| Nurse Duckett reveled in such attention and ducked her short chestnut bangs with joy when Yossarian and the others focused upon her. It gave her a peculiar feeling of warm and expectant well-being to know that so many naked boys and men were idling close by on the other side of the sand dunes. She had only to stretch her neck or rise on some pretext to see twenty or forty undressed males lounging or playing ball in the sunlight. Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take his word for it. | Когда взоры Йоссариана и его приятелей устремлялись на нее, сестра Даккит упивалась подобным вниманием и радостно трясла короткой каштановой челкой. |
| Evenings when Yossarian felt horny he brought Nurse Duckett to the beach with two blankets and enjoyed making love to her with most of their clothes on more than he sometimes enjoyed making love to all the vigorous bare amoral girls in Rome. Frequently they went to the beach at night and did not make love, but just lay shivering between the blankets against each other to ward off the brisk, damp chill. | По вечерам, когда Йоссариана одолевала душевная маята, он брал два одеяла и отправлялся с сестрой Даккит на пляж. |
| The ink-black nights were turning cold, the stars frosty and fewer. | Над ними, на холодном, черном, как тушь, небе, светились крохотные ледяные звезды. |
| The raft swayed in the ghostly trail of moonlight and seemed to be sailing away. A marked hint of cold weather penetrated the air. Other men were just starting to build stoves and came to Yossarian's tent during the day to marvel at Orr's workmanship. It thrilled Nurse Duckett rapturously that Yossarian could not keep his hands off her when they were together, although she would not let him slip them inside her bathing shorts during the day when anyone was near enough to see, not even when the only witness was Nurse Cramer, who sat on the other side of her sand dune with her reproving nose in the air and pretended not to see anything. | На призрачной лунной дорожке покачивался плот: казалось, его уносит в открытое море. |
| Nurse Cramer had stopped speaking to Nurse Duckett, her best friend, because of her liaison with Yossarian, but still went everywhere with Nurse Duckett since Nurse Duckett was her best friend. | Сестра Крамер перестала разговаривать со своей лучшей подругой, сестрой Даккит, из-за ее связи с Йоссарианом. |
| She did not approve of Yossarian or his friends. | Но она по-прежнему ходила повсюду с сестрой Даккит: ведь та была ее лучшей подругой. |
| When they stood up and went swimming with Nurse Duckett, Nurse Cramer stood up and went swimming, too, maintaining the same ten-yard distance between them, and maintaining her silence, snubbing them even in the water. | Сестра Крэмер не одобряла поведения Йоссариана и его друзей. Когда они вставали и шли купаться вместе с сестрой Даккит, сестра Крамер тоже вставала и шла купаться, сохраняя все ту же десятиметровую дистанцию. |
