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Английский детектив. Джон Бакен. Тридцать девять ступеней / John Buchan. The Thirty-Nine Steps - стр. 67
). Indeed I was in better spirits than I had been for months (на самом деле, я пребывал в лучшем расположении духа, чем в течение нескольких месяцев /до того/). Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road (за длинным гребнем вересковой пустоши я пошел по дороге, /которая/), skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet (огибала склон высокого холма, который пастух называл Пирамидой Флотилии; to skirt – быть расположенным, идти по границе, по краю; огибать, обходить, идти вдоль края; side – сторона; склон; cairn – пирамида из камней /как условный знак, надгробный памятник и т. п./). Nesting curlews and plovers were crying everywhere (гнездящиеся кроншнепы и ржанки кричали повсюду), and the links of green pasture by the streams were dotted with young lambs (а цепочки зеленых пастбищ у ручьев были испещрены молодыми барашками; dot – точка, пятнышко; to dot – ставить точки; усеивать, испещрять). All the slackness of the past months was slipping from my bones (вся бездеятельность прошедших месяцев постепенно уходила из моих костей; to slip – скользить; ускользать, исчезать), and I stepped out like a four-year-old (и я шагал, словно четырехлетний /малыш/). By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river (вскоре я подошел к холмику, поросшему вереском, который спускался в долину небольшой речушки; to dip – погружать, макать, опускать; идти под уклон, уходить вниз), and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train (и на расстоянии мили, вдали меж вереска я увидел дымок паровоза).
It was the same jolly, clear spring weather, and I simply could not contrive to feel careworn. Indeed I was in better spirits than I had been for months. Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet. Nesting curlews and plovers were crying everywhere, and the links of green pasture by the streams were dotted with young lambs. All the slackness of the past months was slipping from my bones, and I stepped out like a four-year-old. By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train.
It was the same jolly, clear spring weather, and I simply could not contrive to feel careworn. Indeed I was in better spirits than I had been for months. Over a long ridge of moorland I took my road, skirting the side of a high hill which the herd had called Cairnsmore of Fleet. Nesting curlews and plovers were crying everywhere, and the links of green pasture by the streams were dotted with young lambs. All the slackness of the past months was slipping from my bones, and I stepped out like a four-year-old. By-and-by I came to a swell of moorland which dipped to the vale of a little river, and a mile away in the heather I saw the smoke of a train.
The station, when I reached it, proved to be ideal for my purpose (станция, когда я добрался до нее, оказалась идеальной для моей цели; to reach – протягивать, вытягивать /особ. руку/; достигать /места назначения/, доезжать, доходить; to prove – доказывать; оказываться)
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