= с самого начала /лат./; to introduce – вводить в употребление, представлять). Hence the excitement (отсюда и волнение).
birth [bɜ:θ], ab initio [,æbɪ'nɪʃiǝʋ]
It will be seen also that the situation was novel. Deaths were by no means uncommon in Roaring Camp, but a birth was a new thing. People had been dismissed from the camp effectively, finally, and with no possibility of return; but this was the first time that anybody had been introduced ab initio. Hence the excitement.
“You go in there, Stumpy,” said a prominent citizen known as “Kentuck,” addressing one of the loungers (ты зайди туда внутрь, Коротышка, – сказал один выдающийся = видный гражданин, известный как «Кентукк», обращаясь к одному из зевак; stumpy – коренастый, приземистый, короткий и толстый; stump – обрубок; пень; known – известный от to know – знать). “Go in there, and see what you kin do (зайди туда и посмотри, что ты можешь сделать; kin – искаж. can – мочь, уметь). You've had experience in them things (у тебя был опыт в этих вещах; them – они; зд.: простореч. вместо the, these, those – эти).”
prominent ['prɒmɪnǝnt], citizen ['sɪtɪzǝn], Kentuck [ken'tʌk], address [ǝ'dres], experience [ɪk'spɪǝrɪǝns]
“You go in there, Stumpy,” said a prominent citizen known as “Kentuck,” addressing one of the loungers. “Go in there, and see what you kin do. You've had experience in them things.”
Perhaps there was a fitness in the selection (возможно, в этом выборе была уместность; fitness – соответствие, уместность). Stumpy, in other climes, had been the putative head of two families (Коротышка, в других краях, был раньше предполагаемым главой двух семейств); in fact, it was owing to some legal informality in these proceedings that Roaring Camp – a city of refuge – was indebted to his company (на самом деле, именно некой юридической вольности в этих делах Ревущий стан – город для укрытия – был обязан его обществом; owing to – из-за, благодаря от to owe – быть обязанным, должным; proceeding – практика, процедура, процесс). The crowd approved the choice, and Stumpy was wise enough to bow to the majority (толпа одобрила этот выбор, и Коротышка был достаточно мудр, чтобы склониться перед большинством). The door closed on the extempore surgeon and midwife (дверь закрылась за импровизированным хирургом и акушером), and Roaring Camp sat down outside, smoked its pipe, and awaited the issue (и /весь/ Ревущий стан сел снаружи, закурил свои трубки: «свою трубку» и ждал /исхода/ этого дела; to sit down).
putative ['pju:tǝtɪv], owing ['ǝʋɪŋ], legal ['li:ɡǝl], refuge ['refju:ʤ], indebted [ɪn'detɪd], approve [ǝ'pru:v], bow (глагол) [baʋ], surgeon ['sɜ:ʤǝn], issue ['ɪʃu:]
Perhaps there was a fitness in the selection. Stumpy, in other climes, had been the putative head of two families; in fact, it was owing to some legal informality in these proceedings that Roaring Camp – a city of refuge – was indebted to his company. The crowd approved the choice, and Stumpy was wise enough to bow to the majority. The door closed on the extempore surgeon and midwife, and Roaring Camp sat down outside, smoked its pipe, and awaited the issue.
The assemblage numbered about a hundred men (собрание насчитывало около ста человек). One or two of these were actual fugitives from justice, some were criminal, and all were reckless (один или двое из них были настоящими беглецами от правосудия, некоторые были преступными = преступниками, и все были отчаянными). Physically they exhibited no indication of their past lives and character (физически = внешне они не выказывали признаков своей прошлой жизни: «жизней» и характеров). The greatest scamp had a Raphael face, with a profusion of blonde hair (у самого большого лиходея было рафаэлевское лицо с копной светлых волос); Oakhurst, a gambler, had the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet (Оукхерст, /заядлый/ игрок, имел меланхоличный вид и интеллектуальную отрешенность некоего Гамлета = как у Гамлета); the coolest and most courageous man was scarcely over five feet in height, with a soft voice and an embarrassed, timid manner (хладнокровнейший и самый отважный человек был едва больше пяти футов ростом, с мягким голосом и застенчивой, робкой манерой; cool – прохладный; хладнокровный; over – над, свыше, больше; пять футов ≈ 1 м 52 см).
assemblage [ǝ'semblɪʤ], fugitive ['fju:ʤǝtɪv], exhibit [ɪɡ'zɪbɪt], character ['kærǝktǝ], Raphael ['ræfeɪǝl], melancholy ['melǝnkǝlɪ], courageous [kǝ'reɪʤǝs], scarcely ['skeǝslɪ], timid ['tɪmɪd]
The assemblage numbered about a hundred men. One or two of these were actual fugitives from justice, some were criminal, and all were reckless. Physically they exhibited no indication of their past lives and character. The greatest scamp had a Raphael face, with a profusion of blonde hair; Oakhurst, a gambler, had the melancholy air and intellectual abstraction of a Hamlet; the coolest and most courageous man was scarcely over five feet in height, with a soft voice and an embarrassed, timid manner.
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