Эдгар Берроуз - Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса

unharmed [An'hQ: md], vengeance ['vendZ(q)ns], torture ['tO: tSq]

"Princess of Helium, I might wring a mighty ransom from your people would I but return you to them unharmed, but a thousand times rather would I watch that beautiful face writhe in the agony of torture; it shall be long drawn out, that I promise you; ten days of pleasure were all too short to show the love I harbor for your race. The terrors of your death shall haunt the slumbers of the red men through all the ages to come; they will shudder in the shadows of the night as their fathers tell them of the awful vengeance of the green men; of the power and might and hate and cruelty of Tal Hajus. But before the torture you shall be mine for one short hour, and word of that too shall go forth to Tardos Mors, Jeddak of Helium, your grandfather, that he may grovel upon the ground in the agony of his sorrow. Tomorrow the torture will commence; tonight thou art Tal Hajus'; come!"

He sprang down from the platform and grasped her roughly by the arm (он спрыгнул с платформы и грубо схватил ее за руку), but scarcely had he touched her (но едва лишь он прикоснулся к ней) than I leaped between them (как я прыгнул между ними). My short-sword, sharp and gleaming was in my right hand (мой короткий меч, острый и сверкающий, был в моей правой руке); I could have plunged it into his putrid heart (я мог бы вонзить его в его гнилое сердце; putrid — гнилостный; испорченный, извращенный ) before he realized that I was upon him (прежде чем он поймет, что я напал на него); but as I raised my arm to strike (но когда я занес руку, чтобы ударить) I thought of Tars Tarkas (я подумал о Тарсе Таркасе), and, with all my rage, with all my hatred (и при всей своей ярости, при всей своей ненависти), I could not rob him of that sweet moment (я не мог украсть у него этот сладостный миг) for which he had lived and hoped all these long, weary years (ради которого он жил и надеялся все эти долгие, томительные годы; weary — усталый, томительный ), and so, instead, I swung my good right fist full upon the point of his jaw (и поэтому я размахнулся и ударил моим добрым правым кулаком прямо ему в челюсть). Without a sound he slipped to the floor as one dead (без единого звука он соскользнул на пол, как мертвый).

roughly ['rAflI], putrid ['pju: trId], jaw [dZO:]

He sprang down from the platform and grasped her roughly by the arm, but scarcely had he touched her than I leaped between them. My short-sword, sharp and gleaming was in my right hand; I could have plunged it into his putrid heart before he realized that I was upon him; but as I raised my arm to strike I thought of Tars Tarkas, and, with all my rage, with all my hatred, I could not rob him of that sweet moment for which he had lived and hoped all these long, weary years, and so, instead, I swung my good right fist full upon the point of his jaw. Without a sound he slipped to the floor as one dead.

In the same deathly silence I grasped Dejah Thoris by the hand (в той же мертвой тишине я схватил Дежу Торис за руку), and motioning Sola to follow (и, сделав знак Соле следовать за нами) we sped noiselessly from the chamber and to the floor above (мы бесшумно поспешили из зала на верхний этаж; to speed — двигаться поспешно; спешить, торопиться ). Unseen we reached a rear window (незамеченные, мы добрались до окна сзади) and with the straps and leather of my trappings (и с помощью лямок и ремней моей амуниции; strap — ремень; лямка; leather — кожа; кожаное изделие, ремень ) I lowered, first Sola and then Dejah Thoris to the ground below (я опустил вначале Солу, а затем и Дежу Торис на землю). Dropping lightly after them (легко соскочив следом за ними) I drew them rapidly around the court in the shadows of the buildings (я быстро потащил их вдоль двора в тени зданий), and thus we returned over the same course (и таким образом мы вернулись по тому же пути) I had so recently followed from the distant boundary of the city (по которому я так недавно следовал от дальней границы города).

We finally came upon my thoats (наконец, мы наткнулись на наших тотов; to come on — натыкаться, наталкиваться ) in the courtyard where I had left them (в том дворе, где я оставил их), and placing the trappings upon them (и, надев на них сбрую) we hastened through the building to the avenue beyond (мы поспешили через здание на улицу за ним). Mounting Sola upon one beast (усадив Солу верхом на одно животное), and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other (а Дежу Торис позади себя — на другое), we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south (мы поскакали из города Тарка через холмы к югу).

motion ['mouS(q)n], course [kO: s], trappings ['trxpINz]

In the same deathly silence I grasped Dejah Thoris by the hand, and motioning Sola to follow we sped noiselessly from the chamber and to the floor above. Unseen we reached a rear window and with the straps and leather of my trappings I lowered, first Sola and then Dejah Thoris to the ground below. Dropping lightly after them I drew them rapidly around the court in the shadows of the buildings, and thus we returned over the same course I had so recently followed from the distant boundary of the city.

We finally came upon my thoats in the courtyard where I had left them, and placing the trappings upon them we hastened through the building to the avenue beyond. Mounting Sola upon one beast, and Dejah Thoris behind me upon the other, we rode from the city of Thark through the hills to the south.

Instead of circling back around the city to the northwest (вместо того, чтобы кружить вокруг города и /выйти/ назад к северо-западу) and toward the nearest waterway which lay so short a distance from us (к ближайшему каналу, который лежал на таком близком расстоянии от нас), we turned to the northeast and struck out upon the mossy waste (мы повернули к северо-востоку и наткнулись на покрытую мхом пустошь; to strike on — находить, наталкиваться ) across which, for two hundred dangerous and weary miles (за которой, /на расстоянии/ двухсот опасных и утомительных миль), lay another main artery leading to Helium (лежала другая главная артерия, ведущая в Гелиум).

No word was spoken until we had left the city far behind (ни одного слова не было произнесено, пока мы не оставили город далеко позади), but I could hear the quiet sobbing of Dejah Thoris (но я мог слышать тихие рыдания Дежи Торис) as she clung to me with her dear head resting against my shoulder (пока она прижималась ко мне, а ее милая головка покоилась у меня на плече; to cling — цепляться; прилипать; крепко держаться ).