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

“O let ‘em all come! Hurry up! Come along, you two, and sit down! But look here, Gandalf, even now we have only got yourself and ten dwarves and the hobbit that was lost. That only makes eleven (plus one mislaid) and not fourteen, unless wizards count differently to other people. But now please get on with the tale. ” Beorn did not show it more than he could help, but really he had begun to get very interested. You see, in the old days he had known the very part of the mountains that Gandalf was describing. He nodded and he growled, when he heard of the hobbit’s reappearance and of their scramble down the stone-slide and of the wolf-ring in the woods. When Gandalf came to their climbing into trees with the wolves all underneath, he got up and strode about and muttered:

“I wish I had been there (желал бы я быть там)! I would have given them more than fireworks (я бы задал им нечто большее, чем фейерверки)!”

“Well (ну), ” said Gandalf very glad to see (сказал Гэндальф, очень довольный, увидев) that his tale was making a good impression (что его история производила хорошее впечатление), “I did the best I could (я старался изо всех сил: «сделал лучшее, что мог»). There we were (вот там мы и были) with the wolves going mad underneath us (/при том что/ все эти волки сходили с ума внизу под нами) and the forest beginning to blaze in places (и лес уже начинал пылать в некоторых местах), when the goblins came down from the hills (когда гоблины спустились с холмов) and discovered us (и обнаружили нас). They yelled with delight (они завопили от восторга) and sang songs making fun of us (и запели песни, высмеивая нас; to make fun of smb — дразнить кого-либо, шутить над кем-либо, fun — веселье, забава). Fifteen birds in five firtrees (пятнадцать пташек на пяти соснах) …”

“Good heavens (Боже мой)!” growled Beorn (прорычал Беорн). “Don’t pretend that goblins can’t count (не делайте вид, что гоблины не умеют считать). They can (они умеют). Twelve isn’t fifteen (двенадцать — это не пятнадцать) and they know it (и они знают это). ”

“And so do I (и я тоже). There were Bifur and Bofur as well (там еще так же были Бифур и Бофур). I haven’t ventured to introduce them before (я не рискнул представить их раньше), but here they are (но вот они). ”

firework [ˈfaɪǝwǝ: k] impression [ɪmˈpreʃ (ǝ) n] underneath [ʌndǝˈni: Ɵ]

“I wish I had been there! I would have given them more than fireworks!” “Well, ” said Gandalf very glad to see that his tale was making a good impression, “I did the best I could. There we were with the wolves going mad underneath us and the forest beginning to blaze in places, when the goblins came down from the hills and discovered us. They yelled with delight and sang songs making fun of us. Fifteen birds in five firtrees …”

“Good heavens!” growled Beorn. “Don’t pretend that goblins can’t count. They can. Twelve isn’t fifteen and they know it. ”

“And so do I. There were Bifur and Bofur as well. I haven’t ventured to introduce them before, but here they are. ”