Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров / Edgar Allan Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher

My wife had called my attention, more than once, to the character of the mark of white hair (моя жена обращала мое внимание более, чем однажды, на характер отметины из белой шерсти), of which I have spoken (о которой я говорил), and which constituted the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed (и которая составляла единственное видимое различие между чужим зверем и тем, которого я уничтожил). The reader will remember that this mark, although large, had been originally very indefinite (читатель вспомнит, что эта отметина, хотя и большая, была изначально очень неопределенной /по форме/)

; but, by slow degrees – degrees nearly imperceptible (но, медленными степенями = изменениями – изменениями почти что незаметными = постепенно, почти незаметно), and which for a long time my Reason struggled to reject as fanciful (и которые в течение долгого времени мой рассудок силился отвергнуть как фантастические; to struggle – бороться

) – it had, at length, assumed a rigorous distinctness of outline (она = эта отметина наконец приняла точную определенность очертаний).

My wife had called my attention, more than once, to the character of the mark of white hair, of which I have spoken, and which constituted the sole visible difference between the strange beast and the one I had destroyed. The reader will remember that this mark, although large, had been originally very indefinite; but, by slow degrees – degrees nearly imperceptible, and which for a long time my Reason struggled to reject as fanciful – it had, at length, assumed a rigorous distinctness of outline.

It was now the representation of an object that I shudder to name (она была теперь изображением предмета, который я вздрагиваю = боюсь назвать) – and for this, above all, I loathed, and dreaded, and would have rid myself of the monster (и за это, сверх всего, я ненавидел и боялся и желал бы избавиться от чудовища) had I dared (посмей я) – it was now, I say, the image of a hideous – of a ghastly thing – of the

gallows (она была теперь, говорю я, изображением отвратительной, страшной вещи – виселицы)! – oh, mournful and terrible engine of Horror and of Crime – of Agony and of Death! (о, скорбное и жуткое орудие ужаса и злодеяния, мучения и смерти)!

It was now the representation of an object that I shudder to name – and for this, above all, I loathed, and dreaded, and would have rid myself of the monster had I dared – it was now, I say, the image of a hideous – of a ghastly thing – of the gallows! – oh, mournful and terrible engine of Horror and of Crime – of Agony and of Death!