The first thing that he found was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 490.

He went from Graham's Town to Kimberley, and from Kimberley to Khama's Country, and from Khama's Country he went east by north, eating melons all the time, till at last he came to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, precisely as Kolokolo Bird had said.

Then he went away, a little warm, but not at all astonished, eating melons, and throwing the rind about, because he could not pick it up.

Now you must know and understand (а сейчас вам надобно узнать и понять), O Best Beloved (О Самые Любименькие), that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute (что до той самой недели, и дня, и часа, и минуты), this ‘satiable Elephant's Child had never seen a Crocodile (этот ненасытный Слоненок никогда не видел Крокодила), and did not know what one was like (и не знал, какой он из себя). It was all his ‘satiable curtiosity (это было все его ненасытное любопытство).

The first thing that he found (первым, кого он нашел) was a Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake curled round a rock (был Двухцветный-Питон-Скалистый-Змей, свернувшийся кольцами вокруг скалы).

‘‘Scuse me (извините /меня/),' said the Elephant's Child most politely (сказал очень вежливо Слоненок), ‘but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts (но /не/ видели ли вы в этих неоднородных = сомнительных краях такое существо, как Крокодил; promiscuous — разнородный, разношерстный, неодинаковый, разный, смешанный; беспорядочный, неразборчивый)?'

python ['paITqn], curl [kWl], promiscuous [prq'mIskjuqs]

Now you must know and understand, O Best Beloved, that till that very week, and day, and hour, and minute, this ‘satiable Elephant's Child had never seen a Crocodile, and did not know what one was like. It was all his ‘satiable curtiosity.

‘‘Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, ‘but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'

‘Have I seen a Crocodile (/не/ видел ли я Крокодила)?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake (спросил Двухцветный-Питон-Скалистый-Змей), in a voice of dretful scorn (голосом /пронизанным/ ужасно-раздражительной насмешкой). ‘What will you ask me next (о чем еще ты у меня спросишь)?'

‘‘Scuse me (извините /меня/),' said the Elephant's Child (сказал Слоненок), ‘but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner (но не будете ли вы так любезны сказать мне, что он ест на обед)?'

Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake uncoiled himself very quickly from the rock (тогда Двухцветный-Питон-Скалистый-Змей очень быстро размотался со скалы), and spanked the Elephant's Child with his scalesome, flailsome tail (и отшлепал Слоненка своим чешуйчатым молотильчатым хвостом; flail — цеп, молотить).

scorn [skLn], kindly ['kaIndlI], flail [fleIl]

‘Have I seen a Crocodile?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn. ‘What will you ask me next?'

‘‘Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child, ‘but could you kindly tell me what he has for dinner?'