Джеймс Болдуин – Английский язык с Робинзоном Крузо (в пересказе для детей) (ASCII-IPA) (страница 41)

I seldom went to the other side of the island (я редко ходил на другую сторону острова). When I visited my cave in the woods (когда я навещал мою пещеру в лесу), or went to see my goats (или отправлялся посмотреть на моих коз), I took good care to be well armed (я заботился: «брал хорошую заботу», чтобы быть хорошо вооруженным).

lose [lu:z], control [k@n'tr@ul], sailor ['seIl@], handkerchief ['h&Nk@tSi:f], gridiron ['grIdaI@n], worth [w@:T], wrap [r&p]

WITH very great care I steered my canoe out to sea. I kept just within the edge of the current on my right hand. It carried me along at a great rate, but I did not lose control of the canoe. In about two hours I came up to the wreck. It was a sad sight to look at.

The ship lay partly on her side, and was jammed fast between two great rocks.

She looked like a Spanish ship. She had been badly broken by the waves, and everything on her decks had been swept away.

As I came close to her, a dog looked over her side and barked at me. When I called him he jumped into the sea and swam out to the canoe.

I lifted him on board, and found that he was almost dead with hunger and thirst.

I gave him a barley cake, and he devoured it like a half-starved wolf. I then gave him a little water, but not too much lest he should harm himself. He drank, and then looked up as if asking for more.

After this I went on board. A sad sight met my eyes. For in the cookroom I saw two sailors who had been drowned, with their arms fast around each other.

I suppose that when the ship struck the waves dashed all over her and the men had no way of escape. Those who were not swept overboard were drowned between decks.

Besides the dog there was no other live thing on board.

I found some chests that had belonged to the sailors. With much labor I got two of them into the canoe without stopping to look inside of them.

Besides these chests, I took a fire shovel and tongs, which I needed very much. I found, also, two little brass kettles, a gridiron, and a large copper pot.

The tide was now setting in toward the island again. So, with the few goods I had found and the poor dog, I started for home.

By keeping on the outside of the eddying current I had no trouble in bringing the canoe safe to land. The sun was almost down when I anchored her in a little inlet just off the point of rocks.

I was so tired that I could do nothing more that day. So, after eating my supper, of which I gave the dog a good share, I lay down in the canoe and went to sleep.

I slept very soundly, and did not wake until morning.

In looking over my goods, I made up my mind to store them in my new cave in the woods. For that was much nearer than my home castle.

When I opened the chests I found several things that I was very glad to get.

In one I found two jars of very good sweetmeats. They were so well corked that the salt water had not harmed them. There were two other jars of the same kind; but they were open at the top, and the water had spoiled the sweetmeats.

In the other chest there were some good shirts, which I needed very much. There were also about a dozen and a half of white linen handkerchiefs. I was very glad to find these, for they would be pleasant to wipe my face with on a hot day.

In a secret drawer of the first chest I found three bags of Spanish money. I counted eleven hundred pieces of silver.

At the bottom of one of the bags there were six Spanish gold pieces, each worth about fifteen dollars. These were wrapped up in a piece of paper.

At the bottom of the other bag there were some small bars of gold. I suppose there was at least a pound of these yellow pieces.

After all, I got very little by this voyage. I had no use for the money. It was worth no more to me than the dust under my feet. I would have given it all for a pair of good shoes or some stockings for my feet.

After I had carried everything to my cave I took the canoe back to her old harbor on the farther side of the island. Then I returned to my castle, where I found everything in good order.

And now I began to live easily again. I was as watchful as before, and never went from my castle without looking carefully around.

I seldom went to the other side of the island. When I visited my cave in the woods, or went to see my goats, I took good care to be well armed.

I HAVE A QUEER DREAM

(я вижу странный сон)

TWO years passed without any alarms (два года прошли без каких-либо тревог; alarm — /боевая/ тревога), and I was beginning to think that nothing would ever again happen to disturb the quiet of my life (и я начинал думать, что ничто никогда не случится опять, что могло бы нарушить спокойствие моей жизни).

