What could I buy it with? he asked himself. Could I buy it with a lost harpoon and a broken knife and two bad hands?
"You might," he said. "You tried to buy it with eighty-four days at sea. They nearly sold it to you too.
I must not think nonsense (мне нельзя думать о ерунде), he thought. Luck is a thing that comes in many forms (удача — такая штука, что приходит в различных формах) and who can recognize her (и кто может распознать ее)? I would take some though in any form (я бы, однако, взял немного удачи, в любой форме) and pay what they asked (и заплатил бы всем, чего бы не попросили). I wish I could see the glow from the lights (хотел бы я увидеть сияние от огней /Гаваны/;
He saw the reflected glare of the lights of the city (он увидел отражение зарева огней города) at what must have been around ten o'clock at night (где-то часов в десять вечера). They were only perceptible at first as the light is in the sky before the moon rises (они сначала были заметны, как свет в небе, который бывает до того, как восходит луна). Then they were steady to see across the ocean (затем они стали ясно видны за полосой океана) which was rough now (который сейчас был бурным ;
Now it is over (теперь все кончено), he thought. They will probably hit me again (они, вероятно, нападут на меня снова). But what can a man do against them in the dark without a weapon (но что человек может сделать против них в темноте и без оружия)?
recognize ['rekqgnaIz], perceptible [pq'septqbl], dark [dRk]
I must not think nonsense, he thought. Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her? I would take some though in any form and pay what they asked. I wish I could see the glow from the lights, he thought. I wish too many things. But that is the thing I wish for now. He tried to settle more comfortably to steer and from his pain he knew he was not dead.
He saw the reflected glare of the lights of the city at what must have been around ten o'clock at night. They were only perceptible at first as the light is in the sky before the moon rises. Then they were steady to see across the ocean which was rough now with the increasing breeze. He steered inside of the glow and he thought that now, soon, he must hit the edge of the stream.
Now it is over, he thought. They will probably hit me again. But what can a man do against them in the dark without a weapon?
He was stiff and sore now (все его тело ломило и саднило;
But by midnight he fought (но в полночь он дрался) and this time he knew the fight was useless (и на этот раз он знал, что драка бесполезна). They came in a pack (они пришли стаей) and he could only see the lines in the water that their fins made (он видел только следы в воде, которые оставляли их плавники) and their phosphorescence as they threw themselves on the fish (и их свечение, когда они бросались на рыбу). He clubbed at heads (он бил дубиной по головам) and heard the jaws chop (слышал, как щелкают челюсти) and the shaking of the skiff as they took hold below (и чувствовал, как тряслась лодка, когда они хватали рыбу снизу: «брали хватку/захват внизу»). He clubbed desperately at what he could only feel and hear (он отчаянно бил дубиной по всему, что чувствовал или слышал;