либо за кого-либо) for an officer of high rank (за офицера высокого чина). He
boasted (он хвастался /тем/) that his weight (что его вес) had not changed since
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he was twenty (не изменился с того момента, когда ему было двадцать /лет/),
and for years (и многие годы), wet or fine (/неважно/, в мокрую или ясную
/погоду/), he had got up every morning at eight (он вставал каждое утро в
восемь часов) to put on shorts and a sweater (чтобы надеть шорты и свитер) and
have a run round Regent's Park (и пробежаться вокруг Риджент Парка).
gallant ['gxlqnt] obvious ['ObvIqs] scarcely ['skεqslI] weight [weIt]
sweater ['swetq]
The only thing that slightly spoiled him was the thinness of his mouth. He was
just six foot tall and he had a gallant bearing. It was his obvious beauty that
had engaged him to go on the stage rather than to become a soldier like his
father. Now his chestnut hair was very grey, and he wore it much shorter; his
face had broadened and was a good deal lined; his skin no longer had the soft
bloom of a peach and his colour was high. But with his splendid eyes and his
fine figure he was still a very handsome man. Since his five years at the war he
had adopted a military bearing, so that if you had not known who he was
(which was scarcely possible, for in one way and another his photograph was
always appearing in the illustrated papers) you might have taken him for an
officer of high rank. He boasted that his weight had not changed since he was
twenty, and for years, wet or fine, he had got up every morning at eight to put
on shorts and a sweater and have a run round Regent's Park.
"The secretary told me (/ваш/ секретарь сказала мне) you were rehearsing this
morning, Miss Lambert (что вы репетировали сегодня утром, Мисс Лэмберт; to
rehearse —репетировать,повторять)," the young man remarked (заметил
молодой человек). "Does that mean (это значит, /что/) you're putting on a new
play (вы ставите новую пьесу)?"
"Not a bit of it (ничего подобного)," answered Michael (ответил Майкл). "We're
playing to capacity (мы играем при переполненных залах; capacity — емкость,
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вместимость; полный сбор, аншлаг)."
"Michael thought we were getting a bit ragged (Майкл посчитал: «подумал» что
мы начинаем играть неслаженно: «становимся слегка небрежными»; ragged
— неровный, шероховатый, небрежный), so he called a rehearsal (и тогда он
созвал /нас на/ репетицию)."
"I'm very glad I did (и я счастлив, что поступил так). I found little bits of