Английский язык с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

He stopped instantly (он остановился сразу). I could see by the working of his face that he was trying to think (я видел по выражению его лица, что он пытался думать; working — работа, деятельность, подергивание /лица/), and the process was so slow and laborious (и этот процесс был таким медленным и напряженным) that, in my new-found security, I laughed aloud (что, /радуясь/ своей свежеобретенной безопасности, я рассмеялся громко)

. At last, with a swallow or two, he spoke (наконец, сделав глоток или два = сглотнув, он заговорил), his face still wearing the same expression of extreme perplexity (его лицо все еще несло то же выражение чрезвычайной растерянности). In order to speak he had to take the dagger from his mouth (для того, чтобы говорить, ему пришлось вынуть кинжал изо рта), but, in all else, he remained unmoved (но во всем другом он остался неподвижным; to move — двигаться).

hesitation [hezɪ`teɪʃn] shroud [ʃraud] arrangements [ə`reɪnʤmənt] laborious [lə`bɔ:rɪəs]

My new employment struck Hands all of a heap; he began to see the dice going against him; and after an obvious hesitation, he also hauled himself heavily into the shrouds, and, with the the dirk in his teeth, began slowly and painfully to mount. It cost him no end of time and groans to haul his wounded leg behind him; and I had quietly finished my arrangements before he was much more than a third of the way up. Then, with a pistol in either hand, I addressed him.

“One more step, Mr. Hands,” said I, “and I’ll blow your brains out! Dead men don’t bite, you know,” I added, with a chuckle.

He stopped instantly. I could see by the working of his face that he was trying to think, and the process was so slow and laborious that, in my new-found security, I laughed aloud. At last, with a swallow or two, he spoke, his face still wearing the same expression of extreme perplexity. In order to speak he had to take the dagger from his mouth, but, in all else, he remained unmoved.

“Jim (Джим),” says he, “I reckon we’re fouled, you and me, and we’ll have to sign articles (полагаю, мы натворили много лишнего, и нам надо подписать /мирный/ договор; to foul — пачкать, портить, нарушать правила, нечестно играть; article — договор, устав, исковое заявление). I’d have had you but for that there lurch

(я бы прикончил тебя; если бы не этот крен): but I don’t have no luck, not I (но я несчастливый); and I reckon I’ll have to strike (и, думаю, мне придется сдаться; to strike — ударять; спускать, убирать /о чем-то натянутом или поднятом: парусах, палатке и т. п./; сдаваться, потерпеть поражение), which comes hard, you see (что тяжело, видишь ли), for a master mariner to a ship’s younker like you, Jim (опытному моряку /уступить/ корабельному юнге, вроде тебя, Джим).”