«Кармен»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
Carmen
40 слов из книги «Кармен» (Prosper Mérimée): 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.
gipsyцыган75 раз в книге
You must see I’m a gipsy!
cigar/sɪˈɡɑɹ/сигара14 раз в книге
At the same time I pulled out my cigar-case.
blunderbussмушкетон13 раз в книге
In the other he held a brass blunderbuss.
mantilla/mænˈtɪɫə/мантилья11 раз в книге
When she drew near me, the woman let the mantilla which had covered her head drop on her shoulders, and “by the dim light falling from the stars” I perceived her to be young …
recognise/ˈɹɛkəɡˌnaɪz/опознать9 раз в книге
I sat upright, and then I thought I recognised Antonio.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/бык9 раз в книге
“While I was hiding at Granada there were bull-fights there, to which Carmen went.
brigandбандит, бандитка, разбойник8 раз в книге
I had no doubt at all I was in the company of a smuggler, and possibly of a brigand.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/завтрашний день, следующий день, утро8 раз в книге
So he’s to be garrotted the day after to-morrow, without fail.* So you see one theft more or less won’t affect his position.
dialect/ˈdaɪəˌɫɛkt/диалект, наречие, говор8 раз в книге
In every Romany dialect a number of Greek words appear.
smuggler/ˈsməɡəɫɝ/контрабандист, контрабандистка8 раз в книге
The masons were working at it in the daytime, and at night a sentinel was posted on it, to prevent smugglers from getting in.
comrade/ˈkɑmˌɹæd/товарищ8 раз в книге
Like him, perchance, my comrade was musing over the home he had forfeited, the exile he had earned, by some misdeed.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/спрашивать, справляться8 раз в книге
So I bestowed a friendly nod on the man with the blunderbuss, and inquired, with a smile, whether I had disturbed his nap.
fancy/ˈfænsi/воображение8 раз в книге
In the stable, I fancy.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/чёрт, дьявол8 раз в книге
To-day I’ll go and eat ices with a servant of the devil.
gitana/dʒiˈtænə/гитана7 раз в книге
I then had time to take a leisurely view of my gitana, while several worthy individuals, who were eating their ices, stared open-mouthed at beholding me in such gay company.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока7 раз в книге
His complexion, which may once have been fine, had been tanned by the sun till it was darker than his hair.
coin/ˈkɔɪn/монета7 раз в книге
Then she bade me cross my left hand with a silver coin, and the magic ceremonies duly began.
traveller/ˈtɹævəɫɝ/путник, путница, путешественник6 раз в книге
It was impossible to imagine any more delightful halting place for a traveller.
castanetspl. кастаньеты6 раз в книге
“The whole party was assembled in the patio, and in spite of the crowd I could see nearly everything that went on through the lattice.* I could hear the castanets and the tambourine, the laughter and applause.
delightful/dɪˈɫaɪtfəɫ/восхитительный, очаровательный, приятный6 раз в книге
He did not know the name of the delightful valley in which we were sitting, he could not tell me the names of any of the neighbouring villages …
cloak/ˈkɫoʊk/плащ, мантия6 раз в книге
Meanwhile I had stretched myself out on the mule rugs, having carefully wrapped myself up in my own cloak, so as to avoid touching them.
sergeant/ˈsɑɹdʒənt/сержант6 раз в книге
The old woman, when she was questioned by the sergeant, admitted that she knew Navarro …
acquaintance/əˈkweɪntəns/знакомство6 раз в книге
I had yet another motive for prosecuting her acquaintance.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/испугать, напугать, пугать6 раз в книге
… because I told them that not all their Seville jacques,** and all their knives, would frighten an honest lad from our country, with his blue cap and his maquila!
seller/ˈsɛɫɝ/продавец, вендор, продавщица6 раз в книге
I have been insulted here, because I don’t belong to this land of rogues and sellers of rotten oranges; and those hussies are all banded together against me …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/отправиться, отправляться6 раз в книге
That instant he turned his back on me and departed at a great pace.
spite/ˈspaɪt/враждебность, злость, недоброжелательность6 раз в книге
I was hoping the stranger might gradually fall into a confidential mood, and in spite of my guide’s winks, I turned the conversation to the subject of highwaymen.
fool/ˈfuɫ/балбес, болван, глупец6 раз в книге
How can you be such a fool as that?
whence/ˈhwɛns/откуда, значит, отсюда5 раз в книге
… and I noticed that he did not pronounce the letter s* in the Andalusian fashion, whence I concluded he was a traveller, like myself …
quay/ˈkeɪ/мол, набережная, пристань5 раз в книге
At Cordova a great many idlers collect, toward sunset, in the quay that runs along the right bank of the Guadalquivir.
acacia/əˈkeɪʃə/акация5 раз в книге
She had thrown her mantilla back, to show her shoulders, and a great bunch of acacia that was thrust into her chemise.
piastreпиастр5 раз в книге
Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn’t have walked alone.
lighted/ˈɫaɪtəd/упал взглядом5 раз в книге
… most heartily, my eye lighted, at some distance from the path I was following …
astonished/əˈstɑnɪʃt/изумлённый, поражённый, удивлённый5 раз в книге
Her face astonished you, at first sight, but nobody could forget it.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/грабитель, грабительница, разбойник5 раз в книге
But I had heard so much about robbers, that, never seeing any, I had ceased to believe in their existence.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/любовница5 раз в книге
“I had often heard talk of certain smugglers who travelled about Andalusia, each riding a good horse, with his mistress behind him and his blunderbuss in his fist.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/нрав, темперамент, характер5 раз в книге
What he said I could not catch, but the tone of his voice revealed the fact that he was in a very evil temper.
fond/ˈfɑnd/любить, нравиться5 раз в книге
“Do me the kindness to sing me something,” I said to him, “I’m passionately fond of your national music.”
scarf/ˈskɑɹf/шарф, галстук, кашне5 раз в книге
“Do you happen to have a handkerchief, a scarf, or a mantilla, that he gave you?”
lieutenant/ɫuˈtɛnənt/поручик, лейтенант, поручник5 раз в книге
… followed by a young man, a lieutenant in our regiment.
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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