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The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burned brightly, and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses.
Convenient - wygodne; dogodny
expounding - wyłożyć, rozprawiać
recondite - rekonstrukcja
matter - ma znaczenie; materia; sprawa; mieć znaczenie
shone - świecił; świecić, błyszczeć, polerować
twinkled - mrugnął; migotać
pale - blednąć; blady
flushed - spłukany; poczerwienieć, zarumienić się; rumieniec; dziany
animated - animowane; żywy, żywotny, animować
burned - spalony; spalić, płonąć, poparzyć; oparzenie
brightly - jasno; jaskrawo, radośnie, promiennie
soft - miękki
radiance - blask; radiancja
incandescent - żarzący się, jarzący się
lilies - lilie; lilia, lilija
silver - srebro; srebrny
caught - złapany; haczyk, łapać, złapać, schwytać, łapać, złapać
bubbles - bańka, bąbel
flashed - błysnął; migać, błyskać, przemykać; błysk
passed - przeszedł; przechodzić, mijać, spędzić, przemijać; przepustka
Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon, and there was that luxurious after-dinner atmosphere when thought roams gracefully free of the trammels of precision. And he put it to us in this way-marking the points with a lean forefinger-as we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it) and his fecundity.
patents - opatentować; oczywisty, jawny, opatentowany
embraced - objęty; obejmować, objąć, uściskać, uścisnąć, przytulać
caressed - pieszczony; (care) opiekować, troszczyć, przejmować się, dbać
Rather - raczej
submitted - złożony; ulegać, ulec, wygrywać, wygrać
upon - ponad
luxurious - luksusowy
atmosphere - atmosfera, nastrój, atmosfera
roams - błąkać się, włóczyć się; wędrówka
gracefully - z wdziękiem
trammels - pętać, łapać; pęta, sieć, przeszkoda
precision - precyzja; dokładność
marking - (makr) oznaczyć, znakować; oznakowanie; (mark); Marek, Margusz
lean - opierać się, przechylić się, odchylić się; szczupły, chudy
forefinger - palec wskazujący
lazily - leniwie, bezczynnie
admired - podziwiać, zachwycać się, admirować
earnestness - powaga, szczerość, żarliwość
paradox - paradoks
fecundity - płodność, urodzajność
'You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.'
carefully - ostrożnie
shall - powinien; powinno się
controvert - zakwestionować, podać w wątpliwość
almost - prawie, niemalże, omal
universally - powszechnie
accepted - zaakceptowany; przyjmować, przyjąć, akceptować, zaakceptować
geometry - geometria
instance - zdarzenie, okazja, instancja
founded - założona; (find) odnaleźć; odnaleziony, ufundowany
misconception - błędne wyobrażenie lub przekonanie
'Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?'said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair.
Rather - rather - raczej
expect - spodziewać się, oczekiwać, oczekiwać
argumentative - kłótliwy
'I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. You will soon admit as much as I need from you. You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence. They taught you that? Neither has a mathematical plane. These things are mere abstractions.'
Accept - przyjmować, przyjąć, akceptować, zaakceptować, zgadzać się
reasonable - rozsądne
ground - teren, ziemia
admit - przyznać; wpuszczać, wpuścić, dopuszczać, dopuścić, przyznawać
mathematical - matematyczny
thickness - grubość
nil - zero
existence - egzystencja, istnienie
neither - żaden; ani X; ani Y; też nie
mere - tylko; sam, samodzielny, zwyczajny
abstractions - abstrakcja
'That is all right,'said the Psychologist.
Psychologist - psycholog
'Nor, having only length, breadth, and thickness, can a cube have a real existence.'
nor - ani
Length - długość
breadth - szerokość, rozpiętość
cube - podnieść; sześcian, kostka
'There I object,'said Filby. 'Of course a solid body may exist. All real things-'
solid - stały; masywny; sycący; solidny; rzetelny; łączny; jednolity; ciało stałe; bryła
exist - istnieć, egzystować
'So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an instantaneous cube exist?'
instantaneous - natychmiastowy; momentalny, chwilowy
'Don't follow you,'said Filby.
'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?'
Last - trwać; ostatni
Filby became pensive. 'Clearly,'the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and-Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.
pensive - zamyślony
Clearly - wyraźnie, jasno
proceeded - kontynuować, iść dalej, podążać
extension - rozszerzenie; rozciągłość; rozszerzenie
directions - wskazówki; kierunek, kierowanie
duration - czas trwanie rwania, trwanie
infirmity - niemoc, zniedołężenie
flesh - ciało, mięso, miąższ, cielisty
incline - przechylić, skłonić, nachylać, mieć na coś ochotę; zbocze, stok
overlook - punkt widokowy; przeoczać, przeoczyć, przegapiać, przegapić
dimensions - wymiar, wymiar, wymiar, wymiar, wymiar, wymiar
There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.'
tendency - tendencja, skłonność
unreal - nierealny, nierzeczywisty, umowny
distinction - rozróżnienie; różnica; odznaczenie, wyróżnienie
former - były
latter - ten drugi; szerokość geograficzna
consciousness - przytomność, świadomość
intermittently - z przerwami
direction - kierunek; kierowanie; reżyseria
along - wzdłuż, po, razem
'That,'said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp; 'that … very clear indeed.'
spasmodic - spazmatyczny
efforts - wysiłki; wysiłek, staranie
relight - ponowne zapalenie
cigar - cygaro
clear - jasne; bezbarwny; bezchmurny; jasny; wymazać, czyścić
indeed - rzeczywiście; naprawdę, w rzeczy samej, zaiste, w istocie
'Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,'continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. 'Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. It is only another way of looking at Time.
remarkable - niezwykłe; wybitny
extensively - szeroko
overlooked - przeoczony; punkt widokowy, przeoczać, przeoczyć, przegapiać
continued - kontynuować, w dalszym ciągu
Slight - nieznacznie; drobny, mały
accession - wstąpienie, objęcie, dojście
cheerfulness - pogoda ducha, wesołość
Dimension - wymiar
though - ale; jednak, mimo to, bez względu na to, choć, chociaż
There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it. But some foolish people have got hold of the wrong side of that idea. You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension?'
Except - wykluczać, wykluczyć, z wyjątkiem, oprócz, poza tym
foolish - niemądry, głupi
hold - utrzymać, trzymać, odbywać; dzierżawa, posiadanie
side - strona, część, bok, krawędź
'I have not,'said the Provincial Mayor.
provincial - prowincjonalny, lokalny
mayor - burmistrz, burmistrzyni
'It is simply this. That Space, as our mathematicians have it, is spoken of as having three dimensions, which one may call Length, Breadth, and Thickness, and is always definable by reference to three planes, each at right angles to the others. But some philosophical people have been asking why three dimensions particularly-why not another direction at right angles to the other three?
Simply - po prostu
mathematicians - matematyk, matematyczka
definable - definiowalny
reference - odniesienie; referencja; odnosić się do
angles - kąty; Angl
philosophical - filozoficzny
particularly - szczególnie
-and have even tried to construct a Four-Dimension geometry. Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago.
construct - budować, zbudować, konstruować, skonstruować
professor - profesor, profesorka
Society - społeczeństwo; stowarzyszenie, towarzystwo, naród
You know how on a flat surface, which has only two dimensions, we can represent a figure of a three-dimensional solid, and similarly they think that by models of three dimensions they could represent one of four-if they could master the perspective of the thing. See?'
surface - powierzchnia
represent - reprezentować, symbolizować, przedstawiać
figure - rysunek; sylwetka, figura, osoba, postać, cyfra, kształt
dimensional - wymiar
similarly - podobnie
Master - opanować; mistrz, pan, kapitan, gospodarz
perspective - punkt widzenia, perspektywa
'I think so,'murmured the Provincial Mayor; and, knitting his brows, he lapsed into an introspective state, his lips moving as one who repeats mystic words. 'Yes, I think I see it now,'he said after some time, brightening in a quite transitory manner.
murmured - mruknął; pomruk, mruczenie, szmer
knitting - robienie na drutach; (knit); robić na drutach, dziać
brows - (brow) przeglądać, rozglądać się, paść się; czoło, brwi
lapsed - (lap) kolano, chlupotanie, pluskanie, okrążenie
introspective - introspektywny
state - państwo (kraj; administracja, rząd); stan ( w jakimś coś; ktoś się znajduje); stan (np. w USA); bajzel, chlew
lips - usta; warga
mystic - mistyczny; mistyk, mistyczka
brightening - rozpogodzić, poprawić, ożywić
transitory - przejściowy
manner - sposób; maniera
'Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on.
mind - rozum, umysł, mieć coś przeciwko
Curious - ciekawi; ciekawy
portrait - portret
All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.
evidently - najwyraźniej; ewidentnie, zauważalnie
Representations - reprezentacje; przedstawicielstwo, reprezentacja
Dimensioned - wymiar, wymiar, wymiar, wymiar, wymiar, wymiar
fixed - naprawione; naprawiać, naprawić, mocować, przymocować
unalterable - niezmienny
'Scientific people,'proceeded the Time Traveller, after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this, 'know very well that Time is only a kind of Space. Here is a popular scientific diagram, a weather record. This line I trace with my finger shows the movement of the barometer.
scientific - naukowe; naukowy
pause - pauzować, przerywać, pauza, przerwa
required - zażądać, wymagać, życzyć sobie
proper - właściwe; właściwy, jako taki
assimilation - asymilacja, upodobnienie
diagram - wykres; diagram
record - notować, nagrywać; rekord, nagranie, zapis
trace - namierzać, wyśledzić, śledzić; ślad, uprzęż, poszlaka
finger - obmacywać; palec
movement - ruch
barometer - barometr, wskaźnik
Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here. Surely the mercury did not trace this line in any of the dimensions of Space generally recognized? But certainly it traced such a line, and that line, therefore, we must conclude was along the Time-Dimension.'
rose - Róża
gently - łagodnie, delikatnie
upward - w górę, do góry; zwrócony ku górze
surely - pewnie; z pewnością, na pewno, niewątpliwie
mercury - rtęć, żywe srebro, szczyr
generally - ogólnie
recognized - rozpoznany; rozpoznać, postrzegać
Certainly - z pewnością, pewnie, na pewno, zdecydowanie
traced - namierzony; namierzać, wyśledzić, śledzić; ślad, uprzęż
such - takie; taki
therefore - dlaczego; więc, zatem, dlatego, przeto
conclude - wywnioskować, zakończyć
'But,'said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the fire, 'if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it, and why has it always been, regarded as something different? And why cannot we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of Space?'
medical - medyczne; medyczny
coal - węgiel
regarded - uważany; mieć wzgląd, brać pod uwagę, dotyczyć
The Time Traveller smiled. 'Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.'
smiled - uśmiechnięty; uśmiech, uśmiechać
freely - swobodnie
backward - tył
forward - do przodu; naprzód
Gravitation - grawitacja, ciążenie, siła ciążenia
limits - limity; ograniczać; limit
'Not exactly,'said the Medical Man. 'There are balloons.'
exactly - dokładnie, ściśle, precyzyjnie, właśnie, no właśnie
balloons - balon, balon, balon, balon
'But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of vertical movement.'
save - ratować, uratować, zbawić, zapisywać, zapisać, oszczędzać
jumping - skoki; skakać, wskoczyć; skok
inequalities - nierówności; nierówność, nierówność
freedom - wolność, swoboda
vertical - pionowy, wertykalny
'Still they could move a little up and down,'said the Medical Man.
'Easier, far easier down than up.'
'And you cannot move at all in time, you cannot get away from the present moment.'
all in time - wszystko w swoim czasie
'My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
gone wrong - popsuć się; pójść źle (o sytuacji); popełnić błąd
getting away - odejść, wyjść, wyrwać się (np. z nudnego spotkania); wyjechać na wakacje; uciekać, rzucać się do ucieczki
mental - psychiczny
existences - egzystencja, istnienie
immaterial - nieistotne
passing - przemijanie; przelotny
uniform - jednorodny, spójny, mundur, mundurek
velocity - prędkość
from the cradle to the grave - od kołyski po grób
Just as we should travel down if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.'
earth's surface - powierzchnia ziemi
'But the great difficulty is this,'interrupted the Psychologist. 'You can move about in all directions of Space, but you cannot move about in Time.'
difficulty - trudności; trudność
interrupted - przerwane; przerywać, przerwać, wtrącać się, wtrącić się
'That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment.
germ - zarazek, mikrob, bakcyl, zalążek
discovery - odkrycie; odkrywanie
recalling - przypominając sobie; przywołanie
incident - wydarzenie, incydent, wynikający, towarzyszący, padający
vividly - jaskrawo, doskonale, barwnie
instant - chwila, moment; nie wymagający gotowania
Occurrence - występowanie; wydarzenie, wypadek, zjawisko, pojawienie
absent - nieobecny
minded - myślał; rozum, t+umysł, t+um, mieć coś przeciwko
jump - skakać, wskoczyć; skok
Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of Time, any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect.
savage - dzikus; dziki, zdziczały, barbarzyński, niecywilizowany
civilized - cywilizowany; cywilizować
respect - respekt, szacunek, estyma, poważanie
He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?'
against - przeciw, pod, przeciwko
balloon - balon
ultimately - ostatecznie
accelerate - przyśpieszać, przyśpieszyć, przyśpieszać się, przyśpieszyć się
drift - dryft; zaspa; dryfować
turn about - obracać się; okres postoju w porcie
'Oh, this,'began Filby, 'is all-'
'Why not?'said the Time Traveller.
'It's against reason,'said Filby.
'What reason?'said the Time Traveller.
'You can show black is white by argument,'said Filby, 'but you will never convince me.'
argument - argument, kłótnia
convince - przekonywać, przekonać
'Possibly not,'said the Time Traveller. 'But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions. Long ago I had a vague inkling of a machine-'
Possibly - możliwie
investigations - dochodzenia; śledztwo
vague - niejasny
inkling - pewne podejrzenia, domysły
'To travel through time!'exclaimed the Very Young Man.
travel through time - podróżować w czasie
exclaimed - wykrzyknął; wołać, zawołać, wykrzykiwać, wykrzyknąć
'That shall travel indifferently in any direction of Space and Time, as the driver determines.'
indifferently - obojętnie
determines - określać, ustalać, ustalić
Filby contented himself with laughter.
contented - zadowalać; zawartość; zadowolony
laughter - śmiech
'But I have experimental verification,'said the Time Traveller.
experimental - eksperymentalne
verification - weryfikacja
'It would be remarkably convenient for the historian,'the Psychologist suggested. 'One might travel back and verify the accepted account of the Battle of Hastings, for instance!'
remarkably - nadzwyczajnie
historian - historyk, historyczka
suggested - sugerowane; sugerować, sugerować, proponować, sugerować
verify - potwierdzić, sprawdzić
account - sprawozdanie, konto, rachunek, księgowość, relacja
battle - bitwa
'Don't you think you would attract attention?'said the Medical Man.
attract attention - przyciągać uwagę
'Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.'
ancestors - przodków; przodek, wstępny, antenat
tolerance - tolerancja
anachronisms - anachronizm, anachroniczność, anachronizm, anachroniczność
'One might get one's Greek from the very lips of Homer and Plato,'the Very Young Man thought.
Greek - grecki, he Ancient Greek language, Grek, Greczynka
Plato - Platon
'In which case they would certainly plough you for the Little-go.
case - sprawa, przypadek
plough - pług; Wielka Niedźwiedzica; orać
The German scholars have improved Greek so much.'
German - Niemiec, Niemka, Germanin, Germanka, niemiecki
scholars - uczony
'Then there is the future,'said the Very Young Man. 'Just think! One might invest all one's money, leave it to accumulate at interest, and hurry on ahead!'
invest - zainwestować, włożyć, wprowadzić
accumulate - akumulować, zakumulować, akumulować
hurry - pośpiech; śpieszyć się; przyśpieszać, przyśpieszyć
ahead - przed nami; z przodu
'To discover a society,'said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'
discover - odkrywać, odkryć
erected - wzniesiony; wznosić, stawiać, rozbijać; podniesiony
strictly - surowo, ściśle, rygorystycznie
communistic - komunistyczny
basis - podstawa
'Of all the wild extravagant theories!'began the Psychologist.
wild - dziki
extravagant - ekstrawagancki
theories - teorie; teoria, teoria, teoria, teoria
'Yes, so it seemed to me, and so I never talked of it until-'
seemed - wydawało się; wydawać
'Experimental verification!'cried I. 'You are going to verify that?'
cried - płakał; płakać, krzyczeć, płacz, okrzyk, krzyk, krzyk, okrzyk
'The experiment!'cried Filby, who was getting brain-weary.
experiment - eksperyment, doświadczenie, próba, eksperymentować
brain - mózg
weary - zmęczony; znużony; męczący; nużyć, znużyć
'Let's see your experiment anyhow,'said the Psychologist, 'though it's all humbug, you know.'
anyhow - w każdym razie; jakkolwiek, w jakikolwiek sposób
humbug - oszust, bzdura, lipa, nonsens
The Time Traveller smiled round at us. Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.
round - mecz, runda; okrągły, dookoła
smiling - uśmiechnięty; (smile); uśmiech; uśmiechać
faintly - lekko, słabo
deep - głęboki, niski, pochłonięty, zaabsorbowany, głęboko, głębia
pockets - kieszenie; kieszeń, kieszonkowy
slowly - powoli, wolno, pomału, nieśpiesznie
slippers - kapcie; pantofel, laczek, kapeć, klapek
shuffling - (shuffle) poprzestawiać, potasować, powłóczyć nogami, szurać
passage - przejście, fragment
laboratory - laboratorium
The Psychologist looked at us. 'I wonder what he's got?'
wonder - zastanawiać; cud, dziw, dziwo, zdumienie, zdumiewać się
'Some sleight-of-hand trick or other,'said the Medical Man, and
sleight - sztuczka
trick - trik, sposób, sztuczka, chwyt
Filby tried to tell us about a conjurer he had seen at Burslem; but
conjurer - sztukmistrz, iluzjonista
before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back, and
preface - wstęp, przedmowa
Filby's anecdote collapsed.
anecdote - anegdota
collapsed - upadł; bachnąć, zapaść
The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance. And now I must be explicit, for this that follows-unless his explanation is to be accepted-is an absolutely unaccountable thing.
held - trzymane; utrzymać, trzymać, odbywać; dzierżawa, posiadanie
glittering - błyszczący; (glitter); blask; brokat; błyszczeć, błyszczeć
metallic - metaliczny; metalowy
framework - ramy; szkielet
scarcely - ledwo; ledwie
delicately - delikatnie
ivory - kość słoniowa
transparent - przezroczysty
crystalline - krystaliczny; krystaliczny
substance - substancja; istota; majątek; narkotyk
explicit - wyraźny, jednoznaczny, jawny
Unless - chyba że
explanation - objaśnienie, wyjaśnienie
absolutely - absolutnie, bezwarunkowo, bezwzględnie
unaccountable - Nieodpowiedzialny
He took one of the small octagonal tables that were scattered about the room, and set it in front of the fire, with two legs on the hearthrug. On this table he placed the mechanism. Then he drew up a chair, and sat down. The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp, the bright light of which fell upon the model.
octagonal - ośmiokątny
scattered - rozrzucić, rozsypać, rozejść się; rozrzut, rozproszenie
set - umieścić, postawić, usytuować; zestaw
Hearthrug - dywanik przy kominku
mechanism - mechanizm
shaded - zacieniony; aloza
bright - jasny, radosny
There were also perhaps a dozen candles about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sconces, so that the room was brilliantly illuminated. I sat in a low arm-chair nearest the fire, and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace. Filby sat behind him, looking over his shoulder.
Perhaps - być może; może, bodaj
dozen - tuzin; tuziny, dziesiątki, kilkadziesiąt
brass - mosiądz, instrument dęty blaszany; mosiężny
candlesticks - świeczniki; świecznik, lichtarz
mantel - obudowa kominka
several - kilka
sconces - kinkiety
brilliantly - genialnie; błyskotliwie, błyskotnie
illuminated - oświetlony; iluminować, oświetlać
low - obniżać; niski
arm-chair - (arm-chair) fotel
fireplace - kominek
The Medical Man and the Provincial Mayor watched him in profile from the right, the Psychologist from the left. The Very Young Man stood behind the Psychologist. We were all on the alert. It appears incredible to me that any kind of trick, however subtly conceived and however adroitly done, could have been played upon us under these conditions.
profile - profil, zarys
on the alert - w gotowości, czujny, gotowy (np. do działania)
Appears - pojawia się; zjawiać się, zjawić się, pojawiać się, pojawić się
subtly - subtelnie, delikatnie
conceived - wyobrażać sobie, stworzyć
adroitly - zręcznie, sprytnie, pomysłowo
conditions - warunki; warunek, warunek, stan, kondycja, stan, kondycja
The Time Traveller looked at us, and then at the mechanism. 'Well?'said the Psychologist.
'This little affair,'said the Time Traveller, resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus, 'is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singularly askew, and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar, as though it was in some way unreal.'He pointed to the part with his finger.
affair - sprawa; romans
resting - (rest) odpoczywać, wypoczywać; odpoczynek; wypoczywając
elbows - łokcie; łokieć, uderzyć z łokcia
pressing - naciskając; (press) naciskać, przyciskać, przygniatać, prasować
apparatus - aparat, aparatura, instrumentarium, aparat
travel through - podróżować poprzez coś
notice - awizo; wymówienie; zauważać, zauważyć
singularly - niezwykle, szczególnie, pojedynczo
askew - krzywo; przekrzywiony
odd - dziwne; dziwny; nieparzysty
twinkling - migotanie; (twinkle) migotać, błyszczeć, skrzyć się; moment
appearance - zjawisko; wygląd
bar - zakazywać, zagradzać, zaryglować; bar, pręt, rygiel, drążek
'Also, here is one little white lever, and here is another.'
lever - dźwignia, lewar
The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing.
peered - podglądany; przyjrzeć, spojrzeć, przyglądać się badawczo, par
'It's beautifully made,'he said.
beautifully - pięknie
'It took two years to make,'retorted the Time Traveller. Then, when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man, he said: 'Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. This saddle represents the seat of a time traveller.
retorted - ripostował; odcinać się, odparować, odpalić
imitated - naśladowany; naśladować, udawać, imitować
pressed - wciśnięty; (pre) przed
gliding - szybowanie; szybownictwo
reverses - odwraca
motion - ruch
saddle - siodłać, osiodłać; siodełko, siodło
represents - reprezentuje; reprezentować, symbolizować, przedstawiać
seat - siedzenie, miejsce, miejsce siedzący
Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear. Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack.'
Presently - obecnie; niebawem
press - naciskać, przyciskać, przygniatać, prasować, tłoczyć się; prasa
vanish - znikać, zniknąć
pass into - przejść w; do; przemieniać się w
disappear - znikać, zniknąć, porywać
satisfy - zadowalać, zadowolić, zaspokajać, zaspokoić
trickery - oszustwo, podstęp
waste - marnować, trwonić; marnotrawstwo, odpady; jałowy
quack - szarlatan, medyk, kwakanie
There was a minute's pause perhaps. The Psychologist seemed about to speak to me, but changed his mind. Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the lever. 'No,'he said suddenly. 'Lend me your hand.'And turning to the Psychologist, he took that individual's hand in his own and told him to put out his forefinger.
forth - naprzód, dalej
towards - ku, do, w stronę, w kierunku, o, odnośnie, na, koło
suddenly - nagle, raptem, z nagła, znienacka
lend - pożyczyć; wypożyczać, nadawać, przydawać, pożyczać; podaj
individual - indywiduum, jednostka, osoba fizyczna, indywidualny, oddzielny
So that it was the Psychologist himself who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage. We all saw the lever turn. I am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of wind, and the lamp flame jumped.
interminable - niekończące się
Voyage - podróż; rejs
absolutely certain - całkowicie pewny
breath - oddech, oddychanie
wind - wiać, przewijać, pozbawić tchu; wiatr
flame - płomień; kochanka, kochanek, krytycyzm, ognista czerwień
jumped - skoczył; skakać, wskoczyć; skok
One of the candles on the mantel was blown out, and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone-vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare.
candles - świece; świeca, świeczka, gromnica
blown out - zgasnąć; zgasić, zdmuchnąć; rozerwać, pęknąć (np. opona); wysadzić (coś); pokonać kogoś (np. w meczu); wyrzucić (np. gaz); rzucić kogoś, zerwać z kimś, zakończyć związek
swung - zamachnął się; huśtać się, bachnąć, huśtawka, bujawka
indistinct - Niewyraźne
ghost - duch, upiór, fantom, tzwid
eddy - zawirować, zafalować; wir
vanished - zniknął; znikać, zniknąć
bare - nagi, goły, obnażony
Everyone was silent for a minute. Then Filby said he was damned.
silent - cicho; cichy, bezszelestny, bezdźwięczny
damned - przeklęty; (damn); przeklinać, przekląć, cholerny, przeklęty
The Psychologist recovered from his stupor, and suddenly looked under the table. At that the Time Traveller laughed cheerfully. 'Well?'he said, with a reminiscence of the Psychologist. Then, getting up, he went to the tobacco jar on the mantel, and with his back to us began to fill his pipe.
recovered - odzyskane; wyzdrowieć, wrócić do zdrowia, odzyskać
stupor - upojenie, odurzenie
cheerfully - wesoło, radośnie, ochoczo
reminiscence - wspomnienie; reminiscencja
getting up - wstać z łóżka; podnieść; podnosić się (do pozycji pionowej), wstawać, wstać; wzmagać się (np. wiatr)
tobacco - tytoń, tabaka
jar - drażnić, szarpać; słoik, wstrząs
pipe - piszczałka, fujarka, rura, rurki, potok, kreska pionowa
We stared at each other. 'look here,'said the Medical Man, 'are you in earnest about this? Do you seriously believe that that machine has travelled into time?'
look here - spojrzeć tutaj; popatrz, zobacz {polecenie}
earnest - powaga, zadatek, zaliczka; poważny, szczery; najpoważniejszy
seriously - poważnie, na serio, na poważnie
'Certainly,'said the Time Traveller, stooping to light a spill at the fire. Then he turned, lighting his pipe, to look at the Psychologist's face. (The Psychologist, to show that he was not unhinged, helped himself to a cigar and tried to light it uncut.
stooping - pochylony; schylać się, pochylać; podest
spill - wylać, rozlać się
unhinged - rozstrajać
uncut - nieobcięty, nieskrócony, nieoszlifowany
) 'What is more, I have a big machine nearly finished in there'-he indicated the laboratory-'and when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account.'
nearly - prawie, bez mała, blisko
indicated - wskazany; wskazywać, ukazywać, sygnalizować
'You mean to say that that machine has travelled into the future?'said Filby.
'Into the future or the past-I don't, for certain, know which.'
Certain - na pewno; pewny; jakiś
After an interval the Psychologist had an inspiration. 'It must have gone into the past if it has gone anywhere,'he said.
interval - interwał, odstęp, interwał, przedział
inspiration - wdech; natchnienie, inspiracja
gone into - zajmować się czymś (zacząć uprawiać zawód); iść na coś (np. czas); wyjaśniać coś; omawiać jakieś zagadnienie; otwierać coś (program; plik w komputerze); znaleźć się w czymś (w określonej sytuacji); uderzyć w coś (np. w drzewo); przejść w coś (zaczą
anywhere - gdziekolwiek, byle gdzie, gdzie bądź
'Why?'said the Time Traveller.
'Because I presume that it has not moved in space, and if it travelled into the future it would still be here all this time, since it must have travelled through this time.'
presume - przypuszczać
Since - odtąd; od czasu kiedy, odkąd, od kiedy, ponieważ, skoro
travelled through - podróżować poprzez coś
'But,'I said, 'If it travelled into the past it would have been visible when we came first into this room; and last Thursday when we were here; and the Thursday before that; and so forth!'
visible - widoczny, widzialny
'Serious objections,'remarked the Provincial Mayor, with an air of impartiality, turning towards the Time Traveller.
serious - poważny
objections - zastrzeżenia; sprzeciw, sprzeciw
remarked - zauważył; zauważyć, komentować, napomknąć; uwaga
impartiality - bezstronność
'Not a bit,'said the Time Traveller, and, to the Psychologist: 'You think. You can explain that. It's presentation below the threshold, you know, diluted presentation.'
bit - trochę; kawałek, część, bit; (bite); odgryzać, odgryźć, kąsać
presentation - prezentacja
threshold - próg, przedsionek
diluted - rozcieńczać, rozcieńczony
'Of course,'said the Psychologist, and reassured us. 'That's a simple point of psychology. I should have thought of it. It's plain enough, and helps the paradox delightfully. We cannot see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air.
reassured - uspokojony; upewniać, upewnić
simple - proste; prosty, łatwy, lekki, prostak
psychology - psychologia
plain - zwykły; równina; zwyczajny, jasny, nieładna, gładki
delightfully - rozkosznie
appreciate - doceniać, docenić, zdawać sobie sprawę, zdać sobie sprawę
wheel - koło; koło sterowe
spinning - kręcić; przędzenie
bullet - poruszać się szybko; kula, pocisk
flying through - przelecieć (przez coś)
If it is travelling through time fifty times or a hundred times faster than we are, if it gets through a minute while we get through a second, the impression it creates will of course be only one-fiftieth or one-hundredth of what it would make if it were not travelling in time. That's plain enough.'He passed his hand through the space in which the machine had been. 'You see?'he said, laughing.
travelling through - podróżować poprzez coś
gets through - połączyć się (przez telefon); dotrzeć do miejsca; wykonywać coś (np. pracę), przebrnąć przez coś (skończyć coś robić); używać czegoś; wydawać np. pieniądze (w dużych ilościach); przechodzić przez coś, przetrwać coś (np. trudny okres); radzić sobie z c
impression - odcisk; wrażenie; impresja; imitacja
fiftieth - pięćdziesiąty
hundredth - setny
We sat and stared at the vacant table for a minute or so. Then the
vacant - wolne; wolny
Time Traveller asked us what we thought of it all.
'It sounds plausible enough to-night,'said the Medical Man; 'but wait until to-morrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.'
plausible - wiarygodne; do przyjęcia; chwalebny, godny pochwały
morrow - nazajutrz, jutro
sense - zmysł; poczucie; sens; kierunek; kierunek obrotu; przeczuwać
'Would you like to see the Time Machine itself?'asked the Time Traveller. And therewith, taking the lamp in his hand, he led the way down the long, draughty corridor to his laboratory.
itself - się; ono samo
therewith - z tym
led - (lead) prowadzić, przewodniczyć
draughty - pełen przeciągów
corridor - korytarz; korytarz powietrzny
I remember vividly the flickering light, his queer, broad head in silhouette, the dance of the shadows, how we all followed him, puzzled but incredulous, and how there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes. Parts were of nickel, parts of ivory, parts had certainly been filed or sawn out of rock crystal.
flickering - migotanie; migotać, mienić się; błysk
queer - dziwaczny, dziwny, queerowy
broad - szeroki, wyraźny, ogólny
silhouette - zarys, kontur, sylwetka
shadows - cienie; cień
puzzled - zdziwiony; zagadka, łamigłówka, zagadka, rebus
incredulous - niedowierzający, sceptyczny, nieufny
beheld - widziany; ujrzeć
edition - wydanie; nakład
nickel - niklu; nikiel
filed - złożony
sawn - przetarte
rock crystal - kryształ górski
The thing was generally complete, but the twisted crystalline bars lay unfinished upon the bench beside some sheets of drawings, and I took one up for a better look at it. Quartz it seemed to be.
twisted - skręcony; kręcić
bars - bary; zakazywać, zagradzać, zaryglować; bar, pręt, rygiel
lay - leżeć; kłaść
unfinished - niedokończone
Bench - ławka, sąd, ława sędziego
beside - obok, przy, poza
sheets - arkusze; arkusz, kartka (papieru), arkusz
drawings - (draw) rysować, szkicować, wyciągnąć, przyciągnąć; rysunek
Quartz - kwarc
'Look here,'said the Medical Man, 'are you perfectly serious?
perfectly - idealnie; doskonale
Or is this a trick-like that ghost you showed us last Christmas?'
Christmas - Boże Narodzenie
'Upon that machine,'said the Time Traveller, holding the lamp aloft, 'I intend to explore time. Is that plain? I was never more serious in my life.'
holding - trzymanie; (hold) utrzymać, trzymać, odbywać; dzierżawa
aloft - wysoko, w górze, do góry
intend - zamierzają; zamierzać; zamierzać
explore - eksplorować; badać, zbadać
None of us quite knew how to take it.
none - żaden
I caught Filby's eye over the shoulder of the Medical Man, and he winked at me solemnly.
winked - mrugnął; mrugać, zamigotać; mrugnięcie oka
solemnly - uroczyście
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I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
those - (that) że, te, tamten
clever - sprytny, zmyślny, bystry, zdolny
suspected - podejrzewać, podejrzany, podejrzana, podejrzany
subtle - subtelny
reserve - rezerwacja; rezerwa; zapas, zapasy, rezerwy
ingenuity - pomysłowość
ambush - zasadzka; zasadzka
lucid - jasny, klarowny, przejrzysty
frankness - szczerość, otwartość
Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less scepticism. For we should have perceived his motives; a pork butcher could understand Filby. But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him. Things that would have made the frame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands.
scepticism - sceptycyzm
perceived - postrzegane; dostrzegać, dostrzec
motives - motywy; motyw, motyw, temat, motyw
pork - wieprzowina
butcher - zarżnąć, masakrować; rzeźnik; (butch); twardziel; baba-chłop
touch - dotykać, dotknąć, wzruszać, wzruszyć, poruszać
whim - kaprys, widzimisię
among - wśród, pośród, między, pomiędzy
elements - elementy; pierwiastek, element, pierwiastek, żywioł, odrobina
distrusted - nie ufać; nieufność, brak zaufania
frame - oprawiać; komponować; wrabiać; rama; klatka, ramka, kadr
tricks - sztuczki; trik, sposób, sztuczka, chwyt, fortel
It is a mistake to do things too easily. The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
easily - z łatwością
deportment - zachowanie; postawa, postura, sposób poruszania się
somehow - w jakiś sposób
aware - świadom, świadomy
trusting - zaufanie
reputations - reputacja, renoma
judgment - wyrok; osądzanie; rozsądek, rozeznanie, wyczucie, osąd
furnishing - (furnish) dostarczać, zaopatrywać, umeblować
nursery - żłobek, pokój dla dzieci, pokój dziecinny, centrum ogrodnicze
shell - skorupa; skorupka; pancerz; łupina; strąk, strączek, plewa
China - Chiny; porcelana
So I don't think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested. For my own part, I was particularly preoccupied with the trick of the model.
potentialities - możliwość
doubt - wątpliwości; wątpić, zwątpić, powątpiewać, wątpliwość
minds - umysły; rozum, t+umysł, t+um, mieć coś przeciwko
plausibility - prawdopodobieństwo, wiarygodność
practical - praktyczny
incredibleness - nieprawdopodobność, niesamowitość, cudowność
possibilities - możliwości; możliwość, możność, możliwość, możliwość
anachronism - anachronizm, anachroniczność
utter - wypowiedzieć; wymawiać, wypowiadać, wydawać; kompletny, zupełny
confusion - zamieszanie, chaos, nieporozumienie
preoccupied - zajęty; absorbować, zaprzątać
That I remember discussing with the Medical Man, whom I met on Friday at the Linnaean. He said he had seen a similar thing at Tubingen, and laid considerable stress on the blowing out of the candle. But how the trick was done he could not explain.
whom - kogo; komu
laid - położył; kłaść
considerable - znaczące; znaczny, znaczący, spory
stress - naprężenie; stres; nacisk, emfaza, akcentować, zaakcentować
blowing out - zgasnąć; zgasić, zdmuchnąć; rozerwać, pęknąć (np. opona); wysadzić (coś); pokonać kogoś (np. w meczu); wyrzucić (np. gaz); rzucić kogoś, zerwać z kimś, zakończyć związek
candle - świeca, świeczka, gromnica
The next Thursday I went again to Richmond-I suppose I was one of the Time Traveller's most constant guests-and, arriving late, found four or five men already assembled in his drawing-room. The Medical Man was standing before the fire with a sheet of paper in one hand and his watch in the other. I looked round for the Time Traveller, and-'It's half-past seven now,'said the Medical Man.
suppose - przypuszczać, przypuścić
most constant - najbardziej stały
guests - goście; gość, gość, gość
assembled - zmontowane; montować, zbierać się, gromadzić się
sheet - arkusz, kartka (papieru)
'I suppose we'd better have dinner?'
'Where's--?'said I, naming our host.
Host - hostia, gospodarz, pan domu, chmara
'You've just come? It's rather odd. He's unavoidably detained. He asks me in this note to lead off with dinner at seven if he's not back. Says he'll explain when he comes.'
unavoidably - nieuniknione
detained - zatrzymany; zatrzymywać, zatrzymać
lead - prowadzić (pokazywać komuś drogę); prowadzić z, wygrywać; przewodzić (być najlepszym); kierować, prowadzić, przewodniczyć (np. na spotkaniu); doprowadzać, powodować; prowadzić, wieść (np. styl życia); trop, wskazówka; główna rola (film, sztuka); k
'It seems a pity to let the dinner spoil,'said the Editor of a well-known daily paper; and thereupon the Doctor rang the bell.
