Английский с улыбкой. Брет Гарт, Стивен Ликок. Дефективный детектив / Bret Harte, Stephen Leacock. The Defective Detective - страница 4

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), and the other, that it seemed to indicate my reverence for his superhuman insight (а во-вторых, /мне/ казалось, это свидетельствовало о моем благоговении перед его сверхчеловеческой проницательностью; other – другой, второй; to indicate – указывать, показывать).

I found Hemlock Jones in the old Brook Street lodgings, musing before the fire. With the freedom of an old friend I at once threw myself in my usual familiar attitude at his feet, and gently caressed his boot. I was induced to do this for two reasons: one, that it enabled me to get a good look at his bent, concentrated face, and the other, that it seemed to indicate my reverence for his superhuman insight.

So absorbed was he even then, in tracking some mysterious clue (он так был поглощен поисками разгадки некой тайны; to absorb – всасывать, впитывать; поглощать, захватывать /внимание/; to track – идти по следу, выслеживать; even then – да и то; mysterious – таинственный; clue – клубок, моток /пряжи/; ключ к разгадке), that he did not seem to notice me (что, похоже, не замечал меня; to seem – казаться, представляться). But therein I was wrong (но тут-то я /как раз и/ ошибался; therein – в этом, в этом отношении; to be wrong – быть неправым) – as I always was in my attempt to understand that powerful intellect (как ошибался всегда в своих попытках понять этот могучий разум).

“It is raining,” he said, without lifting his head (идет дождь, – сказал он, не поднимая головы: «без поднимания своей головы»).

“You have been out, then?” I said quickly (значит, вы выходили из дому? – быстро сказал = спросил я; to be out – не быть дома, отлучаться).

“No. But I see that your umbrella is wet (нет, но я вижу, что ваш зонтик мокрый), and that your overcoat has drops of water on it (а на вашем пальто – капли воды).”

So absorbed was he even then, in tracking some mysterious clue, that he did not seem to notice me. But therein I was wrong – as I always was in my attempt to understand that powerful intellect.

“It is raining,” he said, without lifting his head.

“You have been out, then?” I said quickly.

“No. But I see that your umbrella is wet, and that your overcoat has drops of water on it.”

I sat aghast at his penetration (я пришел в ужас от его наблюдательности; to sit/stand aghast at smth. – застыть в ужасе от чего-л.; penetration – проникновение, проникание; проницательность

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