I glanced over my shoulder
(я посмотрел через плечо), and my heart jumped against my ribs (и мое сердце забилось о ребра = душа ушла в пятки;Suddenly the schooner in front of me gave a violent yaw
(внезапно шхуна впереди меня резко развернулась), turning, perhaps, through twenty degrees (поворачиваясь, наверно, градусов на двадцать); and almost at the same moment one shout followed another from on board (и почти в это же время с борта /раздался/ крик, а за ним последовал второй); I could hear feet pounding on the companion ladder (я слышал, как ноги стучали по сходному трапу); and I knew that the two drunkards had at last been interrupted in their quarrel (и я знал = понял, что два пьяницы наконец были прерваны в своей ссоре) and awakened to a sense of their disaster (и разбужены чувством несчастья = беда отрезвила обоих;аngles [`æŋglz] quickening [`kwɪkənɪŋ] degrees [dɪ`gri:z] drunkard [`drʌŋkəd]
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.
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.
I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff
(я лег на дно того несчастного ялика;