Английский язык с Энтони Хоупом. Узник Зенды / Anthony Hope. The Prisoner Of Zenda - страница 59
The civil dignitaries went off to their carriages, and I started to ride through the streets with the Marshal on my right and Sapt (who, as my chief aide-de-camp, was entitled to the place) on my left. The city of Strelsau is partly old and partly new. Spacious modern boulevards and residential quarters surround and embrace the narrow, tortuous, and picturesque streets of the original town. In the outer circles the upper classes live; in the inner the shops are situated; and, behind their prosperous fronts, lie hidden populous but wretched lanes and alleys, filled with a poverty-stricken, turbulent, and (in large measure) criminal class. These social and local divisions corresponded, as I knew from Sapt’s information, to another division more important to me. The New Town was for the King; but to the Old Town Michael of Strelsau was a hope, a hero, and a darling.
The scene was very brilliant as we passed along the Grand Boulevard (зрелище было очень ярким = вокруг все сверкало, когда мы проезжали по Гранд-Бульвар; scene – место действия; вид, пейзаж; brilliant – блестящий, сверкающий; яркий) and on to the great square where the Royal Palace stood (и по огромной площади, где стоял королевский дворец). Here I was in the midst of my devoted adherents (здесь я был среди своих преданных сторонников). Every house was hung with red and bedecked with flags and mottoes (каждый дом был убран в багряный цвет: «был увешан красным» и украшен флагами и лозунгами; motto – девиз; лозунг). The streets were lined with raised seats on each side (/вдоль/ улиц с каждой стороны стояли трибуны; to line – проводить линии; выстраивать в линию, устанавливать в ряд; to raise – поднимать; seat – место /для сидения/; скамья), and I passed along, bowing this way and that (и я, проезжая вдоль /них/, кланялся направо и налево;