"That was my last night, that was (это был мой последний вечер, да). I’d got to be back at the bank on Monday morning (я должен был вернуться в банк в понедельник утром = в понедельник утром я должен был выйти на работу в банк). When I looked at those two great rocks sticking out of the water (когда я взглянул на те две огромные скалы, выступающие из воды;
fisherman ['fISqmqn], cuttlefish ['kAtl" fIS], dependent [dI'pendqnt]
"That was my last night, that was. I’d got to be back at the bank on Monday morning. When I looked at those two great rocks sticking out of the water, with the moon above them, and all the little lights of the fishermen in their boats catching cuttlefish, all so peaceful and beautiful, I said to myself, well, after all, why should I go back? It wasn’t as if I had anyone dependent on me.
"My wife had died of bronchial pneumonia four years before (моя жена умерла четыре года назад от бронхиальной пневмонии) and the kid went to live with her grandmother, my wife’s mother (а наша малышка отправилась жить с бабушкой, матерью моей жены;
"How terrible (как ужасно)," I said.
bronchial ['brONkIql], pneumonia [nju:'mqunIq], amputate ['xmpjuteIt]
"My wife had died of bronchial pneumonia four years before and the kid went to live with her grandmother, my wife’s mother. She was an old fool, she didn’t look after the kid properly and she got blood-poisoning, they amputated her leg, but they couldn’t save her and she died, poor little thing."
"How terrible," I said.