cruelty ['krʋǝltɪ], found [faʋnd], comfort ['kʌmfǝt], decide [dɪ'saɪd], extra ['ekstrǝ], pair [peǝ], moccasins ['mɒkǝsɪnz], fortune ['fɔ:tʃǝn]
If the little boy told his parents of his brother's cruelty, his brother beat him all the harder, and the little boy found that it was more to his comfort not to complain. But at last he could stand the cruelty no longer, and he decided to run away from home. So one morning he took his bow and arrows and an extra pair of moccasins, and set out alone to seek his fortune and to find a kinder world.
Although the boy was small and young (хотя мальчик был маленьким и юным; young – молодой, юный), he could run very fast (он умел очень быстро бегать). He could run so fast that when he shot an arrow from his bow (он мог бежать так быстро, что когда выпускал стрелу из своего лука; to shot – стрелять), he could outstrip the arrow in its flight (он мог обогнать ее в полете; to outstrip – обгонять, обходить, опережать, перегонять). So he ran along very quickly (итак, он бежал очень быстро), and when night came on he was very far from home (и когда пришла = настала ночь, он был уже очень далеко от дома).
small [smɔ:l], fast [fɑ:st], outstrip [aʋt'strɪp], flight [flaɪt], night [naɪt]
Although the boy was small and young, he could run very fast. He could run so fast that when he shot an arrow from his bow, he could outstrip the arrow in its flight. So he ran along very quickly, and when night came on he was very far from home.
He was lonely, too (но ему было еще и одиноко), for he thought of the bright warm camp fires in the twilight at home (потому что он думал о доме, о горящих в сумерках ярких жарких кострах; to think – думать; warm – теплый; camp – лагерь), and of his father and mother (и о своих отце и матери), and he wished he was back again in his own soft bed (и ему хотелось вернуться в свою мягкую постель: «он желал быть обратно снова в своей собственной мягкой постели»). He was frightened too by the strange noises (он был к тому же напуган странными шумами), and every sound startled him (и каждый шорох заставлял его вздрагивать; sound – звук; to startle – испугать, заставить вздрогнуть).
lonely ['lǝʋnlɪ], thought [θɔ:t], again [ǝ'ɡe(ɪ)n], strange [streɪnʤ], noise [nɒɪz], sound [saund], startle ['stɑ:tl]
He was lonely, too, for he thought of the bright warm camp fires in the twilight at home, and of his father and mother, and he wished he was back again in his own soft bed. He was frightened too by the strange noises, and every sound startled him.
At last when he was about to cry in his loneliness (наконец, когда он был готов заплакать от своего одиночества; to be about to do smth. – собираться что-либо сделать; lonely – одинокий), an old man came along (откуда ни возьмись появился старичок; to come along – /неожиданно/ приходить). The man was very old but he had a kindly face (человек этот был очень старым, но у него было доброе лицо), all wrinkled and weather-beaten (все морщинистое и обветренное; wrinkle – морщина; weather – погода; непогода, шторм; beaten – побитый; to beat – бить), and twinkling eyes that told of a merry heart (и искрящиеся глаза, которые говорили о добром сердце; to twinkle – мерцать, мигать, блестеть, сверкать). “Hello,” he said to the boy (привет, сказал он мальчику), “where are you from, and where are you going (откуда ты и куда идешь)?”
loneliness ['lǝʋnlɪnǝs], kindly ['kaɪndlɪ], weather-beaten ['weðǝ,bi:tn]
At last when he was about to cry in his loneliness, an old man came along. The man was very old but he had a kindly face, all wrinkled and weather-beaten, and twinkling eyes that told of a merry heart. “Hello,” he said to the boy, “where are you from, and where are you going?”
“I have come a long way (я пришел издалека: «я пришел долгим путем»),” said the boy, “and I am very tired and lonesome and far from home