Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса
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harness ['hQ: nIs], chariot ['tSxrIqt], vehicle ['vi: Ikl]
After a breakfast, which was an exact replica of the meal of the preceding day and an index of practically every meal which followed while I was with the green men of Mars, Sola escorted me to the plaza, where I found the entire community engaged in watching or helping at the harnessing of huge mastodonian animals to great three-wheeled chariots. There were about two hundred and fifty of these vehicles, each drawn by a single animal, any one of which, from their appearance, might easily have drawn the entire wagon train when fully loaded.
The chariots themselves were large, commodious, and gorgeously decorated (сами повозки были большие, удобные и роскошно украшенные; commodious —
commodious [kq'moudjqs], perch [pWtS], gorgeously ['gO: dZqslI], fur [fW]
The chariots themselves were large, commodious, and gorgeously decorated. In each was seated a female Martian loaded with ornaments of metal, with jewels and silks and furs, and upon the back of each of the beasts which drew the chariots was perched a young Martian driver. Like the animals upon which the warriors were mounted, the heavier draft animals wore neither bit nor bridle, but were guided entirely by telepathic means.
This power is wonderfully developed in all Martians (эта сила поразительно развита у всех марсиан), and accounts largely for the simplicity of their language (и в значительной степени объясняет простоту их языка; to account for smth. — объяснять что-либо) and the relatively few spoken words exchanged even in long conversations (и относительно небольшой запас произносимых вслух слов, /которыми они/ обмениваются даже при длинных разговорах). It is the universal language of Mars (это универсальный язык Марса), through the medium of which the higher and lower animals of this world of paradoxes (посредством которого высшие и низшие существа этого мира парадоксов; medium — средство, способ; through the medium — посредством) are able to communicate to a greater or less extent (могут общаться в большей или меньшей степени; extent — протяжение; степень, мера; to a great extent — в значительной степени), depending upon the intellectual sphere of the species and the development of the individual (в зависимости от интеллектуального уровня: «сферы» /биологического/ вида и развития индивида; sphere — круг, поле, область).
simplicity [sIm'plIsItI], conversation ["kOnvq'seIS(q)n], sphere [sfIq]
This power is wonderfully developed in all Martians, and accounts largely for the simplicity of their language and the relatively few spoken words exchanged even in long conversations. It is the universal language of Mars, through the medium of which the higher and lower animals of this world of paradoxes are able to communicate to a greater or less extent, depending upon the intellectual sphere of the species and the development of the individual.
As the cavalcade took up the line of march in single file (когда кавалькада двинулась по пути следования одной шеренгой; to take up — взяться, заняться; the line of march — маршрут, путь следования; file — ряд, шеренга), Sola dragged me into an empty chariot (Сола затащила меня в пустую повозку) and we proceeded with the procession toward the point by which I had entered the city the day before (и мы направились вместе с процессией к тому месту, где я накануне вступил в город). At the head of the caravan rode some two hundred warriors (во главе каравана ехало около двухсот воинов), five abreast, and a like number brought up the rear (по
cavalcade ["kxvl'keId], abreast [q'brest], outrider ['aut" raIdq]
As the cavalcade took up the line of march in single file, Sola dragged me into an empty chariot and we proceeded with the procession toward the point by which I had entered the city the day before. At the head of the caravan rode some two hundred warriors, five abreast, and a like number brought up the rear, while twenty-five or thirty outriders flanked us on either side.
Every one but myself — men, women, and children — were heavily armed (каждый из них, кроме меня, — мужчины, женщины, дети — были сильно вооружены), and at the tail of each chariot trotted a Martian hound (а следом за каждой повозкой трусила марсианская собака; tail — хвост; at the tail — следом, по пятам; to trot — идти быстрыми, мелкими шагами), my own beast following closely behind ours (мое собственное животное следовало сразу за нашей); in fact, the faithful creature never left me voluntarily (фактически, верное создание никогда не покидало меня добровольно) during the entire ten years I spent on Mars (все те десять лет, что я провел на Марсе). Our way led out across the little valley before the city (наша дорога вела через небольшую долину перед городом), through the hills, and down into the dead sea bottom (через холмы и вниз ко дну мертвого моря) which I had traversed on my journey from the incubator to the plaza (которое я пересек во время путешествия от инкубатора к площади). The incubator, as it proved, was the terminal point of our journey this day (инкубатор, как оказалось, был конечной точкой нашего путешествия в этот день; terminal — конечный, заключительный), and, as the entire cavalcade broke into a mad gallop as soon as we reached the level expanse of sea bottom (и так как кавалькада сорвалась в бешеный галоп, как только мы достигли ровной поверхности морского дна), we were soon within sight of our goal (скоро наша цель оказалось у нас в пределах видимости: «мы были вскоре в пределах видимости нашей цели»).
heavily ['hevIlI], during ['djuqrIN], journey ['dZWnI]
Every one but myself — men, women, and children — were heavily armed, and at the tail of each chariot trotted a Martian hound, my own beast following closely behind ours; in fact, the faithful creature never left me voluntarily during the entire ten years I spent on Mars. Our way led out across the little valley before the city, through the hills, and down into the dead sea bottom which I had traversed on my journey from the incubator to the plaza. The incubator, as it proved, was the terminal point of our journey this day, and, as the entire cavalcade broke into a mad gallop as soon as we reached the level expanse of sea bottom, we were soon within sight of our goal.
On reaching it the chariots were parked with military precision on the four sides of the enclosure (когда мы достигли ее, повозки расположили с военной точностью с четырех сторон загородки; to park — ставить на стоянку; расположиться), and half a score of warriors, headed by the enormous chieftain (и десяток воинов, возглавляемых гигантским вождем; score — два десятка), and including Tars Tarkas and several other lesser chiefs (включая Тарса Таркаса и нескольких других менее значительных вождей), dismounted and advanced toward it (спешились и направились к ней). I could see Tars Tarkas explaining something to the principal chieftain (я видел, как Тарс Таркас объясняет что-то главному вождю; principal — главный), whose name, by the way, was, as nearly as I can translate it into English (чье имя, кстати, было, насколько точно я могу перевести его на английский; by the way — кстати), Lorquas Ptomel, Jed; jed being his title (Лорквас Птомель, Джед, при этом «джед» был его титул).