(и что он сможет войти, когда решится; to choose – предпочитать; решаться на какой-л. выбор).
I seem to see the figure of that little boy (я так и вижу фигуру того маленького мальчика; to seem – казаться), drawn and repelled (притягиваемого и отталкиваемого = которого и влечет к двери, и отталкивает от нее). And it was very clear in his mind, too (и было еще очень ясно = отчетливо осознавалось в его уме; clear – четкий, отчетливый осознаваемый, ясно видимый), though why it should be so was never explained (хотя никогда не прояснилось, почему = хотя так и не ясно, с чего бы это), that his father would be very angry if he went through that door (что его отец очень рассердится, если он войдет через эту дверь).
either ['aɪðǝ], unfastened ['ʌn'fɑ:snd], figure ['fɪɡǝ]
And at the same time he had the clearest conviction that either it was unwise or it was wrong of him – he could not tell which – to yield to this attraction. He insisted upon it as a curious thing that he knew from the very beginning – unless memory has played him the queerest trick – that the door was unfastened, and that he could go in as he chose.
I seem to see the figure of that little boy, drawn and repelled. And it was very clear in his mind, too, though why it should be so was never explained, that his father would be very angry if he went through that door.
Wallace described all these moments of hesitation to me with the utmost particularity (Уоллес описал мне все эти моменты колебания с крайней обстоятельностью/в мельчайших деталях). He went right past the door (он прошел прямо мимо двери), and then, with his hands in his pockets (а потом /засунув/ руки в карманы), and making an infantile attempt to whistle (и сделав ребяческую попытку засвистеть), strolled right along beyond the end of the wall (побрел прямо вперед, пока не кончилась стена: «за пределы конца стены»). There he recalls a number of mean, dirty shops, and particularly that of a plumber and decorator (там, как он вспоминает, /был/ ряд захудалых, грязных лавок и особенно мастерская водопроводчика и мастера по внутренней отделке помещений), with a dusty disorder of earthenware pipes (с пыльным беспорядком из глиняных труб), sheet lead, ball taps (листов свинца, кранов: «шариковых кранов»)