Английский шутя. Английские и американские анекдоты для начального чтения - стр. 3
The manager agreed and wrote up the sales slip (менеджер согласился и заполнил бланк с ценой; to write-wrote-written – писать). The crook (воришка) looked at the slip (посмотрел на бланк) and said, “This is a little more than I intended to spend (это несколько больше, чем я намеревался потратить). Can you show me something less expensive (вы не могли бы показать мне что-нибудь менее дорогое)?”
caught [kɔ:t], exclusive [ɪks'klu:sɪv], jewelry ['ʤu:ǝlrɪ], trouble ['trʌbl], either ['aɪðǝ; 'i:ðǝ], forget [fǝ'ɡet], agreed [ǝ'ɡri:d], intended [ɪn'tendɪd], expensive [ɪk'spensɪv]
A shoplifter was caught red-handed trying to steal a watch from an exclusive jewelry store. “Listen,” said the shoplifter, “I know you don't want any trouble either. What do you say I just buy the watch and we forget about this?”
The manager agreed and wrote up the sales slip. The crook looked at the slip and said, “This is a little more than I intended to spend. Can you show me something less expensive?”
• This is a little more than I intended to spend. Can you show me something less expensive?
2. “But why (но почему),” demanded (спросил) the puzzled judge (сбитый с толку судья) of the burglar (у грабителя) standing before (стоящего перед /ним/), “did you break (вы влезали; to break-broke-broken – ломать) into the same store three nights running (в один и тот же магазин три ночи подряд; to run – бежать; здесь: следовать)?”
“Well, Judge, it's like this (это было так),” was the reply (был ответ). “I picked out a dress for my wife (я взял: «подобрал/подцепил» платье для моей жены; to pick – выбирать; подбирать; отбирать) and I had to change it twice (а затем мне пришлось поменять его дважды).”
demanded [dɪ'mɑ:ndɪd], burglar ['bɜ:ɡlǝ], break [breɪk]
“But why,” demanded the puzzled judge of the burglar standing before, “did you break into the same store three nights running?”
“Well, Judge, it's like this,” was the reply. “I picked out a dress for my wife and I had to change it twice.”
• I picked out a dress for my wife and I had to change it twice.
3. Sherlock Holmes and his friend Watson (Шерлок Холмс и его друг Ватсон) were on a camping and hiking trip (были в палаточном походе; to hike – путешествовать; ходить пешком; бродяжничать).
They had gone to bed (они легли спать: «пошли в кровать»; to go-went-gone) and were lying there (и лежали «там») looking up at the sky (смотря «вверх» на небо).
Holmes said, “Watson, look up. What do you see (Ватсон, посмотрите наверх; что вы видите)?”
“Well, I see thousands of stars