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Английский язык с Г. Уэллсом. Машина времени / H. G. Wells. The Time MachineYet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork. Somehow such things must be made. And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency. There were no shops, no workshops, no sign of importations among them. They spent all their time in playing gently, in bathing in the river, in making love in a half-playful fashion, in eating fruit and sleeping. I could not see how things were kept going. 'Then, again, about the Time Machine (и вот теперь происшествие с Машиной Времени): something, I knew not what, had taken it into the hollow pedestal of the White Sphinx (что-то, я не знал, что, забрало ее в полый пьедестал Белого Сфинкса). Why (зачем)? For the life of me I could not imagine (клянусь жизнью, я не мог представить). Those waterless wells, too, those flickering pillars (также эти безводные колодцы и столбы = башни с колеблющимся /над ними воздухом/). I felt I lacked a clue (я чувствовал, что не нахожу ключа/разгадки; tolack— испытывать недостаток; не хватать) ...» |
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