Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса

We traversed a trackless waste of moss which, bending to the pressure of broad tire or padded foot, rose up again behind us, leaving no sign that we had passed. We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. It was the first march of a large body of men and animals I had ever witnessed which raised no dust and left no spoor; for there is no dust upon Mars except in the cultivated districts during the winter months, and even then the absence of high winds renders it almost unnoticeable.

We camped that night at the foot of the hills (этим вечером мы разбили лагерь у подножия холмов) we had been approaching for two days (к которым мы приближались два дня) and which marked the southern boundary of this particular sea (и которые обозначали южную границу данного моря; particular — особый; частный, отдельный). Our animals had been two days without drink (наши животные два дня были без питья), nor had they had water for nearly two months (и у них не было воды почти два месяца), not since shortly after leaving Thark (лишь вскоре после того, как они вышли из Тарка); but, as Tars Tarkas explained to me, they require but little (но, как Тарс Таркас объяснил мне, им нужно совсем немного) and can live almost indefinitely upon the moss which covers Barsoom (и они могут существовать почти бесконечно, питаясь мхом, который покрывает Барсум), and which, he told me, holds in its tiny stems (и который, как он сказал мне, содержит в своих крохотных стеблях) sufficient moisture to meet the limited demands of the animals (достаточно влаги, чтобы удовлетворить ограниченные потребности этих животных).

boundary ['baund(q)rI], require [rI'kwaIq], moisture ['mOIstSq]

We camped that night at the foot of the hills we had been approaching for two days and which marked the southern boundary of this particular sea. Our animals had been two days without drink, nor had they had water for nearly two months, not since shortly after leaving Thark; but, as Tars Tarkas explained to me, they require but little and can live almost indefinitely upon the moss which covers Barsoom, and which, he told me, holds in its tiny stems sufficient moisture to meet the limited demands of the animals.

After partaking of my evening meal of cheese-like food and vegetable milk (после того, как я поужинал: «отведал вечерней еды» похожей на сыр пищей и растительным молоком; to partake — поесть, отведать) I sought out Sola (я отправился искать Солу; to seek out — разыскать, отыскать), whom I found working by the light of a torch (которую я застал в процессе работы при свете факела) upon some of Tars Tarkas' trappings (над каким-то из украшений Тарса Таркаса; trappings — признаки, внешние атрибуты /например, занимаемой должности и т. п./; украшения; наряды; убранство). She looked up at my approach (она подняла глаза при моем появлении), her face lighting with pleasure and with welcome (ее лицо засияло от удовольствия и в /знак/ приветствия).