Английский язык с У. С. Моэмом. На окраине империи. Рассказы / W. S. Maugham: Stories

He liked their courtesy and their distinguished manners, their gentleness and their sudden passions. He knew by instinct exactly how to treat them. He had a genuine tenderness for them. But he never forgot that he was an English gentleman, and he had no patience with the white men who yielded to native customs. He made no surrenders. And he did not imitate so many of the white men in taking a native woman to wife, for an intrigue of this nature, however sanctified by custom, seemed to him not only shocking but undignified. A man who had been called George by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, could hardly be expected to have any connection with a native. And when he returned to Borneo from his visits to England it was now with something like relief.

His friends, like himself, were no longer young (его друзья, как и он сам, больше не были молодыми), and there was a new generation which looked upon him as a tiresome old man (пришло: «и было» новое поколение, которое смотрело на него как на надоедливого старика). It seemed to him that the England of to-day had lost a good deal of what he had loved in the England of his youth (ему казалось, что нынешняя Англия потеряла большую часть того, что он любил в Англии своей юности). But Borneo remained the same (но Борнео оставался таким же). It was home to him now (сейчас оно было для него домом). He meant to remain in the service as long as was possible (он намеревался оставаться на службе как можно дольше), and the hope in his heart was that he would die before at last he was forced to retire (а в его сердце была надежда, что он умрет до того, когда наконец будет вынужден пойти в отставку). He had stated in his will that wherever he died he wished his body to be brought back to Sembulu (он написал: «заявил» в своем завещании, что где бы он ни умер, он желает, чтобы его прах перевезли: «тело было возвращено» в Сембулу), and buried among the people he loved within the sound of the softly flowing river (и похоронили среди людей, которых он любил, там, где слышен шум: «в пределах шума» мягко струящейся реки).

generation [dZenq`reISn], youth [ju: T], retire [rI`taIq]

His friends, like himself, were no longer young, and there was a new generation which looked upon him as a tiresome old man. It seemed to him that the England of to-day had lost a good deal of what he had loved in the England of his youth. But Borneo remained the same. It was home to him now. He meant to remain in the service as long as was possible, and the hope in his heart was that he would die before at last he was forced to retire. He had stated in his will that wherever he died he wished his body to be brought back to Sembulu, and buried among the people he loved within the sound of the softly flowing river

But these emotions he kept hidden from the eyes of men (но эти чувства он скрывал: «держал спрятанными» от человеческих глаз); and no one, seeing this spruce, stout, well-set-up man, with his clean-shaven strong face and his whitening hair (и никто, глядя на этого элегантного, крепкого мужчину со стройным телосложением, с чисто выбритым сильным лицом и седеющими волосами; stout — крепкий, плотный, прочный), would have dreamed that he cherished so profound a sentiment (не мог догадаться, что он лелеял = таит такие глубокие чувства: «глубокое чувство»; to cherish — заботливо относиться, ухаживать; питать/надежду, чувство и т. п./;лелеять/что-либо в мыслях/).