Трое на велосипеде
May. 25th, 2005 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gianthareВообще, отличные цитаты (как и весь Джером) про немцев:
«The German idea of it [duty] would appear to be: "blind obedience to everything in buttons." It is the antithesis of the Anglo-Saxon scheme; but as both the Anglo-Saxon аnd the Teuton are prospering, there must be good in both methods. Hitherto, the German has had the blessed fortune to be exceptionally well governed; if this continue, it will go well with him. When his troubles will begin will be when by any chance something goes wrong with the governing machine. But maybe his method has the advantage of producing a continuous supply of good governors; it would certainly seem so.»
«A country [Germany] that closes its banks and post-offices for two hours in the middle of the day, while it goes home and enjoys a comfortable meal in the bosom of its family, with, perhaps, forty winks by way of dessert, cannot hope, and possibly has no wish, to compete with a people [Anglo-Saxons] that takes its meals standing, and sleeps with a telephone over its bed.»
Ну и так далее. Не могу ж я все цитировать. Заболею, буду опять Джерома читать.
forty winks, если кто не знает (я не знал), — это краткий (послеобеденный) сон.
«The German idea of it [duty] would appear to be: "blind obedience to everything in buttons." It is the antithesis of the Anglo-Saxon scheme; but as both the Anglo-Saxon аnd the Teuton are prospering, there must be good in both methods. Hitherto, the German has had the blessed fortune to be exceptionally well governed; if this continue, it will go well with him. When his troubles will begin will be when by any chance something goes wrong with the governing machine. But maybe his method has the advantage of producing a continuous supply of good governors; it would certainly seem so.»
«A country [Germany] that closes its banks and post-offices for two hours in the middle of the day, while it goes home and enjoys a comfortable meal in the bosom of its family, with, perhaps, forty winks by way of dessert, cannot hope, and possibly has no wish, to compete with a people [Anglo-Saxons] that takes its meals standing, and sleeps with a telephone over its bed.»
Ну и так далее. Не могу ж я все цитировать. Заболею, буду опять Джерома читать.
forty winks, если кто не знает (я не знал), — это краткий (послеобеденный) сон.
