He went back to put his pack into shape for travelling. He assured himself of the existence of his three separate parcels of matches, though he did not stop to count them. But he did linger, debating, over a squat moose-hide sack. It was not large. He could hide it under his two hands. He knew that it weighed fifteen pounds, as much as all the rest of the pack, and it worried him. He finally set it to one side and proceeded to roll the pack. He paused to gaze at the squat moose-hide sack. He picked it up hastily with a defiant glance about him, as though the desolation were trying to rob him of it; and when he rose to his feet to stagger on into the day, it was included in the pack on his back.
He bore away to the left (он пошел влево; to bear away уезжать, отправляться), stopping now and again to eat muskeg berries (время от времени останавливаясь поесть болотных ягод; now and again иногда: «теперь и снова»; время от времени). His ankle had stiffened (его лодыжка затвердела; to stiffen застывать, затвердевать; укрепляться; stiff тугой, негибкий, неэластичный, жесткий), his limp was more pronounced (его хромота стала более ярко выраженной; pronounced резко выраженный; определенный, отчетливый, четкий, явный, ясный; to pronounce объявлять; декларировать; заявлять), but the pain of it was as nothing compared with the pain of his stomach (но боль от нее была ничто по сравнению с болью в желудке). The hunger pangs were sharp (муки голода были сильны; pang внезапная острая боль; муки, страдания; sharp острый; резкий, сильный /о боли/). They gnawed and gnawed (они терзали и терзали; to gnaw грызть, глодать; беспокоить, терзать) until he could not keep his mind steady on the course he must pursue to gain the land of little sticks (пока он /уже/ не мог устойчиво удерживать свой разум на курсе, которым он должен следовать, чтобы добраться до края «прутиков»). The muskeg berries did not allay this gnawing (болотные ягоды не ослабляли этих терзаний), while they made his tongue and the roof of his mouth sore with their irritating bite (тогда как они воспаляли его язык и нёбо своей раздражающей едкостью; sore больной; болезненный, чувствительный; воспаленный; to irritate вызывать раздражение, воспаление; to bite кусать; bite укус; травление /при граверных работах/).
pronounce [prǝnaʋns], stomach [stʌmǝk], gnaw [nɔ:]He bore away to the left, stopping now and again to eat muskeg berries. His ankle had stiffened, his limp was more pronounced, but the pain of it was as nothing compared with the pain of his stomach. The hunger pangs were sharp. They gnawed and gnawed until he could not keep his mind steady on the course he must pursue to gain the land of little sticks. The muskeg berries did not allay this gnawing, while they made his tongue and the roof of his mouth sore with their irritating bite.
He came upon a valley (он натолкнулся на лощину; to come upon натолкнуться на что-либо, неожиданно найти что-либо) where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs (где с /каменных/ уступов и торфяной почвы поднялись на хлопающих крыльях скальные белые куропатки; to rise подниматься, вставать). Ker ker ker was the cry they made («кыр-кыр-кыр» было криком, который они издавали). He threw stones at them (он бросал по ним камнями; to throw бросать), but could not hit them (но не мог попасть в них; to hit ударять; поражать; попадать в цель). He placed his pack on the ground and stalked them as a cat stalks a sparrow (он положил ранец на землю и стал подкрадываться к ним, как кот подкрадывается к воробью). The sharp rocks cut through his pants legs (острые камни прорезали: «резали сквозь» его штанины) till his knees left a trail of blood (пока его колени не оставили = не стали оставлять кровавую дорожку); but the hurt was lost in the hurt of his hunger (но эта боль потерялась в боли от его голода). He squirmed over the wet moss (он двигался, извиваясь, по мокрому мху; to squirm извиваться, изгибаться; двигаться извиваясь /как змея, червяк/), saturating his clothes and chilling his body (пропитывая /водой/ одежду и охлаждая тело; to saturate насыщать, пропитывать); but he was not aware of it (но он не осознавал этого; aware of осознающий /что-либо/), so great was his fever for food (так велико было его нервное возбуждение /в погоне/ за пищей; fever лихорадка). And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him (а белые куропатки все время поднимались, вспархивая с шелестом крыльев перед ним; to whirr проноситься с шумом, свистом; вспархивать /с шумом/), till their ker ker ker became a mock to him (пока их «кыр-кыр-кыр» не стало насмешкой над ним), and he cursed them and cried aloud at them with their own cry (и он проклинал их и кричал во все горло на них их /же/ собственным криком; aloud вслух; во весь голос, громко, громогласно; loud громкий).
ptarmigan [tɑ:mɪɡǝn], stalk [stɔ:k], blood [blʌd]He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs. Ker ker ker was the cry they made. He threw stones at them, but could not hit them. He placed his pack on the ground and stalked them as a cat stalks a sparrow. The sharp rocks cut through his pants legs till his knees left a trail of blood; but the hurt was lost in the hurt of his hunger. He squirmed over the wet moss, saturating his clothes and chilling his body; but he was not aware of it, so great was his fever for food. And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him, till their ker ker ker became a mock to him, and he cursed them and cried aloud at them with their own cry.
