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Английский детектив. Джон Бакен. Тридцать девять ступеней / John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps - стр. 59
). I have a head for things like chess and puzzles (у меня способности к таким вещам, как шахматы и головоломки; head – голова; способности; puzzle – трудный вопрос, задача; головоломка, загадка), and I used to reckon myself pretty good at finding out cyphers (и раньше я считал себя довольно умелым в разгадывании всяких шифров; good – хороший; умелый, искусный; to find out – разузнать, выяснить; разгадать /загадку/). This one looked like the numerical kind (этот был похож на: «выглядел как» /шифр/ цифрового типа) where sets of figures correspond to the letters of the alphabet (в котором: «где» набор цифр соответствует буквам алфавита), but any fairly shrewd man can find the clue to that sort after an hour or two’s work (но любой довольно проницательный человек может обнаружить ключ к /шифру/ такого рода после часа или двух работы), and I didn’t think Scudder would have been content with anything so easy (а я не думал, что Скаддер удовольствовался бы чем-нибудь настолько легким). So I fastened on the printed words (поэтому я сосредоточился на словах, записанных печатными буквами; to fasten – связывать, скреплять; устремлять, сосредотачивать /взгляд, внимание и т. п./), for you can make a pretty good numerical cypher if you have a key word (потому что можно составить довольно хороший цифровой шифр, если имеется ключевое слово) which gives you the sequence of the letters (которое предоставляет последовательность букв).
Now I was certain that Scudder never did anything without a reason, and I was pretty sure that there was a cypher in all this. That is a subject which has always interested me, and I did a bit at it myself once as intelligence officer at Delagoa Bay during the Boer War. I have a head for things like chess and puzzles, and I used to reckon myself pretty good at finding out cyphers. This one looked like the numerical kind where sets of figures correspond to the letters of the alphabet, but any fairly shrewd man can find the clue to that sort after an hour or two’s work, and I didn’t think Scudder would have been content with anything so easy. So I fastened on the printed words, for you can make a pretty good numerical cypher if you have a key word which gives you the sequence of the letters.
Now I was certain that Scudder never did anything without a reason, and I was pretty sure that there was a cypher in all this. That is a subject which has always interested me, and I did a bit at it myself once as intelligence officer at Delagoa Bay during the Boer War. I have a head for things like chess and puzzles, and I used to reckon myself pretty good at finding out cyphers. This one looked like the numerical kind where sets of figures correspond to the letters of the alphabet, but any fairly shrewd man can find the clue to that sort after an hour or two’s work, and I didn’t think Scudder would have been content with anything so easy. So I fastened on the printed words, for you can make a pretty good numerical cypher if you have a key word which gives you the sequence of the letters.
I tried for hours, but none of the words answered (я пытался /несколько/ часов, но ни одно из слов не подошло; to answer – отвечать; соответствовать, удовлетворять /чему-л./). Then I fell asleep and woke at Dumfries (после чего я уснул и проснулся в Дамфрисе;
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