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Nechama Chaya ([personal profile] med_cat) wrote2016-10-29 09:11 am

ВУРДАЛАК/ A ghoul

13. ВУРДАЛАК.


Трусоват был Ваня бедный:
Раз он позднею порой,
Весь в поту, от страха бледный,
Чрез кладбище шел домой.

Poor Vanya was somewhat cowardly:
One time, late in the evening,
Covered with sweat, pale with fear,
He was walking home through the cemetery.




Бедный Ваня еле дышит
Спотыкаясь, чуть бредет
По могилам; вдруг он слышит,
Кто-то кость, ворча, грызет.

Poor Vanya is hardly breathing,
Stumbling, he drags his feet slowly
Across the graves; suddenly he hears
Someone, grumbling, is gnawing on a bone.

Ваня стал; - шагнуть не может.
Боже! думает бедняк,
Это верно кости гложет
Красногубый вурдалак.

Vanya stood stock-still; he can't take another step.
"Oh my God," the poor boy thinks,
"It must be a red-lipped ghoul
Chewing on the bones."

Горе! малый я не сильный;
Съест упырь меня совсем,
Если сам земли могильной
Я с молитвою не съем.

"Woe is me! I'm not a strong fellow;
This ghoul will eat me whole,
Unless I first say a prayer
And eat a handful of earth from atop a grave."

Что же? вместо вурдалака -
(Вы представьте Вани злость!)
В темноте пред ним собака
На могиле гложет кость.

Well then? instead of a ghoul--
(you must just imagine Vanya's anger!)
In the darkness, in front of him,
A dog Is gnawing on a bone, on top of a grave. (Pushkin)

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