The Food of the Gods / Пища богов. Книга для чтения на английском языке

These creatures dispersed hastily, but Cossar reached out incalculable limbs and managed to kill several with his boots and gun-butt. Then two of the men hacked through several of the main stems of the canary creeper – huge cylinders they were, a couple of feet in diameter, that came out by the sink at the back; and while Cossar set the house in order for the night, Bensington, Redwood, and one of the assistant electricians went cautiously round by the fowl runs in search of the rat-holes.

They skirted the giant nettles widely, for these huge weeds threatened them with poison-thorns a good inch long.

Then round beyond the gnawed, dismantled stile they came abruptly on the huge cavernous throat of the most westerly of the giant rat-holes, an evil-smelling profundity, that drew them up into a line together.

“I hope they’ll come out,” said Redwood, with a glance at the pent-house of the well.

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Примечания

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Nature – еженедельный британский журнал

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Fellow – член научного общества

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with an air of being preoccupied with something else – (разг.

) с видом человека безумно занятого

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would have been scared out of his wits – был бы до смерти напуган

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you cannot make head nor tail of – (разг.) в которой ничего не понятно

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everything will be as clear as daylight – (разг.) все станет совершенно понятным

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would do away with – (разг.