James Baldwin - Английский язык с Робинзоном Крузо (в пересказе для детей) (ASCII-IPA)

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.

(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) .