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He looked into every pool of water vainly (он тщетно заглядывал в каждую лужу воды), until, as the long twilight came on (пока с приближением долгих сумерек; to come on — наступать, приближаться /о времени дня или года/), he discovered a solitary fish (он не обнаружил одинокую рыбку), the size of a minnow, in such a pool (размером с гольяна, в такой луже). He plunged his arm in up to the shoulder (он погрузил руку до плеча; to plunge in — погружать/ся/, окунать/ся/), but it eluded him (но она ускользнула от него; to elude — избежать, спастись; избавиться; выскользнуть). He reached for it with both hands (он потянулся за ней обеими руками; to reach for — тянуться за) and stirred up the milky mud at the bottom (и взбаламутил мутный ил на дне; to stir up — хорошенько размешивать, взбалтывать; трясти; сотрясать; вспенивать). In his excitement he fell in (в возбуждении он упал в /воду/; to fall in — падать в /что-либо/), wetting himself to the waist (промокнув: «намочив себя» до пояса; to wet — промокнуть, вымокнуть). Then the water was too muddy to admit of his seeing the fish (потом вода стала слишком мутной, чтобы позволить ему видеть рыбу), and he was compelled to wait until the sediment had settled (и он был вынужден подождать, пока не уляжется осадок; to settle — отстаиваться, оседать; to compel — заставлять, вынуждать).

He was very weary and often wished to rest — to lie down and sleep; but he was continually driven on — not so much by his desire to gain the land of little sticks as by his hunger. He searched little ponds for frogs and dug up the earth with his nails for worms, though he knew in spite that neither frogs nor worms existed so far north.

He looked into every pool of water vainly, until, as the long twilight came on, he discovered a solitary fish, the size of a minnow, in such a pool. He plunged his arm in up to the shoulder, but it eluded him. He reached for it with both hands and stirred up the milky mud at the bottom. In his excitement he fell in, wetting himself to the waist. Then the water was too muddy to admit of his seeing the fish, and he was compelled to wait until the sediment had settled.