| This reward eluded him. | Эта награда ускользнула от Джима. |
| Yet he could not go back, because there is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. | Однако вернуться он не мог, ибо нет ничего более заманчивого, разочаровывающего и порабощающего, чем жизнь на море. |
| Besides, his prospects were good. | Кроме того, у него были виды на будущее. |
| He was gentlemanly, steady, tractable, with a thorough knowledge of his duties; and in time, when yet very young, he became chief mate of a fine ship, without ever having been tested by those events of the sea that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man, the edge of his temper, and the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance and the secret truth of his pretences, not only to others but also to himself. | Он был благовоспитан, уравновешен, послушен и в совершенстве знал свои обязанности; вскоре, совсем еще молодым, он был назначен старшим помощником на прекрасное судно, не успев столкнуться с теми испытаниями моря, какие обнаруживают, чего стоит человек, из какого материала он скроен и каков его нрав; эти испытания вскрывают силу сопротивляемости и истинные мотивы его стремлений не только другим, но и ему самому. |
| Only once in all that time he had again a glimpse of the earnestness in the anger of the sea. | Лишь однажды за все это время он снова мельком увидел подлинную ярость моря. |
| That truth is not so often made apparent as people might think. | А ярость эта проявляется не так часто, как принято думать. |
| There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face of facts a sinister violence of intention-that indefinable something which forces it upon the mind and the heart of a man, that this complication of accidents or these elemental furies are coming at him with a purpose of malice, with a strength beyond control, with an unbridled cruelty that means to tear out of him his hope and his fear, the pain of his fatigue and his longing for rest: which means to smash, to destroy, to annihilate all he has seen, known, loved, enjoyed, or hated; all that is priceless and necessary-the sunshine, the memories, the future; which means to sweep the whole precious world utterly away from his sight by the simple and appalling act of taking his life. |
