Translation for "проа" to english
Проа
noun
Translation examples
noun
Проа осторожно приближалась к берегу.
The proa worked cautiously shoreward.
Проа[2] скользила по зеленым волнам, потом начала резко отклоняться от курса. Карвер рассвирепел. — Маллоа!
The proa slid over green combers toward the foam-skirted island, then began to sheer off as if reluctant to approach. Carver's jaw squared. "Malloa!
Не скажу ничего плохого про этих парней: спокойные, исполнительные, трезвые, никаких нарушений и взысканий, но китайцев мы сняли с вооруженной джонки, идущей без груза — наверняка пират — а малайцев с их проа при тех же обстоятельствах.
I say nothing whatsoever against these men - quiet, attentive, sober, give no trouble, never brought to the gangway - but we took the Chinamen out of an armed junk with no cargo, almost certainly a pirate, and the Malays out of a proa of the same persuasion, and I feel that if they were sent away, they might be tempted to fall to their old ways.
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