- •In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole,
- •It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny
- •Is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which
- •Is curly); have long clever brown fingers, good-natured faces, and laugh deep
- •It was a dwarf with a blue beard tucked into a golden belt, and very bright
- •Inside, just as if he had been expected. He hung his hooded cloak on the
- •In their gold and silver belts to join the others. Already it had almost become a
- •Important dwarf, in fact no other than the great Thorin Oakenshield himself,
- •I hope there is something left for the late-comers to eat and drink! What’s
- •Into his house. By the time he had got all the bottles and dishes and knives and
- •In the dim light it made him look strange and sorcerous. Bilbo stood still and
- •Into dark lands under strange moons, far over The Water and very far from
- •In places deep, where dark things sleep,
- •In hollow halls beneath the fells.
- •In the fender, knocking over the poker and shovel with a crash.
- •Ingenious wizard Gandalf) may never return. It is a solemn moment. Our
- •Interrupted. Poor Bilbo couldn’t bear it any longer. At may never return he
- •If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realise that this was only
- •In the meanwhile, however, Bullroarer’s gentler descendant was reviving in
- •It is all very well for Gandalf to talk about this hobbit being fierce, but one
- •I assure you there is a mark on this door — the usual one in the trade, or used
- •In him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself. You
- •It in red ink.
- •Isn’t it?”
- •Interrupted Gandalf.
- •Ideas or suggestions.” He turned with mock-politeness to Bilbo.
- •Immensely rich and famous, and my grandfather was King under the
- •If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something.
- •Indeed he was really relieved after all to think that they had all gone without
- •Inhabited by decent folk, with good roads, an inn or two, and now and then a
- •Inns, and the roads grew steadily worse. Not far ahead were dreary hills,
- •I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning
- •It began to get dark. Wind got up, and the willows along the river-bank bent
- •If he was in the adventure or merely keeping them company for a while. He
- •If all is well. If not, come back if you can! It you can’t, hoot twice like a barn-
- •It —, pinched the very mutton off the spite, purloined the beer, and walked off
- •Is a beginning!” It was! Trolls’ purses are the mischief, and this was no
- •In William’s eye.
- •Into the light than he gave an awful howl. Trolls simply detest the very sight of
- •In a heap, and Oin and Gloin and Bifur and Bofur and Bombur piled
- •It was just then that Gandalf came back. But no one saw him. The trolls had
- •Idea, and after a lot of argument they had all agreed to it.
- •It must have fallen out of his pocket, very luckily, before he was turned to
- •It and fitted it into the key-hole. Then the stone door swung back with one big
- •Very near to them. Already they I seemed only a day’s easy journey from the
- •In June
- •Isn’t it delicious!”
- •It. His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-
- •I wish I had time to tell you even a few of the tales or one or two of the songs
- •Invented them and wrote them with silver pens, as your friends could tell you.
- •In the mountains were seldom unoccupied.
- •It seemed quite a fair size, but not too large and mysterious. It had a dry
- •Idea, and the goblins did not wait to find out. It was deep, deep, dark, such as
- •Very rough, and pinched unmercifully, and chuckled and laughed in their
- •It sounded truly terrifying. The walls echoed to the clap, snap! and the crush,
- •In front of them; and more than one of the dwarves were already yammering
- •I am afraid that was the last they ever saw of those excellent little ponies,
- •Including a jolly sturdy little white fellow that Elrond had lent to Gandalf,
- •Ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once, for wheels and
- •Into a tower of blue glowing smoke, right up to the roof, that scattered
- •It. The sparks were burning holes in the goblins, and the smoke that now fell
- •It flashed in the dark by itself. It burned with a rage that made it gleam if
- •In confusion, and most of them were hustling back the way they had come.
- •It was quite a long while before any of them dared to turn that corner. By
- •Very slowly he got up and groped about on all fours, till he touched the wall
- •It, as he wore it inside his breeches.
- •It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.
- •In their beginnings to ages before the goblins, who only widened them and
- •I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum
- •I don’t know where I am; and “I don’t want to know, if only I can get ,away.”
- •Is taller than trees,
- •Voiceless it cries,
- •It does.”
- •It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
- •It lies behind stars and under hills,
- •It comes first and follows after,
- •It was not really the right time for this riddle, but Bilbo was in a hurry.
- •It’s got in its nassty little pocketses?”
- •It because it was a ring of power, and if you slipped that ring on your finger,
- •Idea how to find his way out alone.
