Английский язык с Агатой Кристи. Убийство в Восточном Экспрессе

“The murder, let us say, would still have been discovered in all probability at the Italian frontier early this morning. Much of the same evidence would have been given to the Italian police. The threatening letters would have been produced by M. MacQueen; M. Hardman would have told his story; Mrs. Hubbard would have been eager to tell how a man passed through her compartment; the button would have been found. I imagine that two things only would have been different. The man would have passed through Mrs. Hubbard’s compartment just before one o’clock — and the Wagon Lit uniform would have been found cast off in one of the toilets.”

“You mean (вы хотите сказать)?”

“I mean that the murder was planned to look like an outside job (я хочу сказать, что это убийство было запланировано /таким образом/, чтобы /оно/ было похоже на дело /рук некоего/ постороннего /человека/; outside — наружный, внешний; внешний, посторонний). It would have been presumed (предположили бы) that the assassin had left the train at Brod (что убийца покинул поезд в Броде) where it is timed to arrive at 0.58 (куда он должен был прибыть в 0.58; time — время; to time — выбирать время; назначать или устанавливать время). Somebody would probably have passed a strange Wagon Lit conductor in the corridor (кто-нибудь, возможно, прошел бы мимо странного проводника спальных вагонов в коридоре). The uniform would be left in a conspicuous place (униформа была бы оставлена в каком-нибудь заметном месте; conspicuous — видимый, заметный, бросающийся в глаза) so as to show clearly just how the trick had been played (для того чтобы ясно показать, как именно этот фокус был проделан; trick — хитрость, обман; фокус, трюк; to play — играть, резвиться; поступать, действовать). No suspicion would have attached to the passengers (никакие подозрения не пали бы на пассажиров; to attach — прикреплять, присоединять; приписывать). That, my friends, was how the affair was intended to appear to the outside world (вот, друзья мои, как это дело должно было предстать всему: «внешнему» миру).

assassin [ǝˈsæsɪn] conspicuous [kǝnˈspɪkjʋǝs] appear [ǝˈpɪǝ]

“You mean?”

“I mean that the murder was planned to look like an outside job. It would have been presumed that the assassin had left the train at Brod where it is timed to arrive at 0.58. Somebody would probably have passed a strange Wagon Lit conductor in the corridor. The uniform would be left in a conspicuous place so as to show clearly just how the trick had been played. No suspicion would have attached to the passengers. That, my friends, was how the affair was intended to appear to the outside world.