Английский с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Странная история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда / Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

It was two o’clock when she came to herself and called for the police (было два часа ночи, когда она пришла в себя и вызвала полицию). The murderer was gone long ago (убийца уже давно скрылся); but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled (но посреди переулка лежала его жертва, невероятно покалеченная)

. The stick with which the deed had been done (трость, которой было совершенно это преступление; stick – палка; трость; deed – поступок, действие), although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood (хотя она и была из какого-то редкого, очень прочного и тяжелого дерева; tough – жесткий; крепкий, прочный

), had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty (сломалась пополам под воздействием этой слепой жестокости; middle – середина; insensate – неодушевленный; бесчувственный, бездушный; cruel – жестокий); and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter (и одна отколовшаяся половина /трости/ укатилась в /близлежащую/ сточную канаву)

– the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer (а вторая, без сомнения, была унесена убийцей). A purse and a gold watch were found upon the victim (на жертве были обнаружены кошелек и золотые часы); but no cards or papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope (/но не было обнаружено/ ни визитных карточек, ни документов, за исключением конверта – запечатанного и с наклеенными марками; card – карта /игральная/; визитная карточка; paper – бумага; документ; to stamp – ставить штамп; наклеивать марки

), which he had been probably carrying to the post (который он, по-видимому, нес на почту), and which bore the name and address of Mr. Utterson (и на котором были написаны имя и адрес мистера Аттерсона; to bear – переносить; иметь, нести на себе).

It was two o’clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty; and one splintered half had rolled in the neighbouring gutter – the other, without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer. A purse and a gold watch were found upon the victim; but no cards or papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope, which he had been probably carrying to the post, and which bore the name and address of Mr. Utterson.