Протасов Дмитрий Николаевич. Last Leaf //о' Генри

In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places." These "places" make strange angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!

So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling,

west of Washington Square	к западу от Вашингтон-Сквер
have run crazy and broken themselves	Перепутываются и разламываются
small strips	короткие полоски
"places."	проезды
angle	угол
curves	кривые линии
crosses itself	пересекает саму себя
An artist	Некий художник
valuable	ценный
possibility	зд. свойство
Suppose .... should	Если предположить, что
collector	сборщик
bill for	счет за
paints	краски
canvas	холст
in traversing	Пересекая
Route [ru?t]	путь, дорога,
meet himself	повстречает самого себя
coming back	Идущего обратно
having been paid on account	Заплаченного по счету
Quaint [kwe?nt]	привлекательный своей необычностью или стариной;
the art people	люди искусства
prowl [pra?l]	красться, рыскать (в поисках добычи;

... hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents. Then they imported some pewter mugs and a chafing dish or two from Sixth Avenue, and became a "colony."

At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at the table d'hТte of an Eighth Street "Delmonico's," and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and ...

hunt h?nt	охотиться
for north windows	окон, выходящих на север
gable [Єge?bl]	щипец; фронтон
attic [ЄФt?k]	мансарда, чердак
low rents	дешевая кварт. плата
they imported	они перевезли
pewter mugs	оловянные кружки
chafing dish ['t?e?f??d??]	кастрюля (обыкн. электрическая), в которой горячая пища подогревается на столе
became a "colony."	и основали "колонию"
squatty ['skw?t?]	squat
squat [skw?t]	самовольно селиться на незанятой чужой или государственной земле
three-story brick	трехэтажный кирпичный дом
studio	Студия
familiar for [f?Єm?l??]	уменьшительное от
Maine ['me?n]	штат Мэн
table d'hТte /?t??b?l?do?t/	Ланч по фиксированной цене
of an Eighth Street	Восьмой улицы
congenial [k?nЄd?i?n??l]	adj близкий по духу
tastes in	Вкусы в
chicory ['t??k?r?]	цикорий
chicory salad	салат из листьев цикория

... bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted.

That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Over on the east side this ravager strode boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod slowly through the maze of the narrow and moss-grown "places."
Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. A mite of a little woman ..

bishop ['b???p]	бишоп (напиток из вина и фруктового сока
Sleeve [sli?v]	рукав
joint studio	общая студия
resulted	В результате и возникла
unseen	невидимый
stranger	чужой
Pneumonia [nj?'m??n??]	воспаление лёгких
stalked about	разгуливал по
one here and there	то одного, то другого
icy	ледяной
Over on the east side	По Ист-Сайду
Ravage [ЄrФv?d?]	опустошать, -ить
ravager	разоритель
stride [stra?d] strode; stridden [Єstr?d(?)n]	шагать
boldly ['b??ldl?]	Смело, нагло
smit\|e [sma?t] smote; smitten	поражать
scores	множество
tread [tred] trod; trodden or trod	Ступать, шагать
maze	лабиринт
Moss-grown [m?s]	поросших мохом
was not what you would call	Был совсем не тот, кого б вы назвали
Chivalrous ['??v?lr?s]	рыцарский
mite	малютка, крошка
A mite of a little woman	Миниатюрная девушка

with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer. But Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarcely moving, on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick house.

One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy, gray eyebrow.

"She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining-u on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly.

blood thinned	малокровная
zephyr ['zef?]	ласкающий ветерок
fair game	Справедливая игра
red-fisted	с красными кулаками
short-breathed	одышка
Breathe [bri?П]	дышать
duffer [Єd?f?]	Простофиля, болван
scarcely moving	Почти не двигаясь.
bedstead	кровать
looking through	глядя сквозь
pane [pe?n]	оконное стекло
blank side	Голая стена
next	соседний
busy doctor	обеспокоенный доктор
hallway	Коридор амер.
shaggy eyebrows	мохнатые брови
gray	седой
one chance in ... ten	один шанс ...из десяти
as he shook down	Как он стряхивал
mercury [Єm??kj?r?]	ртуть
thermometer [??Єm?m?t?]	термометр
on the side of the undertaker	в интересах гробовщика
pharmacopoeia ?f?:m?k?'pi:?	фармакопея

Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well.

Has she anything on her mind?"

"She - she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day." said Sue.

"Paint? - bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking twice - a man for instance?"

"A man?" said Sue, with a jew's-harp twang in her voice. "Is a man worth - but, no, doctor; there is nothing of the kind."

