Английский для смелых. Истории о духах и привидениях / Great Ghost Stories - страница 19
(а мир забыл меня, как я забыл мир; to forget). You have my history (вы знаете теперь мою историю).’
‘It is a very sad one (очень печальная история),’ I murmured, scarcely knowing what to answer (пробормотал я, едва представляя, что тут можно сказать; to know – знать; to answer – отвечать).
‘It is a very common one,’ he replied (вполне обычная история, – ответил он; very – очень). ‘I have only suffered for the truth (я только пострадал за правду), as many a better and wiser man has suffered before me (как многие лучше и мудрее /меня/ пострадали до меня).’
‘I, sir, paused, investigated, believed, and was not ashamed to state my convictions to the world. I, too, was branded as a visionary, held up to ridicule by my contemporaries, and hooted from that field of science in which I had laboured with honour during all the best years of my life. These things happened just three-and-twenty years ago. Since then, I have lived as you see me living now, and the world has forgotten me, as I have forgotten the world. You have my history.’
‘It is a very sad one,’ I murmured, scarcely knowing what to answer.
‘It is a very common one,’ he replied. ‘I have only suffered for the truth, as many a better and wiser man has suffered before me.’
He rose, as if desirous of ending the conversation (он поднялся, словно желая положить конец беседе; desirous of smth. – желающий, жаждущий /чего-либо/), and went over to the window (и подошел к окну).
‘It has ceased snowing,’ he observed, as he dropped the curtain (снег перестал, – заметил он, опустив штору; drop – капля; to drop – капать; ронять; бросать), and came back to the fireside (и вернулся к камину).
‘Ceased!’ I exclaimed, starting eagerly to my feet (перестал! – воскликнул я, живо вскочив на ноги; to start – начинать; стартовать; вскакивать). ‘Oh, if it were only possible (о, если бы только это было возможным) – but no! it is hopeless (но нет, это невозможно; hopeless – безнадежный; невозможный, невыполнимый). Even if I could find my way across the moor, I could not walk twenty miles tonight (если бы даже я смог найти дорогу через пустошь, я не в состоянии пройти пешком двадцать миль этим вечером).’
‘Walk twenty miles tonight!’ repeated my host (пройти пешком двадцать миль! – повторил мой хозяин). ‘What are you thinking of (о чем вы /только/ думаете)?’
‘Of my wife,’ I replied, impatiently (о моей жене, – нетерпеливо ответил я). ‘Of my young wife (о моей молодой жене), who does not know that I have lost my way (которая не знает, что я заблудился; to lose), and who is at this moment breaking her heart with suspense and terror (и у которой в эту самую минуту разрывается сердце от неизвестности и от страха).’
‘Where is she (а где она)?’
‘At Dwolding, twenty miles away (в Двоулдинге, в двадцати милях отсюда).’
‘It has ceased snowing,’ he observed, as he dropped the curtain, and came back to the fireside.
‘Ceased!’ I exclaimed, starting eagerly to my feet. ‘Oh, if it were only possible – but no! it is hopeless. Even if I could find my way across the moor, I could not walk twenty miles tonight.’