Английский язык с Р.Л.Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ
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thought [θɔ:t] whispering [`wɪspərɪŋ] high [haɪ]
“That was how the rum took him,” added Merry. “Blue! well, I reckon he was blue. That’s a true word.”
Ever since they had found the skeleton and got upon this train of thought, they had spoken lower and lower, and they had almost got to whispering by now, so that the sound of their talk hardly interrupted the silence of the wood. All of a sudden, out of the middle of the trees in front of us, a thin, high, trembling voice struck up the well-known air and words: —
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — You-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”I never have seen men more dreadfully affected than the pirates (я
“It’s Flint, by—— (это Флинт, клянусь…)!” cried Merry (воскликнул Мерри).
The song had stopped as suddenly as it began (песня остановилась так же неожиданно, как и началась) — broken off, you would have said, in the middle of a note (оборвалась, можно сказать, на середине ноты), as though someone had laid his hand upon the singer’s mouth (будто кто-то положил руку на = зажал рот певцу). Coming so far through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops (проносясь в прозрачном солнечном воздухе среди зеленых верхушек деревьев), I thought it had sounded airily and sweetly (по-моему, она /песня/ звучала весело и приятно; airily — грациозно, беспечно); and the effect on my companions was the stranger (но эффект, /произведенный/ на моих спутников, был странным).
“Come (хватит),” said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out (сказал Сильвер, стараясь своими мертвенно-бледными: «пепельными» губами произнести слово; to struggle — бороться; пытаться изо всех сил; ash — зола, пепел), “this won’t do (так не пойдет). Stand by to go about (приготовьтесь к маневру = давайте, бодрее). This is a rum start, and I can’t name the voice (это странное явление, и я не могу назвать голос = понять, кто это): but it’s someone skylarking — someone that’s flesh and blood, and you may lay to that (но это кто-то дурачится — кто-то, кто имеет плоть и кровь, это точно; to skylark — проказничать, забавляться, шутить; skylark — жаворонок).”
еnchantment [ɪn`tʃɑ:ntmənt] grovelled [`grɔvəld] airily [`eərɪlɪ] skylarking [`skaɪlɑ:kɪŋ]
I never have seen men more dreadfully affected than the pirates. The colour went from their six faces like enchantment; some leaped to their feet, some clawed hold of others; Morgan grovelled on the ground.
“It’s Flint, by—— !” cried Merry.
The song had stopped as suddenly as it began — broken off, you would have said, in the middle of a note, as though someone had laid his hand upon the singer’s mouth. Coming so far through the clear, sunny atmosphere among the green tree-tops, I thought it had sounded airily and sweetly; and the effect on my companions was the stranger.
“Come,” said Silver, struggling with his ashen lips to get the word out, “this won’t do. Stand by to go about. This is a rum start, and I can’t name the voice: but it’s someone skylarking — someone that’s flesh and blood, and you may lay to that.”
His courage had come back as he spoke (его
“Darby M’Graw (Дарби Макгроу),” it wailed (завывал он; to wail — вопить, причитать, выть) — for that is the word that best describes the sound (потому что это слово лучше всего описывает тот звук) — “Darby M’Graw (Дарби Макгроу)! Darby M’Graw (Дарби Макгроу)!” again and again and again (снова, и снова, и снова); and then rising a little higher, and with an oath that I leave out (затем стал немного громче, и с ругательством, которое я опускаю, /произнес/), “Fetch aft the rum, Darby (сходи за ромом, Дарби)!”
The buccaneers remained rooted to the ground (пираты так и остались /стоять/, /словно/ приросли к земле; to root — пускать корни; укореняться, приковать), their eyes starting from their heads (/при этом/ их глаза вылезли из головы = на лоб полезли). Long after the voice had died away they still stared in silence, dreadfully, before them (долго после того, как голос замолк, они еще глядели молча, /объятые/ ужасом, вперед; to die away — гаснуть, замолкать, замирать).
courage [`kʌrɪʤ] describes [dɪs`kraɪbz] dreadfully [`dredfulɪ]
His courage had come back as he spoke, and some of the colour to his face along with it. Already the others had begun to lend an ear to this encouragement, and were coming a little to themselves, when the same voice broke out again — not this time singing, but in a fainter distant hail, that echoed yet faint among the clefts of the Spy-glass.
“Darby M’Graw,” it wailed — for that is the word that best describes the sound — “Darby M’Graw! Darby M’Graw!” again and again and again; and then rising a little higher, and with an oath that I leave out, “Fetch aft the rum, Darby!”
The buccaneers remained rooted to the ground, their eyes starting from their heads. Long after the voice had died away they still stared in silence, dreadfully, before them.
“That fixes it (дело ясное; to fix — устанавливать; прикреплять; укреплять; устраивать, улаживать)!” gasped one (выдохнул один; to gasp — дышать с трудом, ахать). “Let’s go (пойдем /отсюда/).”