Английский язык с Грэмом Грином. Третий человек - страница 11

), a saint wore a heavy white moustache (святой носил тяжелые белые усы; to wear — носить /одежду, обувь; усы, бороду/), and a shako of snow tipped at a drunken angle (и кивер из снега торчал под пьяным углом) over the bust of a superior civil servant called Wolfgang Gottman (над бюстом высокопоставленного чиновника по имени Вольфганг Готман). Even this cemetery was zoned between the powers (даже это кладбище было поделено на зоны между властями): the Russian zone was marked by huge statues of armed men (русская зона была отмечена огромными статуями вооруженных людей), the French by rows of anonymous wooden crosses (французская — рядами анонимных деревянных крестов) and a torn tired tricolour flag (и рваным потертым трехцветным флагом; to tear — рвать; tired — усталый; помятый, потертый; изношенный). Then Martins remembered that Lime was a Catholic (тогда Мартинс вспомнил, что Лайм был католиком) and was unlikely to be buried in the British zone (и вряд ли был бы похоронен в британской зоне) for which they had been vainly searching (которую они напрасно разыскивали; to search — искать; вести поиски, разыскивать). So back they drove (поэтому они поехали назад) through the heart of a forest (через середину леса = прямо через лес; heart — сердце; сердцевина, ядро) where the graves lay like wolves under the trees (где могилы лежали, как волки, под деревьями), winking white eyes (моргая белыми глазами) under the gloom of the evergreens (под сенью/в сумраке вечнозеленых деревьев; gloom — мрак; темнота; сумрак, тьма). Once from under the trees emerged a group of three men (как-то раз = в какой-то момент из-под деревьев появилась группа из трех человек) in strange eighteenth century black and silver uniforms (в странных, восемнадцатого века, черных с серебром: «черных и серебряных» униформах) with three-cornered hats (с треуголками; corner — угол), pushing a kind of barrow (толкающие что-то вроде тележки; kind — сорт, разновидность; разряд): they crossed a rise in the forest of graves (они пересекли возвышенность в лесу могил) and disappeared again (и снова исчезли).

realise ['rIqlaIz], rendezvous ['rOndIvu:], specify ['spesIfaI],Achilles [q'kIli:z], statue ['stxtju:], avenue ['xvInju:], enormous [I'nO:mqs], pompous ['pOmpqs], grotesque [grqu'tesk], comedy ['kOmedI], angelic [xn'GelIk], anonymous [q'nOnImqs], Catholic ['kxT(q)lIk], emerge [I'mq:G], ['], disappear ["dIsq'pIq], group [gru:p], century ['sentS(q)rI], uniform ['ju:nIfLm], push [puS], moustache [mq'stRS]

Martins had not realised the size of this huge snowbound park where he was making his last rendezvous with Lime. It was as if Harry had left a message to him, "Meet me in Hyde Park," without specifying a spot between the Achilles statue and Lancaster Gate; the avenue of graves, each avenue numbered and lettered, stretched out like the spokes of an enormous wheel; they drove for a half mile towards the west, then turned and drove a half mile north, turned south. … The snow gave the great pompous family headstones an air of grotesque comedy; a toupee of snow slipped sideways over an angelic face, a saint wore a heavy white moustache, and a shako of snow tipped at a drunken angle over the bust of a superior civil servant called Wolfgang Gottman. Even this cemetery was zoned between the powers: the Russian zone was marked by huge statues of armed men, the French by rows of anonymous wooden crosses and a torn tired tricolour flag. Then Martins remembered that Lime was a Catholic and was unlikely to be buried in the British zone for which they had been vainly searching. So back they drove through the heart of a forest where the graves lay like wolves under the trees, winking white eyes under the gloom of the evergreens. Once from under the trees emerged a group of three men in strange eighteenth century black and silver uniforms with three-cornered hats, pushing a kind of barrow: they crossed a rise in the forest of graves and disappeared again.

It was just chance that they found the funeral in time (это была просто случайность, что они нашли =