Then Pau Amma, deep down below, laughed and said (тогда Пау Амма глубоко внизу засмеялся и сказал), ‘I did not know I was so important (я не знал, что я такой важный). Henceforward I will go out seven times a day (впредь я буду выходить семь раз в день), and the waters shall never be still (и воды не успокоятся никогда).’
And the Eldest Magician said (а Старейший Волшебник сказал), ‘I cannot make you play the play you were meant to play, Pau Amma (я не могу заставить тебя играть в игру, в которую ты должен был играть / для которой ты был предназначен, Пау Амма;
‘I am not afraid,’ said Pau Amma (я не боюсь, — сказал Пау Амма), and he rose to the top of the sea in the moonlight (и поднялся на поверхность моря в лунном свете).
laugh [lRf], important [Im'pLtqnt], henceforward ["hens'fLwqd]
Then Pau Amma, deep down below, laughed and said, ‘I did not know I was so important. Henceforward I will go out seven times a day, and the waters shall never be still.’
And the Eldest Magician said, ‘I cannot make you play the play you were meant to play, Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning; but if you are not afraid, come up and we will talk about it.’
‘I am not afraid,’ said Pau Amma, and he rose to the top of the sea in the moonlight.
There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma (не было никого в мире такого большого, как Пау Амма) — for he was the King Crab of all Crabs (ибо он был Царем Крабом всех Крабов). Not a common Crab, but a King Crab (не обычным Крабом, но Царем Крабом). One side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak (одна сторона его огромного панциря касалась берега Саравака); the other touched the beach at Pahang (другая касалась берега Паханга); and he was taller than the smoke of three volcanoes (и он был выше дыма трех вулканов)! As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree (когда он поднимался меж ветвей Удивительного Дерева) he tore off one of the great twin-fruits (он сорвал один из огромных двойных плодов) — the magic double-kernelled nuts (волшебных орехов с двойным ядром) that make people young (которые делают людей молодыми =
fruit [frHt], volcano [vOl'keInqu], scissors ['sIzqz]
There was nobody in the world so big as Pau Amma — for he was the King Crab of all Crabs. Not a common Crab, but a King Crab. One side of his great shell touched the beach at Sarawak; the other touched the beach at Pahang; and he was taller than the smoke of three volcanoes! As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the great twin-fruits — the magic double-kernelled nuts that make people young, — and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors.
‘Now,’ said the Magician (теперь, — сказал Волшебник), ‘make a Magic, Pau Amma (сотвори Волшебство, Пау Амма), to show that you are really important (чтобы показать, что ты действительно важный).