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«Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)» in Italian

Book Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) in Italian

Tre uomini in barca

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📖 Pages212
⏰ Reading time 10 hours 45 minutes
💡 Originally published1889
🌏 Original language English
📌 Type Novels
📌 Genres Adventure, Realism, Humor
📌 Sections Adventure novel , Realistic novel , Humor novel

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CAPITOLO I

CHAPTER I

Tre invalidi. — Sofferenze di Giorgio e Harris. — Una vittima di centosette fatali malattie. — Prescrizioni utili. — Cura della malattia di fegato nei ragazzi. — Concludiamo che lavoriamo troppo e abbiamo bisogno di riposo. — Una settimana sulla profondità liquida. — Giorgio consiglia il Tamigi — Montmorency affaccia un’obiezione. — La mozione approvata a maggioranza.
THREE INVALIDS. - SUFFERINGS OF GEORGE AND HARRIS. - A VICTIM TO ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN FATAL MALADIES. - USEFUL PRESCRIPTIONS. - CURE FOR LIVER COMPLAINT IN CHILDREN. - WE AGREE THAT WE ARE OVERWORKED, AND NEED REST. - A WEEK ON THE ROLLING DEEP? - GEORGE SUGGESTS THE RIVER. - MONTMORENCY LODGES AN OBJECTION. - ORIGINAL MOTION CARRIED BY MAJORITY OF THREE TO ONE.
Eravamo in quattro: Giorgio, Guglielmo Samuele Harris, io e Montmorency. Seduti nella mia stanza, si fumava e si parlava di come stessimo male... male, intendo, rispetto alla salute.
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were - bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.
Ci sentivamo tutti sfiaccati e ne eravamo impensieriti. Harris diceva che a volte si sentiva assalito da tali strani accessi di vertigine, che sapeva a pena che si facesse; e poi Giorgio disse che anche lui era assalito da accessi di vertigine e appena sapeva anche lui che si facesse. Io poi avevo il fegato ammalato. Sapevo di avere il fegato ammalato, perchè avevo appunto letto un annuncio di pillole brevettate nel quale si specificavano minutamente i vari sintomi dai quali il lettore poteva arguire d’avere il fegato malato. Io li avevo tutti.
We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that HE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all.
È strano, ma non mi avviene mai di leggere un annuncio di specialità brevettate, senza sentirmi tratto alla conclusione d’essere affetto dalla peculiare malattia — nella sua forma più virulenta — che forma il soggetto dell’annuncio. A ogni modo, la diagnosi par che corrisponda sempre esattamente a tutte le mie particolari sensazioni.
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
Ricordo d’esser andato un giorno al British Museum a leggere il trattamento di un piccolo malanno del quale avevo qualche leggero attacco — credo che fosse la febbre del fieno. Mi feci dare il libro, e lessi tutto quello che dovevo leggere; e poi, in un momento d’oblio, voltai oziosamente le pagine e cominciai a studiare indolentemente le malattie in generale. Non ricordo più il primo morbo nel quale m’immersi — so che era un pauroso flagello devastatore — e prima che avessi dato un’occhiata a una metà della lista dei «sintomi premonitori», ero già bell’e convinto di esserne affetto.
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into - some fearful, devastating scourge, I know - and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.
Rimasi per un po’ agghiacciato d’orrore; e poi, nell’incuranza della disperazione, mi misi a voltare le altre pagine. Arrivai al tifo — ne lessi i sintomi — scopersi d’averlo (dovevo averlo da mesi senza saperlo) — mi domandai che altro avessi; incontrai il ballo di San Vito — trovai, come m’aspettavo, d’avere anche quello, — cominciai a interessarmi al mio caso, e risoluto d’andare fino in fondo, cominciai per ordine alfabetico — lessi della malaria e appresi che ne ero affetto e che la fase acuta sarebbe cominciata fra una quindicina circa. Mi consolai trovando che l’albuminuria l’avevo soltanto in forma attenuata, e che quindi, per quel che mi riguardava, sarei potuto vivere ancora anni e anni. Avevo il colera con gravi complicazioni; e sembra che con la difterite ci fossi nato. Percorsi faticosamente e coscienziosamente tutte quante le lettere dell’alfabeto, e potei concludere che l’unica malattia che non avessi era il ginocchio della lavandaia.
I sat for awhile, frozen with horror; and then, in the listlessness of despair, I again turned over the pages. I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that I had that too, - began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight. Bright's disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
A questo sulle prime mi sentii un po’ offeso; mi sembrava che la cosa implicasse una specie di dispregio. Perchè non avevo il ginocchio della lavandaia? Perchè questa oltraggiosa distinzione? Dopo un poco, però, prevalsero dei sentimenti meno esclusivi. Pensai che avevo tutte le malattie note in farmacologia, e divenni meno egoista, e risolsi di fare a meno del ginocchio della lavandaia. Pareva che la gotta, nella sua fase più maligna, mi avesse invaso senza che me ne fossi accorto; e che avessi sofferto di zona fin dall’infanzia. Non v’erano altre malattie dopo la zona; e così conclusi che non avevo altro.
I felt rather hurt about this at first; it seemed somehow to be a sort of slight. Why hadn't I got housemaid's knee? Why this invidious reservation? After a while, however, less grasping feelings prevailed. I reflected that I had every other known malady in the pharmacology, and I grew less selfish, and determined to do without housemaid's knee. Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood. There were no more diseases after zymosis, so I concluded there was nothing else the matter with me.
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02.01.2021 10:20

Good Novel, written in a very otivating manner

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