Gradually, a terrible shape, fed by the life force of ten thousand ghosts, began to materialize (постепенно ужасная форма, вскормленная жизненной силой десяти тысяч привидений, начала материализовываться). In the dim gloom of the black marble balcony, it slowly formed out of a swirling cloud of shadowy particles (в смутном мраке черного мраморного балкона они медленно сформировалась из кружащегося облака призрачных частичек).
And Conan slept on (а Конан продолжал спать).
terrible ['terbl], shape [ep], ten [ten]
Gradually, a terrible shape, fed by the life force of ten thousand ghosts, began to materialize. In the dim gloom of the black marble balcony, it slowly formed out of a swirling cloud of shadowy particles.
And Conan slept on.
6. The Hundred Heads
(Сто голов)
Thunder crashed deafeningly (загремел оглушающе гром;
crash [krae], whence [wens], torrential [t'renl]
Thunder crashed deafeningly; lightning blazed with sulphurous fires above the darkened plain, whence the moonlight had fled again. The thick-piled storm clouds burst, soaking the grassy swales with a torrential downpour.
The Stygian slave raiders had ridden all night, pressing southward toward the forests beyond Kush (стигийские охотники на рабов проскакали всю ночь, прижимаясь южнее к лесам за пределами Куша). Their expedition had thus far been fruitless; not one black of the nomadic hunting and herding tribes of the savanna had fallen into their hands (их экспедиция до сих пор была бесплодна, ни один черный из кочевых охотничьих и пастушеских племен саванны /не/ попал в их руки;
forest ['frst], fruitless ['fru: tls], whether ['wed]
The Stygian slave raiders had ridden all night, pressing southward toward the forests beyond Kush. Their expedition had thus far been fruitless; not one black of the nomadic hunting and herding tribes of the savanna had fallen into their hands. Whether war or pestilence had swept the land bare of humankind, or whether the tribesmen, warned of the coming of the slavers, had fled beyond reach, they did not know.
In any case, it seemed that they would do better among the lush jungles of the South (в любом случае /это/ казалось, что они сделают лучше =
case [kes], better ['bet], net [net]
In any case, it seemed that they would do better among the lush jungles of the South. The forest Negroes dwelt in permanent villages, which the slavers could surround and take by surprise with a quick dawn rush, catching the inhabitants like fish in a net. Villagers too old, too young, or too sickly to endure the trek back to Stygia they would slay out of hand. Then they would drive the remaining wretches, fettered together to form a human chain, northward.