Английский язык с Л. Ф. Баумом. Волшебник Изумрудного Города | страница 2
garret ['gxrIt], cellar ['selq], cyclone ['saIklqun], whirlwind ['wq:lwInd]
Uncle Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was no garret at all, and no cellar — except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole.
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around (когда Дороти стояла в дверях и смотрела вокруг; doorway — дверной проем), she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side (она не могла увидеть ничего = она не видела ничего, кроме огромной = бескрайней серой прерии со всех сторон: «с каждой стороны»). Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country (ни дерево, ни дом не нарушали широких просторов равнинной местности; to break — ломать; прерывать, нарушать; sweep — выметание, подметание; пространство, охватываемое взглядом, простор; flat — плоский; нерельефный, плоский; country — страна; местность) that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions (которая доходила до края неба во всех направлениях; edge — острие, лезвие; край, кромка). The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass (солнце обожгло вспаханную землю, /превратив ее/ в серую массу; to bake — печь, выпекать; припекать, сушить), with little cracks running through it (с маленькими трещинками, бегущими по ней; to run — бежать, бегать; тянуться, простираться).
doorway ['dO:weI], sweep [swi:p], plow [plau], mass [mxs]
When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it.