- •In a moment Gollum was on him. But before Bilbo could do anything,
- •It. When we came this way last, when we twisted that nassty young squeaker.
- •It’ll just keep it in its pocketses. It doesn’t know, and it can’t go far. It’s lost
- •Itself, the nassty nosey thing. It doesn’t know the way out It said so.”
- •It does. We shan’t ever be safe again, never, gollum! One of the goblinses will
- •Invisible! He had heard of such things, of course, in old old tales; but it was
- •It was still ajar, but a goblin had pushed it nearly to. Bilbo struggled but he
- •Inside him. He wondered whether he ought not, now he had the magic ring, to
- •Indeed Bilbo was so pleased with their praise that he just chuckled inside
- •I really knew the way out, and so he was making for it. And then he sat down
- •In the entrance, and I could not get by. So I jumped over him and escaped,
- •Very difficult or very alarming.
- •In the flash which killed the goblins that were grabbing him he had nipped
- •Inside the crack, just as it snapped to. He followed after the drivers and
- •Valleys below. Some caught hold of the trunks and swung themselves into
- •It was answered by another away to the right and a good deal nearer to
- •Imitate it to frighten him. To hear it out in the forest under the moon was too
- •Infested mountains, over the Edge of the Wild on the borders of the unknown.
- •I will tell you what Gandalf heard, though Bilbo did not understand it. The
- •In spite of the dangers of this far land bold men had of late been making
- •In cinders lie
- •Imagine how his head swam now, when he looked down between his dangling
- •In his eyrie at night!
- •It seemed that Bilbo was not going to be eaten after all. The wizard and the
- •It all. But cropping out of the ground, right in the path of the stream which
- •In the river, which was shallow and clear and stony at the ford. When they
- •Is very strong, and he is a skin-changer.”
- •Intelligent faces; then off they galloped to the buildings.
- •Veranda propped on wooden posts made of single tree-trunks. It faced south
- •Into it, and fell golden on the garden full of flowers that came right up to the
- •Very part of the mountains that Gandalf was describing. He nodded and he
- •Impression, “I did the best I could. There we were with the wolves going mad
- •Introduce them before, but here they are.”
- •In came Bifur and Bofur. “And me!” gasped Bombur pulling up behind. He
- •Inside the hall it was now quite dark. Beorn clapped his hands, and in
- •Into talk. They went out again and soon came back carrying torches in their
- •In his hall, and he probably had them low like the tables for the convenience
- •Verses were like this, but there were many more, and their singing went on for
- •Its whistling voices were released.
- •It passed the lonely Mountain bare
- •It left the world and took its flight
- •It was full morning when he awoke. One of the dwarves had fallen over him
- •In the shadows where he lay, and had rolled down with a bump from the
- •Inside us,” answered the other dwarves who were moving around the hall;
- •I followed these as far as the Carrock. There they disappeared into the river,
- •In the courtyard. Then he woke up when everyone else was asleep, and he
- •Indeed he seemed to be in a splendidly good humour and set them all laughing
- •I am sure it is true. You must forgive my not taking your word. If you lived
- •I will give you some bows and arrows. But I doubt very much whether
- •Is open to you, if ever you come back this way again.”
- •In front. But in the evening when the dusk came on and the peaks of the
- •Its outer trees. Their trunks were huge and gnarled, their branches twisted,
- •I have told you before that he has more about him than you guess, and you
- •I expect we shall all wish our packs heavier, when the food begins to run
- •In the morning as at night, and very secret: “a sort of watching and waiting
- •Into the forest.
- •It was not long before they grew to hate the forest as heartily as they had
- •In, felt he was being slowly suffocated. The nights were the worst. It then
- •In another place. And sometimes they would gleam down from the branches
- •In his hand, balanced it for a moment, and then flung it across the stream.
- •In this way they were all soon on the far bank safe across the enchanted
- •In the end he poked his head above the roof of leaves, and then he found
- •If Bilbo had had the sense to see it, the tree that he had climbed, though it was
- •Vanished. They were lost in a completely lightless dark and they could not
- •In the end he made as good a guess as he could at the direction from which
- •In time.
- •Very soon the hobbit would be caught in a thick fence of them all round him
- •I am far more sweet than other meat,
- •In your cobwebs crazy.
- •I don’t suppose he would have managed it, if a spider had not luckily left a
- •In this way they rescued Kili, Bifur, Bofur, Dori and Nori. Poor old Bombur
- •It, but it could not be helped.
