Английский язык с Мюриэль Спарк (рассказы)

"There's nothing wrong with your sight. Don't let your imagination run away with you."

I walked on, certain that he had known my guilty suspicions all along.

"I took up psychology during the war (я занялась психологией во время войны). Up till then I was in general practice (до того самого времени я занималась общей медицинской практикой)."

I had come to the summer school (я приехала в летнюю школу) to lecture on history (читать лекции по истории) and she on psychology (а она по психологии). Psychiatrists are very often ready to talk to strangers about their inmost lives (психиатры очень часто готовы говорить с незнакомцами о самом сокровенном в их жизни; stranger— незнакомец, посторонний человек). This is probably because they spend so much time (это, возможно, из-за того, что они проводят столько много времени) hearing out their patients (выслушивая своих пациентов). I did not recognise Dr. Gray (я не узнала доктора Грей), except as a type (кроме как типаж), when I had attended her first lecture on (когда посетила ее первую лекцию на тему) "the psychic manifestations of sex (психические проявления секса)." She spoke of child-poltergeists (она говорила о детских полтергейстах), and I was bored (и мне было скучно), and took refuge (и я нашла себе занятие: «нашла убежище») in observing the curious language of her profession (наблюдая за любопытным языком ее профессии; toobserve— наблюдать, следить, замечать). I noticed the word "arousement" (я обратила внимание на слово(сочетание) «половое возбуждение»).

"Adolescents in a state of sexual arousement (подростки в состоянии сексуального возбуждения)," she said, "may become possessed of almost psychic insight (могут обладать почти что интуицией медиумов)."

psychology [saI'kOlqGI] psychiatrist [saI'kaIqtrIst] stranger ['streInGq]

lecture ['lekCq] refuge ['refju: G]

"I took up psychology during the war. Up till then I was in general practice."

I had come to the summer school to lecture on history and she on psychology. Psychiatrists are very often ready to talk to strangers about their inmost lives. This is probably because they spend so much time hearing out their patients. I did not recognise Dr. Gray, except as a type, when I had attended her first lecture on "the psychic manifestations of sex." She spoke of child-poltergeists, and I was bored, and took refuge in observing the curious language of her profession. I noticed the word "arousement".

"Adolescents in a state of sexual arousement," she said, "may become possessed of almost psychic insight."

After lunch (после ланча), since the Eng. Lit. people (так как народ с лекции по английской литературе; Eng.Lit. — English literature) had gone off to play tennis (отправился играть в теннис), she tacked on to me (она присоединилась ко мне) and we walked to the lake (и мы пошли гулять к озеру) across the lawns (по газонам), past the rhododendrons (за рододендронами). This lake had once been the scene of a love-mad duchess's death (это озеро однажды послужило местом: «сценой» смерти обезумевшей от любви герцогини).