Английский язык с Э. Р. Берроузом. Принцесса Марса

Tars Tarkas and the chief exchanged a few words, and the former, calling to a young female among the throng, gave her some instructions and motioned me to accompany her. I grasped her proffered arm and together we crossed the plaza toward a large building on the far side.

My fair companion was about eight feet tall, having just arrived at maturity, but not yet to her full height. She was of a light olive-green color, with a smooth, glossy hide. Her name, as I afterward learned, was Sola, and she belonged to the retinue of Tars Tarkas. She conducted me to a spacious chamber in one of the buildings fronting on the plaza, and which, from the litter of silks and furs upon the floor, I took to be the sleeping quarters of several of the natives.

The room was well lighted by a number of large windows (комната была хорошо освещена благодаря нескольким большим окнам) and was beautifully decorated with mural paintings and mosaics (и была красиво украшена настенными росписями и мозаикой; mural — стенной; mural painting — стенная роспись), but upon all there seemed to rest that indefinable touch of the finger of antiquity (но на всем там, казалось, лежал неопределенный отпечаток древности: «прикосновение пальца»; indefinable — неподдающийся определению) which convinced me that the architects and builders of these wondrous creations (что убедило меня, что архитекторы и строители этих поразительных творений) had nothing in common with the crude half-brutes which now occupied them (не имели ничего общего с грубыми полу-животными, которые сейчас обитали в них; brute — животное, тварь).

painting ['peIntIN], indefinable ["IndI'faInqbl], brute [bru: t]

The room was well lighted by a number of large windows and was beautifully decorated with mural paintings and mosaics, but upon all there seemed to rest that indefinable touch of the finger of antiquity which convinced me that the architects and builders of these wondrous creations had nothing in common with the crude half-brutes which now occupied them.

Sola motioned me to be seated upon a pile of silks near the center of the room (Сола сделала мне знак сесть на груду шелков у центра комнаты), and, turning, made a peculiar hissing sound (и, повернувшись, издала своеобразный шипящий звук; peculiar — специфический, особенный), as though signaling to someone in an adjoining room (как-будто подавая кому-то сигнал в соседней комнате). In response to her call (в ответ на ее призыв) I obtained my first sight of a new Martian wonder (я получил /возможность/ впервые увидеть новое марсианское чудо). It waddled in on its ten short legs (оно проковыляло на десяти коротких ножках; to waddle — ходить вразвалку, ковылять), and squatted down before the girl like an obedient puppy (и присело перед девушкой как послушный щенок). The thing was about the size of a Shetland pony (существо было размером с шетландского [1] пони), but its head bore a slight resemblance to that of a frog (но его голова до некоторой степени напоминала лягушачью; resemblance — сходство; to bear resemblance to — иметь сходство; to resemble — походить, иметь сходство), except that the jaws were equipped with three rows of long, sharp tusks (за исключением того, что его челюсти были оснащены тремя рядами длинных, острых клыков; to equip — оборудовать, оснащать).

peculiar [pI'kju: lIq], obedient [q'bi: dIqnt], resemblance [rI'zemblqns]