«Легенда о Сонной Лощине»: 40 слов, которые стоит выучить перед чтением
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
40 слов из книги «Легенда о Сонной Лощине» (Вашингтон Ирвинг): 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.
brook/ˈbɹʊk/ручей, речушка15 раз в книге
A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose …
haunt/ˈhɔnt/навещать, посещать, появляться13 раз в книге
The whole neighborhood abounds with local tales, haunted spots, and twilight superstitions …
goblin/ˈɡɑbɫɪn/гоблин11 раз в книге
… and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge …
steed/ˈstid/конь, жеребец, скакун11 раз в книге
But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed.
schoolmaster/ˈskuɫˌmæstɝ/преподаватель10 раз в книге
… a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters.
schoolhouse/ˈskuɫˌhaʊs/здание школы10 раз в книге
His schoolhouse was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copybooks.
saddle/ˈsædəɫ/седло, сиденье9 раз в книге
He rode with short stirrups, which brought his knees nearly up to the pommel of the saddle; his sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers’ …
fearful/ˈfɪɹfəɫ/страшный, ужасный8 раз в книге
What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!
pedagogueпедагог7 раз в книге
… by divers little makeshifts, in that ingenious way which is commonly denominated “by hook and by crook,” the worthy pedagogue got on tolerably enough, and was thought …
witch/ˈwɪtʃ/ведьма, волшебница, колдунья7 раз в книге
Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people …
rival/ˈɹaɪvəɫ/соперник, конкурент, конкурентка7 раз в книге
Certain it is, his advances were signals for rival candidates to retire, who felt no inclination to cross a lion in his amours …
spectre/ˈspɛktɝ/дух6 раз в книге
… which has furnished materials for many a wild story in that region of shadows; and the spectre is known at all the country firesides, by the name of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
rustic/ˈɹəstɪk/сельский6 раз в книге
… this sequestered glen has long been known by the name of SLEEPY HOLLOW, and its rustic lads are called the Sleepy Hollow Boys throughout all the neighboring country.
hollow/ˈhɑɫoʊ/впадина, выбоина, выемка6 раз в книге
The old farmers gathered together their families in their wagons, and were heard for some time rattling along the hollow roads, and over the distant hills.
dash/ˈdæʃ/примесь6 раз в книге
… and with all his overbearing roughness, there was a strong dash of waggish good humor at bottom.
drowsy/ˈdɹaʊzi/заспанный, снотворный, сонный5 раз в книге
A pleasing land of drowsy head it was,
marvellous/ˈmɑɹvəɫəs/замечательный5 раз в книге
They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and voices in the air.
churchyard/ˈtʃɝtʃˌjɑɹd/кладбище5 раз в книге
… it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.
psalm/ˈsɑɫm/псалом5 раз в книге
… either to drown thought or drive away evil spirits, was to sing psalm tunes and the good people of Sleepy Hollow, as they sat by their doors of an evening …
beset/bɪˈsɛt/осадить, осаждать, потеснить5 раз в книге
How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!
bosom/ˈbʊzəm/грудь, пазуха5 раз в книге
Though many years have elapsed since I trod the drowsy shades of Sleepy Hollow, yet I question whether I should not still find the same trees and the same families vegetating in its sheltered bosom.
cock/ˈkɑk/флюгер5 раз в книге
… and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
farmhouse/ˈfɑɹmˌhaʊs/крестьянский дом5 раз в книге
… therefore, is apt to occasion some little stir at the tea-table of a farmhouse, and the addition of a supernumerary dish of cakes or sweetmeats …
flutter/ˈfɫətɝ/порхать, развеваться5 раз в книге
To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth …
whistle/ˈhwɪsəɫ/свист, свисток5 раз в книге
… with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
glare/ˈɡɫɛɹ/сиять, слепить5 раз в книге
… and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country, and the nightmare …
pumpkin/ˈpəmkɪn/тыква5 раз в книге
… was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin.
sway/ˈsweɪ/власть5 раз в книге
He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating.
unfortunate/ənˈfɔɹtʃənət/невезучий, несчастный, несчастливый5 раз в книге
Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning cries and wailings heard and seen about the great tree where the unfortunate Major André was taken, and which stood in the neighborhood.
delight/dɪˈɫaɪt/восторг, наслаждение, удовольствие5 раз в книге
It was often his delight, after his school was dismissed in the afternoon …
repose/ɹiˈpoʊz/спокойствие, покой4 раза в книге
A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.
urchin/ˈɝtʃən/баловник, озорник, проказник4 раза в книге
… but the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little tough wrong-headed, broad-skirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch.
piazza/piˈæzə/ам. веранда4 раза в книге
… built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers; the low projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front, capable of being closed up in bad weather.
centre/ˈsɛntɝ/Центр4 раза в книге
From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion, and the place of usual residence.
negro/ˈniɡɹoʊ/негр, арап, арапка4 раза в книге
It was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a negro in tow-cloth jacket and trowsers, a round-crowned fragment of a hat …
heiress/ˈɛɹəs/наследница, преемница4 раза в книге
Ichabod only lingered behind, according to the custom of country lovers, to have a tête-à-tête with the heiress; fully convinced that he was now on the high road to success.
clatter/ˈkɫætɝ/грохот, лязг, цокот4 раза в книге
… startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clattered by, and then exclaim …
apparition/ˌæpɝˈɪʃən/призрак, привидение4 раза в книге
The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.
superstition/ˌsupɝˈstɪʃən/суеверие, поверье, предрассудок4 раза в книге
… haunted spots, and twilight superstitions; stars shoot and meteors glare oftener across the valley than in any other part of the country …
birch/ˈbɝtʃ/берёза4 раза в книге
… with a brook running close by, and a formidable birch-tree growing at one end of it.
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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