1. I glanced over my shoulder, and my heart jumped against my ribs. There,
right behind me, was the glow of the camp fire. The current had turned at
right angles, sweeping round along with it the tall schooner and the little
dancing coracle; ever quickening, ever bubbling higher, ever muttering
louder, it went pinning through the narrows for the open sea.
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2. Suddenly the schooner in front of me gave a violent yaw, turning, perhaps,
through twenty degrees; and almost at the same moment one shout followed
another from on board; I could hear feet pounding on the companion ladder;
and I knew that the two drunkards had at last been interrupted in their
quarrel and awakened to a sense of their disaster.
1. I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff (я лег на дно того
несчастного ялика;
искренне вверил душу Создателю). At the end of the straits (в конце пролива),
I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers (я убедился, что мы
должны попасть в полосу бушующих бурунов), where all my troubles would be
ended speedily (где все мои затруднения быстро окончатся); and though I
could, perhaps, bear to die (и хотя, быть может, я не боялся смерти;
мог смотреть, как приближается моя погибель;
2. So I must have lain for hours (так я пролежал, должно быть, несколько
часов), continually beaten to and fro upon the billows (непрерывно швыряемый
из стороны в сторону волнами;
again wetted with flying sprays (то и дело обдаваемый летящими брызгами;
the next plunge (/я/ не прекращал ожидать смерти с /каждым/ следующим
погружением /под воду/). Gradually weariness grew upon me (постепенно
усталость овладела мной); a numbness, an occasional stupor, fell upon my mind
(оцепенение, периодический ступор нападали на мой разум = одолевали
меня) even in the midst of my terrors (даже посреди моих страхов); until sleep at
last supervened (пока, наконец, меня не склонило в сон;
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home and the old 'Admiral Benbow (и в моем бросаемом волнами челне я
лежал, и мне снились дом и старый «Адмирал Бенбоу»).'
devoutly [di`vautlI] continually [kqn`tInjuqlI] ceasing [`sJsIN] numbness
[`nAmnIs]
1. I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff, and devoutly
recommended my spirit to its Maker. At the end of the straits, I made sure we
must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles would be
ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to
look upon my fate as it approached.
2. So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the
billows, now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect
death at the next plunge. Gradually weariness grew upon me; a numbness, an