The walls of the apartment were completely hung with splendid tapestries (стены комнаты были полностью увешаны великолепными гобеленами;
splendid ['splendId], tapestry ['txpIstrI], pierce [pIqs]
The walls of the apartment were completely hung with splendid tapestries which hid any windows or doors which may have pierced them. The room was lighted by imprisoned rays of sunshine held between the ceiling proper and what appeared to be a ground-glass false ceiling a few inches below.
My guide drew aside one of the tapestries (мой проводник отодвинул в сторону один из гобеленов), disclosing a passage which encircled the room (открыв проход, который окружал комнату), between the hangings and the walls of the chamber (между драпировками и стенами зала;
disclose [dIs'klouz], hanging ['hxNIN], relieve [rI'li: v]
My guide drew aside one of the tapestries, disclosing a passage which encircled the room, between the hangings and the walls of the chamber. Within this passage I was to remain, he said, so long as Than Kosis was in the apartment. When he left I was to follow. My only duty was to guard the ruler and keep out of sight as much as possible. I would be relieved after a period of four hours. The major-domo then left me.
The tapestries were of a strange weaving (гобелены были странного плетения;
Scarcely had I gained my post (едва я занял свой пост) than the tapestry at the opposite end of the chamber separated (как гобелены на противоположной стороне комнаты раздвинулись) and four soldiers of The Guard entered (и вошли четыре солдата Стражи), surrounding a female figure (окружающие женскую фигуру). As they approached Than Kosis (когда они приблизились к Тану Косису) the soldiers fell to either side (солдаты расступились по обе стороны) and there standing before the jeddak and not ten feet from me, her beautiful face radiant with smiles, was Dejah Thoris (и там перед джеддаком и не далее чем в десяти футах от меня, с прекрасным лицом, сияющим от улыбки, стояла Дежа Торис).
weaving ['wi: vIN], readily ['redIlI], radiant ['reIdIqnt]