«Великий Гэтсби»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Great Gatsby
40 слов из книги «Великий Гэтсби» (F Scott Fitzgerald): 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.
inquire/ˌɪnˈkwaɪɹ/спрашивать, справляться27 раз в книге
I inquired innocently.
butler/ˈbətɫɝ/дворецкий, домоправитель, камердинер20 раз в книге
When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
grey/ˈɡɹeɪ/серый17 раз в книге
Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
murmur/ˈmɝmɝ/бормотать, мычать16 раз в книге
If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it—indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
policeman/pəˈɫismən/городовой14 раз в книге
When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm—and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
taxi/ˈtæksi/такси, таксомотор12 раз в книге
Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery …
coup/ˈku/купе12 раз в книге
In the ditch beside the road, right side up but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupé which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before.
faint/ˈfeɪnt/слабый, слабонервный12 раз в книге
… when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
tremble/ˈtɹɛmbəɫ/дрожать, трепетать, трястись11 раз в книге
The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
chauffeur/ˈʃoʊfɝ/шофёр, персональный водитель, водитель10 раз в книге
A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer—the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said …
anyhow/ˈɛniˌhaʊ/так или иначе10 раз в книге
"You see I think everything's terrible anyhow," she went on in a convinced way.
faintly/ˈfeɪntɫi/слабо10 раз в книге
I am not even faintly like a rose.
glow/ˈɡɫoʊ/светиться, пылать, рдеть10 раз в книге
The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon …
eagerly/ˈiɡɝɫi/нетерпеливо9 раз в книге
asked Mrs. Wilson eagerly as he came to the taxi-window.
twilight/ˈtwaɪˌɫaɪt/сумерки, заря9 раз в книге
Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body …
exclaim/ɪkˈskɫeɪm/воскликнуть, восклицать, вскрикивать9 раз в книге
she exclaimed surprisingly.
unfamiliar/ˌənfəˈmɪɫjɝ/незнакомый9 раз в книге
They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
upstairs/əpˈstɛɹz/вверх по лестнице9 раз в книге
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive …
fool/ˈfuɫ/балбес, болван, глупец9 раз в книге
"I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else."
whereupon/ˈhwɛɹəˈpɑn/а затем8 раз в книге
The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
incredulous/ˌɪnˈkɹɛdʒəɫəs/недоверчивый, скептичный8 раз в книге
Her host looked at her incredulously.
politely/pəˈɫaɪtɫi/вежливо8 раз в книге
He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
yacht/ˈjɑt/яхта8 раз в книге
A large photograph of an elderly man in yachting costume attracted me, hung on the wall over his desk.
groan/ˈɡɹoʊn/стон8 раз в книге
I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
supper/ˈsəpɝ/ужин8 раз в книге
Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a complete supper in themselves.
cocktail/ˈkɑkˌteɪɫ/коктейль, коктель8 раз в книге
"No, thanks," said Miss Baker to the four cocktails just in from the pantry, "I'm absolutely in training."
conceal/kənˈsiɫ/прятать, скрывать, спрятать8 раз в книге
She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
mutter/ˈmətɝ/бормотать, бубнить, бурчать8 раз в книге
… at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
impatiently/ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəntɫi/нетерпеливо7 раз в книге
What was that word we—" "Well, these books are all scientific," insisted Tom, glancing at her impatiently.
solemn/ˈsɑɫəm/серьёзный7 раз в книге
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the "Yale News"—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man."
cheerful/ˈtʃɪɹfəɫ/весёлый7 раз в книге
Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay.
restless/ˈɹɛstɫəs/беспокойный, неугомонный7 раз в книге
I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.
whiskey/ˈhwɪski/виски7 раз в книге
Meanwhile Tom brought out a bottle of whiskey from a locked bureau door.
scarcely/ˈskɛɹsɫi/вряд ли, еле, еле-еле7 раз в книге
And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.
goodbye/ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ/прощание7 раз в книге
He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
overhead/ˈoʊvɝˈhɛd/наверху7 раз в книге
They are not perfect ovals—like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end—but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
champagne/ʃæmˈpeɪn/шампанское7 раз в книге
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
orchestra/ˈɔɹkəstɹə/оркестр7 раз в книге
By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived—no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
frown/ˈfɹaʊn/нахмурить бровь|брови, хмурить бровь|брови, насупиться7 раз в книге
objected Daisy, frowning.
fantastic/fænˈtæstɪk/причудливый7 раз в книге
This is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort …
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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