Английский язык с Конаном-варваром
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blindness [blandns], eyes [az], lion [lan]
The Cimmerian stood upright, trailing his sword, a sudden sick weariness assailing him. The glare of the sun on the snow cut his eyes like a knife, and the sky seemed shrunken and strangely apart. He turned away from the trampled expanse, where yellow-bearded warriors lay locked with red-haired slayers in the embrace of death. A few steps he took, and the glare of the snow fields was suddenly dimmed. A rushing wave of blindness engulfed him, and he sank down into the snow, supporting himself on one mailed arm and seeking to shake the blindness out of his eyes as a lion might shake his mane.
A silvery laugh cut through his dizziness (серебристый смех прервал его головокружение; to cut through — прерывать: «резать через»), and his sight slowly cleared (и
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Разновидность очень тонкого прозрачного шелка.
laugh [l: f], sight [sat], earth [:], woman [wumn], light [lat]
A silvery laugh cut through his dizziness, and his sight slowly cleared. He looked up; there was a strangeness about all the landscape that he could not place or define — an unfamiliar tinge to earth and sky. But he did not think long of this. Before him, swaying like a sapling in the wind, stood a woman. To his dazed eyes her body was like ivory, and, save for a light veil of gossamer, she was naked as the day. Her slender feet were whiter than the snow they spurned. She laughed down at the bewildered warrior with a laughter that was sweeter than the rippling of silvery fountains and poisonous with cruel mockery.
‘Who are you?’ (кто есть / кем являешься ты? = кто ты?) asked the Cimmerian (спросил киммериец). ‘Whence come you?’ (откуда приходишь ты = откуда ты взялась?)
‘What matter?’ (какое дело? = а в чем дело / а что такое?) Her voice was more musical than a silver-stringed harp (ее голос был более музыкальный, чем арфа с серебряными струнами: «серебро-струнная»), but edged with cruelty (но колкий от жестокости: «с жестокостью»).
‘Call up your men,’ (зови твоих людей) said he grasping his sword (сказал он, хватая свой меч). ‘Though my strength fails me, yet they shall not take me alive (хотя моя сила изменяет мне, но они не возьмут меня живьем / живым). I see that you are of the Vanir (я вижу, /что/ ты из Ваниров).’
‘Have I said so?’ (я сказала так?; to say — сказать)
call [c: l], your [j: ], though [du]
‘Who are you?’ asked the Cimmerian. ‘Whence come you?’
‘What matter?’ Her voice was more musical than a silver-stringed harp, but edged with cruelty.
‘Call up your men,’ said he grasping his sword. ‘Though my strength fails me, yet they shall not take me alive. I see that you are of the Vanir.’
‘Have I said so?’
His gaze went again to her unruly locks (его взгляд пошел снова = вернулся к ее буйным локонам), which at first glance he had thought to be red (которые при первом взгляде он подумал быть рыжими = ему показались рыжими). Now he saw that they were neither red nor yellow but a glorious compound of both colors (теперь он видел, что они были ни рыжими, ни желтыми, а восхитительной смесью обоих цветов). He gazed spellbound (он смотрел / уставился, зачарованный). Her hair was like elfin gold (ее волосы были подобны эльфийскому золоту); the sun struck it so dazzlingly that he could scarcely bear to look upon it (солнце сверкало /на/ них так ослепительно, что он мог едва вынести смотреть на них = что он едва мог смотреть на них). Her eyes were likewise neither wholly blue nor wholly gray (ее глаза были /подобно/ ни совсем голубые, ни совсем серые), but of shifting colors and dancing lights and clouds of colors he could not have named (но из меняющихся цветов и танцующих огней, и множества оттенков /которые/ он не мог бы назвать). Her full red lips smiled (ее полные красные губы улыбались), and from her slender feet to the blinding crown of her billowy hair (а от ее узких ступней до ослепительной короны ее колышущихся волос), her ivory body was as perfect as the dream of a god (ее тело цвета слоновой кости было совершенно как мечта бога; ivory — слоновая кость, цвет слоновой кости). Conan’s pulse hammered in his temples (пульс Конана (за)стучал в /его/ висках).
thought [: t], could [kd]
His gaze went again to her unruly locks, which at first glance he had thought to be ted. Now he saw that they were neither red nor yellow but a glorious compound of both colors. He gazed spellbound. Her hair was like elfin gold; the sun struck it so dazzlingly that he could scarcely bear to look upon it. Her eyes were likewise neither wholly blue nor wholly gray, but of shifting colors and dancing lights and clouds of colors he could not have named. Her full red lips smiled, and from her slender feet to the blinding crown of her billowy hair, her ivory body was as perfect as the dream of a god. Conan’s pulse hammered in his temples.
‘I cannot tell,’ (я не могу сказать / разобрать) said he (сказал он), ‘whether you are of Vanaheim and mine enemy, or of Asgard and my friend (/ли/ ты /являешься/ из Ванахейма и мой враг, или из Асгарда и мой друг). Far have I wandered (далеко я бродил / ходил; to wander — бродить), but a woman like you I have never seen (но женщину /такую/ как ты я никогда не видел: «я имею никогда виденной»; to see — видеть). Your locks blind me with their brightness (твои локоны / волосы ослепляют меня своим / их блеском). Never have I seen such hair, not even among the fairest daughters of the Asir. By Ymir — ’ (никогда я /не/ видел таких волос, /не/ даже среди прекраснейших дочерей Асира. Имиром = клянусь Имиром)
whether [wed], friend [frend], among ['m ]
‘I cannot tell,’ said he, ‘whether you are of Vanaheim and mine enemy, or of Asgard and my friend. Far have I wandered, but a woman like you I have never seen. Your locks blind me with their brightness. Never have I seen such hair, not even among the fairest daughters of the Asir. By Ymir — ’
‘Who are you to swear by Ymir?’ (кто ты, чтобы клясться Имиром?) she mocked (она насмехалась). ‘What know you of the gods of ice and snow (что знаешь ты о богах льда и снега), you who have come up from the South to adventure among an alien people?’ (ты, кто / который пришел с юга, чтобы искать приключений среди чужого народа?; to adventure — рисковать, отважиться, искать приключений)
adventure [d'vent]
‘Who are you to swear by Ymir?’ she mocked. ‘What know you of the gods of ice and snow, you who have come up from the South to adventure among an alien people?’
‘By the dark gods of my own race!’ he cried in anger ((Клянусь) темными богами моей собственной расы! — он крикнул в гневе). ‘Though I am not of the golden-haired Aesir (хотя я не из златоволосых асиров; I am — я являюсь / нахожусь от to be — быть), none has been more forward in swordplay! (ни один / никто /не/ был более впереди = более искусным в фехтовании) This day I have seen fourscore men fall (сегодня: «этот день» я видел восемьдесят человек пасть / падать = я видел, как пали / погибли восемьдесят человек), and I alone have survived the field where Wulfhere’s reavers met the wolves of Bragi (и я один пережил сражение / поле, где / в котором грабители Вулфхера встретили волков Браги; to meet — встречать). Tell me, woman, have you seen the flash of mail out across the snow plains, or seen armed men moving upon the ice?’ (скажи мне, женщина, ты видела блеск кольчуги /снаружи/ через / на снежных равнинах, или видела вооруженных людей, движущихся по / на льду?)