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

"The Sahib awaits you," said he (сахиб ждет вас, — сказал он; sahib — инд., сахиб, сагиб, господин, хозяин), and even as he spoke there came a high piping voice from some inner room (и в эту же минуту из какой-то комнаты послышался тонкий, пронзительный голос; to speak — говорить; to come — приходить, доноситься; high — высокий; звонкий; резкий, пронзительный; piping — писклявый, пронзительный; визгливый; inner — внутренний). "Show them in to me, khitmutgar," it cried. "Show them straight in to me (проведите их ко мне, — вскричал он. Немедленно проведите их ко мне; khitmutgar — китмутгар; слуга, дворецкий в Индии /уст./)."

neighbourhood ['neIb@hud], miniature ['mIn@tS@], clothes [kl@uDz], suburban [s@'b@:b(@)n], straight [streIt]

We had, indeed, reached a questionable and forbidding neighbourhood. Long lines of dull brick houses were only relieved by the coarse glare and tawdry brilliancy of public houses at the corner. Then came rows of two-storied villas each with a fronting of miniature garden, and then again interminable lines of new staring brick buildings, — the monster tentacles which the giant city was throwing out into the country. At last the cab drew up at the third house in a new terrace. None of the other houses were inhabited, and that at which we stopped was as dark as its neighbours, save for a single glimmer in the kitchen window. On our knocking, however, the door was instantly thrown open by a Hindoo servant clad in a yellow turban, white loose-fitting clothes, and a yellow sash. There was something strangely incongruous in this Oriental figure framed in the commonplace door-way of a third-rate suburban dwelling-house.

"The Sahib awaits you," said he, and even as he spoke there came a high piping voice from some inner room. "Show them in to me, khitmutgar," it cried. "Show them straight in to me."

CHAPTER IV. THE STORY OF THE BALD-HEADED MAN

(глава IV. История лысого: «лысоголового» человечка).