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

These were the governor's orders (таковы были приказы губернатора) .

It was then agreed (было соглашено = договорились) that the captain, with all the men he could trust (что капитан со всеми людьми, которым он мог доверять) , should go out to the ship (отправится на корабль) . I and my man Friday were to stay on shore to watch the prisoners (а я с моим слугой Пятницей должен остаться на берегу, чтобы следить за пленниками/караулить пленников) .

The hole in the bottom of the long boat was soon mended (дыра в днище длинной лодки была скоро заделана; to mend — чинить, ремонтировать) . Four men, with the passenger as their leader, went out in this (четыре человека, с пассажиром в качестве их предводителя, вышли в ней /в море/) . The captain, with five men, went out in the other boat (капитан с пятью матросами вышел в другой = во второй лодке) .

It was after midnight when they reached the ship (после полуночи они достигли корабля) .

The men on board were taken by surprise (матросы на борту были застигнуты врасплох) , for they thought that these were their friends who were but just then returning to the ship (так как думали, что это были их друзья, которые как раз тогда возвращались на корабль) .

They even threw a rope to them and helped them on board (они даже кинули им канат и помогли им /взобраться/ на корабль; rope — канат; веревка) , never suspecting that anything was wrong (вовсе не подозревая, что что-то было не так; wrong — неправильный) .

The whole business was managed well (все это было проделано отлично) . The second mate and the carpenter (второй помощник и плотник) , who were among the leaders in the plot (которые были среди главарей в заговоре) , were soon overpowered (были вскоре пересилены = их одолели) .

The rebel captain (мятежный капитан) , the worst of the crew (самый худший из команды) , was asleep in his berth (спал на своей койке) . He sprang up and showed fight (он вскочил и оказал сопротивление: «показал бой») . He shot three times at the captain's party (он трижды выстрелил по группе капитана; to shoot — стрелять) , wounding the mate but touching no one else (ранив помощника, но не коснувшись никого больше = не попав больше ни в кого) .

The mate, wounded as he was (помощник, хотя и был ранен: «раненый каким он был») , raised his musket and fired (поднял мушкет и выстрелил) . The rebel captain fell to the deck with a bullet through his head (мятежный капитан упал на палубу с пулей /прошедшей/ через голову) .

The rest, seeing that they were without leaders (остальные, увидев, что они остались без главарей) , fell upon their knees and begged for their lives (упали на колени и просили сохранить им жизнь) .

Thus the captain became again the master of his own ship (так капитан вновь стал хозяином своего корабля) .

army ['A:mI], bush [buS], enchanted [In'tSA:ntId], uncanny [Vn'k&nI], boatswain ['b@usn], bind ['baInd], dismal ['dIzm@l], governor ['gVv(@)n@], behave [bI'heIv], commit [k@'mIt], grieve [gri:v], heart [hA:t], persuade [p@'sweId], arrange [@'reIndZ], choose [tSu:z], hostage ['hOstIdZ], trust [trVst], death [deT], suspect [s@'spekt], overpower [,@uv@'pau@], berth [b@:T] wound [wu:nd], bullet ['bulIt]

BY my orders, Friday and the captain's mate hurried through the woods to the little river where I had landed so long ago with my rafts.

When they had reached the place, they shouted as loudly as they could. The men who were just getting into the boat heard them. They answered, and ran along the shore toward the little river.

The three who had been left in the boat also rowed around toward the same place. Near the mouth of the river, however, they came to land again, and one of them ran along the bank of the stream to meet his fellows.

At this moment I rushed forward with the captain, and seized the boat before the two fellows who were in it could save themselves.

It was now almost dark, and we had nothing to do but wait till the seamen came back to the shore to look for their boat.

Soon Friday and the captain's mate rejoined us, and I stood at the head of my little army, listening to the seamen as they made their way through the bushes.

We could hear them calling to one another. We could hear them telling how lame and tired they were. We could hear them saying that they were in an enchanted island where there were witches and other kinds of uncanny things. All this pleased us very much.

By and by they came to the shore, quite close to where we were standing.

One of the men whom they had left in the boat was standing with us. He was one of the honest men whom the captain had pointed out, and he had joined us very gladly.

By my orders he now cried out, "Tom Smith! Tom Smith!" For that was the name of the leader of the company.

Tom Smith answered at once, "Is that you, Robinson?" for he knew the voice.

"Yes," the other answered, "and for God's sake, Tom Smith, throw down your arms and yield, or you will all be dead men the next minute."

"To whom must we yield?" cried Tom Smith. "Where are they?"

"Here they are," was the answer. "Here's our captain at the head of a whole army of fighting men. The boatswain is dead, and Bill Fry is dead, and all the rest of us are prisoners. If you don't yield, you are lost."

"If they'll give us quarters, we'll yield," said Smith.

Then the captain himself spoke up. "You, Smith," he said, "you know my voice. If you lay down your arms at once, you shall have your lives — all but Will Atkins."

Upon this, Will Atkins cried out: "For God's sake, Captain, give me quarter! What have I done? I have been no worse than the rest."

Now this was not true. For it was Will Atkins who had first laid hold of the captain, and it was he who had tied the captain's hands.

"Nay, Will Atkins," said the captain. "You know what you have done, and I can promise you nothing. You must lay down your arms and trust to the governor's mercy."

By "the governor" he meant me, Robinson Crusoe — for they called me governor.

The upshot of the whole matter was that they all laid down their arms and begged for their lives.

Then I sent three of my men to bind them with strong cords, which they did, much to my joy.

After that I sent my great army of fifty men — which, after all, were only five besides the three who already had them in charge — to lead them to prison.

I told the captain that it would be better to put some of our prisoners in one place and some in another, as then they would be less likely to try to escape.