Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса

This ray is separated from the other rays of the sun by means of finely adjusted instruments placed upon the roof of the huge building, three quarters of which is used for reservoirs in which the ninth ray is stored. This product is then treated electrically, or rather certain proportions of refined electric vibrations are incorporated with it, and the result is then pumped to the five principal air centers of the planet where, as it is released, contact with the ether of space transforms it into atmosphere.

There is always sufficient reserve of the ninth ray stored in the great building (в огромном здании всегда хранится достаточный запас девятого луча) to maintain the present Martian atmosphere for a thousand years (чтобы поддерживать существующую марсианскую атмосферу в течение тысячи лет), and the only fear, as my new friend told me (и существует только одно опасение, как сказал мне мой новый приятель), was that some accident might befall the pumping apparatus (что какая-нибудь авария произойдет с насосным механизмом; accident — случайность, авария).

pumping ['pAmpIN], apparatus ["xpq'reItqs]

There is always sufficient reserve of the ninth ray stored in the great building to maintain the present Martian atmosphere for a thousand years, and the only fear, as my new friend told me, was that some accident might befall the pumping apparatus.

He led me to an inner chamber (он провел меня во внутренний зал) where I beheld a battery of twenty radium pumps (где я увидел батарею из двадцати радиевых насосов) any one of which was equal to the task of furnishing all Mars with the atmosphere compound (каждый из которых мог выполнить задачу: «соответствовал задаче» по снабжению всего Марса атмосферной смесью; equal to — способный, пригодный; compound — соединение, смесь). For eight hundred years, he told me (восемьсот лет, сказал он мне), he had watched these pumps which are used alternately a day each at a stretch (он следит за этими насосами, которые используются поочередно, каждый /работает/ целый день без перерыва; stretch — вытягивание, растягивание; пространство, участок, отрезок; промежуток времени; at a stretch — без перерыва, не останавливаясь; to stretch — тянуть/ся/, растягивать/ся/; длиться, продолжаться /во времени/) or a little over twenty-four and one-half Earth hours (или немногим более двадцати четырех с половиной земных часов). He has one assistant who divides the watch with him (у него есть один помощник, который делит с ним дежурство). Half a Martian year, about three hundred and forty-four of our days (половину марсианского года — около трехсот сорока четырех наших дней), each of these men spend alone in this huge, isolated plant (каждый из этих людей проводит один на этой гигантской, изолированной фабрике).

furnish ['fWnIS], alternately [O: l'tWnItlI], isolated ['aIsqleItId]

He led me to an inner chamber where I beheld a battery of twenty radium pumps any one of which was equal to the task of furnishing all Mars with the atmosphere compound. For eight hundred years, he told me, he had watched these pumps which are used alternately a day each at a stretch, or a little over twenty-four and one-half Earth hours. He has one assistant who divides the watch with him. Half a Martian year, about three hundred and forty-four of our days, each of these men spend alone in this huge, isolated plant.