Дракула / Dracula

Дракула / Dracula

Брэм Стокер

Легко читаем по-английски

Когда Джонатан Харкер прибыл в мрачный замок Дракулы в Трансильвании, он и не предполагал, что с ним может случиться. Однако ужасные ночные повадки хозяина замка вскоре заставили Харкера опасаться за свою жизнь… Это рассказ о битве со злом, которую ведут профессор Ван Хелсинг и его молодые друзья. Их противник – самый коварный вампир в мире. Текст адаптирован для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 3 – Intermediate) и сопровождается комментариями, упражнениями и словарем.

Брэм Стокер / Bram Stoker

Дракула / Dracula

© Матвеев С. А., адаптация текста, упражнения, словарь, 2017

© ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2017

Jonathan Harker’s[1 - Jonathan Harker – Джонатан Харкер] Journal

3 May. Bistritz.[2 - Bistritz – Бистрица (город на западе Румынии в Трансильвании на реке Бистрица)] – I left Munich at 8:35 P. M. on May 1st, and arrived at Vienna early next morning. The train was an hour late.

I could walk through the streets a little; Buda-Pesth[3 - Buda-Pesth (Budapest) – Будапешт] seems a wonderful place. We were leaving the West and entering the East. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale.[4 - Hotel Royale – отель «Ройяль»] I had for dinner, or rather supper, chicken with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. I asked the waiter, and he said it was a national dish. I used German here.

Before my journey, I visited the British Museum, and studied some of the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania.

[5 - Transylvania – Трансильвания (историческая область на северо-западе Румынии)] It was impossible to mark the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there were no maps of this country; but I found that Bistritz, the town named by Count Dracula,[6 - Count Dracula – граф Дракула] was a well-known place.

I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had queer dreams. Anyway, in the morning the continuous knocking at my door woke me up.

My train started at eight.

All day long we were watching beautiful views. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on top of the hills; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams. At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds. The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks[7 - the Slovaks – словаки] with their big cowboy hats, great trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts. They looked like real brigands.