Английский с А. Конан Дойлем. Пиратские истории

 Having secured their prisoners, all huddled together in a dazed, distracted group, the pirates spread over the vessel in search of plunder, handing all that was found to the giant quartermaster, who in turn passed it over the side of the Happy Delivery and laid it under guard at the foot of her mainmast.

The cargo was useless, but there were a thousand guineas in the ship’s strong-box, and there were some eight or ten passengers, three of them wealthy Jamaica merchants, all bringing home well-filled boxes from their London visit.

When all the plunder was gathered (когда все добро собрали), the passengers and crew were dragged to the waist (пассажиров и команду поволокли на шкафут; waist – талия; шкафут /средняя часть верхней палубы корабля/), and under the cold smile of Sharkey each in turn was thrown over the side (и под холодным /взглядом/ ухмыляющегося Шарки всех по очереди бросали за борт) – Sweetlocks standing by the rail and hamstringing them with his cutlass (Суитлокс стоял у леера и абордажной саблей наносил каждому удар под колено) as they passed over (когда те проходили мимо /него/), lest some strong swimmer should rise in judgment against them (чтобы какой-нибудь хороший: «сильный» пловец не предстал впоследствии перед судом на стороне обвинения: «перед судом против них»). A portly, grey-haired woman, the wife of one of the planters, was among the captives (среди пленников была дородная седовласая женщина, жена одного из плантаторов), but she also was thrust screaming and clutching over the side (но и ее, кричащую и хватавшуюся /за все вокруг/, тоже бросили за борт; side – сторона; одна из поверхностей; борт судна /мор./).

 When all the plunder was gathered, the passengers and crew were dragged to the waist, and under the cold smile of Sharkey each in turn was thrown over the side – Sweetlocks standing by the rail and hamstringing them with his cutlass as they passed over, lest some strong swimmer should rise in judgment against them. A portly, grey-haired woman, the wife of one of the planters, was among the captives, but she also was thrust screaming and clutching over the side.

“Mercy, you hussy!” neighed Sharkey (боже мой, потаскуха! – заржал Шарки; mercy – пощада /восклицание, выражающее удивление, недоумение/; hussy – дерзкая девчонка; потаскушка, шлюха), “you are surely a good twenty years too old for that (ты слишком стара для этого, на добрых лет двадцать, это уж точно; surely – конечно, непременно).”