Английский язык с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

Scarcely had we passed the heads before the land closed around us (как только мы прошли мысы, земля окружила нас со всех сторон). The shores of North Inlet were as thickly wooded as those of the southern anchorage (берега Северной бухты были столь же густо лесисты, как те /берега/ южной стоянки); but the space was longer and narrower (но сама бухта была длиннее и уже; space — пространство, протяжение, площадь), and more like, what in truth it was, the estuary of a river (и более походила на то, чем в действительности она была, на устье реки). Right before us, at the southern end (прямо перед нами, в южной оконечности), we saw the wreck of a ship in the last stages of dilapidation (мы увидели остов разбитого корабля, /находившегося/ в последней стадии разрушения;

dilapidation — обветшание, разрушение). It had been a great vessel of three masts (это было большое трехмачтовое судно), but had lain so long exposed to the injuries of the weather (но /оно/ так долго покоилось /здесь/, подвергаясь воздействию непогоды; to expose — выставлять, подвергать; injury — вред, ущерб, урон), that it was hung about with great webs of dripping seaweed (что обросло: «было увешано» огромными паутинами из мокрых морских водорослей; web — паутина), and on the deck of it shore bushes had taken root (на его палубе береговые кусты пустили корни; shore — берег

), and now flourished thick with flowers (и теперь были усеяна цветами; to flourish — пышно расти, расцветать; thick with — изобилующий, густо покрытый). It was a sad sight, but it showed us that the anchorage was calm (это было печальным зрелищем, но показывало нам, что стоянка спокойна).

“Now (итак),” said Hands, “look there (погляди); there’s a pet bit for to beach a ship in (какой прелестный кусочек берега для причаливания)

. Fine flat sand, never a catspaw (прекрасный гладкий песок, ни легкого ветерка: «кошачьей лапы»), trees all around of it, and flowers a (вокруг деревья, и цветы) — blowing like a garding on that old ship (цветут, словно сад на том старом корабле; garding = garden).”

“And once beached (а когда сядем на мель),” I inquired (я спросил), “how shall we get her off again

(как мы отчалим снова)?”

estuary [`estjuərɪ] wreck [rek] dilapidation [dɪlæpɪ`deɪʃn] garden [`gɑ:dn]

Scarcely had we passed the heads before the land closed around us. The shores of North Inlet were as thickly wooded as those of the southern anchorage; but the space was longer and narrower, and more like, what in truth it was, the estuary of a river. Right before us, at the southern end, we saw the wreck of a ship in the last stages of dilapidation. It had been a great vessel of three masts, but had lain so long exposed to the injuries of the weather, that it was hung about with great webs of dripping seaweed, and on the deck of it shore bushes had taken root, and now flourished thick with flowers. It was a sad sight, but it showed us that the anchorage was calm.

“Now,” said Hands, “look there; there’s a pet bit for to beach a ship in. Fine flat sand, never a catspaw, trees all around of it, and flowers a — blowing like a garding on that old ship.”

“And once beached,” I inquired, “how shall we get her off again?”