"What manner of weird tale are you bringing me, Notan?" he cried.
"It is the truth (это правда), my Jeddak," replied the psychologist. "In fact the impressions were strongly marked on the brain of each of the four guardsmen (на самом деле, впечатления оставили очень сильный отпечаток в мозгу каждого из четырех стражников). Their antagonist was a very tall man (их противником был очень высокий человек), wearing the metal of one of your own guardsmen (носящий знаки различия одного из твоих собственных стражников), and his fighting ability was little short of marvelous (и его способность сражаться была почти чудесной;
surpass [sW'pQ: s], superhuman ["sju: pq'hju: mqn], endurance [In'djuqrqns]
"It is the truth, my Jeddak," replied the psychologist. "In fact the impressions were strongly marked on the brain of each of the four guardsmen. Their antagonist was a very tall man, wearing the metal of one of your own guardsmen, and his fighting ability was little short of marvelous for he fought fair against the entire four and vanquished them by his surpassing skill and superhuman strength and endurance. Though he wore the metal of Zodanga, my Jeddak, such a man was never seen before in this or any other country upon Barsoom.
"The mind of the Princess of Helium (ум принцессы Гелиума) whom I have examined and questioned (который я исследовал и расспросил) was a blank to me (был непроницаем для меня;
witness ['wItnIs], portion ['pO: Sn]
"The mind of the Princess of Helium whom I have examined and questioned was a blank to me, she has perfect control, and I could not read one iota of it. She said that she witnessed a portion of the encounter, and that when she looked there was but one man engaged with the guardsmen; a man whom she did not recognize as ever having seen."
"Where is my erstwhile savior (где мой бывший спаситель;
erstwhile ['WstwaIl], especially [Is'peS(q)lI]