Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса

My quarters would have been suitable for housing the greatest of earthly emperors, but to these queer creatures nothing about a building appealed to them but its size and the enormity of its chambers; the larger the building, the more desirable; and so Tal Hajus occupied what must have been an enormous public building, the largest in the city, but entirely unfitted for residence purposes; the next largest was reserved for Lorquas Ptomel, the next for the jed of a lesser rank, and so on to the bottom of the list of five jeds. The warriors occupied the buildings with the chieftains to whose retinues they belonged; or, if they preferred, sought shelter among any of the thousands of untenanted buildings in their own quarter of town; each community being assigned a certain section of the city. The selection of building had to be made in accordance with these divisions, except in so far as the jeds were concerned, they all occupying edifices which fronted upon the plaza.

When I had finally put my house in order (когда я, наконец, привел свой дом в порядок), or rather seen that it had been done (или, вернее, проследил, чтобы это было сделано), it was nearing sunset (/уже/ приближался закат), and I hastened out with the intention of locating Sola and her charges (и я поспешил выйти с намерением найти Солу и ее подопечных), as I had determined upon having speech with Dejah Thoris (так как я принял решение переговорить с Дежой Торис) and trying to impress on her the necessity of our at least patching up a truce (и постараться убедить ее в необходимости заключить хоть какое-то перемирие; to patch up — улаживать ссору; делать на скорую руку; truce — перемирие) until I could find some way of aiding her to escape (пока я не найду какого-либо способа помочь ей сбежать). I searched in vain (я искал напрасно; vain — тщетный, напрасный; in vain — тщетно) until the upper rim of the great red sun was just disappearing behind the horizon (до тех пор, пока верхний край большого красного солнца не начал исчезать за горизонтом) and then I spied the ugly head of Woola (а затем я заметил уродливую голову Вулы; to spy — шпионить; подмечать, замечать) peering from a second-story window (который выглядывал из окна второго этажа) on the opposite side of the very street where I was quartered (на противоположной стороне той самой улицы, где я разместился; the very — тот самый, тот же), but nearer the plaza (но ближе к площади).

impress [Im'pres], patch [pxtS], vain [veIn]

When I had finally put my house in order, or rather seen that it had been done, it was nearing sunset, and I hastened out with the intention of locating Sola and her charges, as I had determined upon having speech with Dejah Thoris and trying to impress on her the necessity of our at least patching up a truce until I could find some way of aiding her to escape. I searched in vain until the upper rim of the great red sun was just disappearing behind the horizon and then I spied the ugly head of Woola peering from a second-story window on the opposite side of the very street where I was quartered, but nearer the plaza.