Title: Читаем вместе по-английски – Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Занятие 1

English: to sparkle
Russian: искриться, переливаться
Example: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

English: ripples
Russian: рябь
Example: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

English: gentle
Russian: кроткий, смирный, спокойный, ласковый
Example: It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

English: fishing boat
Russian: рыболовецкое судно, рыболовецкая лодка
Example: A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

English: to chum
Russian: приманивать рыбой
Example: A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

English: flock
Russian: стая (птиц)
Example: A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

English: to flash through
Russian: пронестись, промелькнуть
Example: A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

English: seagull
Russian: чайка
Example: A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

English: to dodge
Russian: уворачиваться
Example: A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

English: to fight for
Russian: сражаться за
Example: A mile from shore a fishing boat chummed the water, and the word for Breakfast Flock flashed through the air, till a crowd of a thousand seagulls came to dodge and fight for bits of food.

English: busy day
Russian: насыщенный день, загруженный день, хлопотный день
Example: It was another busy day beginning.

English: way off alone
Russian: вдали от всех
Example: But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston Seagull was practicing.

English: to lower
Russian: опустить, снижаться
Example: A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings.

English: webbed
Russian: перепончатый
Example: A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings.

English: to lift
Russian: поднимать
Example: A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings.

English: beak
Russian: клюв
Example: A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings.

English: to strain
Russian: натягивать
Example: A hundred feet in the sky he lowered his webbed feet, lifted his beak, and strained to hold a painful hard twisting curve through his wings.

English: whisper
Russian: шепот
Example: The curve meant that he would fly slowly, and now he slowed until the wind was a whisper in his face, until the ocean stood still beneath him.

English: to stand still
Russian: остановиться, бездействовать, оставаться неподвижным
Example: The curve meant that he would fly slowly, and now he slowed until the wind was a whisper in his face, until the ocean stood still beneath him.

English: to narrow one’s eyes
Russian: прищурить глаза
Example: He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one . . . single . . . more . . . inch . . . of . . . curve. . .

English: fierce
Russian: болезненный, энергичный, яростный
Example: He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one . . . single . . . more . . . inch . . . of . . . curve. . .

English: to hold one’s breath
Russian: затаить дыхание; задерживать дыхание
Example: He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one . . . single . . . more . . . inch . . . of . . . curve. . .

English: to force
Russian: вынуждать, принуждать, напрягать
Example: He narrowed his eyes in fierce concentration, held his breath, forced one . . . single . . . more . . . inch . . . of . . . curve. . .

English: to ruffle
Russian: нарушить спокойствие, взлохмачивать
Example: Then his feathers ruffled, he stalled and fell.

English: to stall
Russian: терять скорость
Example: Then his feathers ruffled, he stalled and fell.

English: to falter
Russian: снижаться, допустить промах
Example: Seagulls, as you know, never falter, never stall.

English: disgrace
Russian: позор, бесчестье
Example: To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonor.

English: dishonor
Russian: позор, бесчестье
Example: To stall in the air is for them disgrace and it is dishonor.

English: unashamed
Russian: бессовестный, беззастенчивый, бесстыдный
Example: But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve – slowing, slowing, and stalling once more – was no ordinary bird.

English: trembling
Russian: дрожащий, трепещущий
Example: But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve – slowing, slowing, and stalling once more – was no ordinary bird.

English: don’t bother to do
Russian: не утруждать себя, не утруждаться
Example: Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight – how to get from shore to food and back again.

English: to matter
Russian: иметь значение, значить
Example: For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating.

English: to be dismayed
Russian: всполошиться от ужаса
Example: Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

English: glide
Russian: планирующий спуск
Example: Even his parents were dismayed as Jonathan spent whole days alone, making hundreds of low-level glides, experimenting.

English: for instance
Russian: например
Example: He didn’t know why, for instance, but when he flew at altitudes less than half his wingspan above the water, he could stay in the air longer, with less effort.

English: altitude
Russian: высота
Example: He didn’t know why, for instance, but when he flew at altitudes less than half his wingspan above the water, he could stay in the air longer, with less effort.

English: wingspan
Russian: размах крыльев
Example: He didn’t know why, for instance, but when he flew at altitudes less than half his wingspan above the water, he could stay in the air longer, with less effort.

English: to splash
Russian: плескаться, брызгаться
Example: His glides ended not with the usual feet-down splash into the sea, but with a long flat wake as he touched the surface with his feet tightly streamlined against his body.

English: streamlined
Russian: установленный по потоку
Example: His glides ended not with the usual feet-down splash into the sea, but with a long flat wake as he touched the surface with his feet tightly streamlined against his body.

English: wake
Russian: вихревой след
Example: His glides ended not with the usual feet-down splash into the sea, but with a long flat wake as he touched the surface with his feet tightly streamlined against his body.

