«Приключения Тома Сойера»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
40 слов из книги «Приключения Тома Сойера» (Марк Твен): 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.
reckon/ˈɹɛkən/считать76 раз в книге
Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it’s so.
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока55 раз в книге
After struggling till both were hot and flushed, each relaxed his strain with watchful caution, and Tom said:
presently/ˈpɹɛzəntɫi/вскоре, скоро44 раза в книге
Ben Rogers hove in sight presently—the very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading.
aunt/ˈænt/тётя, тётка, тётушка31 раз в книге
“I don’t know, aunt.”
widow/ˈwɪdoʊ/вдова, вдовица27 раз в книге
“I reckon maybe we’ll tackle the old tree that’s over yonder on Cardiff Hill back of the widow’s.”
mighty/ˈmaɪti/мощный, могущественный26 раз в книге
It’s mighty hard to make him work Saturdays, when all the boys is having holiday …
treasure/ˈtɹɛʒɝ/сокровище, клад, драгоценность25 раз в книге
… his pliant toes closed upon it, and he hopped away with the treasure and disappeared round the corner.
fool/ˈfuɫ/балбес, болван, глупец23 раза в книге
But old fools is the biggest fools there is.
tick/ˈtɪk/клещ19 раз в книге
“Nothing but a tick.”
pirate/ˈpaɪɹət/пират, корсар, пиратка19 раз в книге
He would be a pirate!
bout/ˈbaʊt/около18 раз в книге
… and cut the wart so as to get some blood, and then you put the blood on one piece of the bean and take and dig a hole and bury it ’bout midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the bean.
lick/ˈɫɪk/удар17 раз в книге
… and he knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it’s all down again and I can’t hit him a lick.
instant/ˈɪnstənt/мгновение, момент17 раз в книге
The lad fled on the instant, scrambled up the high board-fence, and disappeared over it.
tavern/ˈtævɝn/бар, закусочная, кабак16 раз в книге
Here—it’s the number of a room—in a tavern, you know!”
alley/ˈæɫi/алейка, аллея, переулок16 раз в книге
I’ll give you a white alley!”
auntie/ˈænti/тётенька, тётушка, тётя15 раз в книге
I must call auntie.”
skiff/ˈskɪf/ялик15 раз в книге
There were a great many skiffs rowing about or floating with the stream in the neighborhood of the ferryboat, but the boys could not determine what the men in them were doing.
awhile/əˈwaɪɫ/некоторое время15 раз в книге
The boy mused awhile over the substantial change which had taken place in his worldly circumstances, and then wended toward headquarters to report.
fetch/ˈfɛtʃ/ехать, принести, приносить15 раз в книге
“Say, Jim, I’ll fetch the water if you’ll whitewash some.”
conscience/ˈkɑnʃəns/совесть15 раз в книге
Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks.
ling/ˈɫɪŋ/звон14 раз в книге
Ting-a-ling-ling!”
dollar/ˈdɑɫɝ/доллар14 раз в книге
And they get slathers of money—most a dollar a day, Ben Rogers says.
sermon/ˈsɝmən/проповедь14 раз в книге
Two of the children always remained for the sermon voluntarily, and the other always remained too—for stronger reasons.
snatch/ˈsnætʃ/выхватить, выхватывать14 раз в книге
The old lady whirled round, and snatched her skirts out of danger.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/миля13 раз в книге
It was on a hill, about a mile and a half from the village.
melancholy/ˈmɛɫənˌkɑɫi/меланхолия13 раз в книге
He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.
robber/ˈɹɑbɝ/грабитель, грабительница, разбойник13 раз в книге
“This ought to be a lesson to grave robbers!”
raft/ˈɹæft/плот13 раз в книге
A log raft in the river invited him, and he seated himself on its outer edge and contemplated the dreary vastness of the stream …
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/стонать13 раз в книге
This was lucky; he was about to begin to groan, as a “starter,” as he called it …
circus/ˈsɝkəs/цирк13 раз в книге
“Was you ever at a circus?”
distress/dɪˈstɹɛs/бедствие, беда13 раз в книге
… he flung it out of the window, and the voice of distress quickly thinned away and died in the distance.
devil/ˈdɛvəɫ/чёрт, дьявол13 раз в книге
you devil!”
mil/ˈmɪɫ/миль12 раз в книге
There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer …
trifle/ˈtɹaɪfəɫ/копейка, небольшая сумма, небольшое количество12 раз в книге
Tom was a trifle disconcerted.
dismal/ˈdɪzməɫ/гнетущий, мрачный, угрюмый12 раз в книге
He got it out, rumpled and wilted, and it mightily increased his dismal felicity.
lad/ˈɫæd/парень, мальчик, молодой человек12 раз в книге
He gathered quite a following of lads interested in the exhibition; and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time …
shudder/ˈʃədɝ/дрожать, содрогаться12 раз в книге
How his name would fill the world, and make people shudder!
sob/ˈsɑb/всхлипывать, всхлипнуть, рыдать12 раз в книге
The new boy went off brushing the dust from his clothes, sobbing, snuffling …
rag/ˈɹæɡ/тряпьё, ветошь, лохмотья12 раз в книге
Huckleberry was always dressed in the cast-off clothes of full-grown men, and they were in perennial bloom and fluttering with rags.
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/воскликнуть, восклицать, вскрикивать12 раз в книге
Potter dropped his knife, and exclaimed:
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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