Английский язык с Г. Уэллсом "Человек-невидимка"
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prowled [prauld], prowl [praul], campaign [kxm`peIn], noisy [`nOIzI]
That afternoon the Invisible Man must have learnt something of the rapid use Kemp had made of his confidences. He must have found houses locked and secured; he may have loitered about railway stations and prowled about inns, and no doubt he read the proclamations and realised something of the nature of the campaign against him. And as the evening advanced, the fields became dotted here and there with groups of three or four men, and noisy with the yelping of dogs.
These men-hunters had particular instructions in the case of an encounter as to the way they should support one another (эти охотники на человека имели особые указания как в случае столкновения /с врагом/ помогать друг другу). But he avoided them all (но Невидимка избежал их всех). We may understand something of his exasperation (мы можем отчасти понять его гнев), and it could have been none the less because he himself had supplied the information (тем
remorselessly [rI`mLslqslI], hour [`auq], malignant [mq`lIgnqnt]
These men-hunters had particular instructions in the case of an encounter as to the way they should support one another. But he avoided them all. We may understand something of his exasperation, and it could have been none the less because he himself had supplied the information that was being used so remorselessly against him. For that day at least he lost heart; for nearly twenty-four hours, save when he turned on Wicksteed, he was a hunted man. In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.
Chapter 27 (глава двадцать седьмая)
The Siege of Kemp’s House (осада дома Кемпа)
Kemp read a strange missive, written in pencil on a greasy sheet of paper (Кемп прочитал странное послание, написанное карандашом на засаленном листе бумаги; to read [rJd],-read [red],-read [red]).
“You have been amazingly energetic and clever (вы проявили изумительную энергию и сообразительность; energetic — энергичный, активный; clever — умный; ловкий, проворный),” this letter ran (гласило письмо), “though what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine (хотя чего вы надеетесь этим добиться, не могу себе представить). You are against me (вы против меня). For a whole day you have chased me (весь день вы травили меня; to chase — гнаться, преследовать; травить, охотиться); you have tried to rob me of a night’s rest (вы пытались лишить меня ночного отдыха). But I have had food in spite of you (но я насытился вопреки вам), I have slept in spite of you (я выспался вопреки вам), and the game is only beginning (и игра только начинается). The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror (ничего другого не остается, кроме как прибегнуть к Террору; to start — начинать, предпринимать). This announces the first day of the Terror (это /письмо/ провозглашает первый день Террора; toannounce— объявлять; сообщать, извещать, заявлять). Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen (Бердок больше не под властью королевы), tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them (передайте это вашему полковнику полиции и всем остальным); it is under me — the Terror (/теперь/ он под моей властью — под властью Террора)!
pencil [`pens(q)l], announce [q`nauns], colonel [`kq:n(q)l]
Kemp read a strange missive, written in pencil on a greasy sheet of paper.
“You have been amazingly energetic and clever,” this letter ran, “though what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night’s rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning. There is nothing for it, but to start the Terror. This announces the first day of the Terror. Port Burdock is no longer under the Queen, tell your Colonel of Police, and the rest of them; it is under me — the Terror!
This is day one of year one of the new epoch (этот день — первый день первого года новой эры) — the Epoch of the Invisible Man (Эры Невидимки). I am Invisible Man the First (я — Невидимка Первый). To begin with the rule will be easy (начать править будет легко). The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example — a man named Kemp (в первый день будет /лишь/ одна показательная казнь/для острастки — человека по фамилии Кемп; example — пример; урок, назидание; предостережение). Death starts for him to-day (смерть
Kemp read this letter twice (Кемп дважды прочитал это письмо), “It’s no hoax (это не шутка; hoax — обман, ложь, неправда; to play a hoax on somebody — разыграть, обмануть кого-либо),” he said. “That’s his voice (это написал он: «его голос»)! And he means it (и он намеревается сделать это).”
epoch [`JpOk], execution ["eksI`kjHS(q)n], guard [gRd], precaution [prJ`kLS(q)n]
This is day one of year one of the new epoch — the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To begin with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one execution for the sake of example — a man named Kemp. Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away, hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armour if he likes — Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let him take precautions; it will impress my people. Death starts from the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as the postman comes along, then off! The game begins. Death starts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon you also. To-day Kemp is to die.”
Kemp read this letter twice, “It’s no hoax,” he said. “That’s his voice! And he means it.”
He turned the folded sheet over (он перевернул сложенный листок) and saw on the addressed side of it the postmark Hintondean (и увидел на его адресной стороне почтовый штемпель «Хинтондин»), and the prosaic detail “2d. to pay” (и прозаическую деталь: «доплатить 2 пенса»; d. = denarius — penny, pence — пенни, пенс/денежнаяединица; равна1/100 фунтастерлингов/).
He got up slowly, leaving his lunch unfinished (Кемп медленно встал, оставив завтрак незаконченным) — the letter had come by the one o’clock post (письмо пришло с часовой почтой/в час дня) — and went into his study (и вошел в кабинет). He rang for his housekeeper, and told her to go round the house at once (он позвонил экономке и велел ей немедленно обойти дом), examine all the fastenings of the windows (осмотреть все задвижки на окнах), and close all the shutters (и закрыть все ставни). He closed the shutters of his study himself (сам он закрыл ставни своего кабинета). From a locked drawer in his bedroom he took a little revolver (из запертого ящика в спальне он достал небольшой револьвер), examined it carefully, and put it into the pocket of his lounge jacket (тщательно его осмотрел и положил в карман приталенного пиджака). He wrote a number of brief notes, one to Colonel Adye (он написал несколько коротких записок, одну из них полковнику Эдаю), gave them to his servant to take (и поручил служанке отнести их), with explicit instructions as to her way of leaving the house (дав точные указания относительно того, как ей выйти из дома; explicit — ясный; точный, подробный). “There is no danger (нет никакой опасности),” he said, and added a mental reservation, “to you” (сказал он и прибавил мысленно: «для вас»; mental reservation — мысленнаяоговорка, замечание). He remained meditative for a space after doing this (некоторое время после этого он оставался задумчивым), and then returned to his cooling lunch (а потом вернулся к своему стынувшему завтраку; to cool — охлаждать/ся/, остывать).
prosaic [prq(u)`zeIIk], fastening [`fRs(q)nIN], meditative [`medItqtIv]
He turned the folded sheet over and saw on the addressed side of it the postmark Hintondean, and the prosaic detail “2d. to pay.”
He got up slowly, leaving his lunch unfinished — the letter had come by the one o’clock post — and went into his study. He rang for his housekeeper, and told her to go round the house at once, examine all the fastenings of the windows, and close all the shutters. He closed the shutters of his study himself. From a locked drawer in his bedroom he took a little revolver, examined it carefully, and put it into the pocket of his lounge jacket. He wrote a number of brief notes, one to Colonel Adye, gave them to his servant to take, with explicit instructions as to her way of leaving the house. “There is no danger,” he said, and added a mental reservation, “to you.” He remained meditative for a space after doing this, and then returned to his cooling lunch.