(потом около глаза)
. He swung with his left again and landed (он опять ударил с размаху левой: «замахнулся левой и ударил»;
to swing — качать; раскачивать; размахивать; to land — приземляться; сажать /самолет/; нанести удар)
and the gunner fell on him (артиллерист кинулся на него;
to fall — падать; нападать, накидываться)
and grabbed his coat and tore the sleeve off (вцепился ему в пиджак и оторвал рукав;
to tear)
and he clubbed him twice behind the ear (а он съездил его два раза по уху: «за ухом»;
to club — наносить удар, бить; club — дубинка)
and then smashed him with his right as he pushed him away (и потом, оттолкнув от себя, засветил ему правой;
to smash — разбивать/ся/ вдребезги; наносить сильный удар, ударять изо всех сил)
.scald [skLld], subaltern ['sAb(q)ltqn], row /в знач. “шумная ссора”/ [raV]
And that night missing her so much it made him feel hollow sick inside, he wandered up past Taxim's, picked a girl up and took her out to supper. He had gone to a place to dance with her afterward, she danced badly, and left her for a hot Armenian slut, that swung her belly against him so it almost scalded. He took her away from a British gunner subaltern after a row. The gunner asked him outside and they fought in the street on the cobbles in the dark. He'd hit him twice, hard, on the side of the jaw and when he didn't go down he knew he was in for a fight. The gunner hit him in the body, then beside his eye. He swung with his left again and landed and the gunner fell on him and grabbed his coat and tore the sleeve off and he clubbed him twice behind the ear and then smashed him with his right as he pushed him away.
When the gunner went down his head hit first (артиллерист повалился, ударившись головой о камни: «когда артиллерист повалился, его голова ударилась первой») and he ran with the girl (а он удрал с девушкой) because they heard the M.P.'s coming (потому что услышал, как приближается военный патруль; M.P.'s = military рolicemen). They got into a taxi (они сели в такси) and drove out to Rimmily Hissa[15] along the Bosphorus (поехали вдоль Босфора к Румели-Хиссар; to drive), and around, and back in the cool night (потом, сделав круг, обратно: «кругом и обратно» по свежему ночному воздуху: «в прохладной ночи») and went to bed (и легли: «пошли» в постель) and she felt as over-ripe as she looked (и она была такая же перезрелая, как и в платье: «ощущалась такой же перезрелой, как и выглядела») but smooth, rose-petal (но шелковистая, /как/ розовый лепесток;