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Even this cemetery was zoned between the powers (даже это кладбище было поделено на зоны между властями): the Russian zone was marked by huge statues of armed men (русская зона была отмечена огромными статуями вооруженных людей), the French by rows of anonymous wooden crosses (французская — рядами анонимных деревянных крестов) and a torn tired tricolour flag (и рваным потертым трехцветным флагом; to tear — рвать; tired — усталый; помятый, потертый; изношенный). Then Martins remembered that Lime was a Catholic (тогда Мартинс вспомнил, что Лайм был католиком) and was unlikely to be buried in the British zone (и вряд ли был бы похоронен в британской зоне) for which they had been vainly searching (которую они напрасно разыскивали; to search — искать; вести поиски, разыскивать). So back they drove (поэтому они поехали назад) through the heart of a forest (через середину леса = прямо через лес; heart — сердце; сердцевина, ядро) where the graves lay like wolves under the trees (где могилы лежали, как волки, под деревьями), winking white eyes (моргая белыми глазами) under the gloom of the evergreens (под сенью/в сумраке вечнозеленых деревьев; gloom — мрак; темнота; сумрак, тьма). Once from under the trees emerged a group of three men (как-то раз = в какой-то момент из-под деревьев появилась группа из трех человек) in strange eighteenth century black and silver uniforms (в странных, восемнадцатого века, черных с серебром: «черных и серебряных» униформах) with three-cornered hats (с треуголками; corner — угол), pushing a kind of barrow (толкающие что-то вроде тележки; kind — сорт, разновидность; разряд): they crossed a rise in the forest of graves (они пересекли возвышенность в лесу могил) and disappeared again (и снова исчезли).
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Martins had not realised the size of this huge snowbound park where he was making his last rendezvous with Lime. It was as if Harry had left a message to him, "Meet me in Hyde Park," without specifying a spot between the Achilles statue and Lancaster Gate; the avenue of graves, each avenue numbered and lettered, stretched out like the spokes of an enormous wheel; they drove for a half mile towards the west, then turned and drove a half mile north, turned south. … The snow gave the great pompous family headstones an air of grotesque comedy; a toupee of snow slipped sideways over an angelic face, a saint wore a heavy white moustache, and a shako of snow tipped at a drunken angle over the bust of a superior civil servant called Wolfgang Gottman. Even this cemetery was zoned between the powers: the Russian zone was marked by huge statues of armed men, the French by rows of anonymous wooden crosses and a torn tired tricolour flag. Then Martins remembered that Lime was a Catholic and was unlikely to be buried in the British zone for which they had been vainly searching. So back they drove through the heart of a forest where the graves lay like wolves under the trees, winking white eyes under the gloom of the evergreens. Once from under the trees emerged a group of three men in strange eighteenth century black and silver uniforms with three-cornered hats, pushing a kind of barrow: they crossed a rise in the forest of graves and disappeared again.
It was just chance that they found the funeral in time (это была просто случайность, что они нашли = застали похороны вовремя; to find — находить, обнаруживать)—one patch in the enormous park (один клочок в огромном парке) where the snow had been shovelled aside (где снег был сгребен в сторону) and a tiny group were gathered (и крохотная группа была собрана), apparently bent on some very private business (очевидно собирающиеся проделать какое-то очень личное/частное дело: «склоненные к какому-то очень личному делу»; to bend — гнуться; bent on — собирающийся сделать что-л. |
