Английский язык с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

Down I sat to wait for darkness (я сел ждать /наступления/ темноты), and made a hearty meal of biscuit (и устроил себе пир из сухарей; hearty meal — обильная еда). It was a night out of ten thousand for my purpose (это была ночь из десяти тысяч = трудно представить более подходящую ночь для моего замысла; purpose — цель). The fog had now buried all heaven (туман теперь спрятал = заволок все небо)

. As the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared (когда последние лучи дневного света погасли; to dwindle — исчезать, пропадать, сгинуть), absolute blackness settled down on Treasure Island (абсолютная тьма окутала Остров Сокровищ; to settle down — устраиваться; осесть, поселиться). And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle (и когда, наконец, я взвалил на плечи челнок; shoulder — плечо; to shoulder — взвалить на плечи), and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped

(и пошел, спотыкаясь, на ощупь из лощины, где я поужинал), there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage (на всей стоянке было видно лишь две точки).

truantry [`tru:əntrɪ] obstinately [`ɔbstɪnəntlɪ] dwindled [`dwɪndld] stumblingly [`stʌmblɪŋlɪ]

Well, now that I had found the boat, you would have thought I had had enough of truantry for once; but, in the meantime, I had taken another notion, and became so obstinately fond of it, that I would have carried it out, I believe, in the teeth of Captain Smollett himself. This was to slip out under cover of the night, cut the Hispaniola adrift, and let her go ashore where she fancied. I had quite made up my mind that the mutineers, after their repulse of the morning, had nothing nearer their hearts than to up anchor and away to sea; this, I thought, it would be a fine thing to prevent, and now that I had seen how they left their watchmen unprovided with a boat, I thought it might be done with little risk.

Down I sat to wait for darkness, and made a hearty meal of biscuit. It was a night out of ten thousand for my purpose. The fog had now buried all heaven. As the last rays of daylight dwindled and disappeared, absolute blackness settled down on Treasure Island. And when, at last, I shouldered the coracle, and groped my way stumblingly out of the hollow where I had supped, there were but two points visible on the whole anchorage.

One was the great fire on shore (одной был огромный костер на берегу), by which the defeated pirates lay carousing in the swamp (у которого побежденные пираты расположились, пьянствуя на болоте; to carouse — пировать; кутить, пьянствовать). The other, a mere blur of light upon the darkness (другое, всего лишь неясное пятно света в: «на» темноте), indicated the position of the anchored ship

(показывало расположение стоявшей на якоре шхуны). She had swung round to the ebb (она развернулась к отливу) — her bow was now towards me (ее нос был теперь /повернут/ ко мне) — the only lights on board were in the cabin (единственные огни на борту светились в каюте); and what I saw was merely a reflection on the fog of the strong rays that flowed from the stern window (и то, что я видел, было лишь отражением сильных лучей /света/ в тумане, которые шли из кормового окна; to flow from — проистекать, происходить).