«Книга джунглей»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Jungle Book
40 слов из книги «Книга джунглей» (Редьярд Киплинг): 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.
elephant/ˈɛɫəfənt/слон, слониха131 раз в книге
The real reason for this is that man-killing means, sooner or later, the arrival of white men on elephants, with guns, and hundreds of brown men with gongs and rockets and torches.
jungle/ˈdʒəŋɡəɫ/джунгли101 раз в книге
… because Tabaqui, more than anyone else in the jungle, is apt to go mad …
seal/ˈsiɫ/тюлень94 раза в книге
Nobody comes to Novastoshnah except on business, and the only people who have regular business there are the seals.
thou/ˈðaʊ/ты89 раз в книге
… or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle …
thee/ˈði/тебе, тебя, тобой76 раз в книге
He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs—frog-eater—fish-killer—he shall hunt thee!
till/ˈtɪɫ/до, до тех пор пока71 раз в книге
For loosed till dawn are we.
monkey/ˈməŋki/обезьяна46 раз в книге
We do not drink where the monkeys drink; we do not go where the monkeys go; we do not hunt where they hunt; we do not die where they die.
wolves/ˈwʊɫvz/волков39 раз в книге
“Good luck go with you, O chief of the wolves.”
herd/ˈhɝd/стадо, табун38 раз в книге
The herds are shut in byre and hut
wolf/ˈwʊɫf/волк, волчица38 раз в книге
“For a wolf, no,” said Tabaqui, “but for so mean a person as myself a dry bone is a good feast.
mule/ˈmjuɫ/мул37 раз в книге
Just as I was getting ready to go to sleep I heard a jingle of harness and a grunt, and a mule passed me shaking his wet ears.
tiger/ˈtaɪɡɝ/тигр36 раз в книге
Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
camel/ˈkæməɫ/верблюд33 раза в книге
Thorn for the camel, fodder for the kine,
buffalo/ˈbəfəˌɫoʊ/буйвол33 раза в книге
Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path; for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant.
bull/ˈbʊɫ/бык32 раза в книге
By the bull that I killed, am I to stand nosing into your dog’s den for my fair dues?
bullock/ˈbʊɫək/кастрированный бык31 раз в книге
Does he think that our buck are like his fat Waingunga bullocks?”
cub/ˈkəb/детёныш, волчонок, лисёнок30 раз в книге
Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived.
beast/ˈbist/зверь, бестия, животное29 раз в книге
… which never orders anything without a reason, forbids every beast to eat Man except when he is killing to show his children how to kill, and then he must hunt outside the hunting grounds of his pack or tribe.
mil/ˈmɪɫ/миль25 раз в книге
Shere Khan was the tiger who lived near the Waingunga River, twenty miles away.
ravine/ɹəˈvin/яр, байрак, буерак22 раза в книге
When he comes back wait for me in the ravine by the dhâk tree in the center of the plain.
roar/ˈɹɔɹ/рёв21 раз в книге
The tiger’s roar filled the cave with thunder.
cobra/ˈkoʊbɹə/кобра20 раз в книге
said half a dozen low voices (every ruin in India becomes sooner or later a dwelling place of snakes, and the old summerhouse was alive with cobras).
mongoose/ˈmɑŋɡus/мангуст20 раз в книге
He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.
grunt/ˈɡɹənt/бурчание, ворчание18 раз в книге
“The fool has had no more sense than to jump at a woodcutter’s campfire, and has burned his feet,” said Father Wolf with a grunt.
flipper/ˈfɫɪpɝ/ласт17 раз в книге
When he heaved himself up on his front flippers he stood more than four feet clear of the ground, and his weight …
trumpet/ˈtɹəmpət/реветь, трубить16 раз в книге
And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes …
foolish/ˈfuɫɪʃ/лишённый здравого смысла16 раз в книге
Baloo knows it; I know it; the Pack know it; and even the foolish, foolish deer know.
nursery/ˈnɝsɝi/детская, детская комната, детский сад16 раз в книге
He only wanted room by the sea for his nursery.
frighten/ˈfɹaɪtən/испугать, напугать, пугать16 раз в книге
He will frighten every head of game within ten miles, and I—I have to kill for two, these days.”
scratch/ˈskɹætʃ/царапать, поцарапать, пошкрябать16 раз в книге
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned …
hind/ˈhaɪnd/задний, тыльный, хвостовой15 раз в книге
… old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey—rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.
howl/ˈhaʊɫ/вой, вытьё15 раз в книге
Then there was a howl—an untigerish howl—from Shere Khan.
picket/ˈpɪkɪt/кол, штакетина14 раз в книге
I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake.
graze/ˈɡɹeɪz/пастись14 раз в книге
At one end stood a little village, and at the other the thick jungle came down in a sweep to the grazing-grounds, and stopped there as though it had been cut off with a hoe.
frog/ˈfɹɑɡ/лягушка, жаба14 раз в книге
Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
tusk/ˈtəsk/бивень13 раз в книге
… fat-necked, long-tusked walrus of the North Pacific, who has no manners except when he is asleep—as he was then …
snort/ˈsnɔɹt/фырканье, шмыганье13 раз в книге
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
obey/oʊˈbeɪ/подчиниться, подчиняться, покориться13 раз в книге
Mowgli obeyed faithfully.
mile/ˈmaɪɫ/миля12 раз в книге
Now to Baloo’s word I will add one bull, and a fat one, newly killed, not half a mile from here, if ye will accept the man’s cub according to the Law.
yoke/ˈjoʊk/брус или рама, соединяющая двух волов или других тягловых животных за шеи, чтобы они могли тянуть телегу12 раз в книге
I heard a chain dragging along the ground, and a yoke of the great sulky white bullocks that drag the heavy siege guns when the elephants won’t go any nearer to the firing, came shouldering along together.
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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