Seems - wydaje się; wydawać
pity - współczucie, litość, szkoda
spoil - psuć, zepsuć
editor - redaktor, redaktorka, edytor, edytorka
daily paper - gazeta codzienna
thereupon - skutkiem tego, bezzwłocznie
rang - zadzwonić
bell - dzwonek; dzwon
The Psychologist was the only person besides the Doctor and myself who had attended the previous dinner. The other men were Blank, the Editor aforementioned, a certain journalist, and another-a quiet, shy man with a beard-whom I didn't know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.
besides - poza tym; obok, przy, poza
myself - siebie, sobie, się, sam, sama
attended - uczestniczył; towarzyszyć, opiekować się, uczęszczać
previous - poprzedni, ubiegły, przedwczesny
blank - puste; bezbarwny; czysty, pusty, niewypełniony, niezapisany
aforementioned - o którym mowa
journalist - dziennikarz, dziennikarka
Shy - nieśmiały, płochliwy, bojaźliwy, strachliwy
beard - brodę; broda
observation - obserwacja, spostrzeżenie, ogląd, komentarz
There was some speculation at the dinner-table about the Time Traveller's absence, and I suggested time travelling, in a half-jocular spirit. The Editor wanted that explained to him, and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the 'ingenious paradox and trick'we had witnessed that day week.
speculation - spekulacja
absence - nieobecność, absencja, brak
jocular - żartobliwy
spirit - ducha; dusza, duch, alkohol, spirytus
volunteered - zgłosił się na ochotnika; wolontariusz, wolontariuszka, ochotnik
wooden - drewniane; drewniany
ingenious - pomysłowy
witnessed - świadectwo
He was in the midst of his exposition when the door from the corridor opened slowly and without noise. I was facing the door, and saw it first. 'Hallo!'I said. 'At last!'And the door opened wider, and the Time Traveller stood before us. I gave a cry of surprise. 'Good heavens! man, What's the matter?'cried the Medical Man, who saw him next. And the whole tableful turned towards the door.
midst - środek
exposition - wystawa
noise - hałas, szum
Hallo - (hello) cześć, dzień dobry
wider - szerszy; szeroki, szeroko
cry - płakać; krzyczeć; płacz; okrzyk
surprise - niespodzianka, zaskoczenie, zdziwienie, dziwić, zadziwić
Good heavens - Wielkie nieba!
What's the matter? - Co się stało?
tableful - pełen stół, stół, wszystkie osoby przy stole
He was in an amazing plight. His coat was dusty and dirty, and smeared with green down the sleeves; his hair disordered, and as it seemed to me greyer-either with dust and dirt or because its colour had actually faded. His face was ghastly pale; his chin had a brown cut on it-a cut half healed; his expression was haggard and drawn, as by intense suffering.
plight - trudna sytuacja, los, dola
dusty - zakurzony; pylisty; zgaszony, złamany
smeared - rozmazany; mazać, pomazać, smarować, posmarować, mazać, pomazać
sleeves - rękawy; rękaw, koperta
disordered - nieuporządkowany; nieporządek, nieład, bezład, zaburzenie
either - oba; też nie; albo, albo...
dirt - brud; ziemia; brud; kompromat
actually - właściwie, rzeczywiście, faktycznie
faded - wyblakły; wyblaknąć, spłowieć, zwiędnąć, przeminąć
ghastly - koszmarny, potworny, okropny
chin - podbródek; broda
healed - wyleczony; wyleczyć, uśmierzyć
expression - ekspresja; wyrażenie, zwrot, wyraz, mina
haggard - mizerny, wynędzniały
intense - intensywny
suffering - cierpienie, męka; (suffer); cierpieć, pokutować
For a moment he hesitated in the doorway, as if he had been dazzled by the light. Then he came into the room. He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps. We stared at him in silence, expecting him to speak.
hesitated - zawahał się; wahać się, jąkać się
doorway - drzwi; wejście
dazzled - oślepić, oszałamiać, olśnić; blask, jaskrawe światło
limp - utykać; utykanie; wiotki, zwiotczały, przywiędły, słaby
footsore - mający obolałe nogi, z obtartymi stopami
Tramps - tramp
silence - cisza, milczenie, uciszyć, uciszać, uciszyć
expecting - spodziewać; (expect); spodziewać się, oczekiwać, oczekiwać
He said not a word, but came painfully to the table, and made a motion towards the wine. The Editor filled a glass of champagne, and pushed it towards him. He drained it, and it seemed to do him good: for he looked round the table, and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face. 'What on earth have you been up to, man?'said the Doctor. The Time Traveller did not seem to hear.
painfully - boleśnie
champagne - Szampania
pushed - popchnięty; pchać, naciskać, odsunąć, odepchnąć
drained - wydrenowany; dren, osuszyć
smile - uśmiech; uśmiechać
flickered - migotał; migotać, mienić się; błysk
earth - ziemia; uziemienie; uziemić; zakopać
Seem - wydaje się; wydawać
'Don't let me disturb you,'he said, with a certain faltering articulation. 'I'm all right.'He stopped, held out his glass for more, and took it off at a draught. 'That's good,'he said. His eyes grew brighter, and a faint colour came into his cheeks. His glance flickered over our faces with a certain dull approval, and then went round the warm and comfortable room.
disturb - przeszkadzać, niepokoić, martwić, zmartwić
faltering - (falter) słabnąć, opadać, jąkać się, chwiać się, zataczać
articulation - artykulacja
draught - zanurzenie; pionek, pion, bierka, warcab, warcabowy
brighter - jaśniejszy; jasny, radosny
faint - zasłabnąć, zemdleć; omdlenie; słaby
cheeks - policzki; policzek
glance - spojrzenie; zerkać, zerknąć, rzucać okiem, rzucić okiem
dull - tępy; nudny; matowy; stępić; stępić się
approval - zgoda, zatwierdzenie, aprobata
comfortable - wygodne; wygodny, wygodna
Then he spoke again, still as it were feeling his way among his words. 'I'm going to wash and dress, and then I'll come down and explain things … Save me some of that mutton. I'm starving for a bit of meat.'
mutton - baranina
I'm starving - Umieram z głodu
He looked across at the Editor, who was a rare visitor, and hoped he was all right. The Editor began a question. 'Tell you presently,'said the Time Traveller. 'I'm-funny! Be all right in a minute.'
rare - rzadki; rzadko spotykany, niezwykły, rewelacyjny
He put down his glass, and walked towards the staircase door. Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his footfall, and standing up in my place, I saw his feet as he went out. He had nothing on them but a pair of tattered, blood-stained socks. Then the door closed upon him. I had half a mind to follow, till I remembered how he detested any fuss about himself.
staircase - schody, klatka schodowa
lameness - kulawizna; kalectwo, słabość
footfall - tupot
tattered - potargany; łachman, szmata
blood - krew; krwawić
stained - poplamione; plama, plama, skaza, bejca, barwnik, kontrast
socks - skarpetki; skarpeta
detested - znienawidzony; nienawidzić, nie cierpieć
fuss - zamieszanie; przeżywać, przejmować się, srać się
For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering. Then, 'Remarkable Behaviour of an Eminent Scientist,'I heard the Editor say, thinking (after his wont) in headlines. And this brought my attention back to the bright dinner-table.
Wool - wełna, przędza
gathering - (gather) zebrać się, zbierać, wnioskować; zbieranie
behaviour - zachowanie, postępowanie
wont - przyzwyczajenie, zwyczaj; nawykły
headlines - nagłówki; nagłówek
attention - uwagę; uwaga; atencja, względy, baczność
'What's the game?'said the Journalist. 'Has he been doing the Amateur Cadger? I don't follow.'I met the eye of the Psychologist, and read my own interpretation in his face. I thought of the Time Traveller limping painfully upstairs. I don't think any one else had noticed his lameness.
amateur - amator, amatorka, amatorski
Cadger - pasożyt, darmozjad, naciągacz, żebrak
interpretation - interpretacja; tłumaczenie
limping - kulejąc; (limp) utykać; utykanie; wiotki, zwiotczały
noticed - zauważony; awizo
The first to recover completely from this surprise was the Medical Man, who rang the bell-the Time Traveller hated to have servants waiting at dinner-for a hot plate. At that the Editor turned to his knife and fork with a grunt, and the Silent Man followed suit. The dinner was resumed.
recover - wyzdrowieć, wrócić do zdrowia, odzyskać, dochodzić do siebie
completely - całkowicie, w całości, bezdennie, zupełnie, totalnie
servants - słudzy; służący-pr, służąca, sługa
plate - płyta; talerz, plater, naczynia, tabliczka; platerowany
knife - nóż
fork - widły, widelec
grunt - chrząknąć, stęknąć, burknąć; chrząknięcie, stęknięcie
suit - garnitur; kostium, kombinezon, kolor, pasować, odpowiadać
resumed - wznowione; wznawiać, zająć ponownie, życiorys, cv
Conversation was exclamatory for a little while, with gaps of wonderment; and then the Editor got fervent in his curiosity. 'Does our friend eke out his modest income with a crossing? or has he his Nebuchadnezzar phases?'he inquired. 'I feel assured it's this business of the Time Machine,'I said, and took up the Psychologist's account of our previous meeting.
exclamatory - wykrzyknik
gaps - przerwa, prześwit, przestrzeń, szpara
wonderment - zdumienie, zdziwienie
fervent - żarliwy
curiosity - ciekawość; ciekawostka
eke - uzupełnić, podreperować; oszczędnie gospodarować
modest - skromny; skromny, niewielki
income - dochód
Crossing - skrzyżowanie; (cross); krzyż, krzyżyk, znak krzyża, krzyżówka
Nebuchadnezzar - Nabuchodonozor
phases - fazy
inquired - zapytać, pytać, dowiadywać się
assured - zapewniony; (assure) zapewniać, gwarantować
The new guests were frankly incredulous. The Editor raised objections. 'What was this time travelling? A man couldn't cover himself with dust by rolling in a paradox, could he?'And then, as the idea came home to him, he resorted to caricature. Hadn't they any clothes-brushes in the Future?
frankly - szczerze, bez ogródek
raised - podniesiony; wznosić, podnosić, podwyższać, zbierać
cover - okładka (np. książki); narzuta (np. na łóżko); zastępstwo (pod czyjąś nieobecność); przykrywka (do czegoś nielegalnego); schronienie, ukrycie; osłona, ochrona; pokrywa, powłoka; zabezpieczenie, ubezpieczenie, polisa; przykryć, nakryć, okryć; uk
dust - kurz, pył, proch
rolling in - napływać; nadjechać, wtoczyć się
resorted - uciekanie się; kurort
caricature - karykatura; karykaturować
brushes - szczotki; szczotka, pędzel, szczotka, czesanie
The Journalist too, would not believe at any price, and joined the Editor in the easy work of heaping ridicule on the whole thing. They were both the new kind of journalist-very joyous, irreverent young men. 'Our special correspondent in the Day after To-morrow reports,'the Journalist was saying-or rather shouting-when the Time Traveller came back.
heaping - sterta, kupa, kopiec
ridicule - wykpić, wyśmiać; pośmiewisko, kpiny
joyous - radosny, pełen radości
irreverent - lekceważący
special correspondent - specjalny wysłannik
shouting - (shout) krzyczeć; krzyk, pokrzykiwania
He was dressed in ordinary evening clothes, and nothing save his haggard look remained of the change that had startled me.
ordinary - zwyczajny; zwykły
remained - pozostałości, pozostawać, pozostać
startled - zaskoczyć, wystraszyć, spłoszyć
'I say,'said the Editor hilariously, 'these chaps here say you have been travelling into the middle of next week! Tell us all about little Rosebery, will you? What will you take for the lot?'
hilariously - zabawnie
chaps - czapki; spowodować spierzchnięcie; chłop, facet
Middle - środek, serce, środkowy
take for - brać za; uważać coś na czyjś temat
The Time Traveller came to the place reserved for him without a word. He smiled quietly, in his old way. 'Where's my mutton?'he said. 'What a treat it is to stick a fork into meat again!'
reserved - zarezerwowane; rezerwacja, rezerwa, zapas, zapasy-p, rezerwa
quietly - cicho
treat - leczyć; traktować, potraktować, częstować, poczęstować, gościć
stick - wetknąć, przyklejać, utknąć, przywierać, wbijać, wystawić; kij
'Story!'cried the Editor.
'Story be damned!'said the Time Traveller. 'I want something to eat. I won't say a word until I get some peptone into my arteries. Thanks. And the salt.'
peptone - pepton
arteries - tętnice; tętnica, arteria, arteria
'One word,'said I. 'Have you been time travelling?'
'Yes,'said the Time Traveller, with his mouth full, nodding his head.
nodding - kiwać głową; (nod) przytaknąć, kiwnąć
'I'd give a shilling a line for a verbatim note,'said the Editor. The Time Traveller pushed his glass towards the Silent Man and rang it with his fingernail; at which the Silent Man, who had been staring at his face, started convulsively, and poured him wine. The rest of the dinner was uncomfortable.
shilling - szyling; (shill); słup
verbatim - dosłownie
fingernail - paznokieć
convulsively - konwulsyjnie
poured - wylane; nalewać, zalewać, lać
rest - odpocząć; odpoczywać, wypoczywać; odpoczynek
uncomfortable - niewygodne; niewygodny, niekomfortowy
For my own part, sudden questions kept on rising to my lips, and I dare say it was the same with the others. The Journalist tried to relieve the tension by telling anecdotes of Hettie Potter. The Time Traveller devoted his attention to his dinner, and displayed the appetite of a tramp. The Medical Man smoked a cigarette, and watched the Time Traveller through his eyelashes.
sudden - nagły
rising - (rise) wstawać, rosnąć, wstać z martwych; wzrost, wschodzący
dare - odważyć się, ośmielić, mieć czelność
relieve - ulżyć; odciążać, odciążyć
tension - napięcie, naprężenie
anecdotes - anegdota
devoted - poświęcone; poświęcać, poświęcić, angażować, zaangażować
displayed - wyświetlane; wyświetlacz, wyświetlać
appetite - apetyt; żądza
tramp - włóczęga; tramp
smoked - wędzone; palić, dymić; palenie, dym
cigarette - papieros, cygareta
eyelashes - rzęsy; rzęsa
The Silent Man seemed even more clumsy than usual, and drank champagne with regularity and determination out of sheer nervousness. At last the Time Traveller pushed his plate away, and looked round us. 'I suppose I must apologize,'he said. 'I was simply starving. I've had a most amazing time.'He reached out his hand for a cigar, and cut the end. 'But come into the smoking-room.
clumsy - niezdarny, niezgrabny, niezgrabny
usual - zwykły
regularity - regularność, prawidłowość
determination - determinacja
sheer - czyżby; skręcać, zmieniać kierunek; sam, sama; czysty
nervousness - zdenerwować; obawa, lęk, nerwowość
apologize - przepraszać, przeprosić, apologizować
Starving - głodujesz; (starve) głodować, umierać z głodu, pozbawiać
most amazing - najbardziej niesamowity
reached - osiągnięty; osiągać, uzyskiwać, dosięgnąć, dojechać, dotrzeć
smoking - (smoke) palić, dymić; palenie
It's too long a story to tell over greasy plates.'And ringing the bell in passing, he led the way into the adjoining room.
greasy - tłuste; tłusty, ociekający tłuszczem
plates - płyty; talerz, plater, naczynia, tabliczka; platerowany
ringing - dzwonienie
adjoining room - sąsiedni; przyległy pokój
'You have told Blank, and Dash, and Chose about the machine?'he said to me, leaning back in his easy-chair and naming the three new guests.
Dash - myślnik (''punctuation mark; any form''); półpauza (''en dash''); pauza (''em dash''); kreska; sprint; kropla
leaning - pochylając się; (lean) opierać się, przechylić się
'But the thing's a mere paradox,'said the Editor.
'I can't argue to-night. I don't mind telling you the story, but I can't argue. I will,'he went on, 'tell you the story of what has happened to me, if you like, but you must refrain from interruptions. I want to tell it. Badly. Most of it will sound like lying. So be it! It's true-every word of it, all the same.
argue - kłócić się; sprzeczać
I don't mind - Nie mam nic przeciwko
refrain from - pohamować się od zrobienia czegoś, powstrzymać się przed zrobieniem czegoś
interruptions - przerwanie, przeszkadzanie
badly - źle
lying - (lie) leżeć, kłamać; kłamstwo; kłamliwy, łgarski, leżący
I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then … I've lived eight days … such days as no human being ever lived before! I'm nearly worn out, but I shan't sleep till I've told this thing over to you. Then I shall go to bed. But no interruptions! Is it agreed?'
human - człowiek; ludzki, człowieczy, ludzki
'Agreed,'said the Editor, and the rest of us echoed 'Agreed.'And with that the Time Traveller began his story as I have set it forth. He sat back in his chair at first, and spoke like a weary man. Afterwards he got more animated. In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink-and, above all, my own inadequacy-to express its quality.
echoed - echo
afterwards - potem, później, następnie
feel with - czuć się z
keenness - zapał, wyostrzenie, żarliwość
inadequacy - niedostatek, niedoskonałość
ink - atrament, tusz, inkaust, tuszować
express - ekspresowe; wyrażać; ekspres; ekspresowy, szybki
quality - jakość; cecha, przymiot
You read, I will suppose, attentively enough; but you cannot see the speaker's white, sincere face in the bright circle of the little lamp, nor hear the intonation of his voice. You cannot know how his expression followed the turns of his story!
attentively - uważnie, bacznie
speaker - mówca, mówiący, mówczyni, głośnik
sincere - szczery
circle - okrąg, koło, kula, objeżdżać
intonation - intonacja
voice - głos
Most of us hearers were in shadow, for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted, and only the face of the Journalist and the legs of the Silent Man from the knees downward were illuminated. At first we glanced now and again at each other. After a time we ceased to do that, and looked only at the Time Traveller's face.
hearers - słuchacze; słuchacz
shadow - cień
downward - w dół, do dołu, skierowany w dół; zniżkowy
glanced - zdziwiony; zerkać, zerknąć, rzucać okiem, rzucić okiem
ceased - przestał; zaprzestać
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'I told some of you last Thursday of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete in the workshop. There it is now, a little travel-worn, truly; and one of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent; but the rest of it's sound enough.
principles - zasady; zasada, reguła, zasada, reguła, zasada, prawo
actual - rzeczywisty; właściwy, prawdziwy, aktualny
incomplete - niekompletny
workshop - warsztat; warsztaty; warsztaty akademickie
truly - autentycznie, naprawdę, serio, szczerze
cracked - pęknięty; pękać, trzasnąć; pęknięcie, trzask
rail - odgradzać, narzekać; wieszak, szyna, reling
bent - schylać, przegiąć; wściekły, zgięty, zdeterminowany
I expected to finish it on Friday, but on Friday, when the putting together was nearly done, I found that one of the nickel bars was exactly one inch too short, and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. It was at ten o'clock to-day that the first of all Time Machines began its career.
expected - oczekiwany; spodziewać się, oczekiwać, oczekiwać, oczekiwać
putting together - poskładać, zorganizować coś
inch - cal
remade - przerobiony; przerobić, odnowić; przeróbka
I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle. I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. I took the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, pressed the first, and almost immediately the second.
tap - stuknąć, puknąć; klepnięcie, stuknięcie, kran
screws - śruba, wkręt, śruba, śruba, skręcać, skręcić
drop - spaść; upuścić, zrzucić, opaść, przestać, porzucić, rzucić
oil - olej
rod - pręt; wędka; kij, rózga, pręcik, pałeczka, pręcik, drążek
suicide - samobójstwo; denat, denatka, samobójca, samobójczyni
holds - utrzymać, trzymać, odbywać; dzierżawa, posiadanie
pistol - pistolet
skull - czaszka, łeb
pressed - wciśnięty; naciskać, przyciskać, przygniatać, prasować
immediately - zaraz, natychmiast, doraźnie, natychmiastowo
I seemed to reel; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and, looking round, I saw the laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? For a moment I suspected that my intellect had tricked me. Then I noted the clock. A moment before, as it seemed, it had stood at a minute or so past ten; now it was nearly half-past three!
reel - motać, namotać, nawijać, nawinąć, wirować
nightmare - koszmar
sensation - czucie; sensacja
as before - jak wcześniej
intellect - intelekt
tricked - oszukany; trik, sposób, sztuczka, chwyt, fortel
'I drew a breath, set my teeth, gripped the starting lever with both hands, and went off with a thud. The laboratory got hazy and went dark. Mrs. Watchett came in and walked, apparently without seeing me, towards the garden door. I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket. I pressed the lever over to its extreme position.
gripped - grypa
thud - stuk; łup, łubudu, tąpnięcie, łomot, łomotać
hazy - mglisty, zamglony, niewyraźny
Mrs - pani; pan, proszę pana
apparently - najwyraźniej; widocznie, widać, pozornie, pewnie
traverse - trawersować
shoot - strzelać, pędzić, wystrzelić, rzucać; pęd
rocket - rakieta, raca; rakietowy
extreme - ekstremalne; skrajny; nadzwyczajny, drastyczny, ekstremalny
position - pozycja, położenie, miejsce, stanowisko, posada
The night came like the turning out of a lamp, and in another moment came to-morrow. The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter. To-morrow night came black, then day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still. An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.
turning out - okazać się; przychodzić, pojawiać się, pójść gdzieś (w jakimś celu, np. żeby zagłosować); wyłączać (światło)
fainter - (faint) zasłabnąć, zemdleć; omdlenie; słaby; słabszy
eddying - zawirować, zafalować; wir
murmur - pomruk, mruczenie, szmer
strange - dziwne; dziwny, nienormalny, cudaczny, niezwyczajny
dumb - niemy, tępy, durny
confusedness - zagmatwanie, dezorientacja, zakłopotanie
descended - zstąpił; schodzić, zejść, zniżać
'I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling. They are excessively unpleasant. There is a feeling exactly like that one has upon a switchback-of a helpless headlong motion! I felt the same horrible anticipation, too, of an imminent smash. As I put on pace, night followed day like the flapping of a black wing.
convey - przenosić; przewozić, przewieźć, przekazać, przekazywać
peculiar - osobliwy
sensations - doznania; czucie
excessively - nadmiernie, przesadnie, w nadmiarze
unpleasant - nieprzyjemne; nieprzyjemny
switchback - kręta droga, serpentyna
helpless - bezradny, bezsilny, bezbronny
headlong - na oślep
horrible - straszne; straszny, okropny
anticipation - oczekiwanie; antycypacja
imminent - nieuchronny
smash - stłuc, rozwalić, zbankrutować; huk, zderzenie, kolizja, krach
pace - przemierzać; tempo, szybkość, krok
flapping - trzepotanie; trzepotać, migotać; klapka, klapa, lekkie uderzenie
Wing - skrzydło; błotnik
The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day. I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and I had come into the open air. I had a dim impression of scaffolding, but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things.
dim - ściemniać; ciemny, marny; słabe
suggestion - propozycja, sugestia
hopping - (hop) podskakiwać, skakać
Swiftly - prędko
sky - niebo
leaping - skoczyć, przeskoczyć, skakać; skok
supposed - niby; przypuszczać, przypuścić
destroyed - zniszczony; niszczyć, zniszczyć, rujnować, zrujnować, rujnować
open air - na świeżym powietrzu
scaffolding - (scaffold) wspieranie rusztowaniem; szafot, rusztowanie
conscious - przytomny, świadomy
The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me. The twinkling succession of darkness and light was excessively painful to the eye. Then, in the intermittent darknesses, I saw the moon spinning swiftly through her quarters from new to full, and had a faint glimpse of the circling stars.
snail - ślimak; osoba; który
crawled - czołgał się; pełzać, czołgać się, raczkować; kraul
dashed - przerywane; myślnik (''punctuation mark, any form'')
succession - sukcesja
painful - bolesne; bolesny
intermittent - przerywany
darknesses - ciemności; ciemność, mrok
moon - Księżyc
Glimpse - mignąć, pojąć, zrozumieć; mignięcie, przebłysk
circling - krążyć; (circle) okrąg, koło; krążenie
Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.
gaining - zyskując; (gain) osiągać, zdobywać, zyskiwać; zysk
palpitation - palpitacja
merged - połączone; olish: łączyć / połączyć
continuous - ciągły
greyness - szarość
deepness - głębokość
splendid - wspaniały; arcydobry
luminous - świecić; świetlny, klarowny
twilight - zmierzch, zmrok, półmrok, półzmrok
jerking - szarpanie; (jerk) szarpać, pchać
streak - smuga; passa
brilliant - błyszczący; znakomity, świetny, błyskotliwy, błyskotny, genialny
arch - wygiąć; szatan, łuk, sklepione przejście; chytry, łobuzerski
fluctuating - wahać się, oscylować
'The landscape was misty and vague. I was still on the hill-side upon which this house now stands, and the shoulder rose above me grey and dim. I saw trees growing and changing like puffs of vapour, now brown, now green; they grew, spread, shivered, and passed away. I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.
landscape - krajobraz, pejzaż
misty - mgła; mglisty
Hill - wzgórze, pagórek, kopiec, górka
puffs - puffy; dyszeć, sapać, wypuścić dym, pierdnąć; dmuchnięcia
vapour - mgła, para, opary
spread - podzielić; rozłożyć; smarować, rozsmarować, rozsmarowywać
shivered - zadrżał; zadrżeć, zatrząść się, roztrzaskać; drżenie, dreszcze
huge - ogromny, olbrzymi
buildings - budynki; (build) budować; budynek, budowanie
rise up - buntować się, brać udział w powstaniu; unosić się, wznosić się w powietrze, wstać do góry
fair - uczciwy; dobry, atrakcyjny; sprawiedliwe
pass - przejść; przechodzić, mijać, spędzić, przemijać; przepustka
dreams - marzenia; sen, t+sny, marzenie
The whole surface of the earth seemed changed-melting and flowing under my eyes. The little hands upon the dials that registered my speed raced round faster and faster.
melting - topi się; (melt); topnieć, stopnieć, topić się, stopić się
flowing - płynący; płynąć, przepływać, opływać
dials - tarcze; tarcza, tarcza, wykręcić, wybrać
registered - dziennik, rejestr, rejestr, rejestrować, zarejestrować
Speed - prędkość
raced round - ścigał się w kółko
Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.
belt - pas, pasek
swayed - kołysany; władza, trząść, rządzić
solstice - przesilenie
consequently - w konsekwencji
brief - krótki; zwięzły
'The unpleasant sensations of the start were less poignant now. They merged at last into a kind of hysterical exhilaration. I remarked indeed a clumsy swaying of the machine, for which I was unable to account. But my mind was too confused to attend to it, so with a kind of madness growing upon me, I flung myself into futurity.
poignant - przejmujący; ostry; cięty; wzruszający
hysterical - histeryczny
exhilaration - radosne podniecenie
swaying - kołysanie; (sway) chwiać się, kołysać, skłaniać się; wpływ
unable - niezdolny
confused - zdezorientowany; zmieszać, pomylić
attend to - brać udział, być obecnym, uczestniczyć; uczęszczać
madness - szaleństwo, obłęd, świr
flung - rzucony; cisnąć, podrzucać, rzucać; szaleństwo, przygoda
futurity - przyszłość
At first I scarce thought of stopping, scarce thought of anything but these new sensations. But presently a fresh series of impressions grew up in my mind-a certain curiosity and therewith a certain dread-until at last they took complete possession of me.
scarce - ograniczony, deficytowy, rzadki; ledwie
fresh - świeży
series - seria, cykl, serial, szereg
impressions - wrażenia; odcisk, wrażenie
dread - strach, lęk; budzący postrach
possession - władanie; dobytek, własność, majątek, posiadanie, posiadłość
What strange developments of humanity, what wonderful advances upon our rudimentary civilization, I thought, might not appear when I came to look nearly into the dim elusive world that raced and fluctuated before my eyes! I saw great and splendid architecture rising about me, more massive than any buildings of our own time, and yet, as it seemed, built of glimmer and mist.
developments - rozwój
humanity - człowieczeństwo, ludzkość, humanitaryzm, humanitarność
advances - postąpić, awansować, zaawansować, postąpić, zaawansować
rudimentary - prymitywny
civilization - cywilizacja
appear - zjawiać się, zjawić się, pojawiać się, pojawić się
elusive - nieuchwytny
raced - ścigał się; ścigać się, pędzić; wyścig, rasa
fluctuated - wahać się, oscylować
architecture - architektura
more massive - bardziej masywny
glimmer - migotać; migotanie, iskra, płomyk, przebłysk
mist - zamglić; zamglenie, mgła
I saw a richer green flow up the hill-side, and remain there, without any wintry intermission. Even through the veil of my confusion the earth seemed very fair. And so my mind came round to the business of stopping.
flow - płynąć, przepływać, opływać
remain - pozostałości; pozostawać, pozostać
wintry - zimowy
intermission - antrakt
veil - zasłona, przesłona, welon, woalka
'The peculiar risk lay in the possibility of my finding some substance in the space which I, or the machine, occupied. So long as I travelled at a high velocity through time, this scarcely mattered; I was, so to speak, attenuated-was slipping like a vapour through the interstices of intervening substances!
Risk - ryzyko, zagrożenie, ryzykować, zaryzykować
lay in - gromadzić coś, zbierać coś na zapas; leżeć w
possibility - możliwość, możność
occupied - zajęty; okupować
mattered - miało znaczenie; materia, sprawa, mieć znaczenie
attenuated - łagodzić, osłabiać, rozcieńczać, tłumić
slipping - wślizgnąć się, poślizgnąć
interstices - szczelina
intervening - interweniować
substances - substancja, istota, majątek, narkotyk
But to come to a stop involved the jamming of myself, molecule by molecule, into whatever lay in my way; meant bringing my atoms into such intimate contact with those of the obstacle that a profound chemical reaction-possibly a far-reaching explosion-would result, and blow myself and my apparatus out of all possible dimensions-into the Unknown.
Involved - zaangażowany; wymagać, dotyczyć
jamming - zagłuszać; dżem, tłok
molecule - cząsteczka, molekuła
whatever - cokolwiek; oj tam, jeden pies
atoms - atom
intimate - bliski; intymny; osobisty, sugerować, zasugerować
contact - kontakt; szkło kontaktowe; kontaktować
obstacle - przeszkoda, trudność, ambaras
profound - głęboki
chemical - chemiczny
reaction - reakcja
reaching - osiągając; osiągać, uzyskiwać, dosięgnąć, dojechać, dotrzeć
explosion - wybuch, eksplozja, gwałtowny wzrost
blow - dmuchać, wywiać, wiać; cios, dmuchanie, niemile widziany gość
unknown - nieznany, nieznajomy, niewiadomy, niewiadoma
This possibility had occurred to me again and again while I was making the machine; but then I had cheerfully accepted it as an unavoidable risk-one of the risks a man has got to take! Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light.
occurred - miało miejsce; zdarzać się, zdarzyć się, wydarzać się
unavoidable - nieuniknione
risks - zagrożenia; ryzyko
inevitable - nieunikniony
cheerful - pogodny, radosny, wesoły, ochoczy
The fact is that, insensibly, the absolute strangeness of everything, the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine, above all, the feeling of prolonged falling, had absolutely upset my nerve. I told myself that I could never stop, and with a gust of petulance I resolved to stop forthwith.
absolute - bezwzględny, bezwarunkowy, absolutny, absolut
strangeness - dziwność, obcość, osobliwość
sickly - chory; chorowity, schorowany, wątły
jarring - (jar) słoik; prowokujący, zaskakujący, szokujący
prolonged - przedłużony
upset - zdenerwowany; zaniepokojony, zmartwiony, przygnębiony
nerve - nerw; żyłka; odwaga; czelność, tupet, zuchwalstwo, bezczelność
gust - podmuch, poryw, fala
petulance - drażliwość, rozdrażnienie
resolved - rozwiązany; rozwiązać, przechodzić, zdecydować
forthwith - bezzwłocznie
Like an impatient fool, I lugged over the lever, and incontinently the thing went reeling over, and I was flung headlong through the air.
impatient - niecierpliwy
fool - głupek, dureń, głupiec, tłumok
lugged - taszczyć, szarpać, ciągnąć; wypust
incontinently - nietrzymanie moczu
Reeling - zwijanie; (reel); motać, namotać, nawijać, nawinąć, wirować
'There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears. I may have been stunned for a moment. A pitiless hail was hissing round me, and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine. Everything still seemed grey, but presently I remarked that the confusion in my ears was gone. I looked round me.
clap - klaskać; bić brawo, zamknąć z hukiem; oklaski, klepnięcie, huk
thunder - grzmot, grom, grzmieć, zagrzmieć, gromić
stunned - ogłuszać, ogłuszenie, ogłuszyć
hail - grad; pochwalić, okrzyknąć bardzo dobrym; krzyknąć, przywołać; witać się, salutować; padać (grad)
turf - darń, torf, wyścigi konne, terytorium
overset - wywracać, obalać, przewracać
I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail-stones. The rebounding, dancing hail hung in a cloud over the machine, and drove along the ground like smoke. In a moment I was wet to the skin.
lawn - trawnik, batyst
surrounded - otoczony; otaczać, otaczać
rhododendron - rododendron; różanecznik
bushes - krzaki; krzak, gęsta czupryna
mauve - moweina
blossoms - kwiaty; kwiat, kwitnienie
dropping in - wpaść do kogoś (z wizytą); drop in something spadek czegoś; drop somebody in it wpakować kogoś w kłopoty
beating - bicie, uderzanie, wpierdol
hail - pochwalić, witać się, zawołać do, krzyknąć, pozdrawiać
stones - kamienie; kamień, kamyk, kamień, pestka, kamień, kamienować
rebounding - odbić; odbicie, rykoszet, zbiórka
hung - powieszony; wisieć, wieszać, powiesić, chrzanić
cloud - przyćmić; chmura, zachmurzenie
like smoke - jak dym
wet - mokry, wilgotny, zmoczyć
skin - skóra; skórka; kożuch, kompozycja, karnacja, bletka, bibułka
"Fine hospitality," said I, "to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you."
hospitality - gościnność; obsługa, obsługiwanie
innumerable - niezliczone
'Presently I thought what a fool I was to get wet. I stood up and looked round me. A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour. But all else of the world was invisible.
colossal - kolosalny
carved - rzeźbione; ryć
stone - kamień; kamyk; pestka; kamienować, ukamienować, drylować
loomed - urosła; wyłaniać się, majaczyć; krosno
indistinctly - niewyraźnie
beyond - poza
rhododendrons - różanecznik
downpour - ulewa
invisible - niewidoczny, niewidzialny
'My sensations would be hard to describe. As the columns of hail grew thinner, I saw the white figure more distinctly. It was very large, for a silver birch-tree touched its shoulder. It was of white marble, in shape something like a winged sphinx, but the wings, instead of being carried vertically at the sides, were spread so that it seemed to hover.
columns - kolumny; kolumna, słup, kolumna, kolumna, kolumna
distinctly - wyraźnie
birch - brzoza; rózga
touched - dotknięty; dotykać, dotknąć, wzruszać, wzruszyć, poruszać
marble - marmur; szklana kulka
shape - kształt; forma, kondycja, kształtować, ukształtować
winged - skrzydło
sphinx - sfinks
wings - skrzydła; skrzydło
instead - zamiast tego; zamiast
vertically - pionowo
sides - strony; strona, część, bok, krawędź
hover - zawisać, zawisnąć
The pedestal, it appeared to me, was of bronze, and was thick with verdigris. It chanced that the face was towards me; the sightless eyes seemed to watch me; there was the faint shadow of a smile on the lips. It was greatly weather-worn, and that imparted an unpleasant suggestion of disease. I stood looking at it for a little space-half a minute, perhaps, or half an hour.
pedestal - piedestał, postument
appeared - pojawił się; zjawiać się, zjawić się, pojawiać się, pojawić się
bronze - brąz; brązowy
thick - gruby; gęsty
verdigris - grynszpan, patyna
chanced - przypadkiem; szansa
sightless - niewidomy, ślepy; niewidoczny
greatly - bardzo
imparted - przekazane; dzielić się
disease - choroba
It seemed to advance and to recede as the hail drove before it denser or thinner. At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the sun.
advance - z wyprzedzeniem; postąpić; awansować, zaawansować, zaliczka
recede - cofnąć, oddalić, minąć, odchodzić, ustępować
denser - (den) legowisko, nora, kryjówka
tore - (tear) łzawić, pędzić, oderwać, drzeć, wyszarpać, rozdzierać
curtain - zasłona, kurtyna, firana, firanka, zasłonić
threadbare - wytarty, znoszony, oklepany, zszargany, kiepski
lightening - (lighten) zmniejszyć, rozjaśnić, rozładować, odciążyć; zapalając
promise - obietnica; obiecywać, obiecać
'I looked up again at the crouching white shape, and the full temerity of my voyage came suddenly upon me. What might appear when that hazy curtain was altogether withdrawn? What might not have happened to men? What if cruelty had grown into a common passion?
