Рецепты народной медицины - стр. 18
As the day wore along he came into valleys or swales (по мере продвижения дня он вступал в долины или болотистые низины; to wear – тянуться, проходить /о времени/) where game was more plentiful (где дичь была более обильна = которые более изобиловали дичью). A band of caribou passed by (стадо карибу прошло мимо), twenty and odd animals (двадцать с лишним животных), tantalizingly within rifle range (дразняще в пределах дальности /выстрела из/ ружья). He felt a wild desire to run after them (он почувствовал дикое желание побежать за ними), a certitude that he could run them down (уверенность, что он сможет догнать их; to run down – догнать, настигнуть). A black fox came toward him (черный песец бежал в его сторону), carrying a ptarmigan in his mouth (неся в пасти куропатку). The man shouted (человек закричал). It was a fearful cry (это был страшный крик), but the fox, leaping away in fright (но песец, отпрыгнув в испуге), did not drop the ptarmigan (не выронил куропатку).
feather [‘feðǝ], wrong [rɒŋ], rifle [raɪfl]
Once he crawled upon one that must have been asleep. He did not see it till it shot up in his face from its rocky nook. He made a clutch as startled as was the rise of the ptarmigan, and there remained in his hand three tail-feathers. As he watched its flight he hated it, as though it had done him some terrible wrong. Then he returned and shouldered his pack.
As the day wore along he came into valleys or swales where game was more plentiful. A band of caribou passed by, twenty and odd animals, tantalizingly within rifle range. He felt a wild desire to run after them, a certitude that he could run them down. A black fox came toward him, carrying a ptarmigan in his mouth. The man shouted. It was a fearful cry, but the fox, leaping away in fright, did not drop the ptarmigan.
Late in the afternoon he followed a stream (в конце второй половины дня он пошел за ручьем), milky with lime (мутным от осадка; lime – известь; накипь, осадок, окалина /от жесткой воды/), which ran through sparse patches of rush-grass (который бежал через = среди редких участков тростника). Grasping these rushes firmly near the root (крепко схватив этот тростник у корня), he pulled up what resembled a young onion-sprout no larger than a shingle-nail (он вырвал то, что походило на молодой побег лука величиной не более гонтового гвоздя; to pull up – вытягивать, выдергивать наверх). It was tender (он был мягким; tender – мягкий, нежный), and his teeth sank into it with a crunch that promised deliciously of food (и его зубы погрузились в него с хрустом, который восхитительно сулил пищу; to promise – подавать надежды; сулить, предвещать; to sink – погружаться). But its fibers were tough (но его волокна были жесткими). It was composed of stringy filaments saturated with water