He came upon a valley where rock ptarmigan rose on whirring wings from the ledges and muskegs. Ker ker ker was the cry they made. He threw stones at them, but could not hit them. He placed his pack on the ground and stalked them as a cat stalks a sparrow. The sharp rocks cut through his pants legs till his knees left a trail of blood; but the hurt was lost in the hurt of his hunger. He squirmed over the wet moss, saturating his clothes and chilling his body; but he was not aware of it, so great was his fever for food. And always the ptarmigan rose, whirring, before him, till their ker ker ker became a mock to him, and he cursed them and cried aloud at them with their own cry.
Once he crawled upon one that must have been asleep (однажды он наткнулся на одну, которая, наверное, спала). He did not see it till it shot up in his face from its rocky nook (он не видел ее, пока она не взлетела ему в лицо из своего скального укрытия; to shoot up вскочить, взлететь; nook угол; укромный уголок, закоулок; глухое, удаленное место). He made a clutch as startled as was the rise of the ptarmigan (он хватанул так же испуганно, как взлетела куропатка; clutch сжатие; захват; to clutch схватить; зажать), and there remained in his hand three tail-feathers (и в его руке остались три хвостовых пера). As he watched its flight he hated it (наблюдая за ее полетом, он ненавидел ее), as though it had done him some terrible wrong (как будто она сделала = причинила ему какое-то ужасное зло; wrong зло, несправедливость). Then he returned and shouldered his pack (потом он вернулся и взвалил на плечи свой вьюк).
As the day wore along he came into valleys or swales (по мере продвижения дня он вступал в долины или болотистые низины; to wear тянуться, проходить /о времени/) where game was more plentiful (где дичь была более обильна = которые более изобиловали дичью). A band of caribou passed by (стадо карибу прошло мимо), twenty and odd animals (двадцать с лишним животных), tantalizingly within rifle range (дразняще в пределах дальности /выстрела из/ ружья). He felt a wild desire to run after them (он почувствовал дикое желание побежать за ними), a certitude that he could run them down (уверенность, что он сможет догнать их; to run down догнать, настигнуть). A black fox came toward him (черный песец бежал в его сторону), carrying a ptarmigan in his mouth (неся в пасти куропатку). The man shouted (человек закричал). It was a fearful cry (это был страшный крик), but the fox, leaping away in fright (но песец, отпрыгнув в испуге), did not drop the ptarmigan (не выронил куропатку).
feather [feðǝ], wrong [rɒŋ], rifle [raɪfl]Once he crawled upon one that must have been asleep. He did not see it till it shot up in his face from its rocky nook. He made a clutch as startled as was the rise of the ptarmigan, and there remained in his hand three tail-feathers. As he watched its flight he hated it, as though it had done him some terrible wrong. Then he returned and shouldered his pack.
As the day wore along he came into valleys or swales where game was more plentiful. A band of caribou passed by, twenty and odd animals, tantalizingly within rifle range. He felt a wild desire to run after them, a certitude that he could run them down. A black fox came toward him, carrying a ptarmigan in his mouth. The man shouted. It was a fearful cry, but the fox, leaping away in fright, did not drop the ptarmigan.
Late in the afternoon he followed a stream (в конце второй половины дня он пошел за ручьем), milky with lime (мутным от осадка; lime известь; накипь, осадок, окалина /от жесткой воды/), which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass (который бежал через = среди редких участков тростника). Grasping these rushes firmly near the root (крепко схватив этот тростник у корня), he pulled up what resembled a young onion-sprout no larger than a shingle-nail (он вырвал то, что походило на молодой побег лука величиной не более гонтового гвоздя; to pull up вытягивать, выдергивать наверх). It was tender (он был мягким; tender мягкий, нежный), and his teeth sank into it with a crunch that promised deliciously of food (и его зубы погрузились в него с хрустом, который восхитительно сулил пищу; to promise подавать надежды; сулить, предвещать; to sink погружаться). But its fibers were tough (но его волокна были жесткими). It was composed of stringy filaments saturated with water (он состоял из жилистых волокон, насыщенных водой), like the berries (как ягоды), and devoid of nourishment (и /был/ лишен питательных веществ; devoid of лишенный, не имеющий). He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees (он сбросил тюк и влез в тростник на четвереньках: «на руках и коленях»), crunching and munching (хрустя и чавкая), like some bovine creature (как какая-то корова; bovine коровий, бычий; creature создание; животное, тварь; to create творить).
resemble [rɪzembl], onion [ʌnjǝn], creature [kri:ʧǝ]Late in the afternoon he followed a stream, milky with lime, which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass. Grasping these rushes firmly near the root, he pulled up what resembled a young onion-sprout no larger than a shingle-nail. It was tender, and his teeth sank into it with a crunch that promised deliciously of food. But its fibers were tough. It was composed of stringy filaments saturated with water, like the berries, and devoid of nourishment. He threw off his pack and went into the rush-grass on hands and knees, crunching and munching, like some bovine creature.