"Well, it is the weakness, then," said the doctor. "I will do all that science, so far as it may filter through my efforts, can accomplish. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from ...

look silly	Выглядеть глупо.
to get well	выздороветь
Has she anything on her mind?	О чем она думает?
the Bay of Naples	Неаполитанский залив
bosh	Чепуха
worth thinking twice	О чем стоит подумать дважды
Jew's harp [?d?u:z'h?:p]	расчёска, обёрнутая в папиросную бумагу и используемая как музыкальный инструмент
twang [twФ?]	звук натянутой струны
nothing of the kind	ничего подобного
that science, so far	Что наука на данный момент
as it may filter through my efforts	Это может пройти через фильтр моих усилий
accomplish	совершать
whenever [wenЄev?]	всякий раз, когда
carriage	карета
in her funeral procession	в своей похоронной процессии
я скидываю	I subtract

... the curative power of medicines. If you will get her to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves I will promise you a one-in-five chance for her, instead of one in ten."

After the doctor had gone Sue went into the workroom and cried a Japanese napkin to a pulp. Then she swaggered into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime.

Johnsy lay, scarcely making a ripple under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window. Sue stopped whistling, thinking she was asleep.

She arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate a magazine story.

curative power [Єkj??r?t?v]	Целебная сила
medicine [Єmeds?n]	медицина
If you will get her	Если вы сумеете добиться, чтобы она
to ask one question	чтобы она хоть раз спросила
the new winter styles in cloak sleeves	какого фасона рукава будут носить этой зимой
workroom	мастерская
Japanese napkin	Японская бумажная салфетка
Pulp [p?lp]	мякоть
cried to a pulp	Плакала, пока та не размокла окончательно
swagger [ЄswФg?]	расхаживать с важным видом
with her drawing board	с чертежной доской
whistling ragtime	насвистывая рэгтайм
ripple ['r?pl]	пульсация
scarcely making a ripple under the bedclothes	едва заметная под одеялами
with her face toward the window	повернувшись лицом к окну
was asleep	уснула
arranged	установила
a pen-and-ink drawing	рисунок тушью
a magazine story	журнальный рассказ

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
As Sue was sketching a pair of elegant horseshow riding trousers and a monocle of the figure of the hero, an Idaho cowboy, she heard a low sound, several times repeated. She went quickly to the bedside.

Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and counting - counting backward.

"Twelve," she said, and little later "eleven"; and then "ten," and "nine"; and then "eight" and "seven", almost together.

Sue look solicitously out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away.

pave	мостить
sketching	Набрасывая
horseshow riding trousers	Бриджи для выездки
monocle ['m?n?kl]	монокль
Idaho ['a?d?h?u]	Айдахо, штат США
a low sound	тихий шепот
several times repeated	повторившийся несколько раз
She was counting backward	Она считала в обратном порядке
almost together	почти одновременно
solicitude [s?'l?s?tju:d]	заботливость
solicitously	заботливо
What was there to count?	Что там было считать?
bare	пустой
dreary [Єdr??r?]	тоскливый
feet [fi?t] pl of foot	Фут равен 12 дюймам 30,48 см

An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken its leaves from the vine until its skeleton branches clung, almost bare, to the crumbling bricks.

"What is it, dear?" asked Sue.

"Six," said Johnsy, in almost a whisper. "They're falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It made my head ache to count them. But now it's easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now."

"Five what, dear? Tell your Sudie."

"Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls I must go, too.

I've known that for three days. Didn't the doctor tell you?"

I've known that for three days. Didn't the doctor tell you?"

"Oh, I never heard of such nonsense," complained Sue, with magnificent scorn.

ivy [Єa?v?]	плющ
vine [va?n]	Вьющееся растение
gnarled [n??ld]	шишковатый; сучковатый
decayed at the roots	подгнившим у корней стволом
climbed half way up the brick wall	заплел до половины кирпичную стену
had stricken its leaves	сорвало листья
skeleton branches ['skel?t?n] [br??nt?.]	оголенные скелеты
clung to	цеплялись за
crumbling bricks	осыпающиеся кирпичи
It made my head ache	У меня голова разболелась
On the ivy vine	На плюще
I must go	я умру
I've known that for three days.	Я это знаю уже три дня.
magnificent	великолепный
scorn	презрение

"What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well? And you used to love that vine so, you naughty girl. Don't be a goosey. Why, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well really soon were - let's see exactly what he said - he said the chances were ten to one! Why, that's almost as good a chance as we have in New York when we ride on the street cars or walk past a new building. Try to take some broth now, and let Sudie go back to her drawing, so she can sell the editor man with it, and buy port wine for her sick child, and pork chops for her greedy self."

