Английский с Оскаром Уайльдом. Кентервильское привидение / Oscar Wilde. The Canterville Ghost. Оскар Уайльд

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For a moment the Canterville ghost stood quite motionless in natural indignation; then, dashing the bottle violently upon the polished floor, he fled down the corridor, uttering hollow groans, and emitting a ghastly green light. Just, however, as he reached the top of the great oak staircase, a door was flung open, two little white-robed figures appeared, and a large pillow whizzed past his head! There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.

      On reaching a small secret chamber in the left wing (достигнув маленькой потайной комнаты в левом крыле), he leaned up against a moonbeam to recover his breath (он прислонился к лунному лучу, чтобы отдышаться), and began to try and realize his position (и начал пытаться осознать свое положение; to begin). Never, in a brilliant and uninterrupted career of three hundred years (никогда во время своей блестящей и непрерывной карьеры в течение трех столетий) had he been so grossly insulted (его так грубо не оскорбляли: «он не был столь грубо оскорблен»). He thought of the Dowager Duchess (он подумал о вдовствующей герцогине; to think), whom he had frightened into a fit as she stood before the glass in her lace and diamonds (которую он напугал до припадка, когда она стояла перед зеркалом /в своих/ кружевах и бриллиантах); of the four housemaids (о четырех горничных), who had gone into hysterics (которые впали в истерику) when he merely grinned at them through the curtains on one of the spare bedrooms (когда он всего лишь ухмыльнулся им из-за портьер в одной из спален для гостей; a spare room – комната для гостей: «запасное помещение»); of the rector of the parish (о приходском священнике), whose candle he had blown out (чью свечу он задул; to blow – дуть; to blow out – задуть) as he was coming late one night from the library (когда тот возвращался поздно ночью из библиотеки), and who had been under the care of Sir William Gull[11] ever since (и который с тех пор находился под наблюдением сэра Уильяма Галла), a perfect martyr to nervous disorders (пострадав от нервного потрясения; perfect – совершенный, идеальный, безупречный; настоящий, истинный; martyr – мученик, страдалец; disorder – беспорядок; мед. расстройство); and of old Madame de Tremouillac (и о мадам де Тремуйяк), who, having wakened up one morning early and seen a skeleton seated in an armchair by the fire reading her diary (которая, проснувшись однажды рано утром и увидев скелет, сидящий в кресле у камина и читающий ее дневник) had been confined to her bed for six weeks with an attack of brain fever (оказалась прикованной к постели с приступом мозговой горячки в течение шести недель), and, on her recovery, had become reconciled to the Church (и после своего выздоровления помирилась с церковью) and broken off her connection with that notorious sceptic, Monsieur de Voltaire (и порвала свою связь с тем дурной славы скептиком, месье де Вольтером; to break off; notorious – известный; пользующийся дурной славой; пресловутый).

On reaching a small secret chamber in the left wing, he leaned up against a moonbeam to recover his breath, and began to try and realize his position. Never, in a brilliant and uninterrupted career of three hundred years, had he been so grossly insulted. He thought of the Dowager Duchess, whom he had frightened into a fit as she stood before the glass in her lace and diamonds; of the four housemaids, who had gone into hysterics when he merely grinned at them through the curtains on one of the spare bedrooms; of the rector of the parish, whose candle he had blown out as he was coming late one night from the library, and who had been under the care of Sir William Gull ever since, a perfect martyr to nervous disorders; and of old Madame de Tremouillac, who, having wakened up one morning early and seen a skeleton seated in an armchair by the fire reading her diary, had been confined to her bed for six weeks with an attack of brain fever, and, on her recovery, had become reconciled to the Church, and broken off her connection with that notorious sceptic, Monsieur de Voltaire.

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