Английский язык с Конаном-варваром

His eyes blazed. This brown dog was playing with him, making sport of him! But this mummery, this child's play of mists and shadows of thought, it could not harm him. He had but to leap and strike and the brown acolyte would be a mangled corpse under his heel. This time he would not be fooled by shadows of illusion — but he was.

A blood-curdling snarl sounded behind him (чудовищное рычание раздалось позади него), and he wheeled and struck in a flash at the panther crouching to spring on him from the metal-colored table (и он обернулся и ударил молниеносно по пантере, припавшей к земле, /чтобы/ прыгнуть на него со стола с металлическим цветом). Even as he struck, the apparition vanished (как раз, когда он ударил, видение исчезло) and his blade clashed deafeningly on the adamantine surface (и его клинок оглушительно лязгнул по несокрушимой поверхности). Instantly he sensed something abnormal (мгновенно он почувствовал нечто ненормальное). The blade stuck to the table (клинок прилип к столу)! He wrenched at it savagely (он дико дернул за него). It did not give (он не поддался). This was no mesmeristic trick (это был не гипнотический трюк). The table was a giant magnet (стол был гигантским магнитом). He gripped the hilt with both hands (он схватил рукоять обеими руками), when a voice at his shoulder brought him about, to face the brown man, who had at last risen from the divan (когда голос у его плеча привел его в себя, /чтобы/ оказаться лицом к коричневому человеку, который наконец поднялся с дивана; to face — стоять лицом к, быть повернутым в сторону чего-л., смотреть в лицо, в глаза).

abnormal [aeb'n: ml], give [v], risen [rzn]

A blood-curdling snarl sounded behind him, and he wheeled and struck in a flash at the panther crouching to spring on him from the metal-colored table. Even as he struck, the apparition vanished and his blade clashed deafeningly on the adamantine surface. Instantly he sensed something abnormal. The blade stuck to the table! He wrenched at it savagely. It did not give. This was no mesmeristic trick. The table was a giant magnet. He gripped the hilt with both hands, when a voice at his shoulder brought him about, to face the brown man, who had at last risen from the divan.

Slightly taller than Conan and much heavier, Baal-pteor loomed before him, a daunting image of muscular development (чуть выше, чем Конан, и гораздо тяжелее, Баал-птеор разросся перед ним — устрашающий образ мускульного развития). His mighty arms were unnaturally long, and his great hands opened and closed, twitching convulsively (его могучие руки были неестественно длинные, а его огромные кисти открывались и закрывались, судорожно подергиваясь). Conan released the hilt of his imprisoned sword and fell silent, watching his enemy through slitted lids (Конан отпустил рукоять своего захваченного меча и молчал, наблюдая за своим врагом сквозь прищуренные веки; to fall silent — замолчать, умолкнуть).

release [r'li: s], mighty ['mat], loom [lu: m]

Slightly taller than Conan and much heavier, Baal-pteor loomed before him, a daunting image of muscular development. His mighty arms were unnaturally long, and his great hands opened and closed, twitching convulsively. Conan released the hilt of his imprisoned sword and fell silent, watching his enemy thorugh slitted lids.