He plodded on silently for ten minutes (он брел молча минут десять;
"And no ground covered, and it's too cold to travel (и не продвинулся вперед: «и нет расстояния покрытого», и слишком холодно, /чтобы/ разъезжать)".
Suddenly he yelled "Whoa!" at the dogs, and stopped (внезапно он закричал на собак: «Хо-о!» и остановился). He seemed in a wild panic over his right hand (ему показалось в диком ужасе: «панике», что его правая рука слишком /онемела/), and proceeded to hammer it furiously against the gee-pole (и /он/ продолжил/возобновил стучать ею неистово о шест).
fumble [fAmbl], survey [sq:'vqI], lapse [lxps], proceed [prq'si: d]
He pulled out his watch, and after some fumbling got it back into the breast pocket of his thick woollen jacket. Then he surveyed the heavens and ran his eye along the white sky-line to the south.
"Twelve o'clock," he mumbled, "A clear sky, and no sun."
He plodded on silently for ten minutes, and then, as though there had been no lapse in his speech, he added:
"And no ground covered, and it's too cold to travel."
Suddenly he yelled "Whoa!" at the dogs, and stopped. He seemed in a wild panic over his right hand, and proceeded to hammer it furiously against the gee-pole.
"You — poor — devils (вы — бедные черти = бедняги)!" he addressed the dogs, which had dropped down heavily on the ice to rest (он обратился к собакам, которые упали тяжело на лед отдохнуть). This was a broken, jerky utterance, caused by the violence with which he hammered his numb hand upon the wood (это было прерывистое, резкое высказывание, вызванное усилием, с которым он колотил свою окоченевшую руку по дереву). "What have you done anyway (так или иначе, что вы сделали = чем вы провинились) that a two-legged other animal should come along (что двуногие другие животные должны идти/сопровождать /вместе с вами/), break you to harness (приучать вас к упряжи;
poor [puq], utterance ['Atqrqns], curb [kq: b], beast [bI: st]
"You — poor — devils!" he addressed the dogs, which had dropped down heavily on the ice to rest. His was a broken, jerky utterance, caused by the violence with which he hammered his numb hand upon the wood. "What have you done anyway that a two-legged other animal should come along, break you to harness, curb all your natural proclivities, and make slave-beasts out of you?"
He rubbed his nose (он тер свой нос), not reflectively, but savagely (не задумчиво, а свирепо/остервенело), in order to drive the blood into it (для того чтобы нагнать = вызвать прилив крови в него;
savagely ['sxvIGlI], blood [blAd], surface ['sq: fIs], jumble [GAmbl], accommodate [q'kOmqdqIt]