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

At the best of times (в лучшие времена) heights made Bilbo giddy (от высоты у Бильбо кружилась голова). He used to turn queer (ему обычно становилось дурно; to turn + прилагательное = становиться, делаться) if he looked over the edge of quite a little cliff (если он смотрел через край совершенно маленького утеса); and he had never liked ladders (и ему никогда не нравились лестницы), let alone trees (не говоря уже о деревьях) (never having had to escape from wolves before (/ведь/ ему никогда раньше не приходилось убегать от волков)). So you can imagine (и так вы можете себе представить) how his head swam now (как его голова шла кругом: «плыла» сейчас; to swim), when he looked down between his dangling toes (когда он смотрел вниз, между своих болтающихся носков; to dangle) and saw the dark lands (и видел темные земли) opening wide underneath him (широко открывавшиеся под ним), touched here and there with the light of the moon (тронутые здесь и там светом луны) on a hill-side rock (на горной породе на холме) or a stream in the plains (или в потоке на равнинах).

twinkle [ˈtwɪŋk (ǝ) l] ankle [ˈæŋk (ǝ) l] dangling [ˈdæŋɡlɪŋ]

Soon the light of the burning was faint below, a red twinkle on the black floor; and they were high up in the sky, rising all the time in strong sweeping circles. Bilbo never forgot that flight, clinging onto Dori’s ankles.

He moaned “my arms, my arms!”; but Dori groaned “my poor legs, my poor legs!” At the best of times heights made Bilbo giddy. He used to turn queer if he looked over the edge of quite a little cliff; and he had never liked ladders, let alone trees (never having had to escape from wolves before). So you can imagine how his head swam now, when he looked down between his dangling toes and saw the dark lands opening wide underneath him, touched here and there with the light of the moon on a hill-side rock or a stream in the plains.