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

When the amphitheater had cleared (когда амфитеатр опустел; to clear — очистить, освободить) I crept stealthily to the top (я тайком пробрался наверх) and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza (и так как этот большой котлован находился далеко от площади; excavation — яма, котлован) and in an untenanted portion of the great dead city (и в необитаемой части большого мертвого города) I had little trouble in reaching the hills beyond (то мне не составило большого труда добраться до холмов за ним; trouble — затруднение, усилие).

whisperer ['wIsprq], stagger ['stxgq], protrude [prq'tru: d], withdraw [wID'drO: ], jugular ['dZAgjulq], harmless ['hQ: mlIs], untenantable ['An'tenqntqbl]

Kantos Kan and I were now pitted against each other but as we approached to the encounter I whispered to him to prolong the battle until nearly dark in the hope that we might find some means of escape. The horde evidently guessed that we had no hearts to fight each other and so they howled in rage as neither of us placed a fatal thrust. Just as I saw the sudden coming of dark I whispered to Kantos Kan to thrust his sword between my left arm and my body. As he did so I staggered back clasping the sword tightly with my arm and thus fell to the ground with his weapon apparently protruding from my chest. Kantos Kan perceived my coup and stepping quickly to my side he placed his foot upon my neck and withdrawing his sword from my body gave me the final death blow through the neck which is supposed to sever the jugular vein, but in this instance the cold blade slipped harmlessly into the sand of the arena. In the darkness which had now fallen none could tell but that he had really finished me. I whispered to him to go and claim his freedom and then look for me in the hills east of the city, and so he left me.

When the amphitheater had cleared I crept stealthily to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza and in an untenanted portion of the great dead city I had little trouble in reaching the hills beyond.

CHAPTER XX

IN THE ATMOSPHERE FACTORY (на атмосферной фабрике)

For two days I waited there for Kantos Kan (два дня я ожидал там Кантоса Кана), but as he did not come I started off on foot in a northwesterly direction toward a point (но так как он не появился, я отправился пешком в северо-западном направлении к тому месту) where he had told me lay the nearest waterway (где, как он сказал мне, пролегал ближайший канал). My only food consisted of vegetable milk (мою единственную пищу составляло растительное молоко) from the plants which gave so bounteously of this priceless fluid (из тех растений, которые так щедро дарили эту бесценную жидкость; bounteously — щедро, обильно; bounty — щедрость).