We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that he had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what he was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.

I remember going to the British Museum one day (помню, /как/ я отправился в Британский музей однажды) to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch (почитать о лечении какой-то легкой болезни, которой я захворал; to read up — специально изучать, читать дополнительный материал; slight — легкий, незначительный; touch — прикосновение, касание; легкий приступ /болезни/) — hay fever, I fancy it was (полагаю, это была сенная лихорадка; to fancy — воображать, представлять себе; считать, полагать). I got down the book, and read all I came to read (я взял /нужную/ книгу и прочитал все, /что/ я пришел прочитать = что искал; to get down — снимать /с полки и т.д./; to read [ri:d]-read [red]-read [red]; to come-came-come); and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves (потом, задумавшись: «в бездумный момент», я лениво перевернул /несколько/ страниц; leaf — лист, страница), and began to indolently study diseases, generally (и начал без интереса изучать различные болезни; to begin-began-begun; indolent — ленивый, вялый; праздный; generally — в целом, вообще). I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into (я забыл, какой была = как называлась первая болезнь, /на которую/ я наткнулся; distemper — хандра, дурное расположение духа; to plunge into — ввергать, бросаться, погружаться в) — some fearful, devastating scourge, I know (какой-то страшный, изнуряющий бич, /как/ я понимаю; to devastate — истощать, опустошать; scourge — бич, бедствие, кара) — and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms" (и прежде, /чем/ я просмотрел наполовину список «ранних симптомов»; premonitory — предваряющий, предостерегающий), it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it (я понял, что точно как следует подцепил /эту болезнь/; to be borne in upon somebody — становиться ясным, доходить до кого-либо; fairly — должным образом; четко, явно, ясно; to get — получить; заразиться).

touch [t] fever ['fi:v] indolently ['ndlntl] scourge [sk:] glanced [l:nst] half [h:f]

I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch — hay fever, I fancy it was. I got down the book, and read all I came to read; and then, in an unthinking moment, I idly turned the leaves, and began to indolently study diseases, generally. I forget which was the first distemper I plunged into — some fearful, devastating scourge, I know — and, before I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory symptoms," it was borne in upon me that I had fairly got it.