Английский язык с Р.Л.Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ
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handbarrow [,hænd`bærəu] heavy [`hevɪ] tarry [`tɑ:rɪ] sabre [`seɪbə] cove [`kəuv]
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a handbarrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cove and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:—
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”in the high, old tottering voice (высоким,
tottering [`tɔtərɪŋ] voice [vɔɪs] tuned [tju:nd] handspike [`hændspaɪk] roughly [`rʌflɪ]
This, when it was brought to him (его /ром/, когда он был принесен ему; to bring — приносить, доставлять), he drank slowly (он пил медленно; to drink), like a connoisseur (как знаток), lingering on the taste (медля/мешкая на глотке = смакуя каждый глоток), and still looking about him (и все осматриваясь вокруг себя = поглядывая) at the cliffs and up at our signboard (на утесы и вверх на нашу вывеску).
“This is a handy cove (это удобная бухта),” says he, at length (сказал он, наконец); “and a pleasant situated grog-shop (и славно расположенная винная лавка; grog — грог /горячий алкогольный напиток, разновидность пунша, приготовляемый на основе рома, коньяка или водки и горячей воды с сахаром и пряностями и употребляемый только в холодное время года/). Much company, mate (много гостей = посетителей, приятель)?”
My father told him no (отец сказал ему, /что/ нет), very little company (очень мало народу), the more was the pity (тем хуже = к сожалению: «тем больше была жалость»).”
connoisseur [kɔnə`sə:] signboard [`saɪnbɔ:d] length [leŋθ] pleasant [pleznt]
in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum.
This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste, and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.
“This is a handy cove,” says he, at length; “and a pleasant situated grog-shop. Much company, mate?”
My father told him no, very little company, the more was the pity.”
“Well, then (итак),” said he, “this is the berth for me (эта якорная стоянка для меня). Here you matey (сюда, браток),” he cried to the man who trundled the barrow (крикнул человеку, который катил тачку); “bring up alongside and help up my chest (греби сюда и помоги поднять = втащить мой сундук; to bring up — поставить или стать на якорь; alongside — по борту, рядом). I’ll stay here a bit (я останусь здесь немного = ненадолго),” he continued (продолжил). “I’m a plain man (я простой человек); rum and bacon and eggs is what I want (ром, бекон и яйца = яичница — /вот то/, что я хочу = все, что мне нужно), and that head up there for to watch ships off (тот мыс вон там, /хорошо подходит/, чтобы смотреть на корабли вдали /проходящие в море/). What you mought call me (как вы можете называть меня; mought = might)? You mought call me captain (можете называть меня капитаном). Oh, I see what you’re at — there (понимаю, чего вы ждете — вот; to be at — намереваться);” and he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold (и он бросил три или четыре золотые монеты на порог; piece — кусок; монета). “You can tell me when I’ve worked through that (можете сказать мне = обратиться, когда кончится это; to work — работать, использовать; through — через, полностью),” says he, looking as fierce as a commander (глядя так же свирепо, как командир = с видом командира).
berth [bə:θ] continued [kən`tɪnju:d] pieces [`pi:sɪz] threshold [`θreʃhəuld] fierce [fɪəs]
“Well, then,” said he, “this is the berth for me. Here you matey,” he cried to the man who trundled the barrow; “bring up alongside and help up my chest. I’ll stay here a bit,” he continued. “I’m a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off. What you mought call me? You mought call me captain. Oh, I see what you’re at — there;” and he threw down three or four gold pieces on the threshold. “You can tell me when I’ve worked through that,” says he, looking as fierce as a commander.
And, indeed (действительно), bad as his clothes were (/хотя/
clothes [kləuðz] coarsely [`kɔ:slɪ] appearance [ə`pɪərəns] mast [mɑ:st] obeyed [əu`beɪd]
And, indeed, bad as his clothes were, and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast; but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike. The man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down this morning before at the “Royal George”; that he had inquired what inns there were along the coast, and hearing ours well spoken of, I suppose, and described as lonely, had chosen it from the others for his place of residence. And that was all we could learn of our guest.
He was a very silent man by custom (он был очень молчаливым человеком по обычаю = обыкновенно). All day he hung round the cove (весь день он бродил по /берегу/ бухты; to hang round — слоняться), or upon the cliffs (или взбирался на скалы; to hang upon — повиснуть, прицепиться), with a brass telescope (c медной подзорной трубой); all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour next the fire (весь вечер он сидел в углу общей комнаты /зала/ у огня), and drank rum and water very strong (и пил ром с водой очень сильный = мало разбавленный). Mostly he would not speak when spoken to (в основном, он не отвечал, когда к нему обращались; to speak to — разговаривать /с кем-то/); only look up sudden and fierce (лишь взглянет вверх = поднимет глаза, резко и свирепо) and blow through his nose like a fog-horn (свистит через нос как /корабельная/ сирена; to blow — дуть, выдувать); and we and the people who came about our house (мы и люди, которые случились в нашем доме = посетители) soon learned to let him be (вскоре научились оставлять его в покое). Every day (каждый день), when he came back from his stroll (когда он приходил назад = возвращался со своей прогулки), he would ask if any seafaring men had gone by along the road (спрашивал, проходили ли мимо какие-нибудь моряки по дороге). At first we thought (сначала мы думали) it was the want of company of his own kind (/что/ это был недостаток компании его собственного типа = таких же, как он) that made him ask this question (который заставляла его задавать этот вопрос); but at last we began to see (но наконец мы начали видеть = понимать) he was desirous to avoid them (/что/ он стремился избежать их; desirous — желающий, жаждущий). When a seaman put up at the “Admiral Benbow” (когда какой-то моряк останавливался в «Адмирале Бенбоу») (as now and then some did (как время от времени некоторые делали), making by the coast road for Bristol (двигаясь прибрежной дорогой в Бристоль)) he would look in at him through the curtained door (он взглядывал на него через занавешенную дверь) before he entered the parlour (прежде чем входил в комнату); and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse (и он всегда был тихим, словно мышь; sure — непременно, точно) when any such was present (когда любой подобный /человек/ присутствовал).