| He enjoyed Nurse Sue Ann Duckett's long white legs and supple, callipygous ass; he often neglected to remember that she was quite slim and fragile from the waist up and hurt her unintentionally in moments of passion when he hugged her too roughly. He loved her manner of sleepy acquiescence when they lay on the beach at dusk. He drew solace and sedation from her nearness. He had a craving to touch her always, to remain always in physical communication. He liked to encircle her ankle loosely with his fingers as he played cards with Nately, Dunbar and Hungry Joe, to lightly and lovingly caress the downy skin of her fair, smooth thigh with the backs of his nails or, dreamily, sensuously, almost unconsciously, slide his proprietary, respectful hand up the shell-like ridge of her spine beneath the elastic strap of the top of the two-piece bathing suit she always wore to contain and cover her tiny, long-nippled breasts. | Иногда в сумерках они лежали на пляже, и в такие минуты ее близость давала ему утешение и успокоение. |
| He loved Nurse Duckett's serene, flattered response, the sense of attachment to him she displayed proudly. | Он любил ее - безмятежную, мягкую, отзывчивую, любил за преданность, которую она демонстрировала с гордостью. |
| Hungry Joe had a craving to feel Nurse Duckett up, too, and was restrained more than once by Yossarian's forbidding glower. | Заморыш Джо тоже жаждал приласкать сестру Даккит, и Йоссариан не раз осаживал его сердитым взглядом. |
| Nurse Duckett flirted with Hungry Joe just to keep him in heat, and her round light-brown eyes glimmered with mischief every time Yossarian rapped her sharply with his elbow or fist to make her stop. | Сестра Даккит кокетничала с Заморышем Джо, желая распалить его посильней, а когда Йоссариан унимал ее, толкнув локтем или кулаком, в ее круглых светло-карих глазах мелькало огорчение. |
| The men played cards on a towel, undershirt, or blanket, and Nurse Duckett mixed the extra deck of cards, sitting with her back resting against a sand dune. | Пока они играли в карты на полотенце, на белье или одеяле, сестра Даккит, сидя спиной к дюнам, тасовала запасную колоду. |
| When she was not shuffling the extra deck of cards, she sat squinting into a tiny pocket mirror, brushing mascara on her curling reddish eyelashes in a birdbrained effort to make them longer permanently. | А когда не тасовала карты, косилась в карманное зеркальце и подмазывала тушью загнутые рыжеватые ресницы. |
| Occasionally she was able to stack the cards or spoil the deck in a way they did not discover until they were well into the game, and she laughed and glowed with blissful gratification when they all hurled their cards down disgustedly and began punching her sharply on the arms or legs as they called her filthy names and warned her to stop fooling around. | Иногда она ухитрялась спрятать несколько карт из колоды, и они обнаруживали пропажу только в процессе игры. Когда, раздраженно отшвырнув карты, они колотили ее по рукам и ногам, обзывали разными нехорошими словами и требовали, чтобы она перестала дурачиться, сестра Даккит хохотала во все горло и вся светилась от удовольствия. |
| She would prattle nonsensically when they were striving hardest to think, and a pink flush of elation crept into her cheeks when they gave her more sharp raps on the arms and legs with their fists and told her to shut up. | Заметив, что игроки как-то особенно напряженно задумались, она принималась бессмысленно болтать, а когда они начинали еще сильней бить ее кулаками по рукам и ногам, требуя, чтобы она заткнулась, на щеках сестры Даккит разгорался счастливый румянец. |
