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

At the Lyceum Theatre the crowds were already thick at the side-entrances. In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and beshawled, bediamonded women. We had hardly reached the third pillar, which was our rendezvous, before a small, dark, brisk man in the dress of a coachman accosted us.

"Are you the parties who come with Miss Morstan?" he asked (вы сопровождающие мисс Морстен? — спросил он; party — сторона в сражении, споре; свита, сопровождающие лица; to come — приходить).

"I am Miss Morstan, and these two gentlemen are my friends," said she (я мисс Морстен, а эти два джентльмена — мои друзья, — сказала она).

He bent a pair of wonderfully penetrating and questioning eyes upon us (он обратил на нас пару поразительно пронизывающих и пытливых глаз; to bend — сгибать; поворачивать; to penetrate — входить, проникать внутрь; пронизывать; to question — спрашивать, задавать вопросы; допрашивать; выпытывать). "You will excuse me, miss," he said, with a certain dogged manner (извините меня, мисс, — настойчиво сказал он: «сказал в достаточно настойчивой манере»; dogged — упрямый, настойчивый), "but I was to ask you to give me your word that neither of your companions is a police-officer (но меня обязали попросить вас дать слово, что ни один из ваших сопровождающих не является полицейским)."

"I give you my word on that," she answered (даю вам слово, — ответила она).

He gave a shrill whistle (он пронзительно свистнул), on which a street Arab led across a four-wheeler and opened the door (в ответ на что какой-то уличный мальчишка подвел к нам стоявшую на той стороне улицы карету и открыл дверь; street Arab — беспризорник; to lead — вести). The man who had addressed us mounted to the box (человек, который заговорил с нами, вскочил на козлы; to mount — подниматься, восходить; залезать, взбираться; box — ящик, коробка; ящик под сиденьем кучера; козлы) while we took our places inside (а мы сели внутрь; to take one's place — садиться, занять место). We had hardly done so before (едва мы сели; to do — делать) the driver whipped up his horse (извозчик стеганул лошадь; whip — кнут, хлыст), and we plunged away at a furious pace through the foggy streets (и мы с бешеной скоростью ринулись прочь по туманным улицам; to plunge — нырять; бросаться вперед; furious — взбешенный, яростный; pace — шаг; скорость, темп).

dogged ['dOgId], whistle [wIsl]

"Are you the parties who come with Miss Morstan?" he asked.

"I am Miss Morstan, and these two gentlemen are my friends," said she.

He bent a pair of wonderfully penetrating and questioning eyes upon us. "You will excuse me, miss," he said, with a certain dogged manner, "but I was to ask you to give me your word that neither of your companions is a police-officer."

"I give you my word on that," she answered.

He gave a shrill whistle, on which a street Arab led across a four-wheeler and opened the door. The man who had addressed us mounted to the box, while we took our places inside. We had hardly done so before the driver whipped up his horse, and we plunged away at a furious pace through the foggy streets.