Arthur Conan Doyle - Английский язык с Конан Дойлем. Этюд в багровых тонах (ASCII-IPA)

hour [au@], swear [swe@], bargain ['bA:gIn]

"At last, one evening I was driving up and down Torquay Terrace, as the street was called in which they boarded, when I saw a cab drive up to their door. Presently some luggage was brought out, and after a time Drebber and Stangerson followed it, and drove off. I whipped up my horse and kept within sight of them, feeling very ill at ease, for I feared that they were going to shift their quarters. At Euston Station they got out, and I left a boy to hold my horse, and followed them on to the platform. I heard them ask for the Liverpool train, and the guard answer that one had just gone and there would not be another for some hours. Stangerson seemed to be put out at that, but Drebber was rather pleased than otherwise. I got so close to them in the bustle that I could hear every word that passed between them. Drebber said that he had a little business of his own to do, and that if the other would wait for him he would soon rejoin him. His companion remonstrated with him, and reminded him that they had resolved to stick together. Drebber answered that the matter was a delicate one, and that he must go alone. I could not catch what Stangerson said to that, but the other burst out swearing, and reminded him that he was nothing more than his paid servant, and that he must not presume to dictate to him. On that the Secretary gave it up as a bad job, and simply bargained with him that if he missed the last train he should rejoin him at Halliday's Private Hotel; to which Drebber answered that he would be back on the platform before eleven, and made his way out of the station.

"The moment for which I had waited so long had at last come (тот момент, которого я так долго ждал, наконец наступил) . I had my enemies within my power (мои враги были в моей власти) . Together they could protect each other (вместе они могли защитить друг друга) , but singly they were at my mercy (но по отдельности они были в моей милости) . I did not act, however, with undue precipitation (но я не стал действовать с неуместной поспешностью) . My plans were already formed (мой план уже созрел: «мои планы были уже сформированы») . There is no satisfaction in vengeance (в мести не найти удовлетворения) unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him (если у обидчика нет времени осознать, кто наносит ему удар) , and why retribution has come upon him (и почему возмездие настигло его) . I had my plans arranged by which I should have the opportunity (по моему плану у меня должна была быть возможность; to arrange — организовывать, подготавливать) of making the man who had wronged me (заставить человека, который причинил мне зло) understand that his old sin had found him out (понять, что он расплачивается за старые грехи: «что его прошлый грех нашел его») . It chanced that some days before (случилось так, что несколько дней назад) a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some houses in the Brixton Road (джентльмен, который осматривал несколько домов по Брикстон-роуд) had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage (обронил ключ от одного из них у меня в кебе) . It was claimed that same evening, and returned (он пришел за ним в тот же вечер и получил его обратно; to claim — требовать; заявлять о своих правах на что-либо; to return — возвращать) ; but in the interval I had taken a moulding of it (но за это время я успел снять с него слепок; interval — интервал, промежуток) , and had a duplicate constructed (и мне с него изготовили дубликат) . By means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city (теперь: «посредством этого» у меня был доступ к хотя бы одному месту в этом огромном городе) where I could rely upon being free from interruption (где я мог быть уверен в том, что нам не помешают: «где я мог положиться на то, что буду свободен от помех») . How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve (как доставить Дреббера в этот дом, было трудной проблемой, которую мне теперь надо было решить) .

vengeance ['vendZ(@)ns], carriage ['k&rIdZ], access ['&ks@s]

"The moment for which I had waited so long had at last come. I had my enemies within my power. Together they could protect each other, but singly they were at my mercy. I did not act, however, with undue precipitation. My plans were already formed. There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him. I had my plans arranged by which I should have the opportunity of making the man who had wronged me understand that his old sin had found him out. It chanced that some days before a gentleman who had been engaged in looking over some houses in the Brixton Road had dropped the key of one of them in my carriage. It was claimed that same evening, and returned; but in the interval I had taken a moulding of it, and had a duplicate constructed. By means of this I had access to at least one spot in this great city where I could rely upon being free from interruption. How to get Drebber to that house was the difficult problem which I had now to solve.

"He walked down the road and went into one or two liquor shops (он пошел вниз по улице и зашел в один или парочку винных магазинчиков; liquor — спиртной напиток; liquor shop — винный магазин) , staying for nearly half-an-hour in the last of them (задержавшись почти на полчаса в последнем из них) . When he came out he staggered in his walk (вышел он оттуда, покачиваясь: «когда он вышел, он покачивался при ходьбе») , and was evidently pretty well on (очевидно, изрядно навеселе) . There was a hansom just in front of me, and he hailed it (как раз передо мной стоял экипаж, и он его подозвал; to hail — приветствовать; звать, окликать) . I followed it so close that the nose of my horse was within a yard of his driver the whole way (я поехал за ним, держась так близко, что всю дорогу нос моей лошади был всего в ярде от кучера его кеба [21] hansom — экипаж, где кучер сидит сзади. ) . We rattled across Waterloo Bridge and through miles of streets (мы прогрохотали по мосту Ватерлоо и проехали несколько миль по улицам) , until, to my astonishment, we found ourselves back in the Terrace in which he had boarded (когда, к моему удивлению, мы оказались опять на Террес, где он жил; to board — жить и питаться у кого-либо за плату) . I could not imagine what his intention was in returning there (я и вообразить не мог, с какой целью он туда вернулся; intention — намерение, цель) ; but I went on and pulled up my cab a hundred yards or so from the house (я проехал немного дальше и остановил свой кеб примерно в ста ярдах от его дома) . He entered it, and his hansom drove away (он вошел внутрь, а экипаж уехал) . Give me a glass of water, if you please (дайте мне стакан воды, пожалуйста) . My mouth gets dry with the talking (у меня пересыхает во рту, когда я говорю) ."