crouching - przykucnąć, kucać, przyczaić, spiąć, gotować się
temerity - śmiałość, zuchwałość
altogether - w ogóle; całkowicie, całkiem, zupełnie, summa summarum
withdrawn - wycofane; cofnąć, wycofać, odwołać, podjąć, zamknąć, wycofywać
cruelty - okrucieństwo
passion - pasja, męka
What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness-a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
race - ścigać się, pędzić; wyścig, rasa
manliness - męskość
developed - opracowany
inhuman - nieludzki
unsympathetic - niesympatyczny
overwhelmingly - w przeważającej mierze
powerful - mocny, potężny
more dreadful - bardziej straszne; przerażające
disgusting - brzydzić, odraza, wstręt
likeness - podobieństwo, podobizna
foul - faul; oszukiwać; przewinienie; obrzydliwy, brudny, okropny
creature - istota, stworzenie, stwór
slain - zabity; uśmiercać, zgładzać, rozbawić, zachwycić
'Already I saw other vast shapes-huge buildings with intricate parapets and tall columns, with a wooded hill-side dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm. I was seized with a panic fear. I turned frantically to the Time Machine, and strove hard to readjust it. As I did so the shafts of the sun smote through the thunderstorm.
vast - ogromny; obszerny, rozległy, zdecydowany
shapes - kształty; kształt, forma, kondycja, kształt, forma, kształtować
intricate - skomplikowane
parapets - murek, gzyms, parapet, przedpiersie
wooded - zalesione; drewno, las
dimly - ciemno, blado, słabo, niewyraźnie
creeping in - wkradać się
lessening - zmniejszenie; zmniejszyć, złagodzić, obniżyć, przycichnąć
seized with - opanowany przez (np. dezorientację), zawładnięty przez (np. strach); złapany; przejęty; skonfiskowany za pomocą (np. broni)
panic - panika
fear - bać się, obawiać się; strach
frantically - gorączkowo
strove - usiłować, dążyć do czegoś, zmagać się
readjust - poprawić, wyregulować, dostosować
shafts - szyb, szyb, szyb
smote - (smite) uderzyć z dużą siłą, pobić
thunderstorm - burza
The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost. Above me, in the intense blue of the summer sky, some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness. The great buildings about me stood out clear and distinct, shining with the wet of the thunderstorm, and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses.
swept - zmieciony; zamiatać, zamieść
aside - na bok
trailing - śledzić, tropić, trop, ślad, ścieżka
garments - odzież; ubranie
shreds - zniszczyć, poszatkować, pociąć; strzęp
whirled - kręcić się, wirować, wiercić się; wir
nothingness - nicość
distinct - odmienny, wyraźny, wyraźnie widoczny
shining - świecące; świecić, błyszczeć, polerować
picked out - grać bez nut (z trudnością); wybierać coś; kogoś
unmelted - nieroztopiony
hailstones - kulka gradu, gradzina, gradowina
piled - spiętrzone; zwalić na kupę, palować; sterta, stos, kupa, gmach
I felt naked in a strange world. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. My fear grew to frenzy. I took a breathing space, set my teeth, and again grappled fiercely, wrist and knee, with the machine. It gave under my desperate onset and turned over. It struck my chin violently.
naked - nago; nagi
hawk - jastrząb
swoop - zanurkować, napaść; lot nurkowy
frenzy - szał, amok
breathing - oddychanie, oddech; (breath); oddech, oddychanie
grappled - mocować się, zmagać się; walka
fiercely - zaciekle; zawzięcie, ostro, gwałtownie
wrist - nadgarstek
desperate - zdesperowany
onset - nadejście, początek, napór
turned over - odwrócony; rozruszony (np. silnik)
struck - uderzony; trafiać, strajkować, strajk, uderzenie
violently - gwałtownie, silnie
One hand on the saddle, the other on the lever, I stood panting heavily in attitude to mount again.
panting - dyszenie; (pant) dyszeć, sapać, ziajać, wydyszeć
heavily - ciężko, mocno
attitude - nastawienie, stosunek
mount - zamontować; zorganizować, urządzić, dosiąść, wchodzić, wystawić
'But with this recovery of a prompt retreat my courage recovered. I looked more curiously and less fearfully at this world of the remote future. In a circular opening, high up in the wall of the nearer house, I saw a group of figures clad in rich soft robes. They had seen me, and their faces were directed towards me.
recovery - zdrowienie, poprawa, rekonwalescencja, powrót do zdrowia
prompt - prędkie; podpowiedź; monit
retreat - odosobnienie; wycofać się, uciekać; schronienie, azyl, kryjówka
courage - odwaga, męstwo, śmiałość
curiously - ciekawie, interesująco
fearfully - bojaźliwie; strasznie, ze strachem
remote future - odległa przyszłość
circular - okrągły
figures - liczby; rysunek, sylwetka, figura, osoba, postać, cyfra
clad - platerowany, ubrany
robes - uroczyście ubrać; suknia, szata, toga, szlafrok
directed - wyreżyserowany; kierować
'Then I heard voices approaching me. Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the heads and shoulders of men running. One of these emerged in a pathway leading straight to the little lawn upon which I stood with my machine. He was a slight creature-perhaps four feet high-clad in a purple tunic, girdled at the waist with a leather belt.
voices - głosy; głos
approaching - zbliża się; zbliżać się; podejście
shoulders - ramię
emerged - wyłaniać się, pojawiać się, ukazywać się, wychodzić
pathway - ścieżka, przejście
leading - (lead) prowadzić, przewodniczyć; prowadzący
straight - prosty; hetero; prosto; strit
tunic - tunika
girdled - opasywać; gorset, pasek
waist - talia, pas
leather belt - skórzany pasek
Sandals or buskins-I could not clearly distinguish which-were on his feet; his legs were bare to the knees, and his head was bare. Noticing that, I noticed for the first time how warm the air was.
sandals - sandały; sandał
buskins - koturn
distinguish - rozróżniać, rozróżnić
noticing - zauważając; awizo
'He struck me as being a very beautiful and graceful creature, but indescribably frail. His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive-that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. At the sight of him I suddenly regained confidence. I took my hands from the machine.
graceful - wdzięczny; pełen wdzięku, powabny
indescribably - nie do opisania
frail - słaba; słabowity, wątły
reminded - przypomniał; przypominać, przypomnieć
more beautiful - piękniejszy
consumptive - suchotnik; wyniszczający
hectic - hektyczny
beauty - piękno, uroda, piękność, krasawica
sight - wzrok; widok; atrakcja turystyczna; celownik; dojrzeć, zobaczyć
regained - odzyskane; odzyskać
confidence - zaufanie; pewność siebie
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'In another moment we were standing face to face, I and this fragile thing out of futurity. He came straight up to me and laughed into my eyes. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once. Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue.
fragile - kruchy
straight up - szczerze, serio, naprawdę, poważnie; bez lodu; kostek lodu (o drinku); dokładnie (w kontekście czasu, np. o jakiejś godzinie); prawdziwy, dosłowny, bezsprzeczny, stuprocentowy; pionowy, wyprostowany, stojący prosto
bearing - (bear) nosić, ścierpieć, wytrzymać, rodzić, znosić; postawa
sign - podpisać; znak
sweet - słodki; słodko; cukierek, słodycze
liquid - ciecz; ciekły, płynny
tongue - język, ozór
'There were others coming, and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me. One of them addressed me. It came into my head, oddly enough, that my voice was too harsh and deep for them. So I shook my head, and, pointing to my ears, shook it again. He came a step forward, hesitated, and then touched my hand.
exquisite - wykwintny; wyśmienity, wyborny
creatures - stworzenia; istota, stworzenie
oddly enough - co dziwne; dziwna rzecz
harsh - szorstki, bezwzględny
shook - wstrząśnięty; (shake) zatrząść, potrząsać, wstrząsać; wstrząs
step forward - krok do przodu, wykrok; występować, zgłaszać się
touched - dotknięty
Then I felt other soft little tentacles upon my back and shoulders. They wanted to make sure I was real. There was nothing in this at all alarming. Indeed, there was something in these pretty little people that inspired confidence-a graceful gentleness, a certain childlike ease. And besides, they looked so frail that I could fancy myself flinging the whole dozen of them about like nine-pins.
tentacles - macka, macka
alarming - niepokojące; alarm, alarm, alarm, budzik, alarm, alarmować
inspired - zainspirowany; inspirować, zainspirować
gentleness - łagodność, delikatność
childlike - dziecinny
ease - złagodzić, ułatwić, odciążyć, uwalniać; łatwość, swoboda
fancy - fantazyjny; wydawać się, przewidywać sukces, sądzić, wyobrażać
flinging - latanie; cisnąć, podrzucać, rzucać; szaleństwo, przygoda
pins - szpilki; spinać szpilkami, przypinać, upinać, przyszpilić
But I made a sudden motion to warn them when I saw their little pink hands feeling at the Time Machine. Happily then, when it was not too late, I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten, and reaching over the bars of the machine I unscrewed the little levers that would set it in motion, and put these in my pocket. Then I turned again to see what I could do in the way of communication.
warn - ostrzegać, upominać, uprzedzać
Happily - szczęśliwie
danger - niebezpieczeństwo; zagrożenie
hitherto - do tej pory; dotychczas, dotąd
unscrewed - odkręcać
levers - dźwignie; dźwignia, lewar
Pocket - kieszeń; kieszonkowy
communication - komunikacja; wiadomość
'And then, looking more nearly into their features, I saw some further peculiarities in their Dresden-china type of prettiness. Their hair, which was uniformly curly, came to a sharp end at the neck and cheek; there was not the faintest suggestion of it on the face, and their ears were singularly minute. The mouths were small, with bright red, rather thin lips, and the little chins ran to a point.
features - cechy; właściwość, cecha, funkcja, możliwość
further - dalej
peculiarities - osobliwości; specyfika, swoistość
Dresden - Drezno
prettiness - piękno, uroda
uniformly - równomiernie
curly - kręcone; kędzierzawy, kręcony, kręconowłosy
sharp - ostry
neck - szyja
cheek - policzek
faintest - zasłabnąć, zemdleć; omdlenie; słaby
chins - podbródki; broda
The eyes were large and mild; and-this may seem egotism on my part-I fancied even that there was a certain lack of the interest I might have expected in them.
mild - łagodny
egotism - egoizm; egotyzm
fancied - zainteresowany; wydawać się, przewidywać sukces, sądzić
lack - nie mieć, cierpieć na brak; brak
'As they made no effort to communicate with me, but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other, I began the conversation. I pointed to the Time Machine and to myself. Then hesitating for a moment how to express time, I pointed to the sun.
effort - wysiłek, staranie
communicate - komunikować się; przekazywać, przekazać, porozumiewać
cooing - (coo) gruchać; gruchanie, gaworzenie
hesitating - wahasz się; wahać się, jąkać się
At once a quaintly pretty little figure in chequered purple and white followed my gesture, and then astonished me by imitating the sound of thunder.
quaintly - osobliwie, niezwykle, uroczo
chequered - szachownica, pionek
gesture - gest
astonished - zdumiony; zdumiewać, zdumieć
imitating - naśladować, udawać, imitować
'For a moment I was staggered, though the import of his gesture was plain enough. The question had come into my mind abruptly: were these creatures fools? You may hardly understand how it took me. You see I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything.
staggered - rozłożone w czasie; słaniać się, zataczać się, chwiać się
import - znaczenie, waga, import
abruptly - nagle, raptem, bezceremonialnie, improwizując
fools - głupcy; głupek, dureń, głupiec, tłumok, bałwan, bęcwał, baran
hardly - mało; ledwo
anticipated - przewidzieć, antycypować
incredibly - niewiarygodnie
knowledge - wiedza; świadomość
Then one of them suddenly asked me a question that showed him to be on the intellectual level of one of our five-year-old children-asked me, in fact, if I had come from the sun in a thunderstorm! It let loose the judgment I had suspended upon their clothes, their frail light limbs, and fragile features. A flow of disappointment rushed across my mind.
intellectual - intelektualny; inteligent, inteligentka, intelektualista
level - poziomy; poziomica; poziom, stopień, piętro
loose - luźne; wypuścić, zgubić, uwolnić; luźny
suspended - zawieszony; zawieszać, zawiesić, zawieszać, zawiesić, zawieszać
limbs - kończyny; kończyna, konar, człon, psotne dziecko, młody łobuz
disappointment - rozczarowanie, zawód
rushed - pośpiechu; pędzić, gonić, biec, pośpieszać, ponaglać; pośpiech
For a moment I felt that I had built the Time Machine in vain.
in vain - na próżno
'I nodded, pointed to the sun, and gave them such a vivid rendering of a thunderclap as startled them. They all withdrew a pace or so and bowed. Then came one laughing towards me, carrying a chain of beautiful flowers altogether new to me, and put it about my neck.
nodded - przytaknął; kiwać, kiwnąć
vivid - jaskrawy, żywy, barwny
rendering - renderujący; renderowanie
thunderclap - trzask pioruna, grzmot
withdrew - wycofał się; cofnąć, wycofać, odwołać, podjąć, zamknąć
bowed - zginać się, ukłonić się, kłaniać się; łuk, kokarda
chain - łańcuch; sieć; skuwać, skuć
The idea was received with melodious applause; and presently they were all running to and fro for flowers, and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom. You who have never seen the like can scarcely imagine what delicate and wonderful flowers countless years of culture had created.
received - otrzymane; dostać, otrzymać
melodious - melodyjny
applause - aplauz, poklask, oklaski, brawa
laughingly - śmiejąc się; żartobliwie
smothered - uduszony; udusić, zdławić, stłumić, pokryć, tłamsić
blossom - rozkwitać; kwiat; kwitnienie, okres kwitnienia, kwitnąć
delicate - delikatny
countless - niezliczony, nieprzeliczony, nieprzebrany
Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building, and so I was led past the sphinx of white marble, which had seemed to watch me all the while with a smile at my astonishment, towards a vast grey edifice of fretted stone.
plaything - zabawka, igraszka
exhibited - wystawione; pokazywać, pokazać, wystawić, wystawiać, eksponat
smile at - uśmiechać się do kogoś
astonishment - zdziwienie, zdziwko
edifice - gmach
fretted - przejmować się, martwić się; próg
As I went with them the memory of my confident anticipations of a profoundly grave and intellectual posterity came, with irresistible merriment, to my mind.
memory - pamięć; wspomnienie
confident - pewny siebie; pewny, pewien, przeświadczony
anticipations - oczekiwanie
profoundly - wnikliwie, gruntownie, głęboko, wyjątkowo
grave - grób, mogiła; poważny
posterity - potomstwo, progenitura
irresistible - nie do odparcia; nieodparty
merriment - zabawa, wesołość
'The building had a huge entry, and was altogether of colossal dimensions. I was naturally most occupied with the growing crowd of little people, and with the big open portals that yawned before me shadowy and mysterious. My general impression of the world I saw over their heads was a tangled waste of beautiful bushes and flowers, a long neglected and yet weedless garden.
entry - wejście; wstęp, wjazd, hasło, wpis
naturally - naturalnie
occupied with - zajęty (czymś; kimś)
crowd - tłoczyć się, zaludniać; tłum
portals - portal, portal, portal, żyła wrotna
yawned - ziewnął; ziewać, ziewnąć, ziewanie
shadowy - cienisty
mysterious - tajemniczy; zagadkowy
general - ogólne; ogólny; generał
tangled - splątany; czochrać, plątać, kłócić się; plątanina, tarapaty
neglected - zaniedbany; zaniedbywać, zaniedbać, zaniedbywać, zaniedbać
weedless - wolne od chwastów
I saw a number of tall spikes of strange white flowers, measuring a foot perhaps across the spread of the waxen petals. They grew scattered, as if wild, among the variegated shrubs, but, as I say, I did not examine them closely at this time. The Time Machine was left deserted on the turf among the rhododendrons.
spikes - kolce; kolec, kolec, kłos, korki-p
measuring - pomiar; (measure) mierzyć; miara
waxen - woskowany; (wax) wosk; woskowy
petals - płatki; płatek, płatek korony
variegated - różnobarwny
shrubs - krzewy; krzew
examine - zbadać, sprawdzać, przeprowadzić kontrolę, kontrolować
closely - blisko
deserted - opuszczony; opuścić, porzucić, zostawić; pustynia
'The arch of the doorway was richly carved, but naturally I did not observe the carving very narrowly, though I fancied I saw suggestions of old Phoenician decorations as I passed through, and it struck me that they were very badly broken and weather-worn.
richly - bogato
observe - obserwować, zaobserwować, przestrzegać, obchodzić, spostrzec
carving - (carve) wyrzeźbić, wydrążyć, wyryć, pokroić mięso, wyrobić
narrowly - wąsko
suggestions - propozycja, sugestia, sugestia
Phoenician - fenicki; fenicki; Fenicjanin, Fenicjanka
decorations - dekoracja, ozdoba, dekoracja, ozdoba, dekoracja
passed through - przejeżdzać (np. przez miasto); przejść przez coś
Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway, and so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an eddying mass of bright, soft-colored robes and shining white limbs, in a melodious whirl of laughter and laughing speech.
entered - wszedł; wchodzić, wejść
dingy - obskurny; wyblakły, spłowiały, brudny, poplamiony
nineteenth - dziewiętnasty
grotesque - groteska; groteskowy
garlanded - wianek; girlanda
mass - gromadzić się, zbierać się; gromadzenie się, zbieranie się
shining - świecące; wspinać się; goleń
whirl - kręcić się, wirować, wiercić się; wir
Speech - mowa, przemówienie, wystąpienie
'The big doorway opened into a proportionately great hall hung with brown. The roof was in shadow, and the windows, partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed, admitted a tempered light.
proportionately - proporcjonalnie
hall - hala; hol, przedpokój, sala, rezydencja
roof - dach, sklepienie
partially - częściowo
unglazed - nieszkliwione
admitted - dopuszczony; wpuszczać, wpuścić, dopuszczać, dopuścić
tempered - złagodzić, ostudzić, powściągnąć; nastrój, humor, charakter
The floor was made up of huge blocks of some very hard white metal, not plates nor slabs-blocks, and it was so much worn, as I judged by the going to and fro of past generations, as to be deeply channelled along the more frequented ways. Transverse to the length were innumerable tables made of slabs of polished stone, raised perhaps a foot from the floor, and upon these were heaps of fruits.
blocks - bloki; blokować; blok, kawał
metal - metal
slabs - płyty; płyta, kawał, gruba pajda
judged - osądzony; osądzać; sędzia
generations - pokoleń; generowanie
deeply - głęboko
channelled - droga, kanał
frequented - odwiedzane; uczęszczać; częsty
transverse - poprzeczny
polished - wypolerowany; polski, język polski, polszczyzna
heaps - hałdy; sterta, kupa, kopiec
Some I recognized as a kind of hypertrophied raspberry and orange, but for the most part they were strange.
hypertrophied - hipertrofia, przerost
raspberry - malina; malinowy
'Between the tables was scattered a great number of cushions. Upon these my conductors seated themselves, signing for me to do likewise. With a pretty absence of ceremony they began to eat the fruit with their hands, flinging peel and stalks, and so forth, into the round openings in the sides of the tables. I was not loath to follow their example, for I felt thirsty and hungry.
cushions - poduszki; poduszka, poduszka, banda
conductors - dyrygent, dyrygentka, konduktor, przewodnik
seated - siedział; siedzenie
themselves - siebie; sami, asculine inanimate and all other genders
signing - (sign) podpisać; znak
likewise - Podobnie
ceremony - ceremonia, obrzęd
peel - obrać, obierać ze skórki, odklejać; skórka, łupina, obierki
stalks - łodygi; iść sztywnym krokiem, podchodzić
openings - otwarcia; (open) otworzyć, otwierać; otwarcie, sposobność
loath - niechętny
As I did so I surveyed the hall at my leisure.
surveyed - ankietowani; przegląd, ankieta, nadzór, ankieta, ankieta
leisure - wypoczynek; wolne, laba, wolny czas
'And perhaps the thing that struck me most was its dilapidated look. The stained-glass windows, which displayed only a geometrical pattern, were broken in many places, and the curtains that hung across the lower end were thick with dust. And it caught my eye that the corner of the marble table near me was fractured. Nevertheless, the general effect was extremely rich and picturesque.
dilapidated - zniszczony; zniszczyć
geometrical - geometryczny
pattern - wzór, blejer, deseń, wykrój
broken in - włamany (np. budynek); przerwany, wtrącony (np. do wypowiedź)
curtains - zasłony; zasłona, kurtyna, firana, firanka, kurtyna, zasłonić
lower - niżej; (low) obniżać; niski; niższy
corner - narożnik; kąt, kącik, węgieł, róg, zapędzać w kozi róg
fractured - złamanie
nevertheless - mimo to; niemniej jednak, jednakże, jednakowoż
effect - efekt, rezultat, wynik, skutek
extremely - niezwykle
picturesque - malowniczy
There were, perhaps, a couple of hundred people dining in the hall, and most of them, seated as near to me as they could come, were watching me with interest, their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating. All were clad in the same soft and yet strong, silky material.
couple - para; dwa, dwie, dwójka, parę, paru
dining - jadalnia; hałas
silky - jedwabny
material - materialny; materialny; materiał
'Fruit, by the by, was all their diet. These people of the remote future were strict vegetarians, and while I was with them, in spite of some carnal cravings, I had to be frugivorous also. Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction.
remote - zdalny, daleki, oddalony, odległy, pilot
strict - surowy, srogi
vegetarians - wegetarianin, wegetarianka, jarosz, roślinożerca, wegetariański
spite - złośliwość; niechęć, uraza, złość
carnal - cielesny
cravings - zachcianki; (crave) łaknąć, mieć chętkę na, zabiegać o
frugivorous - oszczędny
cattle - bydło
Ichthyosaurus - ichtiozaur
extinction - wymieranie, wygaszenie, wymarcie, wytępienie
But the fruits were very delightful; one, in particular, that seemed to be in season all the time I was there-a floury thing in a three-sided husk-was especially good, and I made it my staple. At first I was puzzled by all these strange fruits, and by the strange flowers I saw, but later I began to perceive their import.
delightful - zachwycający, rozkoszny
particular - szczególny; konkretny; specyficzny
season - pora roku, sezon
floury - cały w mące, mączysty
sided - boczne; strona, część, bok, krawędź
husk - łuska, łupina
especially - szczególnie, zwłaszcza, w szczególności
staple - podstawowe pożywienie, skobel; stały
perceive - postrzegać; dostrzegać, dostrzec
'However, I am telling you of my fruit dinner in the distant future now. So soon as my appetite was a little checked, I determined to make a resolute attempt to learn the speech of these new men of mine. Clearly that was the next thing to do. The fruits seemed a convenient thing to begin upon, and holding one of these up I began a series of interrogative sounds and gestures.
distant - odległe; daleki, odległy
determined - zdeterminowany; określać, ustalać, ustalić
resolute - zdecydowany, stanowczy, niezachwiany
attempt - próbować, spróbować, próba, podejście, zamach
interrogative - pytający
gestures - gesty; gest
I had some considerable difficulty in conveying my meaning. At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter, but presently a fair-haired little creature seemed to grasp my intention and repeated a name.
conveying - przekazywanie; przenosić, przewozić, przewieźć, przekazać
stare - gapić się; wpatrywać się, gapić; spojrzenie
inextinguishable - niegasnący
haired - (hair) włosy, owłosienie; mający włosy określonego rodzaju
grasp - uchwycić; trzymać, chwytać, rozumieć, pojmować, uchwyt
intention - intencja, zamiar
They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other, and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of amusement.
chatter - paplać, szczękać zębami; gwar, skrzek, pisk, trajkot, świergot
attempts - próby; próbować, spróbować, próba, podejście, zamach
caused - spowodowane; przyczyna, powodować, spowodować
immense - ogromne; ogromny, przeogromny, niezmierny
amount - ilość, liczba, kwota, suma
amusement - rozbawienie; zabawa
However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb "to eat.
schoolmaster - nauczyciel
amidst - pośród
persisted - nie ustawać, upierać się, utrzymywać
score - wynik; nadciąć; zdobyć punkt, strzelić gola
substantives - rzeczowy
Command - rozkaz, komenda, polecenie
demonstrative - zaimek; wylewny, wskazujący
pronouns - zaimek
verb - czasownik
" But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined. And very little doses I found they were before long, for I never met people more indolent or more easily fatigued.
interrogations - przesłuchanie
necessity - potrzeba, konieczność, artykuł pierwszej potrzeby
doses - (DO) zrobić
inclined - przechylić, skłonić, nachylać, mieć na coś ochotę; zbocze, stok
before long - w najbliższym czasie, wkrótce
indolent - leniwy
fatigued - zmęczony; zmęczenie
'A queer thing I soon discovered about my little hosts, and that was their lack of interest. They would come to me with eager cries of astonishment, like children, but like children they would soon stop examining me and wander away after some other toy. The dinner and my conversational beginnings ended, I noted for the first time that almost all those who had surrounded me at first were gone.
discovered - odkryto; odkrywać, odkryć, odkrywać, odkryć
Hosts - hostia, gospodarz, pan domu, chmara
eager - chętny, przejęty, podekscytowany
cries - płacze; płakać, krzyczeć, płacz, okrzyk, krzyk, krzyk, okrzyk
examining - zbadać, sprawdzać, przeprowadzić kontrolę, kontrolować
wander - wędrować; włóczyć
toy - zabawka, bawidło
conversational - konwersacyjny
beginnings - początki; (begin) zacząć, zapoczątkować; początek, rozpoczęcie
It is odd, too, how speedily I came to disregard these little people. I went out through the portal into the sunlit world again as soon as my hunger was satisfied. I was continually meeting more of these men of the future, who would follow me a little distance, chatter and laugh about me, and, having smiled and gesticulated in a friendly way, leave me again to my own devices.
speedily - szybko; prędko
disregard - lekceważyć
portal - portal; żyła wrotna
sunlit - oświetlony słońcem; nasłoneczniony
hunger - pożądać; głód, żądza
satisfied - zadowolony; zadowalać, zadowolić, zaspokajać, zaspokoić
continually - nieustannie; bezustannie
distance - odległość, droga, dystans, dystansować
gesticulated - gestykulować
devices - urządzenie
'The calm of evening was upon the world as I emerged from the great hall, and the scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun. At first things were very confusing. Everything was so entirely different from the world I had known-even the flowers. The big building I had left was situated on the slope of a broad river valley, but the Thames had shifted perhaps a mile from its present position.
Calm - spokojny, opanowany, cichy, spokój, uspokajać, uspokoić
scene - scena
glow - blask; jarzyć się, żarzyć się, pałać, promienieć, świecić
setting sun - zachodzące słońce
confusing - mylące; zmieszać, pomylić
entirely different - zupełnie inny
situated - usytuowany; umiejscawiać, umiejscowić, umieścić, umieszczać
slope - zbocze, skarpa, stok, pochylenie, nachylenie, żółtek
Valley - dolina
Thames - Tamiza
shifted - przesunięty; zmiana, przesunięcie, przesuwać
I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest, perhaps a mile and a half away, from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One A.D. For that, I should explain, was the date the little dials of my machine recorded.
summit - szczyt, na szczycie
crest - herb; klejnot
view - pogląd, widok, punkt widzenia, perspektywa, widzieć
planet - planeta
recorded - nagrane; notować, nagrywać; rekord, nagranie, zapis
'As I walked I was watching for every impression that could possibly help to explain the condition of ruinous splendour in which I found the world-for ruinous it was.
condition - warunek; stan, kondycja
ruinous - rujnujące; rujnujący; zrujnowany
splendour - splendor; wspaniałość, świetność, przepych
A little way up the hill, for instance, was a great heap of granite, bound together by masses of aluminium, a vast labyrinth of precipitous walls and crumpled heaps, amidst which were thick heaps of very beautiful pagoda-like plants-nettles possibly-but wonderfully tinted with brown about the leaves, and incapable of stinging.
heap - hałda; sterta, kupa, kopiec
granite - granit
bound together - związani; połączeni ze sobą
masses - masy; gromadzić się, zbierać się; gromadzenie się
aluminium - glin, aluminium
labyrinth - labirynt, błędnik
precipitous - gwałtowny
crumpled - zgnieciony; miąć
pagoda - pagoda
nettles - pokrzywa
wonderfully - cudownie
tinted - przyciemniane; koloryzować; odcień, szampon koloryzujący
incapable - niezdolny
stinging - (sting) ukłuć, użądlić, oparzyć, zaszczypać, smagnąć, dotknąć
It was evidently the derelict remains of some vast structure, to what end built I could not determine. It was here that I was destined, at a later date, to have a very strange experience-the first intimation of a still stranger discovery-but of that I will speak in its proper place.
derelict - opuszczony; porzucony
remains - pozostaje; pozostałości, pozostawać, pozostać
structure - struktura
determine - określić; określać; ustalać, ustalić
destined - przeznaczyć
Experience - doświadczenie; doświadczać, doświadczyć
intimation - oznaka, ogłoszenie, zawiadomienie
Stranger - (strange) dziwny, obcy; dziwniejszy; nieznajomy
'Looking round with a sudden thought, from a terrace on which I rested for a while, I realized that there were no small houses to be seen. Apparently the single house, and possibly even the household, had vanished. Here and there among the greenery were palace-like buildings, but the house and the cottage, which form such characteristic features of our own English landscape, had disappeared.
terrace - taras, terasa, tasas
rested - wypoczęty; odpoczywać, wypoczywać; odpoczynek
realized - zrealizowane; realizować, zrealizować, urzeczywistniać
single - singiel; jeden, pojedynczy, jednolity, cały
household - rodzina, domownicy, gospodarstwo domowe
greenery - zieleń, roślinność
Palace - pałac
cottage - domek, chałupa, chata
characteristic - charakterystyczny; cecha
disappeared - zniknął; znikać, zniknąć, porywać
'"Communism," said I to myself.
Communism - komunizm
'And on the heels of that came another thought. I looked at the half-dozen little figures that were following me. Then, in a flash, I perceived that all had the same form of costume, the same soft hairless visage, and the same girlish rotundity of limb. It may seem strange, perhaps, that I had not noticed this before. But everything was so strange. Now, I saw the fact plainly enough.
heels - obcasy; przechylać się; obcas, pięta
flash - migać, błyskać, przemykać; błysk
costume - strój, kostium, przebranie, przebierać
hairless - bezwłosy
visage - wizaż; oblicze
girlish - dziewczęcy
rotundity - okrągłość, korpulentność
limb - kończyna, konar, człon, psotne dziecko, młody łobuz, chochlik
plainly - wprost; wyraźnie, otwarcie, szczerze, skromnie
In costume, and in all the differences of texture and bearing that now mark off the sexes from each other, these people of the future were alike. And the children seemed to my eyes to be but the miniatures of their parents. I judged, then, that the children of that time were extremely precocious, physically at least, and I found afterwards abundant verification of my opinion.
texture - tekstura; teksturować
mark off - odgraniczać; zaznaczyć
sexes - seks, płeć
alike - zarówno, tak samo; podobny, taki sam
miniatures - miniatura, miniatura, miniatura
precocious - przedwczesny
physically - fizycznie
abundant - obfite
'Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living, I felt that this close resemblance of the sexes was after all what one would expect; for the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population is balanced and abundant, much childbearing becomes an evil rather than a blessing to the State; where violence comes but rarely and off-spring are secure, there is less necessity-indeed there is no necessity-for an efficient family, and the specialization of the sexes with reference to their children's needs disappears. We see some beginnings of this even in our own time, and in this future age it was complete. This, I must remind you, was my speculation at the time. Later, I was to appreciate how far it fell short of the reality.
Security - bezpieczeństwo; ochrona; papier wartościowy
resemblance - podobieństwo
strength - siła, moc, zaleta, mocna strona
softness - miękkość, łagodność, delikatność
Institution - instytucja
differentiation - dyferencjacja, polaryzacja, rozróżnienie, różniczkowanie
occupations - zawody; zajęcie
militant - bojownik; wojowniczy, walczący
necessities - potrzeba, konieczność, artykuł pierwszej potrzeby
physical - fizyczne; fizyczny, cielesny
force - zmuszać, wymuszać, narzucać; siła, oddział
population - populacji; ludność, populacja
balanced - zrównoważony; balans, bilans, saldo
childbearing - macierzyństwo
evil - zło; zły; źle
blessing - błogosławieństwo
state - państwo, stan, kondycja, twierdzić, stwierdzać
violence - gwałtowność; przemoc
rarely - rzadko
secure - bezpieczny
efficient - wydajny; sprawny
specialization - uszczegółowienie, specjalizacja
disappears - znikać, zniknąć, porywać
remind - przypominać, przypomnieć
reality - rzeczywistość, realność, jawa
'While I was musing upon these things, my attention was attracted by a pretty little structure, like a well under a cupola. I thought in a transitory way of the oddness of wells still existing, and then resumed the thread of my speculations. There were no large buildings towards the top of the hill, and as my walking powers were evidently miraculous, I was presently left alone for the first time.
musing - (muse) dumać, zadumać się, rozmyślać; muza, zaduma
attracted - przyciąga; pociągać
cupola - kopuła
oddness - dziwaczność, osobliwość
existing - istniejące; istnieć, egzystować
thread - nić, nitka, wątek, temat
speculations - spekulacja, spekulacja, spekulacja
top - wierzch, wierzchołek, góra, top, aktyw
powers - uprawnienia; władza, moc, możność, władza, mocarstwo
miraculous - cudowny
alone - samotnie; samodzielnie
With a strange sense of freedom and adventure I pushed on up to the crest.
adventure - ryzykować; przygoda
'There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize, corroded in places with a kind of pinkish rust and half smothered in soft moss, the arm-rests cast and filed into the resemblance of griffins'heads. I sat down on it, and I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day. It was as sweet and fair a view as I have ever seen.
recognize - rozpoznać, postrzegać
corroded - korodować, rdzewieć, skorodować, wyżerać, zjadać
places with - miejsca z; umieścić z
pinkish - różowawy
rust - zardzewieć; rdza
moss - mech
rests - odpoczywać, wypoczywać; odpoczynek
cast - obsada; ciskać, cisnąć, miotać, zarzucać, zarzucić
filed - złożony; segregować, układać, składać
griffins - gryf
sunset - zmierzch, zachód słońca
The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson. Below was the valley of the Thames, in which the river lay like a band of burnished steel. I have already spoken of the great palaces dotted about among the variegated greenery, some in ruins and some still occupied.
flaming - (flame) palić się, zrobić się czerwonym, płonąć
gold - złoto; złota
horizontal - poziomy, horyzontalny
crimson - szkarłatny; karmazyn; karmazynowy
burnished steel - wypolerowana stal
palaces - pałac
dotted - kropka, punkt
ruins - ruiny; ruina, rujnować, zrujnować
Here and there rose a white or silvery figure in the waste garden of the earth, here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk. There were no hedges, no signs of proprietary rights, no evidences of agriculture; the whole earth had become a garden.
silvery - srebrzysty
obelisk - obelisk
hedges - żywopłoty; wykręcić, wykręcać się; zabezpieczenie, żywopłot
signs - znaki; podpisać; znak
proprietary rights - prawa własności
evidences - dowód, dowód, dowody-p, udowodnić, dowodzić, udowadniać
agriculture - rolnictwo
'So watching, I began to put my interpretation upon the things I had seen, and as it shaped itself to me that evening, my interpretation was something in this way. (Afterwards I found I had got only a half-truth-or only a glimpse of one facet of the truth.)
shaped - w kształcie; kształt, forma, kondycja, kształt, forma
truth - prawda; wierność, racja
facet - twarz; faseta; fasetka
'It seemed to me that I had happened upon humanity upon the wane. The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the sunset of mankind. For the first time I began to realize an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged. And yet, come to think, it is a logical consequence enough. Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.
wane - słabnąć, zanikać, zmniejszać, blednąć; zanik
ruddy - rumiany, czerwonawy, cholerny
mankind - ludzkość, rodzaj ludzki, gatunek ludzki
realize - zrozumieć; realizować, zrealizować, urzeczywistniać
consequence - konsekwencje; konsekwencja, następstwo, skutek
social - społeczne; towarzyski; społeczny
engaged - zaangażowany; angażować, zaangażować, angażować, zaangażować
logical - logiczne
outcome - rezultat, wynik
sets - umieścić, postawić, usytuować; zestaw
Premium - nagroda; premia; składka
feebleness - słabość
The work of ameliorating the conditions of life-the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure-had gone steadily on to a climax. One triumph of a united humanity over Nature had followed another. Things that are now mere dreams had become projects deliberately put in hand and carried forward. And the harvest was what I saw!
ameliorating - doskonalić, poprawiać
civilizing - cywilizować
process - przetwarzać, przerabiać; proces
steadily - uspokajać; równomiernie, miarowo, stale, pewnie, uważnie
climax - gradacja, klimaks
triumph - triumfować; triumf, zwycięstwo
United - jednoczyć
nature - natura, przyroda, charakter, specyfika
deliberately - celowo
harvest - żniwa; żniwa, żniwo, plon, urodzaj
'After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of to-day are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease, but even so, it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently.
sanitation - asenizacja
stage - etap, faza, okres, scena, podium
attacked - zaatakowany; atak, napad, atak, atak, napad, szturm, akcja
department - dział, wydział, departament, oddział
field - pole; pastwisko; boisko; dziedzina; ciało
spreads - podzielić, rozłożyć, smarować, rozsmarować, rozsmarowywać
operations - operacje; działanie
persistently - uporczywie
Our agriculture and horticulture destroy a weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can.
horticulture - ogrodnictwo
destroy - niszczyć, zniszczyć, rujnować, zrujnować
weed - pielić, usuwać chwasty; chwast
cultivate - kultywować, uprawiać, uprawić, pielęgnować, obrabiać
wholesome - zdrowy
fight out - rozstrzygać coś (przez walkę)
balance - równowaga; balans; bilans; saldo, balansjer, balansować
We improve our favourite plants and animals-and how few they are-gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative, and our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands.
gradually - stopniowo, krok po kroku
selective - selektywny
breeding - (breed) rasa, typ, rodzaj, hodowla, wychowanie, rozmnażanie
peach - donieść; brzoskwinia; brzoskwiniowy
seedless - beznasienny
grape - winogrono; winogronowy
sweeter - słodszy; słodko, cukierek, słodycze
more convenient - bardziej wygodny
ideals - idealny, idealny, pojęciowy, konceptualny, ideał, ideał, ideał
tentative - prowizoryczny; prowizoryczny, niepewny
limited - ograniczony
some day all this will be better organized, and still better. That is the drift of the current in spite of the eddies. The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs.
some day - pewnego dnia, kiedyś (w przyszłości)
organized - organizować, zorganizować
current - prąd, natężenie prądu, bieżący, aktualny, obecny
eddies - wiry; zawirować, zafalować; wir
intelligent - inteligentny
educated - wykształcić, pouczyć
operating - działać, obsługiwać, operować
subjugation - ujarzmienie, zniewolenie, podbój
wisely - mądrze, rozsądnie
'This adjustment, I say, must have been done, and done well; done indeed for all Time, in the space of time across which my machine had leaped. The air was free from gnats, the earth from weeds or fungi; everywhere were fruits and sweet and delightful flowers; brilliant butterflies flew hither and thither. The ideal of preventive medicine was attained. Diseases had been stamped out.
adjustment - ustawienie, regulacja
space of time - przestrzeń czasu
leaped - skoczył; skoczyć, przeskoczyć, skakać; skok
gnats - komar
weeds - (weed) pielić, usuwać chwasty; chwast, wodorost, cherlak
fungi - fungus
everywhere - wszędzie
butterflies - motyle; motyl
thither - tam, dotamtąd
Ideal - idealny; pojęciowy, konceptualny, ideał
preventive - zapobiegawczy
Medicine - medycyna, lekarstwo
attained - osiągnięty; osiągać, osiągnąć
diseases - choroby; choroba
stamped out - wykorzeniony, wytępiony; stłumiony; ugaszony
I saw no evidence of any contagious diseases during all my stay. And I shall have to tell you later that even the processes of putrefaction and decay had been profoundly affected by these changes.
evidence - dowód, dowody, udowodnić, dowodzić, udowadniać
contagious - zaraźliwy
processes - procesy; przetwarzać, przerabiać; proces
putrefaction - gnicie, rozkład, proces gnilny
decay - rozpad; rozkład, degradacja
affected - dotknięte; oddziaływać, wzruszać, udawać
'Social triumphs, too, had been effected. I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil. There were no signs of struggle, neither social nor economical struggle. The shop, the advertisement, traffic, all that commerce which constitutes the body of our world, was gone.
triumphs - triumfować; triumf, zwycięstwo
effected - wpłynęło; efekt, rezultat, wynik, skutek
shelters - schronienie
gloriously - wspaniale
clothed - ubrany; materiał, tkanina, sukno, płótno, szmata
as yet - jak dotąd
toil - trud
Struggle - walka, bój, bitwa, walczyć, bić
economical - ekonomiczny
advertisement - reklama; ogłoszenie, anons
commerce - handel
constitutes - stanowić
It was natural on that golden evening that I should jump at the idea of a social paradise. The difficulty of increasing population had been met, I guessed, and population had ceased to increase.
