Английский язык с Р. Л. Стивенсоном. Остров сокровищ

The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearing, proved the wrong one (первое из высоких деревьев было достигнуто = к которому мы подошли, по положению оказалось неправильным). So with the second (то же было со вторым). The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood (третье поднималось почти на две сотни футов в воздух над группой подлеска = над зарослями); a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage (/это был/ великан растительного /мира/, с красным стволом размером с небольшой дом; column — колонна, столб, опора

), and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred (и широкой тенью, под которой /целая/ рота могла бы маршировать; to manoeuvre — проводить маневры). It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west (оно было заметно с моря издалека, как с востока, так и с запада), and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart (и могло быть отмечено на карте как мореходный знак; to enter — входить; вписывать /в книгу/, регистрировать

).

But it was not its size that now impressed my companions (но не размер его впечатлил моих спутников); it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow (а знание, что семьсот тысяч фунтов золотом лежат где-то зарытые под ее раскидистой тенью). The thought of the money, as they drew nearer, swallowed up their previous terrors (мысль о деньгах, когда они подошли ближе, поглотила их прежние страхи). Their eyes burned in their heads

(их глаза горели); their feet grew speedier and lighter (их шаги становились поспешнее и легче); their whole soul was bound up in that fortune (вся душа их была поглощена: «связана» этим богатством), that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them (той целой жизнью расточительности и удовольствий, что ожидала: «лежала, ожидая» там каждого из них).

vegetable [`veʤɪtəbl] conspicuous [kən`spɪkjuəs] extravagance [ɪk`strævəgəns]

The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearing, proved the wrong one. So with the second. The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood; a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred. It was conspicuous far to sea both on the east and west, and might have been entered as a sailing mark upon the chart.

But it was not its size that now impressed my companions; it was the knowledge that seven hundred thousand pounds in gold lay somewhere buried below its spreading shadow. The thought of the money, as they drew nearer, swallowed up their previous terrors. Their eyes burned in their heads; their feet grew speedier and lighter; their whole soul was bound up in that fortune, that whole lifetime of extravagance and pleasure, that lay waiting there for each of them.