В этой книге мы собрали и адаптировали для чтения на английском языке 7 рассказов О. Генри. Суть наших книг – частичный перевод текста на русский язык и его комментарии от преподавателя английского языка Романа Зинзера. Рекомендуемый уровень знания английского языка – Pre-Intermediate.
Оглавление
O Henry. 7 shorts stories more by O. Henry. Книга для чтения на английском языке
Предисловие учебного издания
Transients |Бродяги| in Arcadia
The Count |Граф| and the Wedding Guest
Mammon and the Archer |Богач и Стрелок|
The Caliph |Титул, что-то вроде султана|, Cupid and the Clock
The Green Door
No Story
The ransom of Mack
Отрывок из книги
Here is a certain hotel on Broadway that is very pleasant in the summer. Not many people have heard |слышали о нем хоть раз| about it. It is wide and cool |прохладный|. Its rooms have walls of dark wood. There are green trees around it, and soft winds. It has all the pleasures of mountain living, and none of the pains |буквально —никаких болей. Лучше – никаких недостатков|. You will eat better fish than you could catch for yourself in streams in the hills. You will have better meat than a hunter brings home from the forest.
A few |Лишь немногие| have discovered this cool spot in the hot summer of New York. You will see these few guests |редких гостей|, eating dinner in the hotel restaurant. They are happy to be there, and happy to know that they are very few. They feel especially wise because they have found this delightful place.
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“I promise myself three more days of this delightful rest,” said Madame Beaumont. “The next day my ship sails.”
Harold Farrington’s eyes showed that he was sorry |ему было жаль|. “I too must leave then,” he said. “But I am not sailing for Europe.”
