Английский язык с О. Уайльдом. Кентервильское привидение / О. Wilde: The Canterville Ghost

ancient [`ein∫ənt] chivalry [`∫ivəlri] oath [əυθ]

There he consulted several books of ancient chivalry, of which he was exceedingly fond, and found that, on every occasion on which this oath had been used, Chanticleer had always crowed a second time. "Perdition seize the naughty fowl," he muttered, "I have seen the day when, with my stout spear, I would have run him through the gorge, and made him crow for me an 'twere in death!" He then retired to a comfortable lead coffin, and stayed there till evening.

IV

The next day (на следующий день) the ghost was very weak and tired (призрак был очень слабым и усталым). The terrible excitement of the last four weeks was beginning to have its effect (ужасное волнение последних четырех недель начинало сказываться на нем: «начинало иметь свое воздействие»). His nerves were completely shattered (его нервы были полностью расшатаны; to shatter — разбить вдребезги; раздробить; пошатнуть, расстроить /здоровье и т.п./), and he started at the slightest noise (и он вздрагивал при малейшем шуме; slight — легкий, небольшой, незначительный). For five days he kept his room (пять дней он не покидал свою комнату), and at last made up his mind to give up the point of the blood-stain on the library floor (и наконец решил оставить затею с пятном крови на полу библиотеки; to make up one’s mind — принять решение). If the Otis family did not want it (если семье Отисов оно было не нужно), they clearly did not deserve it (они явно не заслужили его). They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence (они очевидно были людьми, находящимися на низком, материальном уровне существования), and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena (и были совершенно неспособны оценить символическую ценность чувственных явлений).

excitement [ik`saitmənt] effect [i`fekt] deserve [di`zə:v] sensuous [`sensjuəs]

The next day the ghost was very weak and tired. The terrible excitement of the last four weeks was beginning to have its effect. His nerves were completely shattered, and he started at the slightest noise. For five days he kept his room, and at last made up his mind to give up the point of the blood-stain on the library floor. If the Otis family did not want it, they clearly did not deserve it. They were evidently people on a low, material plane of existence, and quite incapable of appreciating the symbolic value of sensuous phenomena.