) and resolutely pushed open the door and entered (решительно открыла: «толкнула» дверь и вошла).
mudguard ['mAdgRd], brought [brLt], balmy ['bRmI]
And then, as luck would have it, a car from the British Embassy drove by and the sight of the tiny Union Jack fluttering from the mudguard stiffened her spine and brought determination to her mouth and eyes. She reminded herself who and what she was, drew in a deep breath of the balmy Paris air laced with petrol fumes and resolutely pushed open the door and entered.
She was almost driven back by the powerful odor of elegance (она едва не была вытолкнута = едва не отшатнулась от сильного аромата утонченности/элегантности; powerful — мощный) that assailed her once she was inside (который окутал ее, как только она была внутри = вошла; to assail — нападать, атаковать). It was the same (это был тот же самый /аромат/) that she smelled when Lady Dent opened the doors to her wardrobe (который она почувствовала, когда леди Дент открыла дверцы своего платяного шкафа), the same that clung to the fur coat and clothes of the Countess Wyszcinska (тот же, который источали шуба и одежда графини Вышинской; to cling — цепляться; прилипать; крепко держаться), for whom she cleaned from four to six in the afternoons (для которой она чистила = у которой она делала уборку с четырех до шести после полудня), the same she sometimes sniffed in the streets (такой же, какой она иногда вдыхала на улицах) when as she passed someone opened the door of a luxurious motorcar (если, когда она проходила мимо, кто-то открывал двери роскошного автомобиля). It was compounded of perfume and fur (он состоял из духов и меха) and satins (и атласов), silks and leather (шелков и кожи), jewelry and face powder (драгоценностей и пудры для лица). It seemed to arise from the thick gray carpets and hangings (казалось, он поднимался от толстых серых ковров и портьер), and fill the air of the grand staircase before her (и наполнял воздух парадной лестницы перед ней).
odor ['qudq], elegance ['elIgqns], luxurious [lAg'zjuqrIqs]
She was almost driven back by the powerful odor of elegance that assailed her once she was inside. It was the same that she smelled when Lady Dent opened the doors to her wardrobe, the same that clung to the fur coat and clothes of the Countess Wyszcinska, for whom she cleaned from four to six in the afternoons, the same she sometimes sniffed in the streets when as she passed someone opened the door of a luxurious motorcar. It was compounded of perfume and fur and satins, silks and leather, jewelry and face powder. It seemed to arise from the thick gray carpets and hangings, and fill the air of the grand staircase before her.
