caught [k: t], hope [hup], some [sm]
‘Ho, you gaping oafs!’ he roared as he strode into the firelight. ‘Wake the boys and saddle up to run for it. The Jaga headhunters caught us, and they’ll be here any time. They got the duke, but I broke free. Khusro! Mulai! Hop to it, if you do not want your heads hung up in their devil-devil huts! And I hope to Crom you’ve left me some of that wine!’
The Castle of Terror
(Замок ужаса)
1. Burning Eyes
(Горящие глаза)
Beyond the trackless deserts of Stygia lay the vast grasslands of Kush (за непроходимыми пустынями Стигии лежали огромные луга Куша;
desert [dezt], vast [v: st], hundred [hndrd]
Beyond the trackless deserts of Stygia lay the vast grasslands of Kush. For over a hundred leagues, there was naught but endless stretches of thick grass. Here and there a solitary tree rose to break the gently rolling monotony of the veldt: spiny acacias, sword-leaved dragon trees, emerald-spired lobelias, and thick- fingered, poisonous spurges. Now and then a rare stream cut a shallow dell across the prairie, giving rise to a narrow gallery forest along its banks. Herds of zebra, antelope, buffalo, and other denizens of the savanna drifted athwart the veldt, grazing as they went.
The grasses whispered and nodded in the wandering winds beneath skies of deep cobalt (травы шелестели и качались на бродячих ветрах под небесами /из/ темно-кобальтовой сини) in which a fierce tropical sun blazed blindingly (в которой неистовое тропическое солнце пылало слепяще). Now and then clouds boiled up (иногда облака закипали); a brief thunderstorm roared and blazed with catastrophic fury (короткая гроза разражалась и сверкала от гибельного гнева), only to die and clear as quickly as it had arisen (только /для того чтобы/ умереть и рассеяться так /же/ быстро, как она вспыхнула;
fierce [fs], clouds [klaudz], brief [bri: f]
The grasses whispered and nodded in the wandering winds beneath skies of deep cobalt in which a fierce tropical sun blazed blindingly. Now and then clouds boiled up; a brief thunderstorm roared and blazed with catastrophic fury, only to die and clear as quickly as it had arisen.
Across this limitless waste, as the day died, a lone, silent figure trudged (через эти безграничные просторы, когда умер день =
thews [ju: z], broad [br: d], scanty ['skaent]