Английский язык c дружелюбным скелетом. Легенды североамериканских индейцев

At first they thought it was another bear on account of his long hair, but they soon saw it was the hunter who had been lost the year before, so they went in and brought him out. Then each hunter took a load of the bear meat and they started home again, bringing the man and the skin with them. Before they left the man piled leaves over the spot where they had cut up the bear, and when they had gone a little way he looked behind and saw the bear rise up out of the leaves, shake himself, and go back into the woods.

When they came near the settlement (когда они подошли близко к поселку) the man told the hunters (человек сказал охотникам) that he must be shut up (что он должен быть заперт) where no one could see him (где никто не мог бы увидеть его), without anything to eat or drink (без чего-либо поесть и попить = без еды и питья) for seven days and nights (на семь дней и ночей), until the bear nature had left him (пока медвежья сущность не покинет его; nature — сущность, основное свойство; характер, нрав, натура) and he became like a man again (и он /не/ станет как человек снова). So they shut him up alone in a house (поэтому они заперли его одного в доме) and tried to keep very still about it (и постарались держаться очень тихо = молчать по этому /поводу/), but the news got out (но новость стала известной: «выбралась»; to get out) and his wife heard of it (и его жена услышала о ней; to hear).

seven [sevn], nature [`neICq], heard [hWd]

When they came near the settlement the man told the hunters that he must be shut up where no one could see him, without anything to eat or drink for seven days and nights, until the bear nature had left him and he became like a man again. So they shut him up alone in a house and tried to keep very still about it, but the news got out and his wife heard of it.

She came for her husband (она пришла за своим мужем), but the people would not let her near him (но люди не подпускали ее к нему); but she came every day and begged so hard (но она приходила каждый день и упрашивала так настойчиво) that at last after four or five days (что, наконец, после четырех или пяти дней) they let her have him (они позволили ей взять его = забрать его). She took him home with her (она забрала его домой с собой), but in a short time he died (но через короткое время он умер), because he still had a bear's nature (потому что у него все еще была медвежья сущность) and could not live like a man (и /он/ не мог жить как человек). If they had kept him shut up and fasting (если бы они продержали его запертым и постящимся) until the end of the seven days (до конца семи дней) he would have become a man again (он стал бы человеком снова) and would have lived (и жил бы).

live [lIv], like [laIk], fast [fRst]

She came for her husband, but the people would not let her near him; but she came every day and begged so hard that at last after four or five days they let her have him. She took him home with her, but in a short time he died, because he still had a bear's nature and could not live like a man. If they had kept him shut up and fasting until the end of the seven days he would have become a man again and would have lived.

How Glooskap Conquered the Great Bull-Frog (как Глускап покорил/победил великого Лягушку-Быка; bull-frog — лягушка-бык: вид больших лягушек, издающих громкое кваканье; зд. — имя и облик героя)

Of old times (в старые времена), there was an Indian village (была = существовала индейская деревушка) far away among the mountains (далеко среди гор), little known to other men (мало известная другим людям; men — мужчины; люди). And the dwellers therein were very comfortable (и жителям в ней было очень удобно): the men hunted every day (мужчины охотились каждый день), the women did the work at home (женщины делали работу дома), and all went well in all things (и все было хорошо: «и все шло хорошо во всех вещах») save in this (кроме одного: «этого»). The town was by a brook (город был возле ручья = находился возле небольшой речки), and except in it (и кроме /как/ в нем) there was not a drop of water in all the country round (не было ни капельки воды по всей округе; country — страна; /сельская/ местность; земля), unless in a few rain-puddles (разве что в нескольких дождевых лужах). No one there had ever found even a spring (никто никогда не находил даже ключа/источника; to find).

village [`vIlIG], mountain [`mauntIn], dweller [`dwelq], comfortable [`kAmfqt(q)bql]