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Seen her, nearly five years ago. Kathleen barely thirty, had said,

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"I've lost all my looks, it's in the family. All the women are handsome as

girls, but we go off early, we go brown and nosey."

 

I stood silently among the people, watching (я стояла беззвучно среди людей,

наблюдая). As you will see (как вы увидите), I wasn't in a position to speak to

Kathleen (у меня не было возможности поговорить с Кэтлин; to be in a position

to do smth — быть в состоянии сделать что-то; to speak to — говорить). I

saw her shoving in her avid manner from stall to stall (я видела, как она

проталкивается, в своей одержимой манере, от палатки к палатке; to shove —

толкаться; avid — жадный, алчный; stall — ларек, палатка на ярмарке). She

was always fond of antique jewellery and of bargains (ей всегда нравились

старинные драгоценности и возможность поторговаться; to be fond of smth. —

любить кого-то, что-то, jewellery — ювелирные изделия, bargain — сделка,

выгодная покупка). I wondered (удивительно; to wonder — интересоваться,

хотеть знать) that I had not seen her before in the Portobello Road (что я не

видела ее раньше на Портобелло Роуд) on my Saturday-morning ambles (во

время моих субботних утренних прогулок; amble — неторопливая

прогулка). Her long stiff-crooked fingers (ее длинные крючковатые пальцы;

stiff — твердый, жесткий crooked — кривой, изогнутый) pounced to select


 

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(устремлялись /к товару/ и выцепляли; to pounce — налетать, набрасываться

to select — выбирать) a jade ring (нефритовое кольцо) from amongst the jumble

(из кучи) of brooches and pendants (брошей и подвесок), onyx, moonstone, and

gold, (из оникса, лунного камня, золота; moon — луна, stone — камень) set out

on the stall (выставленных в палатке).

 

antique [xn'ti:k] jewellery, jewelry ['Gu:qlrI] bargain ['bQ:gIn]

 

I stood silently among the people, watching. As you will see, I wasn't in a

Position to speak to Kathleen. I saw her shoving in her avid manner from

Stall to stall. She was always fond of antique jewellery and of bargains. I


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