Английский язык с Дж. Р. Р. Толкиеном. Хоббит

As they went on Bilbo looked from side to side for something to eat; but the blackberries were still only in flower, and of course there were no nuts, nor even hawthorn-berries. He nibbled a bit of sorrel, and he drank from a small mountain-stream that crossed the path, and he ate three wild strawberries that he found on its bank, but it was not much good. They still went on and on. The rough path disappeared. The bushes, and the long grasses, between the boulders, the patches of rabbit-cropped turf, the thyme and the sage and the marjoram, and the yellow rockroses all vanished, and they found themselves at the top of a wide steep slope of fallen stones, the remains of a landslide. When they began to go down this, rubbish and small pebbles rolled away from their feet; soon larger bits of split stone went clattering down and started other pieces below them slithering and rolling; then lumps of rocks were disturbed and bounded off, crashing down with a dust and a noise.

Before long (вскоре) the whole slope above them and below them (весь склон над ними и под ними) seemed on the move (казалось, был приведен в движение), and they were sliding away (и они скользили /на нем/), huddled all together (сгрудившись все вместе; to huddle — валить в одну кучу, сбивать в кучу; перемешивать), in a fearful confusion (в ужасной неразберихе) of slipping, rattling, cracking slabs and stones (из-за скользящих, гремящих и трескающихся кусков и камней). It was the trees at the bottom that saved them (именно деревья внизу спасли их). They slid into the edge of a climbing wood of pines (они проскользили до самого края растущего вверх соснового леса; to climb — карабкаться, взбираться) that here stood right up the mountain slope (который рос: «стоял» там как раз вверх по склону горы) from the deeper darker forests of the valleys below (из более густых и темных лесов из долины внизу). Some caught hold of the trunks (некоторые из них ухватились за стволы /деревьев/) and swung themselves into lower branches (и залезли на нижние ветви; to swing (swung) — качать (ся), колебать (ся); вешать, подвешивать), some (like the little hobbit) got behind a tree (некоторые (как наш маленький хоббит) спрятались за деревья) to shelter from the onslaught of the rocks (чтобы укрыться от стремительного натиска скал; onslaught — бешеная атака, нападение). Soon the danger was over (вскоре опасность миновала), the slide had stopped (оползень: «скольжение» прекратился), and the last faint crashes could be heard (и последний слабый грохот: «трески» можно было расслышать) as the largest of the disturbed stones (пока самые большие из потревоженных камней) went bounding and spinning (пронеслись, отскакивая и вращаясь) among the bracken and the pine-roots (среди папоротника и корней деревьев) far below (далеко внизу).

confusion [kǝnˈfju: ʒ (ǝ) n] onslaught [ˈɔnslɔ: t] bracken [ˈbrækǝn]