Both passengers stopped chopping ice to watch (оба пассажира прекратили оббивать лед, чтобы поглядеть). Twenty miles of Bennett were behind them (за ними =
'The sea'll never catch him (волны никогда не поймают его)!'
'But he'll r-r-run her nose under (но он зароется носом в воду)!'
'Look at him come!'
Both passengers stopped chopping ice to watch. Twenty miles of Bennett were behind them — room and to spare for the sea to toss up its mountains toward the sky. Sinking and soaring like a storm god, the sailor drove by them. The huge sail seemed to grip the boat from the crests of the waves, to tear it bodily out of the water, and fling it crashing and smothering down into the yawning troughs.
'The sea'll never catch him!'
'But he'll r-r-run her nose under!'
Even as they spoke (как раз когда они говорили), the black tarpaulin swooped from sight behind a big comber (черная парусина устремилась вниз, исчезая за сильной волной;
Even as they spoke, the black tarpaulin swooped from sight behind a big comber. The next wave rolled over the spot, and the next, but the boat did not reappear. The Alma rushed by the place. A little riffraff of oars and boxes was seen. An arm thrust up and a shaggy head broke, surface a score of yards away. For a time there was silence. As the end of the lake came in sight, the waves began to leap aboard with such steady recurrence that the correspondents no longer chopped ice but flung the water out with buckets. Even this would not do, and, after a shouted conference with Rasmunsen, they attacked the baggage. Flour, bacon, beans, blankets, cooking stove, ropes, odds and ends, everything they could get hands on, flew overboard. The boat acknowledged it at once, taking less water and rising more buoyantly.
'That'll do (хватит)!' Rasmunsen called sternly (решительно крикнул Расмунсен), as they applied themselves to the top layer of eggs (когда они взялись за верхний слой яиц).
'The in-hell it will (как же хватит, черта с два)!' answered the shivering one, savagely (грубо ответил трясущийся). With the exception of their notes, films, and cameras (за исключением своих записей, пленок и фотоаппаратов), they had sacrificed their outfit (они пожертвовали /всем/ своим снаряжением). He bent over, laid hold of an egg-box (он наклонился, схватился за ящик с яйцами;
'Drop it (оставь его;
Rasmunsen had managed to draw his revolver (Расмунсену удалось вытащить револьвер), and with the crook of his arm over the sweep head was taking aim (и обхватив изгибом руки =
'My God (Боже мой)!'
'That'll do!' Rasmunsen called sternly, as they applied themselves to the top layer of eggs.
'The in-hell it will!' answered the shivering one, savagely. With the exception of their notes, films, and cameras, they had sacrificed their outfit. He bent over, laid hold of an egg-box, and began to worry it out from under the lashing.
'Drop it! Drop it, I say!'
Rasmunsen had managed to draw his revolver, and with the crook of his arm over the sweep head was taking aim. The correspondent stood up on the thwart, balancing back and forth, his face twisted with menace and speechless anger.
'My God!'
So cried his brother correspondent (так закричал его собрат корреспондент), hurling himself, face downward, into the bottom of the boat (бросившись лицом вниз на дно лодки). The Alma, under the divided attention of Rasmunsen («Альму» под разделенным надзором Расмунсена = так как внимание Расмунсена было отвлечено, «Альму»), had been caught by a great mass of water and whirled around (подхватила и завертела огромная масса воды). The after leach hollowed (задняя шкаторина запала), the sail emptied and jibed (парус заполоскал и перекинулся), and the boom, sweeping with terrific force across the boat (а укосина, промчавшись со страшной силой по лодке), carried the angry correspondent overboard with a broken back (снесла разгневанного корреспондента за борт с переломанным позвоночником;
