о течении) and the depths they had drifted their lines at (и о глубине, на которую они закидывали лесы) and the steady good weather (и об устойчивой хорошей погоде) and of what they had seen (и о том, что они видели). The successful fishermen of that day were already in (удачливые в этот день рыбаки уже были внутри = уже вернулись с лова) and had butchered their marlin out (и выпотрошили своих марлиней) and carried them laid full length across two planks (и несли их уложенными в полную длину поперек двух досок;
plank — толстая и широкая гладко оструганная доска), with two men staggering at the end of each plank (по двое мужчин, идущих нетвердой походкой, у конца каждой доски;
stagger — шататься, покачиваться; идти шатаясь), to the fish house (на рыбный склад: «дом») where they waited for the ice truck (где они ждали рефрижератор: «грузовик с морозилкой») to carry them to the market in Havana (который перевезет рыбу на рынок в Гавану). Those who had caught sharks had taken them to the shark factory on the other side of the cove (те, кто поймал акул, отнесли их на завод по разделке акул на другом конце бухты) where they were hoisted on a block and tackle (где их подвесили на веревках с блоками:
block and tackle — верёвка с блоком), their livers removed (/при этом/ их печенки удалили = выпотрошили), their fins cut off (их плавники отрезали) and their hides skinned out (их кожу содрали;
hides — кожа, шкура; to skin — сдирать /кожу/) and their flesh cut into strips for salting (и их плоть =
мясо нарезали полосками для засола;
flesh — плоть).
current ['kArqnt], steady ['stedI], butcher ['buCq], cove [kquv]
They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry. Others, of the older fishermen, looked at him and were sad. But they did not show it and they spoke politely about the current and the depths they had drifted their lines at and the steady good weather and of what they had seen. The successful fishermen of that day were already in and had butchered their marlin out and carried them laid full length across two planks, with two men staggering at the end of each plank, to the fish house where they waited for the ice truck to carry them to the market in Havana. Those who had caught sharks had taken them to the shark factory on the other side of the cove where they were hoisted on a block and tackle, their livers removed, their fins cut off and their hides skinned out and their flesh cut into strips for salting.
