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

unresponsive [nr'spnsv] annoyance ['nns] commence [k'mens] auction [': k n] various ['ve rs] presumed [pr'zju: md] presumption [pr'zmp 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 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 if their own furniture would fit. In short Bilbo was “Presumed Dead, ” and not everybody that said so was sorry to find the presumption wrong.

The return of Mr. Bilbo Baggins (возвращение мистера Бильбо Бэггинса) created quite a disturbance (создало немалый переполох; disturbance — нарушение равновесия, волнения), both under the Hill and over the Hill (как под Холмом, так и за Холмом), and across the Water (и по ту сторону Воды); it was a great deal more (это было нечто гораздо большее) than a nine days’ wonder (чем кратковременная сенсация: «чудо на девять дней»; nine days’ wonder — злоба дня; wonder — чудо; изумление). The legal bother, indeed, lasted for years (юридические хлопоты, на самом-то деле, длились еще многие годы; bother — беспокойство, хлопоты). It was quite a long time (довольно много времени прошло) before Mr. Baggins was in fact admitted to be alive again (прежде чем мистер Бэггинса, на самом деле, признали: «мистер Бэггинс был признан» вновь живым; to admit — признавать, допускать).

The people who had got specially good bargains at the Sale (тех людей, что заключили особенно удачные сделки на Распродаже; bargain — торговая сделка, договор о покупке, выгодная покупка, что-либо купленное по дешевке) took a deal of convincing (пришлось долго убеждать; to convince — убеждать, уверять); and in the end (и наконец) to save time (чтобы сэкономить время) Bilbo had to buy back (Бильбо пришлось выкупить /назад/) quite a lot of his own furniture (достаточно большое количество своей собственной мебели).