«Этюд в багровых тонах»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
A Study in Scarlet
40 слов из книги «Этюд в багровых тонах» (Arthur Conan Doyle): автор повторяет их снова и снова, а в 4000 самых частых слов английского они не входят. Выучите их заранее, и первые главы пойдут гораздо легче. У каждого слова есть транскрипция, перевод и предложение из книги.
evidently/ˈɛvədəntɫi/очевидно15 раз в книге
It is evidently the theory of some arm-chair lounger who evolves all these neat little paradoxes in the seclusion of his own study.
poison/ˈpɔɪzən/яд, отрава14 раз в книге
“I have to be careful,” he continued, turning to me with a smile, “for I dabble with poisons a good deal.”
murderer/ˈmɝdɝɝ/убийца, душегуб, киллер13 раз в книге
“Then, of course, this blood belongs to a second individual—presumably the murderer, if murder has been committed.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/седой12 раз в книге
The same afternoon brought a grey-headed, seedy visitor, looking like a Jew pedlar, who appeared to me to be much excited, and who was closely followed by a slip-shod elderly woman.
instant/ˈɪnstənt/мгновение, момент12 раз в книге
In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany colour, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar.
stain/ˈsteɪn/пятно11 раз в книге
Don’t you see that it gives us an infallible test for blood stains.
keen/ˈkin/проницательный, сообразительный10 раз в книге
The old woman faced round and looked keenly at him from her little red-rimmed eyes.
fierce/ˈfɪɹs/грозный, лютый, неистовый10 раз в книге
So powerful and so fierce was he, that the four of us were shaken off again and again.
whip/ˈhwɪp/вытащил10 раз в книге
As he spoke, he whipped a tape measure and a large round magnifying glass from his pocket.
waggonвагон9 раз в книге
You say over them ones that you used to say every night in the waggon when we was on the Plains.”
astonishment/əˈstɑnɪʃmənt/изумление, удивление9 раз в книге
I asked in astonishment.
savage/ˈsævədʒ/жестокий8 раз в книге
… of the cabman’s dazed, savage face, as he glared at the glittering handcuffs …
deduction/dɪˈdəkʃən/вывод, заключение, умозаключение8 раз в книге
I pondered over our short conversation, however, and endeavoured to draw my deductions from it.
utter/ˈətɝ/выговорить, выговаривать, говорить8 раз в книге
… and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morning to night.
boulder/ˈboʊɫdɝ/валун8 раз в книге
“Why not here, as well as in a feather bed, twenty years hence,” he muttered, as he seated himself in the shelter of a boulder.
startle/ˈstɑɹtəɫ/испугать, напугать, пугать8 раз в книге
So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer.
dull/ˈdəɫ/глупый, матовый, тусклый8 раз в книге
As for myself, I was silent, for the dull weather and the melancholy business upon which we were engaged, depressed my spirits.
endeavour/ɪnˈdɛvɝ/пробовать7 раз в книге
… when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.
speedily/ˈspidəɫi/быстро, поспешно7 раз в книге
… are both engaged upon the case, and it is confidently anticipated that these well-known officers will speedily throw light upon the matter.
wanderer/ˈwɑndɝɝ/путешественник, странник7 раз в книге
They speedily resolved themselves into three large brown birds, which circled over the heads of the two wanderers, and then settled upon some rocks which overlooked them.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/ступенька, лестница7 раз в книге
“We have it all here,” said Gregson, pointing to a litter of objects upon one of the bottom steps of the stairs.
unravel/ənˈɹævəɫ/распускать нити распутать, распутывать7 раз в книге
Under these circumstances, I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavouring to unravel it.
hail/ˈheɪɫ/приветствовать7 раз в книге
In old days Stamford had never been a particular crony of mine, but now I hailed him with enthusiasm, and he, in his turn, appeared to be delighted to see me.
advertisement/ˌædvɝˈtaɪzmənt/реклама, анонс, заявление7 раз в книге
“I have had advertisements sent to all the newspapers, and one of my men has gone to the American Exchange, but he has not returned yet.”
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/сигара7 раз в книге
He was more than six feet high, was in the prime of life, had small feet for his height, wore coarse, square-toed boots and smoked a Trichinopoly cigar.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/испугать, напугать, пугать7 раз в книге
John Rance sprang to his feet with a frightened face and suspicion in his eyes.
fancy/ˈfænsi/каприз, прихоть, причуда7 раз в книге
“No; he is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.”
vague/ˈveɪɡ/неопределённый, нечёткий, неясный7 раз в книге
There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.”
seldom/ˈsɛɫdəm/изредка, редко7 раз в книге
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
mysterious/mɪˈstɪɹiəs/таинственный, загадочный7 раз в книге
The other belonged to the dining-room, which was the apartment in which the mysterious affair had occurred.
lonely/ˈɫoʊnɫi/одинокий7 раз в книге
The sight of a friendly face in the great wilderness of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man.
coloured/ˈkəɫɝd/крашеный6 раз в книге
It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/завтрашний день, следующий день, утро6 раз в книге
“Call for me here at noon to-morrow, and we’ll go together and settle everything,” he answered.
haired/ˈhɛɹd/с седыми волосами6 раз в книге
On another occasion an old white-haired gentleman had an interview with my companion; and on another a railway porter in his velveteen uniform.
constable/ˈkɑnstəbəɫ/констебль6 раз в книге
The garden was bounded by a three-foot brick wall with a fringe of wood rails upon the top, and against this wall was leaning a stalwart police constable, surrounded by a small knot of loafers …
telegraph/ˈtɛɫəˌɡɹæf/телеграфировать6 раз в книге
“We telegraphed this morning.”
mil/ˈmɪɫ/миля6 раз в книге
Nothing more is known of them until Mr. Drebber’s body was, as recorded, discovered in an empty house in the Brixton Road, many miles from Euston.
resolute/ˈɹɛzəˌɫut/твёрдый, непоколебимый, решительный6 раз в книге
Beside the driver there sat a man who could not have been more than thirty years of age, but whose massive head and resolute expression marked him as a leader.
maiden/ˈmeɪdən/дева, девушка, девица6 раз в книге
Least of all does the maiden herself know it until the tone of a voice or the touch of a hand sets her heart thrilling within her, and she learns …
clatter/ˈkɫætɝ/грохот, лязг, цокот6 раз в книге
There rose through the clear air a confused clattering and rumbling from this great mass of humanity, with the creaking of wheels and the neighing of horses.
Переводы: WikDict, English to Russian (Wiktionary, CC-BY-SA), with the Mueller dictionary for words it lacks Транскрипция: ipa-dict (MIT), по данным Викисловаря.
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