Английский для смелых. Истории о духах и привидениях

At any other time I should have felt, and perhaps expressed, some annoyance (в любое другое время я бы почувствовал, а возможно и выразил бы, какое-то раздражение; to feel), but at the moment I felt too ill to do either (но в тот момент я чувствовал себя слишком плохо и для первого, и для второго; ill – больной, нездоровый; дурной, плохой; either – любой /из двух/). The icy coldness of the night air had struck a chill to my very marrow (ледяной холод ночного воздуха пробрал меня до мозга костей; to strike – поражать; сражать; chill – простуда, озноб; marrow – костный мозг), and the strange smell inside the coach was affecting me with an intolerable nausea (а странный запах внутри дилижанса вызывал во мне непреодолимую тошноту; to affect – оказывать воздействие; поражать /о болезни/; to tolerate – терпеть, выносить). I shivered from head to foot (я дрожал с головы до ног), and, turning to my left-hand neighbour, asked if he had any objection to an open window (и, повернувшись к моему соседу слева: «по левую руку», спросил, не возражает ли он, если я открою окно: «нет ли у него возражений против открытого окна»)?

He neither spoke nor stirred (он /ничего/ не сказал и не пошевелился; neither… nor – ни … ни…; не … также не…).

 ‘How intensely cold it is tonight,’ I said, addressing my opposite neighbour.

He lifted his head, looked at me, but made no reply.

‘The winter,’ I added, ‘seems to have begun in earnest.’

Although the corner in which he sat was so dim that I could distinguish none of his features very clearly, I saw that his eyes were still turned full upon me. And yet he answered never a word.

At any other time I should have felt, and perhaps expressed, some annoyance, but at the moment I felt too ill to do either. The icy coldness of the night air had struck a chill to my very marrow, and the strange smell inside the coach was affecting me with an intolerable nausea. I shivered from head to foot, and, turning to my left-hand neighbour, asked if he had any objection to an open window?

He neither spoke nor stirred.