«Повесть о двух городах»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
A Tale of Two Cities
40 слов из книги «Повесть о двух городах» (Чарльз Диккенс): 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.
knit/ˈnɪt/вязать, связать61 раз в книге
… white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/карета, воз, повозка51 раз в книге
Say, shall I hire a carriage and post-horses?”
menderтот, кто исправляет, чинит48 раз в книге
… as the like of himself had drooped before Monseigneur of the Court—only the difference was, that these faces drooped merely to suffer and not to propitiate—when a grizzled mender of the roads joined the group.
fountain/ˈfaʊntən/фонтан42 раза в книге
At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt …
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/завтрашний день, следующий день, утро37 раз в книге
… the iron gates were being closed with a jar and a rattle, and the dismal place was deserted until to-morrow morning’s interest of gallows, pillory …
courtyard/ˈkɔɹtˌjɑɹd/двор, внутренний двор, подворье35 раз в книге
The doorway of the staircase gives on the little courtyard close to the left here,” pointing with his hand, “near to the window of my establishment.
patriot/ˈpeɪtɹiət/патриот, патриотка30 раз в книге
That, this patriot would be produced before them.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/благословенный29 раз в книге
Mrs. Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/честь28 раз в книге
… and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
pity/ˈpɪti/жалость, сострадание, сочувствие26 раз в книге
As he said the words he looked down, with an admiring pity, on the flowing golden hair; as if he pictured to himself that it might have been already tinged with grey.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/после, потом, впоследствии25 раз в книге
She quickly brought them down and handed them in;—and immediately afterwards leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/ступенька, лестница24 раза в книге
Thus, Monsieur Defarge, in a stern voice, to Mr. Lorry, as they began ascending the stairs.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/страшный, ужасный, кошмарный24 раза в книге
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
nephew/ˈnɛfju/племянник, племяш24 раза в книге
“My nephew,” said the Marquis, glancing at the supper preparation; “they said he was not arrived.”
gaolerтюремщик23 раза в книге
“You are not the gaoler’s daughter?”
dread/ˈdɹɛd/бояться23 раза в книге
… and always going on the side which Mr. Lorry took, as though he dreaded to be asked any question by the young lady, turned himself about here …
staircase/ˈstɛɹˌkeɪs/лестница, лестничная клетка23 раза в книге
In the gloomy tile-paved entry to the gloomy tile-paved staircase, Monsieur Defarge bent down on one knee to the child of his old master, and put her hand to his lips.
escort/ˈɛskɔɹt/охранять, сопроводить, сопровождать23 раза в книге
The great bell of Saint Paul’s was striking one in the cleared air, when Mr. Lorry, escorted by Jerry, high-booted and bearing a lantern, set forth on his return-passage to Clerkenwell.
summon/ˈsəmən/звать, вызвать, вызывать22 раза в книге
“She had laid her head upon my shoulder, that night when I was summoned out—she had a fear of my going, though I had none—and when I was brought to the North Tower they found these upon my sleeve.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/милость21 раз в книге
… in combination, had read that article of war which forbade a purpose otherwise strongly in favour of the argument, that some brute animals are endued with Reason …
vain/ˈveɪn/показной, тщеславный20 раз в книге
He had a good leg, and was a little vain of it, for his brown stockings fitted sleek and close …
heap/ˈhip/ворох, груда, кипа20 раз в книге
The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.
straw/ˈstɹɔ/солома20 раз в книге
… he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/слабый, слабонервный20 раз в книге
A faint voice answered something.
emigrant/ˈɛməɡɹənt/эмигрант, эмигрантка19 раз в книге
… treason against the majesty of the people, in that I have acted against them for an emigrant.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/освещённое19 раз в книге
A face habitually suppressed and quieted, was still lighted up under the quaint wig by a pair of moist bright eyes that it must have cost their owner, in years gone by …
weep/ˈwip/лить слёзы, плакать, рыдать19 раз в книге
… but I hope it is—if you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!
fancy/ˈfænsi/воображение19 раз в книге
After such imaginary discourse, the passenger in his fancy would dig, and dig, dig—now with a spade, now with a great key, now with his hands—to dig this wretched creature out.
tumbrilтелега18 раз в книге
… Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
colour/ˈkəɫɝ/колер18 раз в книге
… being of a surface black, with no depth in the colour or form, and much too near together—as if they were afraid of being found out in something …
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/грудь, пазуха18 раз в книге
… at once in an auspicious and an evil hour detecting his infamy, had resolved to immolate the traitor he could no longer cherish in his bosom, on the sacred altar of his country.
messenger/ˈmɛsəndʒɝ/посланник, вестник, гонец18 раз в книге
“I know this messenger, guard,” said Mr. Lorry …
footstep/ˈfʊtˌstɛp/шаг18 раз в книге
On hearing footsteps close at hand, these three turned, and rose, and showed themselves to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wine-shop.
softly/ˈsɔfɫi/тихо18 раз в книге
softly over the coach roof.
shoemaker/ˈʃuˌmeɪkɝ/сапожник, башмачник, башмачница17 раз в книге
“I want,” said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, “to let in a little more light here.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/хватать17 раз в книге
… in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pray control your agitation—a matter of business.
darling/ˈdɑɹɫɪŋ/дорогой, возлюбленный, голубушка17 раз в книге
… my love, the darling of my soul, is dead …
mist/ˈmɪst/мгла, дымка, туман17 раз в книге
There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none.
cruel/ˈkɹuəɫ/жестокий17 раз в книге
The deepened marks in the nose, and the lengthening of the fine straight lines in the cruel face, looked ominous as to that …
spare/ˈspɛɹ/миловать, помиловать, пощадить17 раз в книге
… if the poor lady had suffered so intensely before her little child was born, that she came to the determination of sparing the poor child the inheritance of any part of the agony she had known the pains of, by rearing her in the belief that her father was dead—No …
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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