«Мидлмарч»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
Middlemarch
40 слов из книги «Мидлмарч» (George Eliot): 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.
oblige/əˈbɫaɪdʒ/делать одолжение, сделать одолжение81 раз в книге
He’s very hot on new sorts; to oblige you.”
hinder/ˈhɪndɝ/воспрепятствовать, мешать, помешать75 раз в книге
Certainly such elements in the character of a marriageable girl tended to interfere with her lot, and hinder it from being decided according to custom, by good looks …
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока75 раз в книге
You know, he said that he had forgotten them till then.
fond/ˈfɑnd/любить, нравиться70 раз в книге
“No, I have other things of mamma’s—her sandal-wood box which I am so fond of—plenty of things.
inward/ˈɪnwɝd/внутренний68 раз в книге
If Miss Brooke ever attained perfect meekness, it would not be for lack of inward fire.
pity/ˈpɪti/жаль, сожаление63 раза в книге
Celia felt that this was a pity.
clergyman/ˈkɫɝdʒiˌmæn/христианский служитель, мужчина из духовенства клирик, священник61 раз в книге
… not excepting even Monsieur Liret, the Vaudois clergyman who had given conferences on the history of the Waldenses.
dislike/dɪˈsɫaɪk/не любить, невзлюбить61 раз в книге
So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s household, and did not at all dislike her new authority, with the homage that belonged to it.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/восторг, наслаждение, удовольствие60 раз в книге
… and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia …
dread/ˈdɹɛd/бояться59 раз в книге
But he himself dreaded so much the sort of superior woman likely to be available for such a position, that he allowed himself to be dissuaded by Dorothea’s objections …
disagreeable/ˌdɪsəˈɡɹiəbəɫ/несимпатичный50 раз в книге
But he was positively obtrusive at this moment, and his dimpled hands were quite disagreeable.
temper/ˈtɛmpɝ/нрав, темперамент, характер50 раз в книге
It was hardly a year since they had come to live at Tipton Grange with their uncle, a man nearly sixty, of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
peculiar/pəkˈjuɫjɝ/необычный, особенный, своеобразный50 раз в книге
… her eyes following the same direction as her uncle’s, she was struck with the peculiar effect of the announcement on Dorothea.
spite/ˈspaɪt/враждебность, злость, недоброжелательность50 раз в книге
Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
agreeable/əˈɡɹiəbəɫ/приятный, милый48 раз в книге
But there may be good reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable,” said Dorothea.
chiefly/ˈtʃifɫi/в основной|основном, в первый|первую очередь, главным образом47 раз в книге
… and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase.
beforehand/bɪˈfɔɹˌhænd/наперёд, вперёд, загодя46 раз в книге
You couldn’t put the thing better—couldn’t put it better, beforehand, you know.
thoroughly/ˈθɝoʊɫi/вполне, досконально, основательно45 раз в книге
She was thoroughly charming to him, but of course he theorized a little about his attachment.
clever/ˈkɫɛvɝ/умный, изобретательный, искусный44 раза в книге
She was usually spoken of as being remarkably clever, but with the addition that her sister Celia had more common-sense.
ignorance/ˈɪɡnɝəns/невежество, неведение, незнание43 раза в книге
This elevating thought lifted her above her annoyance at being twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights.
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/обаяние, очарование, чары43 раза в книге
Yet those who approached Dorothea, though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay, found that she had a charm unaccountably reconcilable with it.
carriage/ˈkæɹɪdʒ/карета, воз, повозка41 раз в книге
When she got out of the carriage, her cheeks were pale and her eyelids red.
unpleasant/ənˈpɫɛzənt/неприятный41 раз в книге
He was not going to renounce his ride because of his friend’s unpleasant news—only to ride the faster in some other direction than that of Tipton Grange.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/привязанность, любовь41 раз в книге
… vanity, and merely canine affection.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/завтрашний день, следующий день, утро40 раз в книге
“You can go with me to-morrow, if you like.
banker/ˈbæŋkɝ/банкир, банкирша40 раз в книге
… who happened to be a manufacturer; the philanthropic banker his brother-in-law, who predominated so much in the town that some called him a Methodist …
disposition/ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən/нрав, предрасположение, склонность38 раз в книге
Miss Brooke argued from words and dispositions not less unhesitatingly than other young ladies of her age.
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/совесть37 раз в книге
… hardly more than a budding woman, but yet with an active conscience and a great mental need, not to be satisfied by a girlish instruction comparable to the nibblings and judgments of a discursive mouse.
uneasy/əˈnizi/тревожный36 раз в книге
Dorothea felt a little more uneasy than usual.
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/после, потом, впоследствии36 раз в книге
… on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
contrary/ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/противоположный36 раз в книге
“On the contrary, I am often unable to decide.
bill/ˈbɪɫ/вексель, расписка35 раз в книге
For the creditor to whom he owed a hundred and sixty held a firmer security in the shape of a bill signed by Mary’s father.
aunt/ˈænt/тётя, тётка, тётушка35 раз в книге
“My aunt made an unfortunate marriage.
disgust/dɪsˈɡəst/отвращение, омерзение34 раза в книге
All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James’s conceiving that she recognized him as her lover.
ignorant/ˈɪɡnɝənt/тёмный, невежественный, неграмотный34 раза в книге
“I am very ignorant—you will quite wonder at my ignorance,” said Dorothea.
utter/ˈətɝ/выговорить, выговаривать, говорить34 раза в книге
… present in the king’s mind, but not uttered,” said Mr. Casaubon, smiling and bending his head towards Celia …
offend/əˈfɛnd/обидеть, обижать, оскорбить34 раза в книге
… and was unhappy: she saw that she had offended her sister, and dared not say even anything pretty about the gift of the ornaments which she put back into the box and carried away.
fool/ˈfuɫ/балбес, болван, глупец34 раза в книге
A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there’s no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
lately/ˈɫeɪtɫi/даве34 раза в книге
I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately; the fact is …
backward/ˈbækwɝd/назад33 раза в книге
… the color rose in her cheeks, and her straw bonnet (which our contemporaries might look at with conjectural curiosity as at an obsolete form of basket) fell a little backward.
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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