Илья Франк

трезвого») , well-behaved (добропорядочного:

first paling of the stars (но его глаза открылись с первыми

Rivière, responsable du réseau entier, se promenait de long en large sur le terrain d’atterrissage de Buenos Aires. Il demeurait silencieux car, jusqu’à l’arrivée des trois avions, cette journée, pour lui, restait redoutable. Minute par minute, à mesure que les télégrammes lui parvenaient, Rivière avait conscience d’arracher quelque chose au sort, de réduire la part d’inconnu, et de tirer ses équipages, hors de la nuit, jusqu’au rivage.

He was very weary and often wished to rest – to lie down and sleep; but he was continually driven on – not so much by his desire to gain the land of little sticks as by his hunger. He searched little ponds for frogs and dug up the earth with his nails for worms, though he knew in spite that neither frogs nor worms existed so far north.

it. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him; but there was the fact. The weather made me liverish, the talk of the ordinary Englishman made me sick, I couldn’t get enough exercise, and the amusements of London seemed as flat as soda-water that has been standing in the sun.

I had hoped that His Majesty would think better of me if I told him about our methods of war. I decided therefore, to tell him something of the greatest importance. I told him that we have

kmotra zabil. Měj rozum a drž jazyk za zuby; to víš, co by se mi stalo, kdyby se to

Comme je m’en voulais maintenant du temps perdu (как же я сердился на себя теперь за потерянное время; vouloir – хотеть, желать; en vouloir à qn – сердиться на коголибо; perdre – терять; perdu – потерянный

Adelbert von Chamisso Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte

and about 2,000 head of cordial and dilatory inhabitants (и