Английский язык с Р. Э. Говардом

Suddenly the man rose and towered above him, menace in his every aspect. There was no room in the fisherman's dull brain for fear, at least for such fear as might grip a man who has just seen the fundamental laws of nature defied. As the great hands fell to his shoulders, he drew his saw-edged knife and struck upward with the same motion. The blade splintered against the stranger's corded belly as against a steel column, and then the fisherman's thick neck broke like a rotten twig in the giant hands.

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Jehungir Agha, lord of Khawarizm and keeper of the coastal border (Джихангир Ага, владыка Хоаризма и хранитель береговой границы), scanned once more the ornate parchment scroll with its peacock seal and laughed shortly and sardonically (просмотрел еще раз свиток из богато украшенного пергамента с печатью с павлином и засмеялся отрывисто и язвительно; shortly — кратко; отрывисто).

"Well (ну)?" bluntly demanded his counsellor Ghaznavi (резко спросил его советник Газнави).

Jehungir shrugged his shoulders (Джихангир пожал плечами). He was a handsome man (он был статным мужчиной), with the merciless pride of birth and accomplishment (с жестокой надменностью от рождения = происхождения и успеха; pride — гордость; гордыня, надменность;accomplishment — выполнение; успех; to accomplish — совершать, выполнять; достигать).

ornate [:'net], laugh [l:f], handsome ['haensm]

Jehungir Agha, lord of Khawarizm and keeper of the coastal border, scanned once more the ornate parchment scroll with its peacock seal and laughed shortly and sardonically.

"Well?" bluntly demanded his counsellor Ghaznavi.

Jehungir shrugged his shoulders. He was a handsome man, with the merciless pride of birth and accomplishment.

"The king grows short of patience (король теряет терпение; to grow — расти; становиться;to be short of — недоставать, не хватать)," he said. "In his own hand he complains bitterly (своей собственной рукой он резко выражает недовольство; bitterly — горько; резко) of what he calls my failure to guard the frontier (тем, что он называет моей неспособностью охранять границу; to call — кричать; называть; failure — провал; неспособность; to fail — недоставать; потерпеть неудачу; не иметь успеха; не исполнить, не сделать; подвести). By Tarim (/клянусь/ Таримом), if I cannot deal a blow to these robbers of the steppes (если я не смогу нанести удар по этим степным разбойникам; to deal a blow — нанести удар), Khawarizm may own a new lord (у Хоаризма может появиться новый повелитель; to own — владеть; иметь)."

Ghaznavi tugged his gray-shot beard in meditation (Газнави пощипывал в раздумье свою усеянную сединами бороду; to tug — тащить, дергать; shot — переливчатый; усеянный /чем-л./). Yezdigerd, king of Turan (Ездигерд, король Турана), was the mightiest monarch in the world (был могущественнейшим монархом в мире). In his palace in the great port city of Aghrapur was heaped the plunder of empires (в его дворце в огромном городе-порте Аграпуре были накоплены груды трофеев из империй; to heap — складывать в кучу, нагромождать; накоплять; plunder — грабеж; трофеи; to plunder — грабить). His fleets of purple-sailed war galleys had made Vilayet an Hyrkanian lake (его флоты военных галер с пурпурными парусами сделали Вилайет гирканийским озером). The dark-skinned people of Zamora paid him tribute (смуглый народ Заморы платил ему дань), as did the eastern provinces of Koth (как и восточные провинции Кофа). The Shemites bowed to his rule as far west as Shushan (шемиты подчинялись его господству на запад до самого Шушана; to bow — гнуть; подчиняться, покоряться; rule — правило; господство).

patience ['pens], guard [:d], monarch ['mnk]

"The king grows short of patience," he said. "In his own hand he complains bitterly of what he calls my failure to guard the frontier. By Tarim, if I cannot deal a blow to these robbers of the steppes, Khawarizm may own a new lord."

Ghaznavi tugged his gray-shot beard in meditation. Yezdigerd, king of Turan, was the mightiest monarch in the world. In his palace in the great port city of Aghrapur was heaped the plunder of empires. His fleets of purple-sailed war galleys had made Vilayet an Hyrkanian lake. The dark-skinned people of Zamora paid him tribute, as did the eastern provinces of Koth. The Shemites bowed to his rule as far west as Shushan.