Golden - złoty
paradise - raj, niebiosa
increasing - (increase) zwiększać, wzrastać; powiększenie, wzrost
increase - wzrost, zwiększenie, przyrost
'But with this change in condition comes inevitably adaptations to the change. What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour?
inevitably - nieuchronnie
adaptations - adaptacja, przystosowanie
biological - biologiczny
errors - błąd, pomyłka, omyłka, błąd pomiaru, pokazywać błąd
cause - przyczyna; powodować, spowodować
intelligence - inteligencja, intelekt, rozum, wywiad
vigour - wigor; animusz
Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision.
hardship - trudność
active - aktywny, czynny
survive - przeżywać, przeżyć, przetrwać
weaker - słabszy; słaby
loyal - lojalny, oddany
alliance - sojusz, alians
capable - zdolny; stać
self - samego siebie
restraint - powściągliwość; ograniczenie; opanowanie
patience - cierpliwość; pasjans
decision - decyzja; zdecydowanie
And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. Now, where are these imminent dangers?
emotions - emocje; emocja
arise - powstawać, pojawiać się, powstać
Therein - w tym, tamże, w niniejszym
fierce - zaciekły; zawzięty
jealousy - zazdrość; zawiść
tenderness - czułość
offspring - potomek, potomkini, potomstwo, progenitura
parental - rodzicielski
devotion - poświęcenie; oddanie, przywiązanie, pobożność, modlitwa
justification - usprawiedliwienie, uzasadnienie, justyfikacja
support - wspierać; wsparcie
dangers - niebezpieczeństwa; niebezpieczeństwo
There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life.
sentiment - sentyment
arising - (arise) powstawać, pojawiać się, powstać
connubial - konkubinat
maternity - macierzyństwo; ciąża; porodówka
sorts - rodzaje; sortować; rodzaj, typ
unnecessary - niepotrzebne; zbędny, niepotrzebny, niekonieczny
survivals - przetrwanie
discords - niezgoda, dysonans
refined - rafinować, dopracować, wygładzić
pleasant - przyjemny
'I thought of the physical slightness of the people, their lack of intelligence, and those big abundant ruins, and it strengthened my belief in a perfect conquest of Nature. For after the battle comes Quiet. Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived. And now came the reaction of the altered conditions.
slightness - delikatność, smukłość
strengthened - wzmacniać, wzmocnić, pokrzepiać, wzmacniać
belief - przekonanie, wiara, wierzenie
conquest - podbój; tryb
energetic - energiczny
vitality - witalność
altered - zmieniony; zmienić, przerobić
'Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness. Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure. Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help-may even be hindrances-to a civilized man.
comfort - wygoda, komfort, pociecha
restless - bez odpoczynku; niespokojny; niezaspokojony
energy - energii; energia
weakness - słabość
tendencies - tendencje; tendencja, skłonność
desires - pragnienia; pragnąć, pożądać, pożądać, pragnienie
necessary - konieczne; potrzebny, konieczny
survival - przetrwanie, przeżycie
constant - stały; bezustanny; stała
source - źródło, krynica, zdrój
failure - niepowodzenie, porażka, nieudacznictwo, nieudacznik, brak
hindrances - przeszkoda
And in a state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place. For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil.
power - władza, moc, możność, mocarstwo, potęga, siła, zasilanie
war - wojna; walka, bój, wojować, tprowadzić wojna
solitary - izolatka; jeden, samotniczy, samotny, ustronny
beasts - bestie; zwierzę
wasting - marnotrawstwo; (waste) marnować, trwonić; marnotrastwo
require - zażądać, wymagać, życzyć sobie
constitution - konstytucja, ustawa zasadnicza, budowa ciała
For such a life, what we should call the weak are as well equipped as the strong, are indeed no longer weak. Better equipped indeed they are, for the strong would be fretted by an energy for which there was no outlet.
weak - słaby
equipped - wyposażony; wyposażyć, wyposażać
outlet - wyjście; ulga; odpływ; wyprzedaż, zbyt, outlet
No doubt the exquisite beauty of the buildings I saw was the outcome of the last surgings of the now purposeless energy of mankind before it settled down into perfect harmony with the conditions under which it lived-the flourish of that triumph which began the last great peace. This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.
surgings - (surge) wzrastać; wzrost, napływ, przypływ
purposeless - bezcelowy
settled - ustalone; rozstrzygać, osiedlać się, zasiedlać, ustalać
harmony - harmonii; zgoda; harmonia
flourish - rozkwitnąć, kwitnąć, dobrze prosperować, wymachiwać; fanfara
peace - spokój
fate - los, dola, przeznaczenie
eroticism - erotyka, erotyzm
languor - ospałość; rozleniwienie
'Even this artistic impetus would at last die away-had almost died in the Time I saw. To adorn themselves with flowers, to dance, to sing in the sunlight: so much was left of the artistic spirit, and no more. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity.
artistic - artystyczny; kunsztowny
impetus - bodziec, impuls, impet
adorn - ozdobić; dekorować, ozdabiać
sunlight - światło słoneczne; światło
fade in - wzmacniać, rozjaśniać (np. dźwięk, obraz); wplatać coś (np. scenę); fade something in wzmocnić coś (np. dźwięk)
inactivity - bezczynność
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity, and, it seemed to me, that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!
keen - chętny; zapalony, wyostrzony
grindstone - szlifierka, osełka
pain - boleć; trudy, ból
hateful - nienawistny
'As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world-mastered the whole secret of these delicious people. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary. That would account for the abandoned ruins.
mastered - opanować; mistrz, pan, kapitan, gospodarz
secret - sekret, tajemnica, sekretny, tajny, tajemny
devised - opracować, wymyślić, zaprojektować, obmyślić, ukartować
succeeded - udało się; następować, dać radę, poradzić sobie, udać się
diminished - maleć, ubywać, zmaleć, zmniejszać
stationary - nieruchomy
abandoned - opuszczony; porzucić, opuszczać; pasja
Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough-as most wrong theories are!
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'As I stood there musing over this too perfect triumph of man, the full moon, yellow and gibbous, came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night. I determined to descend and find where I could sleep.
full moon - pełnia księżyca
gibbous - wypukły, garbaty
overflow - nadmiar; przelew, odpływ, przepełnienie, przepełniać, przepełnić
noiseless - bezgłośny, bezszumny, bezszumowy
Owl - sowa
flitted - śmignąć, pomknąć
chill - chłód; ostudzić, oziębić, zmrozić; ziąb, dreszcz
descend - schodzić, zejść, zniżać
'I looked for the building I knew. Then my eye travelled along to the figure of the White Sphinx upon the pedestal of bronze, growing distinct as the light of the rising moon grew brighter. I could see the silver birch against it. There was the tangle of rhododendron bushes, black in the pale light, and there was the little lawn. I looked at the lawn again. A queer doubt chilled my complacency.
looked for - szukać czegoś, poszukiwać czegoś, spodziewać się
silver birch - brzoza biała
tangle - czochrać, plątać, kłócić się; plątanina, tarapaty, bójka, kłąb
the pale - blady, blade; ograniczenie, granica (np. poznania); pal, kołek; słup (heraldyka); ogrodzony teren; obszar
chilled - schłodzony; ostudzić, oziębić, zmrozić; ziąb, dreszcz
complacency - samozadowolenie
"No," said I stoutly to myself, "that was not the lawn."
stoutly - solidnie, mocno, zaciekle, stanowczo
'But it was the lawn. For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. Can you imagine what I felt as this conviction came home to me? But you cannot. The Time Machine was gone!
leprous - trędowaty, zaatakowany przez trąd
conviction - skazanie; przekonanie, przeświadczenie, wyrok
'At once, like a lash across the face, came the possibility of losing my own age, of being left helpless in this strange new world. The bare thought of it was an actual physical sensation. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing. In another moment I was in a passion of fear and running with great leaping strides down the slope.
lash - bić, chłostać, mocować, umocować; rzęsa, bicz, bat
grip - przyczepność; uchwycić, ścisnąć; uścisk
throat - gardło
strides - kroki
Once I fell headlong and cut my face; I lost no time in stanching the blood, but jumped up and ran on, with a warm trickle down my cheek and chin. All the time I ran I was saying to myself: "They have moved it a little, pushed it under the bushes out of the way." Nevertheless, I ran with all my might.
stanching - (stanch) tamować, hamować
jumped up - podskoczyć
trickle - cieknąć; strużka
All the time, with the certainty that sometimes comes with excessive dread, I knew that such assurance was folly, knew instinctively that the machine was removed out of my reach. My breath came with pain. I suppose I covered the whole distance from the hill crest to the little lawn, two miles perhaps, in ten minutes. And I am not a young man.
certainty - pewność
excessive - nadmierne; nadmierny, wygórowany
assurance - pewność, tupet, ubezpieczenie
folly - szaleństwo; głupota
instinctively - instynktownie
removed - usunięte; usuwać, usunąć, odejmować, odjąć
reach - zasięg; osiągać, uzyskiwać, dosięgnąć, dojechać, dotrzeć
covered - objęte; przykrycie
I cursed aloud, as I ran, at my confident folly in leaving the machine, wasting good breath thereby. I cried aloud, and none answered. Not a creature seemed to be stirring in that moonlit world.
cursed - (curse) kląć, przeklinać; przeklęty
aloud - głośno
thereby - w ten sposób; tym samym
stirring - (stir) wymieszać, poruszać, ruszać; powstawanie, zaczątek
moonlit - księżycowy; (moonlight); światło księżyca
'When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized. Not a trace of the thing was to be seen. I felt faint and cold when I faced the empty space among the black tangle of bushes. I ran round it furiously, as if the thing might be hidden in a corner, and then stopped abruptly, with my hands clutching my hair.
fears - bać się, obawiać się; strach
empty space - pusta przestrzeń
furiously - wściekle
hidden - ukryty; chować, ukrywać; skóra
clutching - ściskać, trzymać, uchwycić; sprzęgło, lęg, grupa, portmonetka
Above me towered the sphinx, upon the bronze pedestal, white, shining, leprous, in the light of the rising moon. It seemed to smile in mockery of my dismay.
towered - górował; górkować, piętrzyć się; wieża
mockery - ośmieszyć; drwina, kpina
dismay - przerażenie
'I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me, had I not felt assured of their physical and intellectual inadequacy. That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished.
consoled - pocieszony; pocieszyć; konsola
shelter - schronienie, schronisko, przytułek
dismayed - przerażenie
unsuspected - niespodziewany
whose - czyje; czyj; który
intervention - interwencja
invention - wynalazek; wynalezienie
Yet, for one thing I felt assured: unless some other age had produced its exact duplicate, the machine could not have moved in time. The attachment of the levers-I will show you the method later-prevented any one from tampering with it in that way when they were removed. It had moved, and was hid, only in space. But then, where could it be?
produced - produkowane; wytwarzać, wytworzyć, produkować
exact - dokładnie; dokładny
duplicate - duplikat
attachment - przywiązanie; załącznik
method - metoda
prevented - zapobiegać, zapobiec
tampering - (tamper) grzebać w czymś, zafałszować coś
hid - ukryty; (hide) chować, ukrywać
'I think I must have had a kind of frenzy. I remember running violently in and out among the moonlit bushes all round the sphinx, and startling some white animal that, in the dim light, I took for a small deer. I remember, too, late that night, beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs.
startling - zaskakujące
dim light - blade; przyciemnione światło
deer - jeleń -an
clenched - zacisnąć, ścisnąć; uścisk, zacisk
fist - pięść
knuckles - golonki; kłykieć, przegub
gashed - rozciąć; rozcięcie
bleeding - krwawienie; (bleed); krwawić
twigs - gałązki; zrozumieć, chwytać; gałązka, witka
Then, sobbing and raving in my anguish of mind, I went down to the great building of stone. The big hall was dark, silent, and deserted. I slipped on the uneven floor, and fell over one of the malachite tables, almost breaking my shin. I lit a match and went on past the dusty curtains, of which I have told you.
sobbing - (sob) zaszlochać, łkać; szloch, płacz, szlochanie; łkający
raving - szaleństwo; (rave) zachwycać się, wrzeszczeć; majaczenie
anguish of mind - udręki umysłu
slipped - poślizgnął się; wślizgnąć się, poślizgnąć
uneven - nierówny, niejednolity, nieparzysty
malachite - malachit
shin - wspinać się; goleń
match - mecz; pasować; zapałka, osoba dorównująca komuś
'There I found a second great hall covered with cushions, upon which, perhaps, a score or so of the little people were sleeping. I have no doubt they found my second appearance strange enough, coming suddenly out of the quiet darkness with inarticulate noises and the splutter and flare of a match. For they had forgotten about matches. "Where is my Time Machine?
darkness - ciemność, mrok
inarticulate - nieartykułowany, niewyraźny
noises - odgłosy; hałas, szum, szum, szum
splutter - wyrzucić, bełkotać, zacharczeć; charkot, trzask
flare - blask; rakietnica, flara, szwedy, klosz
matches - mecze; pasować; zapałka, osoba dorównująca komuś
" I began, bawling like an angry child, laying hands upon them and shaking them up together. It must have been very queer to them. Some laughed, most of them looked sorely frightened. When I saw them standing round me, it came into my head that I was doing as foolish a thing as it was possible for me to do under the circumstances, in trying to revive the sensation of fear.
bawling - (bawl) ryczeć, wyć, wrzasnąć
laying - układanie; (lay) kłaść; kładzenie, położenie
shaking - drżenie; (shake) zatrząść, potrząsać, wstrząsać; wstrząsany
sorely - bardzo, wielce, boleśnie
frightened - przestraszony; straszyć, przestraszyć, nastraszyć
circumstances - okoliczności; okoliczność
revive - odnawiać, wznawiać, wskrzeszać, przywracać do życia
For, reasoning from their daylight behaviour, I thought that fear must be forgotten.
daylight - światło dzienne
'Abruptly, I dashed down the match, and, knocking one of the people over in my course, went blundering across the big dining-hall again, out under the moonlight. I heard cries of terror and their little feet running and stumbling this way and that. I do not remember all I did as the moon crept up the sky. I suppose it was the unexpected nature of my loss that maddened me.
knocking - (knock) pukać, stukać, przewracać; pukanie; mocno uderzyć
blundering - błądzenie; (blunder) popełnić
dining-hall - (dining-hall) jadalnia; stołówka
moonlight - światło księżyca
terror - groza; terror
stumbling - potknięcie się
crept - pełznąć, skradać się, wkradać się, przypełznąć; czubek, głupek
unexpected - Niespodziewany
Loss - strata
maddened - doprowadzić, zirytować
I felt hopelessly cut off from my own kind-a strange animal in an unknown world. I must have raved to and fro, screaming and crying upon God and Fate.
hopelessly - beznadziejnie
an unknown - nieznany
raved - zachwycony; zachwycać się, wrzeszczeć; majaczenie, bredzenie
screaming - krzyk, krzyczeć, wrzeszczeć
crying - płakać; płacz; (cry); płakać; krzyczeć; płacz; okrzyk
God - bóg
I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moon-lit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness. I had nothing left but misery.
fatigue - zmęczenie
despair - rozpaczać; rozpacz, beznadzieja
looking in - zajrzeć; szukać w czymś
impossible - niemożliwe; niemożliwy
groping - obmacywać, szukać po omacku
touching - dotykanie; (touch) dotykać, urazić, poruszać; wzruszający
weeping - (weep) płakać, szlochać; płacz; płaczący
wretchedness - niedola, nędza
misery - nieszczęście, męka
Then I slept, and when I woke again it was full day, and a couple of sparrows were hopping round me on the turf within reach of my arm.
sparrows - wróble; wróbel, trznadel
within - wewnątrz, w przeciągu, w ciągu
'I sat up in the freshness of the morning, trying to remember how I had got there, and why I had such a profound sense of desertion and despair. Then things came clear in my mind. With the plain, reasonable daylight, I could look my circumstances fairly in the face. I saw the wild folly of my frenzy overnight, and I could reason with myself. "Suppose the worst?" I said.
freshness - świeżość
desertion - opuszczenie, dezercja
fairly - sprawiedliwie; fair
overnight - przez noc
"Suppose the machine altogether lost-perhaps destroyed? It behoves me to be calm and patient, to learn the way of the people, to get a clear idea of the method of my loss, and the means of getting materials and tools; so that in the end, perhaps, I may make another." That would be my only hope, perhaps, but better than despair. And, after all, it was a beautiful and curious world.
behoves - wypadać
patient - cierpliwy; pacjent, pacjentka, chory, chora, pacjens
materials - materiały; materialny, materialny, materiał, materiał
tools - narzędzia; narzędzie
'But probably, the machine had only been taken away. Still, I must be calm and patient, find its hiding-place, and recover it by force or cunning. And with that I scrambled to my feet and looked about me, wondering where I could bathe. I felt weary, stiff, and travel-soiled. The freshness of the morning made me desire an equal freshness. I had exhausted my emotion.
hiding-place - (hiding-place) kryjówka, schowek
by force - siłą (np. zająć; wygrać coś siłą)
cunning - przebiegłość; zręczny, sprytny, cwany, przebiegły, uroczy
scrambled - jajecznica; szyfrować, zaszyfrowywać, zaszyfrować, wyrywać
wondering - zastanawiasz się; (wonder) zastanawiać się, zdumieć się; cud
bathe - wykąpać; kąpać
stiff - sztywny
soiled - zabrudzić; gleba
desire - pragnąć, pożądać, pragnienie, pożądanie
Equal - równi; równy, jednakowy
exhausted - wyczerpany; wyczerpywać, wyczerpać, wyczerpywać, wyczerpać
emotion - emocje; emocja
Indeed, as I went about my business, I found myself wondering at my intense excitement overnight. I made a careful examination of the ground about the little lawn. I wasted some time in futile questionings, conveyed, as well as I was able, to such of the little people as came by. They all failed to understand my gestures; some were simply stolid, some thought it was a jest and laughed at me.
excitement - podniecenie; podekscytowanie, ekscytacja
careful - ostrożny; drobiazgowy
examination - badanie, oględziny, egzamin, sprawdzian
wasted - zmarnowane; marnować, trwonić; marnotrawstwo, odpady; jałowy
futile - daremny, bezcelowy
questionings - (question) pytać, przepytywać; pytanie
conveyed - przekazane; przenosić, przewozić, przewieźć, przekazać
failed - nie powiodło się; nie udać się, zawieść
stolid - stateczny, rozwlekły, flegmatyczny, beznamiętny
jest - zażartować; żart; (just) tylko, zaledwie, dokładnie
laughed at - wyśmiany
I had the hardest task in the world to keep my Hands off their pretty laughing faces. It was a foolish impulse, but the devil begotten of fear and blind anger was ill curbed and still eager to take advantage of my perplexity. The turf gave better counsel.
task - zadanie
Hands off - przekazać coś w inne ręce (np. zobowiązanie); łapy precz! {potocznie}
impulse - impuls
devil - diabeł, szatan, bies, czart
begotten - spowodować
blind - ślepy, niewidomy, w ciemno, na ślepo, zasłona, oślepiać, oślepić
anger - złość, gniew, wkurw, złościć, złościć się, gniewać się
ill - chory; źle; problem; krzywda
curbed - powściągnąć; ograniczenie, krawężnik
advantage - korzyść, zaleta, przewaga, awantaż
perplexity - ambaras, zmieszanie, konsternacja
counsel - doradca; adwokat, adwokatka
I found a groove ripped in it, about midway between the pedestal of the sphinx and the marks of my feet where, on arrival, I had struggled with the overturned machine. There were other signs of removal about, with queer narrow footprints like those I could imagine made by a sloth. This directed my closer attention to the pedestal. It was, as I think I have said, of bronze.
groove - rowek; koleina, żleb, rutyna, żłobić
ripped - rozedrzeć, rozciąć, wyrwać, podrzeć się, rozerwać, roznieść
midway - w połowie drogi, w połowie
marks - znaki; Marek, Marek, Margusz, Markusz, Merkusz, Ewangelia Marka
on arrival - w chwili przybycia, po przyjeździe
struggled with - zmagać się z, walczyć z
overturned - obalać, obalić, przewracać, przewrócić, przewrót, wywracać
removal - usunięcie; zwolnienie
narrow - zwężać się, zacieśniać się; nieznaczny, zawężony, wąski
footprints - ślad, odcisk, odbicie
sloth - lenistwo; leniwiec
It was not a mere block, but highly decorated with deep framed panels on either side. I went and rapped at these. The pedestal was hollow. Examining the panels with care I found them discontinuous with the frames. There were no handles or keyholes, but possibly the panels, if they were doors, as I supposed, opened from within. One thing was clear enough to my mind.
block - blokować; blok, kawał
highly - bardzo; wysoko
decorated - udekorowany; dekorować, zdobić
framed - oprawione; oprawiać, komponować, wrabiać, rama, klatka, ramka
panels - panele; panel
rapped - rapował; ostro krytykować; stukanie, stuknięcie, pukanie
hollow - wgłębienie, wklęsłość, kotlina; pusty
care - opiekować, troszczyć, przejmować się, dbać
discontinuous - nieciągły
frames - ramki; oprawiać, komponować, wrabiać, rama, klatka, ramka, kadr
handles - uchwyty; zajmować się czymś, radzić sobie, trzymać; uchwyt
keyholes - dziurka od klucza
It took no very great mental effort to infer that my Time Machine was inside that pedestal. But how it got there was a different problem.
infer - wnioskować, wywnioskować, dedukować, wydedukować
inside - wnętrze, środek, wewnętrzny, wewnątrz, w środku
'I saw the heads of two orange-clad people coming through the bushes and under some blossom-covered apple-trees towards me. I turned smiling to them and beckoned them to me. They came, and then, pointing to the bronze pedestal, I tried to intimate my wish to open it. But at my first gesture towards this they behaved very oddly. I don't know how to convey their expression to you.
apple-trees - (apple-trees) jabłonie
beckoned - zaprosić gestem, skinąć na, wabić
wish - życzenie; życzyć, pożyczyć
behaved - zachowywał; zachowywać
oddly - dziwnie, osobliwie, cudacznie
Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman-it is how she would look. They went off as if they had received the last possible insult. I tried a sweet-looking little chap in white next, with exactly the same result. Somehow, his manner made me feel ashamed of myself. But, as you know, I wanted the Time Machine, and I tried him once more.
grossly - rażąco; sprośnie, grubiańsko, wielce, mocno
improper - niewłaściwe
insult - obrazić, obrażać, zniewaga, wyzwisko, obraza
chap - kapelusz; spowodować spierzchnięcie; chłop, facet
feel ashamed - wstydzić się, czuć się zawstydzonym
As he turned off, like the others, my temper got the better of me. In three strides I was after him, had him by the loose part of his robe round the neck, and began dragging him towards the sphinx. Then I saw the horror and repugnance of his face, and all of a sudden I let him go.
temper - złagodzić, ostudzić, powściągnąć; nastrój, humor, charakter
strides - chodzić zamaszystym krokiem; krok, postęp
robe - uroczyście ubrać; suknia, szata, toga, szlafrok
dragging - przeciąganie; ciągnąć, przeszukać, przeciągnąć, wlec
horror - groza, strach
repugnance - wstręt, niechęć
'But I was not beaten yet. I banged with my fist at the bronze panels. I thought I heard something stir inside-to be explicit, I thought I heard a sound like a chuckle-but I must have been mistaken. Then I got a big pebble from the river, and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations, and the verdigris came off in powdery flakes.
beaten - pobity; pokonywać, bić, pobić; uderzenie; bijący
banged - uderzony; walnąć, rąbnąć, trzasnąć; huk, trzask; pif-paf!, bum!
stir - wymieszać, poruszać, ruszać, ruszać się z miejsca; powstawanie
chuckle - zachichotać; zdławiony chichot, stłumiony śmiech
pebble - kamyk, kamyczek, otoczak
hammered - wbity; młot, t+młotek, kurek, młoteczek, młot
flattened - spłaszczony; spłaszczyć, wyrównać, równać, położyć, kłaść
coil - cewka; zwinąć, owinąć, wić się; zwój, krąg, lok, spirala
powdery - sypki, miałki, kruchy; pudrowy
flakes - złuszczyć się, odpaść, odłupać, rozpaść; płatek, wiórek, płat
The delicate little people must have heard me hammering in gusty outbreaks a mile away on either hand, but nothing came of it. I saw a crowd of them upon the slopes, looking furtively at me. At last, hot and tired, I sat down to watch the place. But I was too restless to watch long; I am too Occidental for a long vigil.
hammering - młotkiem; (hammer) uderzać, walić, przybić; młotek
gusty - porywisty, wietrzny, gwałtowny
outbreaks - epidemie; wybuch, wybuch
slopes - stoki; zbocze
furtively - ukradkiem
Occidental - ktoś ze świata zachodniego; zachodni
vigil - czuwanie
I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours-that is another matter.
inactive - nieaktywny
'I got up after a time, and began walking aimlessly through the bushes towards the hill again. "Patience," said I to myself. "If you want your machine again you must leave that sphinx alone. If they mean to take your machine away, it's little good your wrecking their bronze panels, and if they don't, you will get it back as soon as you can ask for it.
aimlessly - bez celu; bezcelowo, bezprzedmiotowo
wrecking - (wreck) zniszczyć, uszkodzić
To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.
puzzle - zagadka; łamigłówka, rebus
hopeless - beznadziejny
lies - kłamstwa; leżeć, kłamać, znajdować się; kłamstwo
hasty - pochopnie; pośpieszny
clues - wskazówki; podpowiedź
" Then suddenly the humour of the situation came into my mind: the thought of the years I had spent in study and toil to get into the future age, and now my passion of anxiety to get out of it. I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised. Although it was at my own expense, I could not help myself. I laughed aloud.
humour - humor, nastrój
anxiety - niepokój, trwoga, lęk
most complicated - najbardziej skomplikowany
most hopeless - najbardziej beznadziejny
trap - uwięzić; pułapka, dwukołówka
although - choć, chociaż, mimo że, aczkolwiek
expense - ekspens, nakład, wydatek
'Going through the big palace, it seemed to me that the little people avoided me. It may have been my fancy, or it may have had something to do with my hammering at the gates of bronze. Yet I felt tolerably sure of the avoidance. I was careful, however, to show no concern and to abstain from any pursuit of them, and in the course of a day or two things got back to the old footing.
avoided - unikać, uniknąć
gates - bramy; brama
tolerably - znośnie
avoidance - unikanie, uchylanie się
concern - obawy; tyczyć, dotyczyć, martwić
abstain - powstrzymać się, powstrzymywać się
pursuit - pościg
I made what progress I could in the language, and in addition I pushed my explorations here and there. Either I missed some subtle point or their language was excessively simple-almost exclusively composed of concrete substantives and verbs. There seemed to be few, if any, abstract terms, or little use of figurative language.
progress - postęp
Addition - dodawanie; dodatek
explorations - eksploracja, badanie
exclusively - wyłącznie
composed - tworzyć, komponować, układać
concrete - konkretny; betonowy; beton; betonować
verbs - czasowniki; czasownik
abstract - streszczenie, podsumowanie, abstrakt, abstrakcja, abstrakcyjny
terms - warunki; nazywać; okres, semestr, termin, określenie
figurative - figuratywny
Their sentences were usually simple and of two words, and I failed to convey or understand any but the simplest propositions. I determined to put the thought of my Time Machine and the mystery of the bronze doors under the sphinx as much as possible in a corner of memory, until my growing knowledge would lead me back to them in a natural way.
simplest - najprostszy; prosty, łatwy, lekki, prostak
propositions - propozycja, propozycja, zdanie
mystery - tajemnica, misterium
lead - prowadzić, przewodniczyć
Yet a certain feeling, you may understand, tethered me in a circle of a few miles round the point of my arrival.
tethered - pęto
arrival - przybycie, przyjazd
'So far as I could see, all the world displayed the same exuberant richness as the Thames valley. From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings, endlessly varied in material and style, the same clustering thickets of evergreens, the same blossom-laden trees and tree-ferns.
exuberant - żywiołowy
richness - bogactwo, bogatość
abundance - obfitość
endlessly - bez końca, bezkreśnie
varied - zróżnicowane; zmieniać, zmienić, zmieniać się, zmienić się
clustering - skupisko
thickets - zarośla, gęstwina, zarośla-p, chaszcze-p
evergreens - zimozielone; zimozielony
laden - załadowany, obładowany, objuczony
ferns - paprocie; paproć
Here and there water shone like silver, and beyond, the land rose into blue undulating hills, and so faded into the serenity of the sky. A peculiar feature, which presently attracted my attention, was the presence of certain circular wells, several, as it seemed to me, of a very great depth. One lay by the path up the hill, which I had followed during my first walk.
undulating - zafalować, falować, falisty, pofałdowany, falujący
hills - wzgórza; wzgórze
faded - wyblakły; moda
serenity - spokój
feature - cecha charakterystyczna, funkcja, właściwość, możliwość; główny artykuł w gazecie; cecha (np. o krajobrazie); cechować, uwypuklać, wyróżniać, uwydatniać; przedstawiać, prezentować (np. film); obsadzić (przydzielić rolę aktorowi); zawierać, cechować
presence - obecność
depth - głębokość
lay by - położyć się; coś obok czegoś; kogoś; odkładać coś (np. pieniądze); lay-by miejsce na poboczu drogi przeznaczone na odpoczynek
path - kierunek, ścieżka
Like the others, it was rimmed with bronze, curiously wrought, and protected by a little cupola from the rain. Sitting by the side of these wells, and peering down into the shafted darkness, I could see no gleam of water, nor could I start any reflection with a lighted match.
rimmed - z obwódką; otaczać; brzeg, krawędź, obręcz
protected - chroniony; chronić
peering - podglądanie; przyjrzeć, spojrzeć, przyglądać się badawczo, par
shafted - szyb, szyb, szyb
gleam - lśnić, błyszczeć; poświata, poblask, błysk
reflection - refleksja; odbicie, refleks
But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud-thud-thud, like the beating of some big engine; and I discovered, from the flaring of my matches, that a steady current of air set down the shafts. Further, I threw a scrap of paper into the throat of one, and, instead of fluttering slowly down, it was at once sucked swiftly out of sight.
engine - silnik, motor, aparat, mechanizm
flaring - płomień; blask, rakietnica, flara, szwedy, klosz
steady - podtrzymać, podpierać; stały, zrównoważony, opanowany
set down - wysadzić kogoś (np. pasażera autobusu); rozłożone; postawić coś niżej; odnotować; zapisać coś; ustalać; określać coś
threw - rzucił; wyrzucić, rzucić, niedbale położyć
scrap - złom; pobić się; skrawek, strzęp, resztki
fluttering - trzepotanie; trzepotać, trzepot, kołatanie
sucked - ssać, być do bani
'After a time, too, I came to connect these wells with tall towers standing here and there upon the slopes; for above them there was often just such a flicker in the air as one sees on a hot day above a sun-scorched beach. Putting things together, I reached a strong suggestion of an extensive system of subterranean ventilation, whose true import it was difficult to imagine.
connect - łączyć, połączyć, połączyć, przesiadać
towers - wieże; górkować, piętrzyć się; wieża
flicker - migotanie; migotać, mienić się; błysk
scorched - spalony; przypiekać
extensive - rozległe
system - układ, system
subterranean - podziemny
ventilation - wentylacja, nawiew
I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people. It was an obvious conclusion, but it was absolutely wrong.
associate - wspólnik, wspólniczka, współpracownik, współpracowniczka
sanitary - sanitarny
obvious - oczywiste; oczywisty
conclusion - wniosek, wynik, rezultat, wniosek, konkluzja
'And here I must admit that I learned very little of drains and bells and modes of conveyance, and the like conveniences, during my time in this real future. In some of these visions of Utopias and coming times which I have read, there is a vast amount of detail about building, and social arrangements, and so forth.
drains - dren, osuszyć
bells - dzwonki; dzwon
modes - tryby
Conveyance - przewóz, transport
conveniences - wygoda, udogodnienie
visions - widzenie
Utopias - utopia
arrangements - ustalenia; aranżacja, aranż, układ, układ, umowa, aranżacja
But while such details are easy enough to obtain when the whole world is contained in one's imagination, they are altogether inaccessible to a real traveller amid such realities as I found here. Conceive the tale of London which a negro, fresh from Central Africa, would take back to his tribe!
obtain - uzyskać; dostawać, dostać, otrzymywać, otrzymać
contained - zawarte; zawierać, zawierać
imagination - fantazja, imaginacja, wyobraźnia, urojenie, wyobrażenie
inaccessible - niedostępne; niedostępny, nieosiągalny
amid - wśród
realities - rzeczywistość, realność, rzeczywistość, rzeczywistość, jawa
conceive - wyobrażać sobie, stworzyć
Tale - opowieść, historia, baśń, bajka
negro - murzyn, murzynka
central - centralny
Africa - Afryka
take back - odebrać; cofnąć coś (co się wcześniej powiedziało); zwracać coś (np. produkt do sklepu), oddawać coś (np. właścicielowi); zwracać honor (cofać swoje słowa)
tribe - plemię, ród
What would he know of railway companies, of social movements, of telephone and telegraph wires, of the Parcels Delivery Company, and postal orders and the like? Yet we, at least, should be willing enough to explain these things to him! And even of what he knew, how much could he make his untravelled friend either apprehend or believe?
