It was the dead body of a woman. It lay very lightly on the water (это было мертвое тело женщины), and the face was sweet and calm (и ее лицо было кротким и спокойным). It was not a beautiful face (оно не было красивым лицом); it was too prematurely aged-looking, too thin and drawn, to be that (было слишком преждевременно состарившимся, чересчур худым и сморщенным, чтобы быть таковым = красивым); but it was a gentle, lovable face, in spite of its stamp of pinch and poverty (но это было спокойное, милое лицо, несмотря на отпечаток нужды и бедности; pinch — щепоть, щепотка; крайняя нужда; стесненное положение, невзгоды), and upon it was that look of restful peace that comes to the faces of the sick sometimes when at last the pain has left them (и на нем было то выражение безмятежности и спокойствия: «спокойного мира», которое появляется иногда на лицах больных, когда наконец боль покинула их).

prematurely [,prem'tjul] poverty ['pvt]

I could not get either George or Harris to see the matter in its proper light, however; so, to save argument, I took the sculls. I had not been pulling for more than a minute or so, when George noticed something black floating on the water, and we drew up to it. George leant over, as we neared it, and laid hold of it. And then he drew back with a cry, and a blanched face.

It was the dead body of a woman. It lay very lightly on the water, and the face was sweet and calm. It was not a beautiful face; it was too prematurely aged-looking, too thin and drawn, to be that; but it was a gentle, lovable face, in spite of its stamp of pinch and poverty, and upon it was that look of restful peace that comes to the faces of the sick sometimes when at last the pain has left them.

Fortunately for us — we having no desire to be kept hanging about coroners' courts (к счастью для нас — у нас не было желания, чтобы нас заставляли таскаться по коронерским судам; to hang about — торчать, бродить вокруг, околачиваться) — some men on the bank had seen the body too, and now took charge of it from us (какие-то люди на берегу тоже увидели тело и взяли на себя заботу о нем).

We found out the woman's story afterwards (мы узнали историю этой женщины впоследствии). Of course it was the old, old vulgar tragedy (конечно, это была старая-престарая пошлая трагедия). She had loved and been deceived — or had deceived herself (она любила и была обмануты — или сама обманулась). Anyhow, she had sinned — some of us do now and then (так или иначе, она согрешила — /как и/ некоторые из нас грешат временами) — and her family and friends, naturally shocked and indignant, had closed their doors against her (и ее семья и друзья, разумеется, потрясенные и возмущенные, захлопнули двери перед ней).