Господа, объясниете пожалуйста что это за конструкция.
то есть что-то вроде

This being an elephant.

Ато она всюду, блин, не даёт насладиться классическиме праизведенияме английскай литературы ...

The chelloveck sitting next to me, there being this long big plushy seat that ran round three walls, was well away with his glazzies glazed and sort of burbling slovos like "Aristotle wishy washy works outing cyclamen get forficulate smartish."

In the trousers of this starry veck there was only a malenky bit of cutter (money, that is)--not more than three gollies--so we gave all his messy little coin the scatter treatment, it being hen-korm to the amount of pretty polly we had on us already.

The next thing was to do the sammy act, which was one way to unload
some of our cutter so we'd have more of an incentive like for some
shop-crasting, as well as it being a way of buying an alibi in advance, so
we went into the Duke of New York on Amis Avenue and sure enough in the snug
there were three or four old baboochkas peeting their black and suds on SA
(State Aid).

Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was
mostly by fours or fives, these being like auto-teams, four being a comfy
number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes
gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big night-war, but
mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.

And there rose like the sun Ludwig van himself with thundery litso and cravat and wild windy voloss, and then I heard the Ninth, last movement, with the slovos all a bit mixed-up like they knew themselves they had to be mixed-up, this being a dream:

"You seem a sufficiently intelligent young man. You seem, too, to be
not without taste. You've just got this violence thing, haven't you?
Violence and theft, theft being an aspect of violence." I didn't govoreet a
single slovo, brothers, I was still feeling sick, though getting a malenky
bit better now.

тогда было бы This an elephant being..... в моём понимании.

D129,
мне смысл понятен, хотелось бы знать что это за конструкция такая...

всё понял, причастие being относится к this а не к слону.

всем спасиба.

превед, литературый критег!

ну мне по этому поводу не очень интересно спорить.
а вообще книжка известная, думаю вы с лёгкостью найдёте с кем можно подискутировать на эту тему.

//http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&newwindow=1&rlz=1T4SUNA_enDE260DE260&q=A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess &lr=&aq=f&oq=

Спасибо LenaV