«Размышления»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
Meditations
40 слов из книги «Размышления» (Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius): 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.
thou/ˈðaʊ/ты857 раз в книге
'If thou may not continually gather thyself together, namely sometimes do it, at least once a day, the morning or the evening.
unto/ˈəntu/к, в, на474 раза в книге
The ideal Wise Man is sufficient unto himself in all things (αὐταρκής); and knowing these truths, he will be happy even when stretched upon the rack.
thee/ˈði/тебе, тебя, тобой343 раза в книге
'Why doth a little thing said or done against thee make thee sorry?
doth/ˈdɔθ/уст. 3-е л. ед. ч. настоящего времени гл.268 раз в книге
'Whatsoever any man either doth or saith, thou must be good;' 'doth any man offend?
thyself/ˌðaɪˈsɛɫf/refl. себя, -ся223 раза в книге
Whensoever thou wilt rejoice thyself, think and meditate upon those good parts and especial gifts, which thou hast observed in any of them that live with thee:
whatsoever/ˌhwətsoʊˈɛvɝ/в любом случае, как бы то ни было149 раз в книге
… and to do my business, whatsoever it be, thoroughly …
thine/ˈðaɪn/твой71 раз в книге
… like the Roman, bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things …
wilt/ˈwɪɫt/изъявишь волю42 раза в книге
At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire into thyself, and to be at rest, and free from all businesses.
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/нрав, предрасположение, склонность42 раза в книге
… as the resemblances and parallels of several virtues, eminent in the dispositions of them that live with thee, especially when all at once …
rational/ˈɹæʃənəɫ/мыслящий, разумный, рациональный41 раз в книге
… by how much that which ministers unto it doth excel; the one being a rational substance, and a spirit …
philosopher/fəˈɫɑsəfɝ/философ38 раз в книге
Cyprus has been from time immemorial a meeting-place of the East and West, and although we cannot grant any importance to a possible strain of Phœnician blood in him (for the Phoenicians were no philosophers), yet it is quite likely that through Asia Minor he may have come in touch with the Far East.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/эмоция38 раз в книге
Desire and dislike, opinion and affection, are within the power of the will; whereas health, wealth, honour, and other such are generally not so.
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/воспрепятствовать, мешать, помешать34 раза в книге
… of what kind of universe it is: And that there is nobody that can hinder thee, but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature …
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/вскоре, скоро34 раза в книге
For all these things, if once though but for a while, they begin to please, they presently prevail, and pervert a man's mind, or turn a man from the right way.
worldly/ˈwɝɫdɫi/земной, мирской, суетный33 раза в книге
… bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things, and the 'cutting away of all lower delectations.'
honour/ˈɑnɝ/честь31 раз в книге
Two years later Faustina brought him a daughter; and soon after the tribunate and other imperial honours were conferred upon him.
conceit/kənˈsit/мысль, понятие30 раз в книге
To Rusticus I am beholding, that I first entered into the conceit that my life wanted some redress and cure.
behold/bɪˈhoʊɫd/вот30 раз в книге
Every man's happiness depends from himself, but behold thy life is almost at an end, whiles affording thyself no respect …
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/противоположный29 раз в книге
Secondly, when she either is averse from any man, or led by contrary desires or affections, tending to his hurt and prejudice; such as are the souls of them that are angry.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/скорбеть, горевать, оплакивать28 раз в книге
… and as it were an excrescency of the world, for to be grieved and displeased with anything that happens in the world, is direct apostacy from the nature of the universe …
indifferent/ˌɪnˈdɪfɝənt/безразличный, безучастный, индифферентный28 раз в книге
Those outside things which are commonly called good or bad, such as health and sickness, wealth and poverty, pleasure and pain, are to him indifferent (ἀδιάφορα).
fancy/ˈfænsi/мечта, фантазия28 раз в книге
Spend not the remnant of thy days in thoughts and fancies concerning other men, when it is not in relation to some common good …
conceive/kənˈsiv/замышлять28 раз в книге
By whatever means induced, he had conceived the project of proclaiming himself emperor as soon as Marcus, who was then in feeble health …
soeverлюбой|любым способ|способом25 раз в книге
… whatsoever it be, and in what respect soever it be, that it is fair and goodly …
offend/əˈfɛnd/обидеть, обижать, оскорбить25 раз в книге
It is against himself that he doth offend: why should it trouble thee?'
divine/dɪˈvaɪn/гадать, погадать25 раз в книге
The Emperor Hadrian divined the fine character of the lad, whom he used to call not Verus but Verissimus, more Truthful than his own name.
esteem/əˈstim/почтение, уважение, почёт24 раза в книге
… (not interrupted, with any other cares and distractions,) in the study and esteem of philosophy: to be bountiful and liberal in the largest measure …
grief/ˈɡɹif/скорбь, горе, кручина24 раза в книге
The emperors great grief was that he must needs engage in the horrors of civil strife.
apprehension/ˌæpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/осмысление, понимание, постижение22 раза в книге
He would not hastily give over the search of the matter, as one easy to be satisfied with sudden notions and apprehensions.
whereofкакой20 раз в книге
… but that thou mayest always both do and speak those things which are agreeable to that nature, whereof thou art a part.
perchance/pɝˈtʃæns/быть может, возможно19 раз в книге
… and of other faculties, which perchance I might have dwelt upon, if I had found myself to go on in them with success.
commend/kəˈmɛnd/хвалить19 раз в книге
Moreover, that he was never commended by any man, as either a learned acute man …
depart/dɪˈpɑɹt/скончаться19 раз в книге
Whatsoever thou dost affect, whatsoever thou dost project, so do, and so project all, as one who, for aught thou knowest, may at this very present depart out of this life.
sociable/ˈsoʊʃəbəɫ/склонный к общению18 раз в книге
… an aged man; a sociable man; a Roman …
whereby/hwɛɹˈbaɪ/посредством которого18 раз в книге
… but also because that intellective faculty in thee, whereby thou art enabled to know the true nature of things, and to order all thy actions by that knowledge …
deed/ˈdid/акт, действие, деяние18 раз в книге
… that whatsoever it is that hath happened unto thee, is in very deed no such thing of itself, as a misfortune …
providence/ˈpɹɑvədəns/благоразумная забота и управление ресурсами17 раз в книге
… or if all things go by chance and fortune, yet mayest thou use thine own providence in those things that concern thee properly; and then art thou well.'
endeavour/ɪnˈdɛvɝ/пробовать17 раз в книге
From Claudius Maximus, in all things to endeavour to have power of myself, and in nothing to be carried about …
emperor/ˈɛmpɝɝ/царь, император17 раз в книге
Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.
likewise/ˈɫaɪˌkwaɪz/аналогично, подобно, подобным образом17 раз в книге
and how many already, who once likewise prosecuted their enmities, suspected, hated, and fiercely contended, are now long ago stretched out, and reduced unto ashes?
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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