announcement [ǝ'naʋnsmǝnt], doubtful ['daʋtfǝl], being ['bi:ɪŋ], ancient ['eɪnʃǝnt], Romulus ['rɒmjʋlǝs], Remus ['ri:mǝs]
I do not think that the announcement disturbed them much, except in speculation as to the fate of the child. “Can he live now?” was asked of Stumpy. The answer was doubtful. The only other being of Cherokee Sal's sex and maternal condition in the settlement was an ass. There was some conjecture as to fitness, but the experiment was tried. It was less problematical than the ancient treatment of Romulus and Remus, and apparently as successful.
When these details were completed, which exhausted another hour (когда эти детали = мелкие дела были завершены, что заняло еще один час; to exhaust – истощать; another – другой; еще один), the door was opened, and the anxious crowd of men, who had already formed themselves into a queue, entered in single file (дверь была открыта, и беспокойная толпа людей, которые уже образовали очередь: «сформировали себя в очередь», вошла гуськом; in single file – колонной по одному: «единой колонной»). Beside the low bunk or shelf, on which the figure of the mother was starkly outlined below the blankets, stood a pine table (рядом с низкой койкой или полкой, на которой фигура матери была резко очерчена под одеялами, стоял сосновый стол). On this a candle-box was placed (на него был помещен свечной ящик; candle-box от candle – свеча и box – коробка, ящик), and within it, swathed in staring red flannel, lay the last arrival at Roaring Camp (а внутри него, запеленатый в кричаще-красную фланель, лежал последний прибывший в Ревущий стан; staring – зд.: вызывающий, кричаще-яркий, «вырви глаз» от to stare – глазеть, пялиться; быть неприятно ярким, заметным; to lie – лежать). Beside the candle-box was placed a hat (рядом со свечным ящиком была положена шляпа). Its use was soon indicated (ее применение = назначение было вскоре указано).
detail ['di:teɪl], exhaust [ɪɡ'zɔ:st], anxious ['æŋkʃǝs], queue [kju:]
When these details were completed, which exhausted another hour, the door was opened, and the anxious crowd of men, who had already formed themselves into a queue, entered in single file. Beside the low bunk or shelf, on which the figure of the mother was starkly outlined below the blankets, stood a pine table. On this a candle-box was placed, and within it, swathed in staring red flannel, lay the last arrival at Roaring Camp. Beside the candle-box was placed a hat. Its use was soon indicated.
“Gentlemen,” said Stumpy, with a singular mixture of authority and ex officio complacency (джентльмены, – сказал Коротышка с неповторимой смесью властности и должностного самодовольства; ex officio – в силу занимаемой должности, по долгу службы