`Inside it is even as a bazaar (внутри он /город/ был точно как /восточный/ базар). Surely thou should'st have been with me (непременно, тебе бы следовало быть вместе со мной). Across the narrow streets (через узкие улочки) the gay lanterns of paper flutter (трепыхались веселые/пестрые бумажные фонарики) like large butterflies (подобно большим бабочкам). When the wind blows over the roofs (когда ветер дует над крышами) they rise and fall (они поднимаются и падают/опускаются) as painted bubbles do (словно разноцветные пузырьки;
bazaar [bq'zQ:] butterfly ['bAtqflaI] bubble ['bAb(q)l] booth [bu:D]
`Inside it is even as a bazaar. Surely thou should'st have been with me. Across the narrow streets the gay lanterns of paper flutter like large butterflies. When the wind blows over the roofs they rise and fall as painted bubbles do. In front of their booths sit the merchants on silken carpets.
They have straight black beards (у них прямые черные бороды), and their turbans (и их тюрбаны/чалмы) are covered with golden sequins (покрыты золотистыми блестками/цехинами), and long strings of amber (и длинные нитки янтарных /бус/;
turban ['tq:bqn] sequin ['si:kwIn] peach-stone ['pi:tSstqVn]
galbanum ['gxl|bqnqm, 'gO:l-] perfume ['pq:fju:m]
They have straight black beards, and their turbans are covered with golden sequins, and long strings of amber and carved peach-stones glide through their cool fingers.
Some of them sell galbanum and nard, and curious perfumes from the islands of the Indian Sea, and the thick oil of red roses and myrrh and little nail-shaped cloves.
When one stops to speak to them (когда кто-нибудь останавливается, чтобы поговорить с ними), they throw pinches of frankincense (они бросают щепотки благовония/ладана;
pinch [pIntS] frankincense ['frxNkInsens] odour ['qVdq]
When one stops to speak to them, they throw pinches of frankincense upon a charcoal brazier and make the air sweet. I saw a Syrian who held in his hands a thin rod like a reed. Grey threads of smoke came from it, and its odour as it burned was as the odour of the pink almond in spring.