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Мы отрезаны только в том смысле, что сами не можем выбраться из города. Но связь с внешним миром у нас есть.
Our telephones are working and so are the gas and electric lines. We have plenty of food to last for ten days, maybe more than that. And if we should run short, we can get more food. Trucks loaded with it, or with anything we need, can be brought up to the barrier and the driver can get out, then the truck can be pulled or pushed through the barrier. It doesn't stop things that are not alive.”
Телефон работает, газ подается, электричество не выключилось.
“Just a minute, mayor,” someone shouted.
“Yes,” the mayor said, looking around to see who had dared to interrupt him.
“Was that you, Len?” he asked.
— Одну минутку, мэр! — крикнул кто-то.
— Да? — Хигги огляделся, отыскивая глазами того, кто посмел его перебить.
— Это вы кричали, Лен?
“Yes, it was,” said the man.
I could see now that it was Len Streeter, our high school science teacher.
“What did you want?” asked Higgy.
— Я кричал.
Теперь и я увидал, что это Лен Стритер, учитель естествознания из нашей школы.
— Что вы хотите сказать? — спросил Хигги.
“I suppose you're basing that last statement of yours—about only non-living matter getting through the barrier—on the car that was parked on the Coon Valley road.”
“Why, yes,” said Higgy, condescendingly, “that is exactly what I was basing the statement on. What do you know about it?”
— Насколько я понимаю, ваше последнее утверждение — будто сквозь преграду проходят только неодушевленные предметы — основано на случае с тем автомобилем на кунвэлийской дороге.
— Вот именно, — снисходительно подтвердил Хигги.
"“Nothing,” Len Streeter told him. “Nothing about the car itself. But I presume, you do intend to go about the investigation of this phenomenon within well restricted bounds of logic.”
“That's right,” said Higgy, sanctimoniously. “That's exactly what we intend to do.”
And you could tell by the way he said it he had no idea of what Streeter had said or what he was driving at.