Английский язык с Джеромом К. Джеромом. Трое в лодке, не считая собаки

"Yes it's almost a pity we've made up our minds to stick to this boat," answered Harris; and then there was silence for a while.

"If we hadn't made up our minds to contract our certain deaths in this bally old coffin," observed George, casting a glance of intense malevolence over the boat, "it might be worth while to mention that there's a train leaves Pangbourne, I know, soon after five, which would just land us in town in comfortable time to get a chop, and then go on to the place you mentioned afterwards."

Nobody spoke (никто ничего не сказал). We looked at one another, and each one seemed to see his own mean and guilty thoughts reflected in the faces of the others (мы посмотрели друг на друга, и каждый, казалось, увидел свои собственные низкие и преступные мысли, отраженные на лицах других). In silence, we dragged out and overhauled the Gladstone (молча мы вытащили и тщательно осмотрели/проверили саквояж). We looked up the river and down the river; not a soul was in sight (посмотрели вверх и вниз по реке = вперед и назад; в поле зрения не было ни души)!

Twenty minutes later, three figures, followed by a shamed-looking dog (двадцать минут спустя три человеческие фигуры, сопровождаемые пристыженной собакой), might have been seen creeping stealthily from the boat-house at the "Swan" towards the railway station (/можно было увидеть, как/ пробирались украдкой от навеса для лодок у /гостиницы/ «Лебедь» к железнодорожной станции), dressed in the following neither neat nor gaudy costume (одетые в следующую — ни опрятную, ни кричащую — одежду = одежда их была неопрятной и простой):

Black leather shoes, dirty (черные кожаные ботинки — грязные); suit of boating flannels, very dirty (фланелевый лодочный костюм — очень грязный); brown felt hat, much battered (коричневая фетровая шляпа — сильно потрепанная); mackintosh, very wet (непромокаемый плащ — очень мокрый); umbrella (зонтик).

guilty [ˈɡɪltɪ] gaudy [ˈɡɔ:dɪ]

Nobody spoke. We looked at one another, and each one seemed to see his own mean and guilty thoughts reflected in the faces of the others. In silence, we dragged out and overhauled the Gladstone. We looked up the river and down the river; not a soul was in sight!

Twenty minutes later, three figures, followed by a shamed-looking dog, might have been seen creeping stealthily from the boat-house at the "Swan" towards the railway station, dressed in the following neither neat nor gaudy costume:

Black leather shoes, dirty; suit of boating flannels, very dirty; brown felt hat, much battered; mackintosh, very wet; umbrella.

We had deceived the boatman at Pangbourne (мы обманули лодочника в Пэнгборне). We had not had the face to tell him that we were running away from the rain (у нас не хватило смелости сказать ему, что мы убегаем от дождя; face — лицо, лик; нахальство, наглость, дерзость; самоуверенность). We had left the boat, and all it contained, in his charge (мы оставили лодку и все, что она содержала, на его попечение), with instructions that it was to be ready for us at nine the next morning (с указаниями, чтобы она была готова для нас к девяти часам следующего утра). If, we said — if anything unforeseen should happen, preventing our return, we would write to him (если, сказали мы, если что-нибудь непредвиденное произойдет и помешает нам вернуться, мы ему напишем; to foresee; to prevent — предотвращать, не допускать, мешать).