Английский язык с Шерлоком Холмсом. Второй сборник рассказов (ASCII-IPA)

He had a horror of destroying documents (он терпеть не мог уничтожать документы; horror — ужас, страх; сильное отвращение, антипатия /к чему-либо/), especially those which were connected with his past cases (особенно те, которые были связаны с его прошлыми делами), and yet it was only once in every year or two (однако лишь один раз за год-два) that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them (он собирался с силами, чтобы разобрать их и привести в порядок; to docket — снабжать документ выпиской с кратким изложением его содержания; docket — опись /содержимое партии товара с указанием владельца/; книга записей по делу); for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs (как я уже упоминал где-то в этих бессвязных записках; memoirs — мемуары, воспоминания; записки /научного общества/), the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats (что за вспышками горячей, кипучей энергии, когда Холмс совершал свои удивительные подвиги) with which his name is associated (с которыми связывается его имя) were followed by reactions of lethargy (следовали периоды апатии, упадка сил; reaction — реакция; противодействие; упадок сил; lethargy — летаргия; вялость, апатичность) during which he would lie about with his violin and his books (во время которых он полеживал /на диване/ со скрипкой и книгами), hardly moving save from the sofa to the table (почти не передвигаясь, разве что от дивана до стола). Thus month after month his papers accumulated (таким образом, месяц за месяцем его бумаги накапливались), until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript (пока все углы комнаты не были заставлены пачками рукописей; to stack — складывать в стог, в кучу) which were on no account to be burned (которые ни в коем случае не разрешалось жечь), and which could not be put away save by their owner (и которые никто не мог убрать, кроме их владельца).

incoherent [,Ink@u'hI@r@nt], memoir ['memwA:], lethargy ['leT@dZI], violin [,vaI@'lIn]

He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table. Thus month after month his papers accumulated, until every corner of the room was stacked with bundles of manuscript which were on no account to be burned, and which could not be put away save by their owner.