English: tightly
Russian: крепко
Example: His glides ended not with the usual feet-down splash into the sea, but with a long flat wake as he touched the surface with his feet tightly streamlined against his body.

English: see here
Russian: видишь? понял? послушай!
Example: “See here, Jonathan,” said his father, not unkindly.

English: not unkindly
Russian: без злобы
Example: “See here, Jonathan,” said his father, not unkindly.

English: surface fish
Russian: поверхностная рыба
Example: Boats will be few, and the surface fish will be swimming deep.

English: all very well
Russian: это все, конечно, замечательно
Example: This flying business is all very well, but you can’t eat a glide, you know.

English: obediently
Russian: покорно, послушно
Example: Jonathan nodded obediently.

English: to behave
Russian: вести себя
Example: For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls; he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread.

English: to screech
Russian: издавать резкий звук
Example: For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls; he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread.

English: pier
Russian: пристань, причал
Example: For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls; he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread.

English: scraps
Russian: клочки, кусочки
Example: For the next few days he tried to behave like the other gulls; he really tried, screeching and fighting with the flock around the piers and fishing boats, diving on scraps of fish and bread.

English: pointless
Russian: бессмысленный
Example: It’s all so pointless, he thought, deliberately dropping a hard-won anchovy to a hungry old gull chasing him.

English: deliberately
Russian: умышленно, нарочно
Example: It’s all so pointless, he thought, deliberately dropping a hard-won anchovy to a hungry old gull chasing him.

English: hard-worn
Russian: с трудом добытый
Example: It’s all so pointless, he thought, deliberately dropping a hard-won anchovy to a hungry old gull chasing him.

English: anchovy
Russian: анчоус
Example: It’s all so pointless, he thought, deliberately dropping a hard-won anchovy to a hungry old gull chasing him.

English: to chase
Russian: охотиться
Example: It’s all so pointless, he thought, deliberately dropping a hard-won anchovy to a hungry old gull chasing him.

English: blazing
Russian: молниеносный
Example: From a thousand feet, flapping his wings as hard as he could, he pushed over into a blazing steep dive toward the waves, and learned why seagulls don’t make blazing steep power-dives.

English: steep dive
Russian: крутое пикирование
Example: From a thousand feet, flapping his wings as hard as he could, he pushed over into a blazing steep dive toward the waves, and learned why seagulls don’t make blazing steep power-dives.

English: power-dive
Russian: пикирование (с работающим мотором)
Example: From a thousand feet, flapping his wings as hard as he could, he pushed over into a blazing steep dive toward the waves, and learned why seagulls don’t make blazing steep power-dives.

English: time after time
Russian: раз за разом; тысячу раз, неоднократно
Example: Time after time it happened.

English: at the very peak of one’s abilities
Russian: на пике своих способностей
Example: Careful as he was, working at the very peak of his ability, he lost control at high speed.

English: to lose control
Russian: терять контроль, терять управление
Example: Careful as he was, working at the very peak of his ability, he lost control at high speed.

English: high speed
Russian: высокая скорость
Example: Careful as he was, working at the very peak of his ability, he lost control at high speed.

English: climb to
Russian: набор эшелона (условной высоты)
Example: Climb to a thousand feet.

English: push over
Russian: переход в режим горизонтального полета
Example: Full power straight ahead first, then push over, flapping, to a vertical dive.

English: to flap
Russian: махать крыльями
Example: Full power straight ahead first, then push over, flapping, to a vertical dive.

English: vertical dive
Russian: пикирование
Example: Full power straight ahead first, then push over, flapping, to a vertical dive.

English: to pass through
Russian: проникать, проходить через что-либо
Example: Ten times he tried, and all ten times, as he passed through seventy miles per hour, he burst into a churning mass of feathers, out of control, crashing down into the water.

English: to burst into
Russian: ворваться, разразиться
Example: Ten times he tried, and all ten times, as he passed through seventy miles per hour, he burst into a churning mass of feathers, out of control, crashing down into the water.

English: to churn
Russian: завихрять, образовывать вихрь
Example: Ten times he tried, and all ten times, as he passed through seventy miles per hour, he burst into a churning mass of feathers, out of control, crashing down into the water.

English: out of control
Russian: потерявший управление
Example: Ten times he tried, and all ten times, as he passed through seventy miles per hour, he burst into a churning mass of feathers, out of control, crashing down into the water.

English: to crash down
Russian: рухнуть с грохотом, рухнуть с треском
Example: Ten times he tried, and all ten times, as he passed through seventy miles per hour, he burst into a churning mass of feathers, out of control, crashing down into the water.

