Джон Рональд – Английский язык с Дж. Р. Р. Толкиеном. Хоббит (страница 127)
ledge [ledʒ] mason [ˈmeɪs (ǝ) n] crevice [ˈkrevɪs]
Silently, clinging to the rocky wall on their right, they went in single file along the ledge, till the wall opened and they turned into a little steep-walled bay, grassy-floored, still and quiet. Its entrance which they had found could not be seen from below because of the overhang of the cliff, nor from further off because it was so small that it looked like a dark crack and no more. It was not a cave and was open to the sky above; but at its inner end a flat wall rose up that in the lower I part, close to the ground, was as smooth and upright as mason’s work, but without a joint or crevice to be seen.
“No sign was there (не было там и ни одного признака) of post (/какого-либо/ столба) or lintel (или дверной перемычки) or threshold (или порога), nor any sign (ни никакого признака) of bar (бруска) or bolt (или засова) or key-hole (или замочной скважины); yet they did not doubt (и все же они не сомневались) that they had found the door at last (что они нашли дверь, в конце-то концов). They beat on it (они колотили в нее), they thrust and pushed at it (они толкали и пихали ее), they implored it to move (они умоляли ее сдвинуться;
lintel [lɪntl] threshold [ˈƟreʃ (h) ǝʋld] implore [ɪmˈplɔ:]
“No sign was there of post or lintel or threshold, nor any sign of bar or bolt or key-hole; yet they did not doubt that they had found the door at last. They beat on it, they thrust and pushed at it, they implored it to move, they spoke fragments of broken spells of opening, and nothing stirred. At last tired out they rested on the grass at its feet, and then at evening began, their long climb down.
There was excitement in the camp that night (той ночью в лагере царило: «было» возбуждение). In the morning they prepared to move once more (утром они приготовились двинуться в путь еще раз). Only Bofur and Bombur were left behind (только Бофур и Бомбур оставались: «были оставлены /позади/»;
behind [bɪˈhaɪnd] breathless [ˈbreƟlɪs] coil [kɔɪl] mishap [ˈmɪshæp]
There was excitement in the camp that night. In the morning they prepared to move once more. Only Bofur and Bombur were left behind to guard the ponies and such stores as they had brought with them from the river. The others went down the valley and up the newly found path, and so to the narrow ledge. Along this they could carry no bundles or packs, so narrow and breathless was it, with a fall of a hundred and fifty feet beside them on to sharp rocks below; but each of them took a good coil of rope wound tight about his waist, and so at last without mishap they reached the little grassy bay.
There they made their third camp (там они разбили свой третий лагерь), hauling up what they needed (втащив наверх все, что им было нужно;
“I am too fat (я слишком толстый) for such fly-walks (для таких летающих прогулок), ” he said. “I should turn dizzy (у меня закружится голова;
haul [hɔ: l] occasionally [ǝˈkeɪʒ (ǝ) nǝlɪ] weight [weɪt]
There they made their third camp, hauling up what they needed from below with their ropes. Down the same way they were able occasionally to lower one of the more active dwarves, such as Kili, to exchange such news as there was, or to take a share in the guard below, while Bofur was hauled up to the higher camp. Bombur would not come up either the rope or the path. “I am too fat for such fly-walks, ” he said. “I should turn dizzy and tread on my beard, and then you would be thirteen again. And the knotted ropes are too slender for my weight. ” Luckily for him that was not true, as you will see.
In the meanwhile (тем временем) some of them explored the ledge beyond the opening (некоторые из них обследовали выступ дальше, за /входным/ отверстием) and found a path (и обнаружили тропинку) that led higher and higher on to the mountain (что вела выше и выше в гору); but they did not dare to venture very far that way (но они не осмелились рискнуть /и пройти/ очень далеко по тому пути), nor was there much use in it (и не то чтобы в нем была особая польза). Out up there a silence reigned (снаружи там вверху царила тишина;
meanwhile [ˈmi: nwaɪl] reign [reɪn] brood [bru: d]
In the meanwhile some of them explored the ledge beyond the opening and found a path that led higher and higher on to the mountain; but they did not dare to venture very far that way, nor was there much use in it. Out up there a silence reigned, broken by no bird or sound except that of the wind in the crannies of stone. They spoke low and never called or sang, for danger brooded in every rock.
The others who were busy with the secret of the door (остальные, которые были заняты секретом двери) had no more success (не добились большого: «не имели больше» успеха).
They were too eager (они были слишком нетерпеливы;