Мальтийский сокол. Английский язык с Д. Хэмметом.
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switched [swItSt] haste [heIst] scrutinize ['skru:tInaIz]
In the girl's apartment he switched on all the lights. He searched the place from wall to wall. His eyes and thick fingers moved without apparent haste, and without ever lingering or fumbling or going back, from one inch of their fields to the next, probing, scrutinizing, testing with expert certainty. Every drawer, cupboard, cubbyhole, box, bag, trunk — locked or unlocked — was opened and its contents subjected to examination by eyes and fingers.
Every piece of clothing (каждый предмет одежды; piece —
crinkle ['krINk(q)l] bed-clothes ['bedklqVDz, -klqVz] concealment [kqn'si:lmqnt]
Every piece of clothing was tested by hands that felt for telltale bulges and ears that listened for the crinkle of paper between pressing fingers. He stripped the bed of bedclothes. He looked under rugs and at the under side of each piece of furniture. He pulled down blinds to see that nothing had been rolled up in them for concealment. He leaned through windows to see that nothing hung below them on the outside.
He poked with a fork into powder (он ткнул вилкой в пудру; powder — порошок) and cream-jars (и баночки с кремом) on the dressing-table (на туалетном столике). He held atomizers (он держал пульверизаторы) and bottles (и бутылочки) up against the light (против света). He examined dishes and pans (он проверил блюда и кастрюли) and food and food-containers (и еду, и контейнеры для еды). He emptied the garbage-can (он опустошил мусорное ведро) on spread sheets of newspaper (на разложенных листах газеты). He opened the top of the flush-box (он открыл крышку сливного бачка) in the bathroom (в ванной), drained the box (осушил бачок; to drain — отводить, откачивать), and peered down into it (и всматривался туда). He examined (он осмотрел) and tested the metal screens (и проверил металлические экраны) over the drains of bathtub (над водостоком ванны), wash-bowl (таз), sink (раковину), and laundry tub (и кадку для стирки).
powder ['paVdq] atomizer ['xtqmaIzq] garbage ['gQ:bIdZ]
He poked with a fork into powder and cream-jars on the dressing-table. He held atomizers and bottles up against the light. He examined dishes and pans and food and food-containers. He emptied the garbage-can on spread sheets of newspaper. He opened the top of the flush-box in the bathroom, drained the box, and peered down into it. He examined and tested the metal screens over the drains of bathtub, wash-bowl, sink, and laundry tub.
He did not find the black bird (он не нашел черной птицы). He found nothing (он не нашел ничего) that seemed to have any connection with a black bird (что казалось имеющим какую-либо связь с черной птицей). The only piece of writing (единственный документ; writing — писание, записка) he found (который он нашел) was a week-old receipt (была квитанция недельной давности) for the month's apartment-rent (за месячную арендную плату за квартиру) Brigid O'Shaughnessy had paid (которую заплатила Бриджит О’Шонесси). The only thing he found (единственная вещь, которую он нашел) that interested him enough (которая заинтересовала его достаточно) to delay his search (чтобы задержать/отложить его обыск) while he looked at it (пока он смотрел на нее) was a double-handful (были две пригоршни) of rather fine jewelry (довольно красивых украшений) in a polychrome box (в разноцветном ящичке) in a locked dressing-table-drawer (в закрытом ящике туалетного стола).
connection [kq'nekS(q)n] thing [TIN] polychrome ['pOlIkrqVm]
He did not find the black bird. He found nothing that seemed to have any connection with a black bird. The only piece of writing he found was a week-old receipt for the month's apartment-rent Brigid O'Shaughnessy had paid. The only thing he found that interested him enough to delay his search while he looked at it was a double-handful of rather fine jewelry in a polychrome box in a locked dressing-table-drawer.
When he had finished (когда он закончил) he made and drank a cup of coffee (он сделал и выпил чашку кофе). Then he unlocked the kitchen-window (потом он отпер окно на кухне), scarred the edge of its lock a little (немного поцарапал край его задвижки) with his pocket-knife (своим карманным ножом), opened the window (открыл окно) — over a fire-escape (рядом с пожарным выходом; escape — бегство, избавление) — got his hat and overcoat (взял свою шляпу и пальто) from the settee in the living-room (с диванчика в гостиной), and left the apartment (и покинул квартиру) as he had come (как он и пришел).
unlock [An'lOk] knife [naIf] escape [I'skeIp]
When he had finished he made and drank a cup of coffee. Then he unlocked the kitchen-window, scarred the edge of its lock a little with his pocket-knife, opened the window — over a fire-escape — got his hat and overcoat from the settee in the living-room, and left the apartment as he had come.
On his way home (по пути домой) he stopped at a store (он остановился у магазина) that was being opened (который открывался) by a puffy-eyed shivering plump grocer (бакалейщиком с опухшими глазами, дрожащим и полным/пухлым) and bought oranges (и купил апельсинов), eggs (яиц), rolls (булочек; roll — рулон, свиток, труба), butter (масла), and cream (и сливок).
Spade went quietly into his apartment (Спейд вошел тихо в свою квартиру), but before he had shut the corridor-door behind him (но прежде чем он закрыл дверь в коридор за собой) Brigid O'Shaughnessy cried (Бриджит О’Шонесси закричала): "Who is that (кто там)?"
"Young Spade (юный Спейд) bearing breakfast (несущий завтрак)."
"Oh, you frightened me (о, ты напугал меня)!"
being ['bi:IN] grocer ['grqVsq] quietly ['kwaIqtlI]
On his way home he stopped at a store that was being opened by a puffy-eyed shivering plump grocer and bought oranges, eggs, rolls, butter, and cream.