• It’s a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the FISHES.
В общем, в школе говорили, что FISH нельзя ставить в форму -S. Много рыб – не MANY FISHES, а MANY FISH.
(Ну, и что-то там добавляли про виды рыб).
Если уж спать с рыбами, то логичнее – SLEEP WITH THE FISH… Тем временем все кому не лень ставят FISH во мн. число:
• If wishes were FISHES, we’d all swim in riches.
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1. Сразу. В школе в общем-то всё сказали правильно.
FISH – слово без окончания -S во мн. числе:
• I bought THREE FISH at the grocery store to keep them as pets.
FISHES – это уже (естественно) про разные виды рыб:
• Actually, I bought TWO FISHES: two carp and one bream.
Всё легко и просто:
2 карпа + 1 лещ = 3 FISH
2 карпа + 1 лещ = 2 FISHES
Делайте так на Айелтсе и будете молодцом.
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2. Теперь как там у живых людей.
Сначала у вечно живых:
• ‘I marvel how the FISHES live in the sea.’ ‘Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.’ W. Shakespeare, Pericles, Act II, Scene 1
В истории о чуде с хлебами и рыбами – THE STORY OF THE LOAVES AND FISHES:
• There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small FISHES: but what are they among so many? The KJV Bible, John 6:9
И в другой оттуда же:
• And they had a few small FISHES: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before them. The KJV Bible, Mark 8:7
• And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of FISHES: and their net brake. The KJV Bible, Luke 5:6
3. …И у наших современников:
• The stars in the Pisces constellation were associated with a fish (or TWO FISHES) by many ancient Middle East civilizations. Its vast bulk was viewed as a distant pair of FISHES connected by one cord. A bright star midway between the TWO FISHES represents the knot.
• “Cross the water, cross the sea. / Let them FISHES carry me. / And if them FISHES take too long, / Carry me on, carry me on.” - канадская поэтесса Trisha Pope.
Так что не слишком удивляйтесь, если услышите что-то вроде:
• I have THREE FISHES in my tank: Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
– вместо привычного:
• I have THREE FISH in my tank: Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
...И в целом, судите сами, как к этому относиться.
