Английский язык с Г. Уэллсом "Человек-невидимка"
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poison [`pOIz(q)n], artery [`RtqrI], albinism [`xlbInIz(q)m], garnet [`gRnIt]
And so, slowly, beginning at his hands and feet and creeping along his limbs to the vital centres of his body, that strange change continued. It was like the slow spreading of a poison. First came the little white nerves, a hazy grey sketch of a limb, then the glassy bones and intricate arteries, then the flesh and skin, first a faint fogginess, and then growing rapidly dense and opaque. Presently they could see his crushed chest and his shoulders, and the dim outline of his drawn and battered features.
When at last the crowd made way for Kemp to stand erect, there lay, naked and pitiful on the ground, the bruised and broken body of a young man about thirty. His hair and brow were white — not grey with age, but white with the whiteness of albinism — and his eyes were like garnets. His hands were clenched, his eyes wide open, and his expression was one of anger and dismay.
“Cover his face (накройте
Someone brought a sheet from the “Jolly Cricketers (кто-то принес простыню из «Веселых игроков в крикет»),” and having covered him, they carried him into that house (и, накрыв Гриффина, его внесли в дом). And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom (и там, на жалкой кровати в убогой, плохо освещенной спальне; tawdry — мишурный, кричаще безвкусный), surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people (окруженный толпой невежественных, возбужденных людей), broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied (избитый и израненный, преданный и не вызывающий жалости), that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible (Гриффин, первый из людей, сделавший себя невидимым), Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen (Гриффин, самый одаренный физик, которого когда-либо видел свет; gift — подарок; способность, дарование; дар, талант), ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career (окончил безмерным несчастьем свой странный и ужасный путь; career — карьера, успех; занятие, профессия).
tawdry [`tLdrI], physicist [`fIzIsIst], infinite [`InfInIt], disaster [dI`zRstq]
“Cover his face!” said a man. “For Gawd’s sake, cover that face!” and three little children, pushing forward through the crowd, were suddenly twisted round and sent packing off again.
Someone brought a sheet from the “Jolly Cricketers,” and having covered him, they carried him into that house. And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career.
The Epilogue (эпилог)
So ends the story of the strange and evil experiments of the Invisible Man (так кончается рассказ о необыкновенных и пагубных экспериментах Невидимки). And if you would learn more of him (а если вы хотите узнать о нем больше) you must go to a little inn near Port Stowe and talk to the landlord (вам нужно отправиться в маленький трактир возле Порт-Стоу и поговорить с хозяином). The sign of the inn is an empty board save for a hat and boots (вывеска трактира — пустая доска, на которой /изображены/ только шляпа и башмаки), and the name is the title of this story (а название /трактира/ такое же, как у этой книги). The landlord is a short and corpulent little man (хозяин — низкий полный человечек) with a nose of cylindrical proportions, wiry hair (с длинным носом, жесткими волосами; wiry — похожий на проволоку; жесткий /о волосах, шерсти, траве/), and a sporadic rosiness of visage (и лицом в красных пятнах). Drink generously, and he will tell you generously of all the things (выпейте побольше, и он подробно расскажет вам обо всем; generously — благородно; обильно, щедро) that happened to him after that time (что случилось с ним после того времени /описанных выше событий/), and of how the lawyers tried to do him out of the treasure found upon him (и
“When they found they couldn’t prove who’s money was which, I’m blessed (когда они обнаружили, что не могут доказать, чьи это деньги, то — подумать только),” he says, “if they didn’t try to make me out a blooming treasure trove (они попытались обойтись со мной, как с найденным кладом без владельца; to make out — разобрать, увидеть; blooming — цветущий; проклятый, чертов; treasure trove — неимеющиевладельцадрагоценности; драгоценныйклад/найденныедрагоценности; позаконупринадлежатгосударству, еслинеобнаруженвладелец/)! Do I look like a Treasure Trove (разве я похож на клад)? And then a gentleman gave me a guinea a night (а потом один джентльмен платил мне по гинее за вечер) to tell the story at the Empire Music ’All — just to tell ’em in my own words — barring one (чтобы я рассказывал эту историю в мюзик-холле «просто за то, чтобы я рассказал всю историю своими словами, кроме одного /факта/»).”
visage [`vIzIG], generously [`GenqrqslI], lawyer [`lLjq], treasure [`treZq], guinea [`gInI]
So ends the story of the strange and evil experiments of the Invisible Man. And if you would learn more of him you must go to a little inn near Port Stowe and talk to the landlord. The sign of the inn is an empty board save for a hat and boots, and the name is the title of this story. The landlord is a short and corpulent little man with a nose of cylindrical proportions, wiry hair, and a sporadic rosiness of visage. Drink generously, and he will tell you generously of all the things that happened to him after that time, and of how the lawyers tried to do him out of the treasure found upon him.
“When they found they couldn’t prove who’s money was which, I’m blessed,” he says, “if they didn’t try to make me out a blooming treasure trove! Do I look like a Treasure Trove? And then a gentleman gave me a guinea a night to tell the story at the Empire Music ’All — just to tell ’em in my own words — barring one.”
And if you want to cut off the flow of his reminiscences abruptly (а если хотите резко прервать поток его воспоминаний), you can always do so by asking if there weren’t three manuscript books in the story (вы всегда можете это сделать, спросив его, не было ли в этой истории трех рукописных книг). He admits there were and proceeds to explain (он согласится, что были, и продолжит объяснять; to admit — допускать, признавать, соглашаться), with asseverations that everybody thinks he has ’em (с клятвенными заверениями, что все считают, будто они находятся у него)! But bless you! he hasn’t (но, право слово, у него их нет).
“The Invisible Man it was took ’em off to hide ’em (невидимка забрал их и спрятал) when I cut and ran for Port Stowe (когда я удрал /от него/ и прибежал в Порт-Стоу). It’s that Mr. Kemp put people on with the idea of my having ’em (это все мистер Кемп рассказывает, будто книги у меня).”
And then he subsides into a pensive state (затем он впадает в задумчивость: «в задумчивое состояние»; to subside — опускаться, падать; впадать, погружаться), watches you furtively (наблюдает за вами украдкой), bustles nervously with glasses (нервно протирает стаканы; to bustle — энергичноделатьчто-либо; суетиться), and presently leaves the bar (и через некоторое время выходит из бара).
reminiscence ["remI`nIs(q)ns], asseveration [q"sevq`reIS(q)n], furtively [`fq:tIvlI]
And if you want to cut off the flow of his reminiscences abruptly, you can always do so by asking if there weren’t three manuscript books in the story. He admits there were and proceeds to explain, with asseverations that everybody thinks he has ’em! But bless you! he hasn’t.
“The Invisible Man it was took ’em off to hide ’em when I cut and ran for Port Stowe. It’s that Mr. Kemp put people on with the idea of my having ’em.”