Английский язык с Шерлоком Холмсом. Знак четырех (ASCII-IPA)

"None. Hence the cocaine. I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth."

I had opened my mouth to reply to this tirade (я открыл было рот, чтобы ответить на эту тираду), when with a crisp knock our landlady entered, bearing a card upon the brass salver (когда с резким стуком вошла наша домовладелица с визитной карточкой на медном подносе; crisp — рассыпчатый, хрустящий; четкий; резкий; to bear — нести).

"A young lady for you, sir," she said, addressing my companion (к вам молодая леди, сэр, — сказала она, обращаясь к моему компаньону).

"Miss Mary Morstan," he read (мисс Мэри Морстен, — прочитал он). "Hum! I have no recollection of the name (хм! не припомню это имя; recollection — воспоминание; память). Ask the young lady to step up, Mrs. Hudson (попросите молодую леди подняться, миссис Хадсон; step — шаг; to step — ступать, шагать; идти). Don't go, doctor (не уходите, доктор). I should prefer that you remain (я бы предпочел, чтобы вы остались)."

mouth [mauT], tirade [taI'reId], knock [nOk]

I had opened my mouth to reply to this tirade, when with a crisp knock our landlady entered, bearing a card upon the brass salver.

"A young lady for you, sir," she said, addressing my companion.

"Miss Mary Morstan," he read. "Hum! I have no recollection of the name. Ask the young lady to step up, Mrs. Hudson. Don't go, doctor. I should prefer that you remain."

CHAPTER II. THE STATEMENT OF THE CASE

(Глава II. Изложение дела; statement — заявление; изложение, формулировка)