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that's young— you and me might have done a power of good together (ты и я

могли бы многого добиться вместе; a power of good — много пользы)!'

chance [tSRns] believed [bI`lJvd] staunch [stLntS]

1. 'It's a bargain!' cried Long John. 'You speak up plucky, and, by thunder!

I've a chance.'

2. He hobbled to the torch, where it stood propped among the firewood, and

took a fresh light to his pipe.

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3. 'Understand me, Jim,' he said, returning. 'I've a head on my shoulders, I

have. I'm on squire's side now. I know you've got that ship safe somewheres.

How you done it, I don't know, but safe it is. I guess Hands and O'Brien

turned soft. I never much believed in neither ofthem. Now you mark me. I ask

no questions, nor I won't let others. I know when a game's up, I do; and I

know a lad that's staunch. Ah, you that's young — you and me might have

done a power of good together!'

1. He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin (он нацедил немного

коньяка из бочонка в оловянную кружечку).

2. 'Will you taste, messmate (ты попробуешь, приятель; messmate —

однокашник, товарищ по кают-компании)?' he asked; and when I had refused

(и когда я отказался): 'Well, I'll take a drain myself, Jim (ну, тогда я выпью сам

глоток, Джим; drain —дренаж, ток жидкости; порция /например, пива/

),'

said he. 'I need a caulker, for there's trouble on hand (мне нужен глоток

спиртного, так как хлопоты под рукой = ждут нас впереди; caulker —

конопатка /инструментдляпроконопачиваниякораблей/; /сл./глоток

спиртного; on hand — на руках, в наличии, под рукой). And, talking o' trouble,

why did that doctor give me the chart, Jim (говоря о хлопотах, почему доктор

отдал мне карту, Джим)?'

3. My face expressed a wonder so unaffected (мое лицо выразило такое

неподдельное удивление) that he saw the needlessness of further questions (что

он увидел бесполезность дальнейших вопросов; need — нужда; needless —

бесполезный, ненужный).

4. 'Ah, well, he did, though (о, да, он отдал, все-таки),' said he. 'And there's

something under that, no doubt (и есть что-то под этим = что-то тут не так, без

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сомнения) — something, surely, under that, Jim — bad or good (что-то, конечно,

/скрыто/ под этим, Джим, плохое или хорошее).'

5. And he took another swallow of the brandy (и он сделал еще один глоток

бренди), shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst

(тряся своей большой белокурой головой, как человек = с видом человека,

который ожидает худшего).

refused [rI`fjHzd] caulker [`kLkq] needlessness [`nJdlIsnIs] doubt [daut]

1. He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin.

2. 'Will you taste, messmate?' he asked; and when I had refused: 'Well, I'll

take a drain myself, Jim,' said he. 'I need a caulker, for there's trouble on

hand. And, talking o' trouble, why did that doctor give me the chart, Jim?'

3. My face expressed a wonder so unaffected that he saw the needlessness of

further questions.

4. 'Ah, well, he did, though,' said he. 'And there's something under that, no

doubt — something, surely, under that, Jim — bad or good.'

5. And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like

a man who looks forward to the worst.