Английский с Эдгаром По. Падение дома Ашеров

Stupefied with terror, the young nobleman tottered to the door. As he threw it open, a flash of red light, streaming far into the chamber, flung his shadow with a clear outline against the quivering tapestry, and he shuddered to perceive that shadow – as he staggered awhile upon the threshold – assuming the exact position, and precisely filling up the contour, of the relentless and triumphant murderer of the Saracen Berlifitzing.

To lighten the depression of his spirits (чтобы облегчить свой упадок духа), the Baron hurried into the open air (барон поспешил на открытый воздух). At the principal gate of the palace he encountered three equerries (у главных ворот дворца он встретил троих конюших). With much difficulty (с большим трудом)

, and at the imminent peril of their lives (и с угрозой для своей жизни: «жизней»; imminent – надвигающийся, неминуемый), they were restraining the convulsive plunges of a gigantic and fiery-colored horse (они сдерживали судорожные броски огромного, огненного цвета коня).

To lighten the depression of his spirits, the Baron hurried into the open air. At the principal gate of the palace he encountered three equerries. With much difficulty, and at the imminent peril of their lives, they were restraining the convulsive plunges of a gigantic and fiery-colored horse.

“Whose horse

(чей конь)? Where did you get him (где вы взяли его)?” demanded the youth, in a querulous and husky tone of voice (спросил юноша недовольным и сиплым голосом; tone – тон, звук), as he became instantly aware (так как он мгновенно понял: «стал знающим»; aware – знающий)

that the mysterious steed in the tapestried chamber was the very counterpart of the furious animal before his eyes (что таинственный конь в гобеленной комнате был сущим двойником яростного животного перед его глазами).

“Whose horse? Where did you get him?” demanded the youth, in a querulous and husky tone of voice, as he became instantly aware that the mysterious steed in the tapestried chamber was the very counterpart of the furious animal before his eyes.

“He is your own property, sire,” replied one of the equerries (он – ваша собственность, сир, – ответил один из конюших), “at least he is claimed by no other owner (по крайней мере, на него не претендует никакой другой владелец; to claim – заявлять, претендовать

). We caught him flying (мы поймали его, летящего = несущегося), all smoking and foaming with rage (всего дымящегося и исходящего пеной от ярости), from the burning stables of the Castle Berlifitzing (из горящих конюшен замка Берлифитцинг).

“He is your own property, sire,” replied one of the equerries, “at least he is claimed by no other owner. We caught him flying, all smoking and foaming with rage, from the burning stables of the Castle Berlifitzing.