«Аня из Зелёных Мезонинов»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
Anne of Green Gables
40 слов из книги «Аня из Зелёных Мезонинов» (Люси Мод Монтгомери): 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.
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/великолепный, превосходный47 раз в книге
Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?
brook/ˈbɹʊk/ручей, речушка40 раз в книге
Thomas Lynde—a meek little man whom Avonlea people called “Rachel Lynde’s husband”—was sowing his late turnip seed on the hill field beyond the barn; and Matthew Cuthbert ought to have been sowing his on the big red brook field away over by Green Gables.
asylum/əˈsaɪɫəm/убежище, прибежище, пристанище38 раз в книге
We’re getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he’s coming on the train tonight.”
gable/ˈɡeɪbəɫ/щипец36 раз в книге
But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room.
picnic/ˈpɪkˌnɪk/пикник35 раз в книге
He felt as he had once felt in his rash youth when another boy had enticed him on the merry-go-round at a picnic.
brooch/ˈbɹoʊtʃ/брошь, брошка34 раза в книге
Marilla wore her amethyst brooch to church that day as usual.
thrill/ˈθɹɪɫ/трепет34 раза в книге
I know because of the thrill.
orphan/ˈɔɹfən/сирота, сиротка30 раз в книге
… of course,” said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.
lane/ˈɫeɪn/алейка, аллея, переулок29 раз в книге
To be sure, the long lane made it a good deal further.
wicked/ˈwɪkəd/злой, злобный, озорной28 раз в книге
Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn’t mean to be wicked.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/восторг, наслаждение, удовольствие28 раз в книге
You don’t know how delighted I was.
dreadful/ˈdɹɛdfəɫ/страшный, ужасный, кошмарный27 раз в книге
I guess that’s why I’m so thin—I am dreadful thin, ain’t I?
orchard/ˈɔɹtʃɝd/сад, фруктовый сад27 раз в книге
The sun was coming in at the window warm and bright; the orchard on the slope below the house was in a bridal flush of pinky-white bloom, hummed over by a myriad of bees.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/нрав, темперамент, характер26 раз в книге
“A terrible worker and driver,” Mrs. Peter was said to be; and discharged servant girls told fearsome tales of her temper and stinginess, and her family of pert, quarrelsome children.
recite/ɹəˈsaɪt/декламировать, продекламировать, процитировать26 раз в книге
Then all the other little girls recited a paraphrase.
spare/ˈspɛɹ/миловать, помиловать, пощадить25 раз в книге
… however, was spared the ordeal of speaking first, for as soon as she concluded that he was coming to her she stood up …
puff/ˈpəf/с пышными рукавами24 раза в книге
“But I’d be ever so much gratefuller if—if you’d made just one of them with puffed sleeves.
pity/ˈpɪti/жалеть, пожалеть23 раза в книге
My, but I pity him, that’s what.”
blossom/ˈbɫɑsəm/расцвести, расцветать, цвести23 раза в книге
At last they lingered on one away to the left, far back from the road, dimly white with blossoming trees in the twilight of the surrounding woods.
spell/ˈspɛɫ/произносить по буква|буквам, произносить по буквам23 раза в книге
But if you call me Anne please call me Anne spelled with an E.”
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/так или иначе22 раза в книге
She couldn’t be left at Bright River anyhow, no matter what mistake had been made …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/воскликнуть, восклицать, вскрикивать21 раз в книге
“Dear, dear,” she exclaimed, “you’re the last folks I was looking for today, but I’m real glad to see you.
clasp/ˈkɫæsp/сжимать20 раз в книге
She leaned back in the buggy, her thin hands clasped before her, her face lifted rapturously to the white splendor above.
awfully/ˈɑfɫi/страшно20 раз в книге
“It sounds awfully disrespectful to just say Marilla,” protested Anne.
geometry/dʒiˈɑmətɹi/геометрия20 раз в книге
By the end of the term Anne and Gilbert were both promoted into the fifth class and allowed to begin studying the elements of “the branches”—by which Latin, geometry, French …
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/сумерки, сумрак20 раз в книге
Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
gasp/ˈɡæsp/вздохнуть, вздыхать, открывать рот20 раз в книге
“Spelled with an E,” gasped Anne, who, tremulous and excited as she was, was determined there should be no misunderstanding on that important point.
cherry/ˈtʃɛɹi/вишнёвый20 раз в книге
… but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook …
lily/ˈɫɪɫi/крин, лилия19 раз в книге
I think it must have had honeysuckle over the parlor window and lilacs in the front yard and lilies of the valley just inside the gate.
fairy/ˈfɛɹi/фея, волшебница19 раз в книге
And then Katie Maurice would have taken me by the hand and led me out into a wonderful place, all flowers and sunshine and fairies, and we would have lived there happy for ever after.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/впадина, выбоина, выемка18 раз в книге
… knitting “cotton warp” quilts—she had knitted sixteen of them, as Avonlea housekeepers were wont to tell in awed voices—and keeping a sharp eye on the main road that crossed the hollow and wound up the steep red hill beyond.
cordial/ˈkɔɹdʒəɫ/ликёр, наливка17 раз в книге
But there’s a bottle half full of raspberry cordial that was left over from the church social the other night.
ambition/æmˈbɪʃən/амбиция, честолюбие17 раз в книге
That is the height of their ambition.
bough/ˈbaʊ/ветвь дерева ветвь, сук, ветка16 раз в книге
A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.
spruce/ˈspɹus/ель, ёлка16 раз в книге
Beyond it was a hill, green and feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
birch/ˈbɝtʃ/берёза16 раз в книге
… whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
fir/ˈfɝ/ель, ёлка, пихта16 раз в книге
On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
raspberry/ˈɹæzˌbɛɹi/малиновый16 раз в книге
… toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/восхитительный, очаровательный, приятный16 раз в книге
It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?
sensible/ˈsɛnsəbəɫ/благоразумный, здравый, здравомыслящий16 раз в книге
I’d ruther Jane or Mary or some sensible name like that.
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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