One night in the rainy season of March I could not sleep (одной ночью в дождливый мартовский сезон мне не спалось: «я не мог спать»). I lay for hours in my hammock and was not able to close my eyes (я лежал часами в гамаке и не мог: «не был способен» сомкнуть глаз).

I was thinking, thinking, thinking (я думал, думал, думал).

I thought of all that had ever happened to me both before and after my shipwreck (я думал обо всем, что случилось со мной до и после кораблекрушения; both — оба; both… and… — как … так и …; и … и …).

I thought of my first happy years on the island (я думал о первых счастливых годах на острове).

I thought of the fear and care that I had lived in ever since I saw the first footprint in the sand (я думал о страхе и заботах, в которых я жил постоянно с того времени, как я увидел первый отпечаток ноги в песке).

Then I thought of my great desire to see my native land once more (затем я подумал о моем большом желании увидеть мою родную землю еще раз), and to have friends and companions (и чтобы у меня были друзья и товарищи) with whom I could talk (с которыми я мог бы поговорить).

These thoughts brought to mind the savages of whom I had so great a dread (эти мысли вызвали в уме: «привели на ум» дикарей, которых я столь боялся), and I began to ask myself a thousand questions about them (и я начал спрашивать себя = задавать себе тысячу вопросов о них).

How far off was the coast from which they came (как далеко был берег, с которого они приплывали)?

Why did they come to my island from so great a distance (почему они приплывали на мой остров с такого большого расстояния)?

What kind of boats did they have (что за лодки были у них)?

With such thoughts as these I lay awake until far in the night (с такими мыслями я лежал, бодрствуя, допоздна в ночи). My pulse beat fast (мой пульс бил часто), my breath came hard (дыхание было прерывистым: «приходило тяжело»), my nerves were unstrung (нервы были ослабленными/ненатянутыми = расшатанными; unstrung — ослабленный, ненатянутый /о струнах, луке/ расшатанный /о нервах/; string — веревка; to string — натягивать /струну, тетиву/).

At last (наконец), worn out by my very restlessness (измученный самим моим беспокойством; to wear — носить /одежду, обувь/; изнашивать), I fell asleep (я погрузился в сон).

The same thoughts must have followed me into my dreams (те же самые мысли, должно быть, преследовали меня в снах: «последовали за мной в сновидения»), but they took a different form (но они приняли иную форму).

I dreamed (мне снилось) that I was sitting on the seashore (что я сидел на берегу моря) with my gun on my lap (с ружьем на коленях) and my umbrella by my side (и зонтиком возле меня).

I was thinking, thinking, thinking (я думал, думал, думал). I had never been so sad and lonely (я никогда не был столь грустным и одиноким).

I was thinking of the home I was never to see again (я думал о доме, который мне не суждено было больше: «никогда» увидеть), and of the friends who perhaps had forgotten me (и о друзьях, которые, возможно, забыли меня; to forget — забывать).

Suddenly, as I lifted my eyes (вдруг, когда я поднял глаза), I thought I saw two canoes coming toward the island (мне показалось, что я увидел два каноэ, движущиеся к острову). I ran and hid myself in a grove by the shore (я побежал и спрятался в леске у берега; grove — лесок, роща; to run — бежать; to hide — прятать).

There were eleven savages in the canoes (в лодках было одиннадцать дикарей), and they had with them another savage whom they were going to kill and eat (и с ними был другой дикарь, которого они собирались убить и съесть).

But I thought in my sleep that this savage suddenly sprang up and ran for his life (но я подумал во сне = мне приснилось, что этот дикарь вдруг вскочил и побежал /спасая/ свою жизнь; to spring — прыгать, скакать; to spring up — вскакивать).

I thought that he came running to the little grove, to hide himself in it (я подумал, что он прибежал в маленький лесок, чтобы спрятаться в нем).

Seeing him alone (видя его одного), I arose and met him (я встал и встретил его; to arise — подниматься). I smiled kindly (я улыбнулся по-доброму/ласково), and tried to make him know that I was his friend (и попытался дать ему понять, что я был его другом).

He threw himself on the ground at my feet (он бросился на землю у моих ног; to throw — бросать). He seemed to be asking my help (казалось, он просил помощи: «он казался быть просящим моей помощи»).