Railway - kolej, linia kolejowa, kolej żelazna
movements - ruchy; ruch, ruch
Telegraph - telegraf; telegrafować, zatelegrafować
wires - przewody; drut, przewód, kabel, pluskwa, kabel
parcels - paczki; paczka, przesyłka, parcela
delivery - dostawa; poród
postal - pocztowy
untravelled - bez podróży
apprehend - aresztować, zatrzymywać, zatrzymać
Then, think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times, and how wide the interval between myself and these of the Golden Age! I was sensible of much which was unseen, and which contributed to my comfort; but save for a general impression of automatic organization, I fear I can convey very little of the difference to your mind.
gap - luka; przerwa, prześwit, przestrzeń, szpara
wide - szeroki; szeroko
sensible - sensowny, rozsądny
unseen - niewidoczny, bez przygotowania
contributed - przyczyniły się; dołożyć się, dokładać się, wnosić wkład
automatic - automatyczny, samoczynny, odruchowy
organization - organizacja
'In the matter of sepulture, for instance, I could see no signs of crematoria nor anything suggestive of tombs. But it occurred to me that, possibly, there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings. This, again, was a question I deliberately put to myself, and my curiosity was at first entirely defeated upon the point.
sepulture - grobowiec, pogrzeb
crematoria - krematoria
suggestive - sugestywny
tombs - grobowiec
cemeteries - cmentarz
somewhere - gdzieś, dokądś
range - zasięg; pasmo górskie; piec, kuchenka, wybór, gama, paleta
explorings - eksploracje
entirely - całkowicie, zupełnie
defeated - pokonany; pokonać, udaremnić; klęska
The thing puzzled me, and I was led to make a further remark, which puzzled me still more: that aged and infirm among this people there were none.
remark - zauważyć, komentować, napomknąć; uwaga
infirm - niedołężny, chorzy
'I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure. Yet I could think of no other. Let me put my difficulties. The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places, great dining-halls and sleeping apartments. I could find no machinery, no appliances of any kind.
confess - przyznawać się, przyznać się, spowiadać się
satisfaction - zadowolenie, satysfakcja
decadent - dekadencki
endure - znieść, wycierpieć, przetrwać, tolerować
difficulties - trudności; trudność
explored - zbadane; badać, zbadać
dining - jadalnia; jeść obiad, obiadować, jeść kolację
halls - hol, przedpokój, sala, sala, rezydencja
machinery - maszyny; maszyneria
appliances - urządzenie
Yet these people were clothed in pleasant fabrics that must at times need renewal, and their sandals, though undecorated, were fairly complex specimens of metalwork. Somehow such things must be made. And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency. There were no shops, no workshops, no sign of importations among them.
clothed - ubierać, ubrać
fabrics - tkaniny; struktura, materiał, tkanina, tekstura, faktura
renewal - odnowienie, odnowa
undecorated - niedekorowany
complex - skomplikowany, złożony, zespolony, kompleks
specimens - przykład, okaz, osobnik, próbka
metalwork - metaloplastyka, wyroby metalowe
vestige - ślad
creative - twórczy, kreatywny
workshops - warsztat, warsztaty, warsztaty akademickie
importations - import
They spent all their time in playing gently, in bathing in the river, in making love in a half-playful fashion, in eating fruit and sleeping. I could not see how things were kept going.
playful - zabawny; żartobliwy
fashion - moda; styl, sposób
'Then, again, about the Time Machine: something, I knew not what, had taken it into the hollow pedestal of the White Sphinx. Why? For the life of me I could not imagine. Those waterless wells, too, those flickering pillars. I felt I lacked a clue. I felt-how shall I put it?
waterless - bezwodny
pillars - filar, filar, podstawa
lacked - Lac
clue - wskazówka; podpowiedź
Suppose you found an inscription, with sentences here and there in excellent plain English, and interpolated therewith, others made up of words, of letters even, absolutely unknown to you? Well, on the third day of my visit, that was how the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One presented itself to me!
inscription - napis, inskrypcja, dedykacja
excellent - świetny, doskonały
interpolated - interpolować, wstawiać
third - trzeci; trzeci, trzecia, trzeci
'That day, too, I made a friend-of a sort. It happened that, as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow, one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream. The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer.
sort - sortować; rodzaj, typ
shallow - płytki, niegłęboki, miałki, powierzchowny, mielizna
seized - zajęte; chwycić, złapać, chwytać, łapać
cramp - skurcz
drifting - dryft, zaspa, dryfować
downstream - w dół rzeki, z prądem, w dole rzeki
strongly - silnie, mocno
moderate - umiarkowany
swimmer - pływak, pływaczka
It will give you an idea, therefore, of the strange deficiency in these creatures, when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. When I realized this, I hurriedly slipped off my clothes, and, wading in at a point lower down, I caught the poor mite and drew her safe to land.
deficiency - niedobór, deficyt
slightest - najmniejszy; drobny, mały
rescue - ratować, uratować, ocalić, ratunek
weakly - z trudem, ledwo, słabo
drowning - (drown) utopić się, utonąć, zanurzyć, zagłuszyć; utonięcie
hurriedly - w pośpiechu; naprędce, pospiesznie, pośpiesznie
slipped off - zsunąć się; ześlizgnąć się
wading - (wad) brodzić
mite - roztocze, roztocz
safe - bezpieczny; sejf
A little rubbing of the limbs soon brought her round, and I had the satisfaction of seeing she was all right before I left her. I had got to such a low estimate of her kind that I did not expect any gratitude from her. In that, however, I was wrong.
rubbing - (rub) pocierać, trzeć, wycierać; tarcie, nacieranie, wycieranie
estimate - oszacowanie; kosztorys; szacować
gratitude - wdzięczność
'This happened in the morning. In the afternoon I met my little woman, as I believe it was, as I was returning towards my centre from an exploration, and she received me with cries of delight and presented me with a big garland of flowers-evidently made for me and me alone. The thing took my imagination. Very possibly I had been feeling desolate.
exploration - eksploracja, badanie
delight - radość, rozkosz, przyjemność, zachwyt, cieszyć
garland - girlanda
desolate - pustoszyć, wyludniać; wymarły, opuszczony
At any rate I did my best to display my appreciation of the gift. We were soon seated together in a little stone arbour, engaged in conversation, chiefly of smiles. The creature's friendliness affected me exactly as a child's might have done. We passed each other flowers, and she kissed my hands. I did the same to hers.
rate - stawka; cenić; wskaźnik, współczynnik, tempo
display - wyświetlacz; wyświetlać
appreciation - uznanie; aprecjacja
gift - prezent, dar, podarunek, podarek
arbour - altana
chiefly - przede wszystkim; głównie
smiles - uśmiechy; uśmiech, uśmiechać
friendliness - życzliwość
kissed - pocałowany; całować; pocałunek
Then I tried talk, and found that her name was Weena, which, though I don't know what it meant, somehow seemed appropriate enough. That was the beginning of a queer friendship which lasted a week, and ended-as I will tell you!
appropriate - odpowiedni, właściwy, stosowny, należyty, przywłaszczyć sobie
friendship - przyjaźń, drużba
lasted - trwały; trwać; ostatni
'She was exactly like a child. She wanted to be with me always. She tried to follow me everywhere, and on my next journey out and about it went to my heart to tire her down, and leave her at last, exhausted and calling after me rather plaintively. But the problems of the world had to be mastered. I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.
heart - serce
tire - męczyć się, zmęczyć; opona
plaintively - żałośnie
miniature - miniatura
flirtation - flirt, flirtowanie
Yet her distress when I left her was very great, her expostulations at the parting were sometimes frantic, and I think, altogether, I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion. Nevertheless she was, somehow, a very great comfort. I thought it was mere childish affection that made her cling to me. Until it was too late, I did not clearly know what I had inflicted upon her when I left her.
distress - niepokój; zagrożenie, niebezpieczeństwo
expostulations - wymówka, przestroga, protest
frantic - oszalały, wściekły
trouble - kłopoty, bieda, nieprzyjemność, przykrość, kłopot
childish - dziecięcy; dziecinny, infantylny
affection - uczucie; afekt; afekcja
cling to - przywrzeć do czegoś, przylgnąć do czegoś, przystawać do czegoś, trzymać się czegoś; być uzależnionym emocjonalnie od kogoś, nie odstępować kogoś na krok; uparcie trwać przy czymś, uchwycić się czegoś (w sensie emocjonalnym)
inflicted - wymierzyć, zadać
Nor until it was too late did I clearly understand what she was to me. For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming home; and I would watch for her tiny figure of white and gold so soon as I came over the hill.
merely - tylko, jedynie, jeno
seeming - pozorne; (seem) wydawać się, zdawać się; pozorny
fond - pieszczoty; czuły, miły, szczery
showing in - wprowadzać (kogoś do domu), wpuszczać (kogoś do mieszkania); wprowadzać kogoś
cared for - zadbany
doll - wyszykować; lalka, lala, laleczka
neighbourhood - dzielnica, sąsiedztwo
tiny - malutki, tyci, drobny
'It was from her, too, that I learned that fear had not yet left the world. She was fearless enough in the daylight, and she had the oddest confidence in me; for once, in a foolish moment, I made threatening grimaces at her, and she simply laughed at them. But she dreaded the dark, dreaded shadows, dreaded black things. Darkness to her was the one thing dreadful.
fearless - nieustraszony
oddest - najdziwniejszy; dziwny, nieparzysty
threatening - (threaten) grozić, straszyć; groźny
grimaces - grymasy; grymas
dreaded - strach, lęk; budzący postrach
dreadful - okropny, fatalny, straszny, potworny
It was a singularly passionate emotion, and it set me thinking and observing. I discovered then, among other things, that these little people gathered into the great houses after dark, and slept in droves. To enter upon them without a light was to put them into a tumult of apprehension. I never found one out of doors, or one sleeping alone within doors, after dark.
passionate - namiętny
observing - obserwacja; obserwować, zaobserwować, przestrzegać, obchodzić
gathered - zebrane; zbierać, zebrać, gromadzić, zgromadzić
in droves - w tłumie, tłumnie
enter - wchodzić, wejść
tumult - tumult; zamieszki
apprehension - niepokój; zatrzymanie
out of doors - otwarta przestrzeń; na dworze, pod gołym niebem
Yet I was still such a blockhead that I missed the lesson of that fear, and in spite of Weena's distress I insisted upon sleeping away from these slumbering multitudes.
blockhead - przygłup, dureń, tępak, zakuty łeb
insisted - nalegał; nalegać
slumbering - drzemka; (slumber) zdrzemnąć się, spać; spanie
multitudes - tłumy; mnóstwo, multum, bezlik
'It troubled her greatly, but in the end her odd affection for me triumphed, and for five of the nights of our acquaintance, including the last night of all, she slept with her head pillowed on my arm. But my story slips away from me as I speak of her. It must have been the night before her rescue that I was awakened about dawn.
troubled - zmartwiony; kłopoty, bieda, nieprzyjemność, przykrość, kłopot
triumphed - triumfować; triumf, zwycięstwo
acquaintance - znajomość; znajomy, znajoma
pillowed - poduszka, zagłówek
slips away - wymknąć się; wyślizgnąć się (skądś)
awakened - zbudzić, obudzić; obudzony, przebudzony
dawn - świtać; świt, brzask, zaranie
I had been restless, dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned, and that sea anemones were feeling over my face with their soft palps. I woke with a start, and with an odd fancy that some greyish animal had just rushed out of the chamber. I tried to get to sleep again, but I felt restless and uncomfortable.
dreaming - (dream) śnić, marzyć; sen
disagreeably - nieładnie
drowned - utonął; tonąć, utonąć, utopić
anemones - zawilec, anemon
palps - palpy
greyish - szarawy, szpakowaty
chamber - komnata; izba; komora
It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness, when everything is colourless and clear cut, and yet unreal. I got up, and went down into the great hall, and so out upon the flagstones in front of the palace. I thought I would make a virtue of necessity, and see the sunrise.
creeping - pełznąć, skradać się, wkradać się, przypełznąć; czubek, głupek
colourless - bezbarwny
clear cut - czyste; idealne cięcie (np. kryształu); clear-cut wyraźny, jednoznaczny (np. zasada, przykład)
flagstones - olish: kamień brukowy g
virtue - cnota; godność
sunrise - wschód słońca
'The moon was setting, and the dying moonlight and the first pallor of dawn were mingled in a ghastly half-light. The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless. And up the hill I thought I could see ghosts. There several times, as I scanned the slope, I saw white figures.
setting - ustawienie, konfiguracja
dying - (die) umierać; umierający, przedśmiertny
pallor - bladość
mingled - przyłączać, mieszać
inky - atramentowy
sombre - ponury, posępny
cheerless - bezczelny; ponury
ghosts - duchy; duch, t+upiór, t+fantom, tzwid, t+zjawa
scanned - zeskanowany; skanować, zeskanować, skanowanie
Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white, ape-like creature running rather quickly up the hill, and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body. They moved hastily. I did not see what became of them. It seemed that they vanished among the bushes. The dawn was still indistinct, you must understand. I was feeling that chill, uncertain, early-morning feeling you may have known.
ape - małpować; małpa człekokształtna, idiota
leash - smycz
hastily - w pośpiechu; naprędce, pospiesznie, pośpiesznie
uncertain - niepewny
I doubted my eyes.
doubted - wątpił; wątpić, zwątpić, powątpiewać, wątpliwość
'As the eastern sky grew brighter, and the light of the day came on and its vivid colouring returned upon the world once more, I scanned the view keenly. But I saw no vestige of my white figures. They were mere creatures of the half light. "They must have been ghosts," I said; "I wonder whence they dated." For a queer notion of Grant Allen's came into my head, and amused me.
eastern - wschodni; wschodni
keenly - chętnie; żywo, dotkliwie, zaciekle, przenikliwie
whence - skąd
notion - pojęcie
Grant - darowizna
amused - rozbawiony; bawić, zabawiać, rozbawić, rozerwać, śmieszyć
If each generation die and leave ghosts, he argued, the world at last will get overcrowded with them. On that theory they would have grown innumerable some Eight Hundred Thousand Years hence, and it was no great wonder to see four at once. But the jest was unsatisfying, and I was thinking of these figures all the morning, until Weena's rescue drove them out of my head.
generation - generacji; generowanie, wytwarzanie, pokolenie
argued - argumentował; sprzeczać
last will - ostatnia wola
overcrowded - zatłoczyć
theory - teoria
hence - skąd; stąd; więc, skutkiem tego, w związku z tym, przeto
unsatisfying - niesatysfakcjonujące
I associated them in some indefinite way with the white animal I had startled in my first passionate search for the Time Machine. But Weena was a pleasant substitute. Yet all the same, they were soon destined to take far deadlier possession of my mind.
associated - powiązane; wspólnik, wspólniczka, współpracownik
indefinite - nieokreślony, nieograniczony, bezterminowy, niewyraźny
search - wyszukiwanie; poszukiwanie, przeszukiwanie, szukać, przeszukać
substitute - podstawiać, zamienić, zastąpić, substytut, zamiennik
deadlier - śmiercionośny, śmiertelny
'I think I have said how much hotter than our own was the weather of this Golden Age. I cannot account for it. It may be that the sun was hotter, or the earth nearer the sun. It is usual to assume that the sun will go on cooling steadily in the future.
assume - zakładać; przypuszczać, przypuścić, dopuszczać, dopuścić
But people, unfamiliar with such speculations as those of the younger Darwin, forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body. As these catastrophes occur, the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate. Whatever the reason, the fact remains that the sun was very much hotter than we know it.
unfamiliar - nieznany
planets - planeta, planeta, planeta
fall back - spadać z powrotem; wycofywać się; cofać się (np. ze strachu); spadać, zmniejszać się (np. o liczbie)
catastrophes - katastrofa
occur - wystąpić; zdarzać się, zdarzyć się, wydarzać się, wydarzyć się
blaze - blask; płonąć, palić się; ogień, płomień, pożar, wybuch
renewed - odnowić
suffered - ucierpiał; cierpieć, pokutować, cierpieć
'Well, one very hot morning-my fourth, I think-as I was seeking shelter from the heat and glare in a colossal ruin near the great house where I slept and fed, there happened this strange thing: Clambering among these heaps of masonry, I found a narrow gallery, whose end and side windows were blocked by fallen masses of stone.
seeking - poszukiwać, szukać
heat - ciepło; ogrzewać, podgrzewać; upał
glare - blask
ruin - ruina, rujnować, zrujnować
fed - karmione; (feed) karmić, żywić się
clambering - wdrapać się, wgramolić się; schodzenie, wdrapywanie się
masonry - kamieniarstwo, murarstwo
gallery - galeria
blocked - zablokowany; blok, blok
masses - masy
By contrast with the brilliancy outside, it seemed at first impenetrably dark to me. I entered it groping, for the change from light to blackness made spots of colour swim before me. Suddenly I halted spellbound. A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness.
contrast with - porównywać (coś) z (czymś)
brilliancy - błyskotliwość; blask
impenetrably - nieprzenikniony
blackness - czerń
spots - plamy; cętka, plama
halted - zatrzymany; przerywać, kończyć, zatrzymać się; postój
spellbound - zaczarowany; oczarować
'The old instinctive dread of wild beasts came upon me. I clenched my hands and steadfastly looked into the glaring eyeballs. I was afraid to turn. Then the thought of the absolute security in which humanity appeared to be living came to my mind. And then I remembered that strange terror of the dark. Overcoming my fear to some extent, I advanced a step and spoke.
instinctive - instynktowny
steadfastly - niezłomnie, stanowczo
glaring - rażący; blask, blask
eyeballs - gałka oczna, mierzyć na oko
Overcoming - przezwyciężać, przemagać
extent - zakres; stopień
advanced - zaawansowane; postąpić, awansować, zaawansować, postąpić
step - kroczyć, stąpać; krok, stopień
I will admit that my voice was harsh and ill-controlled. I put out my hand and touched something soft. At once the eyes darted sideways, and something white ran past me. I turned with my heart in my mouth, and saw a queer little ape-like figure, its head held down in a peculiar manner, running across the sunlit space behind me.
controlled - kontrolowane; kontrolować, sterować, zarządzać, nadzorować
darted - rzucony; rzucić się, wbić, rzucić szybkie spojrzenie; strzałka
sideways - na boki
It blundered against a block of granite, staggered aside, and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry.
blundered - gafa
beneath - pod, poniżej
pile - zwalić na kupę, palować; sterta, stos, kupa, gmach
ruined - zrujnowany; ruina, rujnować, zrujnować
'My impression of it is, of course, imperfect; but I know it was a dull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its head and down its back. But, as I say, it went too fast for me to see distinctly. I cannot even say whether it ran on all-fours, or only with its forearms held very low. After an instant's pause I followed it into the second heap of ruins.
imperfect - niedoskonały
flaxen - lniany, jasnobrązowy
whether - czy
forearms - przedramię
heap of ruins - sterta ruin, stos gruzów
I could not find it at first; but, after a time in the profound obscurity, I came upon one of those round well-like openings of which I have told you, half closed by a fallen pillar. A sudden thought came to me. Could this Thing have vanished down the shaft?
obscurity - niejasność; mrok, ciemność
pillar - filar, podstawa
shaft - wał; szyb
I lit a match, and, looking down, I saw a small, white, moving creature, with large bright eyes which regarded me steadfastly as it retreated. It made me shudder. It was so like a human spider! It was clambering down the wall, and now I saw for the first time a number of metal foot and hand rests forming a kind of ladder down the shaft.
retreated - wycofać się, uciekać; schronienie, azyl, kryjówka, ucieczka
shudder - dreszcz; wzdrygać
spider - pająk
ladder - drabina
Then the light burned my fingers and fell out of my hand, going out as it dropped, and when I had lit another the little monster had disappeared.
fingers - obmacywać; palec
fell out - wypadać (np. ząb, portfel z kieszeni); rozchodzić się (o wojsku); rozpadać się; pokłócić się, poróżnić się; okazać się, wynikać (coś z czegoś); rozstać się
dropped - spadł; upuścić, zrzucić, opaść, przestać, porzucić, rzucić
monster - potwór, kreatura, maszkara, poczwara
'I do not know how long I sat peering down that well. It was not for some time that I could succeed in persuading myself that the thing I had seen was human.
Succeed - udało się; następować; dać radę, poradzić sobie, udać się
persuading - przekonywanie; przekonywać, przekonać
But, gradually, the truth dawned on me: that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals: that my graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages.
dawned - świtać, świt, brzask, świt, zaranie
species - moneta, bilon
differentiated - różnić
sole - podeszwa, sola; jedyny
descendants - potomków; potomek, potomkini, zstępny, descendent
bleached - bielić, wybielać
obscene - nieprzyzwoite; obsceniczny, nieprzyzwoity, sprośny
nocturnal - nocny
heir - spadkobierca, spadkobierczyni, dziedzic, dziedzicka
'I thought of the flickering pillars and of my theory of an underground ventilation. I began to suspect their true import. And what, I wondered, was this Lemur doing in my scheme of a perfectly balanced organization? How was it related to the indolent serenity of the beautiful Upper-worlders? And what was hidden down there, at the foot of that shaft?
underground - pod ziemią; podziemny; undergroundowy; podziemie, ruch oporu
suspect - podejrzewać; podejrzany, podejrzana
wondered - zastanawiał się; cud, dziw, dziw, dziwo
Lemur - lemur
scheme - plan, program, schemat, intryga
related - powiązane; odnosić się, zrelacjonować, dotyczyć
worlders - światowców
I sat upon the edge of the well telling myself that, at any rate, there was nothing to fear, and that there I must descend for the solution of my difficulties. And withal I was absolutely afraid to go! As I hesitated, two of the beautiful Upper-world people came running in their amorous sport across the daylight in the shadow. The male pursued the female, flinging flowers at her as he ran.
edge - krawędź, skraj, rąbek, obrzeże
solution - roztwór; rozwiązanie
withal - ponadto, jednakowoż
amorous - miłosny
pursued - ścigany; ścigać
female - kobieta; żeński; samica
'They seemed distressed to find me, my arm against the overturned pillar, peering down the well. Apparently it was considered bad form to remark these apertures; for when I pointed to this one, and tried to frame a question about it in their tongue, they were still more visibly distressed and turned away. But they were interested by my matches, and I struck some to amuse them.
distressed - strapiony; zagrożenie
considered - rozważane; rozważać, rozważać, uważać, uznawać, obserwować
apertures - otwór, szpara, szczelina, przesłona, przysłona, apertura
visibly - wyraźnie, najwyraźniej
amuse - bawić, zabawiać, rozbawić, rozerwać, śmieszyć
I tried them again about the well, and again I failed. So presently I left them, meaning to go back to Weena, and see what I could get from her. But my mind was already in revolution; my guesses and impressions were slipping and sliding to a new adjustment.
revolution - rewolucja, przewrót, obrót
sliding - przesuwanie; (slide) zsunąć się, poślizgnąć się, ślizgać się
I had now a clue to the import of these wells, to the ventilating towers, to the mystery of the ghosts; to say nothing of a hint at the meaning of the bronze gates and the fate of the Time Machine! And very vaguely there came a suggestion towards the solution of the economic problem that had puzzled me.
ventilating - przewietrzyć, wietrzyć, dostarczyć, wentylować
hint at - podpowiadać; robić aluzję do czegoś
vaguely - niejasno, niewyraźnie, lekko
economic - ekonomiczny
'Here was the new view. Plainly, this second species of Man was subterranean. There were three circumstances in particular which made me think that its rare emergence above ground was the outcome of a long-continued underground habit. In the first place, there was the bleached look common in most animals that live largely in the dark-the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance.
emergence - emergencja
habit - nawyk, zwyczaj
largely - w dużej mierze, wyraźnie
Kentucky - Kentucky
caves - zawalić, ugiąć; jaskinia
Then, those large eyes, with that capacity for reflecting light, are common features of nocturnal things-witness the owl and the cat. And last of all, that evident confusion in the sunshine, that hasty yet fumbling awkward flight towards dark shadow, and that peculiar carriage of the head while in the light-all reinforced the theory of an extreme sensitiveness of the retina.
capacity - pojemność; zdolność
reflecting - refleksja; odbijać, odbić, odbijać się, odbić się, odbijać
witness - świadkiem; świadectwo; świadek
last of all - ostatni ze wszystkich; na samym końcu, na końcu, na koniec
evident - oczywiste; jasny, oczywisty
sunshine - słońce; światło słoneczny
fumbling - grzebać, szperać, wypuścić
awkward - niezręczny; nieprzyjemny; nieśmiały
carriage - przewóz; powóz, kareta, karetka
reinforced - popierać, wzmocnić, umocnić, zwiększyć
sensitiveness - wrażliwość
retina - siatkówka
'Beneath my feet, then, the earth must be tunnelled enormously, and these tunnellings were the habitat of the new race. The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes-everywhere, in fact, except along the river valley-showed how universal were its ramifications.
tunnelled - tunel
enormously - ogromnie
habitat - siedlisko
universal - kosmiczny; ogólny, powszechny, uniwersalny
ramifications - skutek uboczny
What so natural, then, as to assume that it was in this artificial Underworld that such work as was necessary to the comfort of the daylight race was done? The notion was so plausible that I at once accepted it, and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species.
artificial - sztuczne
underworld - podziemia; zaświaty; półświatek
splitting - (split) dzielić, skaleczyć, rozciąć; pękający
I dare say you will anticipate the shape of my theory; though, for myself, I very soon felt that it fell far short of the truth.
anticipate - przewidzieć, antycypować
'At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you-and wildly incredible!-and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way.
proceeding - (proceed) kontynuować, iść dalej, podążać; postępowanie, obrady
clear as daylight - jasne jak słońce
gradual - stopniowy; graduał
widening - poszerzenie; poszerzaćoszerzać się, poszerzyćoszerzyć się
temporary - tymczasowy
Capitalist - kapitalista; kapitalistyczny
Labourer - (labour) praca, trud, siła robocza; pracownik fizyczny, robotnik
wildly - dziko; wściekle
There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply.
utilize - wykorzystać, wyeksploatować
ornamental - ozdobny, dekoracyjny
purposes - cele; cel
metropolitan - metropolita; metropolitalny, stołeczny
Electric - elektryczny
railways - koleje; kolej, linia kolejowa, kolej, kolej żelazna
subways - metro
workrooms - warsztat pracy, pracownia
multiply - pomnożyć, zwielokrotnić, rozmnażać się
Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end-!
increased - wzrosła; wzrost, zwiększenie
industry - branża; przemysł
birthright - prawo przysługujące od urodzenia
deeper - głębiej; głęboki, głęboki, głęboki, niski, głęboki, głęboki
factories - fabryki; fabryka, zakład
Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?
practically - praktycznie; niemal, prawie, bez mała
'Again, the exclusive tendency of richer people-due, no doubt, to the increasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor-is already leading to the closing, in their interest, of considerable portions of the surface of the land. About London, for instance, perhaps half the prettier country is shut in against intrusion.
exclusive - na wyłączność; ekskluzywny, wyłączny, ekskluzywny
due - należne; należny; spodziewany
refinement - udoskonalać; wytworność
education - edukacja, oświata, kształcenie, wykształcenie
Gulf - zatoka; rozbrat, rozłam
rude - niegrzeczny; nieuprzejmy, chamski, grubiański, obsceniczny
portions - porcje; porcja
shut - zamknąć; zamknięty
intrusion - najście, wtargnięcie
And this same widening gulf-which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich-will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent.
educational - edukacyjne
facilities - obiekt, łatwość, funkcja
temptations - kuszenie
habits - nawyki; nawyk, zwyczaj
Exchange - wymiana; wymieniać się, zamieniać; giełda
promotion - awans
intermarriage - małżeństwo w obrębie rodziny, małżeństwo mieszane
retards - wstrzymać, opóźnić
stratification - rozwarstwienie, stratyfikacja
frequent - częste; uczęszczać; częsty
So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears.
pursuing - dążenie; (pursue) dążyć do czegoś, kontynuować, ściskać
pleasure - przyjemność
below ground - pod ziemią
nots - nie
Workers - robotnik, robotnica, robotnica
adapted - dostosowany; adaptować, zaadaptować, adaptować, zaadaptować
labour - pracy; praca; robota; poród; pracować
rent - wynajmować, wypożyczyć; pęknięcie, czynsz, wynajęcie
caverns - jaskinia
refused - odmówił; odmawiać; odpadki
starve - głodować
suffocated - dusić
arrears - zaległość; tylna część, zaległości płatnicze
Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs. As it seemed to me, the refined beauty and the etiolated pallor followed naturally enough.
constituted - stanowić
miserable - nędzny, nieszczęśliwy
rebellious - zbuntowany
permanent - na stałe; stały; permanentny, trwały
survivors - ocalały, ocalała
etiolated - etiolowany
'The great triumph of Humanity I had dreamed of took a different shape in my mind. It had been no such triumph of moral education and general co-operation as I had imagined. Instead, I saw a real aristocracy, armed with a perfected science and working to a logical conclusion the industrial system of to-day.
dreamed - marzył; sen, t+sny, marzenie
moral - moralny; morał; morał orały
operation - działanie, funkcjonowanie, operacja, działania
aristocracy - arystokracja
industrial - przemysłowy, industrialny
Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over Nature, but a triumph over Nature and the fellow-man. This, I must warn you, was my theory at the time. I had no convenient cicerone in the pattern of the Utopian books. My explanation may be absolutely wrong. I still think it is the most plausible one.
fellow - człowiek, facet, kolega
cicerone - przewodnik/czka
Utopian - utopista, utopijny
most plausible - najbardziej prawdopodobny, wiarygodny; pozornie słuszny
But even on this supposition the balanced civilization that was at last attained must have long since passed its zenith, and was now far fallen into decay. The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence. That I could see clearly enough already.
supposition - przypuszczenie; założenie
zenith - zenit, apogeum
degeneration - zwyrodnienie, degeneracja, zwyrodnienie
dwindling - umniejszać
size - dopasować; rozmiar
What had happened to the Under-grounders I did not yet suspect; but from what I had seen of the Morlocks-that, by the by, was the name by which these creatures were called-I could imagine that the modification of the human type was even far more profound than among the "Eloi," the beautiful race that I already knew.
grounders - uziemienia
modification - zmiana, modyfikacja
more profound - bardziej przemożny; przenikliwy, głęboki; gruntowny, wnikliwy; dogłębny
'Then came troublesome doubts. Why had the Morlocks taken my Time Machine? For I felt sure it was they who had taken it. Why, too, if the Eloi were masters, could they not restore the machine to me? And why were they so terribly afraid of the dark? I proceeded, as I have said, to question Weena about this Under-world, but here again I was disappointed.
troublesome - kłopotliwe
doubts - wątpliwości; wątpić, zwątpić, powątpiewać, wątpliwość
masters - mistrzów; opanować; mistrz, pan, kapitan, gospodarz
restore - przywrócić; odnowić
Terribly - strasznie; okropnie
disappointed - rozczarowany; rozczarować, zawieść
At first she would not understand my questions, and presently she refused to answer them. She shivered as though the topic was unendurable. And when I pressed her, perhaps a little harshly, she burst into tears. They were the only tears, except my own, I ever saw in that Golden Age.
unendurable - nie do zniesienia
harshly - surowo; bezwzględnie
burst - wybuchnąć; pękać, pęknąć; rozsadzać
Tears - łzy; łzawić, pędzić, rozdzierać, szarpać się
When I saw them I ceased abruptly to trouble about the Morlocks, and was only concerned in banishing these signs of the human inheritance from Weena's eyes. And very soon she was smiling and clapping her hands, while I solemnly burned a match.
concerned - zaniepokojony; tyczyć, dotyczyć, martwić
banishing - wypędzać, wypędzić, wyganiać, wygonić, wygnać, banitować
inheritance - dziedziczenie; spadek
clapping - (clap) bić brawo, klaskać, uderzyć; oklaski, klepnięcie, huk
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'It may seem odd to you, but it was two days before I could follow up the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way. I felt a peculiar shrinking from those pallid bodies. They were just the half-bleached colour of the worms and things one sees preserved in spirit in a zoological museum. And they were filthily cold to the touch.
manifestly - wyraźnie
shrinking - kurczy się; kurczyć się
pallid - blady
worms - robaki; robak, qualifier
preserved - zachowane; przetwór, zachować
zoological - zoologiczny
filthily - obrzydliwie, bardzo brudno
Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi, whose disgust of the Morlocks I now began to appreciate.
sympathetic - sympatyczny; współczujący
influence - wpływ; indukcja; wpływać, wpłynąć, oddziaływać
disgust - obrzydzenie; brzydzić; odraza, wstręt
'The next night I did not sleep well. Probably my health was a little disordered. I was oppressed with perplexity and doubt. Once or twice I had a feeling of intense fear for which I could perceive no definite reason. I remember creeping noiselessly into the great hall where the little people were sleeping in the moonlight-that night Weena was among them-and feeling reassured by their presence.
oppressed - gnębić, ciemiężyć, przygnieść, przytłoczyć
definite - definitywny
noiselessly - bezszelestnie; bezgłośnie, bezszmerowo, bezszumnie
It occurred to me even then, that in the course of a few days the moon must pass through its last quarter, and the nights grow dark, when the appearances of these unpleasant creatures from below, these whitened Lemurs, this new vermin that had replaced the old, might be more abundant. And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.
pass through - przejeżdzać (np. przez miasto); przejść przez coś
appearances - pozory; zjawisko
whitened - bielić, bieleć, zbieleć, bielić
Lemurs - lemur
vermin - szkodnik
replaced - zastąpiony; zastąpić, zamieniać, zamienić
shirks - uchylić, przemilczeć, obijać się
Duty - obowiązek; służba
I felt assured that the Time Machine was only to be recovered by boldly penetrating these underground mysteries. Yet I could not face the mystery. If only I had had a companion it would have been different. But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me. I don't know if you will understand my feeling, but I never felt quite safe at my back.
boldly - śmiało, odważnie
penetrating - penetrujący; przenikać, penetrować, spenetrować, penetrować
mysteries - tajemnice; tajemnica, misterium
companion - towarzysz, towarzyszka, kompan, kompanka
horribly - strasznie, przeraźliwie
clamber - wdrapać się, wgramolić się; schodzenie, wdrapywanie się
appalled - zbulwersowany; zbulwersować, przerazić, napawać lękiem lub grozą
'It was this restlessness, this insecurity, perhaps, that drove me further and further afield in my exploring expeditions. Going to the south-westward towards the rising country that is now called Combe Wood, I observed far off, in the direction of nineteenth-century Banstead, a vast green structure, different in character from any I had hitherto seen.
restlessness - niepokój, zniecierpliwienie, wzburzenie
insecurity - brak pewności siebie, niepewność
afield - daleko, daleko od domu
exploring - eksploracja; badać, zbadać
expeditions - ekspedycja, wyprawa
westward - na zachód
wood - drewno, las
observed - obserwowany; obserwować, zaobserwować, przestrzegać, obchodzić
character - postać; charakter, usposobienie, znak
It was larger than the largest of the palaces or ruins I knew, and the facade had an Oriental look: the face of it having the lustre, as well as the pale-green tint, a kind of bluish-green, of a certain type of Chinese porcelain. This difference in aspect suggested a difference in use, and I was minded to push on and explore.
facade - fasada; front
Oriental - Azjata; orientalny
lustre - połysk, blask; żyrandol
tint - koloryzować; odcień, szampon koloryzujący
bluish - niebieskawy, sinawy
Chinese - chiński; Chińczyk
porcelain - porcelana
aspect - aspekt; widok; aspektować
in use - w użyciu
push - pchać, naciskać, odsunąć, odepchnąć
But the day was growing late, and I had come upon the sight of the place after a long and tiring circuit; so I resolved to hold over the adventure for the following day, and I returned to the welcome and the caresses of little Weena.
tiring - męczące; męczący
circuit - obieg; obwód; obchód
caresses - pieszczoty; pieszczota, pieścić, głaskać
But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded. I resolved I would make the descent without further waste of time, and started out in the early morning towards a well near the ruins of granite and aluminium.
regarding - odnośnie; mieć wzgląd, brać pod uwagę, dotyczyć
deception - oszustwo, bałamuctwo
enable - włączyć; uzdolnić, upełnomocnić, umożliwiać, umożliwić
shirk - uchylić, przemilczeć, obijać się
descent - zejście, droga w dół, pochodzenie
'Little Weena ran with me. She danced beside me to the well, but when she saw me lean over the mouth and look downward, she seemed strangely disconcerted. "Good-bye, little Weena," I said, kissing her; and then putting her down, I began to feel over the parapet for the climbing hooks. Rather hastily, I may as well confess, for I feared my courage might leak away!
strangely - dziwnie, dziwacznie
disconcerted - niepokoić, zawstydzać
Good-bye - (Good-bye) do widzenia
kissing - całowanie; całować; pocałunek
parapet - murek, gzyms, parapet, przedpiersie
hooks - hak, kotwiczka, sierpowy
feared - bać
leak - przeciek; przeciek; przeciekać
At first she watched me in amazement. Then she gave a most piteous cry, and running to me, she began to pull at me with her little hands. I think her opposition nerved me rather to proceed. I shook her off, perhaps a little roughly, and in another moment I was in the throat of the well. I saw her agonized face over the parapet, and smiled to reassure her.
amazement - zdumienie
piteous - żałosny, budzący litość
pull - ciągnąć, pociągnąć
opposition - opozycja
nerved - nerw, żyłka, odwaga, czelność, tupet, zuchwalstwo
proceed - kontynuować, iść dalej, podążać
roughly - ordynarnie, z grubsza, mniej więcej
agonized - borykać się, zadręczać
reassure - uspokoić; upewniać, upewnić
Then I had to look down at the unstable hooks to which I clung.
look down - spojrzeć w dół; być przygnębionym, smutnym, wyglądać na zdołowanego, przybitego
unstable - niestabilny, niestały
clung - przylgnął; uchwycić się czegoś, przylgnąć, opinać
'I had to clamber down a shaft of perhaps two hundred yards. The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well, and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself, I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent. And not simply fatigued!
