Английский с А. Конан Дойлем. Пиратские истории

All should share and share alike (все должно быть поделено и поделено поровну), save only the captain, quartermaster, boatswain, carpenter, and master-gunner (исключение составляют только капитан, интендант, боцман, плотник и главный канонир), who had from a quarter to a whole share extra (которые получают сверх того от одной четвертой до целой доли).

 There was no difficulty in knowing what was the custom of the brotherhood, for half the men at least had served upon pirates before. Food should be the same for all, and no man should interfere with another man’s drink! The Captain should have a cabin, but all hands should be welcome to enter it when they chose.

All should share and share alike, save only the captain, quartermaster, boatswain, carpenter, and master-gunner, who had from a quarter to a whole share extra.

He who saw a prize first (тот, кто первым заметит корабль-жертву; prize – награда, премия; желанная добыча) should have the best weapon taken out of her (получает лучшее оружие, найденное: «взятое» у него на борту). He who boarded her first (тот, кто первым взберется к нему на борт) should have the richest suit of clothes aboard of her (получает самый богатый комплект одежды). Every man might treat his own prisoner (каждый может обращаться со своим пленником), be it man or woman (будь то мужчина или женщина), after his own fashion (по своему собственному усмотрению; fashion – форма, очертания; манера поведения). If a man flinched from his gun, the quartermaster should pistol him (если кто покинет место сражения, интендант должен пристрелить его; to flinch – вздрагивать; уклоняться, отступать; gun – орудие, пушка). These were some of the rules (таковыми были некоторые из правил) which the crew of the Ruffling Harry subscribed (которые команда «Задиры Гарри» подписала) by putting forty-two crosses at the foot of the paper (поставив сорок два крестика внизу бумаги) upon which they had been drawn (на которой они = эти правила были начертаны).

 He who saw a prize first should have the best weapon taken out of her. He who boarded her first should have the richest suit of clothes aboard of her. Every man might treat his own prisoner, be it man or woman, after his own fashion. If a man flinched from his gun, the quartermaster should pistol him. These were some of the rules which the crew of the Ruffling Harry subscribed by putting forty-two crosses at the foot of the paper upon which they had been drawn.