Magic Tree House 1: Dinosaurs Before Dark (на англ.яз.)

Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end. "Was it here?" he asked, in a low voice. "No, no, the Yew Alley is on the other side." The young heir glanced round with a gloomy face. "It's no wonder my uncle felt as if trouble were coming on him in such a place as this," said he. "It's enough to scare any man. I'll have a row of electric lamps up here inside of six months, and you won't know it again, with a thousand candle-power Swan and Edison right here in front of the hall door." The avenue opened into a broad expanse of turf (аллея выходила на широкий газон, /покрытый/ дерном; to open into вести к; выходить на; expanse простор; пространство), and the house lay before us (и дом находился перед нами; to lie лежать; находиться). In the fading light I could see (в слабеющем свете = в сумерках я смог разглядеть) that the centre was a heavy block of building from which a porch projected (что в центре находилась массивная часть здания, к которому примыкало крыльцо; block колода; /строительный/ блок; to project выдаваться, выступать) ...»