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2. He was not only useless as an officer (он был не только бесполезным как штурман; officer — офицер, первый помощник капитана), and a bad influence amongst the men (и /оказывал/ плохое влияние на: «среди» матросов: «/был/ плохим влиянием»), but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright (было ясно, что при таких условиях он вскоре убьет себя; outright — прямо, сразу); so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry (так что никто сильно не удивился и не опечалился), when one dark night, with a head sea (когда одной темной ночью, при встречных волнах), he disappeared entirely and was seen no more (он исчез совсем и никто его больше не видел).
3. 'Overboard (/свалился/ за борт)! said the captain. 'Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble of putting him in irons (что ж, джентльмены, это избавляет нас от необходимости заковывать его в кандалы; trouble — тревога; забота).
mystery [`mIstqrI] solemnly [`sOlqmlI] useless [`jHslIs] deny [dI`naI] influence [`Influqns]
1. In the meantime, we could never make out where he got the drink. That was the ship's mystery. Watch him as we pleased, we could do nothing to solve it; and when we asked him to his face, he would only laugh, if he were drunk, and if he were sober, deny solemnly that he ever tasted anything but water.
2. He was not only useless as an officer, and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright; so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more.
3. 'Overboard! said the captain. 'Well, gentlemen, that saves the trouble of putting him in irons.
1. But there we were, without a mate (там мы были = остались без штурмана); and it was necessary, of course, to advance one of the men (было необходимо, конечно, выдвинуть /на эту должность/ одного из матросов). The boatswain, Job Anderson, was the likeliest man aboard (боцман, Джоб Андерсон, был самым подходящим человеком на борту), and, though he kept his old title, he served in a way as mate (и, хотя он сохранил прежнее звание, он служил = исполнял обязанности штурмана в некотором отношении). Mr. Trelawney had followed the sea (мистер Трелони следовал раньше морю = был опытным моряком), and his knowledge made him very useful (и его опыт сделал его очень полезным; knowledge — знание, эрудиция, опыт), for he often took a watch himself in easy weather (так как он часто стоял на вахте: «брал вахту» в хорошую погоду;