Английский язык с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

This brought me to a full stop, and if fortune had not again particularly favoured me, I should have had to abandon my design. But the light airs which had begun blowing from the south-east and south had hauled round after nightfall into the south-west. Just while I was meditating, a puff came, caught the Hispaniola, and forced her up into the current; and to my great joy, I felt the hawser slacken in my grasp, and the hand by which I held it dip for a second under water.

With that I made my mind up, took out my gully, opened it with my teeth, and cut one strand after another, till the vessel swung only by two. Then I lay quiet, waiting to sever these last when the strain should be once more lightened by a breath of wind.

All this time I had heard the sound of loud voices from the cabin (все это время я услышал звук голосов /доносившийся/ из каюты); but, to say truth (но, сказать по правде), my mind had been so entirely taken up with other thoughts (мой разум был полностью поглощен другими мыслями) that I had scarcely given ear (что я едва мог слушать;

to give ear to — выслушать). Now, however, when I had nothing else to do (теперь, однако, когда мне нечего было делать), I began to pay more heed (я начал обращать больше внимания /на разговор/).

One I recognised for the coxswain’s, Israel Hands (я узнал /голос/ рулевого, Израэля Хендса), that had been Flint’s gunner in former days (который был канониром Флинта в былые дни). The other was, of course, my friend of the red night-cap (другим был, конечно, мой приятель в красном колпаке). Both men were plainly the worse of drink

(оба матроса были, очевидно, совершенно пьяны; the worse — худшее), and they were still drinking (и все еще пили); for, even while I was listening (потому что, пока я слушал), one of them, with a drunken cry (один из них с пьяным криком), opened the stern window and threw out something, which I divined to be an empty bottle (открыл кормовой иллюминатор и выбросил что-то, что я определил как пустую бутылку; to divine — предсказать, предполагать). But they were not only tipsy (но они были не только под градусом;

tipsy — подвыпивший); it was plain that they were furiously angry (было очевидно, что они яростно ссорились; to be angry — сердиться, злиться). Oaths flew like hailstones (ругательства сыпались градом: «летели, как градины»), and every now and then there came forth such an explosion (и то и дело происходила такая вспышка /гнева/; to come forth — выступать, показываться; explosion — взрыв) as I thought was sure to end in blows (что я был уверен, что /дело/ дойдет до драки: «ударов»; to end in — кончиться, привести к

). But each time the quarrel passed off (но каждый раз ссора прекращалась), and the voices grumbled lower for a while (и голоса ворчали тише какое-то время), until the next crisis came (пока не наступал следующий критический момент), and, in its turn, passed away without result (и, в свою очередь, /также/ прекращался безрезультатно).

entirely [ɪn`taɪəlɪ] divined [dɪ`vaɪnd] explosion [ɪk`spləuʒn] quarrel [`kwɔrəl]

All this time I had heard the sound of loud voices from the cabin; but, to say truth, my mind had been so entirely taken up with other thoughts that I had scarcely given ear. Now, however, when I had nothing else to do, I began to pay more heed.