Английский язык с Конаном-варваром

limb [lm], tear [t], vitals [vatlz]

One flailing talon-armed limb knocked his helmet from his head. A little lower and it would have decapitated him. But fierce joy surged through him as his savagely driven sword sank deep in the monster's groin. He bounded backward from a flailing stroke, tearing his sword free as he leaped. The talons raked his breast, ripping through mail-links as if they had been cloth. But his return spring was like that of a starving wolf. He was inside the lashing arms and driving his sword deep in the monster's belly — felt the arms lock about him and the talons ripping the mail from his back as they sought his vitals — he was lapped and dazzled by blue flame that was chill as ice — then he had torn fiercely away from the weakening arms and his sword cut the air in a tremendous swipe.

The demon staggered and fell sprawling sidewise, its head hanging only by a shred of flesh (демон зашатался и упал растянувшись вбок, его голова висела лишь на лоскуте мяса). The fires that veiled it leaped fiercely upward, now red as gushing blood, hiding the figure from view (огни, которые скрывали его, взметнулись яростно вверх, теперь красные, как хлещущая кровь, скрывая фигуру из виду). A scent of burning flesh filled Conan's nostrils (запах горелой плоти заполнил ноздри Конана). Shaking the blood and sweat from his eyes, he wheeled and ran staggering through the woods (стряхнув кровь и пот из /его/ глаз, он повернулся и побежал, спотыкаясь, через лес). Blood trickled down his limbs (кровь стекала по его конечностям). Somewhere, miles to the south, he saw the faint glow of flames that might mark a burning cabin (где-то, в милях к югу, он увидел слабое зарево пламени, которое могло обозначать горящую хижину). Behind him, toward the road, rose a distant howling that spurred him to greater efforts (позади него, в сторону дороги, поднялся далекий вой, который побудил его к большим усилиям = который заставил его поднапрячься).

demon ['di: mn], only ['unl], spur [sp:]

The demon staggered and fell sprawling sidewise, its head hanging only by a shred of flesh. The fires that veiled it leaped fiercely upward, now red as gushing blood, hiding the figure from view. A scent of burning flesh filled Conan's nostrils. Shaking the blood and sweat from his eyes, he wheeled and ran staggering through the woods. Blood trickled down his limbs. Somewhere, miles to the south, he saw the faint glow of flames that might mark a burning cabin. Behind him, toward the road, rose a distant howling that spurred him to greater efforts.

8. Conajohara No More (Конаджохары больше нет)

There had been fighting on Thunder River; fierce fighting before the walls of Velitrium (на Громовой реке была битва, жестокая битва перед стенами Велитриума); ax and torch had been plied up and down the bank (топор и факел поработали выше и ниже по берегу), and many a settler's cabin lay in ashes before the painted horde was rolled back (и много хижин поселенцев лежали в пепле, прежде чем раскрашенная орда откатилась назад).

A strange quiet followed the storm, in which people gathered and talked in hushed voices (необычная тишина последовала за бурей, в которой люди собирались и беседовали приглушенными голосами), and men with red-stained bandages drank their ale silently in the taverns along the river bank (а люди в повязках с красными пятнами пили молча свой эль в тавернах вдоль берега реки).

cabin ['kaebn], horde [h: d], bandage ['baend]

There had been fighting on Thunder River; fierce fighting before the walls of Velitrium; ax and torch had been plied up and down the bank, and many a settler's cabin lay in ashes before the painted horde was rolled back.

A strange quiet followed the storm, in which people gathered and talked in hushed voices, and men with red-stained bandages drank their ale silently in the taverns along the river bank.

There, to Conan the Cimmerian, moodily quaffing from a great wine-glass (там, к Конану-киммерийцу, угрюмо пьющего из большого бокала), came a gaunt forester with a bandage about his head and his arm in a sling (подошел сухопарый лесник с повязкой на /его/ голове и /его/ рукой на перевязи). He was the one survivor of Fort Tuscelan (он был единственным уцелевшим из Форта Тусцелан).

"You went with the soldiers to the ruins of the fort (ты ходил с солдатами к руинам форта; to go — ходить, идти)?" Conan nodded (Конан кивнул).

"I wasn't able," murmured the other (я не смог, — пробормотал другой). "There was no fighting (не было боя)?"

moodily ['mu: dl], quaff [kw:f], murmur ['m: m]

There, to Conan the Cimmerian, moodily quaffing from a great wine-glass, came a gaunt forester with a bandage about his head and his arm in a sling. He was the one survivor of Fort Tuscelan.

"You went with the soldiers to the ruins of the fort?" Conan nodded.

"I wasn't able," murmured the other. "There was no fighting?"