"You needn't get any more wine," said Johnsy,

keeping her eyes fixed out the window.

have to do with	Какое отношение могут
with your getting well	что ты поправишься
you used to love that vine	ты раньше так любила этот плющ
naughty girl	гадкая девочка
goosey ['?u:s?]	1) бестолочь, балда 2) глупышка, дурашка
let's see exactly what he said	как же это он сказал?
the chances were ten to one!	десять шансов против одного
that's almost as good a chance as we have	А ведь это не меньше, чем у каждого из нас ...
we ride on the street cars	когда едешь в трамвае
walk past	идешь мимо
Try to take	Попробуй съесть
broth [br??]	мясной бульон
let Sudie go back	дай Сьюди вернуться
sell the editor man with it	могла сбыть его редактору
pork chops	свиные котлеты
greedy [Єgri?d?]		жадный
You needn't get	тебе не надо покупать
keeping her eyes fixed	пристально глядя

"There goes another. No, I don't want any broth. That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I'll go, too."

"Johnsy, dear," said Sue, bending over her, "will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working? I must hand those drawings in by to-morrow. I need the light, or I would draw the shade down."

"Couldn't you draw in the other room?" asked Johnsy, coldly.

"I'd rather be here by you," said Sue. "Beside, I don't want you to keep looking at those silly ivy leaves."

"Tell me as soon as you have finished," said Johnsy, closing her eyes, and lying white and still as fallen statue, "because I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves." "Try to sleep," said Sue. "I must call Behrman up to be my model for the old hermit miner.

before it gets dark	До того как стемнеет
until I am done working	пока я не кончу работать
hand in	сдать
by to-morrow	До завтра
or I would draw the shade down	а то я спустила бы штору
here by you	Здесь рядом с тобой
Beside	А кроме того
Tell me as soon as you have finished	Скажи мне, когда закончишь
white	бледная
still	неподвижная
as fallen statue	как поверженная статуя
I want to turn loose my hold on everything	освободиться бы мне от всего, что меня держит
go sailing down	И пойти вниз под парусом
hermit miner [Єh??m?t]	Золотоискатель-отшельник

I'll not be gone a minute. Don't try to move 'til I come back."

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a Michael Angelo's Moses beard curling down from the head of a satyr along with the body of an imp. Behrman was a failure in art. Forty years he had wielded the brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his Mistress's robe. He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. For several years he had painted nothing except now and then a daub in the line of commerce or advertising.He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists in the colony who could not pay the price of a professional.

til I come back	пока я не приду
beneath them	Под ними
He was past sixty	Ему было за 60
a Michael Angelo's Moses	Моисей Микеланджело
curling down from	спускалась вся в завитках
the head of a satyr ['sФt?]	голова сатира
the body of an imp [?mp]	тело гнома
a failure in art	Неудачник в искусстве
wield [wi:ld]	владеть, иметь в руках
without getting near enough	Так и не приблизив себя
hem [hem]	край, подол
Mistress's robe	Платья возлюбленной
He had been always about to paint a masterpiece	Он все собирался написать шедевр
but had never yet begun it	но даже и не начал его
nothing except	ничего, кроме
daub [d??b]	штукатурка. Мазня.
He earned a little	Он зарабатывал кое-что
by serving as a model	позируя
the price of a professional	профессионалы-натурщики

He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who scoffed terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as especial mastiff-in-waiting to protect the two young artists in the studio above.

Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper berries in his dimly lighted den below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece.

She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.

of his coming masterpiece	о своем будущем шедевре
For the rest	А в остальном
fierce little old man	злющий старикашка
scoff [sk?f]	глумиться, насмехаться
at softness in any one	над сентиментальностью
mastiff [ЄmФst?f]	мастиф
in-waiting	На страже
smelling strongly	сильно пахнущего
juniper berries [Єd?u?n?p?]	можжевеловые ягоды
dim	тусклый; неясный
dimly lighted	Тускло освящённой
den	берлога, логовище
blank canvas	нетронутое полотно
easel [Єi?zl]	мольберт
the first line	зд. первый штрих
masterpiece	шедевр
Johnsy's fancy	Фантазия Джонси
fragile [ЄfrФd?a?l]	ломкий, хрупкий
as a leaf herself	Сама, как лист
float away	Улететь прочь
slight hold upon the world	непрочная связь с миром
grоw weaker	ослабевать

Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt and derision for such idiotic imaginings.

"Vass!" he cried. "Is dere people in de world mit der foolishness to die because leafs dey drop off from a confounded vine? I haf not heard of such a thing. No, I will not bose as a model for your fool hermit-dunderhead. Vy do you allow dot silly pusiness to come in der brain of her? Ach, dot poor leetle Miss Yohnsy."

