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Английский детектив. Джон Бакен. Тридцать девять ступеней / John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps - стр. 65
(потому что они обладали отличными манерами, свойственными всем обитателям пустынной местности; breeding – выращивание /животных/; хорошие манеры, воспитанность, умение вести себя), but I could see they set me down as a kind of dealer (но я увидел = понял, что они приняли меня за кого-то вроде торговца; to set down – класть, ставить /на землю, на стол и т. п./; считать кого-л. кем-л.), and I took some trouble to confirm their view (и я постарался: «взял /на себя/ некоторый труд, чтобы» подтвердить их точку зрения; trouble – беспокойство, волнение; труд, усилие; view – вид, пейзаж; мнение, суждение, точка зрения). I spoke a lot about cattle, of which my host knew little (я много говорил о крупном рогатом скоте, о котором мой хозяин знал немного), and I picked up from him a good deal about the local Galloway markets (и я узнал от него многое о местных галлоувейский рынках; to pick up – поднимать, подбирать; услышать, узнать), which I tucked away in my memory for future use (что = и это я припрятал в своей памяти для будущего использования; to tuck away – убирать, засовывать; припрятывать, сберегать). At ten I was nodding in my chair (в десять я уже клевал носом, сидя в кресле; nod – кивок; дремота; to nod – кивать головой; клевать носом, дремать), and the ‘bed in the loft’ received a weary man who never opened his eyes (и «постель на сеновале» приняла уставшего человека, который ни разу не открыл глаз) till five o’clock set the little homestead a-going once more (до тех пор, пока пять часов утра снова не привели тот маленький крестьянский двор в движение).
At the darkening her man came in from the hills, a lean giant, who in one step covered as much ground as three paces of ordinary mortals. They asked me no questions, for they had the perfect breeding of all dwellers in the wilds, but I could see they set me down as a kind of dealer, and I took some trouble to confirm their view. I spoke a lot about cattle, of which my host knew little, and I picked up from him a good deal about the local Galloway markets, which I tucked away in my memory for future use. At ten I was nodding in my chair, and the ‘bed in the loft’ received a weary man who never opened his eyes till five o’clock set the little homestead a-going once more.
At the darkening her man came in from the hills, a lean giant, who in one step covered as much ground as three paces of ordinary mortals. They asked me no questions, for they had the perfect breeding of all dwellers in the wilds, but I could see they set me down as a kind of dealer, and I took some trouble to confirm their view. I spoke a lot about cattle, of which my host knew little, and I picked up from him a good deal about the local Galloway markets, which I tucked away in my memory for future use. At ten I was nodding in my chair, and the ‘bed in the loft’ received a weary man who never opened his eyes till five o’clock set the little homestead a-going once more.
They refused any payment (они отказались от какой бы то ни было оплаты), and by six I had breakfasted and was striding southwards again (и к шести часам я уже позавтракал и снова шагал большими шагами на юг). My notion was to return to the railway line
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