Английский с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда / Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast, drinking the chill of the air with pleasure, when I was seized again with those indescribable sensations that heralded the change: and I had but the time to gain the shelter of my cabinet, before I was once again raging and freezing with the passions of Hyde. It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to myself; and, alas! six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire, the pangs returned, and the drug had to be re-administered.

In short from that day forth (короче говоря, начиная с того дня) it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics (казалось, что только ценой огромных усилий, подобных занятию гимнастикой; gymnastics – гимнастика), and only under the immediate stimulation of the drug (и лишь при немедленном применении лекарства; stimulation – толчок, побуждение, стимул; стимуляция), that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll (я был способен сохранить: «носить» внешний вид = обличье Джекила).

At all hours of the day and night I would be taken with the premonitory shudder (в любой час дня и ночи меня, бывало, охватывала предупреждающая дрожь); above all, if I slept, or even dozed for a moment in my chair (и, прежде всего, если я спал, или даже на мгновение засыпал, /сидя/ в кресле; above all – прежде всего, главным образом, в основном; больше всего), it was always as Hyde that I awakened (то всегда просыпался Хайдом).

In short from that day forth it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics, and only under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll. At all hours of the day and night I would be taken with the premonitory shudder; above all, if I slept, or even dozed for a moment in my chair, it was always as Hyde that I awakened.