«Письма Наполеона к Жозефине»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812
40 слов из книги «Письма Наполеона к Жозефине» (Наполеон I): 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.
surrender/sɝˈɛndɝ/капитуляция, сдача46 раз в книге
You cannot have inspired a boundless love without sharing it, for a cultured mind and a soul like yours cannot requite complete surrender and devotion with the death-blow.
cannon/ˈkænən/пушка, орудие43 раза в книге
Austrians lose 2000 men and 20 cannon.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/завтрашний день, следующий день, утро32 раза в книге
I am at Port Maurice, near Oneille; to-morrow I shall be at Albenga.
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/весёлый32 раза в книге
Tell me you are cheerful, in good health, and very affectionate.
bulletin/ˈbʊɫɪtən/бюллетень30 раз в книге
For generations it was the fashion to consider "as false as a bulletin" peculiar to Napoleon's despatches; but the publication of Napoleon's correspondence, by order of Napoleon III., has changed all that.
affection/əˈfɛkʃən/привязанность, любовь28 раз в книге
… and the Emperor felt and spoke, not in his discourses or his proclamations—the official garb of his thought—but in the free outpourings of the most passionate or the most tender affections....
mil/ˈmɪɫ/миля27 раз в книге
Napoleon was sometimes 1200 miles away from home; he had to gauge the effect of his bulletins from one end to the other of the largest effective empire that the world has ever seen …
charm/ˈtʃɑɹm/обаяние, очарование, чары27 раз в книге
A child as charming as its mamma will soon see the daylight, and will pass many years in your arms.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока25 раз в книге
Napoleon raged and stormed about the Tallien friendship, till his final mandate in 1806; and then it was too late.
retreat/ɹiˈtɹit/вывод, отступление24 раза в книге
The enemy made a general sortie on June 16th; it has killed or wounded two hundred of our men, but lost five hundred of its own in a precipitous retreat.
correspondence/ˌkɔɹəˈspɑndəns/корреспонденция, переписка23 раза в книге
… in the words of an eminent but unsympathetic divine, know something of the "domestic side of the monster," first hand from his own correspondence, confirmed or corrected by contemporaries.
grief/ˈɡɹif/скорбь, горе, кручина23 раза в книге
My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
honour/ˈɑnɝ/честь21 раз в книге
Like Medea, one of whose other exploits he had evoked in a bulletin, he could say—but to his honour and not to his shame—
wretched/ˈɹɛtʃɪd/охваченный или исполненный глубокого горя или страдания20 раз в книге
You do not speak of your wretched indigestion—I hate it.
despatchдепеша19 раз в книге
Carlyle was the first to point out that his despatches are as instinct with genius as his conquests—his very words have "Austerlitz battles" in them.
favour/ˈfeɪvɝ/милость19 раз в книге
From the days of his new power—political power, first the Consulate and then the Empire—he lavished gifts and favours even on the most undeserving of his early comrades.
beloved/bɪˈɫəvd/возлюбленный, желанный, любимый19 раз в книге
Every moment separates me further from you, my beloved, and every moment I have less energy to exist so far from you.
spite/ˈspaɪt/враждебность, злость, недоброжелательность19 раз в книге
He appeared to have no relish for anything gay; and in spite of the prepossessing amenity of his manners, an observation struck me often, he seemed to be of bronze.
subjoinдобавлять18 раз в книге
I shall subjoin a copy of it."
franc/ˈfɹæŋk/франк18 раз в книге
May 9th.—Capitulation of Parma by the Grand Duke, who pays ransom of 2 million francs, 1600 artillery horses, food, and 20 paintings.
artillery/ɑɹˈtɪɫɝi/артиллерия17 раз в книге
The Emperor will have to create a second army: artillery, pontoons, baggage, everything is taken.
glory/ˈɡɫɔɹi/слава, хвала17 раз в книге
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny …
courier/ˈkɝiɝ/курьер, посыльный16 раз в книге
Soul of my life, write me by every courier, else I shall not know how to exist.
siege/ˈsidʒ/блокада, осада16 раз в книге
"By declaring that his public life dated from the siege of Toulon, Napoleon has himself determined the point of departure which the Commission should choose.
jealous/ˈdʒɛɫəs/подозревающий соперничество в любви16 раз в книге
… to go into the country; and in spite of that you give me to understand that you are jealous of me, who am here …
afterwards/ˈæftɝwɝdz/после, потом, впоследствии16 раз в книге
At last when Bonaparte drew up plans—afterwards followed—for the invasion of Piedmont, Schérer replied roughly that he who had drawn up the plan of campaign had better come and execute it.
thee/ˈði/тебе, тебя, тобой15 раз в книге
My waking thoughts are all of thee.
grieve/ˈɡɹiv/горевать, скорбеть15 раз в книге
But I am most truly grieved to know that you are in pain.
prosper/ˈpɹɑspɝ/благоденствовать, преуспевать, процветать15 раз в книге
We must admire The Man[3] who found within the fields of France the command of the Tropics, and who needed nothing but time to prosper Corsican cotton and Solingen steel.
destiny/ˈdɛstəni/предназначение15 раз в книге
"The letters of Napoleon can add nothing to his glory, but they better enable us to comprehend his prodigious destiny, the prestige that he exercised over his contemporaries—'le culte universel dont sa mémoire est l'objet …
realise/ˈɹiəˌɫaɪz/осознавать14 раз в книге
It has realised that the most conspicuous (éclatant) homage to render to this incomparable genius was to make him known in his entirety.
affectionate/əˈfɛkʃənət/любящий, нежный14 раз в книге
… and to arrive at Brescia on July 25th, where the most affectionate of lovers awaits you.
cavalry/ˈkævəɫɹi/кавалерия, конница14 раз в книге
May 30th-31st.—Bonaparte defeats Beaulieu at Borghetto, crosses the Mincio, and makes French cavalry fight (a new feature for the Republican troops).
conquer/ˈkɑŋkɝ/завоёвывать, завоевать, победить14 раз в книге
Beaten at sea, he has but two weapons left against England—to "conquer her by land," or to stir up a maritime rival who will sooner or later avenge him.
uneasy/əˈnizi/тревожный14 раз в книге
Yes, my kind, kind love, I am not jealous, but sometimes uneasy.
vexed/ˈvɛkst/раздосадованный13 раз в книге
Are you vexed?
splendid/ˈspɫɛndɪd/великолепный, превосходный13 раз в книге
Of his goodness we have the well-weighed verdict of Lord Acton, that it was "the most splendid that has appeared on earth."
reinforcement/ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹsmənt/подкрепление, пополнение13 раз в книге
July 9th.—Bonaparte asks Kellermann for reinforcements.
genius/ˈdʒinjəs/гений13 раз в книге
Let us then each to his task, and each try, as best he may, to weigh in honest scales the modern Hannibal—"our last great man,"[4] "the mightiest genius of two thousand years."[5]
heir/ˈɛɹ/наследник, наследница12 раз в книге
This is the third pilgrimage Josephine has made, under the doctor's orders, to Plombières; but the longed-for heir will have to be sought for elsewhere, by fair means or foul.
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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