English: at last
Russian: наконец
Example: The key, he thought at last, dripping wet, must be to hold the wings still at high speeds – to flap up to fifty and then hold the wings still.

English: dripping wet
Russian: насквозь мокрый, промокший до костей, промокший до нитки
Example: The key, he thought at last, dripping wet, must be to hold the wings still at high speeds – to flap up to fifty and then hold the wings still.

English: tremendous
Russian: огромный, титанический, колоссальный
Example: It took tremendous strength, but it worked.

English: to set a world speed
Russian: установить мировой рекорд
Example: Jonathan had set a world speed record for seagulls!

English: short-lived
Russian: скоротечный, мимолетный, призрачный
Example: But victory was short-lived.

English: pullout
Russian: выход из пике
Example: The instant he began his pullout, the instant he changed the angle of his wings, he snapped into that same terrible uncontrolled disaster, and at ninety miles per hour it hit him like dynamite.

English: to snap into
Russian: приходить в нужное состояние
Example: The instant he began his pullout, the instant he changed the angle of his wings, he snapped into that same terrible uncontrolled disaster, and at ninety miles per hour it hit him like dynamite.

English: disaster
Russian: бедствие, несчастье, горе
Example: The instant he began his pullout, the instant he changed the angle of his wings, he snapped into that same terrible uncontrolled disaster, and at ninety miles per hour it hit him like dynamite.

English: to come to
Russian: приходить в сознание
Example: When he came to, it was well after dark, and he floated in moonlight on the surface of the ocean. His wings were ragged bars of lead, but the weight of failure was even heavier on his back.

English: well after
Russian: значительно позже, далеко за
Example: When he came to, it was well after dark, and he floated in moonlight on the surface of the ocean. His wings were ragged bars of lead, but the weight of failure was even heavier on his back.

English: to float
Russian: плавать на поверхности
Example: When he came to, it was well after dark, and he floated in moonlight on the surface of the ocean. His wings were ragged bars of lead, but the weight of failure was even heavier on his back.

English: ragged
Russian: шероховатый, изорванный, ободранный, истрепанный
Example: When he came to, it was well after dark, and he floated in moonlight on the surface of the ocean. His wings were ragged bars of lead, but the weight of failure was even heavier on his back.

English: bars of lead
Russian: свинцовые чушки
Example: When he came to, it was well after dark, and he floated in moonlight on the surface of the ocean. His wings were ragged bars of lead, but the weight of failure failure was even heavier on his back.

English: to sink
Russian: потонуть, погружаться
Example: As he sank low in the water, a strange hollow voice sounded within him.

English: hollow voice
Russian: глухой голос, гулкий голос
Example: As he sank low in the water, a strange hollow voice sounded within him.

English: There’s no way around it.
Russian: А по-другому и не бывает. / И никуда от этого не деться.

English: to be meant to do
Russian: суждено, предначертано
Example: If I were meant to learn so much about flying, I’d have charts for brains.

English: falcon
Russian: сокол
Example: If I were meant to fly at speed, I’d have a falcon’s short wings, and live on mice instead of fish.

English: to live on
Russian: питаться (чем-либо)
Example: If I were meant to fly at speed, I’d have a falcon’s short wings, and live on mice instead of fish.

English: instead of
Russian: вместо (чего-либо)
Example: If I were meant to fly at speed, I’d have a falcon’s short wings, and live on mice instead of fish.

English: to fade
Russian: постепенно исчезать, затухать
Example: The voice faded, and Jonathan agreed.

English: from this moment on/forth
Russian: начиная с этого момента
Example: The place for a seagull at night is on shore, and from this moment forth, he vowed, he would be a normal gull. It would make everyone happier.

English: to vow
Russian: поклясться
Example: The place for a seagull at night is on shore, and from this moment forth, he vowed, he would be a normal gull. It would make everyone happier.

English: gull
Russian: чайка; глупец, простак
Example: The place for a seagull at night is on shore, and from this moment forth, he vowed, he would be a normal gull. It would make everyone happier.

English: wearily
Russian: утомленно, устало
Example: He pushed wearily away from the dark water and flew toward the land, grateful for what he had learned about work-saving low-altitude flying.

English: low altitude
Russian: малая высота; небольшая высота над уровнем моря
Example: He pushed wearily away from the dark water and flew toward the land, grateful for what he had learned about work-saving low-altitude flying.

English: I’m done with
Russian: Я покончил с…
Example: I am done with the way I was, I am done with everything I learned. I am a seagull like every other seagull, and I will fly like one.

English: every other
Russian: все остальные, каждый второй
Example: I am done with the way I was, I am done with everything I learned. I am a seagull like every other seagull, and I will fly like one.

English: to press for
Russian: настаивать на; стремиться к
Example: So he climbed painfully to a hundred feet and flapped his wings harder, pressing for shore.

