Елизавета Хундаева - Джек Лондон. Мартин Иден. Учим английский, читая мировую классику

And then he turned and saw the girl. The phantasmagoria (фантасмагория) of his brain vanished (исчезать) at sight of her (при видеп её). She was a pale (бледный), ethereal creature (эфирное существо), with wide, spiritual (божественный) blue eyes and a wealth (богатство) of golden hair. He did not know how she was dressed, except (за исключеним того, что) that the dress was as wonderful as she. He likened (сравнить) her to a pale (бледный) gold flower upon a slender (стройный) stem (стебель). No, she was a spirit (дух), a divinity (божество), a goddess (богиня); such sublimated (сублимированный) beauty was not of the earth (земля). Or perhaps the books were right, and there were many such as she in the upper walks (верхние слои) of life.

She might well be sung (воспевать) by that chap (парень), Swinburne. Perhaps he had had somebody like her (как она) in mind (голова, разум, воображение) when he painted (писать, рисовать) that girl, Iseult ([i’zult] Изулт, Изольда), in the book there on the table. All this plethora (изобилие, избыток) of sight (зрение), and feeling, and thought occurred (приходить на ум) on the instant (тотчас, немедленно). There was no pause of the realities wherein he moved. He saw her hand coming out to his (он увидел, как её рука потянулась к его руке), and she looked him straight (прямо) in the eyes as she shook (пожать) hands, frankly (откровенно говоря), like (как) a man. The women he had known did not shake hands that way (так, таким образом).

For that matter (по правде говоря), most of them did not shake hands at all. A flood (поток) of associations, visions (видение) of various ways (способ; то, как) he had made the acquaintance of (знакомиться с) women, rushed (проноситься) into his mind and threatened (грозить, угрожать) to swamp (наводнять) it. But he shook them aside and looked at her. Never had he seen such a woman. The women he had known! Immediately, beside her, on

either hand (по обе стороны от неё), ranged (выстраивать в ряд) the women he had known. For an eternal (вечный) second he stood in the midst (посреди) of a portrait gallery, wherein she occupied the central place, while about her were limned (изображать; описывать) many women, all to be weighed (взвешивать) and measured (измерять) by a fleeting (скорый; стремительный) glance (взгляд), herself the unit of weight and measure. He saw the weak (слабый) and sickly (болезненный) faces of the girls of the factories, and the simpering (жеманная), boisterous (громкоголосый, шумный) girls from the south of Market. There were women of the cattle camps, and swarthy (смуглый; тёмный) cigarette-smoking women of Old Mexico. These, in turn, were crowded out (вытеснять) by Japanese women, doll-like (куклоподобный), stepping mincingly (жеманно, манерно, чопорно) on wooden clogs (сабо); by Eurasians, delicate featured (с тонкими чертами лица), stamped with degeneracy (отмеченный печатью вырождение, дегенерации); by full-bodied (пышнотелый) South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned (с короной из цветов на голове) and brown-skinned (тёмнокожий). All these were blotted out (вытеснять) by a grotesque and terrible nightmare (ночной кошмар) brood – frowsy (затхлый выводок), shuffling (шаркающий) creatures from the pavements (мостовой) of Whitechapel, gin-bloated (обрюзгший; оплывший; раздувшийся) hags (ведьма, карга) of the stews (бордель), and all the vast hell’s following of harpies (гарпия), vile-mouthed (с ужасной речью) and filthy (отвратительный), that under the guise (под видом) of monstrous (чудовищный) female form (в хенском обличьи) prey (хищник) upon sailors, the scrapings (оскрёбка) of the ports, the scum (тина) and slime (липкий ил; тина; муть) of the human pit (дно).

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