"She is very ill and weak," said Sue, "and the fever has left her mind morbid and full of strange fancies.

plainly streaming	заметно слезились
shout	кричать
contempt [k?nЄtempt]	презрение
derision [d?'r??n]	Высмеивание, осмеяние
for such idiotic imaginings	над такими идиотскими фантазиями
"*Vass!" he cried. "Is dere* people in de world *mit der* foolishness to die because leafs *dey* drop off from a confounded vine? I *haf* not heard of such a thing. No, I will not bose as a model for your fool hermit-*dunderhead. Vy do you allow dot* silly pusiness to come in *der* brain of her? Ach, *dot* poor *leetle* Miss Yohnsy	"What!" he cried. "Is there people in the world with the foolishness to die because leaves they drop off from a confounded vine? I had not heard of such a thing. No, I will not pose as a model for your fool hermit-miner . Why do you allow that silly rubbish to come in the brain of her? Ach, what poor little Miss Yohnsy."
Is there people in the world	Да, есть ли люди на земле
with the foolishness to die	Настолько глупы, чтоб умереть
drop off from	Опадают с
confounded	проклятый
fever [Єfi?v?]	высокая температура
morbid [Єm??b?d]	болезненный, нездоровый
strange fancies	разные болезненные фантазии

Very well, Mr. Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you needn't. But I think you are a horrid old - old flibbertigibbet."

"You are just like a woman!" yelled Behrman. "Who said I will not bose? Go on. I come mit you. For half an hour I haf peen trying to say dot I am ready to bose. Gott! dis is not any blace in which one so goot as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick. Some day I vill baint a masterpiece, and ve shall all go away. Gott! yes."

Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room.

In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other for a moment without speaking.

you needn't	то и не надо
horrid ['h?r?d]	ужасный, мерзкий
Flibbertigibbet [?fl?b?t?'d??b?t]	болтун; сплетник;
You are just like a woman!" yelled Behrman. "Who said I will not *bose? Go on. I come mit you. For half an hour I haf* *peen* trying to say *dot* I am ready to *bose. Gott! dis* is not any *blace* in which one so *goot* as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick. Some day I *vill baint* a masterpiece, and ve shall all go away. Gott! yes	You are just like a woman!" yelled Behrman. "Who said I will not pose? Go on. I come with you. For half an hour I have been trying to say that I am ready to pose. Gott! this is not any place in which one so good as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick. Some day I will paint a masterpiece, and we shall all go away. Gott! yes
You are just like a woman!	Вот настоящая женщина!
yelled	закричал
pulled the shade down	спустила штору
window-sill	подоконник
motioned	Сделала знак
Peer [p??]	вглядываться
fearfully	со страхом

A persistent, cold rain was falling, mingled with snow. Behrman, in his old blue shirt, took his seat as the hermit miner on an upturned kettle for a rock.

When Sue awoke from an hour's sleep the next morning she found Johnsy with dull, wide-open eyes staring at the drawn green shade.

"Pull it up; I want to see," she ordered, in a whisper.

Wearily Sue obeyed.

But, lo! after the beating rain and fierce gusts of wind that had endured through the livelong night, there yet stood out against the brick wall one ivy leaf. It was the last one on the vine.

persistent	Упорный
Mingle [Єm??gl]	смешиваться
upturned kettle	перевернутый чайник
for a rock	вместо скалы.
Awoke	Проснулась
from an hour's sleep	После часового сна
she found Johnsy staring	увидела, что Джонси не сводит глаз
dull	тусклый
wide-open	широко раскрытый
drawn shade.	спущенная штора
Pull it up	Подними ее
order	приказывать
in a whisper	шепотом
Wearily	устало
lo [l??]	вот!, смотри!,
after the beating rain	После проливного дождя
fierce gusts	резкие порывы
endure [?nЄdj??]	вынести; терпеть
livelong ['l?vl??]	поэт. целый, весь; вечный
yet stood out	еще выстоял

Still dark green near its stem, with its serrated edges tinted with the yellow of dissolution and decay, it hung bravely from the branch some twenty feet above the ground.

"It is the last one," said Johnsy. "I thought it would surely fall during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall to-day, and I shall die at the same time."

"Dear, dear!" said Sue, leaning her worn face down to the pillow, "think of me, if you won't think of yourself. What would I do?"

But Johnsy did not answer. The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey. The fancy seemed to possess her more strongly as one by one the ties that bound her to friendship and to earth were loosed.

The day wore away, and even through the twilight

near its stem	у стебелька
serrated [s?'re?t?d]	зубчатый; зазубренный
edge	край
tinted with the yellow of dissolution	тронутый желтизной тления
dissolution [?d?s?'lu:?n]	растворение;
bravely	храбро
some twenty feet	в двадцати футах
above the ground	над землей
surely	непременно
leaning	склоняясь
worn face	Измученное лицо
lonesomest	чуждая
making ready	готовясь
mysterious [m?Єst??r??s]	таинственный
to possess	завладевать
as one by one	как одна за другой
the ties were loosed	рвались нити
bound her	связывавшие ее
The day wore away,	День прошел
twilight	сумерки

... they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall.

And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low Dutch eaves.

When it was light enough Johnsy, the merciless, commanded that the shade be raised.