- •It was difficult to get them to understand, what with their dizzy heads, and
- •Very much, and had begun to have a great respect for him (as Gandalf had
- •In fact they praised him so much that Bilbo began to feel there really was
- •Into uncomfortable sleep full of horrible dreams, as evening wore to black
- •In the West. There the Light-elves and the Deep-elves and the Sea-elves went
- •In a great cave some miles within the edge of Mirkwood on its eastern side
- •It was also the dungeon of his prisoners. So to the cave they dragged Thorin
- •In ancient days they had had wars with some of the dwarves, whom they
- •Inclined to tell the truth, even if he waits a hundred years.”
- •In which the hobbit again showed his usefulness.
- •If they were right. Such day as there ever was in the forest was fading once
- •Impossible; and he soon realized that if anything was to be done, it would have
- •It a portcullis could be dropped right to the bed of the river to prevent anyone
- •Into the water as a protection against enemies of all sorts, and especially
- •I shall be hard at work tonight clearing the cellars of the empty wood, so let us
- •It is fit for the king’s table. There is a feast tonight and it would not do to send
- •Very soon the chief guard nodded his head, then he laid it on the table and
- •Very soon the chief guard had no keys, but Bilbo was trotting as fast as he
- •Imprisonment. Bilbo’s heart thumped every time one of them bumped into
- •It had not been a-bit too soon. Only a minute or two after Balin’s lid had
- •If I fall asleep from weariness!”
- •Instead of the empty ones, if there is anything in weight.”
- •It was just at this moment that Bilbo suddenly discovered the weak point in
- •It was really empty, and floated light as a cork. Though his ears were full of
- •Very soon a grey patch came up in the darkness ahead. He heard the creak
- •Into the main current Then he found it quite as difficult to stick on as he had
- •Its rocky feet like an inland cliff the deepest stream had flowed lapping and
- •Information they let fall, he soon realized that he was very fortunate ever to
- •Imprisonment and unpleasant as was his position (to say nothing of the poor
- •Inclined to attribute to the dragon — alluding to him chiefly with a curse and
- •Imprisoned without cause as we journeyed back to our own land,” answered
- •In two days going they rowed right up the Long Lake and passed out into
- •Indeed their stores had no need of any guard, for all the land was desolate and
- •It was a weary journey, and a quiet and stealthy one. There was no laughter
- •It might be a very horrible end. The land about them grew bleak and barren,
- •Imagine so from the smoke,” said the hobbit.
- •In parties searching for paths up the mountain-side. If the map was true,
- •In the meanwhile some of them explored the ledge beyond the opening and
- •Into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away.
- •In and down.
- •Inside Information
- •It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest
- •Its mind to start eruptions once again. The door behind them was pulled
- •It to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no
- •Into the huge passages of the mountain-palace and up towards the Front Gate.
- •It was not a pleasant thought! They crept further down the tunnel, and there
- •It was no good giving up their quest yet. Nor could they get away just now, as
- •Very noon — then if ever Smaug ought to be napping — and see what he is up
- •In the tunnel. The light from the door, almost closed, soon faded as he went
- •It is also an awkward fact that they keep half an eye open watching while
- •In his young days had been called Esgaroth.
- •I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and
- •In the hollow of his left breast as bare as a snail out of its shell!” After he had
- •It was an unfortunate remark, for the dragon spouted terrific flames after
- •In: he picked up a stone and threw it at the thrush, which merely fluttered
- •Is a very old bird indeed, and is maybe the last left of the ancient breed that
- •In again, I suppose, and now perhaps because he is waiting till after tonight’s
- •In the meanwhile, the dwarves sat in darkness, and utter silence fell about
- •I will risk a third visit when I am no longer sure. Anyway the only way out is
- •In the floor, and screamed out light!’ at the top of his thrill voice, Thorin gave
- •It, shut his eyes, and put it in his deepest pocket.
