| The whole of the second volley flew wide of the Martian on the ground, and, simultaneously, both his companions brought their Heat-Rays to bear on the battery. | Второй залп пропал даром, снаряды перелетели через упавшего марсианина и ударились в землю. И тотчас же два других марсианина подняли камеры теплового луча, направляя их на батарею. |
| The ammunition blew up, the pine trees all about the guns flashed into fire, and only one or two of the men who were already running over the crest of the hill escaped. | Снаряды взорвались, сосны загорелись, из прислуги, обратившейся в бегство, уцелело всего несколько человек. |
| After this it would seem that the three took counsel together and halted, and the scouts who were watching them report that they remained absolutely stationary for the next half hour. | Марсиане остановились и стали о чем-то совещаться. Разведчики, наблюдавшие за ними, донесли, что они стояли неподвижно около получаса. |
| The Martian who had been overthrown crawled tediously out of his hood, a small brown figure, oddly suggestive from that distance of a speck of blight, and apparently engaged in the repair of his support. | Опрокинутый марсианин неуклюже выполз из-под своего колпака - небольшая бурая туша, издали похожая на грибной нарост, - и занялся починкой треножника. |
| About nine he had finished, for his cowl was then seen above the trees again. | К девяти он кончил работать, и его колпак снова показался над лесом. |
| It was a few minutes past nine that night when these three sentinels were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube. | В начале десятого к этим трем часовым присоединились четыре других марсианина, вооруженных большими черными трубами. |
| A similar tube was handed to each of the three, and the seven proceeded to distribute themselves at equal distances along a curved line between St. George's Hill, Weybridge, and the village of Send, southwest of Ripley. | Такие же трубы были вручены каждому из трех первых. После этого все семеро растянулись цепью на равном расстоянии друг от друга, по кривой между Сент-Джордж-Хилл ом, Уэйбриджем и Сэндом, на юго-западе от Рипли. |
| A dozen rockets sprang out of the hills before them so soon as they began to move, and warned the waiting batteries about Ditton and Esher. | Как только они начали двигаться, с холмов взвились сигнальные ракеты, предупреждая батареи у Диттона и Эшера. |
| At the same time four of their fighting machines, similarly armed with tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried wearily and painfully along the road that runs northward out of Halliford. |