Английский язык с М. Муркоком

`Why should you do it (зачем тебе делать это)? The living have no liking for the dead (живые не любят мертвых; liking for — симпатия, расположение к).

`I love Rhalina (я люблю Ралину). It is love, do you understand (это любовь, понимаешь)?

`I cannot.

`Then let me sail with her. What is the harm in that? You will have two living beings to warm your dead souls!

The Margrave appeared to consider this.

`Why should you do it? The living have no liking for the dead.

`I love Rhalina. It is love, do you understand?

`Love (любовь)? The dead know nothing of love (мертвые ничего не знают о любви).

`Yet you want your wife with you (все-таки ты хочешь, чтобы твоя жена была с тобой).

`She proposed the bargain (она предложила /заключить/ сделку). Shool-an-Jyvan heard her and sent us (Шул-ан-Дживан услышал ее и послал нас).

The shuffling corpses had completely surrounded them now (шаркавшие ногами трупы полностью окружили их теперь). Corum gagged at their stench (Корум зажал рот от их смрада).

`Then I will come with you (тогда я пойду с вами).

The dead Margrave inclined his head (мертвый маркграф склонил голову /в знак согласия/).

proposed [pr'puzd] surrounded [s'raundd] inclined [n'kland]

`Love? The dead know nothing of love.

`Yet you want your wife with you.

`She proposed the bargain. Shool-an-Jyvan heard her and sent us.

The shuffling corpses had completely surrounded them now. Corum gagged at their stench.

`Then I will come with you.

The dead Margrave inclined his head.

Escorted by the shuffling corpses, Corum allowed himself and Rhalina to be led aboard the ship (в сопровождении шаркающих ногами трупов, Корум позволил провести себя и Ралину на борт корабля). It was covered in scum from the bottom of the sea (он был покрыт тиной со дна моря; scum — пена; отбросы, отходы; слой водорослей, тина). Weed draped it, giving off the strange green fire (водоросли обвивали его, испуская странное зеленое свечение; to drape — украшать тканями, занавесками). What Corum had thought were dull jewels were coloured barnacles which encrusted everything (/то/, что Корум принял за тусклые самоцветы, оказалось цветными раковинами морских уточек, которые покрывали /коркой/ все). Slime lay on all surfaces (липкий ил лежал на всех поверхностях). While the Margrave watched from his poop, Corum and Rhalina were taken to a cabin and made to enter (пока маркграф наблюдал со своей кормы, Корума и Ралину отвели к каюте и заставили войти/ввели в нее). It was almost pitch-black and it stank of decay (она была почти черной как смоль = там было совсем темно, и воняло гнилью; to stink).

He heard the rotting timbers creak and the ship began to move (он услышал, как гнилые доски скрипнули, и корабль поплыл).

It sailed rapidly, without wind or any other understandable means of propulsion (он плыл быстро, без ветра и любых других понятных средств движения; propulsion — движение вперед, движущая сила; двигатель).

It sailed for Svi-an-Fanla-Brool, the island of the legends, the Home of the Gorged God (он шел на Сви-ан-Фанла-Брул, остров из легенд, жилище прожорливого бога).

jewel ['u:l] barnacles ['b:nklz] encrusted [n'krstd] propulsion [pr'pl n]

Escorted by the shuffling corpses, Corum allowed himself and Rhalina to be led aboard the ship. It was covered in scum from the bottom of the sea. Weed draped it, giving off the strange green fire. What Corum had thought were dull jewels were coloured barnacles which encrusted everything. Slime lay on all surfaces. While the Margrave watched from his poop, Corum and Rhalina were taken to a cabin and made to enter. It was almost pitch-black and it stank of decay.

He heard the rotting timbers creak and the ship began to move.

It sailed rapidly, without wind or any other understandable means of propulsion.

It sailed for Svi-an-Fanla-Brool, the island of the legends, the Home of the Gorged God.

BOOK TWO (часть вторая) In which Prince Corum receives a gift and makes a pact (в которой принц Корум получает подарок и заключает договор)

CHAPTER ONE (глава первая) The Ambitious Sorcerer (честолюбивый колдун)