Английский язык с Конан Дойлем. Этюд в багровых тонах (ASCII-IPA)

JOHN FERRIER, FORMERLY OF SALT LAKE CITY, Died August 4th, 1860 (Джон Феррьер из Солт-Лейк-Сити, умер 4-го августа 1860 г.; formerly — когда-то, прежде).

impotence ['Imp@t@ns], fugitive ['fju:dZItIv], persuade [p@'sweId]

Bewildered and stunned by this blow, Jefferson Hope felt his head spin round, and had to lean upon his rifle to save himself from falling. He was essentially a man of action, however, and speedily recovered from his temporary impotence. Seizing a half-consumed piece of wood from the smouldering fire, he blew it into a flame, and proceeded with its help to examine the little camp. The ground was all stamped down by the feet of horses, showing that a large party of mounted men had overtaken the fugitives, and the direction of their tracks proved that they had afterwards turned back to Salt Lake City. Had they carried back both of his companions with them? Jefferson Hope had almost persuaded himself that they must have done so, when his eye fell upon an object which made every nerve of his body tingle within him. A little way on one side of the camp was a low-lying heap of reddish soil, which had assuredly not been there before. There was no mistaking it for anything but a newly-dug grave. As the young hunter approached it, he perceived that a stick had been planted on it, with a sheet of paper stuck in the cleft fork of it. The inscription upon the paper was brief, but to the point:

JOHN FERRIER, FORMERLY OF SALT LAKE CITY, Died August 4th, 1860.

The sturdy old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, then (значит, крепкий еще старик, с которым он расстался: «которого он покинул» так недавно, умер; sturdy — крепкий, здоровый), and this was all his epitaph (и это была вся его эпитафия). Jefferson Hope looked wildly round to see if there was a second grave (Джефферсон Хоуп судорожно огляделся в поисках второй могилы; wildly — дико), but there was no sign of one (но ее не было заметно: «там не было ее следов»). Lucy had been carried back by their terrible pursuers to fulfil her original destiny (Люси увезли назад ее ужасные преследователи, чтобы сбылась предначертанная ей судьба; to fulfil — выполнять; исполнять, осуществлять; original — первоначальный, исходный), by becoming one of the harem of the Elder's son (чтобы она стала одной из гарема сына старейшины). As the young fellow realized the certainty of her fate (когда молодой парень осознал неотвратимость ее судьбы; certainty — определенность; уверенность), and his own powerlessness to prevent it (и свое бессилие помешать этому; to prevent — предотвращать; мешать, препятствовать), he wished that he, too, was lying with the old farmer in his last silent resting-place (он пожелал, чтобы и он тоже лежал со старым фермером на своем последнем тихом месте отдыха).