The ghost glared at her in fury
(привидение глянуло на нее в ярости), and began at once to make preparations for turning himself into a large black dog (и сразу же начало готовиться к перевоплощению в большую черную собаку), an accomplishment for which he was justly renowned (достижение, благодаря которому оно было справедливо знаменито), and to which the family doctor always attributed the permanent idiocy of Lord Canterville's uncle, the Hon. Thomas Horton (и которому семейный доктор всегда приписывал постоянное слабоумие дяди лорда Кентервиля, почтенного Томаса Гортона). The sound of approaching footsteps, however, made him hesitate in his fell purpose (однако звук приближающихся шагов заставил его поколебаться в своем жестоком намерении; fell — поэт. жестокий, свирепый, беспощадный), so he contented himself with becoming faintly phosphorescent (так что он удовлетворился тем, что стал слабо фосфоресцировать: «удовлетворился становлением слабо фосфоресцирующим») and vanished with a deep churchyard groan (и исчез с глухим кладбищенским стоном; churchyard — кладбище: «церковный двор»), just as the twins had come up to him (как раз когда близнецы подошли к нему).
glare [
glεə] fury [`fjυəri] accomplishment [ə`kompli∫mənt]
The ghost glared at her in fury, and began at once to make preparations for turning himself into a large black dog, an accomplishment for which he was justly renowned, and to which the family doctor always attributed the permanent idiocy of Lord Canterville's uncle, the Hon. Thomas Horton. The sound of approaching footsteps, however, made him hesitate in his fell purpose, so he contented himself with becoming faintly phosphorescent, and vanished with a deep churchyard groan, just as the twins had come up to him.