The ivy leaf was still there.

Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken broth over the gas stove.

"I've been a bad girl, Sudie," said Johnsy. "Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how wicked I was. It is a sin to want to die.

cling, clung, clung [kl??]	цепляться
against the wall	на фоне стены
with the coming of the night	с наступлением ночи
the north wind was again loosed	опять поднялся северный ветер
the rain still beat	дождь беспрерывно стучал
patter down	скатываться
Eaves [i:vz]	карниз; свес крыши
from the low Dutch eaves.	с низкой голландской кровли.
the merciless	беспощадная
commanded	велела
The ivy leaf was still there.	Лист плюща все еще оставался там.
call to	позвать
stirring ['st?:r??]	помешивание
over the gas stove	на газовой горелке
wicked	гадкая
It is a sin to want to die	Грешно желать себе смерти

You may bring a me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, and - no; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook."

And hour later she said: "Sudie, some day I hope to paint the Bay of Naples."

The doctor came in the afternoon, and Sue had an excuse to go into the hallway as he left.

"Even chances," said the doctor, taking Sue's thin, shaking hand in his.

"With good nursing you'll win." And now I must see another case I have downstairs. Behrman, his name is - some kind of an artist, I believe. Pneumonia, too. He is an old, weak man, and the attack is acute. There is no hope for him; but he goes to the hospital to-day to be made more comfortable."

The next day the doctor said to Sue: "She's out of danger.

You won. Nutrition and care now - that's all."

port	портвейн
and - no	Хотя нет
hand-mirror	зеркальце
pack some pillows about me	обложи меня подушками
Sue had an excuse	Сью под предлогом
Even chances	Шансы равные
shaking	дрожащая
With good nursing	При хорошем уходе
see another case	навестить больного
some kind of an artist	Кажется, он художник.
and the attack is acute	форма болезни тяжелая
There is no hope for him	Надежды нет никакой
he goes to the hospital to-day	но сегодня он отправится в больницу
to be made more comfortable."	там ему будет покойнее
She's out of danger	Она вне опасности
Nutrition and care	питание и уход

And that afternoon Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, contentedly knitting a very blue and very useless woollen shoulder scarf, and put one arm around her, pillows and all.

"I have something to tell you, white mouse," she said. "Mr. Behrman died of pneumonia to-day in the hospital. He was ill only two days. The janitor found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were wet through and icy cold. They couldn't imagine where he had been on such a dreadful night. And then they found a lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that had been dragged from its place, and some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it, and - look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell."

Contented [k?n'tent?d]	довольный
knitting	довязывая
useless [Єju?sl?s]	непригодный;
I have something to tell you	Мне надо кое-что сказать тебе
Janitor [Єd?Фn?t?]	швейцар; вахтёр
helpless	беспомощный
were wet through	промокли насквозь
where he had been	Где же он был
on such a dreadful night	в такую ужасную ночь
lantern	фонарь
still lighted	который все еще горел
ladder	лестница
that had been dragged from its place	сдвинутую с места
some scattered brushes,	Брошенные кисти
scatter [ЄskФt?]	разбрасывать
palette ['pФl?t]	палитра
Didn't you wonder	Тебя не удивляло
flutter [Єfl?t?]	трепетание, дрожь
it's Behrman's masterpiece	это и есть шедевр Бермана
have run crazy and broken В этом районе дома строились, строятся, и скорее всего, будут строиться так, что улицы будут ...
Greenwich Village - Гри?нвич-Ви?ллидж -- жилой район в Нью-Йорке, на западе Нижнего Манхэттена (2-й район).
familiar for уменьшительно для
*Table d'hТte* - иноязычное вкрапление из французского (английское произношение: / ?t ?? b?l?do?t/), которое буквально означает "стол хозяина". используется в терминологии ресторана, чтобы указать на меню, где еда только с небольшим выбором предлагается по фиксированной стоимости. Такое меню можно также назвать prix fixe (английское произношение: / ?pri ?? f?ks/"постоянная цена").

In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places." These "places" make strange angles and curves. One Street crosses itself a time or two. An artist once discovered a valuable possibility in this street. Suppose a collector with a bill for paints, paper and canvas should, in traversing this route, suddenly meet himself coming back, without a cent having been paid on account!

So, to quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for north windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents. Then they imported some pewter mugs and a chafing dish or two from Sixth Avenue, and became a "colony."

At the top of a squatty, three-story brick Sue and Johnsy had their studio. "Johnsy" was familiar for Joanna. One was from Maine; the other from California. They had met at the table d'hТte of ...

Delmonico's

Название одного из сетевых ресторанов в Нью-Йорке. Первым и самым известным управляла семья Delmonico в 19-ом и начале 20-ого столетия. Но последний ресторан, принадлежавший семье закрылся из-за сухого закона в 1923. С того времени рестораны Делмонико открываются сначала в Манхэттене, а потом и по всей Америке, принадлежа разным владельцам.

