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Английский язык с Конаном-варваромThe lights ceased some distance behind him (огни закончились на некотором расстоянии позади него). Here were no lanterns, except the one hanging before the tavern gate (здесь не было фонарей, за исключением одного = фонаря, свисающего перед воротами таверны): only the stars, the soft dust of the road underfoot, and the rustle of the palm leaves in the desert breeze (только звезды, мягкая пыль дороги под ногами и шорох пальмовых листьев на пустынном ветерке). lantern [xl–nt n], palm [p:m], jackal [xT–k: l] Bronze lanterns, carved with leering dragons, had been lighted in the streets before Conan reached the house of Aram Baksh. The tavern was the last occupied house on the street, which ran west. A wide garden, enclosed by a wall, where date palms grew thick, separated it from the houses farther east. To the west of the inn stood another grove of palms, through which the street, now become a road, wound out into the desert. Across the road from the tavern stood a row of deserted huts, shaded by straggling palm trees and occupied only by bats and jackals ...» |
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