Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Jerome Klapka Jerome

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Повесть «Трое в лодке, не считая собаки» – наиболее популярное произведение английского писателя Джерома К. Джерома. С большим юмором автор описывает приключения трех друзей, пустившихся в путешествие по реке.

Текст произведения подготовлен для уровня 4 (т. е. для продолжающих учить английский язык верхней ступени) и снабжен комментариями.

В конце книги дается англо-русский словарь.

Jerome K. Jerome

Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Chapter I

There were four of us – George, and William Samuel Harris[1 - William Samuel Harris – Уильям Сэмюэль Гаррис], and myself, and Montmorency[2 - Montmorency – Монморанси]. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were – bad from a medical point of view, of course.

We were all feeling bad, and we were quite nervous about it. Harris said he had such aВ very bad headache that he hardly knew what he was doing. And then George said that he had a headache too. As for me, it was my liver that was out of order. I read about the various symptoms of a sick liver in a circular that offered liver-pills. IВ had them all.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but when I read a medicine advertisement I usually come to the conclusion that I am suffering from the disease that was described.

One day I went to the British Museum to read about hay fever [3 - hay fever – сенная лихорадка], I fancy I had it [4 - I fancy I had it. – Думаю, что она у меня была.]. I took the book, and read all I needed; and then I idly turned the leaves, and began to study diseases, generally.