), addressed the air in front of him (обратился в пустое пространство: «в воздух» перед собой): — wonder [`wAndq] youth [juT] appeal [q`pJl] deformed [dI`fLmd] dreadful [`dredf(q)l]
1. Once, for instance, to our extreme wonder, he piped up to a different air, a kind of country love-song, that he must have learned in his youth before he had begun to follow the sea.
2. So things passed until, the day after the funeral, and about three o'clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at the door for a moment full of sad thoughts about my father, when I saw someone drawing slowly near along the road.
3. He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood, that made him appeal positively deformed. I never saw in my life a more dreadful looking figure. He stopped a little from the inn, and, raising his voice in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him: —
1. 'Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man (не сообщит ли какой-нибудь добрый друг бедному слепому человеку), who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England (который потерял драгоценное зрение в храброй обороне своей родины, Англии; gracious — милосердный, добрый, великодушный), and God bless King George (и /да/ благословит Бог короля Георга)! — where or in what part of this country he may now be (где или в какой части этой страны он может сейчас находится)?
2. 'You are at the "Admiral Benbow" (вы находитесь возле /трактира/ «Адмирал Бенбоу»), Black Hill Cove, my good man (в бухте Черного Холма, мой добрый человек), said I.
3. 'I hear a voice (я слышу голос), said he — 'a young voice (молодой голос). Will you give me your hand, my kind, young friend, and lead me in (вы дадите мне руку, мой добрый юный друг, и проведете меня внутрь /дома/)?
blind [blaInd] precious [`preSqs] gracious [`greISqs] country [`kAntrI]
1. 'Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England, and God bless King George! — where or in what part of this country he may now be?
2. 'You are at the "Admiral Benbow," Black Hill Cove, my good man, said I.
3. 'I hear a voice, said he — 'a young voice. Will you give me your hand, my kind, young friend, and lead me in?
1. I held out my hand (я протянул свою руку), and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature (и ужасное, с вкрадчивым голосом, безглазое существо;