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

Ten thousand men had been engaged in that titanic struggle (десять тысяч человек принимали участие в этой титанической битве), and upon the field of battle lay three thousand dead (и на поле сражения осталось лежать три тысячи мертвых). Neither side asked or gave quarter (ни одна сторона не просила и не давала пощады; quarter — пощада, милосердие /проявляемые по отношению к пленнику/; to ask for quarter — просить пощады), nor did they attempt to take prisoners (равно как они не старались брать пленных).

On our return to the city after the battle (когда мы вернулись в город после битвы) we had gone directly to Tars Tarkas' quarters (мы пошли прямо в жилище Тарса Таркаса), where I was left alone (где меня оставили одного) while the chieftain attended the customary council (пока вождь присутствовал на традиционном совете) which immediately follows an engagement (который немедленно следует за битвой; engagement — стычка, бой).

quarter ['kwO: tq], council ['kauns(q)l], engagement [In'geIdZmqnt]

Ten thousand men had been engaged in that titanic struggle, and upon the field of battle lay three thousand dead. Neither side asked or gave quarter, nor did they attempt to take prisoners.

On our return to the city after the battle we had gone directly to Tars Tarkas' quarters, where I was left alone while the chieftain attended the customary council which immediately follows an engagement.

As I sat awaiting the return of the green warrior (пока я сидел, ожидая возвращения зеленого воина) I heard something move in an adjoining apartment (я услышал, что кто-то движется в соседней комнате), and as I glanced up there rushed suddenly upon me a huge and hideous creature (и когда я взглянул, на меня внезапно бросилось огромное и отвратительное создание) which bore me backward upon the pile of silks and furs upon which I had been reclining (которое опрокинуло меня назад на груду шелков и мехов, на которых я полулежал; to recline — откидываться назад, полулежать). It was Woola — faithful, loving Woola (это был Вула, верный, любящий Вула). He had found his way back to Thark (он нашел дорогу назад в Тарк) and, as Tars Tarkas later told me (и как позднее сказал мне Тарс Таркас), had gone immediately to my former quarters (немедленно пошел в мое прежнее жилье) where he had taken up his pathetic and seemingly hopeless watch for my return (где стал трогательно и, казалось, безнадежно ожидать моего возвращения; pathetic — трогательный; watch — высматривание; стража, караул).

recline [rI'klaIn], pathetic [pq'TetIk], seemingly ['si: mINlI]

As I sat awaiting the return of the green warrior I heard something move in an adjoining apartment, and as I glanced up there rushed suddenly upon me a huge and hideous creature which bore me backward upon the pile of silks and furs upon which I had been reclining. It was Woola — faithful, loving Woola. He had found his way back to Thark and, as Tars Tarkas later told me, had gone immediately to my former quarters where he had taken up his pathetic and seemingly hopeless watch for my return.