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| He had a dark complexion and a small, wise, saturnine face with mournful pouches under both eyes. | У него были темные волосы и умное мрачное личико со скорбными мешочками под глазами. |
| He brooded over his health continually and went almost daily to the medical tent to have his temperature taken by one of the two enlisted men there who ran things for him practically on their own, and ran it so efficiently that he was left with little else to do but sit in the sunlight with his stuffed nose and wonder what other people were so worried about. | Постоянно озабоченный своим здоровьем, он чуть ли не каждый день ходил в медчасть, заставляя одного из двух санитаров мерить ему температуру. Эти два парня фактически делали за него всю работу, причем настолько успешно, что доктору оставалось только сидеть на солнышке, греть свой насморочный нос и размышлять, чем это так озабочены все люди вокруг. |
| Their names were Gus and Wes and they had succeeded in elevating medicine to an exact science. All men reporting on sick call with temperatures above 102 were rushed to the hospital. | Рядовых из медчасти звали Гэс и Уэс. Они достигли большого успеха, подняв медицину до уровня точных наук: тех, кто приходил к ним с температурой выше тридцати восьми градусов, они немедленно отсылали в госпиталь. |
| All those except Yossarian reporting on sick call with temperatures below 102 had their gums and toes painted with gentian violet solution and were given a laxative to throw away into the bushes. | Всем больным, за исключением Йоссариана, с температурой ниже тридцати восьми градусов они, чтобы отделаться, мазали десны и большие пальцы ног раствором марганцовки и давали таблетку слабительного, которую каждый уважающий себя больной тут же забрасывал в кусты. |
| All those reporting on a sick call with temperatures of exactly 102 were asked to return in an hour to have their temperatures taken again. | Если градусник показывал тридцать восемь ровно, посетителя просили зайти через часок - снова измерить температуру. |
| Yossarian, with his temperature of 101, could go to the hospital whenever he wanted to because he was not afraid of them. | Йоссариан с температурой тридцать семь и девять десятых мог отправляться в госпиталь, когда его душе угодно, - Гэс и Уэс ему были нипочем. |
| The system worked just fine for everybody, especially for Doc Daneeka, who found himself with all the time he needed to watch old Major-de Coverley pitching horseshoes in his private horseshoe-pitching pit, still wearing the transparent eye patch Doc Daneeka had fashioned for him from the strip of celluloid stolen from Major Major's orderly room window months before when Major-de Coverley had returned from Rome with an injured cornea after renting two apartments there for the officers and enlisted men to use on their rest leaves. |