Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса / Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars

"My mother was rather small, in fact too small to be allowed the responsibilities of maternity, as our chieftains breed principally for size. She was also less cold and cruel than most green Martian women, and caring little for their society, she often roamed the deserted avenues of Thark alone, or went and sat among the wild flowers that deck the nearby hills, thinking thoughts and wishing wishes which I believe I alone among Tharkian women today may understand, for am I not the child of my mother?

"And there among the hills she met a young warrior (и там, среди холмов, она встретила молодого воина), whose duty it was to guard the feeding zitidars and thoats (чьей обязанностью было стеречь пасущихся зитидаров и тотов) and see that they roamed not beyond the hills (и следить за тем, чтобы они не забредали за пределы холмов). They spoke at first only of such things as interest a community of Tharks (вначале они разговаривали только о таких вещах, которые представляют интерес для общины тарков), but gradually, as they came to meet more often (но постепенно, когда они стали встречаться чаще; to come to do — начинать делать), and, as was now quite evident to both (и, как теперь стало совершенно очевидно для них обоих), no longer by chance (больше не случайно), they talked about themselves (они разговаривали о себе), their likes, their ambitions and their hopes (о своих пристрастиях, о своих амбициях и своих надеждах). She trusted him and told him of the awful repugnance she felt for the cruelties of their kind (она доверилась ему и рассказала ему о том ужасном отвращении, которое она испытывала к жестокостям им подобных; repugnance — отвращение, антипатия), for the hideous, loveless lives they must ever lead (к отвратительной, лишенной любви жизни, которую они принуждены вечно вести), and then she waited for the storm of denunciation to break from his cold, hard lips (и после этого она ожидала, что шквал обвинений сорвется с его холодных, жестких губ; denunciation — осуждение, обвинение); but instead he took her in his arms and kissed her (но вместо этого он заключил ее в объятия и поцеловал ее).

beyond [bI'jOnd], gradually ['grxdjuqlI], repugnance [rI'pAgnqns], denunciation [dI" nAnsI'eIS(q)n]

"And there among the hills she met a young warrior, whose duty it was to guard the feeding zitidars and thoats and see that they roamed not beyond the hills. They spoke at first only of such things as interest a community of Tharks, but gradually, as they came to meet more often, and, as was now quite evident to both, no longer by chance, they talked about themselves, their likes, their ambitions and their hopes. She trusted him and told him of the awful repugnance she felt for the cruelties of their kind, for the hideous, loveless lives they must ever lead, and then she waited for the storm of denunciation to break from his cold, hard lips; but instead he took her in his arms and kissed her.