- •It was. A bitter easterly breeze blew with a threat of oncoming winter. It
- •Into a rock-hewn chamber that was made here as a guardroom. There were
- •In the rock-chamber there would have been room for a hundred, and there
- •In all their talk they came perpetually back to one thing: where was
- •Its high peak could they see in clear weather, and they looked seldom at it, for
- •It was ominous and dreary even in the light of morning. Now it was lost and
- •In the town was filled with water, every warrior was armed, every arrow and
- •If he plunged into it, a vapour and a steam would arise enough to cover all the
- •Imagined equalled the sights that night. At the twanging of the bows and the
- •Into the night. Another swoop and another, and another house and then
- •It told him of tidings up in the Mountain and of all that it had heard. Then
- •Into bending pillars and hurrying clouds and drove it off to the West to scatter
- •In tattered shreds over the marshes before Mirkwood. Then the many boats
- •Is lost!”
- •Imperishable songs. But, why o People?” — and here the Master rose to his
- •In return for the Elvenking’s aid.
- •If a battle were afoot!”
- •Immediately flew away.
- •I do not forget what my father told me. Now I am the chief of the great ravens
- •In places deep, where dark things sleep,
- •In hollow halls beneath the fells.
- •In the past days Thorin had spent in the treasury, and the lust of it was heavy
- •If the stone was found — wrapped in an old bundle of tattered oddments that
- •In a rag. Then he climbed to the top of the wall. Only Bombur was there, for it
- •Is mighty cold!” said Bombur. “I wish we could have a fire up here as they
- •I would give a good deal for the feel of grass at my toes.”
- •Inner chamber to the left, not far away.”
- •Interest in this matter — one fourteenth share, to be precise, according to a
- •In the dreadful dwarf and goblin wars, of which you have no doubt heard.
- •I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.
- •If you don’t like my Burglar, please don’t damage him. Put him down, and
- •It came from the North, like a vast cloud of birds, so dense that no light could
- •It is plain that he had not expected this sudden assault.
- •Itself, and so attack them also from behind and above; but there was no time
- •Voice shook like a horn in the valley.
- •In the rocks below. He rubbed his eyes. Surely there was a camp still in the
- •Voice was last heard in this place. I have been sent to look here for the last
- •Voice was hoarse. He was a kindly little soul. Indeed it was long before he had
- •In the nick of time. They it was who dislodged the goblins from the mountain-
- •In his wrath. The roar of his voice was like drums and guns; and he tossed
- •Victory had been assured before the fall of night, but the pursuit was still on
- •In many warm blankets.
- •It is mine; though old agreements cannot stand, since so many have a claim in
- •Its winning and defence. Yet even though you were willing to lay aside all your
- •I thought, don’t you know,” said Bilbo rather confused, “that, er, some little
- •I name you elf-friend and blessed. May your shadow never grow less (or
- •It was spring, and a fair one with mild weathers and a bright sun, before
- •It was on May the First that the two came back at last to the brink of the
- •Valley of Rivendell, where stood the Last (or the First) Homely House.
- •In this age of the world, or for many after.”
- •In that house, and he had many a merry jest and dance, early and late, with
- •Very edge of the borderland of the Wild, and to the ford beneath the steep
- •If their own furniture would fit. In short Bilbo was “Presumed Dead,” and not
- •Indeed Bilbo found he had lost more than spoons — he had lost his
- •It to a Museum). His gold and silver was largely spent in presents, both useful
- •Very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only
Very edge of the borderland of the Wild, and to the ford beneath the steep
bank, which you may remember. The water was swollen both with the melting
of the snows at the approach of summer, and with the daylong rain; but they
crossed with some difficulty, and pressed forward, as evening fell, on the last
stage of their journey. This was much as it had been before, except that the
company was smaller, and more silent; also this time there were no trolls. At
each point on the road Bilbo recalled the happenings and the words of a year
ago — it seemed to him more like ten — so that, of course, he quickly noted
the place where the pony had fallen in the river, and they had turned aside for
their nasty adventure with Tom and Bert and Bill. Not far from the road they
found the gold of the trolls, which they had buried, still hidden and
untouched. “I have enough to last me my time,” said Bilbo, when they had
dug it up. “You had better take this, Gandalf. I daresay you can find a use for
it.”
“Indeed I can (конечно я могу)!” said the wizard. “But share and share alike (но
/надо/ разделить, и разделить поровну; alike — точно так же, одинаково)!
You may find you have more needs (вы можете неожиданно для себя
обнаружить, что вам потребуется больше: «/что/ у вас больше
потребностей») than you expect (чем вы ожидаете).”
So they put the gold in bags (так они сложили золото в сумки) and slung them
on the ponies (и подвесили их на пони; to sling (slung) — подвешивать), who
were not at all pleased about it (которые этому совершенно не обрадовались).
