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Английский для начинающих и продолжающих:: The Ransom of Red Chief - 1


Английский для начинающих и продолжающих
Алексея ВИНИДИКТОВА
Англо-русский словарь "Альбион" | Сказочный курс английского языка | Тренажер Open Book

The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry (1)

О. Генри. Вождь краснокожих

IT LOOKED like a good thing: but wait till I tell you. We were down South, in Alabama -- Bill Driscoll and myself -- when this kidnapping ['kIdnxpIN] (похищение человека с целью выкупа) idea struck us. It was, as Bill afterward ['Rftqwqd] (позже) expressed it, "during a moment of temporary ['tempqrqrI] (временный) mental ['mentl] apparition ["xpq'rISqn] (помрачение ума)"; but we didn't find that out till later.

There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel ['flxnl]-cake (блин), and called Summit ['sAmIt] (Вершина), of course. It contained inhabitants [In'hxbItqnts] (жители) of as undeleterious [] (невредные) and self [self]-satisfied (самодовольный) a class of peasantry ['pezqntrI] (крестьянство) as ever clustered ['klAstqd] (теснились) around a Maypole ['meIpqul] (майский шест).

Bill and me had a joint (совместный) capital of about six hundred dollars, and we needed just two thousand dollars more to pull off a fraudulent ['frLdjulqnt] (мошеннический) scheme [skJm] (план) in Western Illinois with. We talked it over on the front steps of the hotel. Philoprogenitiveness (чадолюбие), says we, is strong in semi-rural ['semI-'ruqrql] (полу-сельская) communities [kq'mju:nItiz] (общины); therefore and for other reasons, a kidnapping ['kIdnxpIN] project['prPGekt] (план) ought to do better there than in the radius ['reIdjqs] (радиус действия) of newspapers that send reporters [rI'pLtqz] (корреспонденты) out in plain clothes to stir [stE:] up (раздувать) talk about such things. We knew that Summit couldn't get after us with anything stronger ['strPNq] (зд. страшнее) than constables ['kAnstqblz] (полицейские) and maybe some lackadaisical ["lxkq'deIzIkql] (апатичные) bloodhounds ['blAdhaundz] (сыщики) and a diatribe ['daIqtraIb] (резкая обличительная речь ) or two in the Weekly Farmers' Budget ['bAGIt] (бюджет). So, it looked good. 

We selected [sI'lektId] (выбрали) for our victim ['vIktIm] (жертва) the only child of a prominent ['prPmInqnt] (видный) citizen named Ebenezer Dorset. The father was respectable [rIs'pektqbl] (почтенный) and tight, a mortgage fancier ['mLgIG 'fxnsIq] (любитель закладных) and a stern [stE:n] (строгий), upright collection-plate passer [kq'lekSqn pleIt 'pRsq] (церковный сборщик) and forecloser [] (лишающий права пользования). The kid [kId] (ребенок) was a boy of ten, with bas-relief ["bR-rI'lJf] (выпуклые ) freckles ['freklz] (веснушки), and hair the colour of the cover of the magazine you buy at the news-stand when you want to catch a train [treIn] (поезд). Bill and me figured ['fIgqd] (думали) that Ebenezer would melt down for a ransom ['rxnsqm] (выкуп) of two thousand dollars to a cent [sent] (цент= 0,01 доллара). But wait till I tell you.

About two miles from Summit was a little mountain, covered with a dense [dens] (густой) cedar ['sJdq] (кедровый) brake [breIk] (кустарник). On the rear elevation [rIq"elI'veISqn] (задний склон) of this mountain was a cave [keIv] (пещера). There we stored [stLd] (запасли) provisions. One evening after sundown ['sAndaun] (заката), we drove in a buggy ['bAgI] (тележка) past old Dorset's house. The kid [kId] (ребенок) was in the street, throwing rocks at a kitten ['kItn] (котенок) on the opposite fence.

"Hey [heI] (эй!), little boy!" says Bill, "would you like to have a bag of candy ['kxndI] (конфет) and a nice ride?"

The boy catches Bill neatly ['nJtlI] (прямо) in the eye with a piece of brick.

"That will cost the old man an extra ['ekstrq] (дополнительные) five hundred dollars," says Bill, climbing over the wheel [wJl] (колесо).

That boy put up a fight like a welter-weight ['weltq-weIt] (среднего веса) cinnamon ['sInqmqn] (бурый) bear; but, at last, we got him down in the bottom of the buggy ['bAgI] (тележка) and drove away. We took him up to the cave [keIv] (пещера) and I hitched [hICt] (привязывал) the horse in the cedar ['sJdq] (кедровый) brake [breIk] (кустарник). After dark I drove the buggy (тележка) to the little village, three miles away, where we had hired it, and walked back to the mountain.

 To be continued...

Обработка Йона Шимберга,
редактор Алексей Винидиктов

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