Английский язык с Грэмом Грином. Третий человек

"She claims to be Austrian (она заявляет, что она австрийка), but I suspect she's Hungarian (но я подозреваю, что она венгерка). She works at the Josefstadt (она работает в Йозефштадте). I wouldn't be surprised if Lime had not helped her with her papers (я бы не был удивлен, если бы Лайм не помог ей с ее документами = думаю, что помог). She calls herself Schmidt (она называет себя Шмидт). Anna Schmidt (Анна Шмидт). You can't imagine a young English actress (вы не можете вообразить молодую английскую актрису) calling herself Smith (называющую себя Смит), can you (правда)? And a pretty one, too (и хорошенькая к тому же). It always struck me as a bit too anonymous to be true (это /имя/ всегда поражало меня, как немного слишком анонимное, чтобы быть настоящим; to strike — бить; поражать)."

sheriff ['SerIf], legally ['li:gqlI], revenge [rI'venG], imagine [I'mxGIn], resolution ["rezq'lu:S(q)n], cautious ['kO:Sqs], literary ['lIt(q)r(q)rI], character ['kxrIktq], nervous ['nq:vqs], theatre ['TIqtq], Institute ['InstItju:t], actress ['xktrIs], opinion [q'pInjqn], probably ['prObqblI], lecture ['lektSq]

"Have you ever read a book called The Lone Rider to Santa Fé?"

"No, don't think so."

Martins said, "This lone rider had his best friend shot by the sheriff of a town called Lost Claim Gulch. The story is how he hunted that sheriff down—quite legally—until his revenge was completed."

"I never imagined you reading Westerns, Mr. Dexter," Crabbin said, and it needed all Martins' resolution to stop Rollo saying: "But I write them."

"Well, I'm gunning just the same way for Colonel Callaghan."

"Never heard of him."

"Heard of Harry Lime?"

"Yes," Crabbin said cautiously, "but I didn't really know him."

"I did. He was my best friend."

"I shouldn't have thought he was a very—literary character."

"None of my friends are."

Crabbin blinked nervously behind the horn-rims. He said with an air of appeasement, "He was interested in the theatre though. A friend of his—an actress, you know—is learning English at the Institute. He called once or twice to fetch her."

"Young or old?"

"Oh, young, very young. Not a good actress in my opinion."

Martins remembered the girl by the grave with her hands over her face. He said, "I'd like to meet any friend of Harry's."

"She'll probably be at your lecture."

"Austrian?"'

"She claims to be Austrian, but I suspect she's Hungarian. She works at the Josefstadt. I wouldn't be surprised if Lime had not helped her with her papers. She calls herself Schmidt. Anna Schmidt. You can't imagine a young English actress calling herself Smith, can you? And a pretty one, too. It always struck me as a bit too anonymous to be true."

Martins felt he had got all he could from Crabbin (Мартинс почувствовал, что он получил все, что он мог, от Крэббина), so he pleaded tiredness (так что он сослался на усталость; to plead — защищать подсудимого, представлять /в суде/ его интересы; ссылаться /на что-л./, приводить /что-л./ в оправдание), a long day (на долгий день), promised to ring up in the morning (обещал позвонить утром), accepted ten pounds' worth of Bafs for immediate expenses (принял Бафы на десять фунтов на непосредственные = неотложные расходы; worth — цена, стоимость, ценность; immediate — прямой, непосредственный; безотлагательный, незамедлительный; неотложный), and went to his room (и пошел в свой номер). It seemed to him that he was earning money rapidly (ему показалось, что он зарабатывал деньги быстро)—twelve pounds in less than an hour (двенадцать фунтов меньше чем за час).