Pneumonia -- Пневмони?я воспаление лёгочной ткани инфекционного происхождения

California - Калифорния -- 31-й (самый населённый) штат США, образован 9 сентября 1850 года. До этого находился под властью Испании и Мексики.

... an Eighth Street "Delmonico's," and found their tastes in art, chicory salad and bishop sleeves so congenial that the joint studio resulted.

That was in May. In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers. Over on the east side this ravager strode boldly, smiting his victims by scores, but his feet trod slowly through the maze of the narrow and moss-grown "places."

Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer. But Johnsy he smote; and she lay, scarcely moving, on her painted iron bedstead, looking through the small Dutch window-panes at the blank side of the next brick house.

One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy, gray eyebrow.

look silly с глаголами to seem, to taste, to sound, to look, to smell не употребляются наречия I feel sure

It doesn't sound very serious

The house seems very quiet

It smells marvellous!

It looks a bit stale

It doesn't taste too bad.

Naples-Неа?поль - третий по величине город Италии (после Рима и Милана) на западном побережье страны у Неополитанского залива, в непосредственной близости от знаменитого вулкана Везувий.

Покровителm св. Януарий, день памяти которого -- 19 сентября -- праздник города.

"She has one chance in - let us say, ten," he said, as he shook down the mercury in his clinical thermometer. " And that chance is for her to want to live. This way people have of lining-u on the side of the undertaker makes the entire pharmacopoeia look silly. Your little lady has made up her mind that she's not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?"

"She - she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples some day." said Sue.

"Paint? - bosh! Has she anything on her mind worth thinking twice - a man for instance?"

"A man?" said Sue, with a jew's-harp twang in her voice. "Is a man worth - but, no, doctor; there is nothing of the kind."

"Well, it is the weakness, then," said the doctor. "I will do all that science, so far as it may filter through my efforts, can accomplish.

Whenever -- когда бы то ни было, когда угодно, всякий раз.

Английский язык -- не отличается большой эмоциональностью, но и в нём есть конструкции, выражающие сильные (по английским меркам) чувства.

Сравните:

Where have you been? // Wherever have you been?

Где ты был? // Да, где ж тебя носило?

Сравните:

However could Anna afford to get such a car?

Whichever way you look at it, they are too young to get married.

Wherever I meet her - she is always well dressed.

Whatever happened to Mary? She has always argued with her husband, but she has never had such a big black eye before.

Whoever has heard of such a thing?

a one-in-five chance

составное определение, состоящее из числительных

But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines. If you will get her to ask one question about the new winter styles in cloak sleeves I will promise you a one-in-five chance for her, instead of one in ten."

After the doctor had gone Sue went into the workroom and cried a Japanese napkin to a pulp. Then she swaggered into Johnsy's room with her drawing board, whistling ragtime.

Будьте внимательны к метеморфозам значений при переходе от прилагательного в наречие

Scarce -- редкий; Scarcely - едва; почти не

синоним barely - едва; почти не; bare -голый;

и никогда не забывайте, что после слов scarecely, hardly, barely никогда не употребляется отрицание, так как в них заключена отрицательная частица"not"

Must - 100% уверенность

Art -- с большой буквы можно встретить во многих рсссказах Огенри, но для современного английского это нетипично.

Idaho - Айда?хо на тихоокеанском Северо-Западе в группе Горных штатов. Статус штата Айдахо получил 3 июля 1890 года, 43-м по счёту. Прозвище "Штат-самоцвет" "Gem state", из-за обилия природных ресурсов. Девиз : "Будет всегда" лат. Esto perpetuum

Johnsy lay, scarcely making a ripple under the bedclothes, with her face toward the window. Sue stopped whistling, thinking she was asleep.

She arranged her board and began a pen-and-ink drawing to illustrate a magazine story. Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.
As Sue was sketching a pair of elegant horseshow riding trousers and a monocle of the figure of the hero, an Idaho cowboy, she heard a low sound, several times repeated. She went quickly to the bedside. Johnsy's eyes were open wide. She was looking out the window and counting - counting backward.

"Twelve," she said, and little later "eleven"; and then "ten," and "nine"; and then "eight" and "seven", almost together.

What was there to count? To be to do - одна из самых сильных модальных конструкций -- значит, что действие непременно должно совершиться. Что же именно там было необходимо сосчитать?
Leaves если существительные в единственном числе оканчиваются на -f, -fe, то во множественном f - fe меняются на -ves.
calf calves теленок	leaf leaves лист дерева
Half Halves половина	knife knives нож
life lives жизнь	shelf shelves полка
Loaf Loaves буханка	thief thieves вор
self selves сам, себя	wife wives жена
Sheaf Sheaves сноп	wolf wolves волк

Sue look solicitously out of the window. What was there to count? There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away. An old, old ivy vine, gnarled and decayed at the roots, climbed half way up the brick wall. The cold breath of autumn had stricken its leaves from the vine until its skeleton branches clung, almost bare, to the crumbling bricks.