English: to feel better
Russian: чувствовать себя более уверенно, полегчать
Example: He felt better for his decision to be just another one of the flock.

English: challenge
Russian: вызов
Example: There would be no ties now to the force that had driven him to learn, there would be no more challenge and no more failure.

English: failure
Russian: провал, неудача
Example: There would be no ties now to the force that had driven him to learn, there would be no more challenge and no more failure.

English: pretty
Russian: приятный
Example: And it was pretty, just to stop thinking, and fly through the dark, toward the lights above the beach.

English: to be alert to
Russian: быть в курсе, быть бдительным, проявляться настороженность
Example: Jonathan was not alert to listen.

English: to twinkle
Russian: мерцать, сверкать
Example: The moon and the lights twinkling on the water, throwing out little beacon-trails through the night, and all so peaceful and still. . . .

English: to throw out
Russian: выбрасывать
Example: The moon and the lights twinkling on the water, throwing out little beacon-trails through the night, and all so peaceful and still. . . .

English: trail
Russian: дорожка, тропинка
Example: The moon and the lights twinkling on the water, throwing out little beacon-trails through the night, and all so peaceful and still. . . .

English: still
Russian: спокойный, неподвижный
Example: The moon and the lights twinkling on the water, throwing out little beacon-trails through the night, and all so peaceful and still. . . .

English: to blink
Russian: мигать, жмуриться
Example: There in the night, a hundred feet in the air, Jonathan Livingston Seagull – blinked.

English: resolution
Russian: решение
Example: His pain, his resolutions, vanished.

English: to vanish
Russian: исчезать
Example: His pain, his resolutions, vanished.

English: to fold
Russian: складывать, сложить
Example: All I need is a tiny little wing, all I need is to fold most of my wings and fly on just the tips alone!

English: wingtips
Russian: концы крыльев
Example: All I need is a tiny little wing, all I need is to fold most of my wings and fly on just the tips alone!

English: monster
Russian: чудовищный
Example: The wind was a monster roar at his head.

English: roar
Russian: рев
Example: The wind was a monster roar at his head.

English: cannonball
Russian: пушечное ядро
Example: The wing-strain now at a hundred and forty miles per hour wasn’t nearly as hard as it had been before at seventy, and with the faintest twist of his wingtips he eased out of the dive and shot above the waves, a gray cannonball under the moon.

English: slits
Russian: щелки
Example: He closed his eyes to slits against the wind and rejoiced.

English: under control
Russian: под контролем
Example: A hundred forty miles per hour! And under control!

English: a moment before
Russian: минуту назад, только что
Example: His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind.

English: sunup
Russian: восход солнца
Example: By sunup, Jonathan Gull was practicing again.

English: specks
Russian: пятнышки, крапинки, частички
Example: From five thousand feet the fishing boats were specks in the flat blue water, Breakfast Flock was a faint cloud of dust motes, circling.

English: blue water
Russian: открытое море
Example: From five thousand feet the fishing boats were specks in the flat blue water, Breakfast Flock was a faint cloud of dust motes, circling.

English: faint
Russian: слабый, бледный, тусклый
Example: From five thousand feet the fishing boats were specks in the flat blue water, Breakfast Flock was a faint cloud of dust motes, circling.

English: dust motes
Russian: пылинки
Example: From five thousand feet the fishing boats were specks in the flat blue water, Breakfast Flock was a faint cloud of dust motes, circling.

English: ever so slightly
Russian: по чуть-чуть, самую малость
Example: He was alive, trembling ever so slightly with delight, proud that his fear was under control.

English: without ceremony
Russian: запросто, без церемоний
Example: Then without ceremony he hugged in his forewings, extended his short, angled wingtips, and plunged directly toward the sea.

English: to plunge
Russian: окунаться, погружаться, нырять
Example: Then without ceremony he hugged in his forewings, extended his short, angled wingtips, and plunged directly toward the sea.

English: terminal velocity
Russian: равновесная скорость
Example: By the time he passed four thousand feet he had reached terminal velocity, the wind was a solid beating wall of sound against which he could move no faster.

English: to swallow
Russian: глотать
Example: He swallowed, knowing that if his wings unfolded at that speed he’d be blown into a million tiny shreds of seagull.

English: to unfold
Russian: расправлять
Example: He swallowed, knowing that if his wings unfolded at that speed he’d be blown into a million tiny shreds of seagull.

English: to be blown into
Russian: взорваться
Example: He swallowed, knowing that if his wings unfolded at that speed he’d be blown into a million tiny shreds of seagull.

English: shred
Russian: крупица, клочок
Example: He swallowed, knowing that if his wings unfolded at that speed he’d be blown into a million tiny shreds of seagull.