idea [aɪˈdɪə], throat [Ɵrəut], ejaculate [ɪˈʤækjuleɪt]

"That is the other exit," said Nabonidus. "And I strongly doubt if the door at the head is bolted. But I have an idea that he who would go through that door had better cut his own throat first. Look into the disk."

What had seemed a silver plate was in reality a great mirror set in the wall. A confusing system of copperlike tubes jutted out from the wall above it, bending down toward it at right angles. Glancing into these tubes, Murilo saw a bewildering array of smaller mirrors. He turned his attention to the larger mirror in the wall, and ejaculated in amazement. Peering over his shoulder, Conan grunted.

They seemed to be looking through a broad window into a well-lighted chamber (казалось, они смотрят через широкое окно в хорошо освещенную комнату). There were broad mirrors on the walls, with velvet hangings between (на стенах были = висели широкие зеркала с бархатными драпировками между ними); there were silken couches, chairs of ebony and ivory, and curtained doorways leading off from the chamber (там были мягкие, роскошные диваны, стулья из черного дерева и слоновой кости и занавешенные дверные проемы, ведущие из комнаты; silken — шелковый; мягкий; роскошный). And before one doorway which was not curtained (а перед одним дверным проемом, который был не занавешен), sat a bulky black object that contrasted grotesquely with the richness of the chamber (сидело массивное черное нелепое существо, которое причудливо контрастировало с богатством комнаты; to sit — сидеть; object — предмет; жалкий человек, тип; нелепая вещь).

couch [kauʧ], ebony [ˈebənɪ], grotesque [ɡrəuˈtesk]

They seemed to be looking through a broad window into a well-lighted chamber. There were broad mirrors on the walls, with velvet hangings between; there were silken couches, chairs of ebony and ivory, and curtained doorways leading off from the chamber. And before one doorway which was not curtained, sat a bulky black object that contrasted grotesquely with the richness of the chamber.