negligent ['neɡlɪʤǝnt], ghost [ɡǝʋst], haunt [hɔ:nt]
“I know,” he went on, after a pause that he devoted to the study of his cigar ash, “I have been negligent. The fact is – it isn't a case of ghosts or apparitions – but – it's an odd thing to tell of, Redmond – I am haunted. I am haunted by something – that rather takes the light out of things, that fills me with longings…”
He paused (он сделал паузу), checked by that English shyness (остановленный той английской застенчивостью) that so often overcomes us when we would speak of moving or grave or beautiful things (которая так часто одолевает нас, когда мы хотели бы высказаться о трогательных, или печальных, или прекрасных вещах = о трогательном, или печальном, или прекрасном). “You were at Saint Athelstan's all through (ты прошел весь курс Сент-Ателстенского колледжа; all through – всё целиком, до конца),” he said, and for a moment that seemed to me quite irrelevant (и на минуту это показалось мне совершенно неуместным). “Well (что ж)” – and he paused (и он остановился). Then very haltingly at first (потом, сначала запинаясь), but afterwards more easily (но после более непринужденно), he began to tell of the thing that was hidden in his life (он начал рассказывать о том, что было скрыто в = о тайне его жизни), the haunting memory of a beauty and a happiness that filled his heart with insatiable longings (/о/ навязчивых воспоминаниях какой-то красоты и счастья, которые наполняли его сердце ненасытной жаждой/тоской) that made all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and tedious and vain to him (которые сделали = от которых все интересы и зрелища мирской жизни стали казаться ему унылыми, и скучными, и пустыми; to make – делать; заставлять).
irrelevant [ɪ'relevǝnt], beauty ['bju:tɪ], insatiable [ɪn'seɪʃǝbl]
He paused, checked by that English shyness that so often overcomes us when we would speak of moving or grave or beautiful things. “You were at Saint Athelstan's all through,” he said, and for a moment that seemed to me quite irrelevant. “Well” – and he paused. Then very haltingly at first, but afterwards more easily, he began to tell of the thing that was hidden in his life, the haunting memory of a beauty and a happiness that filled his heart with insatiable longings that made all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and tedious and vain to him.
Now that I have the clue to it (теперь, когда у меня есть ключ к этой загадке: «к этому»), the thing seems written visibly in his face (все это будто /было/ явно написано у него на лице). I have a photograph in which that look of detachment has been caught and intensified (у меня есть фотография, на которой был уловлен и усилен этот отстраненный взгляд). It reminds me of what a woman once said of him (это напоминает мне о том, что сказала о нем одна женщина) – a woman who had loved him greatly (женщина, которая очень любила его). “Suddenly (внезапно),” she said, “the interest goes out of him (всякий интерес /к окружающему/ покидает его). He forgets you (он забывает о вас). He doesn't care a rap for you (ему совершенно нет дела до вас; he doesn't care a rap – ему совершенно все равно/наплевать; to care – заботиться, беспокоиться; rap – мелкая обесцененная монета /в Ирландии в XVIII в./) – under his very nose (/хотя вы/ прямо у него под носом)…”
photograph ['fǝʋtǝɡrɑ:f], caught [kɔ:t], greatly ['ɡreɪtlɪ]
Now that I have the clue to it, the thing seems written visibly in his face. I have a photograph in which that look of detachment has been caught and intensified. It reminds me of what a woman once said of him – a woman who had loved him greatly. “Suddenly,” she said, “the interest goes out of him. He forgets you. He doesn't care a rap for you – under his very nose…”
Yet the interest was not always out of him (тем не менее интерес не всегда покидал его), and when he was holding his attention to a thing Wallace could contrive to be an extremely successful man (и когда он задерживал свое внимание на чем-то, Уоллес мог быть чрезвычайно преуспевающим человеком = чрезвычайно преуспеть в этом; to contrive – придумывать; суметь, ухитриться). His career, indeed, is set with successes (его карьера поистине усеяна успехами; to set with – усыпать,