Catching Fire - Chapter 1 (4)

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I get a good haul from the traps — eight rabbits, two squirrels, and a beaver that
swam into a wire contraption Gale designed himself. He's something of a whiz
with snares, rigging them to bent saplings so they pull the kill out of the reach of
predators, balancing logs on delicate stick triggers, weaving inescapable
baskets to capture fish. As I go along, carefully resetting each snare, I know I
can never quite replicate his eye for balance, his instinct for where the prey will
cross the path. It's more than experience. It's a natural gift. Like the way I can
shoot at an animal in almost complete darkness and still take it down with one
arrow.
By the time I make it back to the fence that surrounds District 12, the sun is well
up. As always, I listen a moment, but there's no telltale hum of electrical current
running through the chain link. There hardly ever is, even though the thing is
supposed to be charged full-time. I wriggle through the opening at the bottom of
the fence and come up in the Meadow, just a stone's throw from my home. My
old home. We still get to keep it since officially it's the designated dwelling of my
mother and sister. If I should drop dead right now, they would have to return to
it. But at present, they're both happily installed in the new house in the Victor's
Village, and I'm the only one who uses the squat little place where I was raised.
To me, it's my real home.
I go there now to switch my clothes. Exchange my father's old leather jacket for
a fine wool coat that always seems too tight in the shoulders. Leave my soft,

Zdobyłam dobry łup. - I get a good haul
pułapka - trap
ustrojstwo,wynalazek - contraption
spec, ekspert - whiz
sidła - snare
pochylony,wygięty - bent
młode drzewo - sapling
wyciągnąć - pull out
koszyk - basket
schwytać - capture
drapieżnik - predator
kłoda - log
delikatny - delicate
spust - trigger
kij - stick
nieunikniony - inescapable
schwytać rybe - capture fish
pójść - go along
ponownie nastawiać - reset
kopiować - replicate
instynkt - instinct
zwierzyna - prey
przeciąż ścieżke - cross the path
zdjąć coś - take sth done
strzała - arrow
docieram do płotu - I make it back to the fence
Słońce stoi już wysoko - The sun is well up.
ostrzegawczy - telltale
buczenie - hum
prąd - electrical current
płynny przez - running through
metalowa siatka - chain-link fence
rzadko kiedy - hardly ever
przypuszczalnie - supposed
rzekomo - supposed
Przeciskam się przez szczeline pod płotem - I wriggle through the opening at the bottom of fence.
podchodzić pod górę - come up
łąka - meadow
oficjalnie - officially
mieszkanie - dwelling
ochoczo, chętnie - happily
... - intstalled in the new house
budynek zajęty przez nielegalnych mieszkańców - squat
paść trupem - drop dead
przebrać ubrania - switch clothes
wełna - wool
gdzie dorastałam - where I was raised