Английский язык с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

The other men were variously burthened (другие матросы были различно нагружены; to burthen = to burden — грузить, отягощать); some carrying picks and shovels (одни несли кирки и лопаты) — for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola (это было самым необходимым, что они перенесли на берег с Испаньолы)

— others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal (другие несли свинину, сухари и бренди для обеда: «полуденной еды»; to be laden with — быть нагруженным, увешанным). All the stores, I observed, came from our stock (все припасы, как я заметил, были из нашего склада; to come from — происходить, поступать от); and I could see the truth of Silver’s words the night before (и я мог видеть правдивость слов Сильвера, сказанных прошлой ночью). Had he not struck a bargain with the doctor

(не заключи он сделку с доктором), he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship (он и его бунтовщики, покинутые кораблем = потеряв корабль), must have been driven to subsist on clear water and the proceeds of their hunting (им пришлось бы питаться чистой водой и добытым на охоте; to drive — доводить, принуждать; to subsist — существовать, кормиться; proceeds — доход, поступление). Water would have been little to their taste (вода была бы им вряд ли по вкусу); a sailor is not usually a good shot (матрос обычно плохой стрелок)

; and, besides all that, when they were so short of eatables (и, помимо всего этого, когда у них было так мало съестного; to be short of — испытывать недостаток в чем-то, остро нуждаться), it was not likely they would be very flush of powder (маловероятно, что у них было полно пороха; to be flush of — иметь большой запас чего-то).

аppearance [ə`pɪərəns] obediently [ə`bi:dɪəntlɪ] loose [lu:s] shovels [`ʃʌvlz] eatables [`i:təblz] powder [`paudə]

We made a curious figure, had anyone been there to see us; all in soiled sailor clothes, and all but me armed to the teeth. Silver had two guns slung about him — one before and one behind — besides the great cutlass at his waist, and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat. To complete his strange appearance, Captain Flint sat perched upon his shoulder and gabbling odds and ends of purposeless sea-talk. I had a line about my waist, and followed obediently after the sea-cook, who held the loose end of the rope, now in his free hand, now between his powerful teeth. For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear.

The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels — for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola — others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal. All the stores, I observed, came from our stock; and I could see the truth of Silver’s words the night before. Had he not struck a bargain with the doctor, he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship, must have been driven to subsist on clear water and the proceeds of their hunting. Water would have been little to their taste; a sailor is not usually a good shot; and, besides all that, when they were so short of eatables, it was not likely they would be very flush of powder.