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

The work of rearing young, green Martians consists solely in teaching them to talk (дело воспитания молодых зеленых марсиан состоит единственно в том, что их учат говорить), and to use the weapons of warfare (и использовать боевое оружие; warfare — война, боевые действия) with which they are loaded down from the very first year of their lives (которым их увешивают с самого первого года жизни; to load — нагружать; обременять). Coming from eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation (выходя из яиц, в которых они пролежали пять лет, — период инкубации), they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size (они вступают в мир полностью развившимися, за исключением размера). Entirely unknown to their mothers (совершенно неизвестные своим матерям), who, in turn, would have difficulty in pointing out the fathers with any degree of accuracy (которые, в свою очередь, затруднились бы указать отцов хотя бы с некоторой степенью точности; accuracy — точность, правильность), they are the common children of the community (они являются общими детьми общины), and their education devolves upon the females who chance to capture them as they leave the incubator (и их образование ложится на женщин, которым удается схватить их, когда они покидают инкубатор; to devolve — передавать; переходить/о функциях/; to chance — случиться, случайно произойти).

solely ['soullI], entirely [In'taIqlI], devolve [dI'vOlv]

I saw that the ceremony, if it could be dignified by such a name, was over, and seeking out Sola I found her in our chariot with a hideous little creature held tightly in her arms.

The work of rearing young, green Martians consists solely in teaching them to talk, and to use the weapons of warfare with which they are loaded down from the very first year of their lives. Coming from eggs in which they have lain for five years, the period of incubation, they step forth into the world perfectly developed except in size. Entirely unknown to their mothers, who, in turn, would have difficulty in pointing out the fathers with any degree of accuracy, they are the common children of the community, and their education devolves upon the females who chance to capture them as they leave the incubator.