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Роберт Льюис Стивенсон
terrified [`terIfaId] wicked [`wIkId] bear [beq] neighbour [`neIbq] overriding [quvq`raIdIN]
1. But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid of the captain himself than anybody else who knew him. There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head would carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs, minding nobody; but sometimes he would call for glasses round, and force all the trembling company to listen to his stories or bear a chorus to his singing. Often I have heard the house shaking with 'Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum; all the neighbours joining in for dear life, with the fear of death upon them, and each singing louder than the other, to avoid remark. For in these fits he was the most overriding companion ever known; he would slap his hand on the table for silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger at a question, or sometimes because none was put, and so he judged the company was not following his story. Nor would he allow anyone to leave the inn till he had drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.
1. His stories were what frightened people worst of all (его истории были /тем/, что пугало людей больше всего). Dreadful stories they were (ужасными историями они были); about hanging (о повешении), and walking the plank (и хождении по доске /в открытое море/ —
2. By his own account (по его собственному рассказу) he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men (он, должно быть, прожил жизнь среди /неких/ самых отъявленных людей = злодеев) that God ever allowed upon the sea (которым Господь когда-либо позволял /плавать/ по морю); and the language in which he told these stories (язык, которым он рассказывал эти истории) shocked our plain country people (шокировал наших простых деревенских людей) almost as much as the crimes that he described (почти так же, как и преступления, которые он описывал).
frightened [`fraItnd] dreadful [dredful] hanging [`hxNIN] language [`lxNgwIG]
1. His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were; about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main.
2. By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea; and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.
