Английский язык с Грэмом Грином. Третий человек

She said with hopeless calm (она сказала с безнадежным спокойствием), "I've thought that too (я думала об этом тоже), though I didn't know about Kurtz (хотя я не знала о Куртце). I wondered whether they'd murdered him (я задавалась вопросом, убили ли они его), but what's the use of wondering (но какая польза от любопытства)?"

"I'm going to get those bastards (я доберусь до этих ублюдков; to get — получить; схватить)," Rollo Martins said.

chamber ['tSeImbq], construct [kqn'strAkt], irrationally [I'rxS(q)n(q)lI], scene ['si:n], evidence ['evIdqns], exonerate [Ig'zOn(q)reIt], attitude ['xtItju:d], calm [kRm], bastard ['bxstqd]

"That's what I tell myself all the time."

"Did you see the doctor?"

"Once. Harry sent me to him. He was Harry's own doctor. He lived nearby, you see."

Martins suddenly saw in that odd chamber of the mind that constructs such pictures, instantaneously, irrationally, a desert place, a body on the ground, a group of birds gathered. Perhaps it was a scene from one of his own books, not yet written, forming at the gate of consciousness. Immediately it faded, he thought how odd that they were all there, just at that moment, all Harry's friends—Kurtz, the doctor, this man Cooler; only the two people who loved him seemed to have been missing. He said, "And the driver? Did you hear his evidence?"

"He was upset, scared. But Cooler's evidence exonerated him, and Kurtz's. No, it wasn't his fault, poor man. I've often heard Harry say what a careful driver he was."

"He knew Harry too?" Another bird flapped down and joined the others round the silent figure on the sand who lay face down. Now he could tell that it was Harry, by the clothes, by the attitude like that of a boy asleep in the grass at a playing field's edge, on a hot summer afternoon.

Somebody called outside the window, "Fr"aulein Schmidt."

She said, "They don't like one to stay too long. It uses up their electricity."

He had given up the idea of sparing her anything. He told her, "The police say they were going to arrest Harry. They'd pinned some racket on him."

She took the news in much the same way as Kurtz. "Everybody's in a racket."

"I don't believe he was in anything serious."

"No."

"But he may have been framed. Do you know a man called Kurtz?"

"I don't think so."

"He wears a toupee."

"Oh." He could tell that that struck home. He said, "Don't you think it was odd they were all there—at the death? Everybody knew Harry. Even the driver, the doctor ..."

She said with hopeless calm, "I've thought that too, though I didn't know about Kurtz. I wondered whether they'd murdered him, but what's the use of wondering?"

"I'm going to get those bastards," Rollo Martins said.

"It won't do any good (это не сделает чего-либо хорошего = это не принесет пользы). Perhaps the police are right (возможно, полицейские правы). Perhaps poor Harry got mixed up (возможно, бедный Гарри оказался замешанным)..."

"Fr"aulein Schmidt (фройляйн Шмидт)," the voice called again (снова позвал голос).

"I must go (я должна идти)."

"I'll walk with you a bit of the way (я пройду с вами часть пути)."

The dark was almost down (тьма почти спустилась: «была почти внизу»): the snow had ceased for a while to fall (снег прекратил ненадолго падать; while — промежуток времени): and the great statues of the Ring (и величавые статуи Кольца), the prancing horses (вставшие на дыбы лошади; to prance — становиться на дыбы), the chariots and the eagles (колесницы и орлы), were gunshot grey (были темно-серыми, как ядра; gunshot — /пушечное/ ядро) with the end of evening light (освещенные последним светом заходящего солнца: «с концом вечернего света»). "It's better to give up and forget (лучше оставить /попытки/ и забыть)," Anna said. The moony snow lay ankle deep on the unswept pavements (лунный снег лежал по щиколотку глубиной на неметенных тротуарах; to sweep — мести).

"Will you give me the doctor's address (вы дадите мне адрес доктора)?"

They stood in the shelter of a wall (они стояли в укрытии стены; shelter — приют, кров; пристанище прибежище; прикрытие, укрытие) while she wrote it down for him (пока она записывала для него адрес; to write down — записывать).

"And yours too (а ваш тоже)?"

"Why do you want that (зачем он вам: «почему вы хотите это»)?"

"I might have news for you (возможно, у меня будут для вас новости)."