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lazy ['leIzI], remain [rI'meIn], housework ['hauswq:k], prevent [prI'vent], marriage ['mxrIdZ], thereupon ["Deqrq'pOn], enchant [In'tSQ:nt]
But the girl lived with an old woman who did not want her to marry anyone, for she was so lazy she wished the girl to remain with her and do the cooking and the housework. So the old woman went to the Wicked Witch of the East, and promised her two sheep and a cow if she would prevent the marriage. Thereupon the Wicked Witch enchanted my axe, and when I was chopping away at my best one day, for I was anxious to get the new house and my wife as soon as possible, the axe slipped all at once and cut off my left leg.
"This at first seemed a great misfortune (поначалу это казалось большим несчастьем), for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper (потому что я знал, что одноногий мужчина не может успешно работать дровосеком; to do well — процветать, преуспевать; хорошо идти /о делах/: «делать хорошо»). So I went to a tinsmith and had him make me a new leg out of tin (поэтому я пошел к жестянщику и попросил его/поручил ему сделать мне новую ногу из жести/железа; tinsmith — лудильщик, паяльщик, жестянщик). The leg worked very well, once I was used to it (эта нога работала/двигалась очень хорошо, когда я привык к ней). But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East (но мой поступок разозлил Злую Ведьму Востока), for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl (потому что она пообещала той старухе, что я не женюсь на прекрасной Манчкинской девушке). When I began chopping again (когда я снова начал рубить лес), my axe slipped and cut off my right leg (мой топор выскользнул и отрубил мою правую ногу). Again I went to the tinsmith, and again he made me a leg out of tin (снова я пошел к жестянщику, и снова он сделал мне ногу из железа).
misfortune [mIs'fO:tS(q)n], one-legged ["wAn'leg(I)d], tinsmith ['tInsmIT], anger ['xNgq]
"This at first seemed a great misfortune, for I knew a one-legged man could not do very well as a wood-chopper. So I went to a tinsmith and had him make me a new leg out of tin. The leg worked very well, once I was used to it. But my action angered the Wicked Witch of the East, for she had promised the old woman I should not marry the pretty Munchkin girl. When I began chopping again, my axe slipped and cut off my right leg. Again I went to the tinsmith, and again he made me a leg out of tin.
