Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса

The incubators are built in remote fastnesses, where there is little or no likelihood of their being discovered by other tribes. The result of such a catastrophe would mean no children in the community for another five years. I was later to witness the results of the discovery of an alien incubator.

The community of which the green Martians, with whom my lot was cast, formed a part was composed of some thirty thousand souls. They roamed an enormous tract of arid and semi-arid land between forty and eighty degrees south latitude, and bounded on the east and west by two large fertile tracts. Their headquarters lay in the southwest corner of this district, near the crossing of two of the so-called Martian canals.

As the incubator had been placed far north of their own territory (так как инкубатор находился далеко к северу от их собственной территории) in a supposedly uninhabited and unfrequented area (в предположительно необитаемом и редко посещаемом районе), we had before us a tremendous journey (то нам предстояло /совершить/ невероятное путешествие; tremendous — страшный; громадный, потрясающий), concerning which I, of course, knew nothing (относительно которого я, естественно, ничего не знал).

After our return to the dead city (после нашего возвращения в мертвый город) I passed several days in comparative idleness (я провел несколько дней в относительном безделье; idle — праздный). On the day following our return (на следующий день после нашего возвращения) all the warriors had ridden forth early in the morning (все воины ускакали куда-то рано утром; forth — вперед, дальше; to ride) and had not returned until just before darkness fell (и вернулись только перед наступлением темноты). As I later learned, they had been to the subterranean vaults (как я позднее узнал, они были в подземных хранилищах) in which the eggs were kept (в которых хранились яйца) and had transported them to the incubator (и перевозили их в инкубатор), which they had then walled up for another five years (который они затем обнесли стеной на последующие пять лет), and which, in all probability, would not be visited again during that period (и который, по всей вероятности, /они/ не будут посещать вновь в течение этого периода).

unfrequented ["AnfrI'kwentId], tremendous [trI'mendqs], idleness ['aIdlnIs], probability ["prObq'bIlItI]

As the incubator had been placed far north of their own territory in a supposedly uninhabited and unfrequented area, we had before us a tremendous journey, concerning which I, of course, knew nothing.

After our return to the dead city I passed several days in comparative idleness. On the day following our return all the warriors had ridden forth early in the morning and had not returned until just before darkness fell. As I later learned, they had been to the subterranean vaults in which the eggs were kept and had transported them to the incubator, which they had then walled up for another five years, and which, in all probability, would not be visited again during that period.