"What is it, dear?" asked Sue.

"Six," said Johnsy, in almost a whisper. "They're falling faster now. Three days ago there were almost a hundred. It made my head ache to count them. But now it's easy. There goes another one. There are only five left now."

"Five what, dear? Tell your Sudie."

"Leaves. On the ivy vine. When the last one falls I must go, too. I've known that for three days. Didn't the doctor tell you?" . "Oh, I never heard of such nonsense," complained Sue, with magnificent scorn.

What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well?

Стандартно

What do old ivy leaves have to do with your getting well?

And you used to love that vine so, you naughty girl.

Конструкция used to do - значит что говорящий уверен, то что делалось раньше, сейчас невозможно.

NB Эта конструкция имеет три отрицания:

You did not use to love that vine so, you naughty girl.

And you used not to love that vine so, you naughty girl.

And you used to love no vine so, you naughty girl.

"What have old ivy leaves to do with your getting well? And you used to love that vine so, you naughty girl. Don't be a goosey. Why, the doctor told me this morning that your chances for getting well real soon were - let's see exactly what he said - he said the chances were ten to one!

Why, that's almost as good a chance as we have in New York when we ride on the street cars or walk past a new building. Try to take some broth now, and let Sudie go back to her drawing, so she can sell the editor man with it, and buy port wine for her sick child, and pork chops for her greedy self."

"You needn't get any more wine," said Johnsy, keeping her eyes fixed out the window. "There goes another. No, I don't want any broth. That leaves just four. I want to see the last one fall before it gets dark. Then I'll go, too."

"Johnsy, dear," said Sue, bending over her, "will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working? I must hand those drawings in by to-morrow.

Tell me as soon as you have finished

Imperative Mood + Present Perfect выражают два действия в будущем. Сначала закончится действие, выраженное Present Perfect а потом начнется действие, выраженное Imperative Mood.

В романских языках Present Perfect = предбудущее время

Michael Angelo - Микела?нджело де Франче?ско де Нери? де Миниа?то де?ль Се?ра и Лодо?вико ди Леона?рдо ди Буонарро?ти Симо?ни 6 марта 1475 -- 18 февраля 1564)

Moses - "Моисей" -- мраморная статуя ветхозаветного пророка высотой 235 см, о в скульптурной гробнице папы Юлия II в римской базилике Сан-Пьетро-ин-Винколи. Над ней с 1513 по 1515 годы работал Микеланджело. .

I need the light, or I would draw the shade down."
"Couldn't you draw in the other room?" asked Johnsy, coldly.
"I'd rather be here by you," said Sue. "Beside, I don't want you to keep looking at those silly ivy leaves."

"Tell me as soon as you have finished," said Johnsy, closing her eyes, and lying white and still as fallen statue, "because I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves."

"Try to sleep," said Sue. "I must call Behrman up to be my model for the old hermit miner. I'll not be gone a minute. Don't try to move 'til I come back.

Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a Michael Angelo's Moses beard curling down from the head of a satyr along with the body of an imp.

had wielded; had been; had never yet begun; had painted; had been waiting

и в результате у него была репутация неудачника

Behrman was a failure in art.

has left her mind morbid

Present Perfect показывает, что есть ещё надежда на выздоровление

Flibbertigibbet - Болтушка - среднеанглийский язык

For several years he had painted nothing except now and then a daub in the line of commerce or advertising. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists in the colony who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who scoffed terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as especial mastiff-in-waiting to protect the two young artists in the studio above.
Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper berries in his dimly lighted den below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.
Old Behrman, with his red eyes plainly streaming, shouted his contempt and derision for such idiotic imaginings.

"Vass!" he cried. "Is dere people in de world mit der foolishness to die because leafs dey drop off from a confounded vine? I haf not heard of such a thing. No, I will not bose as a model for your fool hermit-dunderhead. Vy do you allow dot silly pusiness to come in der brain of her? Ach, dot poor leetle Miss Yohnsy."
"She is very ill and weak," said Sue, "and the fever has left her mind morbid and full of strange fancies. Very well, Mr. Behrman, if you do not care to pose for me, you needn't. But I think you are a horrid old - old flibbertigibbet."

Идеальный пример для изучения Past Indefinite + Past Continuous. Действия, происходящие одно за другим went, pulled, motioned, peered out, looked at, took совершаются на двух паралельно протекающих:

Johnsy was sleeping

cold rain was falling

And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken broth over the gas stove. Page ...

that had endured through

Past Perfect уптребляестся не только чтобы подчеркнуть предшествование, но и для эмоционального усиления

"You are just like a woman!" yelled Behrman. "Who said I will not bose? Go on. I come mit you. For half an hour I haf peen trying to say dot I am ready to bose. Gott! dis is not any blace in which one so goot as Miss Yohnsy shall lie sick.

