The Hobbit ['hɔbit]
By J.R.R. Tolkien
Chapter I
AN[ən,æn] UNEXPECTED['ʌnɪk'spɛktɪd] PARTY ['pɑrti]
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not[nɑt] a nasty/'næsti/, dirty/'dɝti/, wet/wɛt/ hole/hol/, filled with the ends of worms/wə:mz/ and an oozy/'ʊzi/ smell/smɛl/, nor yet a dry/draɪ/, bare/bɛr/, sandy/'sændi/ hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. /ˈkʌmfət/
It had a perfectly/'pɝfɪktli/ round/raʊnd/ door like a porthole/'pɔrthol/, painted/ˈpentɪd/ green, with a shiny/'ʃaɪni/ yellow brass/bræs/ knob/nɑb/ in the exact/ɪɡ'zækt/ middle/'mɪdl/. The door opened on to a tube/tub/-shaped/ʃept/ hall/hɔl/ like a tunnel/'tʌnl/: a very['vɛri] comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled/'pænl/ walls/wɔl/, and floors tiled/taild/ and carpeted['kɑrpɪtid], provided/prə'vaɪdɪd/ with polished/'pɑlɪʃt/ chairs/tʃεəs/, and lots/lɑts/ and lots of pegs/pɛɡs/ for hats/hæt/ and coats/kot/—the hobbit was fond/fɑnd/ of visitors/'vɪzɪtɚ/. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill/hɪl/—The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars/'sɛlɚ/, pantries /'pæntri/ (lots of these), wardrobes['wɔr'drob] (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes[kloz]), kitchens/'kitʃinz/, dining /ˈdaɪnɪŋ/-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed /ɪn'did/ on the same passage/'pæsɪdʒ/. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden, and meadows['mɛdo] beyond /bɪ'jɑnd/, sloping/'sləupiŋ/ down to the river.
This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins(巴金斯). The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother /'bɑðɚ/ of asking him. This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained/ɡen/—well, you will see whether /'wɛðɚ/ he gained anything in the end.
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