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Джек Лондон
seriousness ['sIqrIqsnIs], division [dI'vIZ(q)n], fair [feq]
But steadily and with seriousness, Keesh went on. "For that I know my father, Bok, was a great hunter, I speak these words. It is said that Bok brought home more meat than any of the two best hunters, that with his own hands he attended to the division of it, that with his own eyes he saw to it that the least old woman and the last old man received fair share."
"Na! Na!" the men cried (нет! нет! — закричали мужчины;
He waited calmly till the uproar died down (он /Киш/ ждал спокойно, пока волнение уляжется;
child [CaIld], beard [bIqd], calmly ['kRmlI], uproar ['AprL]
"Na! Na!" the men cried. "Put the child out!" "Send him off to bed!" "He is no man that he should talk to men and graybeards!"
He waited calmly till the uproar died down.
"Thou hast a wife, Ugh-Gluk," he said (у тебя есть жена, Уг-Глук;
wherefore ['weqfL], though [Dqu], because [bI'kOz]
"Thou hast a wife, Ugh-Gluk," he said, "and for her dost thou speak. And thou, too, Massuk, a mother also, and for them dost thou speak. My mother has no one, save me; wherefore I speak. As I say, though Bok be dead because he hunted over-keenly, it is just that I, who am his son, and that Ikeega, who is my mother and was his wife, should have meat in plenty so long as there be meat in plenty in the tribe. I, Keesh, the son of Bok, have spoken."