Some day I vill baint a masterpiece, and ve shall all go away. Gott! yes."

Johnsy was sleeping when they went upstairs. Sue pulled the shade down to the window-sill, and motioned Behrman into the other room. In there they peered out the window fearfully at the ivy vine. Then they looked at each other for a moment without speaking. A persistent, cold rain was falling, mingled with snow. Behrman, in his old blue shirt, took his seat as the hermit miner on an upturned kettle for a rock.
"Pull it up; I want to see," she ordered, in a whisper. Wearily Sue obeyed. . But, lo! after the beating rain and fierce gusts of wind that had endured through the livelong night, there yet stood out against the brick wall one ivy leaf. It was the last one on the vine. Still dark green near its stem, with its serrated edges tinted with the yellow of dissolution and decay, it hung bravely from the branch some 20 feet above the ground.

Shall -

есть грамматисты, утверждающие, что английский язык -- язык без будущего. Без будущего времени, разумеется.

Их логика такова: если будущее время образуется при помощи глаголов, имеющих чёткую смысловую направленность I shall // we shall - обязательство. (когда мы говорим про себя, про наши действия -- то мы, вольно или невольно, даём слово)

you/he/she/it/they will - выражает желание. А раз глаголы имеют чёткую смысловую направленность -- значит они модальные. А раз они модальные, а невспомогательные -- то и будущего времени в английском нет.

Идеальный пример для изучения Past Indefinite:

The day wore away... they could see ... the north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low Dutch eaves.

"It is the last one," said Johnsy. "I thought it would surely fall during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall to-day, and I shall die at the same time."
.
"Dear, dear!" said Sue, leaning her worn face down to the pillow, "think of me, if you won't think of yourself. What would I do?"

But Johnsy did not answer. The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey. The fancy seemed to possess her more strongly as one by one the ties that bound her to friendship and to earth were loosed.
The day wore away, and even through the twilight they could see the lone ivy leaf clinging to its stem against the wall. And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low Dutch eaves.

Johnsy, the merciless -

субстантивированное прилагательное, высокопарный стиль

в таком стиле говорят о королях:

Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great

commanded that the shade be raised.

Крайне редко употребляемая форма

Subjunctive Mood

I've been a bad girl, Sudie," said Johnsy. "Something has made that last leaf stay there...

несмотря ни на что процессы продолжаются

сравните с

"In a little district west of Washington Square the streets have run crazy and broken themselves into small strips called "places.""

Bay of Naples Неаполитанский залив (итал. Golfo di Napoli) -- часть Тирренского моря, на западном берегу Италии, славится красотой окружающей местности, очень богат животным миром.

When it was light enough Johnsy, the merciless, commanded that the shade be raised.

The ivy leaf was still there.
Johnsy lay for a long time looking at it. And then she called to Sue, who was stirring her chicken broth over the gas stove.

"I've been a bad girl, Sudie," said Johnsy. "Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how wicked I was. It is a sin to want to die. You may bring a me a little broth now, and some milk with a little port in it, and - no; bring me a hand-mirror first, and then pack some pillows about me, and I will sit up and watch you cook." And hour later she said:

"Sudie, some day I hope to paint the Bay of Naples."

The doctor came in the afternoon, and Sue had an excuse to go into the hallway as he left.

Mouse mice мышь;-- одно из немногих английских слов, образующих множественное число нестандартно. louse -lice вошь
foot feet ступня goose geese гусь ox oxen бык, вол sheep sheep овца	tooth teeth зуб child children ребенок deer deer олень

"Even chances," said the doctor, taking Sue's thin, shaking hand in his. "With good nursing you'll win." And now I must see another case I have downstairs. Behrman, his name is - some kind of an artist, I believe. Pneumonia, too. He is an old, weak man, and the attack is acute. There is no hope for him; but he goes to the hospital to-day to be made more comfortable."

The next day the doctor said to Sue: "She's out of danger. You won. Nutrition and care now - that's all."

And that afternoon Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, contentedly knitting a very blue and very useless woollen shoulder scarf, and put one arm around her, pillows and all.

"I have something to tell you, white mouse," she said. "Mr. Behrman died of pneumonia to-day in the hospital. He was ill only two days. The janitor found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were wet through and icy cold. They couldn't imagine where he had been on such a dreadful night. And then they found a lantern, still lighted, and a ladder that had been dragged from its place, and some scattered brushes, and a palette with green and yellow colors mixed on it, and - look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf on the wall. Didn't you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah, darling, it's Behrman's masterpiece - he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell."

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