blue and sunny to the horizon, and the surf tumbling and tossing its foam
along the beach.
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1. I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island (я никогда не видел,
чтобы море вокруг Острова Сокровищ было спокойным). The sun might blaze
overhead (солнце может сиять высоко;
ветерка»), the surface smooth and blue (поверхность /моря/ гладкой и синей),
but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast (но, тем
не менее, эти огромные волны будут накатывать на весь внешний берег),
thundering and thundering by day and night (гремя и гремя день и ночь); and I
scarce believe there is one spot in the island (и я с трудом верю, что на острове
есть /хотя бы/ одно место) where a man would be out of earshot of their noise
(где человек бы был вне пределов их шума;
2. I walked along beside the surf with great enjoyment (я шел по самой кромке
берега: «возле прибоя» с большим наслаждением), till, thinking I was now got
far enough to the south (до тех пор, пока, думая, что я зашел достаточно далеко
на юг), I took the cover of some thick bushes, and crept warily up to the ridge of
the spit (я не спрятался в густых кустах и не пробрался осторожно к хребту
косы;
3. Behind me was the sea, in front the anchorage (позади меня было море,
впереди — стоянка /шхуны/). The sea breeze, as though it had the sooner blown
itself out by its unusual violence (морской бриз, как будто он уже прежде
утомился: «выдул себя = иссяк» своей необыкновенной яростью;
стихал); it had been succeeded by light, variable airs from the south and south-east
(его сменили легкие, переменные ветерки с юга и юго-востока), carrying great
banks of fog (приносившие густой туман;
защитой Острова Скелета), lay still and leaden as when first we entered it (был:
«лежал» спокойным и свинцовым, как когда мы впервые вошли в него). The
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зеркале), was exactly portrayed from the truck to the water line (точно
изображалась = отражалась от клотика до ватерлинии;
hanging from her peak (Веселый Роджер свешивался с вершины /мачты/).
еxternal [Ik`stq:nl] scarce [skeqs] warily [`weqrIlI] variable [`veqrIqbl] leaden
[ledn]
1. I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze
overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still
these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering
and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the
island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
2. I walked along beside the surf with great enjoyment, till, thinking I was
now got far enough to the south, I took the cover of some thick bushes, and
crept warily up to the ridge of the spit.
3. Behind me was the sea, in front the anchorage. The sea breeze, as though it
had the sooner blown itself out by its unusual violence, was already at an end;
it had been succeeded by light, variable airs from the south and south-east,
carrying great banks of fog; and the anchorage, under lee of Skeleton Island,