Английский язык с Агатой Кристи. Убийство в Восточном Экспрессе (ASCII-IPA)
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“None (никаких).”
carelessness ['ke@lIsnIs] genuine ['dZenjUIn] oversight ['@Uv@saIt] theory ['TI(@)rI]
“As you said, M. Poirot,” put in the doctor, “two clues is too much carelessness. I agree with M. Bouc. The handkerchief was a genuine oversight — hence none of the women will admit that it is hers. The pipe-cleaner is a faked clue. In support of that theory, you notice that Colonel Arbuthnot shows no embarrassment and admits freely to smoking a pipe and using that type of cleaner.”
“You reason well,” said Poirot.
“Question No. 3 — Who wore the scarlet kimono?” went on M. Bouc. “As to that, I will confess I have not the slightest idea. Have you any views on the subject, Dr. Constantine?”
“None.”
“Then we confess ourselves beaten there (значит, здесь мы признаем себя побежденными; beaten — битый, избитый; разбитый, побежденный). The next question has, at any rate, possibilities (у
masquerade [,m&sk@'reId] swear [swe@] draught [drA:ft] absurd [@b's@:d]
“Then we confess ourselves beaten there. The next question has, at any rate, possibilities. Who was the man or the woman masquerading in Wagon Lit uniform? Well, one can list with certainty a number of people that it could not have been. Hardman, Colonel Arbuthnot, Foscarelli, Count Andrenyi and Hector MacQueen are all too tall. Mrs. Hubbard, Hildegarde Schmidt and Greta Ohlsson are too broad. That leaves the valet, Miss Debenham, Princess Dragomiroff and Countess Andrenyi — and none of them sounds likely! Greta Ohlsson in one case, and Antonio Foscarelli in the other, both swear that Miss Debenham and the valet never left their compartments. Hildegarde Schmidt swears that the Princess was in hers, and Count Andrenyi has told us that his wife took a sleeping draught. Therefore it seems impossible that it can be anybody — which is absurd!”
“As our old friend Euclid says (как говорит наш старый друг Евклид),” murmured Poirot (пробормотал Пуаро).
“It must be one of those four (это должен быть кто-то из этих четырех),” said Dr. Constantine. “Unless it is someone from outside (если это не кто-то посторонний: «кто-то со стороны»; outside — наружный, внешний; внешний, посторонний; outside — наружная часть или сторона; внешний мир) who has found a hiding-place (кто нашел какое-то тайное укрытие; to hide — прятаться; hiding-place — тайник; тайное убежище) — and that we agreed was impossible (а это, как мы уже согласились, невозможно).”
M. Bouc had passed on to the next question on the list (мсье Бук перешел к следующему вопросу списка).
“No. 5 — Why do the hands of the broken watch point to 1.15 (номер 5 — почему стрелки сломанных часов показывают 1.15)? I can see two explanations of that (я вижу: «могу видеть» этому
The other two waited respectfully while M. Bouc struggled in mental agony (двое других /мужчин/ почтительно ожидали, пока мсье Бук бился в интеллектуальных муках; to struggle — бороться; делать усилия, стараться изо всех сил; mental — умственный; производимый в уме, мысленный).
Euclid ['ju:klId] respectfully [rI'spektf(@)lI] agony ['&g@nI]
“As our old friend Euclid says,” murmured Poirot.
“It must be one of those four,” said Dr. Constantine. “Unless it is someone from outside who has found a hiding-place — and that we agreed was impossible.”
M. Bouc had passed on to the next question on the list.
“No. 5 — Why do the hands of the broken watch point to 1.15? I can see two explanations of that. Either it was done by the murderer to establish an alibi, and afterwards, when he meant to leave the compartment, he was prevented by hearing people moving about; or else — wait — I have an idea coming — ”
The other two waited respectfully while M. Bouc struggled in mental agony.
“I have it (вот; to have — иметь; разг. усваивать, понимать; найти решение),” he said at last (сказал он наконец). “It was not the Wagon Lit murderer who tampered with the watch (это был не убийца /в форме проводника/ спальных вагонов, что перевел стрелки часов: «что приложил руку к часам»; to tamper — трогать, соваться /во что-либо/, портить)! It was the person we have called the Second Murderer (это был человек, которого мы назвали Вторым Убийцей) — the left-handed person (левша) — in other words the woman in the scarlet kimono (другими словами, женщина в алом кимоно). She arrives later (она приходит позже) and moves back the hands of the watch (и переводит стрелки часов назад) in order to make an alibi for herself (для того, чтобы создать себе алиби).”
“Bravo,” said Dr. Constantine. “It is well imagined, that (хорошо придумано; to imagine — воображать, представлять себе; догадываться, понимать).”
tamper ['t&mp@] bravo ['brA:v@U] imagine [I'm&dZIn]
“I have it,” he said at last. “It was not the Wagon Lit murderer who tampered with the watch! It was the person we have called the Second Murderer — the left-handed person — in other words the woman in the scarlet kimono. She arrives later and moves back the hands of the watch in order to make an alibi for herself.”
“Bravo,” said Dr. Constantine. “It is well imagined, that.”
“In fact (по сути),” said Poirot, “she stabbed him in the dark (она заколола его в темноте), not realizing that he was dead already (не осознавая, что он уже был мертв; to realize — осуществить, выполнить; представлять себе, ясно понимать, осознавать), but somehow deduced that he had a watch in his pyjama pocket (но каким-то образом она сделала вывод, что у него в кармане пижамы лежали часы), took it out (достала их), put back the hands blindly (вслепую перевела стрелки назад; blind — слепой, незрячий; blindly — безрассудно; машинально), and gave it the requisite dent (и оставила на них требуемую вмятину).”
M. Bouc looked at him coldly (мсье Бук холодно взглянул на него). “Have you anything better to suggest, yourself (вы сами можете предложить что-нибудь получше)?” he asked.
“At the moment — no (в данный момент — нет),” admitted Poirot (признался Пуаро). “All the same (и все-таки),” he went on (продолжал он), “I do not think you have either of you appreciated (мне кажется, что никто из вас не оценил; either — любой /из двух/; и тот и другой, оба, to appreciate — ценить; оценивать по достоинству) the most interesting point about that watch (самого интересного /момента/ в этих часах).”