Английский язык с Джеком Лондоном. В далекой стране (рассказы)

guard [gRd], faith [feIT], canister ['kxnIstq]

Occasionally they lapsed normal, and during one of these sane intervals, the chief bone of contention, the sugar, had been divided equally between them. They guarded their separate sacks, stored up in the cache, with jealous eyes; for there were but a few cupfuls left, and they were totally devoid of faith in each other. But one day Cuthfert made a mistake. Hardly able to move, sick with pain, with his head swimming and eyes blinded, he crept into the cache, sugar canister in hand, and mistook Weatherbee's sack for his own.

January had been born but a few days when this occurred (всего лишь за несколько дней до этого события родился = наступил январь). The sun had some time since passed its lowest southern declination (солнце за некоторое время до того прошло самую низкую точку южной деклинации; declination — уклон, наклон, отклонение /от вертикального или горизонтального положения/), and at meridian now threw flaunting streaks of yellow light upon the northern sky (и теперь в полдень отбрасывало яркие полосы желтого света на северное небо; meridian — полдень). On the day following his mistake with the sugar-bag (на следующий после его ошибки с сахарным мешком день), Cuthfert found himself feeling better (Катферт обнаружил, что чувствует себя лучше), both in body and in spirit (как физически, так и духовно). As noontime drew near and the day brightened (по мере того как приближался полдень и становился ярче дневной свет), he dragged himself outside to feast on the evanescent glow (он выволок себя = выбрался с трудом наружу, чтобы испытать наслаждение от мимолетного/эфемерного зарева; to feast on — испытывать наслаждение от чего-либо; evanescent — исчезающий; мимолётный; эфемерный

), which was to him an earnest of the sun's future intentions (что было для него серьезностью будущих намерений солнца). Weatherbee was also feeling somewhat better (Уэзерби тоже чувствовал себя немного лучше), and crawled out beside him (и выполз рядом с ним). They propped themselves in the snow beneath the moveless wind-vane, and waited (они прислонились /к стене/ в снегу под неподвижным флюгером и ждали = стали ждать; to prop oneself — прислониться; подпереться).

occur [q'kW], evanescent ["Jvq'nesnt], earnest ['WnIst]

January had been born but a few days when this occurred. The sun had some time since passed its lowest southern declination, and at meridian now threw flaunting streaks of yellow light upon the northern sky. On the day following his mistake with the sugar-bag, Cuthfert found himself feeling better, both in body and in spirit. As noontime drew near and the day brightened, he dragged himself outside to feast on the evanescent glow, which was to him an earnest of the sun's future intentions. Weatherbee was also feeling somewhat better, and crawled out beside him. They propped themselves in the snow beneath the moveless wind-vane, and waited.

The stillness of death was about them (вокруг них была смертельная тишина). In other climes, when nature falls into such moods (в другом климате, когда природа впадает в такое настроение), there is a subdued air of expectancy (есть смягченная атмосфера надежды), a waiting for some small voice to take up the broken strain (ожидание некоего тихого голоса, который снимет неустойчивое напряжение; to take up — снимать, удалять; broken — неровный, неустойчивый). Not so in the North (не так на Севере). The two men had lived seeming aeons in this ghostly peace (двое мужчин прожили, кажется, вечность в этом призрачном покое; aeon — бесконечность, вечность; эра). They could remember no song of the past (они не могли вспомнить ни одной песни из прошлого); they could conjure no song of the future (они не могли представить песню из будущего; to conjure — заклинать, призывать /духов/; вызывать в воображении

). This unearthly calm had always been (всегда был = присутствовал этот сверхъестественный покой), — the tranquil silence of eternity (безмятежное безмолвие вечности).

aeon ['Jqn], future ['fjHCq], eternity [I'tWnItI]

The stillness of death was about them. In other climes, when nature falls into such moods, there is a subdued air of expectancy, a waiting for some small voice to take up the broken strain. Not so in the North. The two men had lived seeming aeons in this ghostly peace. They could remember no song of the past; they could conjure no song of the future. This unearthly calm had always been, — the tranquil silence of eternity.