servant had orders |уприслугибылприказ| to bring that person into the house and feed him until he could eat no more. Stuffy Pete happened to pass by |такслучилось, чтопроходилмимо| on his way to the park. The servant had gathered him in. Tradition had been followed |быласоблюдена|.

Stuffy Pete sat in the park looking straight before him for ten minutes. Then he felt a desire to look in another direction.

With a very great effort, he moved his head slowly to the left.

Then his eyes grew wider and his breath stopped. His feet in their torn shoes at the ends of his short legs moved about |болтались| on the ground.

For the Old Gentleman was coming across Fourth Avenue toward Stuffy’s seat.

Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years the Old Gentleman had come there to find Stuffy Pete on his seat. That was a thing that the Old Gentleman was trying to make into a tradition |превратить в традицию|.

Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years he had found Stuffy there. Then he had led Stuffy to a restaurant and watched him eat a big dinner.

They do these things more easily in old countries like England |часто в английском слово “they” – “они” неозначаетникогоконкретного, этопросто “люди”. Перевод этого предложения – в старых странах подобные вещи делаются чаще. Кемделаются? Людьми|. They do them without thinking about them.