Девочка со спичками дает прикурить (Быков) - страница 19

11. “No, never! Answers someone who was passing by (прохожий). “Now even children come out in protest and become victims of the regime! Shame (позор)!”

12. “You’re not local!” shouts another. “Where’s your residence permit (прописка)? Because of people like you we’re dying from hunger! Get out of here (убираться отсюда)!

13. “Fine her for smoking in public (в общественном месте)!” screamed a deputy in the local legislature (although he himself maintained a den (содержать притон) for “business.”)

14. “No!” objects the new city philanthropist, a former bandit who now runs the local casino. “I’ll give her breakfast!”

15. “Leave her alone (Не подходите к ней)!” screams a young leader in the local youth movement. She will be useful to us when we go to picket the American Embassy.

16. Our little girl just gave them all a disgusted look and said with an angelic smile, “You can all go to hell!”

17. After all, was she needed for herself alone and not just for her mission in life?

18. She struck a black match.

19. At that moment everything around her vanished…the city elite also! No one even had the time to shout.

20. She had found a more simple way to solve all of their problems!

1. “Well, enough of that! (Достаточно)!” said our little heroine with the matches.

2. She removes her little white fur coat.

3. Now we see two white wings shining in the sun.

4. She flaps (взмахивать) her wings, and our little heroine slowly rises up above the cold lonely (одинокий) city.

5. She is still holding her match box tightly.

6. Perhaps this is a pessimistic story, because, after all, the matches have flown away but the problems remain.

7. Keep in mind (Имей в виду) that Christmas does come once every year.

8. You will still have many chances to meet an angel. You just have to look around carefully!

а́нгел – в религии: посланец (от гл. «посылать/послать») Бога – angel

А́ндерсен, Ганс Христиа́н – (1805–1875 гг.) датский писатель, автор сказок – Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales.

Ах ты, нацбо́лка! – «нацболка» (ж.р.) от «нацбол» – член партии национал-большевиков – member of the National Bolshevik Party

банди́т – тот, кто живёт не по законам общества – bandit

благотвори́тель – тот, кто оказывает помощь кому-либо (деньгами, вещами и т. д.); («благотворитель» = «благо» + «творить») – philanthropist

брезгли́во – нареч. от прил. «брезгливый» – относится к кому-/чему-либо как к чему-то очень грязному, низкому, неприятному – disgusted, fed up