существовании: «что ты когда-либо существовал»;
inevitable [I'nevItqb(q)l] especially [I'speS(q)lI] millstone ['mIlstqVn]
frightful ['fraItf(q)l]
They talked so much together that it was inevitable for her at last to learn his
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views on marriage.
"I think an actor's a perfect fool to marry young. There are so many cases in
which it absolutely ruins a chap's career. Especially if he marries an actress.
He becomes a star and then she's a millstone round his neck. She insists on
playing with him, and if he's in management he has to give her leading parts,
and if he engages someone else there are most frightful scenes. And of course,
for an actress it's insane. There's always the chance of her having a baby and
she may have to refuse a damned good part. She's out of the public eye for
months, and you know what the public is, unless they see you all the time they
forget that you ever existed."
Marriage (жениться: «женитьба»)? What did she care about marriage (какое ей
было дело до женитьбы)? Her heart melted within her (ее сердце таяло внутри
/ее/;
(когда она смотрела в его глубокие), friendly eyes (дружеские глаза), and she
shivered with delightful anguish (и она трепетала от восхитительной
боли/тоски;
considered his shining, russet hair (когда она любовалась его блестящими
каштановым волосами: «рассматривала его блестящие красно-коричневые
волосы»). There was nothing (не было ничего) that he could have asked her (о
чем бы он мог попросить ее) that she would not gladly have given him (и что
она не дала бы ему с радостью). The thought never entered his lovely head (эта
мысль никогда не приходила: «входила» в его красивую голову).
"Of course he likes me (конечно, я ему нравлюсь)," she said to herself (говорила
она себе). "He likes me better than anyone (я нравлюсь ему больше, чем кто-
либо еще), he even admires me (он даже восхищается мной), but I don't attract
him that way (но я не привлекаю его как женщина: «в том смысле, тем
образом»)."
care [keq] shiver ['SIvq] anguish ['xNgwIS] russet ['rAsIt]
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Marriage? What did she care about marriage? Her heart melted within her
when she looked into his deep, friendly eyes, and she shivered with delightful
anguish when she considered his shining, russet hair. There was nothing that
he could have asked her that she would not gladly have given him. The
thought never entered his lovely head.
"Of course he likes me," she said to herself. "He likes me better than anyone,
he even admires me, but I don't attract him that way."
She did everything to seduce him (она делала все, чтобы соблазнить его) except
slip into bed with him (за исключением разве что того, что она не нырнула с
ним в постель;
not do that (и единственное, почему она не сделала этого) because there was no
opportunity (так это потому, что ей не представилась: «не было»
возможность). She began to fear (она начала бояться) that they knew one
another too well (что они знали друг друга слишком хорошо) for it (для того)
to seem possible (чтобы это могло показаться возможным) that their relations
(что их отношения) should change (могут измениться;