Артур Конан Дойл
Союз рыжих. Книга для чтения на английском языке
Введение
Книга предназначена для изучающих английский язык с использованием текста произведений зарубежной классики, его транскрипции и соответствующих аудиокниг, озвученных носителями языка. Книга подготовлена по материалам канала YouTube «Аудиокниги с субтитрами и транскрипцией. Зарубежная классика на английском языке» (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG77GXpWfinzTjwT8g7dCzw). Канал осуществляет презентацию аудиокниг с синхронизированным текстом и транскрипцией, а также способствует распространению идей изучения языка с помощью аудиокниг.
На канале YouTube опубликован видеоролик по рассказу А. К. Дойла «Союз Рыжих» (The Red-headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) на английском языке с синхронизированным текстом и транскрипцией. Адрес видеоролика:
Для подготовки видеоролика использована бесплатная аудиокнига с публичного сайта Librivox (https://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-version-4-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/), озвученная носителем языка (David Clarke), и бесплатная электронная книга с публичного сайта Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661). Транскрипция, записанная символами международного фонетического алфавита, выполнена с помощью онлайн-переводчика английского текста в транскрипцию. Автор онлайн-переводчика – Дмитрий Янс (https://tophonetics.com/ru/).
В данной книге приводится текст рассказа А. К. Дойла «Союз Рыжих» на английском языке с транскрипцией. Текст рассказа разбит на небольшие фрагменты. Для каждого фрагмента подготовлена транскрипция, оформленная в виде иллюстрации с изображением транскрипции текста фрагмента. Фрагменты пронумерованы порядковыми номерами (001, 002,…,257). Для каждого фрагмента создан видеоролик – презентация данного фрагмента. Адрес видеоролика приведён после номера фрагмента. Имя видеоролика совпадает с номером фрагмента.
Таким образом, чтение рассказа производится с «подсказками» в виде транскрипции, просмотром и прослушиванием видеороликов.
The red-headed league
001. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bmUsmcWYqLAzrOWgZ25FnnqZOdpdUQrr/view?usp=sharing
I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair.
002. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gieiiuATMvJrACsT0CPo6uV60n9FMlnT/view?usp=sharing
With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door behind me.
003. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yooL_JEmJGlWJggrqGUw7mzOg5VOMcvI/view?usp=sharing
“You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Watson,” he said cordially.
“I was afraid that you were engaged.”
“So I am. Very much so.”
“Then I can wait in the next room.”
004. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SRPcSXYJ0iMKwpaoEH9oPD4lDj6fH_nA/view?usp=sharing
“Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also.”
005. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-xlmVJi_S4ZZ5bHRqcjXFVOu_0j64zQT/view?usp=sharing
The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small fat-encircled eyes.
006. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_3rEoI2nzAzvABgXq1UxyVQHC3jTIQVm/view?usp=sharing
“Try the settee,” said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods. “I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life.
007. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r3AlntNwZYuIPUnwppSxpebzZTNlXTS2/view?usp=sharing
You have shown your relish for it by the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own little adventures.”
008. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10gMQMqqGdqvpjWRU1GzNmI0jTqS6mg92/view?usp=sharing
“Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me,” I observed.
009. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_xOFTVJ2_JxVoLMvBUoJWC44Ayjxxgdp/view?usp=sharing
“You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.”
010. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NYlFfC7Sy81z27PGfAbJkXgbsA_m6qYU/view?usp=sharing
“A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.”
011. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FShi88KXxJ1M35yauHo3dUDE81BQ-4NZ/view?usp=sharing
“You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.
012. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bkh8zfXTgKgRxH6flAS5SEvAxzKKMJw1/view?usp=sharing
Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some time.
013. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16r0M85Ayy5I_sB9iI54IIHN8hxmJyP4m/view?usp=sharing
You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for doubt whether any positive crime has been committed.
014. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zod-cxAUuDvEgDgKyV6wE_hbc3kYdLKA/view?usp=sharing
As far as I have heard, it is impossible for me to say whether the present case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to recommence your narrative.
015. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iTI4ZF6PXkk6qCpZUv9RDvHBvL-M19ja/view?usp=sharing
I ask you not merely because my friend Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every possible detail from your lips.
016. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19z9kt83GL02sSqL220XqYcVDB6Iv4gjf/view?usp=sharing
As a rule, when I have heard some slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique.”
017. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eXMyFx9FdZkYpZUg94Pc6tRBXdemkN07/view?usp=sharing
The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the inside pocket of his greatcoat.
018. https://drive.google.com/file/d/15u3dmCDnGSXjbf1xFaWJEvtc16bSPBmf/view?usp=sharing
As he glanced down the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance.
019. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lyl1yzbx5BW6GLQOLksAmGxI30Kxx-RH/view?usp=sharing
I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor bore every mark of being an average commonplace British tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow.
020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tcWcUREu6ZDnb3qIPe6EVNbWvJ3cY7c8/view?usp=sharing
He wore rather baggy grey shepherd’s check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament.
021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/129hHTfOpADzm5KHSypilOY4_zbzOR0tz/view?usp=sharing
A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and discontent upon his features.
022. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rPIRXEHk08stfXttyD26rQVhRimqIHHl/view?usp=sharing
Sherlock Holmes’ quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances.
023. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wcYpM5PKbbnXsdaYBDnTHurifFPG6iV/view?usp=sharing
“Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.”
024. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10YecSWL1IpRg1jqMf_FuBps_zdtNO8SU/view?usp=sharing
Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion.
025. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sJrYj3ZBAk5okY0aVbGsGfXCTmV0QtIq/view?usp=sharing
“How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. Holmes?” he asked. “How did you know, for example, that I did manual labour. It’s as true as gospel, for I began as a ship’s carpenter.”
026. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uREKhU1x2nSjpaiDYCoznRSqDjmGdPpG/view?usp=sharing
“Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more developed.”
“Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?”
027. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAxITdYzg2V6eiZZQWR_DFJZTnXsSme1/view?usp=sharing
“I won’t insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you use an arc-and-compass breastpin.”
“Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?”
028. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nyuVws9ACtd79ckSPd1Nfrug3JjBe09M/view?usp=sharing
“What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?”
“Well, but China?”
029. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wHsVRraEOniRMqo9bU68Rz-I-cfqku20/view?usp=sharing
“The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature of the subject.
030. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16cVVXgx-olKm-kpgjYTJKC6pqN3MjGyV/view?usp=sharing
That trick of staining the fishes’ scales of a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter becomes even more simple.”
031. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q9jfknHGsrN15ZXtwqbcglXEOCw8qTY9/view?usp=sharing
Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. “Well, I never!” said he. “I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it after all.”
032. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PmeVANjqmvzjvLb0Pkg4ZGazZV17m3w_/view?usp=sharing
“I begin to think, Watson,” said Holmes, “that I make a mistake in explaining. ‘Omne ignotum pro magnifico,’ you know, and my poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?”
033. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16d0qjxqhTQu4LTQT_sCv-5cRALJUMugW/view?usp=sharing
“Yes, I have got it now,” he answered with his thick red finger planted halfway down the column. “Here it is. This is what began it all. You just read it for yourself, sir.”
I took the paper from him and read as follows:
034. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qT3W9BW5m5o_c21w6Cv9BYnaycsxs8XP/view?usp=sharing
“TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of £ 4 a week for purely nominal services.
035. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dofzF6VNHwsF7VgOTyywUB9dULBKFHmz/view?usp=sharing
All red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at eleven o’clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Pope’s Court, Fleet Street.”
036. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yeHYJbmYXbDHGfujJS_mmermSjvRUzkK/view?usp=sharing
“What on earth does this mean?” I ejaculated after I had twice read over the extraordinary announcement.
037. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TfXhkbsXqRxvq348frbKTMA2BnEVHSrT/view?usp=sharing
Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when in high spirits. “It is a little off the beaten track, isn’t it?” said he.
038. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yZTr3EW4iodYRoA2ZiCWZEIy5bjEMAED/view?usp=sharing
“And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, Doctor, of the paper and the date.”
039. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TA8x0YPxJSvpgokXultBSRMZRBghRPvs/view?usp=sharing
“It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months ago.”
“Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?”
040. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uBl_WJKqnm7fDJwyywckT6YqPnG2Xank/view?usp=sharing
“Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,” said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; “I have a small pawnbroker’s business at Coburg Square, near the City. It’s not a very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than just give me a living.
