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

"After it (туда: «за ней»)," I cried to my companion (закричал я своему товарищу), "and if you reach the pump room (и если ты доберешься до насосной комнаты) turn loose all the pumps (запусти все насосы; to turn loose — освобождать, отпускать). It is the only chance Barsoom has to exist tomorrow (это единственный шанс, /чтобы/ Барсум мог существовать завтра)!"

From where I lay (с того /места/, где я лежал) I opened the second door, and then the third (я открыл вторую дверь, а затем и третью), and as I saw the hope of Barsoom crawling weakly on hands and knees through the last doorway (и когда я увидел, что надежда Барсума едва ползет на руках и коленях через последнюю дверь) I sank unconscious upon the ground (я упал без сознания на землю).

hurl [hWl], crawl [krO: l], attempt [q'tempt]

But, with a final effort, as I sank weakly to my knees I hurled the nine thought waves at that awful thing before me. The Martian had crawled to my side and with staring eyes fixed on the single panel before us we waited in the silence of death.

Slowly the mighty door receded before us. I attempted to rise and follow it but I was too weak.

"After it," I cried to my companion, "and if you reach the pump room turn loose all the pumps. It is the only chance Barsoom has to exist tomorrow!"

From where I lay I opened the second door, and then the third, and as I saw the hope of Barsoom crawling weakly on hands and knees through the last doorway I sank unconscious upon the ground.

CHAPTER XXVIII

AT THE ARIZONA CAVE (в пещере Аризоны)

It was dark when I opened my eyes again (было темно, когда я вновь открыл глаза). Strange, stiff garments were upon my body (странные жесткие одеяния были на моем теле; garments — одежда, одеяния); garments that cracked and powdered away from me (одеяния, которые трещали и осыпались с меня в прах) as I rose to a sitting posture (когда я поднялся в сидячее положение).

I felt myself over from head to foot (я ощупал себя с головы до ног) and from head to foot I was clothed (и с головы до ног я был одет), though when I fell unconscious at the little doorway I had been naked (хотя когда я упал без сознания у маленькой двери, я был обнажен). Before me was a small patch of moonlit sky (передо мной была узкая полоска освещенного луной неба) which showed through a ragged aperture (которое проглядывало через неровное отверстие; ragged — неровный, зазубренный).

garment ['gQ: mqnt], powder ['paudq], posture ['pOstSq], moonlit ['mu: n" lIt]

It was dark when I opened my eyes again. Strange, stiff garments were upon my body; garments that cracked and powdered away from me as I rose to a sitting posture.

I felt myself over from head to foot and from head to foot I was clothed, though when I fell unconscious at the little doorway I had been naked. Before me was a small patch of moonlit sky which showed through a ragged aperture.