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.
The term “roughs” applied to them was a distinction rather than a definition (выражение «хулиганы», примененное к ним, было скорее распознавательным признаком, чем определением; rather … than – скорее, чем; distinction – различение, распознавание; отличительная особенность, своеобразие, отличие; знатность, известность). Perhaps in the minor details of fingers, toes, ears, etc., the camp may have been deficient (возможно, в /том, что касается/ незначительных деталей – пальцев на руках, пальцев на ногах, ушей и т. д., – поселок мог быть бедноват; minor – меньший; менее важный; небольшой /о проблеме и проч./; deficient – бедный чем-либо, неполный), but these slight omissions did not detract from their aggregate force