Arthur Conan Doyle - Английский язык с Шерлоком Холмсом. Знак четырех (ASCII-IPA)
anchor ['& [email protected]], weight [weIt], ooze [u:z]
The launch with a dull thud ran up upon the mud-bank, with her bow in the air and her stern flush with the water. The fugitive sprang out, but his stump instantly sank its whole length into the sodden soil. In vain he struggled and writhed. Not one step could he possibly take either forwards or backwards. He yelled in impotent rage, and kicked frantically into the mud with his other foot, but his struggles only bored his wooden pin the deeper into the sticky bank. When we brought our launch alongside he was so firmly anchored that it was only by throwing the end of a rope over his shoulders that we were able to haul him out, and to drag him, like some evil fish, over our side. The two Smiths, father and son, sat sullenly in their launch, but came aboard meekly enough when commanded. The Aurora herself we hauled off and made fast to our stern. A solid iron chest of Indian workmanship stood upon the deck. This, there could be no question, was the same that had contained the ill-omened treasure of the Sholtos. There was no key, but it was of considerable weight, so we transferred it carefully to our own little cabin. As we steamed slowly up-stream again, we flashed our search-light in every direction, but there was no sign of the Islander. Somewhere in the dark ooze at the bottom of the Thames lie the bones of that strange visitor to our shores.
"See here," said Holmes, pointing to the wooden hatchway (смотрите, — сказал Холмс, указывая на деревянный люк). "We were hardly quick enough with our pistols (мы с нашими пистолетами едва опередили его: «были едва достаточно быстры»)." There, sure enough, just behind where we had been standing (и точно, как раз за тем местом, где мы стояли), stuck one of those murderous darts which we knew so well (застряла одна из тех смертоносных стрел, которые нам так хорошо были знакомы; to stick — втыкать, вонзать; murderous — смертоносный; смертельный, убийственный; dart — дротик; жало). It must have whizzed between us at the instant that we fired (должно быть, она просвистела между нами в тот момент, когда мы выстрелили; to whizz — просвистеть, пронестись со свистом). Holmes smiled at it and shrugged his shoulders in his easy fashion (Холмс улыбнулся этому и равнодушно пожал плечами; easy — легкий; беспечный; спокойный; терпимый, снисходительный; fashion — форма, очертания; покрой; манера поведения), but I confess that it turned me sick to think of the horrible death which had passed so close to us that night (но я признаюсь, что мне стало дурно при мысли об ужасной смерти, которая прошла совсем рядом с нами в эту ночь; sick — больной, испытывающий недомогание).
"See here," said Holmes, pointing to the wooden hatchway. "We were hardly quick enough with our pistols." There, sure enough, just behind where we had been standing, stuck one of those murderous darts which we knew so well. It must have whizzed between us at the instant that we fired. Holmes smiled at it and shrugged his shoulders in his easy fashion, but I confess that it turned me sick to think of the horrible death which had passed so close to us that night.
CHAPTER XI. THE GREAT AGRA TREASURE
(глава XI. Баснословные сокровища Агры; great — большой, огромный, крупный; прекрасный, удивительный).
