Английский язык с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

The parrot sat, preening her plumage, on Long John’s shoulder. He himself, I thought, looked somewhat paler and more stern than I was used to. He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission, but it was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood.

“So,” said he, “here’s Jim Hawkins, shiver my timbers! dropped in, like, eh? Well, come, I take that friendly.”

And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask, and began to fill a pipe.

“Give me a loan of the link, Dick (дай-ка мне факел, Дик; to give a loan — давать ссуду, одалживать; link — факел),” said he (сказал он)

; and then, when he had a good light (и затем, когда он закурил; to light — освещать; зажигать; закуривать), “that’ll do, lad (хватит, друг = спасибо),” he added (он добавил); “stick the glim in the wood heap (воткни факел в груду поленьев = между поленьями; glim — свет, любой источник света); and you, gentlemen, bring yourselves to (а вы, джентльмены, успокойтесь; to bring to — приводить в чувство, в сознание; остановиться /о судне/

)! — you needn’t stand up for Mr. Hawkins (вам не нужно стоять перед мистером Хокинсом); he’ll excuse you, you may lay to that (он вас извинит, можете поверить). And so, Jim (итак, Джим)” — stopping the tobacco (/сказал он/, прекращая курить) — “here you were, and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old John (вот ты здесь, и /это/ весьма приятный сюрприз для бедного старого Джона). I see you were smart when first I set my eyes on you (я понял, что ты находчив, когда впервые увидел тебя); but this here gets away from me clean, it do (но это совсем: «начисто» ускользает от меня = но этой твоей проделки даже я не могу понять)

.”

To all this, as may be well supposed, I made no answer (на все это, как может быть хорошо предположено = конечно же, я не ответил). They had set me with my back against the wall (они поставили меня спиной к стене); and I stood there, looking Silver in the face, pluckily enough (я стоял там, глядя Сильверу в лицо весьма смело; pluck — /разг./ внутренности, внутренние органы человека; смелость, отвага; мужество, храбрость), I hope, to all outward appearance (надеюсь, так это выглядело со стороны: «ко всему внешнему виду»), but with black despair in my heart (но с черным отчаянием = безысходностью в сердце).

Silver took a whiff or two of his pipe with great composure, and then ran on again (Сильвер затянулся разок-другой с большим хладнокровием и затем продолжил вновь).

pluckily [`plʌkɪlɪ] outward [`autwəd] appearance [ə`pɪərəns]

“Give me a loan of the link, Dick,” said he; and then, when he had a good light, “that’ll do, lad,” he added; “stick the glim in the wood heap; and you, gentlemen, bring yourselves to! — you needn’t stand up for Mr. Hawkins; he’ll excuse you, you may lay to that. And so, Jim” — stopping the tobacco — “here you were, and quite a pleasant surprise for poor old John. I see you were smart when first I set my eyes on you; but this here gets away from me clean, it do.”

To all this, as may be well supposed, I made no answer. They had set me with my back against the wall; and I stood there, looking Silver in the face, pluckily enough, I hope, to all outward appearance, but with black despair in my heart.

Silver took a whiff or two of his pipe with great composure, and then ran on again.