Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров / Edgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher

It was a fearful page in the record of my existence, written all over with dim, and hideous, and unintelligible recollections. I strived to decipher them, but in vain; while ever and anon, like the spirit of a departed sound, the shrill and piercing shriek of a female voice seemed to be ringing in my ears. I had done a deed – what was it? I asked myself the question aloud, and the whispering echoes of the chamber answered me, – “what was it?”

On the table beside me burned a lamp (на столе рядом со мной горела лампа), and near it lay a little box (а подле нее лежала маленькая шкатулка; to lie – лежать). It was of no remarkable character (она была ничем не примечательна: «не примечательного характера»), and I had seen it frequently before, for it was the property of the family physician (и я часто видел ее раньше, так как это была собственность семейного врача); but how came it there, upon my table (но как она оказалась там, на моем столе: «пришла»), and why did I shudder in regarding it (и почему я вздрагивал, глядя на нее)? These things were in no manner to be accounted for (эти вещи никоим образом нельзя было объяснить: «были в никакой манере быть объясненными»; to account for smth – объяснить что-либо, дать отчет в чем-либо), and my eyes at length dropped to the open pages of a book (и мои глаза в конце концов опустились к открытым страницам книги), and to a sentence underscored therein (и к предложению, подчеркнутому там).

On the table beside me burned a lamp, and near it lay a little box. It was of no remarkable character, and I had seen it frequently before, for it was the property of the family physician; but how came it there, upon my table, and why did I shudder in regarding it? These things were in no manner to be accounted for, and my eyes at length dropped to the open pages of a book, and to a sentence underscored therein.

The words were the singular but simple ones of the poet Ebn Zaiat (эти слова были странными, но простыми словами поэта Ибн-Зайата): – “Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas (мне говорили собратья, что, если я навещу могилу подруги, горе мое немного облегчится; лат.).” Why then, as I perused them, did the hairs of my head erect themselves on end (почему же, когда я внимательно читал их, волосы моей головы поднимались на кончиках), and the blood of my body become congealed within my veins (а кровь моего тела стыла в жилах: «становилась замороженной»)?

The words were the singular but simple ones of the poet Ebn Zaiat: – “Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas.” Why then, as I perused them, did the hairs of my head erect themselves on end, and the blood of my body become congealed within my veins?