OUR captive sat in the cabin opposite to the iron box (наш пленник сидел в каюте напротив железного сундука) which he had done so much and waited so long to gain (чтобы заполучить который, он столько сделал и так долго выжидал). He was a sunburned, reckless-eyed fellow (это был загорелый парень с бесшабашными глазами; reckless — необдуманный, безрассудный), with a net-work of lines and wrinkles all over his mahogany features (и сеткой морщин по всему его коричневато-красному лицу; line — веревка, шнур; морщина, складка; wrinkle — морщина; складка; mahogany — красное дерево; коричневато-красный цвет), which told of a hard, open-air life (что говорило о тяжелой жизни на открытом воздухе). There was a singular prominence about his bearded chin (его бородатый подбородок характерно выдавался вперед; singular — исключительный, необыкновенный; необычный, своеобразный; prominence — выступ, выдающаяся часть) which marked a man who was not to be easily turned from his purpose (что характерно для: «отмечает» человека, которого нелегко отклонить от поставленной цели). His age may have been fifty or thereabouts (его возраст был где-то в районе пятидесяти), for his black, curly hair was thickly shot with gray (так как его черные вьющиеся волосы были густо приперчены сединой; shot — переливчатый, меняющий оттенок; испещренный, усеянный). His face in repose was not an unpleasing one (его лицо, когда оно было спокойным, не было неприятным; repose — отдых, покой), though his heavy brows and aggressive chin gave him, as I had lately seen (хотя его густые брови и агрессивный подбородок придавали ему, как я недавно видел; heavy — тяжелый, крупный, массивный), a terrible expression when moved to anger (ужасное выражение, когда он приходил в ярость). He sat now with his handcuffed hands upon his lap (теперь он сидел, положив закованные в наручники руки на колени; lap — подол; пола; колени, верхняя часть ног у сидящего человека), and his head sunk upon his breast (повесив голову на грудь; to sink — тонуть, погружать), while he looked with his keen, twinkling eyes at the box which had been the cause of his ill-doings (смотря проницательными, блестящими глазами на сундук, который был причиной его злодеяний). It seemed to me that there was more sorrow than anger in his rigid and contained countenance (мне казалось, что в его неподвижном, замкнутом лице было больше печали, чем злобы; rigid — жесткий, негнущийся; неподвижный; to contain — содержать в себе, включать; сдерживаться, владеть собой; countenance — лицо, выражение лица). Once he looked up at me with a gleam of something like humour in his eyes (однажды он глянул на меня с проблеском чего-то сродни юмору в глазах; gleam — слабый свет; проблеск).
wrinkle [rINkl], mahogany [ [email protected]'hOg(@)nI]
OUR captive sat in the cabin opposite to the iron box which he had done so much and waited so long to gain. He was a sunburned, reckless-eyed fellow, with a net-work of lines and wrinkles all over his mahogany features, which told of a hard, open-air life. There was a singular prominence about his bearded chin which marked a man who was not to be easily turned from his purpose. His age may have been fifty or thereabouts, for his black, curly hair was thickly shot with gray. His face in repose was not an unpleasing one, though his heavy brows and aggressive chin gave him, as I had lately seen, a terrible expression when moved to anger. He sat now with his handcuffed hands upon his lap, and his head sunk upon his breast, while he looked with his keen, twinkling eyes at the box which had been the cause of his ill-doings. It seemed to me that there was more sorrow than anger in his rigid and contained countenance. Once he looked up at me with a gleam of something like humour in his eyes.
"Well, Jonathan Small," said Holmes, lighting a cigar (ну, Джонатан Смолл, — сказал Холмс, прикуривая сигару), "I am sorry that it has come to this (мне жаль, что дошло до этого)."
"And so am I, sir," he answered, frankly (и мне, сэр, — честно ответил он). "I don't believe that I can swing over the job (я не верю, что я могу попасть на виселицу за это дело; to swing — качать; раскачивать; быть повешенным на виселице). I give you my word on the book that I never raised hand against Mr. Sholto (даю вам слово, положа руку на Библию, что я никогда не поднимал руки на мистера Шолто). It was that little hell-hound Tonga who shot one of his cursed darts into him (Тонга, это маленькое исчадие ада, выстрелил в него одной из своих отравленных стрел; hell — ад; hound — охотничья собака; гончая; cursed — окаянный, проклятый). I had no part in it, sir (я тут ни при чем, сэр; part — доля, часть; участие, роль). I was as grieved as if it had been my blood-relation (я переживал не меньше, чем если бы это был мой кровный родственник; to grieve — огорчать, глубоко опечаливать). I welted the little devil with the slack end of the rope for it (я всыпал за это маленькому дьяволу свободным концом веревки; to welt — бить, пороть, стегать; slack — вялый, неактивный; провисающий, ненатянутый), but it was done, and I could not undo it again (но что сделано, то сделано, и исправить этого я не мог)."
