“Will you taste, messmate
(ты попробуешь, приятель;My face expressed a wonder so unaffected
(мое лицо выразило такое неподдельное удивление) that he saw the needlessness of further questions (что он увидел бесполезность дальнейших вопросов;“Ah, well, he did, though
(о, да, он отдал, все-таки),” said he. “And there’s something under that, no doubt (и есть что-то под этим = что-то тут не так, без сомнения) — something, surely, under that, Jim — bad or good (что-то, конечно, /скрыто/ под этим, Джим, плохое или хорошее).”And he took another swallow of the brandy
(и он сделал еще один глоток бренди), shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst (тряся своей большой белокурой головой, как человек = с видом человека, который ожидает худшего).refused [rɪ`fju:zd] caulker [`kɔ:kə] needlessness [`ni:dlɪsnɪs] doubt [daut]
He drew some cognac from the cask into a tin cannikin.
“Will you taste, messmate?” he asked; and when I had refused: “Well, I’ll take a drain myself, Jim,” said he. “I need a caulker, for there’s trouble on hand. And, talking o’ trouble, why did that doctor give me the chart, Jim?”
My face expressed a wonder so unaffected that he saw the needlessness of further questions.
“Ah, well, he did, though,” said he. “And there’s something under that, no doubt — something, surely, under that, Jim — bad or good.”
And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.
Chapter XXIX (глава 29)
The Black Spot Again (черная метка снова)
THE council of the buccaneers had lasted some time
(совет пиратов продолжался какое-то время), when one of them re-entered the house (когда один из них вновь вошел в дом), and with a repetition of the same salute (и с повторением того же самого приветствия), which had in my eyes an ironical air (которое по-моему: «в моих глазах» имело иронический оттенок), begged for a moment’s loan of the torch (попросил на время взять факел;“There’s a breeze coming, Jim
(буря приближается;salute [sə`lu:t] ironical [aɪ`rɔnɪkl] briefly [`bri:flɪ] emissary [`emɪsərɪ]
THE council of the buccaneers had lasted some time, when one of them re-entered the house, and with a repetition of the same salute, which had in my eyes an ironical air, begged for a moment’s loan of the torch. Silver briefly agreed; and this emissary retired again, leaving us together in the dark.