yards - jard, dziedziniec
cramped - skurcz
One of the bars bent suddenly under my weight, and almost swung me off into the blackness beneath. For a moment I hung by one hand, and after that experience I did not dare to rest again. Though my arms and back were presently acutely painful, I went on clambering down the sheer descent with as quick a motion as possible.
weight - ciężar, waga, ciężarek, odważnik
acutely - ostro
Glancing upward, I saw the aperture, a small blue disk, in which a star was visible, while little Weena's head showed as a round black projection. The thudding sound of a machine below grew louder and more oppressive. Everything save that little disk above was profoundly dark, and when I looked up again Weena had disappeared.
glancing - (glance) zerknąć; zerknięcie, spojrzenie
aperture - otwór, szpara, szczelina, przesłona, przysłona
disk - dysk; płyta gramofonowa, płyta winylowa, płyta, winyl
projection - występ; rzucanie; wyświetlenie, projekcja, przewidywanie
thudding - dudnienie; łup, łubudu, tąpnięcie, łomot, łomotać, walić, stąpać
louder - głośniej; głośny; głośno
oppressive - opresyjny
'I was in an agony of discomfort. I had some thought of trying to go up the shaft again, and leave the Under-world alone. But even while I turned this over in my mind I continued to descend. At last, with intense relief, I saw dimly coming up, a foot to the right of me, a slender loophole in the wall.
agony - agonia
discomfort - niewygoda, dyskomfort
relief - ulga
slender - szczupły, smukły
loophole - luka, kruczek
Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest. It was not too soon. My arms ached, my back was cramped, and I was trembling with the prolonged terror of a fall. Besides this, the unbroken darkness had had a distressing effect upon my eyes. The air was full of the throb and hum of machinery pumping air down the shaft.
swinging - huśtawka; (swing) kołysać, machać, zawracać, zmieniać
tunnel - tunel
lie - leżeć, kłamać, znajdować się; kłamstwo
ached - bolało; boleć; ból
trembling - (tremble) zadrżeć, drżeć, trząść się; drżenie
prolonged - przedłużać, prolongować
unbroken - nieprzerwany
distressing - niepokojące; zagrożenie
throb - tętnić
Hum - nucić
pumping - pompować; pompa
'I do not know how long I lay. I was roused by a soft hand touching my face. Starting up in the darkness I snatched at my matches and, hastily striking one, I saw three stooping white creatures similar to the one I had seen above ground in the ruin, hastily retreating before the light.
roused - pobudzony; budzić, zbudzić, obudzić, ożywić
snatched - porwany; rwanie
striking - uderzające; uderzający; (strike); trafiać; strajkować; strajk; uderzenie
stooping - pochylony
retreating - wycofać się, uciekać; schronienie, azyl, kryjówka, ucieczka
Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive, just as are the pupils of the abysmal fishes, and they reflected the light in the same way. I have no doubt they could see me in that rayless obscurity, and they did not seem to have any fear of me apart from the light.
impenetrable - niedostępny, nieprzebyty, nieprzenikniony
abnormally - nienormalnie
sensitive - czuły; wrażliwy, drażliwy
pupils - uczniowie; uczeń, źrenica
abysmal - beznadziejny
reflected - odzwierciedlone; odbijać, odbić, odbijać się, odbić się
rayless - bezpromienny
apart - od siebie; osobno
But, so soon as I struck a match in order to see them, they fled incontinently, vanishing into dark gutters and tunnels, from which their eyes glared at me in the strangest fashion.
fled - uciekł; uciec, uciekać, zbiec, umknąć, umykać, uciec, uciekać
vanishing - (vanish) wyparować, zniknąć, pierzchnąć; znikanie; wymierający
gutters - zamigotać; rynna, rynsztok
tunnels - tunele; tunel
glared - oślepiony; blask, blask
Strangest - dziwny, nienormalny, cudaczny, niezwyczajny, osobliwy, obcy
'I tried to call to them, but the language they had was apparently different from that of the Over-world people; so that I was needs left to my own unaided efforts, and the thought of flight before exploration was even then in my mind. But I said to myself, "You are in for it now," and, feeling my way along the tunnel, I found the noise of machinery grow louder.
unaided - bez pomocy
Presently the walls fell away from me, and I came to a large open space, and striking another match, saw that I had entered a vast arched cavern, which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light. The view I had of it was as much as one could see in the burning of a match.
arched - łukowaty; wygiąć; szatan, łuk, sklepione przejście; chytry
cavern - jaskinia
stretched - rozciągnięty; rozciąganie
burning - (burn) spalić, płonąć, poparzyć; oparzenie, spalanie
'Necessarily my memory is vague. Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the glare. The place, by the by, was very stuffy and oppressive, and the faint halitus of freshly shed blood was in the air. Some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal.
necessarily - koniecznie
dimness - ciemność; półmrok, niedowidzenie, matowość
spectral - widmowy, upiorny
sheltered - chroniony; schronienie
stuffy - duszny, wyniosły, sztywny
halitus - opary
freshly - świeżo
shed blood - przelewać krew
vista - widok
The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous! Even at the time, I remember wondering what large animal could have survived to furnish the red joint I saw. It was all very indistinct: the heavy smell, the big unmeaning shapes, the obscene figures lurking in the shadows, and only waiting for the darkness to come at me again!
carnivorous - mięsożerny
survived - przeżył; przeżywać, przeżyć, przetrwać, przeżywać, przeżyć
furnish - meblować, umeblować, dostarczyć, dostarczać, zaopatrzyć
joint - wspólny; staw; złącze; cios; dżoint, joint, skręt, gibon
heavy - ciężki
smell - zapach, woń, węch, tzmysł powonienia, wąchać
unmeaning - bez znaczenia
lurking - czaisz się; (lurk) czaić się, tlić się, podpatrywać; przyczajony
Then the match burned down, and stung my fingers, and fell, a wriggling red spot in the blackness.
stung - ukłuć, użądlić, oparzyć, zaszczypać, smagnąć, dotknąć
wriggling - wiercenie się; (wriggle) kręcić się, wiercić się, skręcać
spot - cętka; plama
'I have thought since how particularly ill-equipped I was for such an experience. When I had started with the Time Machine, I had started with the absurd assumption that the men of the Future would certainly be infinitely ahead of ourselves in all their appliances.
absurd - absurdalne; absurdalny, niedorzeczny, bezsensowny, absurd
assumption - założenie; przypuszczenie; wniebowzięcie
infinitely - w nieskończoność
ourselves - siebie
I had come without arms, without medicine, without anything to smoke-at times I missed tobacco frightfully-even without enough matches. If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Underworld in a second, and examined it at leisure.
smoke - palić, dymić; palenie, dym
frightfully - przerażająco; strasznie
examined - zbadać, sprawdzać, przeprowadzić kontrolę, kontrolować
But, as it was, I stood there with only the weapons and the powers that Nature had endowed me with-hands, feet, and teeth; these, and four safety-matches that still remained to me.
weapons - broń, oręż
endowed - wspomóc, ufundować, obdarzyć
safety - bezpieczeństwo; zabezpieczenie
'I was afraid to push my way in among all this machinery in the dark, and it was only with my last glimpse of light I discovered that my store of matches had run low. It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them, and I had wasted almost half the box in astonishing the Upper-worlders, to whom fire was a novelty.
store - sklep; skład, magazyn, zapas, przechowywać, przechować
economize - oszczędzać, oszczędzić, zaoszczędzić
wasted - zmarnowane; (be) być
astonishing - zadziwiające; zdumiewać, zdumieć
novelty - nowość, błyskotka, atrakcja; zabawny
Now, as I say, I had four left, and while I stood in the dark, a hand touched mine, lank fingers came feeling over my face, and I was sensible of a peculiar unpleasant odour. I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. I felt the box of matches in my hand being gently disengaged, and other hands behind me plucking at my clothing.
mine - kopać; kopalnia, mina; mój, moje
lank - prosty, chudy, wychudzony
odour - odór, woń, zapach
beings - istoty; stwór, istota, istnienie, bycie
disengaged - odłączać, uwalniać, uwolnić, wyprzęgać, zwalniać
plucking - skubanie; wyszarpnąć, zbierać, zebrać, brzdęknąć, skubać
clothing - odzież, ubrania
The sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant. The sudden realization of my ignorance of their ways of thinking and doing came home to me very vividly in the darkness. I shouted at them as loudly as I could. They started away, and then I could feel them approaching me again. They clutched at me more boldly, whispering odd sounds to each other.
realization - realizacja; uświadomienie
ignorance - ignorancja, niewiedza, nieuctwo, nieznajomość
shouted - krzyczał; krzyczeć; krzyk, pokrzykiwania
loudly - głośno
clutched - zaciśnięty; ściskać, trzymać, uchwycić; sprzęgło, lęg, grupa
whispering - (whisper) szeptać; szept
I shivered violently, and shouted again-rather discordantly. This time they were not so seriously alarmed, and they made a queer laughing noise as they came back at me. I will confess I was horribly frightened. I determined to strike another match and escape under the protection of its glare.
discordantly - niezgodnie
alarmed - zaniepokojony; alarm, alarm, alarm, budzik, alarm, alarmować
strike - trafiać; strajkować; strajk; uderzenie
escape - wydostawać się, wydostać się, unikać, uniknąć, ucieczka
protection - ochrona
I did so, and eking out the flicker with a scrap of paper from my pocket, I made good my retreat to the narrow tunnel. But I had scarce entered this when my light was blown out and in the blackness I could hear the Morlocks rustling like wind among leaves, and pattering like the rain, as they hurried after me.
eking - uzupełnić, podreperować; oszczędnie gospodarować
blown - dmuchać, wywiać, wiać; cios, dmuchanie, niemile widziany gość
rustling - (rustle) zaszeleścić, zebrać; szelest
pattering - (pat) klepać, poklepać, pogłaskać; klepnięcie, kawałek
hurried - pośpiechu; pośpiech, śpieszyć się, przyśpieszać, przyśpieszyć
'In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back. I struck another light, and waved it in their dazzled faces. You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked-those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!-as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.
haul - holować; ciągnąć; transportować, wlec, ostrzyć, wyostrzyć
waved - machał; falować, machać; fala
nauseatingly - mdląco
chinless - z cofniętym podbródkiem
lidless - bez pokrywki, bez powieki
blindness - ślepota
bewilderment - konsternacja, zdumienie, osłupienie
But I did not stay to look, I promise you: I retreated again, and when my second match had ended, I struck my third. It had almost burned through when I reached the opening into the shaft. I lay down on the edge, for the throb of the great pump below made me giddy.
pump - pompować; pompa
giddy - zawrotny, przyprawiający o zawrót głowy, roztrzepany
Then I felt sideways for the projecting hooks, and, as I did so, my feet were grasped from behind, and I was violently tugged backward. I lit my last match … and it incontinently went out.
grasped - uchwycony; trzymać, chwytać, rozumieć, pojmować, uchwyt
tugged - pociągnąć; szarpnięcie, holownik
But I had my hand on the climbing bars now, and, kicking violently, I disengaged myself from the clutches of the Morlocks and was speedily clambering up the shaft, while they stayed peering and blinking up at me: all but one little wretch who followed me for some way, and well-nigh secured my boot as a trophy.
kicking - kopanie; kopać; kopnięcie, wierzganie nogami
clutches - sprzęgła; ściskać, trzymać, uchwycić; sprzęgło, lęg, grupa
blinking - mruganie; mrugać, migać, mrugnąć, migać, mrugać
wretch - nieszczęśnik, nikczemnik
nigh - bliski; blisko, niebawem
secured - zabezpieczone; bezpieczny, bezpieczny, bezpieczny, bezpieczny
trophy - trofeum
'That climb seemed interminable to me. With the last twenty or thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me. I had the greatest difficulty in keeping my hold. The last few yards was a frightful struggle against this faintness. Several times my head swam, and I felt all the sensations of falling.
deadly - śmiercionośny, śmiertelny
nausea - mdłości, nudności, obrzydzenie, wstręt
frightful - przerażające; okropny, straszny
against this - przeciwko temu
faintness - słabość
At last, however, I got over the well-mouth somehow, and staggered out of the ruin into the blinding sunlight. I fell upon my face. Even the soil smelt sweet and clean. Then I remember Weena kissing my hands and ears, and the voices of others among the Eloi. Then, for a time, I was insensible.
got over - przedostawać się, pokonywać (np. przeszkodę); wyzdrowieć, dochodzić do siebie (np. po chorobie, wypadku), przechorować; przeboleć, otrząsnąć się; rozwiązywać coś (np. problem), radzić sobie (z trudną sytuacją); pogodzić się z czymś (np. z utratą czego
blinding - oślepiający; (blind); ślepy, niewidomy, w ciemno, na ślepo
soil - zabrudzić; gleba
smelt - wytopić; (smell) wąchać, pachnieć, śmierdzieć
insensible - niewrażliwy
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'Now, indeed, I seemed in a worse case than before. Hitherto, except during my night's anguish at the loss of the Time Machine, I had felt a sustaining hope of ultimate escape, but that hope was staggered by these new discoveries.
anguish - udręka; boleść
sustaining - podtrzymujący; (sustain) wspierać, podtrzymywać, kontynuować
ultimate - ostateczny; ostatni; największy, najwyższy
discoveries - odkrycia; odkrycie
Hitherto I had merely thought myself impeded by the childish simplicity of the little people, and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome; but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks-a something inhuman and malign. Instinctively I loathed them.
impeded - zakłócić, przeszkodzić
simplicity - łatwość, prostota
forces - siły; zmuszać, wymuszać, narzucać; siła, oddział
overcome - pokonać; przezwyciężać, przemagać
element - pierwiastek, element, żywioł, odrobina, element
sickening - obrzydliwe
malign - spotwarzać, obrażać; szkodliwy, wrogi
loathed - znienawidzony; nienawidzić, gardzić
Before, I had felt as a man might feel who had fallen into a pit: my concern was with the pit and how to get out of it. Now I felt like a beast in a trap, whose enemy would come upon him soon.
pit - podziurawić, drylować; dół, jama
beast - zwierzę, bestia, bydlak, bydlę
enemy - wróg, nieprzyjaciel, nieprzyjaciółka, przeciwnik
'The enemy I dreaded may surprise you. It was the darkness of the new moon. Weena had put this into my head by some at first incomprehensible remarks about the Dark Nights. It was not now such a very difficult problem to guess what the coming Dark Nights might mean. The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness.
new moon - nów Księżyca
incomprehensible - niezrozumiałe
remarks - uwagi; zauważyć, komentować, napomknąć; uwaga
And I now understood to some slight degree at least the reason of the fear of the little Upper-world people for the dark. I wondered vaguely what foul villainy it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong.
degree - stopień naukowy; stopień
villainy - łajdactwo, łotrostwo, nikczemność
hypothesis - hipoteza, przypuszczenie
The Upper-world people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship. The Eloi, like the Carolingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility.
favoured - faworyzowany; woleć, sprzyjać; przysługa
mechanical - mechaniczny
evolution - ewolucja
relationship - związek, powiązanie, relacja, stosunek, pokrewieństwo
Carolingian - karoliński
Kings - królowie; król
decayed - rozkład, rozkład, degradacja
futility - daremność, bezsens
They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. And the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs, perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service.
possessed - opętany; posiadać, opętać
sufferance - cierpliwość, tolerowanie, dzierżawa z łaski
daylit - światło dzienne
intolerable - nie do zniesienia
inferred - wnioskować, wywnioskować, dedukować, wydedukować
maintained - utrzymać
habitual - notoryczny, nałogowy, zwykły
service - serwisować; usługa, obsługa, praca
They did it as a standing horse paws with his foot, or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism. But, clearly, the old order was already in part reversed. The Nemesis of the delicate ones was creeping on apace. Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine.
paws - łapy; drapać, skrobać, obmacać, obłapić; łapa, ręka
killing - (kill) zabić; zabicie; zabójstwo; zabójczy
ancient - starożytny, wiekowy, sędziwy
departed - odchodzić, odjeżdżać, odlatywać, odstąpić
impressed - imponować, odciskać, wywierać; piętno
organism - organizm
reversed - odwrócony; odwracać, zmieniać, cofać; porażka; odwrotny
Nemesis - Nemesis; niemożliwy do pokonania wróg
apace - co żywo, szybko
thrust - pchnięcie; forsować, sforsować
And now that brother was coming back changed! Already the Eloi had begun to learn one old lesson anew. They were becoming reacquainted with Fear. And suddenly there came into my head the memory of the meat I had seen in the Under-world. It seemed odd how it floated into my mind: not stirred up as it were by the current of my meditations, but coming in almost like a question from outside.
anew - znowu, ponownie, na nowo, od nowa
reacquainted - ponownie poznać
floated - unosił się na wodzie; paca, packa
stirred up - podburzony; zamieszany; zmącony
meditations - medytacja, medytacja
I tried to recall the form of it. I had a vague sense of something familiar, but I could not tell what it was at the time.
recall - wycofać; przywołanie, odwołanie, pamięć, pokrycie
familiar - znany, znajomy, nieobcy, bliski, poufały
'Still, however helpless the little people in the presence of their mysterious Fear, I was differently constituted. I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors. I at least would defend myself. Without further delay I determined to make myself arms and a fastness where I might sleep.
differently - inaczej
ripe - dojrzały, soczysty, dosadny, rubaszny, porządny, doskonały
prime - liczba pierwsza; główny, pierwszorzędny
paralyse - (paralyze) sparaliżować
terrors - przerażenia; groza, terror
defend - bronić
delay - opóźniać, odkładać; opóźnienie
fastness - twierdza, solidność, trwałość, szybkość
With that refuge as a base, I could face this strange world with some of that confidence I had lost in realizing to what creatures night by night I lay exposed. I felt I could never sleep again until my bed was secure from them. I shuddered with horror to think how they must already have examined me.
refuge - schronienie, schronisko, azyl, przytułek, schronienie
base - bazować, opierać się, ugruntować; baza, podstawa
realizing - realizować, zrealizować, urzeczywistniać, urzeczywistnić
by night - w nocy, nocą
exposed - narażony
shuddered - zadrżał; wzdrygać
'I wandered during the afternoon along the valley of the Thames, but found nothing that commended itself to my mind as inaccessible. All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, to judge by their wells, must be.
wandered - wędrował; włóczyć
commended - pochwalić, polecić, powierzyć
practicable - wykonalne; wykonalny
dexterous - zręczny, umiejętny, wprawny, gibki
climbers - wspinacz, alpinista, pnącze
judge - osądzać; sędzia
Then the tall pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain and the polished gleam of its walls came back to my memory; and in the evening, taking Weena like a child upon my shoulder, I went up the hills towards the south-west. The distance, I had reckoned, was seven or eight miles, but it must have been nearer eighteen.
pinnacles - szczyty; pinakiel, sterczyna, fiala
reckoned - myśleć, sądzić, przypuszczać, liczyć
I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished. In addition, the heel of one of my shoes was loose, and a nail was working through the sole-they were comfortable old shoes I wore about indoors-so that I was lame. And it was already long past sunset when I came in sight of the palace, silhouetted black against the pale yellow of the sky.
moist - wilgotny
distances - odległości; odległość, droga, dystans, dystansować
deceptively - zwodniczo
heel - przechylać się; obcas, pięta
nail - przybić gwoździem, przybić; paznokieć, gwóźdź, ćwiek
indoors - halowy, domowy, pokojowy, we wnętrzach, kryty
lame - kiepski; kulejący, kulawy, słaby, nudny
silhouetted - zarys, kontur, sylwetka
pale yellow - bladożółty
'Weena had been hugely delighted when I began to carry her, but after a while she desired me to let her down, and ran along by the side of me, occasionally darting off on either hand to pick flowers to stick in my pockets. My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.
hugely - ogromnie
delighted - zachwycony; radość, rozkosz, przyjemność, zachwyt, cieszyć
desired - pożądane; pragnąć, pożądać, pożądać, pragnienie
Occasionally - od czasu do czasu; okazjonalnie
darting - rzutki; rzucić się, wbić, rzucić szybkie spojrzenie; strzałka
pick - wybrać; kilof, oskard, czekan, wytrych, wybór, prawo wyboru
concluded - wywnioskować, zakończyć
eccentric - ekscentryczny; ekscentryk, ekscentryczka, ekscentrycy
vase - wazon
floral - kwiatowy
decoration - dekoracja, ozdoba
At least she utilized them for that purpose. And that reminds me! In changing my jacket I found…'
utilized - wykorzystać, wyeksploatować
purpose - cel
reminds - przypominać, przypomnieć
The Time Traveller paused, put his hand into his pocket, and silently placed two withered flowers, not unlike very large white mallows, upon the little table. Then he resumed his narrative.
paused - wstrzymany; pauzować, przerywać, pauza, przerwa
silently - po cichu; cicho, bezdźwięcznie, bezgłośnie, bezszelestnie
withered - usychać, więdnąć, zamierać, zanikać, niszczyć; (arch) gdzie
unlike - w przeciwieństwie do; niepodobny, w odróżnieniu
mallows - ślaz
narrative - narracja; relacja
'As the hush of evening crept over the world and we proceeded over the hill crest towards Wimbledon, Weena grew tired and wanted to return to the house of grey stone. But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her, and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear.
Hush - cicho; zamilknąć; uciszyć, uciszać
contrived - zaaranżować, zdołać coś zrobić
You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk? Even the breeze stops in the trees. To me there is always an air of expectation about that evening stillness. The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset. Well, that night the expectation took the colour of my fears. In that darkling calm my senses seemed preternaturally sharpened.
dusk - zmierzch
breeze - bryza
expectation - oczekiwanie, przewidywanie
stillness - bezruch, spokój, cisza
empty - pusty, próżny, opróżnić
darkling - ciemniejący; po ciemku, w ciemności
senses - zmysły
preternaturally - nadnaturalnie
sharpened - naostrzone; ostrzyć
I fancied I could even feel the hollowness of the ground beneath my feet: could, indeed, almost see through it the Morlocks on their ant-hill going hither and thither and waiting for the dark. In my excitement I fancied that they would receive my invasion of their burrows as a declaration of war. And why had they taken my Time Machine?
hollowness - pustota, nieszczerość
see through - wspierać kogoś w trakcie czegoś; przejrzeć kogoś na wylot
ant - mrówka
hither - tutaj, dotąd
receive - dostać, otrzymać
invasion - inwazja
burrows - nory; jama, nora, tunel, kopać
declaration - deklaracja, oświadczenie, zaświadczenie
'So we went on in the quiet, and the twilight deepened into night. The clear blue of the distance faded, and one star after another came out. The ground grew dim and the trees black. Weena's fears and her fatigue grew upon her. I took her in my arms and talked to her and caressed her.
deepened - pogłębiony; pogłębiać, pogłębić
caressed - pieszczony; pieszczota, pieścić, głaskać
Then, as the darkness grew deeper, she put her arms round my neck, and, closing her eyes, tightly pressed her face against my shoulder. So we went down a long slope into a valley, and there in the dimness I almost walked into a little river. This I waded, and went up the opposite side of the valley, past a number of sleeping houses, and by a statue-a Faun, or some such figure, minus the head.
tightly - mocno; ciasno
waded - plik, zwitek, pęk
opposite side - przeciwległa; przeciwna strona
statue - posąg, statua
Faun - Faun, Faunus
minus - minus; ujemny
Here too were acacias. So far I had seen nothing of the Morlocks, but it was yet early in the night, and the darker hours before the old moon rose were still to come.
acacias - akacje; Acacia
'From the brow of the next hill I saw a thick wood spreading wide and black before me. I hesitated at this. I could see no end to it, either to the right or the left. Feeling tired-my feet, in particular, were very sore-I carefully lowered Weena from my shoulder as I halted, and sat down upon the turf. I could no longer see the Palace of Green Porcelain, and I was in doubt of my direction.
brow - brwi; czoło, brew, grzbiet, grań
spreading - rozprzestrzenianie się; (spread); podzielić; rozłożyć; smarować
sore - rana, bolące miejsce; bolący, obolały
lowered - obniżone; (low) obniżać; niski; niższy
I looked into the thickness of the wood and thought of what it might hide. Under that dense tangle of branches one would be out of sight of the stars. Even were there no other lurking danger-a danger I did not care to let my imagination loose upon-there would still be all the roots to stumble over and the tree-boles to strike against.
hide - ukryć; chować, ukrywać; skóra
dense - gęsty, szczelny, zwarty, zbity, tępy
branches - oddziały; gałąź, rozgałęzienie
roots - korzenie; zakorzeniać się, grzebać; korzeń, podstawa, źródło
stumble - potknięcie się; potknięcie; potykać się, potknąć się
boles - pień, bolus, pulment
'I was very tired, too, after the excitements of the day; so I decided that I would not face it, but would pass the night upon the open hill.
excitements - podekscytowanie
pass the night - zanocować, spędzić noc
'Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise. The hill-side was quiet and deserted, but from the black of the wood there came now and then a stir of living things. Above me shone the stars, for the night was very clear. I felt a certain sense of friendly comfort in their twinkling.
Glad - zadowolony
asleep - spać; uśpiony, śpiący
wrapped - opakowane; zawijać, owijać; szal
moonrise - wschód księżyca; wschód księżyc
All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes, had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings. But the Milky Way, it seemed to me, was still the same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore.
constellations - gwiazdozbiór, konstelacja, gwiazdozbiór, konstelacja
imperceptible - niezauważalny
lifetimes - życie
rearranged - poprawić, przestawić, przesunąć, przemeblować, zmienić
groupings - bateria
Milky Way - Droga Mleczna
streamer - proporzec, proporczyk, wimpel
yore - zamierzchłe czasy, dawne czasy
Southward (as I judged it) was a very bright red star that was new to me; it was even more splendid than our own green Sirius. And amid all these scintillating points of light one bright planet shone kindly and steadily like the face of an old friend.
southward - na południe
more splendid - bardziej okazały; piękny; znakomity; wyborny
Sirius - Syriusz
scintillating - mienić się, błyszczeć
kindly - uprzejmy; uprzejmie, życzliwie, z życzliwością
'Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. I thought of the great precessional cycle that the pole of the earth describes.
dwarfed - krasnolud, karzeł, karzeł, karzeł, karłowaty
troubles - kłopoty, bieda, nieprzyjemność, przykrość, kłopot, problem
gravities - powaga, ciążenie
terrestrial - ziemski; nadziemny; naziemny
unfathomable - niezgłębiony
precessional - precesyjny
cycle - cykl, obrót, jechać na rowerze
pole - biegun, kijek, tyczka, słup
Only forty times had that silent revolution occurred during all the years that I had traversed. And during these few revolutions all the activity, all the traditions, the complex organizations, the nations, languages, literatures, aspirations, even the mere memory of Man as I knew him, had been swept out of existence.
traversed - przemierzone; trawersować
revolutions - rewolucja, przewrót, obrót, obrót, przewrót, rewolucja
traditions - tradycje; tradycja
organizations - organizacja, organizacja
nations - narodów; naród
literatures - literatura, literatura
aspirations - aspiracja, dążenie, przydech, wdech, wdychanie
Instead were these frail creatures who had forgotten their high ancestry, and the white Things of which I went in terror. Then I thought of the Great Fear that was between the two species, and for the first time, with a sudden shiver, came the clear knowledge of what the meat I had seen might be. Yet it was too horrible!
ancestry - pochodzenie; przodkowie
shiver - zadrżeć, zatrząść się, roztrzaskać; drżenie, dreszcze, ciarki
I looked at little Weena sleeping beside me, her face white and starlike under the stars, and forthwith dismissed the thought.
starlike - przypominający gwiazdę
dismissed - odrzucić, zwolnić, zakończyć
'Through that long night I held my mind off the Morlocks as well as I could, and whiled away the time by trying to fancy I could find signs of the old constellations in the new confusion. The sky kept very clear, except for a hazy cloud or so. No doubt I dozed at times.
dozed - zdrzemnąć się, zasnąć; drzemka
Then, as my vigil wore on, came a faintness in the eastward sky, like the reflection of some colourless fire, and the old moon rose, thin and peaked and white. And close behind, and overtaking it, and overflowing it, the dawn came, pale at first, and then growing pink and warm. No Morlocks had approached us. Indeed, I had seen none upon the hill that night.
wore on - nosić na sobie; ciągnąć się (np. czas); wnerwiać, działać na nerwy
eastward - na wschód
peaked - osiągnął szczyt; szczyt
overtaking - wyprzedzać, ogarniać, przeganiać
overflowing - przepełnienie; (overflow) zalać, zalewać
approached - podszedł; zbliżać się; podejście
And in the confidence of renewed day it almost seemed to me that my fear had been unreasonable. I stood up and found my foot with the loose heel swollen at the ankle and painful under the heel; so I sat down again, took off my shoes, and flung them away.
unreasonable - nierozsądne; nierozsądny
swollen - spuchnięte; pęcznieć, spuchnąć, nabrzmiewać
ankle - kostka
'I awakened Weena, and we went down into the wood, now green and pleasant instead of black and forbidding. We found some fruit wherewith to break our fast. We soon met others of the dainty ones, laughing and dancing in the sunlight as though there was no such thing in nature as the night. And then I thought once more of the meat that I had seen.
forbidding - zabronione; nieprzyjazny; (forbid); zakazywać, zakazać
wherewith - czym, za pomocą czego/którego
dainty - arcydelikatny
I felt assured now of what it was, and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity. Clearly, at some time in the Long-Ago of human decay the Morlocks'food had run short. Possibly they had lived on rats and such-like vermin. Even now man is far less discriminating and exclusive in his food than he was-far less than any monkey.
bottom - dno; dolina; zadek, tyłek, pasyw
pitied - żałowany; współczucie
feeble - słaby, nieprzekonujący, marny, nieudolny
rill - strumyczek; (neologizm) brillig - mrusztławy
flood - powódź, potop, ogrom, nawał, natłok
run short - kończyć się, wyczerpać, wyczerpywać się
rats - szczury; szczur, kapuś; szczurzy
discriminating - dyskryminować
monkey - małpa
His prejudice against human flesh is no deep-seated instinct. And so these inhuman sons of men--! I tried to look at the thing in a scientific spirit. After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago. And the intelligence that would have made this state of things a torment had gone. Why should I trouble myself?
prejudice - uprzedzenia; uprzedzenie
instinct - instynkt
cannibal - antropofag
torment - męka, udręka, cierpienie, męczyć, nękać
These Eloi were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon-probably saw to the breeding of. And there was Weena dancing at my side!
preyed - zdobycz, żer, zdobycz, pastwa
'Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness. Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.
preserve - przetwór; zachować
rigorous - rygorystyczny
punishment - karę; karanie, kara, kaźń, wycisk
selfishness - egoizm
content - treści; zadowalać; zawartość; zadowolony
labours - pracy; praca, robota, poród, pracować
watchword - hasło, zawołanie, odzew
Excuse - słucham; wybaczać, wybaczyć, przebaczać, przebaczyć
fullness - pełność, obszerność, sutość
I even tried a Carlyle-like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay. But this attitude of mind was impossible. However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.
scorn - gardzić, lekceważyć, wzgardzić, odrzucić, szydzić, drwić
wretched - nędzny
degradation - poniżenie, degradacja
claim - roszczenie; twierdzić
sympathy - współczucie; sympatia
perforce - siłą rzeczy, z konieczności
sharer - udziałowiec, uczestnik
'I had at that time very vague ideas as to the course I should pursue. My first was to secure some safe place of refuge, and to make myself such arms of metal or stone as I could contrive. That necessity was immediate. In the next place, I hoped to procure some means of fire, so that I should have the weapon of a torch at hand, for nothing, I knew, would be more efficient against these Morlocks.
pursue - ścigać
place of refuge - azyl, schronienie
contrive - zaaranżować, zdołać coś zrobić
immediate - natychmiastowy, bezpośredni, bezzwłoczny, niezwłoczny
procure - nabyć; stręczyć; wystarać się, sprokurować
weapon - broń, oręż
torch - latarka; pochodnia, żagiew, łuczywo
Then I wanted to arrange some contrivance to break open the doors of bronze under the White Sphinx. I had in mind a battering ram. I had a persuasion that if I could enter those doors and carry a blaze of light before me I should discover the Time Machine and escape. I could not imagine the Morlocks were strong enough to move it far away. Weena I had resolved to bring with me to our own time.
arrange - zorganizować; zaaranżować
contrivance - urządzenie, podstęp, pomysłowość
break open - wyłamać, wywawżyć coś (siłą)
battering - zbić, poturbować, tłuc o, uderzać o, zbombardować
ram - RAM
persuasion - perswazja
And turning such schemes over in my mind I pursued our way towards the building which my fancy had chosen as our dwelling.
schemes - plan, program, schemat, intryga
dwelling - mieszkania; (dwell) zamieszkiwać, przebywać, rezydować
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'I found the Palace of Green Porcelain, when we approached it about noon, deserted and falling into ruin. Only ragged vestiges of glass remained in its windows, and great sheets of the green facing had fallen away from the corroded metallic framework.
noon - południe
ragged - (rag) nabijać się, dokuczać; szmata, gazeta; wystrzępiony
vestiges - ślad
It lay very high upon a turfy down, and looking north-eastward before I entered it, I was surprised to see a large estuary, or even creek, where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been. I thought then-though I never followed up the thought-of what might have happened, or might be happening, to the living things in the sea.
turfy - darniowy, trawiasty
surprised - zaskoczony; niespodzianka, zaskoczenie
estuary - estuarium
Creek - dopływ, potok
'The material of the Palace proved on examination to be indeed porcelain, and along the face of it I saw an inscription in some unknown character. I thought, rather foolishly, that Weena might help me to interpret this, but I only learned that the bare idea of writing had never entered her head. She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.
proved - udowodnione; okazać się, dowodzić, udowadniać
foolishly - głupio, niemądrze
Interpret - interpretować, zinterpretować
more human - bardziej ludzki
'Within the big valves of the door-which were open and broken-we found, instead of the customary hall, a long gallery lit by many side windows. At the first glance I was reminded of a museum. The tiled floor was thick with dust, and a remarkable array of miscellaneous objects was shrouded in the same grey covering.
valves - zawory; zawór, wentyl, zawór, zastawka
customary - przyjęty, zwyczajowy, powszechny
tiled - pokryć, wyłożyć; dachówka, kafelek, płytka ceramiczna
array - ubiór, odzienie, obleczenie, strój, tablica, odziewać
miscellaneous - różne
shrouded - zasłonięty; owijać, ukryć, przykryć; całun, zasłona
covering - (cover) przykryć, nakryć, okryć, zakryć; pokrywa, pokrycie
Then I perceived, standing strange and gaunt in the centre of the hall, what was clearly the lower part of a huge skeleton. I recognized by the oblique feet that it was some extinct creature after the fashion of the Megatherium.
gaunt - chudy; szczupły; wymizerowany
lower part - dolna część
skeleton - szkielet, chudzina
oblique - ukośnik; ukośny, skośny
extinct - wygasły, zagasły, martwy, wymarły
The skull and the upper bones lay beside it in the thick dust, and in one place, where rain-water had dropped through a leak in the roof, the thing itself had been worn away. Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus. My museum hypothesis was confirmed.
bones - kości; kość, puzon
beside it - obok tego
barrel - beczka; lufa
Brontosaurus - brontozaur
confirmed - potwierdzone; bierzmować, potwierdzać, potwierdzić
Going towards the side I found what appeared to be sloping shelves, and clearing away the thick dust, I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time. But they must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.
sloping - nachylenie; przelewać, wylewać; pomyje, breja
shelves - półki; półka, regał
clearing away - uprzątać coś, usuwać coś
cases - przypadki; sprawa, przypadek
air-tight - (air-tight) szczelny
preservation - ochrona, zachowanie, utrzymanie
Contents - treść; zadowalać; zawartość; zadowolony
'Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington!
