"It all sounds a little portentous to me (для меня это звучит немного напыщенно;
"Have you learnt them from Arnold Jackson (ты узнал о них от Арнольда Джексона)?" asked Bateman, scornfully (с насмешкой спросил Бейтман;
"You don't like him (он тебе не понравился)? Perhaps you couldn't be expected to (пожалуй, этого и невозможно от тебя требовать;
portentous [pO:'tentqs], degenerate [dI'dZenqreIt], outrageous [aut'reIdZqs], scornfully ['skO: nf(q)lI], prejudice ['predZqdIs], extraordinary [Ik'strO: d(q)n(q)rI]
"It all sounds a little portentous to me," said Edward, and in the lightness of the night Bateman could see that he was smiling. "I'm afraid you'll think I've degenerated sadly. There are several things I think now which I daresay would have seemed outrageous to me three years ago."
"Have you learnt them from Arnold Jackson?" asked Bateman, scornfully.
"You don't like him? Perhaps you couldn't be expected to. I didn't when I first came. I had just the same prejudice as you. He's a very extraordinary man.
You saw for yourself (ты сам видел) that he makes no secret of the fact that he was in a penitentiary (что он не делает тайны из того факта, что он был в тюрьме: «исправительном заведении»). I do not know that he regrets it or the crimes that led him there (я не знаю, сожалеет ли он об этом, или о тех преступлениях, что привели его туда). The only complaint he ever made in my hearing (единственная жалоба, которую он когда-либо высказал в моем присутствии;
"He always was (он всегда был таким)," interrupted Bateman (прервал его Бейтман), "on other people's money (за чужой счет: «на деньги других людей»)."
complaint [kqm'pleInt], health [helT], impair [Im'peq], generous ['dZen(q)rqs]