Английский язык с Дж. Лондоном. Любовь к жизни (рассказы)

The days were not many after that when he sat at table with the scientific men and ship's officers (было = прошло немного = несколько

дней после этого, когда он /уже/ сидел за столом с учеными и офицерами корабля). He gloated over the spectacle of so much food (он пожирал глазами зрелище такого большого количества пищи; to gloat over — пожирать глазами), watching it anxiously as it went into the mouths of others (наблюдая за ней тревожно/с беспокойством, когда она отправлялась во рты других). With the disappearance of each mouthful an expression of deep regret came into his eyes (с исчезновением каждого куска в его глазах появлялось выражение глубокого сожаления). He was quite sane (он был совершенно в здравом уме; sane — нормальный, в своем уме, в здравом уме

), yet he hated those men at meal-time (тем не менее, он ненавидел этих людей во время еды). He was haunted by a fear that the food would not last (его мучил страх, что еды не хватит; to haunt — мучить; не давать покоя; to last — продолжаться, длиться; хватать, быть достаточным). He inquired of the cook, the cabin-boy, the captain, concerning the food stores (он расспрашивал кока, юнгу, капитана о запасах еды). They reassured him countless times (бессчетное число раз они успокаивали его); but he could not believe them (но он не мог им поверить), and pried cunningly about the lazarette to see with his own eyes (и хитро с любопытством разглядывал кладовую, чтобы убедиться собственными глазами; to pry about — высматривать; с любопытством разглядывать; lazaretto — складское помещение /между палубами на судне/, кладовая

).

Three weeks afterward the man lay in a bunk on the whale-ship Bedford

, and with tears streaming down his wasted cheeks told who he was and what he had undergone. He also babbled incoherently of his mother, of sunny Southern California, and a home among the orange groves and flowers.

The days were not many after that when he sat at table with the scientific men and ship's officers. He gloated over the spectacle of so much food, watching it anxiously as it went into the mouths of others. With the disappearance of each mouthful an expression of deep regret came into his eyes. He was quite sane, yet he hated those men at meal-time. He was haunted by a fear that the food would not last. He inquired of the cook, the cabin-boy, the captain, concerning the food stores. They reassured him countless times; but he could not believe them, and pried cunningly about the lazarette to see with his own eyes.

It was noticed that the man was getting fat (было замечено, что человек толстеет). He grew stouter with each day (он становился тучнее с каждым днем). The scientific men shook their heads and theorized (ученые качали головами и теоретизировали). They limited the man at his meals (они ограничивали человека в еде), but still his girth increased and he swelled prodigiously under his shirt (но все равно объем его талии увеличивался, и он чрезмерно разбухал под рубахой; girth — подпруга; обхват; объем /талии, грудной клетки/).