After that their going was slower (после этого шаг их замедлился: «был
медленнее»), for most of the time they walked (так как большую часть времени
они шли пешком; to walk — ходить пешком; ехать шагом). But the land was
green (но земля зеленела) and there was much grass (и было много травы)
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through which the hobbit strolled along contentedly (по которой хоббит шагал с
удовольствием: «довольно/удовлетворенно»; to stroll
— гулять,
прогуливаться, бродить). He mopped his face with a red silk handkerchief (он
вытирал свое лицо красным шелковым носовым платком; to mop —
протирать, вытирать, осушать /пот, слезы/) — no! not a single one of his
own had survived (нет, ни один из его собственных платков не сохранился; to
survive — выжить, уцелеть), he had borrowed this one from Elrond (он
одолжил этот у Элронда) — for now June had brought summer (так как теперь
июнь привел с собой лето), and the weather was bright and hot again (и погода
снова была солнечная: «яркая/светлая» и жаркая).
As all things come to an end (как все: «все события» когда-то подходит к
концу), even this story (даже и эта история), a day came at last (наступил,
наконец, день) when they were in sight of the country (когда вдали им
показалась та самая страна; to be in sight — находиться поблизости, под
рукой; быть видным, на виду) where Bilbo had been born and bred (где Бильбо
родился и вырос: «был рожден и воспитан»; to bear (bore, born) — рождать,
производить на свет; to breed (bred) — размножаться; воспитывать,
обучать), where the shapes of the land (где каждое очертание земли; shape —
форма, вид, очертание) and of the trees (и деревьев) were as well known to him
(были так же хорошо знаком ему) as his hands and toes (как его собственные
руки и ноги). Coming to a rise (взойдя на возвышенность) he could see his own
Hill in the distance (он смог увидеть вдалеке свой собственный Холм), and he
stopped suddenly and said (и он внезапно остановился и сказал):
contentedly [kqn'tentIdlI] survive [sq'vaIv] borrowed ['bOrqVd]
“Indeed I can!” said the wizard. “But share and share alike! You may find
you have more needs than you expect.”
So they put the gold in bags and slung them on the ponies, who were not at
all pleased about it. After that their going was slower, for most of the time
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they walked. But the land was green and there was much grass through which
the hobbit strolled along contentedly. He mopped his face with a red silk
handkerchief — no! not a single one of his own had survived, he had
borrowed this one from Elrond — for now June had brought summer, and
the weather was bright and hot again.
As all things come to an end, even this story, a day came at last when they
were in sight of the country where Bilbo had been born and bred, where the
shapes of the land and of the trees were as well known to him as his hands and
toes. Coming to a rise he could see his own Hill in the distance, and he stopped
suddenly and said:
Roads go ever ever on (дороги идут бесконечно и бесконечно вперед),
Over rock and under tree (через = за скалу и под деревом),
By caves where never sun has shone (у = мимо пещер, где никогда не сияло
солнце),
By streams that never find the sea (мимо ручьев, что никогда не находят
моря);
Over snow by winter sown (по снегу, что зимой посеян; to sow (sowed, sown)
— сеять, высеивать, засеивать),
And through the merry flowers of June (и сквозь веселые цветы июня =
средь веселых июньских цветов),
Over grass and over stone (по траве и по камням),
And under mountains in the moon (и под горами при луне).
Roads go ever ever on (дороги идут бесконечно и бесконечно вперед)
Under cloud and under star (под облаком и под звездой),
Yet feet that wandering have gone (и все же ноги, что /так долго/ скитались)
Turn at last to home afar (поворачивают, наконец, к далекому дому).
Eyes that fire and sword have seen (глаза, что видели огонь и меч)
And horror in the halls of stone (и ужас в каменных чертогах)
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Look at last on meadows green (смотрят, наконец, на зеленые луга)
And trees and hills they long have known (и деревья, и холмы, что они знали
так давно).
Gandalf looked at him (Гэндальф взглянул на него).
“My dear Bilbo (дорогой мой Бильбо)!” he said. “Something is the matter with
you (с вами что-то происходит: «что с вами?»; the matter — зд. неприятное
дело, неприятность, трудность; what's the matter? — в чем дело? что
случилось?)! You are not the hobbit that you were (вы не тот хоббит, каким
были).”
stream [stri:m] cloud [klaVd] meadow ['medqV]
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
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Gandalf looked at him. “My dear Bilbo!” he said. “Something is the matter
with you! You are not the hobbit that you were.”
