Английский язык с Марком Твеном. Принц и нищий / Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper

And how glad he was (и как рад он был) when at last he caught the glimmer of a light (когда наконец он уловил мерцание света; to catch — ловить)! He approached it warily (он приблизился к нему опасливо), stopping often (останавливаясь часто) to look about him (чтобы осмотреться: «посмотреть вокруг себя») and listen (и прислушаться). It came from an unglazed window-opening (он = свет исходил из незастекленного оконного отверстия; to open — открывать) in a little hut (в маленькой хижине). He heard a voice now (он услышал какой-то голос теперь; to hear — слышать), and felt a disposition to run and hide (и почувствовал расположение = желание убежать и спрятаться; to feel — чувствовать); but he changed his mind at once (но он изменил свои мысли = передумал сразу), for his voice was praying, evidently (так как его голос молился очевидно). He glided to the one window of the hut (он скользнул к единственному окну хижины), raised himself on tiptoe (поднял себя = поднялся на цыпочки), and stole a glance within (и украл взгляд = украдкой заглянул внутрь; to steal — красть). The room was small (комната была маленькой); its floor was the natural earth (ее пол был естественной землей), beaten hard by use (утрамбованной жестко использованием; to beat — бить); in a corner was a bed of rushes (в углу была постель из камыша) and a ragged blanket or two (и истрепанного одеяла или двух); near it was a pail, a cup, a basin (возле нее было ведро, чашка, миска), and two or three pots and pans (и два или три горшка и кастрюли); there was a short bench (там была короткая скамья) and a three-legged stool (и трехногий табурет); on the hearth (в очаге) the remains of a fagot fire (остатки огня из вязанки дров) were smoldering (дымились); before a shrine (перед распятием), which was lighted by a single candle (которое было освещено единственной свечой), knelt an aged man (стоял на коленях пожилой человек; to kneel — стоять на коленях), and on an old wooden box (а на старой деревянной коробке) at his side (у его бока = рядом с ним) lay an open book and a human skull (лежала открытая книга и человеческий череп; to lie — лежать). The man was of large, bony frame (этот человек был большого и костистого телосложения); his hair and whiskers (его волосы и борода) were very long and snowy white (были очень длинными и снежно-белыми); he was clothed in a robe of sheepskins (он был одет в рясу из овечьих шкур) which reached from his neck to his heels (которая доставала от его шеи до пят).

hermit [`hə:mıt], consequently [`kOnsıkwəntlı], human [`hju:mən]

THE high hedge hid him from the house now; and so, under the impulse of a deadly fright, he let out all his forces and sped toward a wood in the distance. He never looked back until he had almost gained the shelter of the forest; then he turned and descried two figures in the distance. That was sufficient; he did not wait to scan them critically, but hurried on, and never abated his pace till he was far within the twilight depths of the wood. Then he stopped; being persuaded that he was now tolerably safe. He listened intently, but the stillness was profound and solemn- awful, even, and depressing to the spirits. At wide intervals his straining ear did detect sounds, but they were so remote, and hollow, and mysterious, that they seemed not to be real sounds, but only the moaning and complaining ghosts of departed ones. So the sounds were yet more dreary than the silence which they interrupted.