Английский язык с Шерлоком Холмсом. Второй сборник рассказов (ASCII-IPA)
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“I think that we may safely say,” returned Holmes, “that she is wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than sufficient punishment.”
The Resident Patient
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Glancing over the somewhat incoherent series of Memoirs (просматривая несколько несвязанные воспоминания; incoherent — бессвязный, непоследовательный, несвязный; series — ряд, последовательность; серия, выпуск) with which I have endeavored to illustrate a few of the mental peculiarities of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes (в которых я попытался проиллюстрировать некоторые интеллектуальные особенности моего друга Шерлока Холмса peculiarity — специфичность, особенность; характерная черта; отличительное качество), I have been struck by the difficulty (я столкнулся с трудностью) which I have experienced in picking out examples (которые я испытал, выбирая примеры) which shall in every way answer my purpose (которые
incoherent [,Ink@u'hI(@)r@nt], endeavored [In'dev@d], pronounced [pr@'naunst]
Glancing over the somewhat incoherent series of Memoirs with which I have endeavored to illustrate a few of the mental peculiarities of my friend Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I have been struck by the difficulty which I have experienced in picking out examples which shall in every way answer my purpose. For in those cases in which Holmes has performed some tour de force of analytical reasoning, and has demonstrated the value of his peculiar methods of investigation, the facts themselves have often been so slight or so commonplace that I could not feel justified in laying them before the public. On the other hand, it has frequently happened that he has been concerned in some research where the facts have been of the most remarkable and dramatic character, but where the share which he has himself taken in determining their causes has been less pronounced than I, as his biographer, could wish.
The small matter which I have chronicled under the heading of “A Study in Scarlet (одно небольшое дело, которое я записал под заглавием «Этюд в багровых тонах»; to chronicle — записывать, заносить /в хронику, летопись/; описывать),” and that other later one connected with the loss of the Gloria Scott (и другое, более позднее, связанное с исчезновением «Глории Скотт»), may serve as examples of this Scylla and Charybdis (могут служить примерами этаких Сциллы и Харибды) which are forever threatening the historian (которые всегда угрожают историку). It may be that in the business of which I am now about to write (может быть, в истории, о которой я собираюсь написать) the part which my friend played is not sufficiently accentuated (роль, сыгранная моим другом, не была особенно заметной; sufficiently — достаточно, в достаточной мере; to accentuate — делать ударение; выделять, подчеркивать); and yet the whole train of circumstances is so remarkable (однако вся цепь обстоятельств настолько поразительна; train — поезд; ряд, цепь, вереница; ход, развитие /событий/) that I cannot bring myself to omit it entirely from this series (что я не могу заставить себя совсем исключить ее из этого цикла).
It had been a close, rainy day in October (был душный дождливый октябрьский день; close — закрытый; спертый, душный). Our blinds were half-drawn (наши шторы были наполовину опущены), and Holmes lay curled upon the sofa (Холмс лежал, свернувшись, на диване), reading and re-reading a letter which he had received by the morning post (читая и перечитывая письмо, полученное с утренней почтой). For myself (что касается меня), my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold (то служба в Индии научила меня переносить жару лучше, чем холод; term of service — стаж, срок службы), and a thermometer of 90 was no hardship (и температура в 90 градусов /по Фаренгейту; примерно 32 градуса по Цельсию/ не представляла для меня трудности = я легко выдерживал 32-х градусную жару). But the paper was uninteresting (но газета была неинтересной). Parliament had risen (парламент завершил сессию; to rise — подниматься; закрываться, прекращать работу /о съезде, сессии и т. п./). Everybody was out of town (все уехали из города), and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea (а я тосковал по просекам Нью-Фореста и по покрытому галькой берегу Саутси).
chronicled ['krOnIkld], accentuated [@k'sentSueItId], Parliament ['pA:l@m@nt]
The small matter which I have chronicled under the heading of “A Study in Scarlet,” and that other later one connected with the loss of the Gloria Scott, may serve as examples of this Scylla and Charybdis which are forever threatening the historian. It may be that in the business of which I am now about to write the part which my friend played is not sufficiently accentuated; and yet the whole train of circumstances is so remarkable that I cannot bring myself to omit it entirely from this series.
It had been a close, rainy day in October. Our blinds were half-drawn, and Holmes lay curled upon the sofa, reading and re-reading a letter which he had received by the morning post. For myself, my term of service in India had trained me to stand heat better than cold, and a thermometer of 90 was no hardship. But the paper was uninteresting. Parliament had risen. Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea.
A depleted bank account had caused me to postpone my holiday (опустевший
Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation (обнаружив, что Холмс был слишком занят для разговора; to absorb — всасывать, впитывать; абсорбировать; поглощать; поглощать /внимание/), I had tossed aside the barren paper (я отбросил в сторону бессодержательную газету; barren — бесплодный; скучный, пустой, бессодержательный), and leaning back in my chair (и, откинувшись в кресле), I fell into a brown study (я погрузился в мрачное раздумье/в меланхолию; brown study — глубокое раздумье; мрачное настроение). Suddenly my companion’s voice broke in upon my thoughts (вдруг голос моего товарища прервал мои мысли; to break in — врываться, вламываться; вмешиваться, прерывать).
depleted [dI'pli:tId], nature ['neItS@], country ['kVntrI]
A depleted bank account had caused me to postpone my holiday, and as to my companion, neither the country nor the sea presented the slightest attraction to him. He loved to lie in the very centre of five millions of people, with his filaments stretching out and running through them, responsive to every little rumor or suspicion of unsolved crime. Appreciation of Nature found no place among his many gifts, and his only change was when he turned his mind from the evil-doer of the town to track down his brother of the country.
Finding that Holmes was too absorbed for conversation, I had tossed aside the barren paper, and leaning back in my chair, I fell into a brown study. Suddenly my companion’s voice broke in upon my thoughts.
“You are right, Watson (вы правы, Ватсон),” said he. “It does seem a very preposterous way of settling a dispute (это действительно очень нелепый способ разрешения спора).”
“Most preposterous (крайне нелепый)!” I exclaimed, and then, suddenly realizing (воскликнул я, а затем, вдруг осознав) how he had echoed the inmost thought of my soul (что он повторил мою самую глубокую/скрытую в глубине сознания мысль; echo — эхо), I sat up in my chair and stared at him in blank amazement (я выпрямился в кресле и уставился на него в полном изумлении).
“What is this, Holmes (как это так, Холмс)?” I cried. “This is beyond anything which I could have imagined (это превосходит все, что я мог бы представить).”
He laughed heartily at my perplexity (он рассмеялся, видя мое недоумение).
“You remember (помните),” said he, “that some little time ago (как недавно), when I read you the passage in one of Poe’s sketches (когда я прочитал вам отрывок из очерков По), in which a close reasoner follows the unspoken thought of his companion (в котором внимательный мыслитель следует за невысказанной мыслью своего товарища), you were inclined to treat the matter as a mere tour de force of the author (вы были склонны считать это всего лишь проявлением изобретательности автора). On my remarking that I was constantly in the habit of doing the same thing you expressed incredulity (когда я заметил, что постоянно делаю то же самое, вы выразили недоверие).”