And so they crossed the bridge (и так = и вот они пересекли мост) and passed
the mill by the river (и прошли мимо мельницы у реки) and came right back to
Bilbo’s own door (и вернулись прямо к собственной двери Бильбо).
“Bless me (Бог мой: «благослави меня»)! What’s going on (что же это
происходит)?” he cried (закричал он). There was a great commotion (а было
/там/ великое беспокойство), and people of all sorts (и самые разные люди: «и
люди всех видов»; sort — вид, род, сорт), respectable and unrespectable
(уважаемые и неуважаемые), were thick round the door (стояли в большом
количестве у двери; thick — толстый; густой, частый; многочисленный,
многолюдный), and many were going in and out (и многие входили и выходили;
in and out — взад и вперед; то внутрь, то наружу) — not even wiping their
feet on the mat (даже не вытирая ноги о коврик; to wipe — вытирать,
обтирать), as Bilbo noticed with annoyance (как Бильбо заметил с
раздражением). If he was surprised (если он и был удивлен), they were more
surprised still (то они были все же удивлены еще больше). He had arrived back
(он возвратился; to arrive — прибывать, приезжать) in the middle of an
auction (в самой середине = в разгаре аукциона)! There was a large notice in
black and red (большое объявление /написанное/ черным по красному; сравн.:
in black and white — в письменной форме, черным по белому) hung on the gate
(висело на воротах/калитке; to hang (hung, hanged) — вешать, подвешивать;
висеть), stating that on June the Twenty-second (гласившее, что двадцать
второго июня; to state — излагать, формулировать, констатировать)
Messrs. Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes (господа Грабб, Грабб и Бэрроуз) would
sell by auction (будут продавать с аукциона) the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins
Esquire, of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton (имущество покойного Бильбо
Бэггинса, эсквайра, из Бэг-Энда, Под Холмом, что в Хоббитоне; late —
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опоздавший; поздний; покойный). Sale to commence at ten o’clock sharp
(распродажа начнется в десять часов ровно). It was now nearly lunch-time
(сейчас уже было почти что время ленча; lunch — второй завтрак в середине
дня, между 12 и 14 часами), and most of the things had already been sold (и
большинство из вещей уже были проданы; to sell (sold) — продать,
торговать, продаваться), for various prices (за самые различные цены) from
next to nothing to old songs (почти задаром и за бесценок; for a song — очень
дешево, за бесценок; song — песня, пение) (as is not unusual at auctions (что
является обычным: «не является необычным» для аукционов)). Bilbo’s
cousins the Sackville-Bagginses (двоюродные братья Бильбо, Саквиль-
Бэггинсы) were, in fact, busy (на самом деле, были заняты тем) measuring his
rooms (что измеряли его комнаты; to measure — измерять, мерить, снимать
мерку) to see if their own furniture would fit (чтобы понять, подойдет ли /в них/
их собственная мебель; to fit — соответствовать, годиться, подходить,
быть впору). In short Bilbo was “Presumed Dead” (говоря коротко, Бильбо был
"Предполагаемым Погибшим"; to presume — полагать, предполагать,
presumed — предполагаемый) and not everybody that said so (и не все, кто
говорил так) was sorry to find the presumption wrong (огорчились, обнаружив,
что это предположение было неверным; presumption — предположение,
допущение).
unresponsive ["AnrI'spOnsIv] annoyance [q'nOIqns] commence [kq'mens]
auction ['O:kS(q)n] various ['ve(q)rIqs] presumed [prI'zju:md] presumption
[prI'zAmpS(q)n]
And so they crossed the bridge and passed the mill by the river and came
right back to Bilbo’s own door. “Bless me! What’s going on?” he cried. There
was a great commotion, and people of all sorts, respectable and unrespectable,
were thick round the door, and many were going in and out — not even
wiping their feet on the mat, as Bilbo noticed with annoyance. If he was
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surprised, they were more surprised still. He had arrived back in the middle
of an auction! There was a large notice in black and red hung on the gate,
stating that on June the Twenty-second Messrs. Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes
would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag-End,
Underhill, Hobbiton. Sale to commence at ten o’clock sharp. It was now
nearly lunch-time, and most of the things had already been sold, for various
prices from next to nothing to old songs (as is not unusual at auctions). Bilbo’s
cousins the Sackville-Bagginses were, in fact, busy measuring his rooms to see