As a young boy the author enjoyed reading the fable "The Ant and the Grasshoper" and accepted the moral of it:
Corrugated в переводе означает гофрированный, волнистый:
Emmeline Clegg is Miss Carnaby's very dear friend:
Everyone is politely, but inexactly, to know в переводе означает преполагается, из вежливочти, что каждому известно:
Greta is Mr. Hoggin's wife:
Hercule Poirot liked very much his client, Mr. Hoggin, because Hercule thought Mr. Hoggin had earlier killed his wife:
Hugh broke off the engagement because he thought he was going mad:
Hugh went to the Navy because it was his dream:
Labours of Hercules в переводе означает подвиги Геракла:
Poirot persuaded Miss Carnaby not to become a member of the Great Flock:
Seeing George Ramsay the author immediately suspected that he had come into a lot of money:
The Pekinese dog was presented to Amy Carnaby by her former mistress:
To investigate в переводе означает расследовать:
To obey the instructions в переводе означает выполнять инструкции:
You would never have taken him for more than thirty-five в переводе означает - вы бы ни за что не дали ему больше тридцати пяти:
Глагол to resemble в переводе означает походить, иметь сходство: