Ray Bradbury A Sound of Thunder (18/25)

Billings and Kramer sat on the pathway and threw up (сели на тропинке и их вырвало: to throw up – вырвать). Travis and Lesperance stood with smoking rifles (стояли с дымящимися винтовками), cursing steadily (непрерывно ругаясь: to curse – сквернословить, steadily – монотонно, неизменно, постоянно). In the Time Machine, on his face (в Машине Времени, лицом вниз), Eckels lay shivering (лежал, дрожа). He had found his way back to the Path (он нашел путь назад к Тропе), climbed into the Machine (забрался в Машину).

Travis came walking (подошел /неторопливо/: to walk – идти пешком), glanced (взглянул) at Eckels, took cotton gauze from a metal box (вытащил хлопковую сетку, марлю из металлической коробки), and returned to the others, who were sitting on the Path (и вернулся к остальным, которые сидели на Тропе).

"Clean up (вытритесь)."

They wiped the blood from their helmets (они стерли кровь со шлемов). They began to curse too (они начали также ругаться). The Monster lay, a hill of solid flesh (чудовище лежало, гора твердой плоти). Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs (внутри вы могли слышать вздохи и бормотание) as the furthest chambers (как в отдаленных закоулках тела: a chamber – камера) of it died, the organs malfunctioning (неисправность органов), liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen (жидкости, бегущие в последний раз из полости в мешочек, в селезенку: instant – момент, pocket – карман, полость), everything shutting off, closing up forever (все отключалось, замолкало навсегда). It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time (это было похоже на стояние у потерпевшего аварию локомотива или парового экскаватора в то время, когда он закончил работу: to quit – покидать, оставлять), all valves being released or levered tight (все клапаны открыты или закрыты плотно: to release – освобождать, отпускать; lever – рычаг). Bones cracked (кости треснули); the tonnage of its own flesh (многотонный вес его собственной плоти: tonnage – тоннаж), off balance (потерявший равновесие), dead weight, snapped the delicate forearms (мертвый вес сломал с треском хрупкие предплечья), caught underneath (схваченные внизу = прижатые к земле). The meat settled, quivering (мясо осело, колыхаясь).

Billings and Kramer sat on the pathway and threw up. Travis and Lesperance stood with smoking rifles, cursing steadily. In the Time Machine, on his face, Eckels lay shivering. He had found his way back to the Path, climbed into the Machine.

Travis came walking, glanced at Eckels, took cotton gauze from a metal box, and returned to the others, who were sitting on the Path.

"Clean up."

They wiped the blood from their helmets. They began to curse too. The Monster lay, a hill of solid flesh. Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen, everything shutting off, closing up forever. It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time, all valves being released or levered tight. Bones cracked; the tonnage of its own flesh, off balance, dead weight, snapped the delicate forearms, caught underneath. The meat settled, quivering.