Английский язык с Конаном-варваром
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The village held its breath (поселок задержал /свое/ дыхание; to hold — держать, задержать). Zogar Sag stood still as a statue, his plumes trembling faintly about him (Зогар Саг стоял как статуя, его перья слабо подрагивали вокруг него; to tremble — дрожать). But suddenly the gate was no longer empty (но вдруг ворота были больше не пустые).
The village held its breath. Zogar Sag stood still as a statue, his plumes trembling faintly about him. But suddenly the gate was no longer empty.
A shuddering gasp swept over the village and men crowded hastily back, jamming one another between the huts (бросающий в дрожь вздох прокатился по селу, и люди потеснились поспешно назад, сдавливая друг друга между хижинами). Balthus felt the short hair stir on his scalp (Балтус
nightmare ['natm], glisten [lsn], primordial [pra'm: djl]
A shuddering gasp swept over the village and men crowded hastily back, jamming one another between the huts. Balthus felt the short hair stir on his scalp. The creature that stood in the gate was like the embodiment of nightmare legend. Its color was of a curious pale quality which made it seem ghostly and unreal in the dim light. But there was nothing unreal about the low-hung savage head, and the great curved fangs that glistened in the firelight. On noiseless padded feet it approached like a phantom out of the past. It was a survival of an older, grimmer age, the ogre of many an ancient legend — a saber-tooth tiger. No Hyborian hunter had looked upon one of those primordial brutes for centuries. Immemorial myths lent the creatures a supernatural quality, induced by their ghostly color and their fiendish ferocity.
The beast that glided toward the men on the stakes was longer and heavier than a common, striped tiger, almost as bulky as a bear (тварь, которая скользила к мужчинам на столбах, была длиннее и тяжелее, чем обычный полосатый тигр, почти такой же крупной, как медведь). Its shoulders and forelegs were so massive and mightily muscled as to give it a curiously top-heavy look (ее плечи и передние лапы были такие массивные и с такой могучей мускулатурой: «могуче мускулистые», что придавали ей странно неустойчивый вид), though its hindquarters were more powerful than that of a lion (хотя ее задняя часть была более мощной, чем у льва). Its jaws were massive, but its head was brutishly shaped (ее челюсти были массивные, но ее голова была грубой формы). Its brain capacity was small (ее объем мозга был невелик). It had room for no instincts except those of destruction (он не имел места для инстинктов, кроме таковых разрушения = в нем было место лишь для инстинктов разрушения). It was a freak of carnivorous development, evolution run amuck in a horror of fangs and talons (это была аномалия /в/ развитии плотоядных, эволюционное безумие в ужасе из клыков и когтей; to run amuck — обезуметь; быть вне себя, неистовствовать; в ярости набрасываться на всякого встречного).
bear [b], hindquarters ['handkw: tz], capacity [k'paest]
The beast that glided toward the men on the stakes was longer and heavier than a common, striped tiger, almost as bulky as a bear. Its shoulders and forelegs were so massive and mightily muscled as to give it a curiously top-heavy look, though its hindquarters were more powerful than that of a lion. Its jaws were massive, but its head was brutishly shaped. Its brain capacity was small. It had room for no instincts except those of destruction. It was a freak of carnivorous development, evolution run amuck in a horror of fangs and talons.
This was the monstrosity Zogar Sag had summoned out of the forest (это
actuality [k'aelt], bowed [baud], whom [hu: m]
This was the monstrosity Zogar Sag had summoned out of the forest. Balthus no longer doubted the actuality of the shaman's magic. Only the black arts could establish a domination over that tiny-brained, mighty-thewed monster. Like a whisper at the back of his consciousness rose the vague memory of the name of an ancient god of darkness and primordial fear, to whom once both men and beasts bowed and whose children — men whispered — still lurked in dark corners of the world. New horror tinged the glare he fixed on Zogar Sag.
The monster moved past the heap of bodies and the pile of gory heads without appearing to notice them (чудовище двинулось мимо груды тел и кучи голов, казалось не замечая их: «без казательства замечать их»). He was no scavenger (он был не падальщик). He hunted only the living, in a life dedicated solely to slaughter (он охотился только на живых, в жизни, посвященной исключительно убийству). An awful hunger burned greenly in the wide, unwinking eyes (страшный голод горел зеленым в широко раскрытых, немигающих глазах); the hunger not alone of belly-emptiness, but the lust of death-dealing (голод не только пустоты желудка, но /и/ жажды убийства). His gaping jaws slavered (его разверстые челюсти испускали слюну = из его разверстых челюстей стекала слюна; to slaver — пускать слюни). The shaman stepped back, his hand waved toward the woodsman (шаман шагнул назад, его рука махнула в сторону лесовика).
gory [': r], scavenger ['skaevn], slaughter ['sl: t]
The monster moved past the heap of bodies and the pile of gory heads without appearing to notice them. He was no scavenger. He hunted only the living, in a life dedicated solely to slaughter. An awful hunger burned greenly in the wide, unwinking eyes; the hunger not alone of belly-emptiness, but the lust of death-dealing. His gaping jaws slavered. The shaman stepped back, his hand waved toward the woodsman.
The great cat sank into a crouch (огромная кошка припала к земле; to crouch — припадать к земле; согнуться, сжаться; crouch — припадание к земле, нагибание, сгибание), and Balthus numbly remembered tales of its appalling ferocity (и Балтус, оцепенев, вспомнил рассказы о ее ужасной свирепости): of how it would spring upon an elephant and drive its sword-like fangs so deeply into the titan's skull (о /том/, как она набрасывалась на слона и вонзала свои саблевидные клыки так глубоко в череп титана) that they could never be withdrawn (/так,/ что их нельзя было вытащить: «они могли никогда быть вытащены»; to withdraw — извлекать, вытаскивать), but would keep it nailed to its victim, to die by starvation (но они держали ее прикованной к ее жертве, так что она умирала от голода: «умереть голодом»; would + V — обозначает привычное / обычное действие в прошлом). The shaman cried out shrilly, and with an ear-shattering roar the monster sprang (шаман пронзительно завопил, и с оглушительным рычанием монстр прыгнул; to shatter — разбить вдребезги; раздробить).