«Английский язык с Джонатаном Свифтом Путешествия Гулливера»

He had some more questions. Why, he wished to know, did I speak so loudly. I told him I had been used to doing so for the last two years. My conversation in Brobdingnag was rather like standing in the street talking to someone who was looking out from the top of a church steeple. I had been amazed that he and his men seemed to whisper, and yet I was able to hear them.

I tried to explain how it felt to return from a country where everything had been so enormously big. When I had first come aboard his ship I had thought all the sailors were the smallest, silliest creatures I had ever seen in my life. Indeed later on everything on the dinner table had seemed so tiny, the leg of pork, the glasses, even the table itself, that I had being trying hard not to laugh during dinner.

The captain and I became quite good friends during the journey back to England (за время нашего путешествия домой: «назад» в Англию мы с капитаном стали хорошими друзьями). We called at various ports for food and fresh water (несколько раз мы заходили в порты запастись провизией и свежей/пресной водой; various — различный, разный; несколько, не один). I stayed aboard (я ни разу не сходил с корабля: «оставался на борту») until, nine months later on June 3rd, 1706, we arrived in England (пока, девять месяцев спустя, /а именно/ 3 июня 1706 года, мы не прибыли в Англию). I borrowed five shillings from him (я занял у него = капитана пять шиллингов) to pay for the hire of a horse and guide (чтобы нанять лошадь и проводника: «заплатить за наем…»).