)
, syrupy, smooth-bellied (нежная, с шелковистым животом;
syrupy — подобный сиропу; belly — живот)
, big-breasted (большой грудью)
and needed no pillow under her buttocks (и огромным задом: «ей была не нужна подушка под ягодицы»)
, and he left her before she was awake (он ушел до того, как она проснулась)
looking blousy enough in the first daylight (и на рассвете вид у нее был здорово потасканный;
blousy — всклокоченный, растрепанный, неряшливый; нечесаный)
and turned up at the Pera Palace with a black eye (и явился в /отель/ “Пера-Палас
[16]” с подбитым: «черным» глазом)
, carrying his coat (неся пиджак /в руках/)
because one sleeve was missing (потому что одного рукава не хватало)
.Bosphorus ['bOsfqrqs], smooth [smHD], syrupy ['sIrqpI]
When the gunner went down his head hit first and he ran with the girl because they heard the M.P.'s coming. They got into a taxi and drove out to Rimmily Hissa along the Bosphorus, and around, and back in the cool night and went to bed and she felt as over-ripe as she looked but smooth, rose-petal, syrupy, smooth-bellied, big-breasted and needed no pillow under her buttocks, and he left her before she was awake looking blousy enough in the first daylight and turned up at the Pera Palace with a black eye, carrying his coat because one sleeve was missing.
That same night he left for Anatolia (в тот же вечер он выехал в Анатолию) and he remembered, later on that trip, riding all day through fields of the poppies (и он помнил, как позже во время этой поездки они целый день ехали полями маков = засеянными маком) that they raised for opium (который выращивали на опиум) and how strange it made you feel, finally (и как странно начинаешь себя потом чувствовать из-за этого), and all the distances seemed wrong (и расстояния казались неправильными = обманчивыми), to where they had made the attack with the newly arrived Constantine[17] officers (/как они наконец прибыли/ туда, где проводили наступление с участием только что прибывших греческих офицеров: «офицеров /армии/ Константина») that did not know a goddamned thing (которые ни черта не знали), and the artillery had fired into the troops (и артиллерия стреляла по /своим/ отрядам/войскам) and the British observer had cried like a child (и британский /военный/ наблюдатель плакал, как ребенок).
opium ['qVpIqm], artillery [R'tIl(q)rI], observer [qb'zWvq]
That same night he left for Anatolia and he remembered, later on that trip, riding all day through fields of the poppies that they raised for opium and how strange it made you feel, finally, and all the distances seemed wrong, to where they had made the attack with the newly arrived Constantine officers that did not know a goddamned thing, and the artillery had fired into the troops and the British observer had cried like a child.