"It's not so nice as the Immaculate Conception at Lourdes (она не такая прекрасная, как /статуя/ Непорочное Зачатие в Лурде). That lifts you up (та /статуя/ просто воодушевляет;
Everyone got used, eventually (все привыкли, в конечном счете;
''She looks a bit gloomy (она выглядит чуть мрачновато;
''No (нет)," said the priest (сказал священник). "I think it looks fine (я думаю, что она выглядит прекрасно). If you start dressing it up in cloth (если начать рядить ее в одежду: «вы начнете одевать») you'll spoil the line (то нарушится чистота линий: «вы испортите линию»
Sometimes people came from London especially (иногда люди приезжали из Лондона специально) to see the Black Madonna (чтобы увидеть Черную Мадонну), and these were not Catholics (и они: «те» не были католиками): they were, said the priest, probably no religion at all (они, возможно, не принадлежали, говорил священник, к какой-либо религии: «они были, говорил священник, возможно никакой религии совсем»), poor souls (бедняжки: «бедные души»), though gifted with faculties (однако, одаренные /другими/ способностями /видеть прекрасное/;
immaculate [I'mxkjVlIt] eventually [I'venCV(q)lI] priest [pri: st] though [DqV]
"It's not so nice as the Immaculate Conception at Lourdes. That lifts you up."
Everyone got used, eventually, to the Black Madonna with her square hands and straight carved draperies. There was a movement to dress it up in vestments, or at least lace veil.
''She looks a bit gloomy. Father, don't you think?"
''No," said the priest. "I think it looks fine. If you start dressing it up in cloth you'll spoil the line."
Sometimes people came from London especially to see the Black Madonna, and these were not Catholics: they were, said the priest, probably no religion at all, poor souls, though gifted with faculties. They came, as if to a museum, to see the line of the Black Madonna which must not be spoiled by vestments.