Here, apparently, was the Palaeontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures.
fossils - skamieniałość
staved - przedziurawić; klepka beczki, pięciolinia, zwrotka
bacteria - bakterie; (bacterium); bakteria
hundredths - setny
sureness - pewność, niezawodność
slowness - powolność
treasures - skarby; skarb
Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds. And the cases had in some instances been bodily removed-by the Morlocks as I judged. The place was very silent. The thick dust deadened our footsteps.
traces - ślady; namierzać, wyśledzić, śledzić; ślad, uprzęż, poszlaka
threaded - nić, nitka, wątek, wątek, wątek, temat
strings - struny; sznurek, struna, struna, struna
reeds - trzciny; trzcina, stroik; stroikowy
instances - instancje; zdarzenie
bodily - ciało; cielesny
deadened - przyciszyć, stłumić, uśmierzyć, złagodzić, oszukać, ostudzić
Footsteps - odgłos kroku, krok, ślad
Weena, who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case, presently came, as I stared about me, and very quietly took my hand and stood beside me.
rolling - toczenia; (roll) toczyć się, zwijać, skręcać, spływać
sea urchin - jeżowiec
sloping - zbocze
'And at first I was so much surprised by this ancient monument of an intellectual age, that I gave no thought to the possibilities it presented. Even my preoccupation about the Time Machine receded a little from my mind.
monument - zabytek; pomnik, monument
preoccupation - troska, zaabsorbowanie
receded - ustąpił; cofnąć, oddalić, minąć, odchodzić, ustępować
'To judge from the size of the place, this Palace of Green Porcelain had a great deal more in it than a Gallery of Palaeontology; possibly historical galleries; it might be, even a library! To me, at least in my present circumstances, these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of oldtime geology in decay. Exploring, I found another short gallery running transversely to the first.
deal - transakcja, umowa, układ
Palaeontology - paleontologia
historical - historyczne
galleries - galerie; galeria
vastly - daleko, bez porównania, ogromnie, wybitnie
spectacle - widowisko, spektakl
geology - geologia
transversely - poprzecznie
This appeared to be devoted to minerals, and the sight of a block of sulphur set my mind running on gunpowder. But I could find no saltpeter; indeed, no nitrates of any kind. Doubtless they had deliquesced ages ago. Yet the sulphur hung in my mind, and set up a train of thinking.
devoted - poświęcone
minerals - minerał, mineralny
sulphur - siarka; siarczany
gunpowder - proch strzelniczy
saltpeter - saletra
nitrates - azotan
doubtless - bez wątpienia; bez wątpliwości
deliquesced - rozpływać się pod wpływem wilgoci
As for the rest of the contents of that gallery, though on the whole they were the best preserved of all I saw, I had little interest. I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered. Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition.
mineralogy - mineralogia
aisle - nawa boczna; przejście; alejka
parallel - równoległe; równoległy; równolegle; równoleżnik
natural history - historia naturalna
recognition - rozpoznanie; uznanie
A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all! I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad to trace the patent readjustments by which the conquest of animated nature had been attained.
shrivelled - marszczyć, zmarszczyć
blackened - poczerniały; czernić, zaczernić, oczerniać, oczernić, czernieć
stuffed - wypchane; rzeczy, bambetle, wypchać, napchać, nadziewać
desiccated - suszyć
mummies - mumifikować; mumia, mamusia, mama
jars - drażnić, szarpać; słoik, wstrząs
been glad - cieszyć się; być zadowolonym
patent - opatentować; oczywisty, jawny, opatentowany
readjustments - ponowna regulacja, przystosowanie się na nowo, dostosowanie się
Then we came to a gallery of simply colossal proportions, but singularly ill-lit, the floor of it running downward at a slight angle from the end at which I entered. At intervals white globes hung from the ceiling-many of them cracked and smashed-which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit.
proportions - proporcje; proporcja, odsetek, proporcja, proporcja, proporcja
angle - kąt; Angl
intervals - interwały; interwał, odstęp, interwał, interwał, przedział
globes - kula ziemska, glob, glob ziemski, globus
ceiling - sufit
smashed - stłuc, rozwalić, zbankrutować; huk, zderzenie, kolizja, krach
originally - oryginalnie
artificially - sztucznie
Here I was more in my element, for rising on either side of me were the huge bulks of big machines, all greatly corroded and many broken down, but some still fairly complete. You know I have a certain weakness for mechanism, and I was inclined to linger among these; the more so as for the most part they had the interest of puzzles, and I could make only the vaguest guesses at what they were for.
bulks - wielkość, masa, objętość
broken down - popsuty, zepsuty; załamany (psychicznie)
linger - zwlekać, utrzymać, trwać, zostać, utrzymywać się
puzzles - zagadki; zagadka, łamigłówka, zagadka, rebus
vaguest - niejasny
I fancied that if I could solve their puzzles I should find myself in possession of powers that might be of use against the Morlocks.
solve - rozwiązywać, rozwiązać
'Suddenly Weena came very close to my side. So suddenly that she startled me. Had it not been for her I do not think I should have noticed that the floor of the gallery sloped at all. [Footnote: It may be, of course, that the floor did not slope, but that the museum was built into the side of a hill.-ED.] The end I had come in at was quite above ground, and was lit by rare slit-like windows.
sloped - zbocze
Footnote - przypis
slit - rozciąć; szpara
As you went down the length, the ground came up against these windows, until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each, and only a narrow line of daylight at the top. I went slowly along, puzzling about the machines, and had been too intent upon them to notice the gradual diminution of the light, until Weena's increasing apprehensions drew my attention.
puzzling - zastanawiające; (puzzle); zagadka; łamigłówka, rebus
intent - zamiary, intencje, cel; skupiony
diminution - zmniejszenie, obniżenie, osłabienie, redukcja
apprehensions - obawy; zatrzymanie
Then I saw that the gallery ran down at last into a thick darkness. I hesitated, and then, as I looked round me, I saw that the dust was less abundant and its surface less even. Further away towards the dimness, it appeared to be broken by a number of small narrow footprints. My sense of the immediate presence of the Morlocks revived at that.
ran down - przeczytać coś (listę); wyładować się, wyczerpać się (o baterii, akumulatorze); zmniejszać nakłady
be broken - zostać; być złamanym
revived - odnawiać, wznawiać, wskrzeszać, przywracać do życia
I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery. I called to mind that it was already far advanced in the afternoon, and that I had still no weapon, no refuge, and no means of making a fire. And then down in the remote blackness of the gallery I heard a peculiar pattering, and the same odd noises I had heard down the well.
academic - akademicki; akademik, akademiczka
'I took Weena's hand. Then, struck with a sudden idea, I left her and turned to a machine from which projected a lever not unlike those in a signal-box. Clambering upon the stand, and grasping this lever in my hands, I put all my weight upon it sideways. Suddenly Weena, deserted in the central aisle, began to whimper.
signal - sygnał
grasping - chwytanie; trzymać, chwytać, rozumieć, pojmować, uchwyt
whimper - skomleć, kwilić
I had judged the strength of the lever pretty correctly, for it snapped after a minute's strain, and I rejoined her with a mace in my hand more than sufficient, I judged, for any Morlock skull I might encounter. And I longed very much to kill a Morlock or so. Very inhuman, you may think, to want to go killing one's own descendants!
correctly - poprawnie, prawidłowo, właściwie
snapped - zatrzaśnięty; odpyskiwać, odpyskowywać, odpyskować
strain - nadwyrężać, odsączać; odmiana, szczep, obciążenie, wysiłek
rejoined - dołączył; powrócić, przyłączyć się powtórnie, odpowiedzieć
mace - gałka muszkatołowa, maczuga
sufficient - wystarczające; dostateczny, wystarczający
encounter - spotkanie, kontakt, zetknięcie; potyczka, spotkanie (np. drużyn sportowych); napotykać, spotykać, natykać się; natrafiać (np. na opór), doświadczać, stawać wobec (np. nowego doświadczenia); zmierzać się (w sporcie)
kill - zabić
But it was impossible, somehow, to feel any humanity in the things. Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.
disinclination - niechęć
slake - ugasić, zaspokoić
thirst - pragnienie; spragniony
murder - morderstwo, zabójstwo, zabić, zamordować
suffer - cierpieć, pokutować
restrained - powściągliwy; pohamować, powstrzymać, ograniczyć, obezwładniać
brutes - brutal, bestia, zwierzę; brutalny, zwierzęcy
'Well, mace in one hand and Weena in the other, I went out of that gallery and into another and still larger one, which at the first glance reminded me of a military chapel hung with tattered flags. The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They had long since dropped to pieces, and every semblance of print had left them.
military - wojskowy, wojenny, wojskowy, siły zbrojne, wojsko, armia
chapel - kaplica
flags - flagi; oznakować, zaznaczać; flaga
charred - zwęglony
rags - szmaty; nabijać się, dokuczać; szmata, gazeta
decaying - rozkład, rozkład, degradacja
semblance - wrażenie
print - drukować; pisać drukowanymi literami; odbitka
But here and there were warped boards and cracked metallic clasps that told the tale well enough. Had I been a literary man I might, perhaps, have moralized upon the futility of all ambition. But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.
warped - wypaczony; wypaczyć, odkształcić, zwichrować, skazić
boards - tablice; tablica, deska
clasps - klamra
literary - literacki
moralized - moralizować, prawić morały lub kazania
Ambition - ambicja
keenest - najchętniej; zapalony, wyostrzony
enormous - ogromne; ogromny, olbrzymi
wilderness - dzicz, manowce, pustkowie, pustynia
rotting - gnić, gnić
testified - zeznawać
At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the Philosophical Transactions and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.
transactions - transakcje; transakcja, transakcja, transakcja, transakcja
optics - wzrokowy, optyczny
'Then, going up a broad staircase, we came to what may once have been a gallery of technical chemistry. And here I had not a little hope of useful discoveries. Except at one end where the roof had collapsed, this gallery was well preserved. I went eagerly to every unbroken case. And at last, in one of the really air-tight cases, I found a box of matches. Very eagerly I tried them.
technical - techniczne; techniczny; pickup wojskowy
chemistry - chemia; chemo-, chemio-
eagerly - chętnie, z przejęciem
tight - ciasno; ciasny
They were perfectly good. They were not even damp. I turned to Weena. "Dance," I cried to her in her own tongue. For now I had a weapon indeed against the horrible creatures we feared. And so, in that derelict museum, upon the thick soft carpeting of dust, to Weena's huge delight, I solemnly performed a kind of composite dance, whistling The Land of the Leal as cheerfully as I could.
damp - wilgotny
feared - bać się, obawiać się; strach
carpeting - (carpet) wyłożyć; dywan
performed - wykonywane; wykonywać, wykonać, wykonać
composite - połączonie; złożony, łączny
whistling - gwizdanie; (whistle) gwizdać, śmignąć; gwizdek, gwizd
In part it was a modest cancan, in part a step dance, in part a skirt-dance (so far as my tail-coat permitted), and in part original. For I am naturally inventive, as you know.
cancan - kankan
tail - śledzić kogoś; ogon, kita, część końcowa, poła
permitted - dozwolone; pozwalać, zezwalać
original - oryginalny; oryginał, pierwowzór, wzorzec, prawzór
inventive - pomysłowy
'Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate thing. Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed.
escaped - uciekł; wydostawać się, wydostać się, unikać, uniknąć, ucieczka
immemorial - od niepamiętnych czasów
most strange - najdziwniejszy
fortunate - szczęśliwy; fortunny
unlikelier - nieprawdopodobne
camphor - kamfora
by chance - przypadkiem, trafem
hermetically sealed - szczelnie zapieczętowany, hermetycznie zamknięty
I fancied at first that it was paraffin wax, and smashed the glass accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries. It reminded me of a sepia painting I had once seen done from the ink of a fossil Belemnite that must have perished and become fossilized millions of years ago.
paraffin - parafina, alkan, parafinować
wax - wosk
accordingly - odpowiednio, stosownie, więc, zatem
unmistakable - nie do pomylenia; nieomylny, niepowtarzalny, wyraźny
volatile - lotny; niestabilny, zmienny, ulotny, nieuchwytny, napięty
sepia - sepia, mątwa
Belemnite - belemnit
perished - ginąć, zginąć
fossilized - kostnieć, skostnieć
I was about to throw it away, but I remembered that it was inflammable and burned with a good bright flame-was, in fact, an excellent candle-and I put it in my pocket. I found no explosives, however, nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors. As yet my iron crowbar was the most helpful thing I had chanced upon. Nevertheless I left that gallery greatly elated.
throw - rzucać; wyrzucić, rzucić, niedbale położyć
inflammable - palny
explosives - wybuchowy, wybuchowy, materiał wybuchowy
breaking down - popsuć, zepsuć się; załamać się (psychicznie); wybuchnąć płaczem, zalać się łzami
iron - żelazo; żelazny; prasować, wyprasować, uprasować
crowbar - łom
most helpful - najbardziej pomocny
elated - uszczęśliwiać, wprawiać w euforyczny nastrój
'I cannot tell you all the story of that long afternoon. It would require a great effort of memory to recall my explorations in at all the proper order. I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword. I could not carry both, however, and my bar of iron promised best against the bronze gates.
rusting - (rust) rdza, zardzewieć
hatchet - topór, siekiera
sword - miecz
of iron - z żelaza
promised - obiecał; obietnica, obiecywać, obiecać
There were numbers of guns, pistols, and rifles. The most were masses of rust, but many were of some new metal, and still fairly sound. But any cartridges or powder there may once have been had rotted into dust. One corner I saw was charred and shattered; perhaps, I thought, by an explosion among the specimens.
guns - broń; pistolet
pistols - pistolety; pistolet
rifles - karabiny; karabin, gwintówka
masses - masy; napady MAS (Morgani-Adams-Stokes)
cartridges - nabój, kartridż, kaseta drukująca, wkład drukujący, kartusz
powder - proszek, puder
rotted - zgniły
charred - zwęglony; pracować jako sprzątaczka; sprzątaczka
shattered - niszczyć, rozwiewać, roztrzaskać
In another place was a vast array of idols-Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.
another place - inne miejsce
idols - bożek, bałwan, idol, idol, idolka
Polynesian - polinezyjski; Polinezyjczyk, Polinezyjka
Mexican - Meksykanin, Meksykanka, meksykański
Grecian - Grek; grecki
yielding - plonowanie; (yield) ustąpić, poddać się, dawać; ustępliwy
steatite - steatyt
'As the evening drew on, my interest waned. I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher. In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine, and then by the merest accident I discovered, in an air-tight case, two dynamite cartridges! I shouted "Eureka!" and smashed the case with joy.
waned - osłabł; słabnąć, zanikać, zmniejszać, blednąć; zanik
exhibits - pokazywać, pokazać, wystawić, wystawiać, eksponat
lignite - węgiel brunatny
fresher - (fresh) świeży
tin - cyna, puszka, konserwa, blacha, cynowy, bielić, cynować
merest - sam, samodzielny, zwyczajny
accident - wypadek
dynamite - dynamit; laska dynamitu
joy - radość
Then came a doubt. I hesitated. Then, selecting a little side gallery, I made my essay. I never felt such a disappointment as I did in waiting five, ten, fifteen minutes for an explosion that never came. Of course the things were dummies, as I might have guessed from their presence.
selecting - wybierać, wybrać, selekcjonować
essay - wypracowanie, praca, esej
dummies - głupek, manekin, kukła, atrapa, dziadek
I really believe that had they not been so, I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx, bronze doors, and (as it proved) my chances of finding the Time Machine, all together into non-existence.
chances - szanse; szansa
non - nie
'It was after that, I think, that we came to a little open court within the palace. It was turfed, and had three fruit-trees. So we rested and refreshed ourselves. Towards sunset I began to consider our position. Night was creeping upon us, and my inaccessible hiding-place had still to be found. But that troubled me very little now.
Court - dziedziniec, podwórze, dwór, trybunał, sąd
turfed - darń, torf, wyścigi konne, terytorium
fruit-trees - (fruit-trees) drzewa owocowe
refreshed - odświeżony; odświeżyć
Consider - rozważyć; rozważać; uważać, uznawać, obserwować, baczyć
hiding - ukrywanie się; (hide) chować, ukrywać
I had in my possession a thing that was, perhaps, the best of all defences against the Morlocks-I had matches! I had the camphor in my pocket, too, if a blaze were needed. It seemed to me that the best thing we could do would be to pass the night in the open, protected by a fire. In the morning there was the getting of the Time Machine. Towards that, as yet, I had only my iron mace.
defences - obrona
But now, with my growing knowledge, I felt very differently towards those bronze doors. Up to this, I had refrained from forcing them, largely because of the mystery on the other side. They had never impressed me as being very strong, and I hoped to find my bar of iron not altogether inadequate for the work.
refrained - powstrzymać; refren, myśl, uwaga
forcing - wymuszanie; zmuszać, wymuszać, narzucać; siła, oddział
inadequate - nieodpowiedni; nie na poziomie, na złym poziomie
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'We emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon. I was determined to reach the White Sphinx early the next morning, and ere the dusk I purposed pushing through the woods that had stopped me on the previous journey. My plan was to go as far as possible that night, and then, building a fire, to sleep in the protection of its glare.
horizon - horyzont, widnokrąg, nieboskłon
ere - tutaj
purposed - cel
pushing - pchanie; pchać, naciskać, odsunąć, odepchnąć
woods - lasy; drewno, las
Accordingly, as we went along I gathered any sticks or dried grass I saw, and presently had my arms full of such litter. Thus loaded, our progress was slower than I had anticipated, and besides Weena was tired. And I began to suffer from sleepiness too; so that it was full night before we reached the wood.
sticks - kije; wetknąć, przyklejać, utknąć, przywierać, wbijać
dried - suszone; suchy, schnąć, t+wysychać, twyschnąć, suszyć
grass - trawa; trawnik; trawka; kapuś
litter - lektyka; miot; ściółka; śmieci, żwirek, śmiecić, naśmiecić
thus - w ten sposób; a zatem, tym samym
loaded - załadowany; zawalczyć, ładować, brać ładunek, pobierać; brzemię
sleepiness - senność, ospałość, śpiączka
Upon the shrubby hill of its edge Weena would have stopped, fearing the darkness before us; but a singular sense of impending calamity, that should indeed have served me as a warning, drove me onward. I had been without sleep for a night and two days, and I was feverish and irritable. I felt sleep coming upon me, and the Morlocks with it.
shrubby - krzaczasty
fearing - obawiając się
singular - w liczbie pojedynczej; osobliwy; pojedynczy; nieodwracalna
impending - zagrażać
calamity - katastrofa, nieszczęście
served - serwowane; zagrywka, serw, serwis, służyć, serwować, podawać
warning - ostrzeżenie; uwaga
onward - dalej; w przód, do przodu
feverish - gorączkowy, rozgorączkowany
irritable - rozdrażniony
'While we hesitated, among the black bushes behind us, and dim against their blackness, I saw three crouching figures. There was scrub and long grass all about us, and I did not feel safe from their insidious approach. The forest, I calculated, was rather less than a mile across.
scrub - wyszorować, oczyszczać, szorować; busz, zagajnik, zarośla
safe from - bezpieczny od; przed
insidious - podstępny
approach - zbliżać się; podejście
forest - las; (fore); przedni
calculated - obliczone; rachować, wyliczać, kalkulować, policzyć, obliczać
If we could get through it to the bare hill-side, there, as it seemed to me, was an altogether safer resting-place; I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods. Yet it was evident that if I was to flourish matches with my hands I should have to abandon my firewood; so, rather reluctantly, I put it down.
safer - bezpieczniejsze; bezpieczny, bezpieczny, bezpieczny, bezpieczny
resting-place - (resting-place) miejsce spoczynku, grób
abandon - porzucić, opuszczać; pasja
firewood - drewno na opał, drwa
reluctantly - niechętnie
And then it came into my head that I would amaze our friends behind by lighting it. I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat.
amaze - zdumiewać, zdumieć, osłupić, zadziwiać
atrocious - okropny
move for - ruszać się; występować z wnioskiem o coś
'I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate. The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn, even when it is focused by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts. Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire.
temperate - umiarkowany, powściągliwy
climate - klimat
burn - spalić, płonąć, poparzyć; oparzenie
focused - ognisko, skupiać się, skupić się, skoncentrować się
dewdrops - kropla rosy
more tropical - bardziej tropikalny
districts - dzielnica, dystrykt
lightning - błyskawica, piorun, grom, błyskawiczny, błyskawicowy
blast - spustoszyć, powalić, rozbrzmieć; podmuch, ryk, gwizd, wybuch
blacken - czernić, zaczernić, oczerniać, oczernić, czernieć, sczernieć
rise - wzrosnąć; wstawać, rosnąć, wstać z martwych, wschodzić; wzrost
widespread - rozpowszechnione
Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this rarely results in flame. In this decadence, too, the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
vegetation - roślinność, wegetacja
smoulder - tlić się
fermentation - fermentacja
decadence - upadek, dekadencja
tongues - języki; język, t+ozór, język
licking - lizanie; lanie, manto, cięgi
'She wanted to run to it and play with it. I believe she would have cast herself into it had I not restrained her. But I caught her up, and in spite of her struggles, plunged boldly before me into the wood. For a little way the glare of my fire lit the path.
struggles - walki; walka, bój, bitwa, walczyć, bić
plunged - pogrążony; rzucać się, wpaść, zanurzać; kąpiel, gwałtowny spadek
Looking back presently, I could see, through the crowded stems, that from my heap of sticks the blaze had spread to some bushes adjacent, and a curved line of fire was creeping up the grass of the hill. I laughed at that, and turned again to the dark trees before me.
crowded - zatłoczone; tłoczyć się, zaludniać; tłum
stems - powstrzymać; łodyga, trzon, dziobnica, cybuch
adjacent - przylegające
curved line - zakrzywiona linia, krzywa (np. na wykresie); wygięcie, łuk, zakręt (np. drogi)
It was very black, and Weena clung to me convulsively, but there was still, as my eyes grew accustomed to the darkness, sufficient light for me to avoid the stems. Overhead it was simply black, except where a gap of remote blue sky shone down upon us here and there. I struck none of my matches because I had no hand free.
clung to - przywrzeć do czegoś, przylgnąć do czegoś, przystawać do czegoś, trzymać się czegoś; być uzależnionym emocjonalnie od kogoś, nie odstępować kogoś na krok; uparcie trwać przy czymś, uchwycić się czegoś (w sensie emocjonalnym)
accustomed - przyzwyczajony; przyzwyczajać, przyzwyczaić
avoid - unikać; uniknąć
overhead - nad głową; w górze
Upon my left arm I carried my little one, in my right hand I had my iron bar.
little one - mały (ktoś)
'For some way I heard nothing but the crackling twigs under my feet, the faint rustle of the breeze above, and my own breathing and the throb of the blood-vessels in my ears. Then I seemed to know of a pattering about me. I pushed on grimly. The pattering grew more distinct, and then I caught the same queer sound and voices I had heard in the Under-world.
crackling - trzaski
rustle - szelest; szeleścić
vessels - statki; statek, naczynie
grimly - ponuro, z determinacją
There were evidently several of the Morlocks, and they were closing in upon me. Indeed, in another minute I felt a tug at my coat, then something at my arm. And Weena shivered violently, and became quite still.
tug - pociągnąć; szarpnięcie, holownik
'It was time for a match. But to get one I must put her down. I did so, and, as I fumbled with my pocket, a struggle began in the darkness about my knees, perfectly silent on her part and with the same peculiar cooing sounds from the Morlocks. Soft little hands, too, were creeping over my coat and back, touching even my neck. Then the match scratched and fizzed.
fumbled - grzebać, szperać, wypuścić
scratched - porysowany; drapać, skrobać, rysa, zadrapanie
fizzed - syczeć
I held it flaring, and saw the white backs of the Morlocks in flight amid the trees. I hastily took a lump of camphor from my pocket, and prepared to light it as soon as the match should wane. Then I looked at Weena. She was lying clutching my feet and quite motionless, with her face to the ground. With a sudden fright I stooped to her. She seemed scarcely to breathe.
lump - bryła, grudka
motionless - nieruchomy
fright - przerażenie; strach, trwoga
stooped - pochylony; schylać się, pochylać; podest
breathe - oddychać, odetchnąć, oddychać swobodnie, wdychać, szeptać
I lit the block of camphor and flung it to the ground, and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows, I knelt down and lifted her. The wood behind seemed full of the stir and murmur of a great company!
split - szczelina; rozłam; odłamek, odprysk, rąbek, szpagat, dzielić
flared up - rozbłyśnięty (ogień); zaostrzony (choroba)
knelt - klęczał; klęczeć
lifted - podniesiony; dźwigać, podnosić; winda
'She seemed to have fainted. I put her carefully upon my shoulder and rose to push on, and then there came a horrible realization. In manoeuvring with my matches and Weena, I had turned myself about several times, and now I had not the faintest idea in what direction lay my path. For all I knew, I might be facing back towards the Palace of Green Porcelain. I found myself in a cold sweat.
fainted - zemdlał; zasłabnąć, zemdleć; omdlenie; słaby
manoeuvring - pokierować, manewrować; manewr, swoboda ruchu
cold sweat - zimny pot
I had to think rapidly what to do. I determined to build a fire and encamp where we were. I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves. Here and there out of the darkness round me the Morlocks'eyes shone like carbuncles.
rapidly - szybko
encamp - rozbić, rozbijać obóz, obozować
bole - pień, bolus, pulment
waned - osłabł; blady, niewyraźny, mizerny
collecting - zbieranie; kolekcjonerstwo, zbieractwo
carbuncles - czyrak mnogi, karbunkuł
'The camphor flickered and went out. I lit a match, and as I did so, two white forms that had been approaching Weena dashed hastily away. One was so blinded by the light that he came straight for me, and I felt his bones grind under the blow of my fist. He gave a whoop of dismay, staggered a little way, and fell down. I lit another piece of camphor, and went on gathering my bonfire.
blinded - ślepy, niewidomy, w ciemno, na ślepo, zasłona, oślepiać, oślepić
grind - siekać, ostrzyć, szlifować; harówka, zgrzytanie, bzykanko
whoop - zanosić się kaszlem; okrzyk
bonfire - ognisko; stos
Presently I noticed how dry was some of the foliage above me, for since my arrival on the Time Machine, a matter of a week, no rain had fallen. So, instead of casting about among the trees for fallen twigs, I began leaping up and dragging down branches. Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor.
dry - suchy; schnąć, wysychać, twyschnąć, suszyć, osuszać
foliage - listowie, liść
casting - (cast) rzucać, odlewać, obsadzać; casting, odlewanie
choking - zadławienie; zadławić się, dusić, zaksztusić się
smoky - dymiący; zadymiony, przydymiony
Then I turned to where Weena lay beside my iron mace. I tried what I could to revive her, but she lay like one dead. I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed.
dead - martwy, zmarły, nieżywy, zmartwiały, nieruchomy, rozładowany
breathed - oddychał; oddychać, odetchnąć, oddychać, oddychać swobodnie
'Now, the smoke of the fire beat over towards me, and it must have made me heavy of a sudden. Moreover, the vapour of camphor was in the air. My fire would not need replenishing for an hour or so. I felt very weary after my exertion, and sat down. The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand. I seemed just to nod and open my eyes.
beat - bić, pobić; pokonywać, wygrywać z kimś; czymś; uderzać; uderzenie serca; uderzać (w bęben)
Moreover - co więcej; ponadto, skądinąd
replenishing - uzupełnić, zaopatrzyć
exertion - wysiłek, natężenie
slumbrous - senny, ciężkie powieki, nieaktywny
nod - skinąć głową; kiwać, kiwnąć
But all was dark, and the Morlocks had their hands upon me. Flinging off their clinging fingers I hastily felt in my pocket for the match-box, and-it had gone! Then they gripped and closed with me again. In a moment I knew what had happened. I had slept, and my fire had gone out, and the bitterness of death came over my soul. The forest seemed full of the smell of burning wood.
clinging - czepianie się; uchwycić się czegoś, przylgnąć, opinać
gripped - uchwycić, ścisnąć; uścisk
gone out - wyjść z domu, wychodzić; przestać się palić, zgasnąć; umawiać się (być z kimś w związku); wyjść na miasto, wyjść z domu (żeby pójść się zabawić); zostać wysłanym; wyjść na światło dzienne (np. informacja)
bitterness - gorzkość, gorycz
Death - śmierć, zgon, kostucha
soul - dusza
I was caught by the neck, by the hair, by the arms, and pulled down. It was indescribably horrible in the darkness to feel all these soft creatures heaped upon me. I felt as if I was in a monstrous spider's web. I was overpowered, and went down. I felt little teeth nipping at my neck. I rolled over, and as I did so my hand came against my iron lever. It gave me strength.
pulled down - rozbierać (np. budynek), burzyć; spuszczać (zasłonę), ściągnąć w dół, ciągnąć, obciągać (ubranie); obniżać (cenę), zmniejszać (inflację); obalać (rząd)
heaped - stertę; sterta, kupa, kopiec
monstrous - potworny; monstrualny
web - sieć; błona pławna
overpowered - obezwładnić, zwyciężyć, ogarnąć, owładnąć, dławić
nipping - przytrzasnąć, niszczyć; uszczypnięcie, przygryzienie, sznaps
rolled - walcowane; toczyć się, zwijać, skręcać, spływać
I struggled up, shaking the human rats from me, and, holding the bar short, I thrust where I judged their faces might be. I could feel the succulent giving of flesh and bone under my blows, and for a moment I was free.
struggled - walczył; walka, bój, bitwa, walczyć, bić
succulent - soczysty; mięsisty
bone - kość, puzon
blows - ciosy; (blow) dmuchać, wywiać, wiać; cios, dmuchanie
'The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me. I knew that both I and Weena were lost, but I determined to make the Morlocks pay for their meat. I stood with my back to a tree, swinging the iron bar before me. The whole wood was full of the stir and cries of them. A minute passed.
exultation - radość, euforia
accompany - towarzyszyć, asystować, akompaniować, zaakompaniować, basować
fighting - walki; (fight) walczyć, bić się; walka; zamieszki; bojowy
Their voices seemed to rise to a higher pitch of excitement, and their movements grew faster. Yet none came within reach. I stood glaring at the blackness. Then suddenly came hope. What if the Morlocks were afraid? And close on the heels of that came a strange thing. The darkness seemed to grow luminous.
pitch - boisko; rzucać, padać; poziom, stopień, szczyt, miejsce, smoła
Very dimly I began to see the Morlocks about me-three battered at my feet-and then I recognized, with incredulous surprise, that the others were running, in an incessant stream, as it seemed, from behind me, and away through the wood in front. And their backs seemed no longer white, but reddish.
battered - poobijany; zbić, poturbować, tłuc o, uderzać o, zbombardować
incessant - nieustannie; bezustanny
stream - strumień, potok, rzeczka, ciek
reddish - czerwonawy
As I stood agape, I saw a little red spark go drifting across a gap of starlight between the branches, and vanish. And at that I understood the smell of burning wood, the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar, the red glow, and the Morlocks'flight.
agape - z otwartymi ustami, z rozdziawioną gębą
spark - iskra
starlight - światło gwiazda
roar - ryczeć, zaryczeć, ryk
'stepping out from behind my tree and looking back, I saw, through the black pillars of the nearer trees, the flames of the burning forest. It was my first fire coming after me. With that I looked for Weena, but she was gone. The hissing and crackling behind me, the explosive thud as each fresh tree burst into flame, left little time for reflection.
stepping out - pokazywać się publicznie; wycofać się ze zobowiązań; wyjść na chwilę
flames - płomienie; płomień, kochanka, kochanek, krytycyzm
explosive - wybuchowy; materiał wybuchowy
My iron bar still gripped, I followed in the Morlocks'path. It was a close race. Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left. But at last I emerged upon a small open space, and as I did so, a Morlock came blundering towards me, and past me, and went on straight into the fire!
outflanked - oskrzydlić; uzyskać
'And now I was to see the most weird and horrible thing, I think, of all that I beheld in that future age. This whole space was as bright as day with the reflection of the fire. In the centre was a hillock or tumulus, surmounted by a scorched hawthorn.
weird - dziwne; dziwny; dziwaczny
hillock - pagórek
tumulus - kurhan, kopiec
surmounted - zwieńczyć, przezwyciężyć
hawthorn - głóg
Beyond this was another arm of the burning forest, with yellow tongues already writhing from it, completely encircling the space with a fence of fire. Upon the hill-side were some thirty or forty Morlocks, dazzled by the light and heat, and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment.
writhing - (writhe) zwinąć, skręcić; wijący się
encircling - (encircle) otaczać, okrążać
fence - płot, ogrodzenie, paser, ogradzać, ogrodzić, walczyć na szable
At first I did not realize their blindness, and struck furiously at them with my bar, in a frenzy of fear, as they approached me, killing one and crippling several more. But when I had watched the gestures of one of them groping under the hawthorn against the red sky, and heard their moans, I was assured of their absolute helplessness and misery in the glare, and I struck no more of them.
crippling - kaleki, kaleka, okaleczyć
red sky - czerwone niebo
moans - jęk, narzekać, jęczeć
helplessness - bezradność, bezbronność, bezsilność
'Yet every now and then one would come straight towards me, setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him. At one time the flames died down somewhat, and I feared the foul creatures would presently be able to see me. I was thinking of beginning the fight by killing some of them before this should happen; but the fire burst out again brightly, and I stayed my hand.
quivering - drżeć; kołczan, drżenie, szelest, szmer, drganie
elude - wymknąć, ominąć, uniknąć
somewhat - trochę, nieco, dość, poniekąd
fight - walczyć, bić się; walka
I walked about the hill among them and avoided them, looking for some trace of Weena. But Weena was gone.
'At last I sat down on the summit of the hillock, and watched this strange incredible company of blind things groping to and fro, and making uncanny noises to each other, as the glare of the fire beat on them. The coiling uprush of smoke streamed across the sky, and through the rare tatters of that red canopy, remote as though they belonged to another universe, shone the little stars.
uncanny - niesamowity, niezwykły, przedziwny
beat - pokonywać, bić, pobić; uderzenie; bijący
coiling - zwinąć, owinąć, wić się; zwój, krąg, lok, spirala
uprush - nagły wzrost
streamed - streamowane; strumień, potok, rzeczka, ciek
tatters - szmaty; łachman, szmata
canopy - wiata; baldachim
belonged - należał; należeć, mieć swoje miejsce
universe - wszechświat; uniwersum
Two or three Morlocks came blundering into me, and I drove them off with blows of my fists, trembling as I did so.
fists - pięści; pięść
'For the most part of that night I was persuaded it was a nightmare. I bit myself and screamed in a passionate desire to awake. I beat the ground with my hands, and got up and sat down again, and wandered here and there, and again sat down. Then I would fall to rubbing my eyes and calling upon God to let me awake.
persuaded - przekonany; przekonywać, przekonać
screamed - krzyczał; krzyk, krzyczeć, wrzeszczeć
awake - obudzony; budzić się, uświadomić sobie, obudzić; przebudzony
fall to - spadać na kogoś (np. obowiązek, zła wiadomość)
Thrice I saw Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames. But, at last, above the subsiding red of the fire, above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps, and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures, came the white light of the day.
thrice - trzy raz
rush - pędzić, gonić, biec, pośpieszać, ponaglać; pośpiech, napływ
subsiding - osiadać, osiąść
streaming - (stream) ociekać, wylewać z siebie; strumień, płynięcie
whitening - (whiten) wybielić, bielić, poblednąć
blackening - (blacken) uczernić, oczernić, zszargać, ściemnieć; czernienie
stumps - kikut; qualifier
diminishing - maleje; (diminish) zmniejszać się, maleć, ubywać; malejący
'I searched again for traces of Weena, but there were none. It was plain that they had left her poor little body in the forest. I cannot describe how it relieved me to think that it had escaped the awful fate to which it seemed destined. As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.
searched - przeszukiwane; poszukiwanie
relieved - ulżyło; ulżyć, odciążać, odciążyć, ulżyć, ulżyć, ulżyć
awful - okropne; okropny, straszliwy, ohydny
massacre - masakra, rzeź, wymordować
abominations - abominacja
The hillock, as I have said, was a kind of island in the forest. From its summit I could now make out through a haze of smoke the Palace of Green Porcelain, and from that I could get my bearings for the White Sphinx.
haze - zamglenie; znęcać się nad nowym; opar, mgiełka
bearings - łożyska; (bear) nosić, ścierpieć, wytrzymać, rodzić
And so, leaving the remnant of these damned souls still going hither and thither and moaning, as the day grew clearer, I tied some grass about my feet and limped on across smoking ashes and among black stems, that still pulsated internally with fire, towards the hiding-place of the Time Machine.
remnant - resztka, pozostałość
souls - dusze; dusza
moaning - jęczenie; jęk, narzekać, jęczeć
clearer - jaśniejszy; (clear) jasny; jaśniej
tied - związany; zawiązywać, przywiązać; powiązanie, krawat, węzeł
limped - utykał; utykać; utykanie; wiotki, zwiotczały, przywiędły, słaby
ashes - jesion, popiół
pulsated - pulsować, tętnić
internally - wewnętrznie
I walked slowly, for I was almost exhausted, as well as lame, and I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena. It seemed an overwhelming calamity. Now, in this old familiar room, it is more like the sorrow of a dream than an actual loss. But that morning it left me absolutely lonely again-terribly alone.
intensest - intensywny
overwhelming - zalewać, miażdżyć, przytłaczać, przytłoczyć
sorrow - smutek
dream - sen, sny, marzenie, śnić, marzyć
actual loss - rzeczywista strata
lonely - samotny
I began to think of this house of mine, of this fireside, of some of you, and with such thoughts came a longing that was pain.
fireside - miejsce przy kominku
thoughts - myśli; myśl, myśl, pomysł
'But as I walked over the smoking ashes under the bright morning sky, I made a discovery. In my trouser pocket were still some loose matches. The box must have leaked before it was lost.
trouser - spodnie; obłowić się; od spodni
leaked - przeciek, przeciek, przeciek, przeciekać, przeciekać
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'About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival. I thought of my hasty conclusions upon that evening and could not refrain from laughing bitterly at my confidence.
viewed - oglądane; pogląd, widok, widok, punkt widzenia, perspektywa
conclusions - wnioski; wniosek, wynik, rezultat, wniosek, konkluzja, konkluzja
refrain from laughing - powstrzymać się od śmiechu
bitterly - przenikliwie, gorzko
Here was the same beautiful scene, the same abundant foliage, the same splendid palaces and magnificent ruins, the same silver river running between its fertile banks. The gay robes of the beautiful people moved hither and thither among the trees. Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena, and that suddenly gave me a keen stab of pain.
magnificent - wspaniały
fertile - żyzny; bujny; płodny
gay - gejem; homoseksualista; wesoły, żywy, beztroski
saved - uratowany; ratować, uratować, zbawić, zapisywać, zapisać
stab - dźgać, zasztyletować; dźgnięcie, ukłucie, pchnięcie
And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Under-world. I understood now what all the beauty of the Over-world people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the field. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same.
blots - osuszyć, splamić, przysłonić, zatrzeć; plama, skaza
cupolas - kopuła
enemies - wrogów; wróg, nieprzyjaciel, nieprzyjaciółka, przeciwnik
provided - pod warunkiem; dostarczać, dostarczyć, aprowidować
'I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes-to come to this at last. Once, life and property must have reached almost absolute safety.
grieved - zasmucony; rozpaczać
committed - zaangażowany; popełniać
permanency - trwałość, stałość
property - własność; posesja, posiadłość, posiadanie, prawo własności
The rich had been assured of his wealth and comfort, the toiler assured of his life and work. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem, no social question left unsolved. And a great quiet had followed.
wealth - zamożność, bogactwo, bogatość, mnóstwo
toiler - ciężko pracujący człowiek
unemployed - bezrobotny, niezatrudniony, bezrobotni
unsolved - nierozwiązany
'It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
law - prawo
versatility - wszechstronność
compensation - kompensacja; rekompensata
environment - środowisko; ekosystem, środowisko przyrodnicze
appeals - odwołania; apel, odwołanie, wdzięk, czar
useless - bezużyteczne; niepotrzebny, bezużyteczny
Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.
partake - brać udział; uczestniczyć
variety - różnorodność; odmiana, rodzaj, odmiana, forma języka
'So, as I see it, the Upper-world man had drifted towards his feeble prettiness, and the Under-world to mere mechanical industry. But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for mechanical perfection-absolute permanency. Apparently as time went on, the feeding of the Under-world, however it was effected, had become disjointed.
drifted - dryfował; dryft, zaspa, dryfować
lacked - nie mieć, cierpieć na brak; brak
perfection - doskonałość, perfekcja
feeding - (feed) karmić, żywić się, dostarczać; karmienie
disjointed - rozebrać, wywichnąć, zwichnąć
Mother Necessity, who had been staved off for a few thousand years, came back again, and she began below. The Under-world being in contact with machinery, which, however perfect, still needs some little thought outside habit, had probably retained perforce rather more initiative, if less of every other human character, than the Upper.
retained - zachowywać, zatrzymywać, gromadzić
initiative - inicjatywa
And when other meat failed them, they turned to what old habit had hitherto forbidden. So I say I saw it in my last view of the world of Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One. It may be as wrong an explanation as mortal wit could invent. It is how the thing shaped itself to me, and as that I give it to you.
forbidden - zabronione; zakazywać, zakazać, zabraniać, zabronić, odmawiać
mortal - śmiertelny; śmiertelnik
wit - wiedzieć; dowcip, kpiarz, rozum, inteligencja
invent - wynaleźć; wymyślić, wymyślać
'After the fatigues, excitements, and terrors of the past days, and in spite of my grief, this seat and the tranquil view and the warm sunlight were very pleasant. I was very tired and sleepy, and soon my theorizing passed into dozing. Catching myself at that, I took my own hint, and spreading myself out upon the turf I had a long and refreshing sleep.
fatigues - zmęczenie
grief - żal, smutek, zmartwienie
tranquil - spokojny; cichy
sleepy - senny, śpiący
theorizing - teoretyzować
dozing - (doze) zdrzemnąć się, zasnąć, drzemać; drzemka
catching - (catch) łapać, złapać, chwytać; łapanie; zaraźliwy
hint - podpowiedź; odrobina; bąkać, bąknąć
refreshing - odświeżający; odświeżyć
'I awoke a little before sunsetting. I now felt safe against being caught napping by the Morlocks, and, stretching myself, I came on down the hill towards the White Sphinx. I had my crowbar in one hand, and the other hand played with the matches in my pocket.
awoke - obudził się; budzić się, uświadomić sobie, obudzić; przebudzony
sunsetting - zmierzch, zachód słońca, zachód słońca, zmierzch, zmierzch
being caught - być złapanym
napping - drzemka; snap - trzask, pękać; kłapnąć zębam
stretching - rozciąganie
'And now came a most unexpected thing. As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open. They had slid down into grooves.
most unexpected - najbardziej nieoczekiwany
slid - wślizg; (slide) zsunąć się, poślizgnąć się, ślizgać się
grooves - koleina, żleb, rutyna, żłobić
'At that I stopped short before them, hesitating to enter.
