Английский язык с Грэмом Грином. Третий человек - страница 9
aware [q'weq], silence ['saIlqns], steadily ['stedIlI], [kqn'vIns], absence ['xbs(q)ns], hero ['hIqrqu], worship ['wq:SIp], corridor ['kOrIdO:], entirely [In'taIqlI], sullen ['sAlqn], expression [Ik'spreS(q)n], vexation [vek'seIS(q)n], bury ['berI], instantaneous ["Instqn'teInIqs]
How quickly one becomes aware of silence even in so silent a city as Vienna with the snow steadily settling. Martins hadn't reached the second floor before he was convinced that he would not find Lime there, but the silence was deeper than just absence—it was as if he would not find Harry Lime anywhere in Vienna, and as he reached the third floor and saw the big black bow over the door handle, anywhere in the world at all. Of course it might have been a cook who had died, a housekeeper, anybody but Harry Lime, but he knew—he felt he had known twenty stairs down—that Lime, the Lime he had hero-worshipped now for twenty years, since the first meeting in a grim school corridor with a cracked bell ringing for prayers, was gone. Martins wasn't wrong, not entirely wrong. After he had rung the bell half a dozen times a small man with a sullen expression put his head out from another flat and told him in a tone of vexation, "It's no use ringing like that. There's nobody there. He's dead."
"Herr Lime?"
"Herr Lime of course."
Martins said to me later, "At first it didn't mean a thing. It was just a bit of information, like those paragraphs in The Times they call News in Brief. I said to him: When did it happen? How?'"
"He was run over by a car," the man said. "Last Thursday." He added sullenly, as if really this were none of his business. "They are burying him this afternoon. You've only just missed them."
"Them?"
"Oh, a couple of friends and the coffin."
"Wasn't he in hospital?"
"There was no sense in taking him to hospital. He was killed here on his own doorstep—instantaneously. The right-hand mudguard struck him on his shoulder and bowled him over in front like a rabbit."
It was only then (и только тогда) Martins told me (сказал мне Мартинс) when the man used the word rabbit (когда тот мужчина использовал слово ‘кролик’) that the dead Harry Lime came alive (мертвый Гарри Лайм пришел живым = ожил), became the boy with the gun (стал мальчиком с пистолетом); a boy starting up among the long sandy barrows of Brickworth Common saying (мальчиком, появившимся посреди длинных песчаных холмов Брикуортского пустыря; to start up — вскакивать; появляться; barrow — гора, холм, возвышенность; common — общий, всеобщий; общественный, публичный; общинная земля, общественный выгон; пустырь), "Shoot (стреляй), you fool (ты, придурок), shoot. There" (/ну/ вот), and the rabbit limped to cover (и кролик захромал в укрытие), wounded by Martins' shot (раненный выстрелом Мартинса). "Where are they burying him (где они хоронят его)?" he asked the stranger on the landing (спросил он незнакомца на лестничной клетке).
"In the Central Cemetery (на Центральном кладбище). They’ll have a hard time of it (им это будет нелегко: «они будут иметь трудное время от этого») in this frost (на таком морозе)."
He had no idea how to pay for his taxi (он не имел никакого представления, как заплатить за свое такси), or indeed where in Vienna he could find a room (или, действительно, где в Вене он мог найти комнату; indeed — в самом деле, действительно; конечно, несомненно; в составе сложного предложения для подчеркивания, развития уже высказанной мысли) in which he could live for five English pounds (в которой он мог жить за пять английских фунтов), but that problem had to be postponed (но эта проблема должна была быть отложенной) until he had seen the last of Harry Lime (пока он не увидит в последний раз: «последнее от» Гарри Лайма). He drove straight out of town (он поехал прямо наружу из города;
