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Subject: tipsy house Помогите перевести по красивей и правильней tipsy house.Предложение из Мемуары Гейши Артура Голда:In our little fishing village of Yorido, I lived in what I called a tipsy house. Заранее спасибо! |
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Пьяный домик ? Может быть, дальше есть объяснение? |
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Объяснение в самом контексте: In our little fishing village of Yoriodo, I lived in what I called a “tipsy house.” It stood near a cliff where the wind off the ocean was always blowing. As a child it seemed to me as if the ocean had caught a terrible cold, because it was always wheezing and there would be spells where it let out a huge sneeze–which is to say there was a burst of wind with a tremendous spray. I decided our tiny house must have been offended by the ocean sneezing in its face from time to time, and took to leaning back because it wanted to get out of the way. Probably it would have collapsed if my father hadn’t cut a timber from a wrecked fishing boat toprop up the eaves, which made the house look like a tipsy old man leaning on his crutch |
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