Английский язык с Джеком Лондоном. В далекой стране (рассказы)

He picked up a thin strip of whalebone (он поднял тонкую полоску китового уса) and showed it to them (и показал ее всем). The ends were sharp as needle-points (концы были острыми, как иглы). The strip he coiled carefully (эту полоску он скатал осторожно), till it disappeared in his hand (пока она не исчезла в его руке). Then, suddenly releasing it (затем внезапно освободил ее), it sprang straight again (она сразу распрямилась). He picked up a piece of blubber (он подобрал кусок тюленьего жира).

whalebone ['weIlbqun], carefully ['keqflI], releasing [rI'lJsIN], straight [streIt]

He picked up a thin strip of whalebone and showed it to them. The ends were sharp as needle-points. The strip he coiled carefully, till it disappeared in his hand. Then, suddenly releasing it, it sprang straight again. He picked up a piece of blubber.

"So," he said, "one takes a small chunk of blubber (вот так, — он сказал, — нужно взять маленький кусочек тюленьего жира), thus, and thus makes it hollow (так и так делается в нем ямка; hollow — полый). Then into the hollow goes the whalebone (потом в эту ямку кладется китовый ус), so, tightly coiled (вот так, хорошенько свернутый), and another piece of blubber is fitted over the whalebone (и другой кусочек жира пристраивается сверху на этот китовый ус). After that it is put outside (после этого он выставляется наружу /на мороз/) where it freezes into a little round ball (где он замерзает в маленький круглый шарик). The bear swallows the little round ball (медведь глотает этот маленький круглый шарик), the blubber melts (жир плавится), the whalebone with its sharp ends stands out straight (китовый ус с его острыми концами распрямляется: «становится наружу прямо»), the bear gets sick (медведь становится больным), and when the bear is very sick (и когда медведь очень болен), why, you kill him with a spear (почему бы тебе и не убить его копьем). It is quite simple."

chunk [CANk], hollow ['hOlqu], spear ['spIq]

"So," he said, "one takes a small chunk of blubber, thus, and thus makes it hollow. Then into the hollow goes the whalebone, so, tightly coiled, and another piece of blubber is fitted over the whalebone. After that it is put outside where it freezes into a little round ball. The bear swallows the little round ball, the blubber melts, the whalebone with its sharp ends stands out straight, the bear gets sick, and when the bear is very sick, why, you kill him with a spear. It is quite simple."

And Ugh-Gluk said "Oh!" and Klosh-Kwan said "Ah!" And each said something after his own manner, and all understood (и каждый сказал что-то по-своему, и все поняли; to understand).

And this is the story of Keesh (и это сказание о Кише), who lived long ago on the rim of the polar sea (который жил давно на краю полярного моря). Because he exercised headcraft (и потому, что он применял смекалку) and not witchcraft (а не колдовство), he rose from the meanest igloo to be head man of his village (он поднялся из самой жалкой иглу до вождя своей деревни), and through all the years that he lived (и в течение всех лет, что он прожил), it is related, his tribe was prosperous (как рассказывают, его племя было процветающим), and neither widow nor weak one cried aloud in the night because there was no meat (и ни вдова, ни слабый /человек/ не плакали громко ночью, потому что не было мяса = из-за нехватки мяса).

exercise ['eksqsaIz], through [TrH], prosperous ['prOsp(q)rqs]

And Ugh-Gluk said "Oh!" and Klosh-Kwan said "Ah!" And each said something after his own manner, and all understood.

And this is the story of Keesh, who lived long ago on the rim of the polar sea. Because he exercised headcraft and not witchcraft, he rose from the meanest igloo to be head man of his village, and through all the years that he lived, it is related, his tribe was prosperous, and neither widow nor weak one cried aloud in the night because there was no meat.

A DAY'S LODGING (Однодневная стоянка)