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нетерпеливо|: “There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little
bright-eyed |
блестящие| terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it’ll
fetch |
ловит| things when you throw them, and it’ll sit up and
beg |
просит| for its dinner, and all sorts of things – I can’t remember half of them – and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred
pounds |
фунтов стерлингов|! He says it kills all the rats and – oh dear!” cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, “I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!” For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite
a commotion in the pool as it went |
волнение в лужеотдвижения|.
So she called softly after it, “Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!” When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion |от эмоций|, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, “Let us get to the shore, and then I’ll tell you my history, and you’ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.”
It was high time |Было самое время| to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded |перенаселен| with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet |птицадодо, попугайиорленок|, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way |поплылавперед|, and the whole party swam to the shore.
Chapter III. A Caucus-Race |Бег по кругу| and a Long Tale
They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank |собрались на берегу| – the birds with draggled feathers |с взъерошеннымиперьями|, the animals with their fur clinging |прилипшиммехом| close to them, and all dripping wet, cross | промокшим, спутанным|, and uncomfortable.
The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly |непринужденно общаясь| with them, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory |спор с попугаемЛори|, who at last turned sulky |в концеконцовнадулся|, and would only say, “I am older than you, and must know better;” and this Alice would not allow |буквально – непозволяла. Лучше – непринималаврасчет| without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively |решительно| refused to tell its age, there was no more to be said.
At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority |авторитетной личностью| among them, called out, “Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! I’ll soon make you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry |высохнет| very soon.
“Ahem!” |звук откашливания| said the Mouse with an important air, “are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! ‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest |Вильгельм Завоеватель сблагословенияПапыдобилсяподчиненияангличан, которыенуждалисьвлидерах
