«Полианна»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
Pollyanna
40 слов из книги «Полианна» (Элинор Портер): 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.
aunt/ˈænt/тётя, тётка, тётушка76 раз в книге
You know she's all the aunt I've got, and I didn't know I had her for ever so long.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/нахмурить бровь|брови, хмурить бровь|брови, насупиться44 раза в книге
Her mistress frowned.
jelly/ˈdʒɛɫi/студень, холодец42 раза в книге
Pollyanna was carrying calf's-foot jelly to Mrs. Snow to-day.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/разг.: делать вывод, перебирая и взвешивая шансы40 раз в книге
“After all, I—I reckon I'm glad she doesn't want me to talk about father,” Pollyanna was thinking.
stairs/ˈstɛɹz/ступенька, лестница36 раз в книге
… Nancy,” Miss Polly was saying now, “you may clear the little room at the head of the stairs in the attic, and make up the cot bed.
niece/ˈnis/племянница32 раза в книге
My niece, Miss Pollyanna Whittier, is coming to live with me.
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/так или иначе30 раз в книге
“Well, it's done—my part, anyhow,” she sighed.
jest/ˈdʒɛst/шутить28 раз в книге
But some day—some day I shall jest b'ile over; and when I do, of course it'll be good-by Nancy for me.
attic/ˈætɪk/мансарда, чердак26 раз в книге
“In the front attic.”
stern/ˈstɝn/строгий, суровый22 раза в книге
“Nancy,”—Miss Polly's voice was very stern now—“when I'm talking to you, I wish you to stop your work and listen to what I have to say.”
retort/ˈɹiˌtɔɹt/отбрить, парировать21 раз в книге
“You don't seem ter see any trouble bein' glad about everythin',” retorted Nancy, choking a little over her remembrance of Pollyanna's brave attempts to like the bare little attic room.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока20 раз в книге
Father and the Ladies' Aid used to do it, too, till they found I always came back all right.”
queer/ˈkwɪɹ/странно18 раз в книге
She said you'd think 'twas queer.
chuckle/ˈtʃəkəɫ/посмеиваться, усмехаться, усмехнуться18 раз в книге
Timothy chuckled softly; but Nancy was too disturbed to answer the merry flash from his eyes.
abruptly/əˈbɹəptɫi/бесцеремонно, внезапно, неожиданно18 раз в книге
Then, abruptly, her aunt opened a door and ascended another stairway.
morrow/ˈmɑɹoʊ/завтрашний день, следующий день, утро17 раз в книге
My niece will arrive to-morrow at four o'clock.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/бормотать, мычать17 раз в книге
“I'm so glad now that the screens didn't come,” she murmured, blinking up at the stars; “else I couldn't have had this!”
lamb/ˈɫæm/ягнёнок, агнец, барашек17 раз в книге
Mrs. White had pictures, too, perfectly beautiful ones of roses and little girls kneeling and a kitty and some lambs and a lion—not together, you know—the lambs and the lion.
bang/ˈbæŋ/треск, бабах, бах17 раз в книге
… severe-faced woman who frowned if a knife clattered to the floor, or if a door banged—but who never thought to smile even when knives and doors were still.
carpet/ˈkɑɹpət/ковёр, ковëр16 раз в книге
The Ladies' Aid bought it for me—and wasn't it lovely of them, when they wanted the carpet so?
stammer/ˈstæmɝ/заикаться, запинаться15 раз в книге
“Yes, ma'am; I will, ma'am,” she stammered, righting the pitcher, and turning hastily.
hurriedly/ˈhɝidɫi/спешно15 раз в книге
Miss Polly Harrington entered her kitchen a little hurriedly this June morning.
crutch/ˈkɹətʃ/костыль15 раз в книге
“Why, we began it on some crutches that came in a missionary barrel.”
gasp/ˈɡæsp/судорожный вздох15 раз в книге
gasped Nancy, surprised into an interruption.
choke/ˈtʃoʊk/давиться, задохнуться, задыхаться15 раз в книге
She stopped with a little choking breath.
rejoin/ɹiˈdʒɔɪn/отвечать, возражать14 раз в книге
Well, that isn't exactly the word I should use,” rejoined Miss Polly, stiffly.
falter/ˈfɔɫtɝ/дрогнуть14 раз в книге
“Of course, ma'am; it was only that I thought a little girl here might—might brighten things up for you,” she faltered.
mistress/ˈmɪstɹəs/госпожа, хозяйка14 раз в книге
Nancy had been working in Miss Polly's kitchen only two months, but already she knew that her mistress did not usually hurry.
aloud/əˈɫaʊd/громко14 раз в книге
“When I ask a question, Pollyanna, I prefer that you should answer aloud not merely with your head.”
missionary/ˈmɪʃəˌnɛɹi/миссионер, миссионерка14 раз в книге
Jennie had preferred these—quite naturally, perhaps; so she had married the minister, and had gone south with him as a home missionary's wife.
bless/ˈbɫɛs/благословенный14 раз в книге
The idea of stickin' that blessed child 'way off up here in this hot little room—with no fire in the winter, too, and all this big house ter pick and choose from!
pillow/ˈpɪɫoʊ/подушка14 раз в книге
… selected a nice fat soft one (it contained Miss Polly's sealskin coat) for a bed; and a thinner one to be doubled up for a pillow, and still another (which was so thin it seemed almost empty) for a covering.
clap/ˈkɫæp/хлопать, хлопнуть13 раз в книге
At one of the windows, a few minutes later, Pollyanna gave a glad cry and clapped her hands joyously.
parlor/ˈpɑɹɫɝ/приёмная13 раз в книге
… the wide, flat tin roof of Miss Polly's sun parlor built over the porte-cochere.
ejaculate/ɪˈdʒækjuˌɫeɪt/воскликнуть, восклицать12 раз в книге
she ejaculated, biting her lip.
heathen/ˈhiðən/язычник, язычница12 раз в книге
“Oh, for the heathen,” surmised Pollyanna.
prism/ˈpɹɪzəm/призма12 раз в книге
It came from the prism pendants encircling the old-fashioned candelabrum in her hand.
homestead/ˈhoʊmˌstɛd/усадьба12 раз в книге
Fifteen minutes later the great clock in the hallway of the Harrington homestead struck six.
erect/ɪˈɹɛkt/вертикально поднятый, вертикальный, прямой12 раз в книге
The old man drew himself erect.
calf/ˈkæf/телёнок, телец12 раз в книге
Aunt Polly says she hopes you are comfortable to-day, and she's sent you some calf's-foot jelly.”
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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