'Within was a small apartment, and on a raised place in the corner of this was the Time Machine. I had the small levers in my pocket. So here, after all my elaborate preparations for the siege of the White Sphinx, was a meek surrender. I threw my iron bar away, almost sorry not to use it.
elaborate - opracować; drobiazgowy; rozwinąć
preparations - przygotowania; przygotowanie
siege - oblężenie
meek - cichy ''(biblical)''; pokorny, arcyskromny
surrender - poddawać
'A sudden thought came into my head as I stooped towards the portal. For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks. Suppressing a strong inclination to laugh, I stepped through the bronze frame and up to the Time Machine. I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
stooped - pochylony
suppressing - powstrzymać, stłumić, zatuszować
inclination - pochyłość; skłonność; nachylenie, inklinacja
stepped - nadepnięty; step
oiled - olej
I have suspected since that the Morlocks had even partially taken it to pieces while trying in their dim way to grasp its purpose.
'Now as I stood and examined it, finding a pleasure in the mere touch of the contrivance, the thing I had expected happened. The bronze panels suddenly slid up and struck the frame with a clang. I was in the dark-trapped. So the Morlocks thought. At that I chuckled gleefully.
clang - brzęk; szczękać, szczęknąć
trapped - uwięzić; pułapka, dwukołówka
chuckled - chichotał; zachichotać; zdławiony chichot, stłumiony śmiech
gleefully - radośnie, triumfalnie
'I could already hear their murmuring laughter as they came towards me. Very calmly I tried to strike the match. I had only to fix on the levers and depart then like a ghost. But I had overlooked one little thing. The matches were of that abominable kind that light only on the box.
murmuring - (murmur) wyszeptać, mruczeć; szeptanie, szemranie
calmly - spokojnie
Fix - naprawiać, naprawić, mocować, przymocować, zamocować
depart - odchodzić, odjeżdżać, odlatywać, odstąpić
abominable - obrzydliwe; ohydny, odrażający, plugawy, niegodziwy
'You may imagine how all my calm vanished. The little brutes were close upon me. One touched me. I made a sweeping blow in the dark at them with the levers, and began to scramble into the saddle of the machine. Then came one hand upon me and then another. Then I had simply to fight against their persistent fingers for my levers, and at the same time feel for the studs over which these fitted.
sweeping - zamiatanie; doszczętny; (sweep); zamiatać, zamieść
scramble - jajecznica; szyfrować, zaszyfrowywać, zaszyfrować, wyrywać
then another - (a) potem kolejne; kolejny; drugi
persistent - uporczywy, bezustanny, ciągły, wytrwały
studs - ćwiek
fitted - dopasowane; pasować, dostać ataku; dopasowanie; zdolny
One, indeed, they almost got away from me. As it slipped from my hand, I had to butt in the dark with my head-I could hear the Morlock's skull ring-to recover it. It was a nearer thing than the fight in the forest, I think, this last scramble.
got away - odejść, wyjść, wyrwać się (np. z nudnego spotkania); wyjechać na wakacje; uciekać, rzucać się do ucieczki
butt - tryknąć, uderzyć głową; tyłek, niedopałek, obiekt, cel, kolba
ring - dźwięczeć, dzwonić; pierścień, kółko
'But at last the lever was fitted and pulled over. The clinging hands slipped from me. The darkness presently fell from my eyes. I found myself in the same grey light and tumult I have already described.
fitted - dopasowane
pulled - ciągnięty; ciągnąć, pociągnąć
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'I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. And this time I was not seated properly in the saddle, but sideways and in an unstable fashion. For an indefinite time I clung to the machine as it swayed and vibrated, quite unheeding how I went, and when I brought myself to look at the dials again I was amazed to find where I had arrived.
sickness - choroba
properly - prawidłowo
vibrated - wibrował; wibrować, rezonować
unheeding - nie słuchając
amazed - zdumiony; zdumiewać, zdumieć, osłupić, zadziwiać, zadziwić
One dial records days, and another thousands of days, another millions of days, and another thousands of millions. Now, instead of reversing the levers, I had pulled them over so as to go forward with them, and when I came to look at these indicators I found that the thousands hand was sweeping round as fast as the seconds hand of a watch-into futurity.
dial - tarcza; wykręcić, wybrać
records - rekordy; notować, nagrywać; rekord, nagranie, zapis
reversing - (reverse) odwracać, zmieniać, cofać; odwracanie, cofanie
indicators - wskaźnik, wskazówka, wskaźnik, indykator, kierunkowskaz
'As I drove on, a peculiar change crept over the appearance of things. The palpitating greyness grew darker; then-though I was still travelling with prodigious velocity-the blinking succession of day and night, which was usually indicative of a slower pace, returned, and grew more and more marked. This puzzled me very much at first.
palpitating - kołatanie serca; kołatać, pulsować; kołatanie
prodigious - ogromny, kolosalny, cudowny
indicative - świadczyć o czymś; oznajmujący
marked - oznaczone; Marek, Marek, Margusz, Markusz, Merkusz
The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky, until they seemed to stretch through centuries. At last a steady twilight brooded over the earth, a twilight only broken now and then when a comet glared across the darkling sky.
alternations - przemienność, odmiana
stretch - rozciągnąć; rozciąganie; rozciągliwość, elastyczność
brooded - dumać, rozmyślać, wysiadywać; potomstwo, młode, lęg, zgraja
comet - kometa
The band of light that had indicated the sun had long since disappeared; for the sun had ceased to set-it simply rose and fell in the west, and grew ever broader and more red. All trace of the moon had vanished. The circling of the stars, growing slower and slower, had given place to creeping points of light.
broader - szerszy; szeroki, wyraźny, ogólny
At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction. At one time it had for a little while glowed more brilliantly again, but it speedily reverted to its sullen red heat.
dome - kopuła
glowing - świecące; jarzyć się, żarzyć się, pałać, promienieć, jarzyć się
momentary - chwilowy
glowed - świecił; jarzyć się, żarzyć się, pałać, promienieć, jarzyć się
reverted - powrócić
sullen - ponury, nadąsany
I perceived by this slowing down of its rising and setting that the work of the tidal drag was done. The earth had come to rest with one face to the sun, even as in our own time the moon faces the earth. Very cautiously, for I remembered my former headlong fall, I began to reverse my motion.
slowing down - zwolnić, spowolnić; zwalniać (zmniejszać prędkość); przyhamować, zwolnić tempo (np. pracy, życia)
tidal - pływowy, chwilowy
drag - przeciągać; ciągnąć, przeszukać, przeciągnąć, wlec
cautiously - ostrożnie
reverse - odwrócony; odwracać, zmieniać, cofać; porażka; odwrotny
Slower and slower went the circling hands until the thousands one seemed motionless and the daily one was no longer a mere mist upon its scale. Still slower, until the dim outlines of a desolate beach grew visible.
daily - codziennie; codzienny
scale - wdrapać się; skala, łuska; wagowy
outlines - kontury; kontur, kontur, konspekt, szkic, zarys, obrysowywać
'I stopped very gently and sat upon the Time Machine, looking round. The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.
Indian - hinduski, indyjski, indiański, Hindus, Hinduska, Indianin
starless - bezgwiezdny
scarlet - szkarłat; szkarłatny; grzeszny, nierządny
hull - łupina, skorupka, kadłub, korpus
The rocks about me were of a harsh reddish colour, and all the trace of life that I could see at first was the intensely green vegetation that covered every projecting point on their south-eastern face. It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.
rocks - skały; kołysać, wstrząsnąć; skała; rockowy
intensely - intensywnie
lichen - porost, liszaj
perpetual - wieczyste; wieczny; bezustanny
'The machine was standing on a sloping beach. The sea stretched away to the south-west, to rise into a sharp bright horizon against the wan sky. There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring. Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.
wan - blady, niewyraźny, mizerny
breakers - bałwan, łamacz, właściciel składnicy złomu
waves - fale; falować, machać; fala
oily - tłusty, zatłuszczony, oleisty, wazeliniarski
swell - pęcznieć, spuchnąć, nabrzmiewać, wzmagać się; falowanie
gentle - łagodny, delikatny, miły, uprzejmy
eternal - wieczny, wieczysty, wiekuisty, bezczasowy
And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of salt-pink under the lurid sky. There was a sense of oppression in my head, and I noticed that I was breathing very fast. The sensation reminded me of my only experience of mountaineering, and from that I judged the air to be more rarefied than it is now.
margin - margines; marża
incrustation - inkrustacja, skorupa, powłoka
lurid - ponury, straszny, upiorny, jaskrawy, przejaskrawiony
oppression - ucisk, opresja
mountaineering - alpinizm; (mountaineer); góral; alpinista, alpinistka
rarefied - rozcieńczać, rozcieńczyć, rozrzedzać, rozrzedzić, rafinować
'Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and fluttering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond. The sound of its voice was so dismal that I shivered and seated myself more firmly upon the machine.
scream - krzyk; krzyczeć, wrzeszczeć
butterfly - motyl
slanting - przekręcić, przekrzywić, być pochyłym
hillocks - pagórek
dismal - ponury, okropny, posępny
firmly - twardo, stanowczo, pewnie, mocno
Looking round me again, I saw that, quite near, what I had taken to be a reddish mass of rock was moving slowly towards me. Then I saw the thing was really a monstrous crab-like creature.
Rock - kołysać, wstrząsnąć; skała; rockowy
Crab - zrzędzić; krab
Can you imagine a crab as large as yonder table, with its many legs moving slowly and uncertainly, its big claws swaying, its long antennae, like carters'whips, waving and feeling, and its stalked eyes gleaming at you on either side of its metallic front? Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there.
yonder - tam, po tamtej stronie; tamten, ten, ów
uncertainly - niepewnie
claws - pazury; drapać; pazur, szpon, łapa
antennae - anteny
carters - Carter
whips - bicze; bat, bicz, chłostać, biczować, ubiczować
waving - (wave) falować, machać; machanie
stalked - prześladowany; iść sztywnym krokiem, podchodzić
gleaming - błyszczący; (gleam) lśnić, błyszczeć; poświata, poblask
corrugated - fałdować, marszczyć
ornamented - zdobione; ornament, ozdoba, ornament, ozdabiać, dekorować
ungainly - niezgrabny
bosses - szefów
greenish - zielonawy, zielonkawy
blotched - plamy; poplamić, zaplamić, pozostawić; wybroczyna, plama
I could see the many palps of its complicated mouth flickering and feeling as it moved.
complicated - skomplikowane; komplikować, skomplikować
'As I stared at this sinister apparition crawling towards me, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had lighted there. I tried to brush it away with my hand, but in a moment it returned, and almost immediately came another by my ear. I struck at this, and caught something threadlike. It was drawn swiftly out of my hand.
sinister - złowieszczy
apparition - objawienie; pojawienie
crawling - pełzanie; (crawl) pełzać, czołgać się, raczkować; kraul
tickling - (tickle) łaskotać, połaskotać, gryźć, połechtać; łaskotanie
brush - szczotka, pędzel, czesanie, szczotkowanie, kita, szczotkować
threadlike - nitkowaty
With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me. Its evil eyes were wriggling on their stalks, its mouth was all alive with appetite, and its vast ungainly claws, smeared with an algal slime, were descending upon me. In a moment my hand was on the lever, and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters.
qualm - skrupuły, niepokój, mdłości, nudności
antenna - czułek, antena
alive - żywy, żywcem
algal - glonowy, algowy
slime - muł, szlam, śluz
descending - malejąco; schodzić, zejść, zniżać
monsters - potwory; potwór, kreatura, maszkara, poczwara, monstrum
But I was still on the same beach, and I saw them distinctly now as soon as I stopped. Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the sombre light, among the foliated sheets of intense green.
dozens - tuzin, tuziny, dziesiątki, kilkadziesiąt
foliated - foliowane
'I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect.
desolation - spustoszenie, pustka, wyludnienie
hung over - hungover na kacu, skacowany; hang over something wisieć nad czymś; hang over somebody zawisnąć nad kimś, ciążyć nad kimś
northward - północny, na północ
Dead Sea - Morze Martwe
stony - kamienny; kamienisty
poisonous - trujący
lichenous - liszajowaty
hurts - boli; boleć, sprawiać ból
lungs - płuca; płuco
appalling - przerażające; przerażający, zatrważający
I moved on a hundred years, and there was the same red sun-a little larger, a little duller-the same dying sea, the same chill air, and the same crowd of earthy crustacea creeping in and out among the green weed and the red rocks. And in the westward sky, I saw a curved pale line like a vast new moon.
duller - tępy, nudny, matowy, tępy, stępić, stępić się
earthy - prostolinijny, trzeźwy, ziemski, pierwotny, ziemisty
crustacea - skorupiaki
curved - zakrzywione; zakręt, krzywa, krzywa
'So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebb away.
fascination - fascynacja
ebb away - słabnąć, niknąć, gasnąć
At last, more than thirty million years hence, the huge red-hot dome of the sun had come to obscure nearly a tenth part of the darkling heavens. Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless. And now it was flecked with white. A bitter cold assailed me.
obscure - niejasne; ciemny, niewyraźny, ukryty, mało znany, zaciemnić
tenth part - dziesiąta część
heavens - niebiosa; niebo
multitude - mnogość; mnóstwo, multum, bezlik
crabs - kraby; zrzędzić; krab
livid - wściekły
liverworts - wątrobowce
lichens - porost, liszaj
lifeless - martwy, zwiędły, pozbawiony życia, bez życia, niezdrowy
flecked - poplamić; cętka
Bitter - gorzki, rozgoryczony; zaciekle
assailed - napadać, nękać, zmierzyć się
Rare white flakes ever and again came eddying down. To the north-eastward, the glare of snow lay under the starlight of the sable sky and I could see an undulating crest of hillocks pinkish white. There were fringes of ice along the sea margin, with drifting masses further out; but the main expanse of that salt ocean, all bloody under the eternal sunset, was still unfrozen.
sable - soból; czerń; czarny
fringes - ubocze
expanse - przestrzeń; bezkres
Ocean - ocean
bloody - zakrwawiony; krwawiący, krwawy, cholerny
unfrozen - odtajać
'I looked about me to see if any traces of animal life remained. A certain indefinable apprehension still kept me in the saddle of the machine. But I saw nothing moving, in earth or sky or sea. The green slime on the rocks alone testified that life was not extinct. A shallow sandbank had appeared in the sea and the water had receded from the beach.
animal life - życie zwierząt
indefinable - niedający się określić, nieokreślony
sandbank - ławica piaskowa, mielizna
I fancied I saw some black object flopping about upon this bank, but it became motionless as I looked at it, and I judged that my eye had been deceived, and that the black object was merely a rock. The stars in the sky were intensely bright and seemed to me to twinkle very little.
flopping - opaść, zrobić klapę
deceived - oszukany; oszukiwać, oszukać
Twinkle - migotać
'Suddenly I noticed that the circular westward outline of the sun had changed; that a concavity, a bay, had appeared in the curve. I saw this grow larger. For a minute perhaps I stared aghast at this blackness that was creeping over the day, and then I realized that an eclipse was beginning. Either the moon or the planet Mercury was passing across the sun's disk.
outline - kontur; konspekt; szkic, zarys, obrysowywać, obrysować
concavity - wklęsłość
bay - ujadać; wycie, zatoka, wnęka
curve - zakręt; krzywa
aghast - przerażony, osłupiały
eclipse - zaćmienie
Naturally, at first I took it to be the moon, but there is much to incline me to believe that what I really saw was the transit of an inner planet passing very near to the earth.
Transit - tranzyt
'The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it.
freshening - (freshen up) odświeżyć
gusts - podmuchy; podmuch, poryw, fala
ripple - falowanie; falować, szmerać; zmarszczka, szmer, fala
whisper - szept; szeptać, szepnąć
All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives-all that was over. As the darkness thickened, the eddying flakes grew more abundant, dancing before my eyes; and the cold of the air more intense. At last, one by one, swiftly, one after the other, the white peaks of the distant hills vanished into blackness.
bleating - (bleat) beknąć, zabeczeć, meczeć, biadolić; beczenie, meczenie
Insects - owady; owad, robak, insekt, zero
background - pochodzenie, tło, kontrast
thickened - gęstnieć, zagęścić, zagęszczać, zgęstnieć
more intense - bardziej intensywne
peaks - szczyty; szczyt
The breeze rose to a moaning wind. I saw the black central shadow of the eclipse sweeping towards me. In another moment the pale stars alone were visible. All else was rayless obscurity. The sky was absolutely black.
'A horror of this great darkness came on me. The cold, that smote to my marrow, and the pain I felt in breathing, overcame me. I shivered, and a deadly nausea seized me. Then like a red-hot bow in the sky appeared the edge of the sun. I got off the machine to recover myself. I felt giddy and incapable of facing the return journey.
marrow - szpik kostny, cukinia, sedno
overcame - przezwyciężył; przezwyciężać, przemagać
bow - zginać się, ukłonić się, kłaniać się; łuk, kokarda
return journey - podróż powrotna
As I stood sick and confused I saw again the moving thing upon the shoal-there was no mistake now that it was a moving thing-against the red water of the sea. It was a round thing, the size of a football perhaps, or, it may be, bigger, and tentacles trailed down from it; it seemed black against the weltering blood-red water, and it was hopping fitfully about. Then I felt I was fainting.
shoal - ławica, tłum, mielizna
trailed - ciągnięty; śledzić, tropić, trop, ślad, ścieżka
weltering - bezład, tarzać, zamieszanie
fitfully - niespokojnie, nieregularnie
Fainting - omdlenie
But a terrible dread of lying helpless in that remote and awful twilight sustained me while I clambered upon the saddle.
sustained - trwały; podtrzymać, podtrzymać, utrzymywać
clambered - wdrapać się, wgramolić się; schodzenie, wdrapywanie się
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'So I came back. For a long time I must have been insensible upon the machine. The blinking succession of the days and nights was resumed, the sun got golden again, the sky blue. I breathed with greater freedom. The fluctuating contours of the land ebbed and flowed. The hands spun backward upon the dials. At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity.
sky blue - błękit (kolor)
breathed - oddychał; oddech, oddychanie
contours - kontur, izolinia
ebbed - odpływ, odpływ
flowed - płynął; płynąć, przepływać, opływać
spun - wirować, prząść, obracać się
These, too, changed and passed, and others came. Presently, when the million dial was at zero, I slackened speed. I began to recognize our own pretty and familiar architecture, the thousands hand ran back to the starting-point, the night and day flapped slower and slower. Then the old walls of the laboratory came round me. Very gently, now, I slowed the mechanism down.
slackened - zwalniać, zmniejszać prędkość, poluźnić
flapped - klapnięte; trzepotać, migotać; klapka, klapa, lekkie uderzenie
'I saw one little thing that seemed odd to me. I think I have told you that when I set out, before my velocity became very high, Mrs. Watchett had walked across the room, travelling, as it seemed to me, like a rocket. As I returned, I passed again across that minute when she traversed the laboratory. But now her every motion appeared to be the exact inversion of her previous ones.
inversion - inwersja
The door at the lower end opened, and she glided quietly up the laboratory, back foremost, and disappeared behind the door by which she had previously entered. Just before that I seemed to see Hillyer for a moment; but he passed like a flash.
glided - ślizgać, sunąć, szybować; ślizg, szybowanie
foremost - przede wszystkim
previously - wcześniej; poprzednio
'Then I stopped the machine, and saw about me again the old familiar laboratory, my tools, my appliances just as I had left them. I got off the thing very shakily, and sat down upon my bench. For several minutes I trembled violently. Then I became calmer. Around me was my old workshop again, exactly as it had been. I might have slept there, and the whole thing have been a dream.
shakily - drżącym głosem, niepewnie, chwiejnie
trembled - drżał; drżeć
calmer - spokojniejszy; spokojny, opanowany, cichy, spokojny, spokojny
'And yet, not exactly! The thing had started from the south-east corner of the laboratory. It had come to rest again in the north-west, against the wall where you saw it. That gives you the exact distance from my little lawn to the pedestal of the White Sphinx, into which the Morlocks had carried my machine.
'For a time my brain went stagnant. Presently I got up and came through the passage here, limping, because my heel was still painful, and feeling sorely begrimed. I saw the Pall Mall Gazette on the table by the door. I found the date was indeed to-day, and looking at the timepiece, saw the hour was almost eight o'clock. I heard your voices and the clatter of plates.
stagnant - stagnacja; bezczynny, zastój
begrimed - spłodzony
Pall - sprzykrzyć się, znudzić się; całun, pokrywa, obłok
Mall - pasaż handlowy, centrum handlowe
Gazette - gazeta
timepiece - zegarek; czasomierz
clatter - stukać, brzęczeć; brzęk, stukot
I hesitated-I felt so sick and weak. Then I sniffed good wholesome meat, and opened the door on you. You know the rest. I washed, and dined, and now I am telling you the story.
sniffed - wąchał; węszyć, wybrzydzać
dined - obiad; hałas
'I know,'he said, after a pause, 'that all this will be absolutely incredible to you. To me the one incredible thing is that I am here to-night in this old familiar room looking into your friendly faces and telling you these strange adventures.'
adventures - przygody; (adventure) ryzykować; przygoda
He looked at the Medical Man. 'No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie-or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?'
prophecy - proroctwo, przepowiednia
speculating - gdybać, spekulować
destinies - los, przeznaczenie
hatched - wykluły się; wysiedzieć, uknuć, przygotować, wykluć; właz, luk
fiction - beletrystyka; fikcja
assertion - twierdzenie, domaganie się, zapewnienie
stroke - uderzać, pogłaskać; uderzenie, udar mózgu, cios
enhance - poprawiać, poprawić, polepszać, polepszyć
He took up his pipe, and began, in his old accustomed manner, to tap with it nervously upon the bars of the grate. There was a momentary stillness. Then chairs began to creak and shoes to scrape upon the carpet. I took my eyes off the Time Traveller's face, and looked round at his audience. They were in the dark, and little spots of colour swam before them.
nervously - nerwowo
grate - zazgrzytać, zgrzytnąć, drażnić, trzeć, skrobać; ruszt
creak - trzeszczeć
scrape - skrobać, drapać
carpet - dywan, kobierzec
audience - publiczność; widownia, publika, audytorium, audiencja
The Medical Man seemed absorbed in the contemplation of our host. The Editor was looking hard at the end of his cigar-the sixth. The Journalist fumbled for his watch. The others, as far as I remember, were motionless.
absorbed in - być pochłoniętym przez
contemplation - kontemplacja, medytacja, bogomyślność
sixth - szósty; seksta
The Editor stood up with a sigh. 'What a pity it is you're not a writer of stories!'he said, putting his hand on the Time Traveller's shoulder.
sigh - westchnąć, zaszeleścić, zaszumieć; westchnienie
What a pity - jaka szkoda!
'You don't believe it?'
'Well--'
'I thought not.'
The Time Traveller turned to us. 'Where are the matches?'he said.
He lit one and spoke over his pipe, puffing. 'To tell you the truth
puffing - dmuchanie; (puff) dyszeć, sapać, wypuścić dym
… I hardly believe it myself…. And yet…'
His eye fell with a mute inquiry upon the withered white flowers upon the little table. Then he turned over the hand holding his pipe, and I saw he was looking at some half-healed scars on his knuckles.
mute - wyciszyć; ściszyć; tłumik; niemy, milczący
inquiry - zapytanie, prośba, dochodzenie
scars - okaleczyć, oszpecić; blizna, szrama
The Medical Man rose, came to the lamp, and examined the flowers. 'The gynaeceum's odd,'he said. The Psychologist leant forward to see, holding out his hand for a specimen.
gynaeceum - zalążnia
leant - oparł się; opierać się, przechylić się, odchylić się; szczupły
holding out - wytrzymać; przetrzymać; wystarczyć, wystarczać (np. zapasy); bronić (np. atakowanego miejsca); hold out something mieć (np. nadzieję); hold something out wyciągnąć coś (np. w czyimś kierunku)
specimen - przykład, okaz, osobnik, próbka
'I'm hanged if it isn't a quarter to one,'said the Journalist.
hanged - powieszony
'How shall we get home?'
'Plenty of cabs at the station,'said the Psychologist.
plenty - obfitość; dużo
cabs - kabiny; taksówka, dorożka
'It's a curious thing,'said the Medical Man; 'but I certainly don't know the natural order of these flowers. May I have them?'
The Time Traveller hesitated. Then suddenly: 'Certainly not.'
'Where did you really get them?'said the Medical Man.
The Time Traveller put his hand to his head. He spoke like one who was trying to keep hold of an idea that eluded him. 'They were put into my pocket by Weena, when I travelled into Time.'He stared round the room. 'I'm damned if it isn't all going. This room and you and the atmosphere of every day is too much for my memory. Did I ever make a Time Machine, or a model of a Time Machine?
eluded - wymknąć, ominąć, uniknąć
Or is it all only a dream? They say life is a dream, a precious poor dream at times-but I can't stand another that won't fit. It's madness. And where did the dream come from? … I must look at that machine. If there is one!'
precious - cenny, drogocenny, drogi
fit - pasować, dostać ataku; dopasowanie; zdolny, odpowiedni, pasujący
He caught up the lamp swiftly, and carried it, flaring red, through the door into the corridor. We followed him. There in the flickering light of the lamp was the machine sure enough, squat, ugly, and askew; a thing of brass, ebony, ivory, and translucent glimmering quartz.
sure enough - faktycznie, rzeczywiście, z pewnością; co było do przewidzenia, jak można się było spodziewać
squat - przysiad; kucki
ugly - brzydki
ebony - heban; hebanowy
translucent - półprzezroczysty
glimmering - (glimmer) migotać; migotanie, iskra, płomyk, przebłysk
Solid to the touch-for I put out my hand and felt the rail of it-and with brown spots and smears upon the ivory, and bits of grass and moss upon the lower parts, and one rail bent awry.
touch-for - (touch-for) dotyk; kontakt dla; touch somebody for something przekonać kogoś do pożyczenia czegoś
smears - mazać, pomazać, smarować, posmarować, mazać, pomazać, smarować
bits - bity; kawałek, część, bit
awry - krzywo, ukośnie, na opak, niewłaściwie, opacznie, krzywy
The Time Traveller put the lamp down on the bench, and ran his hand along the damaged rail. 'It's all right now,'he said. 'The story I told you was true. I'm sorry to have brought you out here in the cold.'He took up the lamp, and, in an absolute silence, we returned to the smoking-room.
damaged - uszkodzenie
He came into the hall with us and helped the Editor on with his coat. The Medical Man looked into his face and, with a certain hesitation, told him he was suffering from overwork, at which he laughed hugely. I remember him standing in the open doorway, bawling good night.
hesitation - wahanie, niezdecydowanie
overwork - przeciążyć, przemęczyć; przepracowanie
I shared a cab with the Editor. He thought the tale a 'gaudy lie.'For my own part I was unable to come to a conclusion. The story was so fantastic and incredible, the telling so credible and sober. I lay awake most of the night thinking about it. I determined to go next day and see the Time Traveller again.
cab - kabina; taksówka, dorożka
gaudy - jarmarczny, ordynarny, krzykliwy
credible - wiarygodny
sober - trzeźwy
I was told he was in the laboratory, and being on easy terms in the house, I went up to him. The laboratory, however, was empty. I stared for a minute at the Time Machine and put out my hand and touched the lever. At that the squat substantial-looking mass swayed like a bough shaken by the wind.
on easy terms - na dogodnych warunkach
substantial - znaczny, obfity, istotny, solidny, poważny, zamożny
bough - gałąź, konar
shaken - wstrząśnięty; trząść, potrząsnąć, wstrząsnąć, pozbyć się
Its instability startled me extremely, and I had a queer reminiscence of the childish days when I used to be forbidden to meddle. I came back through the corridor. The Time Traveller met me in the smoking-room. He was coming from the house. He had a small camera under one arm and a knapsack under the other. He laughed when he saw me, and gave me an elbow to shake.
instability - niestabilność
meddle - wtrącić, mieszać się, kombinować
knapsack - plecak
elbow - łokieć; uderzyć z łokcia
shake - trząść, potrząsnąć, wstrząsnąć, pozbyć się, podać sobie dłonie
'I'm frightfully busy,'said he, 'with that thing in there.'
'But is it not some hoax?'I said. 'Do you really travel through time?'
hoax - przekręcać, przekręcić, oszukiwać, oszukać, mistyfikacja
'Really and truly I do.'And he looked frankly into my eyes. He hesitated. His eye wandered about the room. 'I only want half an hour,'he said. 'I know why you came, and it's awfully good of you. There's some magazines here. If you'll stop to lunch I'll prove you this time travelling up to the hilt, specimen and all. If you'll forgive my leaving you now?'
awfully - okropnie; strasznie, bardzo
Prove - udowodnić; okazać się, dowodzić, udowadniać
hilt - rękojeść
forgive - wybaczyć; przebaczać, przebaczyć, odpuszczać, odpuścić
I consented, hardly comprehending then the full import of his words, and he nodded and went on down the corridor. I heard the door of the laboratory slam, seated myself in a chair, and took up a daily paper. What was he going to do before lunch-time? Then suddenly I was reminded by an advertisement that I had promised to meet Richardson, the publisher, at two.
consented - wyraził zgodę; zgadzać
comprehending - obejmować, objąć, pojmować, pojąć
slam - trzasnąć, rzucać, oczerniać, zatrzaskiwać; trzask
publisher - wydawca, wydawczyni, wydawnictwo
I looked at my watch, and saw that I could barely save that engagement. I got up and went down the passage to tell the Time Traveller.
barely - ledwo, ledwie, tylko
engagement - zaangażowanie; zaręczyny
As I took hold of the handle of the door I heard an exclamation, oddly truncated at the end, and a click and a thud. A gust of air whirled round me as I opened the door, and from within came the sound of broken glass falling on the floor. The Time Traveller was not there.
handle - zajmować się czymś, radzić sobie, trzymać; uchwyt, rączka
exclamation - okrzyk, wykrzyk, wykrzyknik
truncated - ściąć, skrócić, okroić
click - pstrykać, pojąć, klikać; kliknięcie, pstryk, trzask, stuk
I seemed to see a ghostly, indistinct figure sitting in a whirling mass of black and brass for a moment-a figure so transparent that the bench behind with its sheets of drawings was absolutely distinct; but this phantasm vanished as I rubbed my eyes. The Time Machine had gone. Save for a subsiding stir of dust, the further end of the laboratory was empty.
ghostly - upiorny; widmowy, zmorowaty
whirling - wirowanie; (whirl) kręcić się, wirować, wiercić się; wir
phantasm - przywidzenie, iluzja, złudzenie
rubbed - trzeć, ocierać, wcierać
A pane of the skylight had, apparently, just been blown in.
pane - panel; szyba
skylight - świetlik
I felt an unreasonable amazement. I knew that something strange had happened, and for the moment could not distinguish what the strange thing might be. As I stood staring, the door into the garden opened, and the man-servant appeared.
servant - służący, służąca, sługa
We looked at each other. Then ideas began to come. 'Has Mr. -- gone out that way?'said I.
Mr - panie; pan, proszę pana
'No, sir. No one has come out this way. I was expecting to find him here.'
At that I understood. At the risk of disappointing Richardson I stayed on, waiting for the Time Traveller; waiting for the second, perhaps still stranger story, and the specimens and photographs he would bring with him. But I am beginning now to fear that I must wait a lifetime. The Time Traveller vanished three years ago. And, as everybody knows now, he has never returned.
disappointing - rozczarować, zawieść
lifetime - dożywotnio; życie
EPILOGUE
Epilogue - epilog, posłowie
One cannot choose but wonder. Will he ever return? It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times.
hairy - włochaty, owłosiony, zarośnięty, ryzykowny, trudny
savages - dziki, zdziczały, barbarzyński, niecywilizowany, brutalny
Unpolished - nieoszlifowany
abysses - przepaść, czeluść, otchłań, otchłań, przepaść, otchłań, przepaść
Cretaceous - kreda
saurians - sauria, jaszczur; jaszczurzy
reptilian - gad; gadzi
Jurassic - jurajski; jura
He may even now-if I may use the phrase-be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age. Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome problems solved?
wandering - wędrówki; wędrowny; (wander); włóczyć
plesiosaurus - plezjozaur
haunted - nawiedzony; straszyć, nawiedzać, nawiedzić, nawiedzać, nawiedzić
coral reef - rafa koralowa
saline - słony, zasolony
lakes - jeziora; jezioro
Triassic - triasowy; trias
riddles - zagadki; zagadka
wearisome - nudny, męczący
solved - rozwiązany; rozwiązywać, rozwiązać
Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time! I say, for my own part.
manhood - męskość
fragmentary - fragmentaryczny, oderwany, okruchowy
mutual - wzajemne; wzajemny; obopólny, wspólny
discord - niezgoda, dysonans
culminating - zostać uwieńczonym czymś
He, I know-for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made-thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so.
cheerlessly - ponuro
advancement - postęp, awans, rozwój, polepszenie
makers - konstruktor, producent, stwórca
But to me the future is still black and blank-is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers-shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle-to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
casual - dorywczy, doraźny, przypadkowy, sezonowy, niedbały, codzienny
brittle - kruchy
witness - świadek
End of Project Gutenberg's The Time Machine, by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
George - Jerzy