Английский язык с Конан Дойлем. Этюд в багровых тонах

"I have them," said Lestrade, producing a small white box; "I took them and the purse and the telegram, intending to have them put in a place of safety at the Police Station. It was the merest chance my taking these pills, for I am bound to say that I do not attach any importance to them."

"Give them here," said Holmes. "Now, Doctor," turning to me, "are those ordinary pills?"

They certainly were not (обычными они определенно не были). They were of a pearly grey colour

(они были жемчужно-серого цвета), small (небольшие), round (круглые), and almost transparent against the light (и почти прозрачные на свет). "From their lightness and transparency, I should imagine that they are soluble in water," I remarked (судя по их весу и прозрачности, я бы сказал: «допустил», что они растворяются: «растворимы» в воде, — заметил я)

.

"Precisely so," answered Holmes (совершенно верно: «точно так», — ответил Холмс). "Now would you mind going down and fetching that poor little devil of a terrier (а теперь не будете ли вы так добры спуститься вниз и принести этого маленького бедолагу терьера; poor — бедный; devil — черт, демон; парень, малый; poor devil — бедняга) which has been bad so long (который так долго страдает; bad — больной), and which the landlady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday (и страданиям которого домохозяйка просила вас положить конец вчера; to put out — удалять; убирать; pain — боль; страдание; to put out of pain — положить конец страданиям, убить из жалости)."

I went downstairs and carried the dog upstair in my arms (я спустился вниз и на руках принес собаку; upstair = upstairs — вверх по лестнице, наверх). It's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end (ее тяжелое дыхание и остекленевшие глаза говорили: «показывали», что ей недолго осталось жить: «что она была недалеко от своего конца»). Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence (да и ее совершенно поседевшая мордочка: «в самом деле, ее снежно-белая морда» показывала, что она уже перешагнула обычный предел собачьей жизни; term — срок; продолжительность; muzzle — рыло, морда). I placed it upon a cushion on the rug (я положил ее на подушку на коврике).

soluble [ˈsɔljubl], laboured [ˈleɪbǝd], canine [ˈkænaɪn], [ˈkeɪnaɪn], cushion [ˈkuʃ(ǝ)n]

They certainly were not. They were of a pearly grey colour, small, round, and almost transparent against the light. "From their lightness and transparency, I should imagine that they are soluble in water," I remarked.

"Precisely so," answered Holmes. "Now would you mind going down and fetching that poor little devil of a terrier which has been bad so long, and which the landlady wanted you to put out of its pain yesterday."

I went downstairs and carried the dog upstair in my arms. It's laboured breathing and glazing eye showed that it was not far from its end. Indeed, its snow-white muzzle proclaimed that it had already exceeded the usual term of canine existence. I placed it upon a cushion on the rug.